MORNING INTELL: USA Breakup, Obama Citizenship, Brr...Climate Change

BLOGOSPHERE NEWS:
November 26 2008



THE SCOOP:
* The USA Breaking into Pieces?
* Obama Citizenship Issues not Going Away
* Ho's Get the Heave
* Global Warming...Brr!
* Washington State Judge Yelled "Tyrant" Before Mulkasey Collapsed

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USA SPLITTING APART into SIX REGIONS?

• A Russian predicts the imminent break-up of the USA into six different regions.
  Top Russian Analyst Predicts

  U.S. Breakup and New North American Currency
  Monday, a top Russian political analyst predicted that the United States is heading for collapse and will divide into six separate parts. Canada, Mexico and the U.S. will adopt the Amero currency, and China and Russia will regulate world markets.

  
  Hide the vodka.
  
  
• MORE BREAK-UP TALK: Break Up of the United States of America and Civil Upheavals - Imminent Danger #6
  Don Koenig predicts a significant portion of the US population rebelling against the Federal government at some point--he says it probably would take the election of a socialist president, Congress and appointment of a ultra-progressive Supreme Court.
  
  
• About the predicted break-up of the USA, Richard at HyScience wonders, "Could it really happen?"
  
  
• "I can see Hugo and Ivan from here!"
  The Russia-Venezuela maneuvers in the Caribbean: 15 Minutes on Latin America

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1. Kenyan Ambassador now says he misspoke.
   Embassy: Obama not born in Kenya. The Kenyan rep says he made a mistake when he was asked about the President-elect and was referring to Obama's father.
   
   
2. More evidence of American's litigious nature?
   Lawyer lining up plaintiff groups until citizenship dispute addressed
   Orders from new president to spark lawsuit every time
   

   A lawyer who is playing a key role in a California lawsuit urging officials to prevent the state's 55 Electoral College votes from being recorded for Barack Obama until questions about his citizenship are resolved says he's organizing plans to challenge, even after the inauguration, every order, every proposal, every piece of paperwork generated by Obama.
   "We will file lawsuits on his actions, every time. As long as we have money , we will keep filing lawsuits until we get a decision as to his citizenship status," Gary Kreep, chief of the United States Justice Foundation, told WND today.

   
   
3. The Fox or the Chickens?
   Obama Birth Certificate Controversy: Who Verifies a Candidate is Legit?
   
4. Is Hillary Clinton Constitutionally barred to Serve as Secretary of State?
   Matthew Berger: "Essentially, you cannot take a job if the salary was increased during your current congressional term. And the salary for cabinet officials has gone up in the past year. Even if it is lowered back down, constitutional scholars say that may not be enough to fix the problem."
   Berger posits that perhaps Clinton's Senate colleagues will have the good manners not to bring up the Constitution unpleasantness--if it comes to that.
   
   
5. Bringing up whether Obama is constitutionally qualified is a legitimate issue.
   AMERICAN THINKER: Why the Barack Obama Birth Certificate Issue Is Legitimate
   

   The question not being asked by the holders of power, who dismiss this as a rightwing conspiracy, is what's the downside of disclosing? This is a legitimate issue of inquiry because Barack Obama has turned it into one. The growing number of people who demand an answer in conformance with the Constitution are doing their work; the people's watchdogs aren't.

   
   HYSCIENCE: 'Joe the Farmer': Why the Barack Obama Birth Certificate Issue Is Legitimate
   So far, the Mainstream press has had the good manners not to bring up any Constitutional unpleasantness. The Constitution seems to matter only for the ill-mannered these days: whether in the Senate or the MSM.
   
6. REPRISE: Obama Birth Certificate: WND, Kenya and African Press Internatl
   

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MORNINGMANIA

• DON SURBER: The LA Times only interviews opponents of Prop 8 for reaction, not its supporters. And it does not identify the opponents as opponents. They are “legal experts.”
  
