The Future is a No Brainer…Literally

Holidays…a time for celebrating, a time for friends and family, but for some of us who are alone it is a time of boredom. Surfing the web, playing online games and reading the news can get old very fast.

As a result of my boredom I went through old episodes of Nova, Discover and The American Experience; somehow intermixed in this stack of DVDs was Idiocracy. This was very deceptive movie; for the first few minutes I thought it was actually a documentary.

The movie starts off discussing natural selection and genetics. It points out that genetic evolution is indifferent to intelligence. The dumbing-down of the world is examined. Intelligent people are having fewer children for a variety of reasons: financial, educational, concern for the environment, and selfishness. People with loose morals, educated by the media and advertising, and those who are on the low end of the economic ladder tend to have more children either because they don’t believe in or don’t understand birth control or possibly because their only amusement is sex. People vote for politicians like they vote for the American Idol. Name recognition is everything

The English language in the film has degraded into catch phrases and meaningless grunts and resembles something akin to ghetto speak as written by Madison Avenue, kind of like modern television shows. In the film, technology runs the world. Technology repairs technology because the people have lost any ability to think. People become slaves to the machines. Reading has become a thing of the past. Common sense has been bred out of the human race. While this film is classified as a black comedy in the same genre as Woody Allen’s Sleeper, to which it bears some semblance, it is more…much more.

Mike Judge, the creator of Bevis and Butthead and Office Space, wrote and directed the film which has garnered a cult like following, but since the film first debuted in 2006 the news, the polls and the election results have proved this film is not truly a satire. This film is a microscopic look into our future.

• Idiocracy at Wikipedia
• Idiocracy at IMDB

The Card-Check Deal

The following is a guest post from Gary Shapiro:

Spending a day driving from New Delhi to Agra would be an eye-opening experience for any American. On a recent delegation of world technology leaders to India, I saw how plumbing and running water are rare, the air is dirty from ubiquitous two-cycle engines, and electricity is sporadic at best. Life is tough and daily survival is a challenge.

In times of economic crisis, it can be easy to forget how good we have it in this country. We have a working infrastructure and reliable electricity. Our plumbing works and we enjoy clean water. Even our poorest neighbors do not face the fear of starvation or seeing their sick children waste away without proper medical care.

Yet, we are quickly putting our American way of life at risk. In the last few months our government has spent nearly a trillion dollars we don’t have to bolster a few companies considered too important to fail. We are on the verge of spending billions more to temporarily bail out three American car companies, while doing nothing to resolve their core problem – bloated autoworker union contracts.

Those same unions gave half a billion dollars to Democrats this election cycle, with their No. 1 priority the forced unionization thanks to “card check” legislation pushed by certain newly empowered Democrats in Congress.

Card check would dramatically change U.S. labor laws, overturn a half-century of balance in labor-management relations and strip workers of core protections. By depriving workers of a secret ballot vote in union elections, this legislation would allow for coercion of workers who don’t want to unionize and could force millions of Americans to join unions against their will.

Democratic members of Congress struggle in how to say card check is good for the nation, for productivity or for creating jobs. Yet they are eager to pass this legislation to pay back unions for their support. One prominent union leader said publicly he would gladly use union opposition to pending free trade agreements as a political bargaining chip to get card check passed quickly.

I wish union leaders and the politicians supporting card check would have been with us on the road from Delhi to Agra. They would better understand that America’s success is not God-given destiny. We have come far with hard work and creativity and a focus on education and investment.

Unions once shouldered a burden of protecting worker safety, but these protections are now law and unions and their supporters ignore that we are competing on a world stage. More, they are using their political force to block free trade agreements with countries that can add to American jobs by removing tariffs on our exports. Unions are making our companies less competitive.

Today, our nation is a world leader in technology and all the content creation it allows. From our semiconductor companies to our computers, from Hollywood to music, from games to Internet services, the United States remains the world’s innovator. Our strategy should be to allow these companies to prosper and export – not to burden exports with tariffs, tax their output at the second highest rates in the world, or restrict their flexibility with union rules.

A fast-moving, successful tech company with differential compensation and incentive compensation and the need to adapt quickly is inconsistent with the straitjacket of a union environment. The tech industry executives I represent simply can’t believe Congress would enact a card check law that could force jobs overseas.

We have lost our way. A misplaced sense of entitlement is creating hardships that may push our innovation economy overseas. Our mounting debt is fueling our last grasp on primacy. Our laws are discouraging innovation and investment. And soon our crumbling infrastructure and faltering faltering economy will hasten our fall from the top.

We need not take the road to poverty. But it requires a strategy of investment and trade rather than new taxes, trade barriers, regulatory straitjackets and union intimidation.

Gary Shapiro is president and chief executive officer of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), a U.S. trade association representing 2,200 consumer electronics companies.

Obama’s Kenyan Birth Evidence to be Revealed…Final Update

Update 1/1/2009, 3:36am CT - In his 7:45pm Plains Radio broadcast, this last night, Ed Hale backed down from his prior assertion of having gained even uncertain information about the Barack Sr. / Stanley Ann divorce decree containing language referring to Barack Jr. as being born in Kenya. Instead, Hale referred to an apparently tricky recollection… of an indeterminate person… referring to such a document’s generally referring to the place of birth of the children of the divorced parents. That is not what I heard from Mr. Hale on the 31st.

