Monthly Archives: April 2011

It’s official: we’ll have Obama to kick around in 2012

Barack Obama told me this morning in an email that he’s filing the paperwork necessary to kick off his 2012 run for re-election today. So let us rededicate ourselves to the quelling of unfounded rumors, to truth, justice and the … Continue reading

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FactCheck scrubs images?

A couple of emails arrived recently dealing with FactCheck.org photos of Barack Obama’s birth certificate. The original FactCheck article with photos appeared August of 2008, a couple of months after the Obama campaign released a scanned image to a few … Continue reading

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Birther art sale

I apologize for being slow to report this. Lucas Smith, of recent memory, is selling a work of art titled: Orly Taitz and her exhibits. It comes with a certificate of authenticity. I think the painting is funny. The art … Continue reading

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Lies, and the lying birthers who tell them

Despite the allusion to Al Frankens’ book, Lies, and the lying liars who tell them — a fair and balanced look at the right, I really prefer his book, The Truth (with jokes). This article is not so much about … Continue reading

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Pen spills ink, makes mess

One of the more unpleasant tasks in running this web site is wading through very long articles full of of misdirection, misinformation, rhetorical fallacies, plain stupidity and bald-faced lies. They offend my sense of honesty, insult my intelligence, and I … Continue reading

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State Archives v Department of Health

Governor Abercrombie went out on a limb, saying he would shut up the birthers by finding some document in the State archives that he could release to prove Barack Obama’s birth in Hawaii. One of the problems parsing what Abercrombie … Continue reading

Posted in Birth Certificate, Debunking, Hawaii Dept. of Health, Research Notes | Tagged , , | 22 Comments