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'Virgin Birth' By Shark Confirmed: Second Case Ever ScienceDaily (Oct. 10, 2008) — Scientists have confirmed the second-ever case of a “virgin birth” in a shark, indicating once again that female sharks can reproduce without mating and raising the possibility that many female sharks have this incredible capacity. Lead author Dr. Demian Chapman, shark scientist with the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, Beth Firchau, Curator of Fishes for the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, and Dr. Mahmood Shivji, Director of the Guy Harvey Research Institute and Professor at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, have proven...

I sent and email to the Obama campaign asking for the name of the physician that brought the wonderful Obama into this world because we wanted to make a charitable donation in his name. No response. Obviously Obama born in 1961 and with such a strange NAME at the time should be remembered by some Hospital staffers, Doctors, Nurses? Does his grandmother recall the name of anyone? We should take up a collection and offer the the reward to anyone that can provide eyewitness account and data on Obama's Birth.

"The flap began in June when National Review's Jim Geraghty raised the question and asked the Obama Campaign to release a copy of his birth certificate in order to prove that he actually was born in the United States......." Judge orders Obama to produce birth certificate The flap began in June when National Review's Jim Geraghty raised the question and asked the Obama Campaign to release a copy of his birth certificate in order to prove that he actually was born in the United States....... http://www.newswithviews.... by Jon Christian Ryter That Pesky Obama 'Birth Certificate" Is Back In The News...

Obama & DNC Hide Behind Legal Issues While Betraying Public in not Producing a Certified Copy of Obama’s “Vault” Birth Certificate and Oath of Allegiance Country is Headed to a Constitutional Crisis (Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 09/24/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that Obama and Democratic National Committee [DNC] filed a Joint Motion to Dismiss on the last day to file a response, for the obvious purpose of delaying Court action in the case of...

Answer to Berg's Complaint Due Today from Obama, DNC Obama and the DNC have until midnight tonight to serve an answer to Philip Berg's complaint, so keep checking here for updates throughout the day. The first one was really a conglomeration of ideas tossed around my head throughout the morning, hence the "9:00am to 1:00pm" label. Still, as things develop--or perhaps do not--there should be more to see. -- Jeff 5:30pm I just got off the phone with Phil Berg, and put in a few questions to the attorney who filed the motion. I'd really like to give the latter...

RAWAH, Iraq, Sept. 24, 2008 – Like most soon-to-be first-time fathers, Marine Lance Cpl. Jovan Rodriguez anxiously awaited the birth of his child and looked forward to being by his wife’s bedside. Marine Lance Cpl. Jovan Rodriguez, deployed to Iraq, smiles for the camera shortly after witnessing the birth of his daughter, Liliana, via satellite to New Jersey. He is a warehouse clerk assigned to Task Force 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, Regimental Combat Team 5. Rodriguez joined his wife through teleconference at Al Asad Air Base for the birth of their first child, Sept. 10, 2008. Marine photo by...

<p>A San Francisco federal judge ruled Tuesday that Republican presidential candidate John McCain's claim of U.S. citizenship is strong enough that a lawsuit challenging his placement on the California ballot should be dismissed.</p> <p>Northern District of California Judge William Alsup ruled in the case of Robinson v. Bowen, filed by an elector pledged to third-party candidate Alan Keyes seeking an injunction to keep McCain off the November ballot. Two other challenges claiming that McCain's birthplace in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 disqualifies him under the Constitution have been dismissed on standing grounds. But Alsup evaluated the merits of the claim in a hearing last week and in an order issued Tuesday.</p>

Motion for Expedited Discovery (PDF link) requests court to make Obama and others provide evidence regarding whether or not Obama is a natural-born citizen of the US.

BERG FILES MOTION FOR EXPEDITED DISCOVERY, SEEKS DEPOSITION OF BARACK OBAMA AND HOWARD DEAN BY "SEPTEMBER 31" Stay tuned here for the update, coming later tonight. I pointed out, to Phillip Berg, that there are only 30 days in September. "Well," he said, chuckling. "I guess I created an extra day in September like he created seven extra states in our country."

...Jill Stanek reports that, while she was a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn Illinois, "babies were being aborted alive and shelved to die in the soiled utility room." Barack Obama personally orchestrated the defeat of legislation that would have made this illegal in Illinois, and then he lied about it in the bargain. ...the executive summary is as follows. "Babies were being aborted alive and shelved to die in the soiled utility room." Illinois legislators introduced legislation to make this illegal. Barack Obama sabotaged and derailed this legislation under color of protecting Roe vs. Wade, even though...

Obama's 10 reasons for supporting infanticide Posted: January 16, 2008 1:00 am Eastern By Jill Stanek © 2008 I was intimately involved in the five-year process to pass the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act, testifying before committees twice that then-state Sen. Barack Obama sat on. Following are 10 excuses Obama has given through the years for voting "present" and "no" on the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act, or BAIPA. 10. Babies who survive abortions are not protected by the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Obama, the sole opponent ever to speak against BAIPA, stated on the Illinois...

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was served with papers yesterday connected with the lawsuit filed more than two weeks ago in federal court in Philadelphia questioning his constitutional eligibility for the American presidency. Service was made at his Washington, D.C. Senate office at approximately 1:00 p.m. From a press release provided by filing attorney Philip Berg and available on his Web site: Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s eligibility to serve as President of the United States, has received confirmation from his Process Service Company that the Democratic National Committee (DNC)...

