Monday, December 17, 2012
Head Of Republican Party Questions President Obama's Birth Certificate
By Paul Davenport
Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) - Several Republican Party officials serving as Electoral College members for Arizona questioned President Barack Obama's eligibility to be president, voicing concerns that later drew disavowals from Gov. Jan Brewer and another Republican elected official.
All 11 Arizona electors cast their votes for defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who won the state's popular vote. The slots - awarded to states according to the size of their congressional delegations - generally go to party loyalists and activists.
State Republican Party Chairman Tom Morrissey and two current or former GOP county chairmen spoke up during the ceremony to voice doubts about Obama's eligibility as a native-born U.S. citizen.
"I am signing this document with concern about the legitimacy of the birth certificate that I have seen presented by Barack Hussein Obama,'' Morrissey said.
College member Don Ascoli, who recently finished serving as Republican Party chairman in Gila County, said he didn't think Obama was "properly vetted as a legitimate candidate for president.''
Hawaii officials have certified that Obama was born in that state.
The U.S. Constitution requires that presidential candidates be "natural-born'' U.S. citizens, be at least 35 years old, and be a resident of the United States for at least 14 years.
Secretary of State Ken Bennett, who presided over the Electoral College ceremony, later said he did not share the views of the three college members, but he said the college members were exercising their First Amendment rights.
Brewer, who observed the ceremony, later also said she disagreed with the three college members' opinions.
"The bottom line is everybody is entitled to their own opinion. I happen to disagree,'' she said.
Brewer in 2011 vetoed a bill passed by the Arizona Legislature to require Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names could appear on the state's ballot.
The bill would have made Arizona the first state to pass such a requirement.
Brewer said in her veto letter that she was troubled that the bill empowered Arizona's secretary of state to judge the qualifications of all candidates when they file to run for office.
The Obama administration attempted to squelch the conflict by releasing his long-form birth certificate showing that he was born in Hawaii.
However, the long-simmering controversy flared anew in Arizona earlier this year when Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said in March that an investigation by a volunteer posse had shown reason to believe Obama's long-form birth certificate is a computer-generated forgery.
Bennett, the state's top elections official and a Romney supporter, then responded to complaints by tea party activists by asking Hawaii to verify Obama's birth records. When they did so, Bennett said he considered the matter closed.
"`He was elected and the votes were cast. He's the president and will be the president,'' Bennett said after Monday's Electoral College ceremony.
Nationally, Obama was on course to get 332 electoral college votes to Romney's 206, barring extremely rare defectors known as "faithless electors.''
Electors across the nation also were affirming Joe Biden for another term as vice president.
Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) - Several Republican Party officials serving as Electoral College members for Arizona questioned President Barack Obama's eligibility to be president, voicing concerns that later drew disavowals from Gov. Jan Brewer and another Republican elected official.
All 11 Arizona electors cast their votes for defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who won the state's popular vote. The slots - awarded to states according to the size of their congressional delegations - generally go to party loyalists and activists.
State Republican Party Chairman Tom Morrissey and two current or former GOP county chairmen spoke up during the ceremony to voice doubts about Obama's eligibility as a native-born U.S. citizen.
"I am signing this document with concern about the legitimacy of the birth certificate that I have seen presented by Barack Hussein Obama,'' Morrissey said.
College member Don Ascoli, who recently finished serving as Republican Party chairman in Gila County, said he didn't think Obama was "properly vetted as a legitimate candidate for president.''
Hawaii officials have certified that Obama was born in that state.
The U.S. Constitution requires that presidential candidates be "natural-born'' U.S. citizens, be at least 35 years old, and be a resident of the United States for at least 14 years.
Secretary of State Ken Bennett, who presided over the Electoral College ceremony, later said he did not share the views of the three college members, but he said the college members were exercising their First Amendment rights.
Brewer, who observed the ceremony, later also said she disagreed with the three college members' opinions.
"The bottom line is everybody is entitled to their own opinion. I happen to disagree,'' she said.
Brewer in 2011 vetoed a bill passed by the Arizona Legislature to require Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names could appear on the state's ballot.
The bill would have made Arizona the first state to pass such a requirement.
Brewer said in her veto letter that she was troubled that the bill empowered Arizona's secretary of state to judge the qualifications of all candidates when they file to run for office.
The Obama administration attempted to squelch the conflict by releasing his long-form birth certificate showing that he was born in Hawaii.
However, the long-simmering controversy flared anew in Arizona earlier this year when Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said in March that an investigation by a volunteer posse had shown reason to believe Obama's long-form birth certificate is a computer-generated forgery.
Bennett, the state's top elections official and a Romney supporter, then responded to complaints by tea party activists by asking Hawaii to verify Obama's birth records. When they did so, Bennett said he considered the matter closed.
