Barack Obama's original birth record seems classified

There has been a lot of buzz on the internet about Barack Obama's place of birth. There are several lawsuits demanding Obama prove he is a natural born citizen. The Obama team has fought these lawsuits on the grounds that the plaintiffs have no standing. This is a legal term meaning they didn't directly suffer any material harm. I find it strange that Obama has not contested these lawsuits based on them being factually incorrect. He would only have to submit his original longer form Certificate of Live Birth to show what hospital he was born in, who his father was and the doctor that delivered him's signature to end all these suits. This is not to be confused with the shorter electronically generated Certification of Live Birth that Obama has posted on his website. Instead he spends hundreds of thousands of dollars arguing the plaintiffs have no standing. I think he should spend the $12 and get a certified copy of the original long for birth certificate and present it at a news conference. What is he hiding? I make no claim that Obama was not born in Hawaii, but his strategy makes no sense to me from a legal standpoint.You can read more at this site.

Here is a video covering several issues relating to Obama being a natural born citizen.

Here is a video by a Dr. Polarik(a pseudonym) claiming Obama's posted COLB is an electronic forgery.

Chambliss Wins

Sarah Palin campaigned for Chambliss in Georgia. I have to think that helped. She is the biggest star in the GOP at the moment. This win will help keep the democrats from the 60 vote filibuster proof Senate they crave. Hopefully, Frankin will not win against Coleman in Minnesota, but that race is very close.

Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss Wins Re-election in Runoff
Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss fended off Democratic challenger Jim Martin after a monthlong sprint of post-general election campaigning that drew national political heavyweights from both parties

AP
Tuesday, December 02, 2008

ATLANTA -- Georgia's seemingly endless U.S. Senate campaign drew to a finish on Tuesday with Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss claiming victory in a race that will sway the balance of power in Washington.

Chambliss faced Democrat Jim Martin in an extra innings campaign that drew national political heavyweights from both parties. The runoff between the former University of Georgia fraternity brothers was necessary after a three-way general election prevented any of the candidates from getting the necessary 50 percent.

What was at stake was significant: Democrats in the U.S. Senate are just two votes shy of the 60 needed to block Republican filibusters -- a key bid for power that would be immensely helpful as a Democrat heads to the White House for the first time in a decade.

Georgia is one of the two unresolved Senate races. In Minnesota, a recount is under way in a tight race between Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken. The ballots must be tallied by Friday but the contest could stretch beyond that with a five-member board gathering beginning Dec. 16 to rule on ballot challenges.

Elections officials reported steady to light turnout since polls opened at 7 a.m., and no problems throughout the day. Polls closed at 7 p.m. A spokesman for Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel predicted turnout would be between 18 and 20 percent, far less than the 65 percent who voted in last month's general election. Link here.

Indictments by rogue prosecutor of Vice-President Cheney dismissed

A judge slaps down the lunatic left wing prosecutor who indicted VP Dick Cheney and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. This moron used his last few days in office to indict the VP and AG for prisoner abuse. The judge told him to knock it off. It is a shame when the people in charge of our legal system use it to make political statements. Actions like these destroy peoples faith and trust in the system.

Indictments against Cheney, Gonzales dismissed
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer Christopher Sherman, Associated Press Writer – Tue Dec 2, 12:19 am ET
RAYMONDVILLE, Texas – A judge dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday and told the southern Texas prosecutor who brought the case to exercise caution as his term in office ends.

Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra had accused Cheney and the other defendants of responsibility for prisoner abuse. The judge's order ended two weeks of sometimes-bizarre court proceedings.

Guerra is leaving office at the end of the month after soundly losing in his March primary election.

"I suggest on behalf of the law that you not present any cases to the grand jury involving these defendants," Administrative Judge Manuel Banales said in court while ruling that eight indictments against Cheney, Gonzales and others were invalid.

He also set a Dec. 10 hearing on whether to disqualify Guerra from those cases. Read more here.

The global HIV industry is too big and out of control

Are we spending too much of our limited health care dollars on AIDS? I am not advocating that AIDS is not a big problem. This is especially true on the African Continent. However, when the Mainstream Media, Hollywood and several very loud activists groups hype an issue for years, we can lose our perspective. We should spend our dollars where we can save the most lives. Instead, we spend disproportionate amounts on the "issue of the day."

Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so

By MARIA CHENG – 1 day ago

LONDON (AP) — As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs.

They argue that the world has entered a post-AIDS era in which the disease's spread has largely been curbed in much of the world, Africa excepted.

