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At least you didn't guess DeNiro.

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You know things are getting out of hand when you need a taxonomy of American crazy.

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Birther argumenst are like quantum mechanics: the results are perfectly predictable, but they defy common sense. And as Feynman didn't, but would have said, "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."

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Sigh. A dozen unqualified douchebags running, everyone complaining about the absensce of a decent candidate, and all it does is inspire more unqualified douchebags to run. It will never dawn on them that it's not possible to kiss teabagger ass AND be qualified.

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That's bad news for Chester A. Arthur -- his father was Irish, and didn't become a US citizen until Chester was 14.

Oh well -- you go into an election year with the nuts you have, not the nuts you wish you had.

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"No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."

-- 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

That boy is a real scholar, and a credit to his BrightFarting colleagues.

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Yeah ... like nobody else would be concerned about this dipshit's "clarifications."

On the internet, nobody can tell you're a dog ... but somehow we can still spot the idiots.

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I think the typical Floriduh resident regards South Beach as an "offshore island."

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...As long as he's not "loving his vegetables" as well.

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Have we considered the possibility that "Canadian Free Press" is our northern neighbors' version of The Onion? Those Canucks can have a supremely droll sense of humor, when they put their minds to it. (i.e. between NHL seasons.)

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But he'll be having food fights with the faction who want the US to go back to 1890. And of course, the faction who want to go back to 1860 will have none of it.

What is it about old, vague documents that attracts these nutters?

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Maybe here... but try finding one on the BrightFart site.

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Xtine for the first one, obvs. Who's the second?

(Bachmann is scary for the wrong reasons ... I can't see her as a witch.)

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It's trickier than you might think, Mr. Bot. Even "Born in the USA" doesn't always count.

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Big Lebowski win.

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