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Tea Party Nation Supports Al-Queda!!

2010-07-19T18:06:25Z

Well, not really. But this is kinda funny.

Just a few minutes ago, I received an email from the Tea Party Nation about the recent closing of the blog hosting site Blogetery.com:

A few days ago, Geek.com and others reported that the Federal Government had shut down blog hosting site, Blogetery. The site that hosted Blogetery stated they were contacted by the Federal Law Enforcement and had little choice but to shut the site down immediately. his action silenced 73,000 blogs.

Until this action occurred, none of us at Tea Party Nation had even heard of this site. We do not know what kind of blogs were hosted on this site, but we suspect they cover the range from personal to political.

This is why the Tea Party Movement needs to be involved immediately. The Obama regime has taken a very hostile attitude towards our First Amendment rights. Is this a dry run the government is taking to shut down sites that are critical of the regime?

We need to act. Call your Senators and Congressmen today and demand that the Senate and the House investigate which agency shut this site down and why. Email your friends and ask them to call as well. We need an explanation and we cannot let the regime off on this issue.

Along this line, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has said she sees nothing wrong with the government suppressing speech the government finds offensive. Given the regime's attitude to the First Amendment, we must be vigilant.

Did you see the part where they wrote that they've never heard of the site, and they don't know what's on it, but that it must have some kind of personal opinion blogs, and that this is probably another attempt by the Obama administration to silence its critics?? Did you see that?

Well. here's a story about the incident, which these yahoos would have found in 5 seconds if they had the intellectual curiosity to look:

More details are surfacing about why Blogetery.com, a blogging platform that claimed to service more than 70,000 blogs, was mysteriously booted from the Internet by its Web-hosting company.

The site was shut down after FBI agents informed executives of Burst.net, Blogetery's Web host, late on July 9 that links to al-Qaeda materials were found on Blogetery's servers, according to Joe Marr, chief technology officer for Burst.net.
But Marr said a Burst.net employee erred in telling Blogetery's operator and members of the media that the FBI had ordered it to terminate Blogetery's service. He said Burst.net did that on its own.
(...)
Marr said the FBI contacted them with a request for voluntary emergency disclosure of information, a letter bringing to their attention that terrorist material that presented a threat to the lives of Americans was found on a server they hosted. FBI agents said they wanted specific information about the people who posted the material immediately.
In the FBI's letter, the agency said that Web hosts and Internet service providers may voluntarily elect to shut down customers who are involved in these situations. The Burst.net employee who handled the request believed that the FBI would want to seize the customers' server and thus cut off service to Blogetery.
Marr said that regardless of the mix up, Blogetery's service was terminated because bomb-making instructions and a "hit list" are an obvious and absolute violation of its terms of service.

Amazing how purportedly rational adults can jump to such conclusions, isn't it? Now these nuts are on record as supporting terrorists. Nice job.

Orly Taitz embraces the stupid. Again.

2010-04-26T13:11:50Z

In what is an almost predictable misstatement of what is true, Dr. Orly Taitz Esq., the batshit crazy Birther Queen, seems to think she is now a Licensed International Prosecutor:

According to members of the Kenyan parliament Obama was born in Kenya, he is a citizen of Kenya, and can be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court in Hague, where I am licensed. No matter what happens in US now, this license cannot be withdrawn and I can proceed. I need help with research.

She needs help with research, she says. That's an understatement.

As I reported earlier Taitz is a member of the International Criminal Bar, not the International Criminal Court as she states. The ICB is more of an educational/lobbying group:

Our objective is to ensure that counsel are able to practice in total independence before the ICC. We assist counsel to speak in a strong and unified voice regarding issues which affect their practice such as Ethics, Legal Aid and Training. Together, we defend one essential principle: to guarantee an equitable trial to victims and accused

Taitz has also supplied her mouth-breathers, I mean followers, with the email address to the ICC, and has asked them to demand an investigation and prosecution of Pres. Obama for war crimes. So I imagine the folks whose job it is to read these things will be getting a lot of experience with the "delete" key.

Really, is there no end to this woman's delusions?

Keep the faith.

Orly Taitz seems to be confused. Again.

