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  • Suit Says Obama Can’t Run In Alaska Because He’s of the “Mulatto” Race

    A man from Juneau, Alaska, has filed suit with the state’s Division of Elections to bar President Obama from appearing on that state’s ballot on the basis that the President is a “Mulatto“, and “Before the [purported] ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the race of ‘Negro‘ or ‘Mulatto‘ had no standing to be citizens of the United States under the United States Constitution,” according to the lawsuit.

    This is not a joke.

    According to a lawsuit filed February 21, 2012 by a Mr. Gordon Warren Epperly, who lists his address as a P.O. Box:

    Barack Hussein Obama II, Aka Barack Hussein Obama, Aka Barack H. Obama has the race status of being a “Mulatto.” Barack Obama’s father (Barack Hussein Obama I) was a full blood Negro being born Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya and raised in the Colony of Kenya. Barack Obama’s mother (Stanley Ann Dunham) was a white Caucasian woman being born in Wichita, Kansas on November 29, 1942 and raised in the state of Washington and in the State of Hawaii.

    Therefore:

    As stated above, for an Individual to be a Candidate for the Office of President of the United States, the Candidate must meet the qualifications set forth in the United States Constitution and one of those qualifications is that the Candidate shall be a “natural born Citizen” of the United States. As Barack Hussein Obama II is of the “Mulatto” race, his status of citizenship is founded upon the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Before the [purported] ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the race of “Negro” or “Mulatto” had no standing to be citizens of the United States under the United States Constitution.

    View the entire complaint here. (PDF)


  • Ron Paul’s Strategy To Stuff the GOP Delegate Box (Video)

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    Doug Wead, Ron Paul campaign senior advisor, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the Paul campaign is taking advantage of the peculiar rules of assigning delegates within the Republican Party.

    Is it right to ignore the will of the people?

    Nod to Robert Marchini for this one.


  • Bloomberg: Gingrich Sued for Using ‘Eye of the Tiger’ at Campaign Stops

    From Bloomberg News:

    Newt Gingrich, fighting for the Republican Party’s nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, was sued for unauthorized use of “Eye of the Tiger,” the Grammy-winning theme song from “Rocky III.”

    Rude Music Inc., an Illinois corporation owned by Frank Sullivan, a co-author of the song, sued the candidate today in federal court inChicago, seeking a court order blocking Gingrich’s unauthorized use of the song at campaign rallies. Rude Music is also seeking unspecified money damages.

    Newt 2012 Inc. and the American Conservative Union, a political advocacy group, are also named as defendants in the five-page complaint.

    You mean you can’t just take anyone’s music and play it anywhere, particularly for the purpose of raising money for your own political campaign? What? What about the First Amendment.

    Oh. Right.

    That doesn’t apply in this case.

    Yoi. Another ethical lapse for the former speaker?

    And, yes, you can be sued for stealing music.

    Is that what Newt did? The courts will decide.


  • Very Distressing: Charles Taylor, Liberian Ex-president, Had CIA Ties

    Charles Taylor
    Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, currently on trial.

    When I think of Charles Taylor, I think of “blood diamonds.”

    And I am relieved that Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is currently President of Liberia, a country still recovering from the slave trade.

    Still recovering from the devastation wreaked by Europe and the Americas.

    So I was distressed to learn this week that Charles Taylor, currently on trial for Crimes Against Humanity, was at one point employed by the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency.

    From Al Jazeera:

    Liberia’s Charles Taylor, the first African head of state to be prosecuted for war crimes by an international tribunal, used to work with the CIA, according to a report in the Boston Globe from this week.

    The report, based on information uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act request made six years ago, said that Taylor had a relationship with the US spy agency for years, although the details of what he actually did were unclear.

    “The Pentagon’s response to the Globe states that the details of Taylor’s role on behalf of the spy agencies are contained in dozens of secret reports – at least 48 separate documents – covering several decades,” the US newspaper said.

    “However, the exact duration and scope of the relationship remains hidden.”

    A spokesperson for the ICC told the Globe that the Taylor-CIA relationship was unrelated to his charges at the court.

    The Globe report backed up long-standing rumours of Taylor’s work with the CIA, which confirmed a relationship with Taylor beginning in the early 1980s.

    Even though this happened during the Reagan administration, this still gives me no pride.

    Charles Taylor?

    Think “blood diamonds.”

    And mass executions.

    Taylor  is accused of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity on claims that he armed Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in exchange for illegally mined, so-called blood diamonds.


  • Newt Gingrich Wanted an Open Marriage, Says Second Wife

    Try to keep up. It’s tough.

    From the Wall Street Journal:

    Newt Gingrich wanted an open marriage, former wife Marianne Gingrich said in an interview with ABC News.

