WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.
The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election. Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth -- his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject -- he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen," one of the requirements the Constitution lists for eligibility to be president.
Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president.
At least one other appeal over Obama's citizenship remains at the court. Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa., argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and the Hawaii secretary of state has confirmed. Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a boy. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed Berg's lawsuit.
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Look at the bright side. At least the Donks don't have to commit the US to engage in Anschluss annexation of Kenya to make it part of American territory to fit the bill. That and the Atlantic will keep the uncontrolled immigration issue tied to the south.
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Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president.
Did he contend this in his suit? Or was this just a gratuitous mention in the article?
Pittsburgh City Council gave its first approval today to legislation requiring that anyone report a lost or stolen firearm report that within 24 hours or potentially face a $500 fine. The 6-1 vote, with two abstentions, sets up a final vote likely next week, which would send the legislation to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl for his signature or veto, and then potentially to the courts, where similar measures have been challenged.
"Who really cares about it being unconstitutional?" said Councilwoman Tonya Payne, a supporter. "This is what's right to do, and if this means that we have to go out and have a court battle, then that's fine ... We have plenty of dead bodies coming up in our streets every single day, and that is unacceptable." So she gets to decide on what is and isn't the right thing to do? Based on what? Who the hell needs a Constitution, anyway?
The lone no vote was by Councilman Ricky Burgess, who argued that it would be a "false cure" that would be "particularly cruel" to his violence-plagued northeastern Pittsburgh district. Sounds like a smart man to me.
"This legislation will not strike a blow to straw purchasers," he said. "This ordinance will not be enforced, no loopholes will be closed and no lives will be saved, because no municipality can legally regulate firearms of any kind, at any time, for any reason." Wanna bet?
Council's vote is a win for groups engaged in a statewide push to get local rules for reporting lost and stolen guns. The state House rejected a statewide bill in April.
Advocates appearing before council today argued that people called straw purchasers frequently buy guns, then sell them to criminals who could not pass the required background checks. When the guns are used in crimes and traced back to the straw purchaser, he or she just claims the weapon was lost or stolen. Unless that can be disproved, the straw purchaser is off the hook. "It's a loophole that allows illegal gun traffickers to simply state that a weapon was stolen," said Councilman William Peduto, one of three authors of the bill along with Council President Doug Shields and Councilman Bruce Kraus.
Councilmen Dan Deasy and Patrick Dowd abstained. Weiners!
Mr. Dowd said that in passing the measure council is "not really effectively changing the situation on the ground," and is inviting a lawsuit.
Philadelphia has sought to enforce similar legislation, but the effort has been tied up in litigation. Legally, the question is whether the state ban on local laws on "the transfer, ownership, transportation or possession" of guns extends to the reporting of lost or stolen firearms. The Commonwealth Court threw out Philadelphia's measure, and other gun control rules there. The matter is heading for the state Supreme Court.
"To me the question is wide open" on whether such rules are allowed, said Mr. Shields. "This is where you go in [to court] and you make your arguments."
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Let's hope Tonya Payne is one of the next victims. She's too damned stupid to live, as are those who elected her. Hopefully the Mayor has better sense although the fact that he still lives in Pennsylvania tends to make that unlikely.
President-elect Barack Obama has warned that "things are going to get worse before they get better" as he outlined details of an economic stimulus package that could reach $1 trillion and is designed to lift the United States out of recession.
On Friday the US announced a net loss of more than half a million jobs in November, the largest drop in a single month for 34 years and bringing unemployment to 6.7 per cent. The following day, Mr Obama announced the biggest infrastructure investment since President Dwight Eisenhower created the US highway system in the 1950s. He proposed government programmes for bridges, roads, ...
... so that gas-guzzling Detroit dinosaurs can drive through minority neighborhoods more quickly ...
... broadband internet ...
... because we don't yet have that in our country ...
... and schools ...
...because it's all about the children ...