Two people reported during the broadcast that they had contacted Hale’s private investigator yesterday, who indicated he did not thoroughly read the documentation and does not know how it addresses Barack Obama Jr. — nor did he make a copy for himself. It would appear that Hale will receive a valid copy of this decree, probably Friday, 1/2. What it states will be what it states. He promises to post and report, as described below.

While my article maintains a journalistic separation from the principals of this story and is a report of statements of others on the matter, I believed it worthy of “pushing out” to readers and those who would faithfully relay the story. That worth appears less merited at this point and I apologize for that, to them and you. However, this should mean the first public viewing of that divorce decree. If it does not include information pertinent to Barack Obama’s birth, at least that will be known. And that is more than may be said of President Elect Obama’s actual birth certificate. This also seems fitting for a politco who advanced to the U.S. Senate along a path of the convenient “mainstream media” reporting of scandals from two of his opponents’ own divorce records and an “outing” of a family member of another; sauce for the goose.

I.O. emphasizes that place of birth aside, Barack Obama is clearly and thoroughly not a natural born Citizen and is therefore specifically ineligible to be our United States President. This is due to his U.K. citizenship at birth, passed from his father. That is referred to below and explained in the article, “The Donofrio ‘Natural Born Citizen’ Challenge.”

I.O. also observes that even a valid hard copy of the kind of certificate of birth that Obama has ostensibly submitted is not the kind of birth certificate which is required for numerous purposes. Further, it is suspect that Obama has invested what some say is approximately $1M to keep his actual, Hawaiian birth certificate undisclosed — seemingly thematic with “pleading the Fifth.” At the very least, it would officially document his father and that is one wheel off his bike to the White House.

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A private investigator in Hawaii has uncovered the divorce decree for Barack Obama’s father and mother, which indicates they had “one child under the age of eighteen, born in Kenya.” That is the report of Ed Hale of PlainsRadio.com, an Internet radio site which has focused upon the natural born Citizen challenges to Obama’s presidential eligibility.

Hale announced this during his evening Internet broadcast on PlainsRadio.com, Tuesday, 12/30 and confirmed it with I.O. in an online interview, later that night. He reported that certified copies of this documentation have been sent from Hawaii by the investigator to himself and four others. Hale is to receive his copy today, Wednesday, 12/31 and plans to post it graphically on the site, during the day. He will also discuss this on a special Internet broadcast, between 6pm and 10pm Central Time, tonight. [I.O., 12/31, 2:30pm CT: Ed Hale has sent an email stating that his delivery has been delayed until Friday, 1/2. We wait another day for what he has to show. We can be patient in light of how long we wait for Barack Obama to admit the truth of his ineligibility per Article II (and show us the whole truth of his actual Hawaiian birth certificate, besides).] The site streams audio as soon as it is accessed via Web browser.

 

The Texan Internet entrepreneur relates he got fed up with the lack of documentation on Obama and decided to discuss ideas with his radio audience. His offer to hire an investigator was met with piecemeal sums of money from listeners to his broadcasts. Hale said some of the information one would expect to find was not available. For example, documentation from Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann’s divorce to her second husband, Lolo Soetoro had vanished. Hale speculates, the reason this forthcoming 1964 divorce decree had not also been “scrubbed” could be that the divorce had been filed not by Obama’s mother, but by Barack H. Obama, Sr. Thus, it may have been overlooked by any plumbers for Obama.

Hale does admit to incomplete certainty of his investigator’s work until he receives it, partially due to the PI’s accent, the telephone connection, and his slight hearing impediment. However, he is very confident of what he will receive during the day. Mark S. McGrew, who writes about Obama’s natural born Citizen problems for Pravda.ru, accompanied Hale in his broadcast and also expressed confidence. McGrew had sought publication in numerous American news outlets, but they turned down his articles referring to Obama’s apparent ineligibility. Russia’s Pravda however, decided his effort to find and report the truth was not to be redlined.

As often related, Barack Obama, due simply to his U.K. citizenship at birth via his Kenyan father, is not a natural born Citizen of America, by definition and the original intent of that term. The Supreme Court has turned down cases which make this point, but according to a September decision in a lower federal court (regarding John McCain’s eligibility problem) this would be due to a question of jurisdiction, until Congress is to certify the Electoral College vote on January 8. Further action is to occur, after this date. You may read about this in previous I.O. articles and the sites linked in its sidebar.

Meanwhile, on the question of Obama’s place of birth, professionals dealing with documents and forensic evidence have testified that the online “certificate of live birth” provided by Obama is not identifiable evidence of American birth. Now, if Obama’s parents’ divorce decree states that he was born in Kenya (as his Kenyan grandmother has repeatedly stated) the second epistemological wheel is coming off his vehicle to the White House.

Will Congress pay attention and do its Constitutional duty?

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Also see: WorldNetDaily – Eligibility case finds ’standing’? New suit claims unique state law enables citizens to demand proof

Winter Blunderland

Call them anything you want, just don’t call them “snow angels.”

For more fun, visit www.DiversityLane.com

 

Happy New Year!

