Fencepost turtle

October 22, 2008

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2470841028297126909

Yes, as you can see from the title of today’s post, I’m still in my animal phase: last time the king of the forest, today the persistent and determined champion of an epic foot race.

Posted just a few days ago at Google Video, “Infrastructure” is part four of a provocative film called The Plan To Control America, and I’m beginning to fear it really may be as bad as all that.

There are no new revelations or discoveries in the film (not if you’ve been following along) but it does remind me of a few things that should trouble everyone, in case there isn’t enough already:

  • When Barack Obama traveled to Indonesia and Pakistan in 1981, he would have been regarded there as an Indonesian citizen and a Muslim, because that’s how he would have needed to present himself with appropriate documents.
  • At that time, Pakistan was under martial law and a travel ban by the US state department was in effect for US citizens.   It was no time to go there even to visit Mommy—not, that is, if you were a US citizen and a non-Muslim.  Even if you were a Muslim from an Islamic nation,  you would have been wise to avail yourself of the assistance of your wealthy Pakistani roommate with unsavory in-country connections.
  • Obama’s undisclosed college records from Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard are extremely important in this respect, because it is certainly possible, if not in fact entirely probable, that Obama was admitted to school and recorded as an Indonesian citizen.

This last point is also made by Phillip Berg, who is directing the sensational court challenge to Obama’s candidacy.  You can catch an interview with Berg in this YouTube video, and I was interested to hear him describe in the interview something that I discovered, quite accidentally, on my own.

You see, Mrs. Dasalami, who is homebound, watches The View and she often runs her thoughts about it by me.  A couple weeks ago she asked me about FactCheck dot org, because Whoopie and the rest of the ladies were touting it on the TV program to validate Obama’s birth certificate.  I confessed I didn’t know anything about the site but I’ve seen it similarly cited in reference to the birth certificate issue, so she went to the Internet to see for herself what FactCheck had to say about it.

She was reading aloud, but I leaned over her shoulder to look at the screen and I saw the distinctive and prominently displayed logo go by as she scrolled quickly down the page.  “Tell me this site is sponsored or produced by Annenberg?” I asked.  “What is Annenberg?” she replied.  It was then that I started to understand that this whole matter of Obama’s birth certificate is not some cheap shot, silly conspiracy theory, or Hail Mary pass by those desperate to turn the tide of this race.  Obama’s comings and goings on the world stage are drawn in mysterious, blurry, impressionist brushstrokes.  As someone once quipped, Obama could literally be in the witness protection program.  And everywhere that the picture starts to blur, the most nefarious and sinister associations and connections are there to support Obama’s legitimacy.

In Colin Powell’s utterly ridiculous endorsement of Obama, he decried as racist the question of whether Obama is a Muslim, and he even ventured that some little Muslim boy somewhere in this great country should aspire to the presidency.  Whether it matters that Obama is a Muslim is an altogether separate topic, and one that I’m all but certain General Powell is ill-equipped to argue, but it is revealing that Powell definitively supported his position with fact.  “He’s a Christian,” Powell declared.  But these are the brand of fact we have when it comes to Obama, for it is pretty clear that he is no Christian.  Let me be forthright—and I haven’t heard anyone say it quite this bluntly and categorically—but Obama’s church, where he attended for over twenty years, is not a Christian church.  Even those things about Obama we can verify pose more questions than they answer.  It’s all smoke and mirrors.

Fencepost turtle So you’ll forgive me for posting part of The Plan to Control America, which suggests that Obama is the real McCoy Manchurian candidate, groomed by sinister forces with revolutionary intentions.  As hard as it is to believe, I’m actually starting to believe it, because if you ask me, it’s way easier to connect the dots on really wild conspiracy theories than it is to follow the amorphous details of a bizarre story about a first-generation African American who made it big through hard work and talent.

It’s like the old rancher said when he referred to Obama as a fencepost turtle:

You know he didn’t get up there by himself.  He doesn’t belong up there, and he doesn’t know what to do with himself now that he’s there.

And you just have to wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with.

Yeah.  Something like that.

