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Monday, June 29, 2009 12:00 AM

Pat Boone goes Birther

The entertainer gets behind the movement that claims -- wrongly -- President Obama isn't eligible for his job

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 07:50 AM

Something stinks

So I see you are not above a little ad hominem your self. I am not sure what you believe to be the origin of our Constitution has to do with your desperate cling to what is an untruth. I don't have an "original" copy of my birth certificate either. Neither do you, unless you broke into the county records where you live and stole it. What you really need is a hobby and some therapy.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 07:55 AM

The question you should be asking yourelf

If a half witted moron like Pat Boone finds this BC suspect, why don't I find it suspect?

Are not half witted morons much more likely to believe and trust authorities without question?

Yet Pat Boone is a skeptic.

You are not skeptics.

You are true believers.

What was the question you should be asking yourself?

Why do you believe anything you see or hear from either political party, mouthpiece or news reader on a television?

Why do you believe in these people. They do not believe in you. They don't give a damn about you. All they want is your money, votes, trust and belief. What do they give you in return? Nothing good.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 07:58 AM

So they support him?

Since these 'birthers' are presumably also 'pro-life' I just know they wouldn't want to terminate his presidency right?

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 07:59 AM

psst, hey everyone!

Don't talk to Pat Boone I mean somethingstinky.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 08:01 AM

@something stinks

There is no adequate explanation for the misalignments other than sloppy editing in PhotoShop or some other graphics editing program.

I beg to differ.

First of all, you need a standard for comparison before you can claim there is any misalignment. The program that printed the document might have the so-called misalignments in its code, and nobody bothered to fix then because they were not visibly obvious.

Second of all, offices are usually not maintained as dust-free "clean room" environments. Just look at the crud in any used computer if you doubt me. Both printers and scanners have moving parts, and can suffer minor motion irregularities when bits of crud get into the parts. The "misalignments" of which you speak could have been introduced by either the printer or the scanner.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 08:04 AM

You are clearly a moron

Boone's version of "Crazy Train" on "In a Metal Mood" is down right awesome. You obviously have no taste in lounge covers of metal tunes.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 08:09 AM

My dear teresa,

Oh thou doth wound me to the quick, my dear Ms. Winehouse.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 08:14 AM

My dear Alkaline,

So it is merely a COINCIDENCE that all of the misaligned text areas just happen to correspond EXACTLY to the BLANK areas of the online template which has the same time of birth and the same location of birth as Obama's?

Fascinating!

What are the odds of THAT happening?

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 08:16 AM

STINKY...STINKY...STINKY...STINKY...STINKY...

I was going to write to complain about the repetitive posts by stinky. If you can't make your point with one or two posts, why do you think posting 50 times makes it any more relevant.

Then I realizes that I want you to post, more and more. Reading your posts makes me realize we are up against the morons who now run the Republican Party. You are the Michele Bachman of Salon posters. When I realize what is in control of the opposition, I am hopeful of the Democrats future. As stupid as the Democrats can occasionally get, they never seem to match your level of incompetence.

I am sorry you are a shut-in and your only contact is with your computer.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 08:20 AM

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Let's not forget that Pat Boone launched his career by covering the songs of black singers, such as Fats Domino and Little Richard, in order to make them acceptable to a white audience that would never be able to accept the talents of black artists.

When it was discovered that America would be able to appreciate integrated entertainment, Boone's career went into decline.

What better spokesman for those white men who still yearn for the days when Pat Boone was able to prevent blacks from taking the national stage and destroying America.

Rock on, Birthers!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 08:24 AM

mixing fact with fiction

The Taliban eradicated the opium industry the previous year.

TRUE: The Taliban did curtail the growing of poppy (eradicate is likely not correct, though)

Since we have invaded they have become the number one supplier of opium.

TRUE: Yes, since the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan has once again become the number one exporter of opium. However, you are confounding the farming practices of peasant Afghans with official U.S. policy. Poor people will do what it takes to eat. You are essentially committing a "post hoc ergo propter hoc" argument. Since the heroin trade has flourished since the U.S. invasion, the invasion must have been about heroin. No, the heroin trade is a by-product of the invasion, but not the reason thereof.

Is the pipeline being built?

The project is currently stalled because of, um, an ongoing war.

As for Honduras, the leaders of the coup met with U.S. Embassy officials prior to the coup

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Evidence please. Even the deposed Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya, has come out and said that the a full coup was thwarted because the U.S. refused to back it. I believe the President of Honduras before I believe your sniveling bullshit.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLS355357

Since then, the U.S. has refused to recognize the interim President of Honduras.

The facts are squarely against you.

The rest of your comments are ridiculous ad hominem attacks, so I will ignore them in this response and move onto to you next post.

You came up with that Jane's article pretty fast.

I know how to use Google:

http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Search&q=jane%27s%20intelligence%20report%20March%202001%20afghanistan

If you are at Langley want to do lunch in Arlington?

I am in Oklahoma City. Since you are such an intelligence expert, you can check my IP to confirm.

However, JPEG artifacts do not account for alignment issues. There is no adequate explanation for the misalignments other than sloppy editing in PhotoShop or some other graphics editing program

Printing errors can account for alignment issues. Have you ever had a printer feed error?

As I have already fully demonstrated, the State of Hawai'i Department of Health attests that this document is not a forgery. Unless, you are saying the Department of Health in Hawai'i is in on the grand conspiracy and couldn't even adequately forge its own documents.

And you call me naive?!!! Really?!!!!

Which is precisely why Factcheck posted a JPEG instead of a TIFF.

OH MY GOD--Factcheck.org is in on the conspiracy with the Hawai'i Department of Health.

Of course, Factcheck.org only verified that they had seen the document and posted various pictures of the document proving that actually held the real thing. You are confounding the document the Obama camp put out there with factcheck.orgs work.

Answer this one silly question. Do you honestly believe that the State Department of Health in Hawai'i is in on the conspiracy?

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