2009 promises to be a year full of challenges for political conservatives in the United States, but together and with God’s help, we can meet those challenges.

We at Ft. Hard Knox wish you and yours a very Happy and prosperous New Year.

Israel’s Morality Versus Hamas’s Morality: Who Are The The “Peace Activists” anyway?

Yvonne Ridley, the prominent British Islamist, (whom I once debated on Al-Hurrah), was once on board. This time, former American Congresswoman and Green Party Presidential candidate, Cynthia McKinney, a loose cannon on a good day, (she was once detained for physically attacking a guard at the Capitol ), joined the floating ship of leftists-”peace activists” all, whose ship was just prevented by the Israeli Navy from delivering humanitarian aid to the Palestinians in Gaza.

The above paragraph cries out for an Orwellian dictionary. A “peace activist,” believe it or not, is a Jew-hating, America-hating, anti-Zionist on the march-or in this case, on the sea. “Peace activists” burned American and Israeli flags in the wake of the Danish cartoons. They also murdered Christians and converts to Christianity. As of Sunday, “peace activists” were holding anti-Israel protests globally, led by the kind of “peaceful” men who incite mobs to violence by their screamed, angry chants: “Free Palestine.”

In short: A “peace activist” is a jihadist-terrorist. And that’s according to the Western media. He (or she) is known as a holy person, a potential shaheed/shaheeda or “martyr” in the Arabic and Muslim press…Continue reading no Chesler Chronicles >>

Israeli Consulate Citizens’ “Press” Conference on Twitter Today

David Saranga, Consul of Media and Public Affairs in New York, will answer questions from the public about the situation in Israel and Gaza on Twitter today, Dec 30 at 1-3PM EST.

According to IsraelPolitick.org, David Saranga, Consul of Media and Public Affairs in New York, will answer your questions about the situation in Israel and Gaza in a “Citizens’ Press Conference.”

You can submit your question by directing it to their Twitter account.

Responses longer than 140 characters will be directed with a link to an answer posted in their blog.

 

Where will Twitter Go from Here?

Twitter is at a bit of a crossroads in its development.

While it has been working on its infrastructure and building it’s staff of nearly 30, it has relied on venture capital for funding, but early in 2009, the company has announced, that it intends to eventually, “become a sustainable business supported by a revenue model.”

In the world of Web 2.0, there are basically three ways to get money – from investors, from advertisers, or from users. Ultimately, whoever is paying for the service, has control of it.

If a company is heavily reliant on investors, it is beholden to those investors, to meet the goals of the investors, whether they be monetary or otherwise. We watched Digg.com go down this path a couple of years ago, much to its detriment.

As a fan of Twitter, I’m happy to see that it is moving away from this option. But then that leaves advertisers or user-paid services.

Either way, the company is likely to receive complaints – users, who have been enjoying an increasingly great service for a couple of years now are not going to appreciate the change. But the company needs to stay in business somehow.

The problem with advertisers is that are answering to their customers, and must be choosy about the content on the websites they advertise on, and they often end up indirectly controlling the content.

The problem with paid service is that, well, users prefer “free” to “paid,” all other things being equal.

Co-Founder of Twitter, Evan Williams recently hinted that Twitter may use some sort of tiered approach, and charging corporate who are using the service for sales and customer service.

I personally hope Twitter does take the paid service approach. This will allow the company to be more independent, and user-centric, and will allow the company to continue to let the users have more control over the content. Assuming the pricing structure is reasonable for business clients, it will also allow the service to earn a profit.

Three masterpieces of insight: zombietime on Ayers, Theodore’s World on Obama, Odinga, al Bakri, and the Sheila Variations on 9/11 via PBS fraud.

The Greatest Masterpiece of all time. (Right)

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Dear sports, I come upon so many wonderful pieces and these are just three. So dig them.Curious innit? But I do not feel the magic of Obama. Feel the magic I do not. I’m sorry, but I despise “Him”. In fact I’m rather naturally repulsed by Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama. [Link to Barry's Year of Living Innocently in Indonesia.]

Excerpt from comment section: “Barry Sotero’s (Obama) schoolmate at Besuki Primary School Rony Amiris, [now the manager of the Bank Mandiri] remember’s young Barry as enjoying playing football and marbles and of being a very devout Muslim.

Amir said “Barry was previously quite religious in Islam. His birth father, Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim economist from Kenya … all of the relatives of Barry’s father were very devout Muslims”…Rony extrapolates further, that Obama at one point had to change his religion if he ever intended later to run for the office of President of the United States because America would never elect a Muslim..”

Yes, that’s it. On a good day, Bazza with his mindless hordes and flunkies merely sicken me. Ah, but Obama’s suits! Ya gotta vote for superior tailoring?!

“Never mind the qualty…admire the width!”

Ah, but first, today I heard on PBS, a virtual parody discussion as you do. Some sandal wearing guy was razzing about er, “is the Internet important to news?” Not regarding the MSM idea of “news”. No, not at all. But in reality, yes.

Ball free boy gave some of his ideas of serious and reliable sources for whatever, out of the vast and superior choices available on the Net. They were and I kid you not according to Captain Taxpayer Funded, the New York Times, CNN and ah, wait for it…the utterly ridiculous Huffington Post.