    ABC just put out a video clip and excerpts of the interview, which is scheduled to air on Nightline tonight after the GOP presidential debate in South Carolina. Ms. Gingrich, who was married to the former House speaker for 18 years, said she is disclosing details of her marriage now to tell voters what she knows about Mr. Gingrich’s character. The two divorced in 1999, after, she says, Mr. Gingrich had suggested an open marriage that would allow him to continue an affair with Callista Bisek,  the congressional aide who later became his third wife.

    Ms. Gingrich told ABC’s Brian Ross that after Mr. Gingrich made that suggestion, “I just stared at him and he said, ‘Callista doesn’t care what I do’…  He wanted an open marriage and I refused.”

    That’s Newt Gingrich, conservative Catholic.

    Yoi.


  • Dogs Against Romney: Mitt Really Really Abused the Family Dog Seamus

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    Mitt Romney tied his dog Seamus to the roof of a car for a family vacation.

    The dog got sick.

    Romney hosed down the dog and went on.

    Abuse? You bet.

    In response to a query on this Chris Wallace at Fox News, Romney says, "This is a completely air-tight kennel on the top of our car."

    If the kennel was "air-tight," how did the "brown liquid" pour from the dog’s kennel atop the wagon?

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  • Willard ‘Mitt’ Romney: The (Un-)Artful Dodger

    Ask Romney Anything?
    Ask Willard "Mitt" Romney, the (Un-)Artful Dodger, anything? Really?

    For those who watched the GOP circular firing squad Saturday night, you may recall Mitt Romney referring to a question about states banning birth control “silly.”

    The only thing “silly” was his dodge, as he tried to deny his own state the right to offer birth control in 2005.

    From the Huffington Post:

    Mitt Romney artfully dodged a question about whether states have the right to ban birth control during Saturday’s Republican presidential debate, calling the question “silly” and saying that states wouldn’t want to do that anyway. But as governor of Massachusetts in 2005, Romney took a harder line on contraception, vetoing a widely supported bill that would make the morning-after pill available over the counter in that state and require hospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape victims.

    His surprising veto did not stand. The Massachusetts state Senate voted unanimously to overrule it, and the state House voted 139-16 to do the same.

    Imagine that.

    If he does get the GOP nomination, this multi-millionaire’s record will speak for itself, even as he tries to blow smoke over it.


  • ‘Punished for Living Too Long,’ Paralyzed High School Football Player Dies at 27

    Rocky Clark in his home in Robbins in 2010.
    Rocky Clark in his home in Robbins in 2010.

    The sad news comes from the Chicago Tribune: “Rasul “Rocky” Clark, who was paralyzed while playing football for Blue Island’s Eisenhower High School in 2000 and later fought an unsuccessful battle to keep his health insurance, died Thursday after undergoing surgery at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, a hospital spokeswoman said.”

    More from the Trib:

    He was a 16-year-old backup running back on Sept. 15, 2000, when Eisenhower’s starting running back separated his shoulder in a game at Oak Forest High School. Mr. Clark went into the game. Four plays later, he was tackled and suffered two broken vertebrae in his neck and a spinal injury.

    Left a quadriplegic, Mr. Clark for 10 years received top-notch health care through the catastrophic medical insurance provided by Community High School District 218. That included nurses in his home around the clock, access to pain medicines and prescriptions and a storeroom of supplies.

    But in August 2010, Clark was informed the $5 million health insurance had reached its maximum and would no longer cover his medical needs. Officials with Clark’s insurance agency, Health Special Risk Inc., previously declined to discuss his case or their policies on claims and lifetime maximums with the Tribune.

    At the time his policy ended, Clark said he felt he was being punished for living too long. Many quadriplegics die within 10 years after their injury because of lung or kidney failure. But Clark was able to thrive, in part because of the meticulous health care he received, his physician and family members said.

    Punished for living too long.

    Read the whole story here.


  • Rick Santorum’s Wife had a Second-term Abortion – But That’s Supposed to be Different

    We must tread lightly regarding family members of candidates. Still, when anyone takes radical positions, preaches endlessly and with great sanctimony, well, that candidate merits closer attention – especially if that candidate wants to be President of the United States.

    Frankly, I am in shock as I write this.

    Rick Santorum’s wife had a second-term abortion to save her life, so reports oursilverribbon.org:

    Rick Santorum is one dangerously confused denialist. The former Pennsylvania Senator and presidential aspirant is best known for his inability to associate his professed compassion for life at the level of the zygote, with the physical realities of human sexuality.  He has equated loving same-sex relationships to bestiality.  He is opposed to abortion under any circumstance. Almost.

    In October, 1996, his wife Karen had a second trimester abortion.  They don’t like to describe it that way. In his 2004 interview with Terry Gross, Santorum characterizes the fetus, who must be treated as an autonomous person, as a practically a gunslinging threat, whom the mother must murder in self-defense. Karen has had to justify her decision to save her own life by explaining that if she died her other children would have lost a mother.

    The compassionate side of me says this is an incredibly private family issue. However, the Santorums have already discussed this publicly.

    Read for yourself and decide: http://oursilverribbon.org