Casual Observation

15 Comments

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   scarshapedstar on July 5, 2008 at 1:15 pm

   I’m reminded of the scenes in “A Beautiful Mind” where his apartment is revealed to be a rat’s nest of news clippings with every other word circled and arrows linking them to other articles, due to his obsessive and psychosis-fueled effort to reveal a worldwide conspiracy of… something.

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   Muons on July 5, 2008 at 1:25 pm

   Ohh, my thinker thing just got a headache trying to figure out if Jay McKinnon had figured out whether Daily Kos had the actual document, a copy, a facsimile, a scanned version, a pdf, or a jpg, how it was sent, by whom, and whether or not it rained that day.

   OUCH!

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     its simple IF you ignore the complexity on July 5, 2008 at 1:28 pm

     Wingnuts are very affected by rain.

     it cancels ballgames!

     http://www.wichitawingnuts.com/

     GO NUTS!

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   dada on July 5, 2008 at 1:37 pm

   to prevent permanent damage, you first have to disable the “cognitive” part.

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   eeblet on July 5, 2008 at 1:52 pm

   “In an effort to eliminate racist, vulgar, and offensive posts, Israel Insider is requiring a one-time registration to encourage participants to take personal responsibility for their comments.”

   Ah, if only they’d make a similar effort for their articles.

   BTW, one commenter on the article suggested that the paper just shell out the $7 and request a copy from the state of Hawaii.  Is this possible?  I would love for this ridiculous non-issue to go away.

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     Sawgrass on July 5, 2008 at 2:31 pm

     My understanding is that only family members can request a copy in Hawaii.

     Even if they had a paper copy, I don’t think the issue will go away.  For some people, a conspiracy lurks behind every door. I can imagine that the conspiracy would advance to suspecting that Hawaii bureaucrats are corrupted.

     This birth certificate nonsense reminds me of Conservapedia’s fabricated angst over obtaining a copy of  Richard Lenski’s research data.  If this phenomena doesn’t have a name already, it deserves one.

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       eeblet on July 5, 2008 at 4:15 pm

       Ugh, you’re right, but I wish you weren’t.  I wish all it took was reason and evidence, and then these wingers would STFU!

       (shameless promotion for flyers to be distributed by Tuesday’s FISA vote – please rec or at least print some flyers)

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   idredit on July 5, 2008 at 3:07 pm

   There is a distinction between a Birth Certificate and a Certification of Birth used for Passport Application and in this IT age docs and images are easily doctored.  It’s a show of wing-nut desperation.

   I’m less concerned on the piece Israel Insider’s birthcertificategate. They do not have the same reach as the AP – the Associated Press.

   AP ate the donuts they gave McCain, drank the GOP kool-aid and has clearly taken sides:

   As Josh Marshall and Steve Benen, at The CarpetBagger, observed: When the AP drops the pretense

   I argued the other day that the Associated Press seemed to be taking sides, rather blatantly, in the presidential election. With each passing day, it appears the wire service is dropping the pretense altogether.

   At this point, it goes beyond just the AP giving John McCain donuts and McCain giving the AP barbecue. First there was the slam-job on Obama that read like an RNC oppo dump, followed by a scathing, 900-word reprimand of Obama’s decision to bypass the public financing system in the general election, filled with errors of fact and judgment.

   When Obama unveiled his faith-based plan this week, the AP got the story backwards. When Obama talked about his Iraq policy Thursday, the AP said he’d “opened the door” to reversing course, even though he hadn’t.

   [.]
   One almost has to wonder if the AP is trying to be deliberately awful.

   The piece seeks to scrutinize Obama’s list of alleged flip-flops — some legitimate, some imaginary — without so much as a hint of scrutiny on McCain’s dozens of reversals.

   But it’s the Iraq discussion in the piece that was breathtaking.[.]

       His problem is that his change in emphasis to flexibility from a hard-nosed end-the-war stance — including his recent position that withdrawing combat troops could take as long as 16 months — will now be heard loud and clear by an anti-war camp that may have ignored it before. So he could face a double-whammy in their feelings of betrayal and other voters’ belief in the Republican charge that he is craven.

   Josh Marshall said this analysis was enough to make his “eyes bleed,” and that’s not especially hyperbolic.

   [.]

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     Joe Bourgeois on July 5, 2008 at 4:05 pm

     AP doesn’t give out email addresses for its reporters, but if you send something to info@ap.org they say they’ll forward.  I just sent her a note there.

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       idredit on July 5, 2008 at 6:28 pm

       Good on you. AP needs to know this won’t fly

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   americanforliberty on July 5, 2008 at 6:10 pm

   i read about a 100 words and got sick..can someone summarize that article.

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     ask on July 5, 2008 at 6:28 pm

     I doubt that is doable – it’s a very confused person who wrote it and it’s a rambling mess.

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   on July 5, 2008 at 6:59 pm

   Only Koolaid I see is being sipped by the netroots.

   They are so stupid they think electing McCain will make everything right in the world.

   Want to know how Bush was elected.  Take a look in the mirror.

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     BooMan on July 5, 2008 at 7:19 pm

     you’re addressing this to me?

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     halo0 on July 6, 2008 at 12:52 am

     I literally just read this message 4 times in a row, and I still have no idea what it’s trying to convey.