2010-04-19T21:22:54Z

Birther Queen Orly Taitz some time ago appealed for help from her US oppressors from an international court and the United Nations.

Yeah.

Anyway, somehow she got it into her head that she could prosecute Pres. Obama in an international tribunal, and she dutifully sent off her request to do same with the International Criminal Court. She recently received a reply, although it's not from the ICC and it's not what she says it is:

Good News. I became a member of the International Criminal Bar with offices in Hague and Barcelona. My Bar number is listed below. Some people in the establishment of this Nation need to be prosecuted by the International Criminal tribunal for what they did to this Nation and to the dissidents, Constitutional Attorneys like me.
Erinda to me
show details 3:43 AM (2 hours ago)
Dear Ms.Taitz,
Perhaps you meant the license to be part of the International Criminal Bar
and not the Court.
Anyway, we are the new elected ICB secretariat, with office Barcelona and
from now on we will take care of all the administrative issues of the ICB.
Your registration form was send to the other secretariat with office in The
Hague and they resend it to us.
We received it just a week ago.
So, for the moment I can only confirm you, that you are officially an ICB
member with registration number 100636.
For every question or concern, please don´t hesitate to contact us
Regards,
Erinda Duraj
ERINDA DURAJ
BPI/ICB Barcelona

The ICB is in Barcelona, not the The Hague, as this Erinda Duraj points out to Orly. Not that she pays attention.

Also, the ICB is a lobbying group:

Our objective is to ensure that counsel are able to practice in total independence before the ICC. We assist counsel to speak in a strong and unified voice regarding issues which affect their practice such as Ethics, Legal Aid and Training. Together, we defend one essential principle: to guarantee an equitable trial to victims and accused

Orly seems to think that she has been admitted to the ICC and now has the power to try the president in this international court for ... what, I don't really know. She refers to her registration number as her "bar number."

You know, with Orly's obvious aversion to doing even the most basic research before she writes something, and a stunning lack of intellectual honesty or curiosity, I'm beginning to wonder if she isn't Michael Savage in drag.

Keep the faith.

WND.com sues White House Correspondents Association for $10 million

2010-04-14T18:01:04Z

Right-wing spinrag World Net Daily is suing the White House Correspondents Association for the latter's refusal to allow WND to buy three tables at the annual correspondents' dinner.

The dinner is the event where media people get to whore themselves to be seen with Hollywood stars and other glitterati, and watch people poke fun at the president.

Apparently, Joseph Farah, owner of WND, doesn't think he whores himself enough on a daily basis.

Here's the press release on the suit. It's a hoot:

Venerable Internet Publication "Shut Out" of Annual Dinner

(Washington, D.C., April 13, 2010). WorldNetDaily.com, one of the most widely read and oldest internet publications has brought suit against the White House Correspondents' Association, for shutting WND out of the upcoming dinner on May 1, 2010.

Larry Klayman, filed the suit for WND, under his law firm, and the complaint asks for over $10,000,000 in damages, plus a court order requiring the Association to allow WND to attend the event.

This dinner by the Association is the premier event in Washington, D.C., and it is where the media salutes the President of the United States annually. It is the equivalent of the "Academy Awards" for the media and political establishment.

This year, WND was among the first to order three tables for the event, as its White House correspondent, Les Kinsolving, is being feted by the staff and honored guests. However, based on apparent pressure put on the Association by the Obama White House, the Association gave WND only three seats, an insult to the publication.

Like Fox News, which was retaliated against earlier this year by the Obama White House, WND has been highly critical of the Obama White House.

To be effectively excluded from this event not only harms WND's reputation, but damages its relations with the distinguished guests which it had already invited.

Joseph Farah and Larry Klayman are available for interviews

For an article about the suit, see www.wnd.com

Larry Klayman founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, filed the suit for WND, under his law firm, and the complaint asks for over $10,000,000 in damages, plus a court order requiring the Association to allow WND to attend the event.

Joseph Farah is the founder, editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com, the world's leading independent Internet news source.

Wow. This Farah fellow certainly does think he's the shit, doesn't he?

Well, this should be fun to watch.

