Dispatches from Birtherstan - 5-7 March 2011

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Dispatches from Birtherstan - 5-7 March 2011

Today's dispatches contain something I can't make light of or fun of. Namely sedition.

Seems many birtherstani are pinning their hopes on a planned 19 March rally in Washington DC that they hope becomes an Egyptian-style governmental overthrow. I'm seeing a lot of chatter, hinting, and outright "calls for action" from Dr. Kate, James Manning, Sharon Rondeau and the Pest and eFail writers, has well as other related sites and groups. Complete with claims of 10+ million people marching on Washington DC, and calls for open rebellion and "military-type" action should that rally fail to unseat Obama.

Personally I'd be more worried if it wasn't for the fact that the birtherstani consistently show the same organizational skills as a tub of live bait. But I can't escape the feeling that while they know their rallies and marches are going to be a fail, they hope that their trash talk of a lawfully-elected President, their "calls for action", "battlefields", "target lists", and various bellicose calls for civilian and military uprisings, will spark someone who's already mentally unstable to "take action" of their own with some "second amendment solution".

These people don't care that they constantly spit on the Constitution. They've been working themselves up to a frenzy for so long that the only thing they want now is blood, and as much of it as possible as soon as possible.

We also have Mike Huckabee still doing damage control, various wingnut conspiracies, and Theresa Cao getting ready for her day in court - much to the dismay of her attorneys. Iowa has a moderately sane birther bill that appears to have shuffled off this mortal coil, while Nebraska's de Vattelist birther bill gets the scorn it deserves.

And finally the Supreme Court asks Gregory Hollister "what part of 'no' are we failing to understand?"