Said Libtooter said spoke of how a non-journo that went un-announced backstage to interview Obama Wan Kenobi would not meet the hahahahahaha, “New York Times standards of transparency”. No, really. And no laugh track!

Another thang was an alleged German military man saying how they picked up some Somali pirates and had to let them go cos’ they er, “hadn’t threatened anyone or anything German!”

This is how neutered governments and clueless, unaccountable and incompetent media er, “works”.

In this spirit, here’s the mind twisting facts on Bill Ayers own empirically documented record, Obama and Odinga and 9/11 as presented by the bankrupt PBS…Continue reading on Colonel Robert Neville Always Dresses for Dinner >>

Internet Forces Watching Israel’s Back in Gaza, Global anti-Israel Protests

For years, the Iranian-backed Islamist-terrorist group, Hamas, has relentlessly attacked Israeli civilians with rockets, mortar, missiles and with the most hateful propaganda; Hamas is dedicated to the extermination of the Jewish state. At the same time, Hamas has also been systematically impoverishing and murdering its own people in Gaza.

The international community, (who are they anyway? What illusion does this phrase conjure up?), has done nothing-other than to blame Israel for “occupying” Gaza, then for leaving Gaza (!)- but without paying a high enough “dhimmi” tax to be applied to the already well funded war against the Jewish state. There have been no international demonstrations against Hamas in the West, (not even when they kill women who are not veiled, certainly not when their rocket attacks traumatized women, children, and the elderly in southern Israel), no UN resolutions, no witheringly scornful European speeches against the anti-Israel rocket attacks or against the Palestinian-on-Palestinian violence within Gaza.

Now that Israel has finally attacked Gaza back-and in self-defense-the usual anti-Israel groups (The ANSWER Coalition, Muslim American Society Freedom, Free Palestine Alliance, National Council of Arab Americans, Al-Awda, and International Palestine Right to Return Coalition) are out in full force. They are calling for Tuesday, December 30th, to be a “National Day of Action to show solidarity with the Palestinians and to demand an immediate end to the murderous attacks carried out by the Israeli military against the people of Gaza” in many American cities and others throughout the world…Continue reading on Chesler Chronicles >>

Another Aussie multi-culti success story! Crude, criminal, illierate, pro-jihad, for children Muslim creep is called, wait for it…Mohammad!

Via Aussie-Muslims: “The Sheikh recalled: ‘I don’t believe in unclear concepts. Everything divine must be clear”. The Non-Fuzzy Sheik Feiz dreams of an Australian Islamic madhouse state to be. Dream on wacko boy and wake up to a brand new bomb blast. And with the help of our largely retarded, phony, incompetent media and authorities, Islamic nightmare’s really can come true for everyone.

So here he is! One of the hardest working Muslim misfit bogan’s, closet rapist’s and killer’s by proxy loons in Sydney! It’s the Sheik of shit, the Sultan of Taquiyaa, that Imam of Illiteracy, that Cleric of Perversity, that Muslim King of Child Abuse, it’s Sheeeeeeeeeeik Feeeeeeiz Moooooooohaaaaamad! You miserable, dysfunctional, boring, mass produced bastard…Continue reading on Colonel Robert Neville Always Dresses for Dinner >>

Updated 11/20/08 – the Birth Certificate Question is still Unanswered. Original post: Could this be the REAL reason Obama is in Hawaii? (Update – The Plot Thickens?!)

UPDATE 12/19/08: WorldNetDaily is reporting:

A second conference has been posted on the docket for the U.S. Supreme Court over the issue of Barack Obama’s eligibility to occupy the White House, this one scheduled a week after Congress is to review the Electoral College vote tabulation.

The latest issue posted is a request for an injunction on the election results pending the resolution of a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by attorney Philip J. Berg, a case that is docketed for a similar conference among the justices on Jan. 9.

Berg’s original case raises questions about Obama’s eligibility and his injunction request first was filed early in December. It was submitted to and rejected by two different justices before it came before Justice Antonin Scalia on Dec. 18. Then just before Christmas the docket was updated to reflect that the motion had been ‘distributed for conference of January 16, 2009.’…Continue reading on WorldNetDaily >>

MORE UPDATES ON 11/20/08: Maggie is reporting: Supreme Court to Conference on Obama’s Citizenship: Write Now and Political Pistachio has commentary (hat-tip Red Dirt Report)

UPDATE 11/20/08: LifeSiteNews is reporting:

November 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Sacramento Supreme Court petition filed on behalf of Alan Keyes and others has asked the Secretary of State to withhold the state’s 55 electoral votes from the December Electoral College tally until President-Elect Barack Obama proves he is eligible to take office.

The court document joins a host of litigation questioning Obama’s eligibility in as many as 15 states, with confirmed cases in Ohio, Connecticut, Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Hawaii, and unconfirmed reports from Utah, Wyoming, Florida, New York, North Carolina, Texas, California and Virginia, according to WorldNetDaily.

All the cases reported to have failed were dismissed due to the plaintiff’s lack of standing, without the court actually investigating the complaint.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, in the case that Berg brought before the Supreme Court, The FEC has waived its right to respond in the Petition for a writ of certiorari (Due by 12/1/08). (See Docket for 08-570)

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UPDATE 10/25/08: Maggie’s Notebook is reporting:

Philip Berg’s lawsuit against Barack Obama and the DNC has been dismissed in a Philadelphia Federal Court.

