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"So again, and I hate to keep bringing this up, have you thought about who would take over your ministry once you are dead?"

Courtesy of the Washington Post:

The elder Graham was flanked by real estate mogul Donald Trump and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Franklin Graham said prior to the event that former President Bill Clinton, who had been listed as one of the guests, couldn’t attend.

“Billy Graham, we need you around another 95 years,” Palin said. “We need Billy Graham’s message to be heard, I think, today more than ever.”

She does realize that Graham can barely move around or talk right?

And I think I know EXACTLY why Bill Clinton couldn't attend. After all what would it do for Hillary's political future if he allowed himself to be photographed with Sarah Palin and Donald Trump?

Palin is really hitting all of the evangelical hotspots in preparation for her upcoming book tour.

This was perhaps my favorite gif from the event.

"Hey, you and me in 2016. Deal?"

Oh even I can't get that lucky. Right?

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Courtesy of TMZ:

Bristol Palin's baby daddy Levi Johnston is tired of getting squeezed out of their son's life -- TMZ has learned, he just filed court docs to obtain 50/50 custody of 4-year-old Tripp Palin.

In the docs, Levi says he wants Tripp to be in his life as much as Bristol's because it's in their son's best interest. Bristol currently has full custody of the child, but now Levi wants Tripp on alternating weeks. (They both live in Alaska.)

Meanwhile, Bristol's attorney is insinuating it's simply a move to reduce Levi's child support payments, saying Levi owed roughly $66,000 in back child support as of October -- and now he wants to pay less.

In the docs, Levi says he's willing to pay whatever child support amount he's ordered to, but urges the court to be fair "as I have a wife and daughter to support." It's unclear what Levi is currently required to pay Bristol.

I disagree with TMZ that both parents are currently living in Alaska, I think Bristol has had Tripp in Arizona with her for quite some time, as the pictures below seem to support.

Recent pictures of Tripp with Bristol clearly show them living in Arizona.

And as indicated by this recent post on Levi's Facebook page:

Forgot to mention that I've managed to keep this beautiful mama married to me for a year now:) and I do miss my son very much. I Love you both.

Which I think is the real reason that I think Levi is going back to court.

Let's face it Bristol is ALWAYS going to keep Levi from seeing his son, and mess with his visitation, unitil the courts tell her can't do that anymore.

After all, like mother like daughter.

(Tripp photos courtesy of Bristol's blog.)

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Courtesy of The Register Guard:

Eric Fromm has received a lot of hugs on campus lately — at least once a day since he “came out” as an atheist last week in an article in his Christian university’s online newspaper.

And while the Northwest Christian University student body president doesn’t quite know what to do with all the new attention he’s receiving, he says it’s a welcome change from the isolation, verbal attacks and accusing questions that he’d grown to expect as rumors about his nonbelief circulated.

“I don’t have to hide anymore,” said Fromm, 21. “I know that people accept me for who I am.”

Though his active campus involvement was enough to win him the student government presidential election, Fromm said he’s felt judged by some of his peers throughout college because, as he wrote in the article that appeared in the school’s Beacon Bolt newspaper last week, “I couldn’t force myself to believe in God.”

It was his peers’ criticism, rather than his own doubts, that Fromm said ultimately compelled him to reject his faith.

While initially drawn to his peers’ faith and sense of community, Fromm said some students responded with shock, shame or fear when he divulged his doubts and lack of faith. Some avoided bringing up the Bible around him, some stopped talking to him for fear of losing their own faith, and others poked fun at him for his views, he said.

“The more I got shunned, the more cold shoulders and verbal attacks, I realized, ‘OK, I’m part of the ‘out’ group,’ ” he said.

It is unfortunate that Eric had to be subjected to that kind of rejection, but at least now he can take comfort in the fact that he is now free. And he will soon find a community of like minded folks who will welcome him with open arms, and who will be far less likely to judge him.

