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""As an active-duty officer in the United States Army, I have grave concerns about the constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to hold the office of president of the United States," wrote Scott Easterling in a "to-whom-it-may-concern" letter. Obama "has absolutely refused to provide to the American public his original birth certificate, as well as other documents which may prove or disprove his eligibility," Easterling wrote. "In fact, he has fought every attempt made by concerned citizens in their effort to force him to do so.""

This fiasco just gets more and more entertaining. I think the Oabama people really still think that if they continue to pointedly ignore and stonewall on this issue that it will go quietly into the night on its own. HAH! FOOLS! I don't think so! All it does is appear to confirm that there IS actually something they want to hide. These stories are only just now barely gaining a bit of traction in the mainstream media, making it very obvious just how out of touch they actually are with the people who are supposed to read/watch their product.

This tip really does help speed up FF's responsiveness when using the address bar to type in parts of URLs, or when searching the history or bookmarks. If you're seeing a lot of lag in the FF UI when doing things that search databases, especially the places.sqlite file, then try this. Note: It's generally bad to do additional stuff with databases when they are already open, so I would recommend doing this when FF is CLOSED!

"The Motion Picture Association of America, much maligned by file sharers everywhere, has gone through a "significant" round of layoffs, according to a studio source. The source said the layoffs were well over 10 percent and more reductions are expected."

Yay! Schadenfreude at work! I guess that attacking the customers of your own customers is not generally too profitable. But hey! Way to brighten up many people's outlook on life with the depression looming! I guess they're just doing their part to help the stimulus work. Hah.

"Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do."

Ok, I had already planned to hand out pocketknives at a yet to be determined age, and playing with fire was also an obvious given, but he really had me at "Breaking the DMCA"! Yah! Ok, I'll buy the book! Children should learn early on that moronic laws passed by stupid politicians simply demand to be broken by thinking people.

I think the overly safety paranoid treatment of children today is certainly a negative influence in many aspects of their lives. While I haven't yet worked out all areas that might be affected, I believe it does retard their development in serious ways. And delays and hinders, often permanently, their sense of self-reliance and confidence.

New Hampshire is joined also by the states of Washington, Arizona, Missouri, and Oklahoma. But for the most part these are only gestures at this point, still, it's encouraging to see the resurgence of the 10th amendment. Now if we could just see more of the rest of the Constitution. (Though New Hampshire's resolution seems to be the only one with any real teeth to it as far as consequences go.)

In case you didn't know it yet, we're really doomed. They're not only going to do the exact same things that didn't work for previous times, but they haven't learned anything at all.

"The main lesson we have learned from the New Deal is that wholesale government intervention can -- and does -- deliver the most unintended of consequences." Actually they haven't learned anything at all. They're still stuck in the mindset that government intervention is actually needed and will do something positive... so right now they're just quibbling about the amounts of intervention that are used, and they will never reach the end of that path - as whatever the amount is, it will always be seen as too little intervention or too much intervention, since intervention will never work. Why can't these supposedly smart people see the simple, and easy solution for this mess that government intervention has created, or helped create??? They almost had it too - "Why wasn't the Depression followed by a vigorous recovery, like every other cycle? It should have been." Yes, it certainly should have been a fast recovery, but government decided that it needed to take the reins for the first time, that it would 'help' by forcing a recovery on it's own terms. The result, as we all know, was Epic Fail. Now, we're getting ready to go into Epic Fail II.

"Look, I don't blame Michael Phelps for apologizing. He has a living to earn, so he did what he had to do. In the meantime, I merely note that this broken wreck of a man's failure to win any more than a pathetic fourteen Olympic gold medals (so far) is a terrifying warning of the horrific damage that cannabis can do to someone's health—and a powerful reminder of just how sensible the drug laws really are."

Vox: "I despise the drug-war and I despise its idiot supporters even more. There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for the continued existence of the ludicrously ineffective drug laws, much less the many violations of human liberty their enforcement is used to excuse."