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To: Don Hurst who wrote (33772)	3/6/2009 6:06:36 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 71588

Judge assails cases doubting Obama's citizenship By NEDRA PICKLER – 23 hours ago google.com WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. The lawsuit didn't even use Obama's legal name but called him "Barry Soetoro," the name he went by while attending elementary school in Indonesia. It's one of many that has been filed claiming Obama is ineligible to serve as president. Robertson ordered plaintiff's attorney John Hemenway of Colorado Springs, Colo., to show why he hasn't violated court rules barring frivolous and harassing cases and shouldn't have to pay Obama's attorney, Bob Bauer, for his time arguing that the case should be thrown out. Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (33772)	3/6/2009 7:33:21 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Apparently Now It's the "Unbroken Window Fallacy" March 3rd, 2009 · No Comments That which is seen: The Vice President today commended the new owners of Republic Windows and Doors, a Chicago window manufacturing plant that was shuttered late last year, resulting in the lay-off of its 250 union workers. Republic was purchased in bankruptcy court last week by Serious Materials, a California-based company that makes energy efficient windows. Serious Materials has announced plans to reopen the Republic factory and to eventually rehire all 250 of its laid-off workers at their former pay levels. Serious Materials said it purchased Republic because the Recovery Act will increase demand for its products. That which is not seen: The jobs lost elsewhere in the economy because of: higher taxes, crowding out of private investment by government deficits, entrepreneurial paralysis in the midst of never-ending and always-changing regulation, rent-seeking, government waste, political corruption, and the perpetual font of self-congratulatory hubris from politicians, bureaucrats, their pundit apologists, and all the other central-planning fetishists. Enjoy the windows… kipesquire.net