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BREAKING: Template Found for Fake Kenyan BC

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Aug 032009

Politijab strikes again!

It was a scanned image of a “Certified Copy of Registration of Birth” dated in 1964 for a David Jeffrey Bomford on a genealogy website for the Bomford family. Except that David Jeffrey Bomford wasn’t born in Kenya, he was born in South Australia. But what was even more interesting was certain other features of the document as compared to the Kenya certificate.

The names of the registrar and the district registrar were the SAME NAMES as given in the Kenya certificate save for the first initials, i.e. G.H. Lavender and J.H. Miller in the Bomford document versus E.H. Lavender and M.H. Miller in the Kenya document.

Also, the book number (44B) and page number (5733) were the exactly the same on both documents.

The image of the Bomford certificate seems to prove beyond any doubt that not only is the Kenya certificate a fake, but that whomever faked it used the Bomford certificate as the template.

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Bomford Family Tree

Politijabbers are the best.

Obama Administration Makes Good on Spending Cuts Pledge

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Jul 302009

It may be a drop in the $2 trillion deficit bucket, but the federal government has made good on President Barack Obama’s promise to find $100 million in spending cuts this year.

Under presidential marching orders, cabinet secretaries actually produced $102 million in cuts for the current fiscal year and another $140 million for fiscal year 2010, which begins in October. The White House budget office released the details Monday night.

Some of the cuts appear to be a significant sacrifice. The Department of Labor has proposed disbanding the nearly 40-year-old Employment Standards Administration, the department’s largest agency, eliminating an assistant secretary of labor and two deputy assistant secretaries at a savings of $1.75 million through 2010. Cabinet secretaries are usually loathe to make such cuts on their own.

Other cuts fall into the category of “They did what?” The U.S. Forest Service will save $1.8 million this year by ceasing to re-paint vehicles as soon as they are purchased – probably a good idea. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services canceled a meeting in Australia, saving $36,000. The Bureau of Reclamation’s Pacific Northwest office will get rid of its airplane for a quick $845,000.

The Justice and Treasury departments will turn off their computers at night.

Justice will encourage double-sided printing at the copy machine, and DOJ appears to have discovered Expedia and Travelocity. For a cool $4 million, government lawyers will start making travel arrangements online rather than through travel agents.

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Obama at Occidental College

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Jul 292009

I’m always amazed when people make an issue of a guy named Barack having the nickname of “Barry”—this videographer does it, too, but not in an unpleasant way. I had never seen this before, a pre-inaugural interview with Obama’s friend from Occidental College in Los Angeles, Eric Moore. Very interesting.

Domestic Beer Diplomacy and Get Off My Lawn!

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Jul 262009

Three very gracious guys behaving like grownups.

Crowley was also pleased by the call, according to a fellow officer who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to speak publicly about the issue.

“Jimmy said, ‘I’d be happy to come to the White House and sit down with you and Gates and have a beer,’ ” the veteran Cambridge officer said. “The president said he was acceptable to that.”

Crowley also asked President Obama if he could use his influence to oust the news media from his front lawn in Natick. “The president said, ‘I can’t get them off my front lawn,’ and Jimmy said, ‘Well, your lawn is a lot bigger than my lawn,’ ” the officer’s colleague said.

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Steve Killion, president of the Cambridge patrol officers association, praised the president for calling James Crowley only a couple of hours after the news conference where leaders from Cambridge and other area police unions demanded an apology from Obama.

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Killion said the president has admitted he erred by discussing a case without knowing the details.

“He acknowledges he made a mistake,” Killion said. “He wasn’t there. None of us have the facts. He didn’t have the facts. We don’t have the facts. We don’t know what professor Gates said, what Sergeant Crowley said. I’m absolutely pleased with [Obama's call]. I think it was a good thing for the president to do. He’s the commander in chief, he’s in charge. Whether or not he should be involved in local politics, he runs the country. We all want to see this behind us.”

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, who was arrested on suspicion of breaking into his own home, has accepted Barack Obama’s invitation to visit him at the White House to have a beer with the white police officer who detained him.

Gates told the Boston Globe last night that he had spoken to Obama and agreed to meet Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley. Gates, one of the country’s most prominent black academics, said he hoped his arrest would lead to greater sensitivity on racial profiling.

“My entire academic career has been based on improving race relations, not exacerbating them,” Gates said in an email, adding: “It is time for all of us to move on, and to assess what we can learn from this experience.”

Now if Congress can get off its high horse.

Overblown Overreach

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Jul 212009

Good advice for Congressional Dems from Matt Yglesias:

David Brooks, predictable enough, says Democrats are overreaching and destined to reap the whirlwind. Frankly, I have some doubts about this. Remember yesterday’s Washington Post poll that was full of bad news for Barack Obama? The one about how the public is losing faith in him and his agenda? Well, here was their question about who the public trusts on some key issues:

I think the straightforward reading of this survey data is that congressional Democrats ought to ignore congressional Republicans and pass the ideas Barack Obama has proposed. And, again, the straightforward reading of November’s election results was that the public wanted (1) Barack Obama to be President and (2) members of congress sympathetic to Barack Obama. Congressional Democrats are good at overthinking political issues, and at coming up with rationalizations for why giving in to special interest demands are the only politically feasible option, but the evidence suggests that the public remains enthusiastic about Obamaism.

CBO Scores Health Reform Plan “Deficit Neutral” with $6B Surplus

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Jul 192009

Washington, D.C. – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released estimates this evening confirming for the first time that H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, is deficit neutral over the 10-year budget window – and even produces a $6 billion surplus. CBO estimated more than $550 billion in gross Medicare and Medicaid savings. More importantly, the bill includes a comprehensive array of delivery reforms to set the stage for lowering the future growth in health care costs.

Net Medicare and Medicaid savings of $465 billion, coupled with the $583 billion revenue package reported today by the House Committee on Ways and Means, fully finance the previously estimated $1.042 trillion cost of reform, which will provide affordable health care coverage for 97% of Americans.

The President came out swinging in his weekly address yesterday:

First, the same folks who controlled the White House and Congress for the past eight years as we ran up record deficits will argue – believe it or not – that health reform will lead to record deficits. That’s simply not true. Our proposals cut hundreds of billions of dollars in unnecessary spending and unwarranted giveaways to insurance companies in Medicare and Medicaid. They change incentives so providers will give patients the best care, not just the most expensive care, which will mean big savings over time. And we have urged Congress to include a proposal for a standing commission of doctors and medical experts to oversee cost-saving measures.

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Finally, opponents of health reform warn that this is all some big plot for socialized medicine or government-run health care with long lines and rationed care. That’s not true either. I don’t believe that government can or should run health care. But I also don’t think insurance companies should have free reign to do as they please.

That’s why any plan I sign must include an insurance exchange: a one-stop shopping marketplace where you can compare the benefits, cost and track records of a variety of plans – including a public option to increase competition and keep insurance companies honest – and choose what’s best for your family. And that’s why we’ll put an end to the worst practices of the insurance industry: no more yearly caps or lifetime caps; no more denying people care because of pre-existing conditions; and no more dropping people from a plan when they get too sick. No longer will you be without health insurance, even if you lose your job or change jobs.

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