Mar 012012
 

Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s cold case posse sent Jerome Corsi to the National Archives for evidence. Enough said right there, really. Somebody saw young Barack Obama in Bill Ayers’ mother’s yard. This had to be sometime after he was smuggled as a baby into the US. Somebody uploaded the digital file of the LFBC to a computer and the cold case posse knows that person was on the computer twenty minutes before. They have identified, but not revealed the man who did the forgery as a “person of interest.” They made a fake birth certificate and it didn’t match the President’s birth certificate, so his must be fake. Those layers the LFBC was not supposed to have at all, well, they are now not nearly enough layers. The paper LFBC handled by reporters last April was the paper LFBC that wasn’t there. Hawaii forges their documents, anyhow, so why even ask them? Joe might have a foreign government investigate the President of the United States. Arpaio is not accusing President Obama of a crime or anything! Don’t say that. Must be why the Maricopa County Attorney wasn’t there issuing subpoenas.

Video here, courtesy of Birfessed.net; and here the Cold Cut Posse’s Report.

I read “Cold Cut Posse” in a comment thread somewhere.

I think I’ll go read a book now.

Doc Conspiracy says:

I think every criminal serving time in Arizona jails convicted as the result of an investigation by Joe Arpaio’s office now has grounds for an appeal.

The most explosive news is that when Jerome Corsi went to the National Archives, he found out that passenger arrival records the week of the President’s birth were missing!

They certainly are.

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 Posted by at 4:18 pm
Mar 012012
 

A State Commonwealth Court Judge

… has dismissed the claims of a group of voters, including one from the Lehigh Valley, who argued that President Barack Obama doesn’t qualify for the spring ballot because he’s not a “natural-born citizen” of the United States.

Judge Keith B. Quigley did not rule on the merits of the claim brought by Charles Kerchner, of Emmaus, Lehigh County, and others. The judge found that the court didn’t have the jurisdiction to hear the claim and dismissed it.

Quigley ruled in favor of arguments brought on behalf of Obama by lawyer John P. Lavelle of Philadelphia that the state appellate court only had jurisdiction to hear arguments on defects in nominating petitions. A lawyer for Kerchner and the plaintiffs claimed that questions about Obama’s citizenship constituted a defect in his petitions.

Capitol Ideas

NBC has a write-up: Sour Grapes.

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 Posted by at 12:20 pm
Mar 012012
 

Democrats Narrowly Block Blunt Amendment

Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly Thursday in favor of a measure that would permit any employer to deny services in their health plan, such as birth control, that they deem morally objectionable. The amendment offered by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) was struck down 51-48 in a motion to table, thanks to virulent opposition by Democrats and one GOP holdout. Democrats are eager to hang to vote around the GOP’s neck in the upcoming elections.

The only Republican who crossed over to help kill the measure, which was aimed at repealing the Obama administration’s birth control mandate, was retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME). Dems are defending 23 Senate seats in the November elections, and running against a GOP they can portray as anti-birth control could help them in some tough races. Democrats are salivating at the prospect of using the votes of vulnerable members, including GOP Sens. Scott Brown (MA) and Dean Heller (NV), against them this year.

Democratic Sens. Ben Nelson (NE), Joe Manchin (WV) and Bob Casey (PA) voted with Republicans for the Blunt measure, which the GOP sought to attach to the otherwise bipartisan highway bill. Casey is facing a tough reelection battle this fall. …

Democrats say the religious freedom concerns mask the real issue — women’s health. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) dubbed the Blunt amendment a “contraception ban” that forces women to surrender health decisions to their employers. “So let’s admit what this debate is really and what Republicans really want to take away from millions of American women,” Schumer said. “It is contraception.”

Talking Points Memo

 Posted by at 11:15 am
Mar 012012
 

On Aug. 17, 2011, WorldNetDaily’s Jerome Corsi gave an hour-long-plus birther presentation to a tea party group in Surprise, Arizona. Corsi rehashed his usual evidence that President Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery and promoted his conspiracy that Donald Trump was secretly working for Obama, and even entertained a question about whether Obama looks “a lot like Malcolm X.” Corsi responded that “there’s no proof that he is Malcolm X’s son,” and he “always thought the father was Indonesian,” because Obama’s “characteristics are more Indonesian.”

Despite Corsi’s central role in peddling dubious and discredited birther claims, this presentation appears to have been what led to Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio launching an “cold case posse” investigation into Obama’s “eligibility” to be president.

Four days after his presentation, WorldNetDaily published an article by Corsi stating that “WND has received an advance copy of the letter the Surprise Tea Party in Surprise, Ariz., plans to deliver tomorrow to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at his downtown Phoenix office, asking the lawman to investigate Barack Obama’s alleged proof of natural-born citizenship.” The article includes pictures of Corsi posing with Surprise Tea Party members, but it’s not until the final paragraph that Corsi notes he gave a birther presentation to the group.

The petition worked: Corsi reported on September 16th that Arpaio “has constituted a special law enforcement posse to investigate allegations brought by members of the Surprise, Ariz., Tea Party that the birth certificate Barack Obama released to the public April 27th might be a forgery.” Corsi followed up two days later with an interview with Arpaio, in which he claimed that “this investigation does not involve politics.” Never mind, of course, that birtherism is completely driven by politics, WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah is simply running his Vincent Foster conspiracy playbook against Obama in an attempt to delegitimize his presidency.

Corsi was apparently the first to line-up and testify before the posse. A November 1st article stated that Corsi “spent 18 hours over a two-day period in Arizona briefing the Cold Case Posse on a wide-range of evidence regarding Obama’s eligibility.”