Jeff Schreiber at America’s Right is reporting that Judge Surrick finds that Berg lacks “standing,” (more)

(also on Wake Up America)

UPDATE 10/23/08: Maggie, of Maggie’s Notebook has been researching and phoning her U.S. Senators to find out what can be done to “validate a candidate’s natural-born citizenship status before filing for the office of The President.” Find out what she was told, here.

UPDATE 10/23/08: Phillip Berg, who has filed a more well-known lawsuit for Obama’s birth and education records, has put out the following video to explain his case (Nancy Morgan, of Right Bias, has more information):

UPDATE 10/23/08: Andy Martin now believes Obama’s biological father is Frank Marshall Davis, his communist mentor. Interesting theory…read the details, here. Also, Joan Swirsky of the Canada Free Press has a good rundown of the Obamamess’ birth woes, here. (So, Obama – Who’s your Daddy?!)

UPDATE 10/21/08: We received the following from Paulie, of Paulie’s Point:

“Take it from a Chicagoan who knows that anything is conceivable when it comes to Barack Obama. What actually bothers me the most is the petitioner and so-called writer Andy Martin.

“Martin is certifiable nut-job. Who runs for office every chance he gets. He also threatens to sue anyone and everyone who criticizes him and writes about his well-documented anti-Semitic tirades and other offensive behavior. Yours truly has been threatened by him on numerous occasions.

“If Martin wants to travel to Hawaii and give Obama a hard time, who am I to stop him. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”

ORIGINAL POST 10/21/08: Barack Obama is currently on a temporary leave from his campaign, visiting Hawaii – we’ve been told that he’s there to visit his ailing grandmother. Debbie, of Right Truth has more info about Obama’s grandmother:

Sen. Barack Obama is taking off two days from his campaign this week for an urgent visit to his ailing grandmother in Hawaii. Madelyn Dunham, 86, has apparently been ill for some time now, in and out of the hospital recently. It is only natural that Obama would want to spend some time with her. I want to say that our prayers go out to Mrs. Dunham at this time.

By all indications she was a good mother and good grandmother…Continue reading on Right Truth >>

However, Andy Martin, who is writing an anti-Obama book, and has been trying to get information about Obama’s birth records has filed the following in the state of Hawaii this week:

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Hawai’i Supreme Court Petition

ANDY MARTIN

Post Office Box 1851

New York, NY 10150-1851

Toll-free tel. (866) 70-6-2639

Toll-free fax (866) 707-2639

Temporary Hawai’i contact:

Cell phone (917) 664-9329

Petitioner Pro Se

IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF HAWAI’I

SUPREME COURT DOCKET NUMBER: 29414

ANDY MARTIN,

Petitioner,

HON. LINDA LINGLE, in her

official capacity as Governor;

DR. CHIYOME FUKINO, in her

official capacity as Director

of the Department of Health,

HON. BERT AYABE, in his official

capacity as Circuit Judge,

Respondents.

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EMERGENCY PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS

INTRODUCTION AND PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

The question of the authenticity and public availability of the birth certificate of Senator Barack Obama (hereinafter “Obama”) has become a source of increasing embarrassment for Hawai’i Government.

Although Obama has purportedly posted a copy of his birth certificate on his own web site, and others claim to have posted other versions, Obama refuses to allow public access to the official records of the State of Hawaii.

Petitioner is an author and columnist who came to Hawai’i to do research on Obama’s years in Hawai’i. After arriving in Honolulu, Petitioner decided he needed a copy of the original birth certificate, as well as any official files relating to the issuance of said certificate.

The Executive Branch Department of Health has repeatedly and egregiously mischaracterized the Hawai’i statute governing access to birth certificates, and did so again on October 17th in a statement to the Honolulu Advertiser.

Petitioner applies to this Court for an appropriate writ, and offers two separate avenues of potential relief for the Court to consider.

I.

JURISDICTION

This court has jurisdiction of this Petition pursuant to HRS § 602-5 (a)(3).

II.

FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS

1. The Petitioner

Petitioner Andy Martin has been writing about Obama for over four years. Petitioner is the author of the best selling book “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask.”

Petitioner publishes an Internet newspaper, http://ContrarianCommentary.com, as well as related blogs, http://Contrariancommentary.wordpress.com and http://ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com.

Although Petitioner is not a practicing attorney, he is a respected public interest and consumer rights litigator, see http://www.AndyMartin.com. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law.

For example, in 2003 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted Petitioner special leave of court to represent a U.S. Marine in a landmark case arising under the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940, see http://www.firstrespondersonline.us/director.htm (see attached).

Petitioner is also highly controversial. His corruption-fighting efforts in the Illinois courts and federal courts have provoked intense hostility and counter-reactions from judges who were the targets of his exposures see http://www.AndyMartin.com. These judges have sought to vilify and demonize petitioner, and Obama has sought to use these corrupt techniques to divert attention from Obama’s own questionable personal history.

Petitioner is undaunted.