A community by the way which is growing by leaps and bounds on a daily basis

On that same topic there is a recent report that a very popular Bible app is being used by non-theists to help state their case when discussing their point of view with their religious friends and families.

I have always said that the single best way to turn a Christian into an Atheist is to get them to read the Bible. To REALLY read the Bible that is.

I cannot tell you how many atheists I have talked to that said the Bible led them to reject Christianity, or any faith for that matter.

(H/T to Reddit for the image.)

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(Nov. 6, 2013) — A document analyst, Douglas Vogt, who filed two affidavits with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on October 18 has released a preview of the book he and another expert are writing on the Obama birth certificate forgery.

Douglas Vogt is preparing to release a book on his and co-author Paul Irey’s research into the creation of the fraudulent long-form Obama birth certificate

The book, entitled “From Forgery to Treason,” will have 17 chapters upon completion and will detail how he and co-author Paul Irey reached the conclusion that the long-form birth certificate image posted on the White House website on April 27, 2011 is fraudulent.

The Post & Email interviewed Vogt both after he filed the affidavits and earlier in the year as his research was progressing.

One of the affidavits is public; the other is sealed and presumably names the individuals Vogt believes committed the numerous crimes and cover-up involved in the forgery of the birth certificate. On a new website with the url “obamaforgerybook.com,” Vogt explains that he did not approach the court to file a lawsuit, but rather, to request that the presiding judge summon and empanel a special federal grand jury to examine the evidence in Vogt’s possession.

Former attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley assisted Vogt in writing the affidavits.

On Tuesday, Judge James L. Robart responded to Vogt by claiming that the court does not have “subject matter jurisdiction” over the identified complaint and appeared to interpret it as a challenge to Barack Hussein Obama’s presidential eligibility, which was done in other cases over the last five years. However, Vogt did not raise the question of Obama’s constitutional eligibility, but rather, the specter of crimes having been committed which allowed Obama to ascend to and occupy the Oval Office by deceit.

Under U.S. Code, Vogt and anyone else who becomes aware of a felony is obligated to report it to “the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State.”

The judge responded that ““[A] private party may not enforce criminal statutes through a civil action,” citing case law, although Vogt did not file a lawsuit.

The Post & Email has reported extensively on the loss of citizen-controlled grand juries which were accustomed to investigating the actions of elected officials. Since 1946, when the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure were altered by Congress, common law grand juries have been marginalized and the presentments they once issued declared “obsolete.”

In 1992, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that “the grand jury is an institution separate from the courts, over whose functioning the courts do not preside.”

Robart contended in his response that “Decisions to prosecute or file charges are generally within the prosecutor’s discretion, and private citizens, such as Mr. Vogt, have no standing to institute a federal criminal prosecution and no power to enforce a criminal statute against another.” However, prior to 1946, grand juries operated without a prosecutor, attorney or judge present, arriving at their conclusions independently and without the possibility of undue influence from government employees.

A victim of a co-opted grand jury in Monroe County, TN, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, has repeatedly told us, “The grand jury is what makes us a republic.” Fitzpatrick has requested an audience in front of a federal grand jury for more than four years to present evidence of Obama’s treason as well as exculpatory evidence relating to an innocent man currently serving a four-year term in federal prison. Fitzpatrick was denied access to the grand jury by U.S. Attorney William C. Killian, and federal Judge Thomas Varlan ignored Fitzpatrick’s requests.

A grassroots effort to reinstate common law grand juries in every county in the United States is currently under way. A former Justice Department prosecutor has formed a citizens’ grand jury in Florida which has issued several indictments against government officials.

On the new website detailing the upcoming book, Vogt reveals that he has assisted the Maricopa County, AZ Cold Case Posse, which, led by Mike Zullo, has conducted a 26-month investigation into the long-form birth certificate issue and other questions relating to Obama’s background.

Vogt has written several other books about science and religion which he has published through his own company.

On March 1, 2012, Zullo and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced that Obama’s long-form birth certificate and Selective Service registration form were “computer-generated forgeries.” The mainstream press failed to investigate and instead showed anger toward Zullo and Arpaio.

