Boy, if there were ever an appropriate time to post this video, this is the time.

In response to the Orly Taitz motion to depose Hillary to prove up the forged birth certificate, the other side should simply say: “I’m sorry, mack.  The lady of the house ain’t home.  And, besides: we mailed you people a check last week!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXU9SntbatE

Left: The scanned birth certificate of David Jeffrey Bomford, born April 10, 1959, in Australia. If the server time is to be believed, this was posted on the Bomford family website on June 5, 2007.

Right: The Obama Kenyan certificate that’s provided everyone such amusement the past couple days. (We’ve heavily mangled it here to get a rough side-by-side comparison.)

The tell? Both certificates are said to be registered in “Book 44B, Page 5733” — the numbers typed, not printed. The Australian certificate is the original of the forgery.

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If you’re a long-time fan of Steve Reich, this is pure music. If not — we cannot accept responsibility for damage to your ears.

Screaming and stomping his widdle feet:

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who was of course President Obama’s Republican rival in the 2008 general election, has announced that he will vote against Sonia Sotomayor, Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court.

In his floor statement, McCain harshly criticized Sotomayor as an activist judge who does not respect the legislative branch, the written law, or the will of the people — and who is now trying to hide from that record ….

This is very good news for Rudy Giuliani.

McCain Opposes Sotomayor, Attacks Her as Activist Judge [TPM]

For the past couple of days CNN has been intermittently running with the story of Capt. Michael Speicher, a Navy pilot who was the first American casualty of the “first,” 1991 Gulf War.  Speicher’s plane was shot down over Anbar province during a bombing raid, and the pilots remains were apparently discovered and buried by Bedouin tribesmen. Recently an Iraqi civilian informed US forces of the location of the remains, and a positive identification and repatriation soon followed.  One interesting footnote to the story, however remains largely unexplored. The CNN story notes:

He was originally listed as “Killed-in-Action/Body-Not-Recovered” in May 1991. That status changed in 2001 to “Missing in Action,” and then to “Missing/Captured” in 2002, based on sighting reports in Iraq. Those sightings have since been discredited.

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Well, this should get interesting — if it’s the kind of thing that interests you, as Keith Olbermann somewhat says on that Palin retrospective they’ve run on Countdown a half-dozen times.

If you watch Countdown (which we consider splendid West Coast dinner entertainment), you’ll recall that Keith declared a couple months back that he’ll no longer be lampooning Bill O’Reilly. The proximate cause was O’Reilly’s advocacy of physician executions. But by a curious coincidence, according to the New York Times, the ceasefire happened just after NBC’s Jeff Zucker and one of Rupert Murdoch’s henchmen negotiated a truce between their warring cable networks.

A truce brokered by — wait for it — Charlie Rose.

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