THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
† Bambu: We’re Being Rolled (second item): This must be the inspiration behind the Love Fatigues line of Obama T-shirts that (they say) is an homage to the Bambu rolling paper logo and not a blatant case of trademark infringement:
[Hat Tip: The Drudge Report]
† Never Mind Marxism. Will An Obama Administration Be Totalitarian?: Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the OH Department of Job and Family Services Director, has resigned because “I realize that I continue to be used as a political postscript, providing a distraction from urgent state priorities” and she doesn’t want her “reputation” to be “disparaged,” reports The Associated Press. Your, um, reputation is that you provided fundraising support to the Obama campaign on the taxpayers’ dime (for instance, using a government computer system); abused your position and your authority over a lower-ranking employee to force her to investigate Samuel Wurzelbacher; enlisted the assistance of two of your direct reports to coerce the staffer into a cover-up of a possibly illegal act (all four of your salaries being paid by taxpayers during these activities, by the way); and lied to investigators by claiming the “Joe the Plumber” records check was “routine” whenever a private citizen is suddenly thrust into the public eye.
† Updates To Previous Posts (second item, We Fight Them Over There So We Don’t Have To Fight Them Over Here?): Egyptian Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 27, an engineering student at the University of South Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday to 15 years imprisonment for providing material support to terrorists by creating and uploading a 12-minute video to YouTube that showed how to convert a remote-control toy car into a bomb detonator. By his own admission, he “intended the technology demonstrated in his audio-video recording to be used against those who fight for the United States” because they and their allies fighting in Arab countries are “an invading force.” He was known to shoot off his mouth about Americans being “one of the most stupid creations of G-d," told his parents that America is a “vile nation” and rejoiced at a Pentagon announcement that 4,000 U.S. soldiers had been killed in Iraq.
† Updates To Previous Posts (fourth item, When A Patient’s Rights Stop Where A Healthcare Provider’s Rights Begin): The Department of Health and Human Services announced a new regulation, dubbed the “conscience rule,” that allows health care providers to opt out of providing any medical procedure or treatment on religious or moral grounds, reports The New York Times:
The rule prohibits recipients of federal money from discriminating against doctors, nurses and health care aides who refuse to take part in procedures because of their convictions, and it bars hospitals, clinics, doctors’ office and pharmacies from forcing their employees to assist in programs and activities financed by the department. …
The measures … were issued just in time to take effect before the start of the new administration. They will go into effect 30 days after their publication in the Federal Register on Friday. Recipients of funds from the Department of Health and Human Services are required to certify their compliance with the rule by October 2009. …
The new president will be able to undo [last-minute] regulations … [b]ut [it] will be a time-consuming process.
Meanwhile, The Associated Press reports that the IL Supreme Court has directed the Sangamon County Circuit Court to consider a lawsuit by two pharmacists who claim that dispensing the Plan B emergency contraceptive violates their religious beliefs after the lower court had refused to hear the case.
† Updates To Previous Posts (last item, Pearson's Knickers Still In A Knot Over His Pants): With any luck, this is the last we will ever hear of those farshtunkeneh pants: A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has put a stake in the heart of former administrative Judge Roy Pearson’s 2005 $67 million suit against Custom Cleaners over a pair of lost pants, upholding Judge Judith Bartnoff’s "common sense" ruling that a "Satisfaction Guaranteed" sign is “not an unconditional and unlimited warrant," reports Legal Times. Pearson has a separate case pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia claiming that the District’s decision not to reappoint him to a 10-year term as an administrative law judge because of the notoriety of the “pants suit” was illegal.
† Updates To Previous Posts (second item, Is Obama’s Birth Certificate Fake?): Attorney Philip J. Berg’s appeal was denied without comment by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, along with another appeal from CA based on Berg's claims that Barack Hussein Obama* is either a citizen of Kenya or Indonesia and thus ineligible to be president because he does not meet the Constitutional requirement of being a natural-born citizen of the U.S. With several challenges to Obama’s legitimacy having been turned away by individual justices and the entire high court, the issue will never get the full airing it merited – if only to satisfy those millions of voters who are convinced that an interloper has assumed the highest office in the land that their fears are unfounded. The Dems have “Bush stole the election” and we have this. The shoe is on the other foot …
* It’s OK to use his middle name now; The New York Times says so.
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