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IT NOW APPEARS AS IF THE WHOLE "BIRTHER" MOVEMENT IS NOW IN CRASH-AND-BURN MODE thanks to yesterday's ruling by a Federal judge in California dismissing yet another Frivolous, Vexatious and/or Tortious Challenge to the legitimacy of Barack Hussein Obama being the 44th President of Our Morally-Superior United States for lack of "satisfactory evidence" to establish the Constitutional Qualification that the President be "native born."
Especially disturbing to the judge, in handing down the ruling, was evidence that one Orly Taitz, the Pontifex Maximus (as it were) of the whole obnoxious exercise, was coaching "witnesses" in the expected trial on the testimony to be given with the effect of condoning perjury.
Even more destructive, let it be hoped, will be the likelihood of disbarment actions pending before the California State Bar against Ms. Taitz, whose whole exercises in connexion with the whole "birther" agenda (which she expects us all to see as a "preemptive" action "before Our Holy and Beloved Nation sees serious and dangerous harm to Our Antient and Peculiar Sovereignty and Sovereign Identity," as the patsy will go) have prompted @ least one complaint.
Might I suggest the Bar also look into whether Ms. Taitz' legal qualifications are of dubious nature (as in coming from some class of an online "diploma mill" awarding "degrees" based on "life experience") so as to cause scandal and disgrace to the profession as much as to Our National Identity which Taitz claims to be "protecting" all this while.
(But then again, such a suggestion is nothing new: Back in 1930, it will be recalled that the Kansas State Board of Medical Examiners revoked the right of Dr. John R. Brinkley to practice medicine [as in Toggenberg goat-gland implants in the name of "rejuvenation"] out of Milford for, among other reasons, Pretending to Medical Skill by virtue of a "diploma" procured from the "Kansas City Eclectic Medical College," a notorious "diploma mill" in furtherance of medical quackery. This on top of the then-Federal Radio Commission's enquiries into Brinkley's associated radio station KFKB ["Kansas' First, Kansas' Best" or "Kansas Folk Know Better"] for Excessive Self-Promotion. In turn, prompting Doc Brinkley's legendary and yet unsuccessful write-in electoral campaign for Governor on the Republican ticket.)
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IT WOULD BE HARD TO IMAGINE WHETHER WE'RE STILL SEEING THE SORT OF HALLOWE'EN PRANKS RECALLED BY MOTHERDEAR when she was growing up near Osnabrock, North Dakota in the 1920's and 1930's, among them:
Putting horse collars on the cows to confuse them ahead of milking time.
Hoisting a horse-drawn sleigh to the rooftop of the local hardware and general store.
Toppling over outhouses (she recalls in particular one such as was behind the bank in Osnabrock being removed one Hallowe'en).
Meanwhile, considering the significant numbers of foreclosed-upon houses in the Detroit area, you have to wonder if such could be targets for a revival of the notorious "devils' night" orgy of arsons as plagued the Motor City on Hallowe'en night for several seasons some 20 years back--and with the tacit endorsement and sanction of Fox Prolefeed and their "winning of hearts and minds" drookies preaching ignorance and contempt for the vulnerable and marginalised while (in true conservative doublethink) claiming to be acting in their best interests and welfare.
(As in, for one, expecting the Lower Classes to "wholeheartedly" and "without question" regard "pure" free-market capitalism with American characteristics to be Great White Father and Saviour, an Empowering Force towards Self-Reliance and Personal Responsibility (which may be rather difficult when the only option likely to be available is Wally World, and even then, the cheapest goods usually turn out to be the most expensive in the end).
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WITH GLENN BECK STARTING TO GET OFF-THE-DEEP-END OBNOXIOUS ON HIS SHOW, perhaps to the point of where that Lonesome Rhodes Moment as will be his Ruin and Downfall is definitely within measurable distance (case in point, from News Hounds), you can just imagine the very likelihood of Beck's vitriol-laden rhetoric he sees in his own deluded self as "pre-emptive measures to Save America From Herself and Her Imminent Ruin" causing spontaneous, unprovoked outbreaks of nausea and vomiting among his Good and Loyal Drookies in Podunk Center, Doo Wah Diddy and the Park and Flush Trailer Park.