... as well as plans for greater energy efficiency and health spending.
Here comes ObamaCare ...
Although he played down expectation for a quick economic recovery, Mr Obama said his plan was "equal to the task" that the US faced. "The key is making sure we jump-start the economy in a way that doesn't just deal with the short term, doesn't just create jobs immediately, but also puts us on a glide path for long-term sustainable economic growth," he said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press".
Stronger financial regulations would make banks, credit ratings agencies, mortgage brokers and others "much more accountable and behave much more responsibly".
Oh, so he's going to rein in Fannie and Freddie? Wonder if Barney Franks knows ...
He emphasised that the survival of the domestic car industry was crucial but any bailout must be "conditioned on an auto industry emerging at the end of the process that actually works".
Whatever that means, and I don't think even he knows ...
The president-elect criticized Detroit's Big Three car manufacturers for "repeated strategic mistakes" and a "failure to adapt to changing times -- building small cars and energy-efficient cars".
Did he say anything about the labor contracts?
He added, however: "The auto industry is the backbone of American manufacturing. It is a huge employer across many states. Millions of people, directly or indirectly, are reliant on that industry, and so I don't think it's an option to simply allow it to collapse."
Noting the US budget deficit might exceed $1,000bn (785bn) even before his campaign promises and new spending plans were taken into account, factored in, Mr Obama said: "We understand that we've got to provide a blood infusion to the patient right now to make sure that the patient is stabilised. And that means that we can't worry short term about the deficit. We've got to make sure that the economic stimulus plan is large enough to get the economy moving."
Mr Obama has not to put a full cost on his plan but his advisers estimate it will be more than $700 billion and could even top to $1 trillion.
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So how much of OUR money is he giving ME?
Why do I suspect NONE?
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Yep, the highway bills in the last few cycles were infamously niggardly. (take note, DC "government" employees, you can't use this word)
And schools have been practically starved for funding, except that they've sorta been buried in gigantic oceans of money for years now.
And surely we can get our % of GDP spent on "health care" up to 50%, just to see what happens. What the hell.
Oh, and we're gonna put the economy on a "glide path" for sustainable growth. Uh huh. Like he would have the slightest idea what that might mean - sound currency and monetary policy, lowest taxation possible, minimal regulation possible, free trade, capital markets where risk is real, and not just present if you can't shake down Washington for a bail-out, and companies freed of absurd and unsustainable pension and medical obligations to unions.
Nope. This genius has an alternative. Electric cars and ditch-digging for Uncle Sam.
Would a Buggy-Whip maker would be considerd one of the thousands of "Green-Collar" jobs "created" by the Federal Goverment according to the Pelosi/Obama regime?
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Let's cut out the middle man and start importing ZimBob dollars wholesale. What? The whole purpose of government is the middleman?
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Message for The One:
Once upon a time, a young lad was born without a belly button. In its place was a silver screw.
All the doctors told his mother that there was nothing they could do.Like it or not, he was stuck with it ..... He was screwed.
All the years of growing up were real tough on him, as all who saw the screw made fun of him. He avoided ever leaving his house.... And thus,never made any friends.
One day,a mysterious stranger saw his belly and told him of a swami in Tibet who could get rid of the screw for him. He was thrilled. The next day, he took all of his life's savings and bought a ticket to Nepal.
After several days of climbing up steep cliffs, he came upon a giant monastery. The swami knew exactly why he had come. The screwy guy was told to sleep in the highest tower of the monastery and the following day when he awoke, the screw would have been removed. The man immediately went to the room and fell asleep.
During the night while he slept, a purple fog floated in an open window. In the mist floated a solid silver screwdriver. In just moments, the screwdriver removed the screw and disappeared out the window.
The next morning when the man awoke, he saw the silver screw laying on the pillow next to him. Reaching down, he felt his navel, and there was no screw there! Jubilant,he leaped out of bed ....... And his butt fell off.
