Hawaii considering law to ignore Obama 'birthers'

[babylonsister]

Hawaii considering law to ignore Obama 'birthers'
By MARK NIESSE, Associated Press


Birthers beware: Hawaii may start ignoring your repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here.

As the state continues to receive e-mails seeking Obama's birth certificate, the state House Judiciary Committee heard a bill Tuesday permitting government officials to ignore people who won't give up.

"Sometimes we may be dealing with a cohort of people who believe lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy," said Lorrin Kim, chief of the Hawaii Department of Health's Office of Planning, Policy and Program Development.

So-called "birthers" claim Obama is ineligible to be president because, they argue, he was actually born outside the United States, and therefore doesn't meet a constitutional requirement for being president.

Hawaii Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino issued statements last year and in October 2008 saying that she's seen vital records that prove Obama is a natural-born American citizen.

But the state still gets between 10 and 20 e-mails seeking verification of Obama's birth each week, most of them from outside Hawaii, Kim said Tuesday.

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http://www.salon.com/wires/us/2010/03/16/D9EG7AVO0_us_obama_birth_certificate/index.html

[marmar]

1. The "F**k You Psychotic Assholes" Bill

I like it. :thumbsup:

[hobbit709]

2. Ignore hell. they should put them on a spammer list and notify their ISPs.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. "Honey, I got a idea! I'm gonna EMAIL the King of Hawaii and DEMAND Obama's birth certificate!"

[dkf]

4. We should charge 50 bucks and direct them to the PDF online.

Turn it into a money making venture.

[karynnj]

6. I like that idea

[Macoy]

8. Great Money Maker

I like the way you think.The State can have a web site where the birthers can enter their credit card information to be directed to a PDF. Simple, automated, very little start up cost and the state governemt can just sit back and watch the birther’s money come rolling in.

Heck, a smart web guy could offer to set it up for Hawii for free and just collect a % of the CC fees. Win/win for every body. :)


Macoy

[Jennicut]

11. Best idea ever. Have the state make money off the lunacy.

[BluDemocratGirl]

14. Make that $500.00

That'll shut their up asses and quit calling the Hawaii office. LOL

[marshall]

5. That'll keep the birthers busy with even more outlandish conspiracy theories

Perhaps it would take the heat off of those folks who are tired of answering the phone and put it on the courts or somewhere else.

[Clio the Leo]

7. I wonder if this will effect my frequent requests for them to...

..... change the name of the state to "Obamaland!" :)





(Actually, MY pick was "Obamatopia" but I'm yielding to the popular choice on this one. heh!)

[babylonsister]

9. Haha! I wonder how many requests mirror yours? I'm guessing

not so many, but keep trying, Clio! :fistbump:

[Clio the Leo]

10. This just proves my little theory.....

.... that you can Google "Obama" and ANY OTHER WORD in the English language and ALWAYS get a hit. And I REALLY didn't think I'd find anything for "Obamaland." Too funny

Backatcha! :fistbump:

[AngryAmish]

12. Weren't all the records destroyed in the great tsunami of 2010?

[dkf]

13. Ohoh. Next loony theory I'm sure.

[grantcart]

15. kick

[FrenchieCat]

16. LOL!

good!

[Orsino]

17. I suppose that the alternative would be...

...increasing education budgets and regulating corporate media, to build a populace too smart to waste administrators' valuable time.

Giving the government a further excuse to ignore inconvenient citizens is a cop-out.