"`He was elected and the votes were cast. He's the president and will be the president,'' Bennett said after Monday's Electoral College ceremony.
Nationally, Obama was on course to get 332 electoral college votes to Romney's 206, barring extremely rare defectors known as "faithless electors.''
Electors across the nation also were affirming Joe Biden for another term as vice president.
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‘I Don’t Care if a Bunch of White Kids Got Killed’ — Find Out Who Said This About Sandy Hook Massacre
- Posted on December 17, 2012 at 6:30pm by Jason Howerton
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The owner of Thai Noodle House in Austin, Texas has been bombarded with criticism after he posted a racially-charged and offensive Facebook status regarding the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. On Friday, a gunman opened fire at the school, killing 20 innocent children and six adults before he took his own life.
“I don’t care if a bunch of white kids got killed,” the restaurant’s owner Eddie Nimibutr wrote on his Facebook page shortly after the shooting occurred. “F**k Post-Racial bullsh*t. When kids from minority groups get shot, nobody cares. When Israel launched missiles at the school on Gaza, everybody was too busy jerking off. Why should i care about people who dont give a damn about me?”
After posting the incendiary message, Nimibutr claimed that many people responded by threatening him with “violence.” So he wrote another post in an attempt to clarify his initial rant. His follow-up post seemed to backpedal from his initial statement that he doesn’t “care if a bunch of white kids got killed.”
“I have stated throughout the years in my beliefs with millions in cut to mental health programs, school programs, after school programs,” Nimibutr wrote. “Years after years, thousands of kids in juvenile detention centers. Hundreds of them hungry tonight and have no places to sleep. Thousands are mentally and sexually abused by someone they know.”
He went on: “Catholic churches and the Boys’ Scout are hiding pedophiles everywhere. I mentioned Gaza and Israel. Aurora, Virginia Tech, and 4 other shootings since Columbine. I don’t even remember. Where is the sympathy for them? It’s just a headline news.”
“I will not apologize. I believe what I know. This is how I decompress from today. I was a fool to give into the emotions, thus forgo logics and reason. Yet I am no fool, but I am outraged,” he concluded.
When that post did not appease his critics, he posted one more status with some simple advice: “If you don’t like me or my opinions, I suggest you to unfriend me and f*ck off.”
He even went after his customers.
“I am pretty much sick of some people telling me what to think, how to think, or how to feel today, and if you don’t like my foods, f*ck off and eat someplace else.”
A call made to Thai Noodle House by restaurant writer R.L. Reeves took things even further into the bizarre. An employee claimed Nimibutr was only the restaurant’s chef, not the owner, and that he no longer worked there. However, “a cursory search of local LLC’s finds Nimibutr to be listed as owner of the establishment so this may be a bit of damage control,” Reeves writes.
Either way, the controversy appears to have taken a toll on Nimibutr. He later posted on his Facebook page: “I think It’s time for me to get out of this city for awhile for a nice hike down south.”
The Blaze Reports
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
raided the gun shop where Nancy Lanza, the mother of Newtown, Conn.
shooter Adam Lanza, bought at least one of the guns used in last week’s
massacre, WFSB-TV Hartford Bureau Chief Len Besthoff first reported on Twitter Thursday.
ATF, along with the East Windsor police, raided Riverview Gun Sales in Windsor, Conn., the Hartford Courant confirms.
Police did not reveal the reason behind the raid on Thursday, however,
officials said it was not prompted by a single incident. An official
said that an ongoing investigation was accelerated by recent
developments, though the official didn’t say what those developments
entailed.
“ATF is currently involved in an enforcement operation in the East Windsor area,” ATF spokeswoman Debora A. Seifert said, but refused to provide any additional information.
WFSB 3 Connecticut The gun shop in Windsor, Conn., Riverview Gun Sales, is reportedly the same store where police believe a different man stole an “assault weapon” and was possibly planning to carry out an attack, WFSB-TV reports.
From the Hartford Courant:
Riverview Gun Sales has had inventory issues in the past. State police raided a Connecticut home in 2007 and reportedly found a number of stolen firearms belonging to the store.
East Windsor police Detective Matthew Carl previously told WFSB-TV that at one point, “Riverview gun store was missing upwards of 30 plus guns.”
It is unclear if the ATF raid and the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are related.
This story is breaking and updates will be updated.
Apparent ATF raid @ store where Lanza bought gun OnlyOn3 #wfsb @ Riverview Gun Sales instagr.am/p/Tea9q5oGEy/
“ATF is currently involved in an enforcement operation in the East Windsor area,” ATF spokeswoman Debora A. Seifert said, but refused to provide any additional information.
