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To: Alighieri who wrote (461712)	3/6/2009 4:12:40 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575426

BIRTHERS LOSE IN COURT.... The Birthers' latest case was not only thrown out, but the federal judge mocked the plaintiffs for being so foolish and wasting the judiciary's time. A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit questioning President Barack Obama's citizenship, lambasting the case as a waste of the court's time and suggesting the plaintiff's attorney may have to compensate the president's lawyer. In an argument popular on the Internet and taken seriously practically nowhere else, Obama's critics argue he is ineligible to be president because he is not a "natural-born citizen" as the Constitution requires. In response last summer, Obama's campaign posted his Hawaiian birth certificate on its Web site. But the lawsuit argues it is a fake and that Obama was actually born in his father's homeland of Kenya, even though Hawaiian officials have said the document is authentic. "This case, if it were allowed to proceed, would deserve mention in one of those books that seek to prove that the law is foolish or that America has too many lawyers with not enough to do," U.S. District Judge James Robertson said in his written opinion. Robertson added, "Even in its relatively short life the case has excited the blogosphere and the conspiracy theorists. The right thing to do is to bring it to an early end." Better yet, the judge called the plaintiff's attorneys "agents provocateurs" and described their local counsel as "a foot soldier in their crusade." Robertson ordered the lead counsel to prove why he hadn't violated court rules prohibiting frivolous and harassing lawsuits, and why he shouldn't have to pay the legal fees of the president's attorney. We can probably assume that the right will now explain why the district court judge is in on the elaborate conspiracy. The Birthers really aren't well. washingtonmonthly.com

To: Alighieri who wrote (461712)	3/6/2009 4:18:36 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575426

>>> Most people would not characterize having national health care coverage as 'socialism". You say that as though that's all it is. It isn't just health care. It is Medicare. It is Social Security. It is paying people to watch Oprah (i.e., extended unemployment benefits). It is giving people $50 Billion in food stamps. It is paying the mortgages for people who chose to buy a bigger house than they could afford, or even to buy a house when they couldn't afford a house. It is Medicaid, it is giving money to GM so it can over pay its employees because the socialists love Big Labor. This list just does on indefinitely. The socialism we're getting is far bigger than socialized medicine. But because I know more about the health care industry than I do much else, and it involves a bigger segment of the economy than anything else, it is certainly the most egregious example. What is disturbing is that we're off to create a socialized health care system like Canada's when Canadians are saying, "What a piece of crap this is". A Canadian physician called in to Wilcow's program yesterday. - Routine X-Ray - 2 WEEKS - Degenerative Arthritis - 2-6 months to get an appointment with an orthopedist, another year or more to schedule a surgery. - CT Scan - a few months. - MRI - up to a year - ROUTINE LABWORK - weeks. This is what you want?