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Obama Conspiracy Theories: The lost episodes

by Dr. Conspiracy on 22. Jun, 2010 in Lounge, Tim Adams

This is article number 803 published on this web site, but there are a number of other articles you have not seen.

“The gospel according to Tim”

I was thinking about an article titled: “The gospel according to Tim.” It was going to be a 4-column chart listing side by side what Hawaii elections temp Tim Adams said in various interviews — compare and contrast. When I thought about it, there wasn’t much really there. Adams was so vague as to his sources of information and his actual claims, the article would be pretty thin. It looks as if his place of employment had nothing to do with his opinions that sound like careless reading of birther web sites.

“Multiplication by zero”

This one may yet see the light of day. I was inspired by the posting of Mario Apuzzo’s 35th entry in his catalog of Obama smears. While I’m not a real doctor, I do have in Masters Degree in mathematics and one of the things you learn pretty early on is that any number multiplied by zero is still zero. The point of the article is that Mario may have 35 things in his catalog, but if they are all worthless, then the value of them all is 35 times 0. (more…)

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Tim Adams claims that the birthers are racists!

by Dr. Conspiracy on 20. Jun, 2010 in Birth Certificate, Tim Adams, Videos

This is a remarkable video of Tim Adams in a new TV interview.  He’s not right about what a Certificate [sic] of Live Birth is, but he claims that Obama was properly vetted as a candidate, and those who still object are racists.

I think we need to notch down the rancor.

You can watch the video for yourself. I don’t know what to say.

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The Trial of Hal Turner

by Dr. Conspiracy on 10. Dec, 2009 in The Anti-Theories

Hal Turner came to my attention just before the Obama inauguration, as he posted messages threatening terrorist violence against the ceremony. The noted white supremacist and radio “shock jock” was the focal point for concerns over possible violence from white supremacists against the inauguration of the country’s first bi-racial president.

It was not his threats against Obama, but against three federal judges that landed him in court, as reported by an article at the Huffington Post.

The story so far is not remarkable, but for the fact that Internet hackers got access to Turner’s computer and found out that he was an FBI provocateur, and this forms the basis for Turner’s defense.

Perhaps you folks can sort this out and come to an opinion about Turner’s guilt or innocence.

Why am I mentioning it? Well Hal Turner wrote:

October 26, 2008

HAWAII GOVERNOR “SEALS” BARAK OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE!

Orders that NO ONE can obtain a copy. What are they hiding?? The fact he is not a natural born citizen? YEP!

This is a really important thing because the US Constitution itself says that a candidate for President must be a naturally born citizen. President is the ONLY office in the nation where the person elected must be a natural-born citizen.

Obama is a Democrat. He was born in Kenya and is thus ineligible to be President of the United States.

The Governor of Hawaii is a Democrat [Linda Lingle is a Republican]. She is clearly acting to cover up the fact that the Democrat candidate for President is ineligible. This is a conspiracy against the Constitution.

OK, now remember: that was written by an Bush Administration FBI informant. :shock: You can’t make this stuff up.

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Donofrio team pries previously known information out of Hawaii

by Dr. Conspiracy on 02. Oct, 2009 in Birth Location, Leo Donofrio

Leo. C. Donofrio

Leo. C. Donofrio

I don’t want to make too much fun of Donofrio and his article DoH Reverses Course – Releases Index Data For President Obama, Stanley Ann and Barack, Sr; No Records For Maya Exist. While the fake dramatic aura written into his article is silly, at least it presents some facts.

It has been clear to me since last year that this, and another approach to obtaining records from Hawaii, if pressed, would result in disclosure of this  already-public information. The other approach is the Verification in Lieu of a Certificate. But the information pried out of the Department of Health, is the same information the DOH sent to the Hawaii news service and was subsequently printed in two Honolulu newspapers 47 years ago. I suppose it’s nice that Donofrio has another voice from the same source saying the same thing, but there is no surprise here. This really is “old news”.

Leo also “learned” that Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng does not have a Hawaiian birth certificate which–while still claimed otherwise by birthers as recently as by a filing in Hollister v. Soetoro a week ago–is impossible under Hawaiian law. So TechDude (who claimed he could see that the COLB was constructed from a base copy of Maya’s birth certificate) is exposed as a fraud (wait, TechDude was already exposed as a fraud).