Obama was reportedly elected to a second term without the public having been informed of the findings of forgery and fraud in the only “documentation” he has provided to show his identity, background and parentage.

Obama’s public life narrative contains many inconsistencies, and a pre-release of a book written by two NBC News “journalists” significantly changes an element of it by stating his mother’s death as having occurred in 1988 rather than 1995. They also state that Obama found his original birth certificate at his home in Chicago two weeks before the image was uploaded to the White House server. Former Hawaii resident Miki Booth took issue with that statement on the WheresObamasBirthCertificate radio show on Tuesday evening by stating that the “document” Obama purportedly “found” in Chicago was a souvenir given to all parents whose children are born at Kapiolani Medical Center.

Booth’s husband and son were both born at Kapiolani.

Many Americans believe that Obama was born overseas. Former CIA agent Dr. Jim Garrow, who appeared on the Tuesday night radio show prior to Booth, stated plainly and unhesitatingly that Obama “was born in Kenya.” On Wednesday, while arranging an interview with The Post & Email, Garrow said, “The Russians and the Chinese have the information on Obama. It’s the Americans who don’t know who he is.” Garrow added that as a result, “America is currently the laughingstock of the world.”

Over the last month, Garrow has done numerous radio shows in which he discusses Obama’s alleged Middle Eastern background and attendance at American colleges by means of a Fulbright Scholarship intended for young black students. Garrow asserts that Obama “is a Muslim.” On Tuesday, he said that Kapiolani possesses no birth record for Obama, which is contrary to public statements made by former Hawaii Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino and current Director Loretta Fuddy.

Vogt identifies the Hawaii Department of Health as having been involved, knowingly or unknowingly, in the production or transfer of the fraudulent document.

Zullo has stated publicly that “there was no birth in Hawaii” for Obama.

Pastor and Dr. James David Manning, who hosts a radio show four days a week, reported that a prior attendee of the prestigious Punahou School recalls seeing Obama at the school on occasion. A woman known as Mia Marie Pope told Manning that Obama used the name “Barry Soetoro” and was addicted to drugs in his high school years.

Pope said it was “common knowledge” that “Barry” was not attracted to women. She described him as “a pathological liar…every time this guy would open his mouth, the most outlandish stories would come out…”

Vogt believes that contrary to Obama’s life story, communist poet, journalist and union activist Frank Marshall Davis is Obama’s biological father. Others are convinced that Obama is the secret son of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X.

In 2008, thousands and perhaps millions of American citizens wrote to members of Congress, state legislators, governors, judges, members of the Electoral College, and attorneys general asking that Obama’s eligibility be verified both before and after the presidential election, but their entreaties were rejected or ignored. Many suspected that Obama was born in another country, which places into question whether or not he can qualify as a “natural born Citizen,” as the Constitution requires.

Garrow said that Obama’s background is well-known by “the intelligence community.”

Congress allowed Obama to be certified as president-elect in both 2009 and 2013 after the counting of the electoral votes.

Judge Robart allowed Vogt 20 days to provide a response as to why he disagrees with the court’s decision not to take action on his complaint. Vogt stated on his website that if Robart fails to act on his affidavit, he will seek another federal judge who will.

Vogt is of the opinion that a communist plot to install Obama in the White House was carried out in order to “destroy the United States from within,” with which Garrow agrees.

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Courtesy of Reuters:

Uninsured Americans are showing more interest in the coverage offered under President Barack Obama's healthcare law despite technical problems that have hindered enrollment through a government website, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The glitches have crippled HealthCare.gov, the new online insurance marketplace meant to serve people in 36 states, frustrating millions of would-be applicants since it opened for enrollment on October 1.

The poll's findings are good news for Obamacare supporters who worry the problems and bad press could dissuade people from signing up, particularly the young and healthy who are crucial to diversifying the pool of insured and keeping premiums down.