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Scherzo October 23, 2008 at 12:20 pm

If The One is elected, all knowledge, but that which is approved and sanitized for his protection, will go down the crapper of amnesia. My brother, whom I always thought of as somewhat paranoid and overprotective, where his child is concerned, (He is finding out just what happens when you overprotect a child, and it worries him. Me, I kind of laugh. Don’t we all try to overprotect our younguns?) He is sending his wife and child out of town to stay with her parents in the country. He lives in a middle class town house development and neighbors on both sides are black. He is really worried about riots….in Lancaster, PA. Oy gevalt.
Me, I am worried about my number two daughter in Kansas City MO. She is in ground zero for riots. She lives in a lower end neighborhood apartment block, where violent crime is high. I am really worried about her safety.

Haid October 23, 2008 at 12:42 pm

Even scarier, Jewel, is what will happen if he’s NOT elected, or if he’s elected and then it comes out that he’s not a natural-born citizen. You don’t even want to think about those scenarios.

I understand your worries, though. My daughter and five of my grandchildren live in a big city with racial divisions and tons of violent crime as well.

I just roll my eyes and try hard not to gag when folks say we live in “interesting times.” “Frightening times” is more like it.

Scherzo October 23, 2008 at 7:20 pm

I think I might be more relieved if Obama wins, even if he steals the election. For this reason. My first thought upon hearing the news (I will be blogging about it, too) will be to recite the Lord’s Prayer. To mean each and every word of it. And to say it alot, through out the days following. It will keep me focused. I don’t go in for hysteria or mobthink, either. So if Obama wins, I won’t be part of the mass hysteria that their might be.
This will amount to a sorting out. I remember a line my grandmother told me: “This world ain’t my home, I’m just a passin’ through”. I think that will be the mentality we need to adapt in the coming days and years.

Scherzo October 23, 2008 at 7:20 pm

Geez, I suck. THERE might be. sheesh.

Average Joe October 23, 2008 at 7:48 pm

Phil Berg is crazy AND SO ARE YOU!! I didnt think you were supid though. Now yur a truther lol.
Berg filed suit to charge Bush with conspiracy in the 9/11 attacks. He’s been fined for unprofessional conduct and corruption.
Even yur buddy oreilly calls the birth certificate suit CRAZY.
You should spend less time hiding the salami and more time dealing with reality.

Haid October 23, 2008 at 8:41 pm

Citing the Berg action, and noting that he alluded to something I discovered on my own, say nothing about my estimation of the man. Berg may be a kook, but a court action is nothing to trifle with even when initiated by a nut ball. Besides, you’re a kook, Joe, and I play nice with you, don’t I?

As for the birth certificate challenge being crazy, it seems there’s a lot of insanity going around, because there are now pending lawsuits, only one of which is Mr. Berg’s doing, in no fewer than eight states, Joe. Now if there’s anything crazy about this situation, it’s that we’re less than two weeks from election day, and BO is visiting Gramma in Hawaii while half the country is asking for proof he was born there.

The point of my essay was not that I subscribe to the various conspiracy theories, but that they’re no more or less credible than the official version of events presented by Obama and his supporters, including almost the entire media. We must take on faith that BO never heard Wright foam at the mouth with racism, that he barely knows all the terrorists, Islamists, and communists who pepper the landscape of his life, and even that he has a birth certificate somewhere that validates his eligibility for POTUS.

When the issue of McCain’s birth in Panama was raised, Jack Mac sought a judicial declaration of his eligibility. The birth certificate issue is crazy alright. It’s crazy that at this late date Obama is expending more energy filing motions to dismiss, and spending more campaign dollars in the process, than it would take simply to produce validating documents.

Now we see what is meant by the “profound change” promised by the Messiah:

He’s not at all satisfied with the US Constitution as it stands.

Always On Watch October 24, 2008 at 3:34 pm

I’m beginning to fear it really may be as bad as all that.

Until recently, I didn’t think so. But now I believe that the leftist revolution is upon us, via institutional revolution.

Haid October 24, 2008 at 6:31 pm

Yeah, Always. I hear what you’re saying.

Until recently, I couldn’t conceive of it, either.

But as I say, wild and grand conspiracy theories–and even the worst-case scenarios–aren’t any more outlandish than the horse crap Obama would have us believe.