WFSB 3 Connecticut The gun shop in Windsor, Conn., Riverview Gun Sales, is reportedly the same store where police believe a different man stole an “assault weapon” and was possibly planning to carry out an attack, WFSB-TV reports.
From the Hartford Courant:
On Saturday, a South Windsor man — who had received a suspended prison sentence and two years probation in May for stealing a dozen rifles and shotguns from Riverview Sales — tried to steal a sniper rifle from the same store, police said.“Police said Riverview Gun Sales had no idea the AR-15 Marsh stole was missing. Management at the store didn’t know about 11 guns that Marsh had allegedly stolen last year until they were notified by detectives,” WFSB-TV reports.
Jordan Marsh, 26, pleaded guilty May 10 to a single count of stealing a firearm and received a suspended prison sentence and two years of probation. He initially faced 12 counts of stealing a firearm and other larceny charges.
According to East Windsor police, on Saturday, Marsh grabbed a Bushmaster .50-caliber rifle from Riverview Sales valued at $5,000 and ran from the store. When store employees confronted Marsh, he pulled a knife, then fled on foot. Police officers eventually caught and arrested him.
Riverview Gun Sales has had inventory issues in the past. State police raided a Connecticut home in 2007 and reportedly found a number of stolen firearms belonging to the store.
East Windsor police Detective Matthew Carl previously told WFSB-TV that at one point, “Riverview gun store was missing upwards of 30 plus guns.”
It is unclear if the ATF raid and the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are related.
This story is breaking and updates will be updated.
ATF Raids Gun Shop Where CT Shooter’s Mother Bought Gun Used in Massacre
- Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:42pm by Jason Howerton
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
raided the gun shop where Nancy Lanza, the mother of Newtown, Conn.
shooter Adam Lanza, bought at least one of the guns used in last week’s
massacre, WFSB-TV Hartford Bureau Chief Len Besthoff first reported on Twitter Thursday.
ATF, along with the East Windsor police, raided Riverview Gun Sales in Windsor, Conn., the Hartford Courant confirms.
Police did not reveal the reason behind the raid on Thursday, however,
officials said it was not prompted by a single incident. An official
said that an ongoing investigation was accelerated by recent
developments, though the official didn’t say what those developments
entailed.
“ATF is currently involved in an enforcement operation in the East Windsor area,” ATF spokeswoman Debora A. Seifert said, but refused to provide any additional information.
WFSB 3 Connecticut The gun shop in Windsor, Conn., Riverview Gun Sales, is reportedly the same store where police believe a different man stole an “assault weapon” and was possibly planning to carry out an attack, WFSB-TV reports.
From the Hartford Courant:
Riverview Gun Sales has had inventory issues in the past. State police raided a Connecticut home in 2007 and reportedly found a number of stolen firearms belonging to the store.
East Windsor police Detective Matthew Carl previously told WFSB-TV that at one point, “Riverview gun store was missing upwards of 30 plus guns.”
It is unclear if the ATF raid and the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are related.
This story is breaking and updates will be updated.
Apparent ATF raid @ store where Lanza bought gun OnlyOn3 #wfsb @ Riverview Gun Sales instagr.am/p/Tea9q5oGEy/
“ATF is currently involved in an enforcement operation in the East Windsor area,” ATF spokeswoman Debora A. Seifert said, but refused to provide any additional information.
WFSB 3 Connecticut The gun shop in Windsor, Conn., Riverview Gun Sales, is reportedly the same store where police believe a different man stole an “assault weapon” and was possibly planning to carry out an attack, WFSB-TV reports.
From the Hartford Courant:
On Saturday, a South Windsor man — who had received a suspended prison sentence and two years probation in May for stealing a dozen rifles and shotguns from Riverview Sales — tried to steal a sniper rifle from the same store, police said.“Police said Riverview Gun Sales had no idea the AR-15 Marsh stole was missing. Management at the store didn’t know about 11 guns that Marsh had allegedly stolen last year until they were notified by detectives,” WFSB-TV reports.
Jordan Marsh, 26, pleaded guilty May 10 to a single count of stealing a firearm and received a suspended prison sentence and two years of probation. He initially faced 12 counts of stealing a firearm and other larceny charges.
According to East Windsor police, on Saturday, Marsh grabbed a Bushmaster .50-caliber rifle from Riverview Sales valued at $5,000 and ran from the store. When store employees confronted Marsh, he pulled a knife, then fled on foot. Police officers eventually caught and arrested him.
Riverview Gun Sales has had inventory issues in the past. State police raided a Connecticut home in 2007 and reportedly found a number of stolen firearms belonging to the store.
East Windsor police Detective Matthew Carl previously told WFSB-TV that at one point, “Riverview gun store was missing upwards of 30 plus guns.”
It is unclear if the ATF raid and the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are related.
This story is breaking and updates will be updated.
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