Keep the faith,.

Birther Queen Orly Taitz lies again about a judge's decision

2010-04-09T17:31:57Z

But what else is new?

Here's her take on US District Court Judge Roger Vinson;s order of April 8, in which he denies her motion to intervene in the cases filed by 13 US Attorneys General against the new health care reform legislation:

Orly Taitz Judge Vinson in FL states: ""As a Doctor of Dental Surgery, who will be affected by the Act, she clearly has an interest in the subject of this action"- he indicates standing, which was viled as a judicial notice in DC

(I'm assuming she meant "filed" rather than "viled," but, considering her history, what a slip, huh?)

Now, she's filed a motion befor Judge Royce C. Lamberth in D.C. -- in another of her birther cases -- to take judicial notice of what she claims the Vinson decision means, namely that she has "standing" to pursue her claim that President Obama is a usurping Marxist who was not legitimately elected to his office. Standing is important, because Obama's lawyers are asking Lamberth to dismiss her claim because she does not have standing to file it.

But as usual, this mail-order lawyer either doesn't understand Vinson's order, or is deliberately misrepresenting it to achieve her desired ends. (That's a nice way of saying she's lying). I note that in her motion to Lamberth, she references including Vinson's order as an exhibit, but the exhibit is not attached (at least in the version on Scribd).

The snippet that Taitz provides in her Facebook post and in her motion to Lamberth is, of itself, accurate; Vinson did write that. But she neglects to include the context. Vinson writes about the four-pronged test that judges use in determining whether to allow an intervenor in a suit. He says that while Taitz satisfies the first two, she fails in three and four.

With respect to the impairment of interest (step 3), Taitz contends that her legal interests will be "immensely" and "significantly" hampered because there is the "risk that conflicting results may be achieved in the DC and Northern Florida Districts." However, the mere possibility of inconsistent results in cases filed by different individuals in different districts does not, by itself, hamper or impair a litigant's legal interests.

As for the fourth prong:

Moreover, Taitz has not shown that her legal interests will be represented inadequately by the existing parties in this case (step 4). She acknowledges that she and the Attorneys General in this litigation are ultimately "seeking identical relief on an identical theory." The Eleventh Circuit has stated that courts should "presume adequate representation when an existing party seeks the same objectives as the would-be interveners." Although this presumption is "weak," it imposes on the proposed intervener "the burden of coming forward with some evidence to the contrary." There is no such evidence in this case. Although Taitz states in conclusory fashion that her interests "are not being represented by the current parties to this action," the only support she provides for this contention is her claim that --- unlike the Attorneys General --- she is a doctor whose "gainful employment in Dental Surgery" will be directly impacted. However, the fact that she might be affected by the Act on a more personal level than the current named plaintiffs does not constitute evidence that representation by the Attorneys General is inadequate.

Fail and fail.

Taitz also takes out of context a statement made by Vinson that:

(T)he parties to this litigation, and, indeed, the citizens of this country, have an interest in having this case resolved as soon as practically possible. That task will be made exponentially more difficult if all those who have an opinion and an interest in the outcome of the case were allowed to intervene and to join in these proceedings. Already this court has received many such pro se requests for intervention. Furthermore, with respect to Taitz's motion in particular, I believe the parties to this case and the court should remain focused solely on the legal issues raised by the named plaintiffs, and not concern themselves with collateral issues (such as, for example, whether President Obama has provided sufficient proof of a valid birth certificate).

Not surprisingly, Taitz completely misstates Vinson's intent in her motion before Judge Lamberth: here

While motion to intervene was not granted under judicial discretion due to the fact that multiple interveners have filed their motions and the presiding judge decided to limit the case to the issue of the Commerce clause raised by the original plaintiffs ...

and here:

Additionally, Judge Vinson does not find the issue of Mr. Obama's eligibility due to lack of Natural Born status to be frivolous. He simply states that in the interest of expediency he decided to limit the case to the issues raised by the original plaintiffs. Yet again is seems to negate the notion by the defense that the eligibility issue is frivolous.

Judge Vinson made no such assertion, Orly. You're lying.