Scherzo October 24, 2008 at 9:43 pm

At NRO, a polling group has received death threats for not showing higher results for Obama:

Death Threats Sent to Pollster

After releasing this morning’s numbers showing McCain ahead in Ohio and Florida, the Strategic Vision polling company received several death threats through the contact e-mail on the company’s web site.

David Johnson, the CEO of Strategic Vision, shared the messages with National Review Online.

One of the messages stated:

My goodness, your polls stinks. There are 3 polls that have Obama by double digits and only yours has Obama down. WOW!. How come your poll is the only one giving Palin high favor ratings? I think you nee dto be careful tonight when you get in your car and might want to check underneath your car. SCRAP YOUR IDIOTIC POLLS OR ELSE!

Another stated:

A poll that gave Sarah Palin and Barack Obama the same favorability rating is wrong off the bat. Be careful going outside tonight because you might not see tomorrow.

A third message stated:

Why would your presidential election poll results be so drastically different from every other reputable poll taken over the same time period? Are they that dumb or are you guys that smart? Smart guys wind up dead.

The company has contacted the FBI and appropriate authorities, Johnson said. There was, thankfully, nothing in the messages that indicated that the sender had actually sought out the location of the company or its employees. Johnson noted that while the messages came from different addresses, they all came within a short period of time, and that it was possible they were from the same person.

Johnson said he’s not fearful, but taking appropriate measures.

“It’s probably just a bunch of nut cases, but this is first time we’ve ever experienced something like this,” Johnson said. “It’s highly, highly unusual. We get messages in the vein of ‘your numbers are wrong, the other guy’s numbers are right’ all the time. But this has never happened before.”

10/24 03:36 PM

Always On Watch October 25, 2008 at 5:43 am

Haid,
I posted the video at my site, in a sticky post. I’m sure that all my students will be taking a look and, via their friends and parents, spreading the word.

Haid October 25, 2008 at 9:34 am

Scherzo,

That IS interesting. Maybe that’s why all the polls have Obama so far ahead, despite that everywhere I go I find that almost everyone HATES him: the pollsters don’t want to get blood all over their uPOLLstery.
:(

Haid October 25, 2008 at 9:46 am

Always,

My first hat tip: how exhilarating! Thanks much.

I noticed you edited the old rancher’s quote in the interest of protecting impressionable young students. ;)

I used to do a lot of teaching. I still think about my sudents quite a bit. I think about what kind of world they’re inheriting from us.

It’s extremely gratifying to know that at least some of today’s youth are being formed by folks like you.

God bless.

Best regards,

HAID

Always On Watch October 26, 2008 at 6:00 am

Haid,

Yes, I edited the joke a bit. I have students as young as 10 reading my web site.

Hard to believe that I gave you your first hat tip. You have an excellent site here.

Darryl Harb October 26, 2008 at 10:41 am

“This world ain’t my home, I’m just a passin’ through”. I think that will be the mentality we need to adopt in the coming days and years.

Yes, Scherzo, indeed. This is what I keep telling parishioners. Today I reminded them of the proper way to view the link between faith and politics, a la St. Thomas More: “I am the king’s servant; but I am God’s first.”

Scherzo October 26, 2008 at 11:06 am

Amen, brother Darryl.

Haid October 26, 2008 at 7:28 pm

Darryl,

I don’t think I got that homily in my inbox. I certainly hope you didn’t remove me from your mailing list just because I owe you money.

:(

That reminds me of a great anti-spam strategy, by the way, which I learned from hanging out in gambling towns when I was younger. If someone was being really annoying trying to borrow a few bucks, it paid to slip him a twenty spot, indicating I wanted it back by such and such a time. Generally, I’d never see him again, which was my angle. Problem solved for a lot cheaper than putting out a hit on ‘em.

Haid October 26, 2008 at 7:31 pm

Always,

Thanks for the compliment.

Darryl calls it “the best-run unread blog in the world.” LOL.

Haid October 26, 2008 at 7:33 pm

Scherzo,

Since he’s let the cat out of the bag on his own, that would of course be “Father Darryl,” to be accurate.
;)

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