Since we can’t get ourselves excited about Evan Bayh’s last-minute retirement, let’s see what Orly’s up to…

A California lawyer who has shepherded several of the high-profile legal challenges to Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president has filed a pleading in federal court in Washington, saying she faces a $20,000 penalty and a threat to her law license and needs the president’s birth documents to defend herself.

Attorney Orly Taitz told WND she submitted the pleading today to Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Taitz said she applied for a preliminary injunction, because her understanding of the rules of procedure for the district court shows a hearing or decision must be returned within 20 days.

So: Orly’s still on the hook for that twenty-grand penalty. And the only way she can defend herself against the charge of filing frivolous lawsuits over Barry’s birth certificate is to — demand Barry’s birth certificate!

We’re gonna miss her when she’s gone. Lucky for us she’s not going without being thrown out.

Attorney facing penalties wants birth docs for defense [WND]

Paragon of personal integrity Joe T. Plumber lashes out:

“I don’t owe him shit. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it… McCain was trying to use me. I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy.”

Oh, and Sarah Palin is a sellout, Birthers and Truthers need to get a life, and Barry’s not such a bad guy for a socialist.

Too bad Demrats can’t get shit done, or we’d really enjoy this.

A few minutes with Joe the Plumber [State House Sound Bites]

Title: “A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror”

Authors: Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen

Rank: 1

Blurb: “For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of ‘dead white men.’

“As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin.”

Review: “This book has taught me more about our history than any I’ve read in years.” (Glenn Beck)

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Just about the time we were ready to do some intensive research on a hilarious post about a new online wingnut game, we got distracted by the most awesomely wrong opening ceremony in Olympic history.

Well, except Berlin, of course.

If you weren’t there for Vancouver FailFest 2010 last night, we weep for your grandchildren, forever denied the story of how you survived it.

Dear gawd, we should have run with this Wednesday or Thursday, before it got out of hand…

But we didn’t, so let’s take it from the top.

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Why send flowers for Valentine’s Day when you can send talking disembodied arms?

This is Your Hug: Hug-E-Gram [Videogum, via Sully]

We’ve been ignoring the Dimwit News out of Texas all week, but it just keeps coming, so let’s share…

• The photo above is from Sunday’s Rick Perry rally, featuring Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent. Everyone got a chuckle when the Houston Press published it, but now Perry opponent (and former Demrat Houston mayor) Bill White has posted it on his Facebook page. [via SFL]

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