The uninsured view the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, more favorably since online marketplaces opened - 44 percent compared with 37 percent in September, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll. It found that 56 percent oppose the program compared with 63 percent in September.

A higher proportion of the uninsured also said they are interested in buying insurance on the exchanges, with 42 percent in October, saying they were likely to enroll compared with 37 percent in September. The results have a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.

Of course as I, and others, have documented this is in spite of a constant barrage of criticisms and attempts to sabotage the program coming from the Right Wing since the day the law was passed.

Recently it was discovered that there have even been attempts to overload the website in order to keep people from signing up for ACA.

Yet despite all of that Americans continue to demonstrate that ultimately the program will likely be a success, which of course is the fear that continues to drive the Right Wing to extreme attempts to undermine it, derail it, or sabotage it.

Especially out of fear it will be a success before the 2014 election cycle.

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"OMGD, they're talking about me again. If only I had my very own batshit crazy troll to defend me."

Courtesy of Wonkette:

We don’t know what it is about Bristol Palin, but that girl has got herself some fans. Or one fan who won’t stop writing to us. Our short piece yesterday about the child custody lawsuit filed by Manly Alaskan Sperm-Thrower Levi Johnston only drew about 70 comments, which is about right for a one-paragraph story. But it also filled our comments queue with 20 attempted comments from would-be Levi-n-Bristol defender “Lovefirst21,” whom we’ll assume is a new incarnation of “Livefree601,” who previously defended Bristol as “literally the most amazing and strongest woman out there.” Once more, she (? — perhaps we should not assume?) wants us to know that some things are simply beyond the Palin, and should never be said:

"Nice slander. Tripp Palin is an amazing little boy with the maturity of a kid twice his age. Way to go Bristol. Top notch! I’ve never seen a 4 yr old who is always happy and so adaptable."

Yes. Tripp Palin, a child who is known to Lovefirst21 primarily through the teevee, is a wunderkind, and the only reason he’s not already in 3rd grade is that the government schools simply don’t recognize his brilliance. Why is he not yet on a ballot or a payroll somewhere?

Funny stuff but it pales in comparison to the troll's (Or as we know her Kristy Patullo) actual comments.

Like these in reference to Levi:

Yet he’s the one who started the nasty battle :/

Levi did exploit BOTH kids while Bristol was actually working. Thankful for good mothers.

Actually, he was desperate to marry Bristol as he was obsessed with her. He did once say that.

I feel sorry that his father ever made this part of his life public. There’s a reason custody cases aren’t public domain. The inherent bitterness in all of them don’t deserve outsider opinion. But God bless Bristol Palin and her well-raised boy

Or these in reference to Tripp:

He’s the happiest of kids, living a normal life. School, activities. The only difficulty might come from a alienating stepmom who can’t see her husband as the loser he was not too long ago.

LOL All jokes aside, the reality is, Bristol’s son is a blessed, happy boy with a devoted mother and a father who’s finally matured.

Libel. Get a life. Bristol is a remarkable mother raising a lovely boy who beams with love

Tripp is literally the most blessed child. Never without smiles and nurturing. These comments are just wrong.

Libel? Oh yeah, that's our batshit crazy troll alright.

Gee it kind of makes me wish I has saved all of the comments and e-mails she has sent me over the years instead of deleting them, having holy water sprinkled on my hard drive, and hiring a Native American Shaman to wave burning sage over my computer while chanting.

Oh well, I am sure I will have many more opportunities to do so in the future.

(A trip down memory lane.)

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Colorado State Senator and U.S. Senate candidate Owen Hill: We Already Have President From Kenya;

About Owen Hill: Owen Hill moved to Colorado to attend and graduate from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs with a degree in Economics. He then earned a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis. At church, he met his wife Emily and today they raise and homeschool their four children, Kaiden, Miette, Ellis, and Elinor. As Colorado's next U.S. Senator, Owen will continue his conservative and innovative leadership to solve the national problems that our incumbent U.S. Senator helped to create. - Owen Hill For Senate.





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