tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9377933.post3449474276725598909..comments2023-11-05T03:48:31.411-05:00Comments on James Maxey - Jawbone of an Ass: BirthersJames Maxeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16927848864775293278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9377933.post-53435632598796734352009-07-29T00:04:23.289-04:002009-07-29T00:04:23.289-04:00Loren, I just checked out Hot Air and it looks a l...Loren, I just checked out Hot Air and it looks a lot more entertaining than WND. The thing I miss most about the pre-birther WND is that their previous "big conspiracy theory" was the conspiracy of evolution. They've probably run a couple of hundred articles proving it's all a scam. So, I guess I must shamefully admit I was trolling the site for strawman arguments I could James Maxeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16927848864775293278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9377933.post-38733776863287868812009-07-28T13:56:01.790-04:002009-07-28T13:56:01.790-04:00Here’s Obama’s dilemma in a nutshell (READ VERY CA...Here’s Obama’s dilemma in a nutshell (READ VERY CAREFULLY AND DIGEST):<br /><br />If BHO shows his original long form birth certificate, indeed showing he was born in Hawaii, it will also show his father was American citizen, Frank Marshall Davis, not the Kenyan/British citizen, Barack Obama Sr. While that would allow Barack Jr. to be POTUS eligible as BOTH a "citizen"/“native born Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04011502155494655727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9377933.post-27741340127258737152009-07-28T12:16:15.359-04:002009-07-28T12:16:15.359-04:00I posted this elsewhere about the same subject, bu...I posted this elsewhere about the same subject, but it bears repeating: In <i>Pattern Recognition</i>, William Gibson has a short section on apophenia, wherein he says, "Every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer." Given the fact that the government can barely get the mail from Point A to Point B, I fail to understand how anyone can buy into the Birther Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.com