  
• Dubai is for strip search aficionados: Dubai: Strip Searching the Fun From Vacations
  
  
• Only three people who hasn't noticed it's getting cooler these days: Al Gore; James Hansen, the Weather Clown of NASA; and, some guy from Berkeley who's saving up for a Segway: Brrr... Global Warming Predictions Overestimated--...
  
  
• Will Al Franken Be Able to STEAL the Minnesota Senate Seat?
  
  
• Heave Ho
  According to the "Times of London: 12% of American millionaires are dumping their mistresses this Christmas due to the credit crunch."
  
  
• He's fun at hospitals.
  State justice confirms he yelled "Tyrant!" at Mukasey before AG collapsed
  
  
• Warning the Sheeple.
  Obama Chief of Staff Hopes to Exploit the Economic Crisis to Expand the Growth of Government
  You think?

by Mondo Frazier
images: hyscience; dbkp file

Barack Obama: New 44th President Will Face Real Challenges, Responsibilities

Barack Obama:
44th President of the United States

New President Will Find Responsibilities Replace Rhetoric




Electoral Win Solid, if Not Spectacular

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Barack Obama was elected in Election 2008 as the USA's 44th president and almost immediately will face hard choices in governing, both on the domestic and foreign fronts.

The media has called Obama's election "historic", and on that--unlike most other matters of fact--they are correct.

Obama becomes the country's first bi-racial candidate, and even those that opposed Obama on policy issues can find much good in the hope that his election will put issues of race into their proper perspective.

The raw statistics surrounding the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the nation's 44th president indicate that the country gave a Democrat presidential candidate a majority of the popular vote for the first time in 32 years.

Obama's 52.4% of the popular vote surpasses Jimmy Carter's 50.1% total in 1976 election. That total could finish up or down, but not by much. Obama's total was far short of predictions that he would approach Lyndon Johnson's 1964 total of 61.1%.

The electoral college total had Obama winning 364-174 over challenger John McCain.

Bill Clinton exceeded both totals in the electoral college--in spite of never winning a majority of the popular vote--in both 1992(370) and 1996 (379). Obama did surpass Carter's 297.

Obama will be tested immediately, it seems on foreign policy.

Russia reacted to the news of Obama's election within hours. From Russian missiles to counter U.S. defence plan: Medvedev.

Russia will deploy short-range missiles in the Baltic Sea region near the border with Poland in response to plans by the United States to build an anti-missile system in Europe, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.

The proposed U.S. anti-missile system, which would include 10 missile silos in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic to help detect and shoot down any ballistic missiles, threatens Russia's national security, Medvedev said in his state-of-the-nation address on Wednesday.

"To neutralize — if necessary — the [U.S.] anti-missile system, an Iskander missile system will be deployed in the Kaliningrad region," Medvedev said. "Naturally, we are also considering using for the same purpose the resources of Russia's navy."

There will be the traditional 'honeymoon' between the new Obama administration and the press. DBKP is no different: we wish the new president well for the sake of the United States.

We'll reserve comment on the press' relationship with the Obama campaign before the election for another post.

Obama's campaign mantra of "hope" affects even us: we hope that what we don't know about the Senator from Illinois won't affect his good judgment for the good of the country. We also hope that the Obama we see in White House really the go-slow, tax-cutting Obama we saw in the last weeks of the campaign.

Obama's campaign mantra of "hope" affects even us: we hope that what we don't know about the Senator from Illinois won't affect his good judgment for the good of the country.

Republicans in Congress continued to pay a price for their free-spending, pork-barreling ways when they had control. We hope they learned a lesson, though we are a bit skeptical.

Barack Obama is a smart man. We hope he uses his intelligence to study the effects of what happens--to Democrats and Republicans alike--when they try to buy votes using the hard-earned money of their fellow citizens.

We Barack Obama a hearty "Good luck".

by Mondo Frazier