Huffington Post

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 Posted by at 8:37 am
Mar 012012
 

PHOENIX (AP) — America’s self-proclaimed toughest sheriff finds himself entangled these days in his own thorny legal troubles: a federal grand jury probe over alleged abuse of power, Justice Department accusations of racial profiling and revelations that his department didn’t adequately investigate hundreds of Arizona sex-crime cases.

Rather than seek cover, though, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is seeking to grab the spotlight in the same unorthodox fashion that has helped boost his career as a nationally known lawman.

Arpaio scheduled a news conference Thursday to unveil preliminary results of an investigation, conducted by members of his volunteer cold-case posse, into the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, a controversy that has been widely debunked but which remains alive in the eyes of some conservatives. Last year, Donald Trump most prominently revived the issue while entertaining a possible bid for the presidency. …

Arpaio’s probe comes amid a federal grand jury investigation into the sheriff’s office on criminal abuse-of-power allegations since at least December 2009, focusing on the sheriff’s anti-public corruption squad. Separately, the U.S. Justice Department has accused Arpaio’s office of racially profiling Latinos, basing immigration enforcement on racially charged citizen complaints and punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish. Arpaio denies the allegations and said the investigation is politically motivated.

Critics also have sought Arpaio’s resignation for more than 400 sex-crimes cases over a three-year period ending in 2007 that were either inadequately investigated or weren’t investigated at all by the sheriff’s office after the crimes were reported. The sheriff’s office said the backlog was cleared up after the problem was brought to Arpaio’s attention.

Associated Press

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 Posted by at 8:34 am
Mar 012012
 

President Obama’s got an AV-rated ass-kicker representing him in this ballot challenge. Hearing today in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg:

KERCHNER v OBAMA – Letter to Clerk in Opposition of Testimoney via Skype

KERCHNER v OBAMA – Letter to Clerk

KERCHNER v OBAMA – Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Admission pro hac vice

KERCHNER v OBAMA – Motion to Strike and Dismiss

On February 5, Kerchner posted this announcement to his blog, explaining his aims:

CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret) Leading a Group of Citizens in Pennsylvania to File a Ballot Access Challenge/Objection to Obama

For the past several months CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret) has been researching and planning for a ballot access challenge/objection to be filed against Barack Hussein Obama II in Pennsylvania on the fact that Obama is NOT a “natural born Citizen of the United States” since his father Obama Sr. was a FOREIGN NATIONAL. Obama Sr. was never a U.S. Citizen, and was not even an immigrant to the USA. Obama is the first person sworn in (illegally and unconstitutionally) as the President and Commander in Chief of our military since the founding generation who were exempt from the natural born Citizen requirement via a grandfather clause in the Constitution whose father was a foreign national, was never an immigrant to this country, and was never a Citizen of this country. This is outrageous. He slipped through the cracks of the 2008 primary nomination process last time due to an enabling media not vetting him properly and which is covering up for him, a cowardly Congress, and a Republican Party establishment that wants to run their own ineligible candidates and are thus complicit in abrogation of Article II Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. But he will be challenged every step of this way by We the People this time. He is not constitutionally eligible to be the President.

CDR Kerchner was the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit Kerchner et al v Obama & Congress et al brought by Atty Mario Apuzzo which was taken all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, but turned away every step of the way by court created technicalities such as standing. In collaboration with Article II Super PAC, CDR Kerchner has gathered a group of plaintiffs and PA lawyers who plan to bring the challenge.

Here they all are filing the POS at the Chief Clerk’s Office of the Commonwealth Court of PA, on February 17:

Credit: CDR Kerchner's Blog

On February 27, Kerchner announced that BV-rated Birther lawyer Mario Apuzzo was joining the cause as co-counsel; however Apuzzo has been Denied pro hac vice status by the Pennsylvania court. Before PHV status was even determined, Apuzzo filed a 199-page brief.

For rebuttal, see Nolu Chan’s analysis here.

On February 23, Birther lawyer Phil Berg, who has not been disbarred in Pennsylvania, filed another challenge. Realist, a moderator at The Fogbow, summarized: “Kenyan birth, Grandma sez, Indonesian loss of citizenship, Never naturalized, et cetera.” This hearing is scheduled for March 19, in Philadelphia. As reported by The Western Center For Journalism: The United States Justice Foundation (USJF) is funding this project, and USJF Executive Director Gary Kreep will be co-counsel in this case.

Orly will be so happy.

The original Pennsylvania challenge, in the Western part of the state, was brought by Jim Schneller, an independent candidate for US Congress in PA-07. This will be heard today in Harrisburg, as well.

He got his, too:

SCHNELLER v OBAMA – Motion to Strike and Dismiss

SCHNELLER v OBAMA -Letter to Clerk

On February 27, he filed a second challenge, but it apparently has not yet been scheduled for a hearing.

Last year, the objector said of his 2008 ballot challenge:

“Once eight or nine courts toss it out (maybe it’s time),” he said. “It’s like an old pork roast in the freezer. Maybe it’s time to put it out for the trash man.”

Now Schneller seems to believe there is life in that old pork roast yet, even though 168 times, lower courts, Appellate Courts and the SCOTUS have put out the trash.

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 Posted by at 12:55 am
Mar 012012
 

The travel industry is promising to create nearly 3,000 jobs for veterans and military spouses by 2014 as part of a program announced Wednesday by Michelle Obama.

The first lady’s office said the American Society of Travel Agents was creating a coalition to help veterans and military spouses get jobs in the travel industry and hang on to them as families are transferred to different military bases.

Mrs. Obama and Jill Biden, the wife of the vice president, are leading the Joining Forces campaign to encourage businesses, communities and others to support military families.

The travel industry coalition includes companies such as Orbitz Worldwide, American Express Consumer Travel network, Amadeus North America, and a number of leading rental car companies.

Associated Press

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 Posted by at 12:28 am