In Hawai’i, petitioner is accompanied by a network television camera crew. Thus the bona fide news value of his current litigation activity is not subject to question.

2. The Respondents

A. Respondent Linda Lingle is named in her official capacity as Governor and Chief Executive of the Executive Branch of Hawai’i government.

B. Respondent Dr. Chiyome Fukino is joined in her official capacity as Director of the Hawai’i Department of Health.

C. The Hon. Bert Ayabe is named in his official capacity as a Circuit Judge of the First Circuit. As will be shown below, Judge Ayabe’s joinder in this petition does not necessarily involve any criticism of the judge and reflects the absence of any local rules to govern the judge’s authority.

3. The birth certificate (certificate of live birth)

A. For the convenience of this court, Petitioner has submitted a copy of the Circuit Court proceedings as a separate Appendix. Those documents are incorporated by reference in this petition.

B. In summary, Petitioner applied for and was denied a copy of Obama’s birth certificate. Petitioner then commenced a proceeding in the First Circuit on October 17, 2008 while still physically present in Honolulu.

C. Petitioner notified Judge Ayabe of Petitioner’s limited availability in Hawaii, and requested or suggested an emergency hearing.

D. Judge Ayabe responded promptly through his judicial assistant with a hearing date after the 2008 election on November 7th. Petitioner was also notified that in order to exercise his rights and pursue his petition he would have to return from Chicago to Honolulu, as there was no provision for telephone hearings. (It was not clear whether the judge viewed the absence of telephone rules as a preclusion of telephone hearings, or was imposing his own individual rules of practice).

E. Petitioner was required to file his lawsuit in Hawai’i. No other court system has jurisdiction of local Hawai’i officials. Petitioner should be as welcome in the Hawai’i court system as a Hawai’i citizen would be on the mainland. There are no artificial boundaries or distinctions under the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the U. S. Constitution. If Petitioner must be present in Hawai’i in order to vindicate rights and remedies under the Hawai’i Constitution and statutes he will be precluded from doing so.

F. Hawai’i is a sophisticated international business center. It is simply impractical for parties to be physically present in the State as a precondition of access to Hawai’i government or the judicial system.

G. Rule 11 of the Probate Rules provides for “Telephone Conference Call Hearings.” On information and belief there is no parallel provision in the Civil Rules.

H. Petitioner remains present in Hawai’i through October 22nd and available for emergency hearings in person.

I. This Court can take its own judicial or official notice that numerous state and federal court systems provide for telephonic participation, see e.g. Florida Rules of Judicial Administration 2.530.

III.

RELIEF REQUESTED

This Court can deal with this petition by either one of two separate approaches.

First, the Court could decide that the Executive Branch’s misapplication and misinterpretation of the relevant statute (see Exhibit 1 to the Circuit Court Complaint) raises issues of sufficiently great public and national importance that the Court will entertain the issues presented as a matter of the exercise of this Court’s original jurisdiction. In that case the writ of mandamus, if granted, would issue directly to the executive branch and Judge Ayabe’s role would become moot and coram non judice.

Second, this Court could decide that the Circuit Court should conduct an expedited hearing, and do so either while Petitioner is still physically present in Hawai’i or while Petitioner is allowed to participate on the telephone, directing that the Circuit Judge either schedule a prompt hearing or ask that the case be reassigned to a judge who can conduct a hearing before the 2008 election. In that case the writ, if granted, would issue to the Circuit Judge.

The approach which this Court prefers to adopt is entirely at the discretion of the tribunal.

IV.

BASIS FOR GRANTING RELIEF

A. The constitutional issue

In Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347, 373, 96 S. Ct. 2673, (1976) the Supreme Court stated “The loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.” The authenticity and contents of a presidential candidate’s birth certificate is at the apex of First Amendment concerns, Monitor Patriot v. Roy, 401 U.S. 265, 91 S.Ct. 621 (1971)(“[I]t can hardly be doubted that the constitutional guarantee has its fullest and most urgent application precisely to the conduct of campaigns for political office.”)

To say that a proceeding will not be convened until after the election is to create the very type of unconstitutional delay precluded by Elrod, and creates a justifiable public suspicion of a conspiracy and cover-up by Hawai’i officials.

Elrod does not appear to have been cited by any Hawai’i court but has been cited numerous times by federal judges in Honolulu, see e.g. Rapp v. Disciplinary Board, 916 F. Supp. 1525, 1539 (D. Hawai’i 1996); Walsh v. Honolulu, 423 F.Supp.2d 1094, 1108 (D. Hawai’i 2006); Swanson v. University, 269 F. Supp. 1252, 1260 (D. Hawai’i 2003); Legal Aid v. Legal Services, 961 F. Supp. 1402, 1417 (D. Hawai’i 1997). Although Petitioner filed his Circuit Court lawsuit under the Hawai’i Constitution and not the First Amendment, this Court has previously interpreted those rights to be coextensive.

B. The procedural issue

There is an anomaly under Hawai’i procedure where probate rules provide for telephone hearings but civil rules do not. Perhaps this gap motivated the circuit judge to deny a hearing, or to adhere to such procedures as a general practice.