As you are here:

Regardless of whether ultimately the plaintiff in this action will prevail or not, above ruling of the sister court has indicated that Taitz has standing to bring her action challenging H.R. 3590 ...

To wit:

For these reasons, Dr. Taitz's motion to intervene (doc. 17) must be, and is, DENIED.

I guess when you're a desperate attention whore, you'll do anything to keep yourself relevant, even outright lie in legal papers.

My only question is, when will this woman be disbarred?

Keep the faith.

Orly Taitz: Just gimmie the money

2010-04-08T20:06:08Z

No niceties, no hey-how-are-ya-doings, just the bare bones demand. From Orly's Facebook page:

Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. - Donate
runorlyrun.org
Donation page for Dr. Orly Taitz for CA Secretary of State 2010.

She's the Queen of the Birthers, remember, not the Queen of Tact.

Keep the faith.

Michael Savage is an idiot, continued

2010-04-06T19:51:55Z

This is on Savage's Web site, promoting his show on a Bay Area sports radio station:

SAVAGE NOW ON
XTRA SPORTS 860 AM
IN SAN FRANCISCO

SAVAGE NOW ON 6 A.M. TO 9 A.M.
AND 3 P.M. TO 5 P.M.!

SAVAGE+SAVAGE=A DOUBLE PLAY

A little research on the part of this phony Ph.D would show that a double-play is not necessarily a good thing. So why would anyone with half a brain use as a marketing slogan an image that, half the time, had a negative connotation? (That's a self-answering question.)

Plus, in the blurb to which this headline links, he lies about his show's standing. He says Talkers Magazine ranks him number 3 among talk radio program hosts, but, as I have already pointed out, his show is now number 4.

Lazy researcher and a liar. You fans must be so proud.

Keep the faith.

Orly Taitz is asking her followers to call Caliafornia voters for her

2010-04-02T21:08:31Z

Oh man, the potential for comedy is endless.

Birther Queen Orly Taitz, who is running for the Republican nomination for California state Attorney General, is trying to rally her Facebook friends to get them to make GOTV calls for her.

Orly Taitz Please e-mail my campaign coordinator Evelyn Bradley at ENBradley@aol.com, she will give you phone numbers of the registered voters to contact and ask them to vote for me

Taitz believes that if she gets into office, she'll finally have standing to demand President Obama's birth records. Funny, though; she doesn't mention that as a campaign platform plank on her Web site, runorlyrun.org.

But can you imagine the high-larity that will ensue when these mouth-breathers start calling people up, asking them to vote for Taitz? How long will it take before the crazy reveals itself?

Can't wait to find out.

Keep the faith

GAO: US not fully prepared to recover from "dirty bomb" attack

2010-02-26T19:16:09Z

Read it and weep. Or at least scream. Hot off the presses at the Government Accountability Office.

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10204.pdf

Basically, the GAO dumps the problem on FEMA's doorstep, saying the agency is "responsible for developing a comprehensive emergency management system," but "has not developed a national disaster recovery strategy, as required by law, or issued specific guidance to coordinate federal, state, and local government recovery planning for RDD and IND incidents, as directed by executive guidance."

What the hell? How many years has it been known that dirty bombs are a potential danger? What have they been doing all this time?

To date, most federal attention has been given to developing a response framework, with less attention to recovery. Responding to an attack would involve evacuations and providing treatment to those injured; recovering from an attack would include cleaning up the radioactive contamination to permit people to return to their homes and businesses. Existing federal guidance provides limited direction for federal, state, and local agencies to develop recovery plans and to conduct exercises to test recovery preparedness. Of the over 90 RDD and IND exercises to test response capabilities in the last 6 years, only 3 included a recovery component.

So we know how to respond to an attack, we just don't know what to do after that initial response. Which begs the question, what happens to people who want to return to their homes after such an attack?

They're screwed, that's what happens.

This is ridiculous. Congress needs to lean on FEMA to develop guidelines and strategies to deal with the aftermath of a dirty bomb attack. This is not the sort of thing that should be handled by a special commission after the fact.

Keep the faith.