Especially so the sort of vomiting where Mr. Beck's acts, deeds and exploits before camera, and the tone and tenor thereof, are emetic enough. (The concept of which, no doubt, is bound to recall in the minds of some readers the rather bizarre notion radio and TV evangel Oral Roberts had about claiming to channel G-d's Healing Powers through the electromagnetic forces of radio and television broadcasting signals, and his easily-led audience praying before their receiving insturments in hysterical emotion--and not even Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, would have been impressed.)
Enough, then, to call for what may be a "pre-emptive" measure to top all the "pre-emptive" measures Glenn Beck "himself" has designs on, and also serving as a cheap form of PsyOps: Videlicet, when Mr. Beck starts to get rather obnoxiously hyper (as in those Vicks Vapo-Rub-induced tears "for America") on camera, I'd cut to the "Intermission" sequence from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (even if it was rather brief), to be followed by a rather distracting infomercialesque promotional for Wisconsin Dells as would have Cody Maverick (per Surf's Up) introducing the same "Direct From Pen Gu" and, just as Jack Nitzsche's "The Lonely Surfer" starts playing, have him explaining that the scheduled programme is being pre-empted "for reasons you will understand" just as Cody M. goes into a surfing routine ... and, in due course, having such become a sort of "flight" scored throughout to "The Lonely Surfer" between Pen Gu and Wisconsin Dells (via the likes of Catalina Island, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, the Four Corners, the Durango and Silverton Narrow-Gauge Railroad, Pike's Peak [and the cog railway up same], the original Cabela's [Sidney, Nebraska], then roughly along I-80 through Nebraska and Iowa [with a slight detour to the world's largest railway yard, the Bailey Yards in North Platte, Nebraska] ... then a jog past the Field of Dreams near Dyersville, Iowa, up Iowa's Pike's Peak, then along the Wisconsin River from Wyalusing to Stand Rock in the Upper Dells, eventually emerging into the titles proper), followed by The Special Itself.
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YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT WEST VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE HAVE IN COMMON, APART FROM BEING MAJOR COAL PRODUCING STATES seen as Essential to Energy Self-Sufficiency in Our Morally-Superior Society and Nation:
All three have the worst rates of sleeplessness and insomnia in the United States, as per a just-conducted, first-of-its-kind telephonic survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just released.
Your Correspondent surmises where, absent specific compelling explanations given by the study's authors as would otherwise explain this (dis)honour, such high rates of sleeplessness in such states overzealously dependent socioeconomically on coal could be put down, in large measure, to the uncertainty of mine shift assignments from week to week among those in the mining community ... as well as the rather limited access to decent health care apart from the infirmaries operated by the mining companies and the ever-present concern of lung diseases peculiar among coal miners.
And even then, it's rather impossible to find Horlick's Malted Milk, that Old Reliable (and non-addicting, too) against insomnia. Likewise with Ovaltine.
By contrast, this same study hath it that North Dakota, California and Wisconsin have the lowest rates of insomnia ... and you have to wonder why it is that North Dakotans manage to pull off some rather sound sleep when you're having to run combines all night during the harvest and tractors likewise during planting season.
In the case of Californians, you wonder how they can get through some sane sleeping habits when they happen to be the socioeconomic epicentre of the Western states. Not to mention the film and television industry's having demanding schedules which can sometimes require crews to be ready on set as early as 4:30 am just to do a shoot, surfah types somehow insistent on catching that perfect dawn patrol wave, the San Joaquin Valley being a major vegetable-producing centre and stockbrokers and market makers @ what remains of the Pacific Stock Exchange (with trading floors in both Los Angeles and San Francisco) having to be ready when the opening bell on Wall Street goes off @ 9:30 Eastern time--which is 6:30 Pacific time.
And for Wisconsinites, just how is it possible to have sound sleep when its dairy farmers have to get up rather early to get the cows fed and milked before brekkie and spending the occasional Friday or Saturday night with friends @ the local tavern playing cards, shooting bull and drinking beer? Is it something in the water? (But then again, it will be worth noting that Frank B. Horlick created malted milk in Racine, Wisconsin in 1885. Not to mention Wisconsin being where America's supply of malted milk, Carnation being the predominant brand these days, is produced.)