Certainly in the modern commercial age, with Hawai’i at the crossroads of international business, antiquated notions of physical presence as a precondition for access to Hawai’i government should be reconsidered. The Privileges and Immunities Clause of the U.S. Constitution would also appear to lean in favor of allowing out-of-state litigants from the mainland to be heard by telephone.

C. The substantive issue

a. The statute

HRS § 338-18 (b) limits disclosure of records to persons having “a direct and tangible interest in the record.” The statute then provides thirteen (13) examples as illustrative, but not exclusive, including number (9): “A person whose right to inspect or obtain a certified copy of the record is established by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.”

The Respondents have steadfastly misinterpreted the “direct and tangible interest” standard into one requiring a direct and tangible “relationship” between the party and the record. Thus there is a serious abuse of discretion and statutory misinterpretation by the executive branch. The Respondents have persisted in this misinterpretation despite notice that their interpretation of the statute was a misinterpretation, and will no doubt proffer the same misinterpretation to this Court as their initial response to this petition.

Researchers, scholars, writers and news media—and Petitioner has attributes of all of the foregoing—have a “tangible interest” in many public citizens without any “relationship” to those persons. Petitioner is sensitive to privacy issues and identity theft issues. But no one is likely to try to hold themselves out to be “Barack Obama” using a birth certificate issued by Respondents.

Nevertheless, the very vehemence with which Hawai’i officials have misconstrued a state statue, and the manner in which Obama has attempted to manipulate and control access to his personal records (see infra), raise legitimate suspicions in the mind of the public.

b. The waiver and admission issues

Obama claims that he has posted a conformed copy of his birth certificate on a web site. It is impossible to say whether this assertion is true, because Petitioner has no official copy to compare to the Internet version. Obama has not posted any of the source information or supporting data. If Obama has posted a version of his birth certificate, it would appear he has waived any privacy issues and the statutory restrictions on issuance of a copy to Petitioner no longer apply.

It is indeed a very peculiar state as now exists where Obama claims he has released his birth certificate or at least his latest version of the document, and yet claims that no one should be able to obtain an official copy of the same document from the State of Hawai’i or review the source information for the certificate. Waiver would appear to be applicable and render nugatory any privacy concerns.

Obama has claimed he was born in a Honolulu hospital, but there is no verifiable evidence to sustain that claim. An examination of birth records is thus essential to resolve the lingering doubts.

As judges, certainly the members of this Court are aware that punctilious concern for accuracy would mandate that any counsel preparing a case in which the birth certificate was an issue, must obtain a certified copy and not a copy grabbed off an Internet web site. As an author and columnist, Petitioner adheres to the same high standards of accuracy in the search for original truth.

The fact that Obama has in fact posted his birth certificate on the Internet is a confirmation that he believes that issue is a topic of legitimate public interest.

D. The common law writ of mandamus

Petitioner has reviewed this Court’s jurisprudence concerning and construing the common law writ of mandamus. Petitioner submits that the extraordinary facts of this Petition provide a basis for extraordinary and emergency action. As the attached docket sheet from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court attests, Petitioner is experienced in preparing, filing and obtaining relief through extraordinary writs on an emergency basis.

CONCLUSION

Most respectfully, Petitioner asks this Court to take emergency action and to grant one of the alternative forms of relief outlined in this petition.

DATED: October 20, 2008

Honolulu, HI

Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN

Post Office Box 1851

New York, NY 10150-1851

Toll-free tel. (866) 70-6-2639

Toll-free fax (866) 707-2639

Temporary Hawai’i contact:

Cell phone (917) 664-9329

Petitioner Pro Se

So, what’s the REAL reason for the trip? Time will tell. Meanwhile, we do wish the Obamas and Dunhams a meaningful, memorable visit, and our prayers are with Mrs. Dunham during this difficult time.

Also see: Contrarian Commentary

Hat-Tip John Lillpop

Flight 93 blogburst: Another stealth jihadist plants another evil hidden Islamic message

What could be as evil as sneaking a memorial to the 9/11 terrorists onto the Flight 93 crash site? How about sneaking a hidden message of Islamic indoctrination into the soundtrack if an adorable baby doll, repeated every 30 seconds to thousands of 2-5 year old girls without parental knowledge?

If you haven’t heard it before, check out this AP video from October:

If Mattel wants to sell a doll that Muslim parents can use to brainwash their own toddlers, they need to label the doll as Islamic. Instead, Mattel has been engaged in outright cover-up for three months now, claiming that they “did a lot of tests” and found that the doll “just coos and says ‘mama’.”

Liars. If they even listened to the sound track they are fully aware that the suspicious segment is completely unlike the rest of the recording. In contrast to the inarticulate coos and burbles of the otherwise quite compelling baby sounds, the offending part is very clearly a sentence, almost staccato in its articulation.

The AP video above only contains the offending sentence itself. Here is the full sound track (five inserted indoctrinations in 2 minutes):

How many thousands of two year old girls are right now having their hearts opened by this doll’s repeated love cries, only to have a jihadist jab in his poison needle a hundred times an hour? This is the Islam of al Qaeda: a self proclaimed religion of deceit, using deceit to snake its tendrils around the most vulnerable members of our society.