Michael Savage drops from No. 3 to No. 4 in Talkers mag ranking

2010-02-23T22:40:12Z

And, according to the industry bible, he now has 9 million listeners.

Savage has consistently been ranked number 3 in the highly subjective ranking, behind Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. This year, however, batshit crazyman Glenn Beck has taken Savage's third rank, dropping our favorite professional liar down a notch.

Beck jumped from last year's ranking of No. 5 to take Savage's spot. That should get the wild man going tonight.

Keep the faith.

Michael Savage endorses Bachmann/Romney for 2012

2010-02-22T20:24:24Z

Just minutes ago, Savage posted this on his Facebook page:

Important Announcement!!! Tonight at 4:30PM PST 7:30 EST Michelle Bachmann on the show. I will support a Bachmann / Romney Presidential Ticket for 2012

Well, the Great Bloviator has spoken! I guess the other potential candidates might as well focus on 2020, huh?

Clearly, Savage is digging the crazy. And what else would you expect from him?

Can you imagine how much fun a Bachmann presidential run would be? Oh, the attack ads!

You know, Ronald Reagan, in his first presidential campaign, promised to take a regular senility test and post its results if he were elected. (Never happened, of course. The tests, I mean. He probably forgot.) In that vein, I think Bachmann should be required to take regular sanity tests. Starting now.

Michael "Professional Liar" Savage and Michele (yeah, that's how she spells it) "Batshit Crazy" Bachmann. Perfect together.

Keep the faith.

Birther Queen Orly Taitz claims the support of world leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister

2010-02-21T16:24:06Z

Here's what Orly Taitz posted earlier on her Facebook page:

Yulia Timoshnko, prime minister of Ukraine has joined Prime minister of Israel and other World and National Leaders as my friend on Facebook, showing support to my plight as a dissident against illegitimate oppresive Obama regime

Really?? The Israeli prime minister doesn't think Obama is legitimately the US president? Seriously??

Sorry, Orly, but I really need to see that in writing. And not from you.

Keep the faith.

Michael Savage doesn't dig Ann Coulter

2010-02-20T18:19:12Z

Just a quick note:

On his radio program yesterday, Michael Savage thoroughly ripped his fellow Conservative pundit, Ann Coulter.

"A schoolyard hag," is one phrase he used.

He also said Coulter was a "post-operative transvestite" who panders to Conservatives to sell books.

Oh, and according to Savage, Coulter is also a "Jew-hater."

Keep the faith.

Michael Savage once again cherrypicks to boost his image

2010-02-15T20:40:57Z

Here's yet another example of Right-wing radio blowhard Michael Savage cherrypicking facts to make himself look good.

A Web site called "Death by 1000 Papercuts," or DBKP.com, has released what it promises to be a regularly updated list of the most popular conservative and liberal/progressive web sites and blogs, as identified by averaging statistics from Alexa.com.

So, today on his Web site, Savage trumpets this: "Top 100 Conservative sites, Savage in winner's circle."

The fact that the site uses Alexa stats for its rankings is suspect from the start, but more on that later.

Anyway, as usual, Savage leaves out a pertinent fact in his headline, namely that DBKP.com combined his stats with those of WorldNetDaily.com. That's because Savage's site is hosted by WND; it's actual address is www.michaelsavage.wnd.com.

So, even though Savage advertises more than 1 million visitors to his site, there's no way to really verify that because you can't separate Savage's visitors from WND's.

And as far as using Alexa stats is concerned, the company has come under fire because it only counts those web browsers that have hits toolbar installed. Many people won't do that over spyware concerns. So it's a limited sampling and, as most web stats experts will say, the numbers are not to be relied upon.

Come to think of it, that makes it the perfect tool to use to track Savage's Web traffic.

Keep the faith.

Michael Savage abruptly stops updating Twitter and Facebook pages

2010-01-27T20:50:15Z

Radio blowhard Michael Savage has abruptly decided to stop Tweeting and updating his Facebook page.

Savage announced the move a few minutes ago in a terse announcement in both venues.

For now, Facebook and Twitter are NOT going to updated, until further notice.

That left some of his fans asking what happened, but no explanation has been forthcoming.

I'll update as soon as I know.