Looks like Taitz-Tanic is going down, but that said, there is something very Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" about Orly that I can't put my finger... Oh yeah, they both make me gag.
Open thread below.
Poor old crazy birther Orly Taitz just can't get any respect. Dylan Ratigan treats her with the disdain she deserves in this segment where she's asked to react to the ruling against her. And it looks like the judge has had a belly-full of her as well.
Judge ready to slap Orly Taitz with $10,000 fine:
Orly Taitz, one of the leaders of the Birther movement, may have finally crossed one too many lines. The courts will, after all, overlook the occasional frivolous lawsuit, even when filed by an attorney who can't get basic procedural issues right -- just the cost of doing business. But even a federal judge has a breaking point, and Clay Land appears to have reached his.
Earlier this week, Land dismissed a suit that Taitz had brought on behalf of Army Capt. Connie Rhodes, a surgeon who claimed that she couldn't follow her orders to deploy to Iraq because she's not sure President Obama is eligible, under the Constitution, to hold his current position. At the time, Land warned Taitz that if she filed any more "similarly frivolous ... actions in this Court" she'd face sanctions.
Taitz, of course, didn't seem to listen. Instead, she filed an angry motion asking Land to reconsider his decision and stay Rhodes' deployment. Apparently unaware of that old saying about catching more flies with honey than with vinegar (not true, incidentally, but that's an issue for another time), Taitz essentially accused the judge of committing treason. And, referring to the U.S. District Court on which Land serves, she wrote, "there is increasing evidence that the United States District Courts in the 11th Circuit are subject to political pressure, external control, and, mostly (sic) likely, subservience to the same illegitimate chain of command which Plaintiff has previously protested in this case, except that the de facto President is not even nominally the Commander-in-Chief of the Article III Judiciary."
For some reason, Land wasn't especially happy about this.
In an order issued Friday, Land denied Taitz's request and announced that he was considering making good on his threat of sanctions. He ordered the attorney-slash-dentist "to show cause why the Court should not impose a monetary penalty of $10,000.00 upon Plaintiff’s counsel for her misconduct," and gave her 14 days to do so.
Land also took a swipe at Taitz's performance as an attorney, writing at one point that "competent counsel would have understood" one part of the law that was at issue. The implication was obvious.
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BG filling in today and tomorrow for Mike, who's jamming.
Countdown's Worst Persons for Sept. 8, 2009 with winner Sean Hannity. Runners up Orly Taitz and Michelle Bachmann.
From The Colbert Report:
Stephen thanks Orly Taitz for being one of the few people willing to compare the Obama administration to Nazi Germany.
Lou Dobbs ran the story of US reservist Stefan Cook, who refused to go to Afghanistan because he says President Obama isn't a US citizen. Notice how Dobbs framed the beginning of the story: He says new questions are being raised about Obama's citizenship. Really, Lou? They aren't new questions, they are the same Birther garbage being peddled by the same Birther Queen Bees since well before the election.
We have a Birther in our midst.
U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, set to deploy to Afghanistan, says he shouldn’t have to go. Barack Obama was never eligible to be president because he wasn’t born in the United States.
Cook’s lawyer, Orly Taitz, who has also challenged the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency in other courts, filed a request last week in federal court seeking a temporary restraining order and status as a conscientious objector for his client.
In the 20-page document filed July 8 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia the California-based Taitz asks the court to consider granting his client’s request based upon Cook’s belief that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Cook further states he “would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President’s command. ... simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties.”
Cook, a reservist, received the orders mobilizing him to active duty on June 9.
He's using the idiot lawyer who filed a lawsuit against President Obama and is called the Queen Bee of the Birthers. Meet Orly Taitz, Queen Bee of People Obsessed With Barack Obama's Birth Certificate. She also works for another insane person named Alan Keyes.
Here's the Queen Bee at work... And here's a blog post about her lack of credentials..
Newhounds has more on Free Republic's Cook and other misleading info being peddled by FOX and the Birther hoax.