Release the uncompressed audio file

Mattel’s claim that the injected sentence contains no Islamic message is just as fraudulent as its claim that there is no sentence. Here is a slowed down version of the sound-track:

The exact intonation is either “Islam is the light,” or “Iglam is the light.” Since “iglam” is not a word, and since the full segment is clearly spoken as a sentence, the intended word has to be Islam.

Mattel says that the doll’s audio “may be imprecise or distorted” because “the original sound track is compressed.” So why don’t they release the uncompressed file?

No one is hearing things that are not there. Mattel suggests that people are being influenced by “the power of suggestion,” but we can test that hypothesis.

If people can hear whatever they want, then they should also be able to hear a superficially similar Christian message: “Aslan is the light.” Yet even in compressed form, the recording very clearly does NOT say Aslan. The vowels and consonants are distinct. Mattel is in effect denying that there is such a thing as language.

This too is very similar to the Memorial Project. Defenders of the giant Mecca-oriented crescent fantasize in the newspaper that anyone can see Mecca-oriented crescents wherever they want, if they just look for them. No. The only reason anyone can see a half-mile wide Mecca-oriented crescent in the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 is because architect Paul Murdoch put one there.

Mattel needs to conduct a real investigation and it needs to be transparent

Why should anyone ever buy a Mattel toy again when Mattel’s response to clear evidence that their toys are being used in a plot against children is an obviously dishonest cover up? It would make a lot more sense, if they want to stay in business, to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation of how the clearly out-of-place and apparently subversive segment of the sound track got included. The forensic history is on their hard drives. Mattel should uncover the jihadist plotters in their employ, or in the employ of their sub-contractors, then refer them to the FBI and sue them for fraud.

There is even reason to think that the plot goes beyond just the sound track, and involves the entire the Cuddle and Coo doll project. According to the Muslim ex-Marine who blogs as 5-Pillar Column, Mattel’s doll is also wearing a “hijab” (used by fundamentalist Muslim women to hide their hair).

Like the Islamic symbol shapes in the Flight 93 memorial, this is something that western society is not attuned to, so we don’t notice it, but Muslims immediately do. That doll has its hair covered:

5 Pillar speculates that it is the hijab that is causing “bigots” to take offense, but he seems to be the first one to have noticed that the doll can be seen as wearing a hijab.

Some versions of the doll show a wisp of hair, as Sharia law allows for girls, but all have the look of a proper hijab.

Pink version, shows wisp if hair. The hijab-like hair covering remains. (From MAMA’s Label That Doll home page.)

By itself, the possible hijab would be nothing, but together with the clearly articulated message of Islamic indoctrination, it suggests that the entire Cuddle and Coo team needs to be investigated. If Mattel is not forthcoming, the recourse is obvious.

Duped parents should sue Mattel into bankruptcy

Company officers evidently think that denial is the least damaging strategy for Mattel’s reputation and profitability. They need to be proved wrong. By covering up clear evidence that its product is being used as the vehicle for a jihadist plot against the children of its customers, Mattel has opened itself to tremendous liability. If they get sued into oblivion for the harm to children that their fraudulent denials are enabling, it will let other companies know that cover-up is not a good business decision.

Mattel did stop including the suspicious portion of the sound track in new production of their “Cuddle & Coo” doll, but instead of issuing a recall of the original dolls, the company is assuring the public that the warnings of Islamic intent have been investigated and been found to be without merit. That leaves untold thousands of these assault-toys preying on the minds of toddlers whose parents have been given false assurances, which continue to this day.

Here is Mattel’s October 17th statement:

The power of suggestion has a lot to do with it. Our department did a lot of tests. It just coos and says ‘mama.’ We will not be pulling the doll.

On Christmas eve Mattel reposted a dismissive statement that earlier had been withdrawn from their website without explanation:

The Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo dolls feature realistic baby sounds including cooing, giggling, and baby babble with no real sentence structure. The only scripted word the doll says is “mama.”

There is a sound that may resemble something close to the word “night, right, or light.” To avoid any potential misinterpretation, we have eliminated that segment of the sound file from future production.

Because the original sound track is compressed into a file that can be played through an inexpensive toy speaker, actual sounds may be imprecise or distorted.

We remain confident in the high quality standards of our Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo dolls.

By persisting in its dishonest denials, Mattel may have sealed its legal doom. Any lied-to parents out there who want to get rich in the service of a most important cause?

The Memorial Project is also headed for legal trouble. The Mecca orientation of the giant Crescent of Embrace makes it a mihrab—the central feature around which every mosque is built—and it is unconstitutional to build a mosque as a national memorial.

Anti-vigilance

Like the memorial project, Mattel got duped by a stealth jihadist. In the middle of our ongoing hot and cold wars against Islamic supremacism, such things are going to happen. 9/11 exposed the nature of our terror war enemies: that they hide amongst us, pretending to be trustworthy friends while plotting acts of war. There is no shame in being the victim of Islamic deception.

What is inexcusable is to be willfully blind to Islamic plots once they are uncovered. Flight 93 is supposed to be the symbol of our woken vigilance, yet time and again we see this anti-spirit of Flight 93: a determined refusal to be vigilant, enabling even discovered plots to proceed.

All who have learned about the hidden Islamic messages in either the jihadist baby doll or the Flight 93 memorial, please learn about the other. Maybe together we can stop them both.

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