"AIDS is a terrible humanitarian tragedy, but it's just one of many terrible humanitarian tragedies," said Jeremy Shiffman, who studies health spending at Syracuse University.

Roger England of Health Systems Workshop, a think tank based in the Caribbean island of Grenada, goes further. He argues that UNAIDS, the U.N. agency leading the fight against the disease, has outlived its purpose and should be disbanded.

"The global HIV industry is too big and out of control. We have created a monster with too many vested interests and reputations at stake, ... too many relatively well paid HIV staff in affected countries, and too many rock stars with AIDS support as a fashion accessory," he wrote in the British Medical Journal in May.

Paul de Lay, a director at UNAIDS, disagrees. It's valid to question AIDS' place in the world's priorities, he says, but insists the turnaround is very recent and it would be wrong to think the epidemic is under control.

"We have an epidemic that has caused between 55 million and 60 million infections," de Lay said. "To suddenly pull the rug out from underneath that would be disastrous."

U.N. officials roughly estimate that about 33 million people worldwide have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Scientists say infections peaked in the late 1990s and are unlikely to spark big epidemics beyond Africa.

In developed countries, AIDS drugs have turned the once-fatal disease into a manageable illness...

Read more here.

Why electric and hybrid cars won't save the Big Three

Congress wants to force Detroit to move heavily into electric and hybrid production.Should congress run the Big Three? They are doing such a good job running the country. I have nothing against being "green." However, having companies sell more of a product they are losing money on is not a recipe for success. Companies make money by selling a product the consumer wants at a profit. Congress has no clue what it takes to make a profit. If they run low on money, they can just raise taxes or authorize more borrowing.

Why electric and hybrid cars won’t save Detroit
The Buffalo News / The Washington Post ^ | November 30, 2008 | Steven Mufson

Posted on Monday, December 01, 2008 12:19:37 AM by 2ndDivisionVet

Many members of Congress believe they know what the car company of the future should look like. “A business model based on gas — a gas-guzzling past — is unacceptable,” Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said recently. “We need a business model based on cars of the future, and we already know what that future is: the plug-in hybrid electric car.”

But the car company Schumer and other lawmakers envision for the future could turn out to be a money-losing operation, not part of a “sustainable U. S. auto industry” that President-elect Barack Obama and most members of Congress say they want to create...

Link here.

The hostages at Mumbai were tortured

This just shows you what a bunch of sick animals these Islamic terrorists are.

Asked specifically if he was talking of torture marks, he said: "It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood," one doctor said.

The other doctor, who had also conducted the post-mortem of the victims, said: "Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again," he said.

Corroborating the doctors' claims about torture was the information that the Intelligence Bureau had about the terror plan. "During his interrogation, Ajmal Kamal said they were specifically asked to target the foreigners, especially the Israelis," an IB source said. Link here.

Johnny Jihad wants a pardon

Do you remember this lunatic? He was captured fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Some high-profile convicts past and present are among more than 2,000 people asking President George W. Bush to pardon them or commute their prison sentences before he leaves office.

Junk-bond king Michael Milken, media mogul Conrad Black and American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh have applied to the Justice Department seeking official forgiveness. Link here.

This moron is lucky we did not execute him for treason. My guess is "pigs will fly" before President Bush pardons him. Perhaps Barack Hussein Obama will before he leaves office.

Hillary to get State job, Bill to take one for the Team

Reports are Hillary Clinton will get the nomination for secretary of State Monday from Obama. Why she would want to give up her independence, I do not understand. This will make it almost impossible to run against Obama in 1012; even if he is unpopular.

President-elect Barack Obama planned to nominate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state on Monday, transforming a once-bitter political rivalry into a high-level strategic and diplomatic partnership.

Obama will name the New York senator to his national security team at a news conference in Chicago, Democratic officials said Saturday. They requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly for the transition team.

To clear the way for his wife to take the job, former President Bill Clinton agreed to disclose the names of every contributor to his foundation. He’ll also refuse donations from foreign governments to the Clinton Global Initiative, his annual charitable conference, and will cease holding C.G.I. meetings overseas.

Bill Clinton’s business deals and global charitable endeavors were expected to create problems for the former first lady’s nomination. But in negotiations with the Obama transition team, the former president agreed to several measures designed to bring transparency to his post-presidential work. Read more here.

Since it appears Hillary is giving up all her presentational aspirations, Bill is willing to air the Clinton dirty laundry to get her on the Obama team as Secretary of State. This could be juicy. Stay tuned.