It remains to be seen if Leo Donofrio will be believed or demonized by the birthers. The odds are on the latter.

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Donofrio’s latest

by Dr. Conspiracy on 01. Oct, 2009 in Lounge

Leo. C. Donofrio

Leo. C. Donofrio

The latest being:

TerriK INVESTIGATION, Part 3: Hawaii AG Mark Bennett Approved Fukino’s Natural-Born Citizen Statement; All Records Should Be Made Public According To Law.

Usually I can follow what Leo Donofrio is arguing, but this latest foray into Hawaii has left me somewhat baffled. His mistakes are often subtle, but not so here. If I may summarize:

1) Hawaiian law requires that data supporting official statements be made public
2) Dr. Funkino made an official statement saying that she had examined Barack Obama’s vital records and that they show that he was born in Hawaii.
3) Therefore Hawaiian law requires the State of Hawaii to provide copies of Obama’s vital records to the public.

Before looking at the premises, I like to apply a rule of thumb I call the “smell test”. We know that in Hawaii vital records are private; they are protected from disclosure by law (§ 338-18 Disclosure of records HRS_0338-0018.htm). Now if state department of health director Fukino is prohibited by law from disclosing the record, how can she, by making an official statement permissible by law, (disclosure of index data) make herself suddenly not bound by the other disclosure restrictions of the  law? When one arrives at an absurd result, it’s time to inspect the validity of the argument. (more…)

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Birthers waste millions in taxpayer dollars

by Dr. Conspiracy on 25. Sep, 2009 in Lounge

You’ve heard, I’m sure, the claim that Obama has spent some large amount of money (since the amount is a wild guess, specifics vary widely) keeping his birth certificate a secret. Those who follow these questions know that nothing Obama can do will make the Conspiracy Theorists withdraw. If he was born in Hawaii, then he’s not a natural born citizen anyway. If a court rules the against them, it just means the judge is traitor. If nothing Obama can do (short of resigning) will have any effect on birther activity, then it is certain  that the birthers bear all of  the responsibility for all the public funds spent in dealing with birtherism.

What are those costs?

  • Members of Congress are flooded with emails, letters and phone calls asking questions and making demands related to birther theories. Their staff read and answer the mail.
  • State officials, including secretaries of state, are pestered with birther questions.
  • FOIA requests (which in most cases are free to the requester) have been filed, and must be researched and responded to
  • The state and federal courts have been flooded with cases (at least 60 actions!) and many of the plaintiffs have asked that the filing fee be waived.
  • Many of the cases involve government defendants (state secretaries of state, Nancy Pelosi, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Elections Commission, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Clinton, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Gates, various military commanders, the US House of Representatives and the US Senate — not to mention Barack and Michelle Obama). All of these are defended at public expense.

Add up the time and effort of congressional staff, judges, law clerks, state officials and federal agency staffers. It’s got to be in the millions. Birthers are not harmless.

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Donofrio alleges Obama birth records amended!

by Dr. Conspiracy on 22. Sep, 2009 in Birth Certificate, Leo Donofrio

Leo. C. Donofrio

Leo. C. Donofrio

Flash!

Leo Donofrio has made a stunning claim on his blog in a new article: Pending Litigation: Hawaii Confirms That Obama’s Vital Records Have Been Amended.

One has to translate that headline from “birther speak” to normal usage. “Pending Litigation” means “we haven’t filed a lawsuit” and “Confirms” means “we say so, but we won’t tell you why or how”.

Hawaiian law requires that certificates that have been amended be distinctly marked “altered”, and Obama’s Certification of Live Birth clearly is not marked “altered”. This fact justifies a high degree of skepticism on Donofrio’s claim. Of course the word “Amended” in birther speak might mean something totally different from the normal usage.

Donofrio says:

I will issue a full statement and press release on behalf of TerriK via this blog in the days ahead.  This statement will include a complete history of correspondence between TerriK and Hawaii state officials in the Office of Information Practices (OIP) and the Department of Health (DoH). (more…)

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