The moral to this is: 'Don't screw around with things you don't understand --You could lose your ass.'
At the exact moment Jon Favreau is receiving high praise in pre-inaugural media puff pieces, the 27-year-old chief speechwriter for President-elect Barack Obama . . . finds himself in a minor mess over a photo from a recent private party showing him groping the breast of a cardboard cutout of Hillary Rodham Clinton as an unnamed pal wearing an "Obama staff" T-shirt kisses and feeds her beer.
. . . Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson danced to a similar tune at the 2004 Super Bowl. Fraternities have been closed for less.
The provocative party pic uploaded to Facebook for a very short time was soon discovered and printed in The Washington Post then disseminated across the Internet and featured prominently on Politico, Gawker and the Drudge Report.
If the photo had exposed a Republican offender, there'd already be a full-bore media scandal and cascading resignations. . . . Yet so far there is no groundswell of feminist rage in the District of Columbia. The unnamed co-conspirator thrusting the beer bottle into the mouth of the designated secretary of state isn't yet a household slur. Instead, with the accused being a member of the protected Democratic class, we only have a quick peripheral debate. The mainstream media headlines soften the story's implications: "Obama speechwriter Favreau learns the perils of Facebook" (CNN). Next time, don't share your coarseness with the world. It's the technology's fault.
The aggressive iconography of two young drunk men taking advantage of a life-size cutout of a woman - especially a powerful one - would bring an elite college campus to a standstill, force a housecleaning of a Fortune 500 company, ground the Air Force Academy and would, in most cases, ruin the career of a Republican staffer or elected official. Every sexual harassment training manual makes exceedingly clear that this type of behavior is intolerable. If only former President Bill Clinton could offer his sage advice on sexual harassment and put this conundrum to rest. . . .
The National Organization for Women, which last struck issuing news releases on why Sarah Palin isn't a real woman, refused to comment on the Obama speechwriter incident.
When NOW's press secretary Mai Shiozaki was reached Friday, she first claimed not to have seen the Favreau photograph. But when called later, she offered two reasons for not weighing in: "I haven't looked into it" and "I have a 5 p.m. deadline. ... I am already late." . . .
If this is supposed to be excused as a youthful indiscretion because Favreau is so young then I think Obamas judgment in continuing to rely professionally on someone so young and irresponsible and offensively sexist can reasonably be questioned.
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Was the Hillary blow up doll in the repair shop?
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Please don't use "Hillary" and "Blow" in the same sentance.
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who cares...these guys are morons on general principle, working for obama equates moronic status in my book...and as if NOW was going to comment on this...they lost any credibility left after letting slick willie get away w/victimizing womenz for yrs and not saying a peep...
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NOW is a bunch of lefty dyke bitches, with the leftism predominant. As they showed under BJ, they wouldn't care if a male politician was forcibly raping 14-year old girls every damned day as long as his "heart was in the right place." They'd just figure he's a person of taste because he likes the same things they do.
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Gentlemen commenting above, remember Captain Fluellen: "If the enemy be an as(s), a fool, and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that you too should be an as(s), a fool, and a prating coxcomb?"
(Shakespeare, Henry V)
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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President-elect Barack Obama has warned that "things are going to get worse before they get better" as he outlined details of an economic stimulus package that could reach $1 trillion and is designed to lift the United States out of recession.
If the photo had exposed a Republican offender, there'd already be a full-bore media scandal and cascading resignations. . . . Yet so far there is no groundswell of feminist rage in the District of Columbia. The unnamed co-conspirator thrusting the beer bottle into the mouth of the designated secretary of state isn't yet a household slur. Instead, with the accused being a member of the protected Democratic class, we only have a quick peripheral debate. The mainstream media headlines soften the story's implications: "Obama speechwriter Favreau learns the perils of Facebook" (CNN). Next time, don't share your coarseness with the world. It's the technology's fault.
