Army to court martial 'birther' officer

[xoxoxoBruce]

What, the "good 'ol boy network" is not a stereotype?

[Shawnee123]

It really was a brilliant observation by our most eloquent and cunning linguist.

Merc could turn a monotype into a stereotype.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

It is disturbing, to say the least, to watch the sheep jump on the sheepwagon of anger and hate.

What's more disturbing is to watch sheepeoples jump on the the bandwagon of assigning specific acts of dissent as a call to violence. Most of them have turned out to wackos like this guy:

On March 29, a Philadelphia man was charged with threatening in a YouTube video to kill Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and his family. Prosecutors say the suspect, Norman Leboon, has multiple personalities and is not competent to stand trial.

How about this statement:

Cantor, meanwhile, said a bullet struck the window of his campaign office building in Richmond. Police said the bullet was fired from a distance and broke the window — but didn’t penetrate the blinds inside — on a steep downward trajectory.

The office is in a generally safe part of the city, but about a half mile to a mile south of some of Richmond’s most dangerous neighborhoods.

Cantor said the House’s Democratic campaign chairman, Chris Van Hollen and Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine incited retribution against Republicans by telling The Huffington Post that the GOP would “own” responsibility for retaliatory slurs.

“It is reckless to use these incidents as media vehicles for political gain,” Cantor told reporters.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/25/de...#ixzz0lIMTH5ke


I would support throwing those who make threats against Congressmen and women into prison cells.... right next to the Congressmen and women.

[classicman]

This cannot be good news for the officer...

A federal judge has dismissed a Washington lawsuit by “birther” activist Orly Taitz challenging President Barack Obama’s citizenship.

Taitz, a dentist and lawyer from California known for her occasional TV news appearances, filed a “quo warranto” complaint challenging Obama’s status as a natural born citizen and demanding that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provide a copy of the president’s birth certificate.

The case landed with Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who, suffice it to say, was having none of it.

“This is one of several such suits filed by Ms. Taitz in her quixotic attempt to prove that President Obama is not a natural born citizen as required by [the] Constitution,” Lamberth wrote in a decision published on April 14. “This Court is not willing to go tilting at windmills with her.” (bold min)

Lamberth wrote that only the U.S. attorney general or a U.S. attorney’s office can ask a court to file a writ of quo warranto, which according to Black’s Law Dictionary is a “common-law writ used to inquire the authority by which a public office is held."

Hehehe - haven't heard that expression in awhile.

[TheMercenary]

I wonder if that person is a reservist who just doesn't want to leave her lucrative practice in California and do her duty on deployment, so she made up this BS to 1)get released from active duty and 2) continue to make money. Boy would she be in for a surprise if that is the case....

[classicman]

She has nothing to do with it. The fact that this case (very similar to his) was dismissed makes his chances look even bleaker than before.

[Cloud]

I see Bill Clinton is warning against the effects of extremists demonizing the government.

Clinton warned of the affect that angry political rhetoric might have on anti-government radicals like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, pointing to Rep. Michele Bachmann calling the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress "the gangster government" in speaking to a tax day Tea Party rally on Thursday.

"They are not gangsters," Clinton told the newspaper. "They were elected. They are not doing anything they were not elected to do."

Clinton said demonizing the government with incendiary language can have effects beyond just rallying a crowd.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...zDY#more-99979

whether or not you are inclined to listen to Ol' Bill, his points about the Internet and its effect are interesting.

[toranokaze]

In any case quixotic has just become my word of the week.

[Cloud]

very apropos

[Sundae]

Clinton warned of the affect that angry political rhetoric might have on anti-government radicals like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, pointing to Rep. Michele Bachmann calling the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress "the gangster government" in speaking to a tax day Tea Party rally on Thursday.

Effect, shurely?!
Not aimed at Cloud, who was quoting.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Caution, thread drift.
From the link in classicman's post.

The Justice Department's top foreign-bribery prosecutor, Mark Mendelsohn, who is leaving government service today, said he is looking forward to a "different kind of challenge" in private practice.

Mendelsohn is joining Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as a partner in the Washington office, where he said he hopes to have a broad practice with a focus on building the firm's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act defense work. He said he was attracted to the New York-based firm’s “relatively small, collegial partnership.”

So now he's going to defend them... probably pays better, on the dark side.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Prove it.

Do you're own research, get back to me when you have something of substance to contribute.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Do you're own research, get back to me when you have something of substance to contribute.

Ok, so you can't, thanks.