OBAMA AND DNC SERVED TODAY WITH BERG LAWSUIT: For Immediate Release: - 09/04/08 SERVICE OF LAWSUIT CHALLENGING SENATOR OBAMA’S RIGHT TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE DOES NOT MEET THE QUALIFICATIONS HAS BEEN COMPLETED ( Lafayette Hill , Pennsylvania – 09/04/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s eligibility to serve as President of the United States, has received confirmation from his Process Service Company that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Senator Barack Obama were served today, September 4, 2008, with the legal documents pertaining to Berg...

Motion denied in Obama lawsuitBy KEITH PHUCAS, Special to The Phoenix 09/02/2008 PHILADELPHIA - A Lafayette Hill lawyer who filed a legal challenge to Sen. Barack Obama's presidential candidacy claiming he doesn't meet U.S. residency requirements had a motion for a temporary restraining order denied Friday. A day earlier, Philip Berg filed a motion for a temporary restraining order in federal court in Philadelphia questioning the authenticity of Obama's Hawaii birth certificate and claiming the Illinois senator was actually born in Kenya, according to court papers. Though the motion was denied, Berg said he was encouraged that Judge R. Barclay...

I revisited the "Born in the U.S.A." story that FactCheck produced which shows digital photos of OBama's alleged genuine paper birth certificate, or COLB, taken in a number of angles. I found something new: A note that the story had been "updated August 26." Update, August 26: We received responses to some of our questions from the Hawaii Department of Health. They couldn't tell us anything about their security paper, but they did answer another frequently-raised question: why is Obama's father's race listed as "African"? Kurt Tsue at the DOH told us that father's race and mother's race are supplied...

The Annenberg Political Factcheck website has published photographs and an analysis of what it says is the "original birth certificate" of Barack Hussein Obama II. While the physical document depicted in the photos resemble the document image previously scanned and published by the Daily Kos website and Obama's own "Fight the Smears" site in June, FactCheck's case for authenticity and its claims to objectivity are undermined by a litany of process flaws, conflicts of interest and factual inconsistencies that raise doubts about its motives and methods of those of the Obama campaign. -----snip----The Factcheck.org report, titled "Born in the USA,"...

The page contains a GRAPHIC cartoon of Barack Obama smashing a baby's head against a wall (which is why I am not actually posting the cartoon here--people who might find such an image upsetting, even in a cartoon, don't have to see it). The cartoon is similar to the kind that was used during the World Wars to portray the enemy as woman-raping and/or baby-killing monsters, e.g. Imperial Germany as a fanged gorilla carrying a half-naked woman over his shoulder. In politics, of course, such a cartoon must convey the absolute truth if it is not to be written off...

What's This, FactCheck?? From the high-res photos that FactCheck provided, I was able to confirm a number of my findings that exposed the FactCheck COLB image as a manufactured forgery. To get everyone up to speed, there has been one, and only one forged image. From this one source image, several copies were generated. One was kept by the Obama campaign while one copy went to the Daily Kos, and the other went to FactCheck. Both the Daily Kos and the Obama campaign cropped their images before posting them on June 12. The Obama Campaign posted a very small, low-res...

A hospital director in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria says a woman has successfully given birth to septuplets... The babies' weights range from 3.2 pounds (1.45 kilograms) to 2.8 kilograms (6.17 pounds). (AP, so no large excerpt; see article at link, and first comment below.)

Granted, you may find it a little strange for an author to talk about himself in the third person. But, for what I have to say, I should be the one to tell you. I'm going to share with you everything that there is to know about the infamous image of Obama's alleged "birth certificate. For those FReepers who are new to the forum, or who have only recently started learning about the birth certificate controversy, you will be brought up to speed on one of the most bizarre events in American politics. For those of you who know me...

I have been reading for some time about Barack Hussein Obama's birth certificate controversy. At first I dismissed it because I thought there was no way the Democratic Party would allow someone who is not qualified to run for the office of President. I now understand that at least half of the state attorney generals in the country will challenge Obama’s residency before certifying his nomination. Lawsuits will be filed to clarify Obama’s birth in the United States. Until today I simply believed that Obama was born in Hawaii. After doing some research I found it is not so clear...

A Few Other Possibilities on Barack Obama's Birth CertificateTuesday, June 10, 2008 Already the query about Barack Obama's birth certificate is being declared ipso facto evidence of "xenophobia" by those who see a "racist America." Well, I did grow up in a small town... Hawaii's State Department of Health explains the policy on releasing vital records here. Unless you're a relative of Obama, your request will be denied.* A few readers and other bloggers have wondered aloud what information possibly could be on the birth certificate that would make it worth keeping from the public. Beyond yesterday's (mostly unlikely) possibilities...

Not sure what it means, but BarrySoetoro.com redirects to the John McCain website. Interesting....worth posting? I don't know, but I couldn't resist.

It’s bad enough that most media outlets are falling over silly for Obama, but now it seems Google has joined the fast moving train of Obama supporters. Initially, I didn’t believe the reports that the Obama campaign was intentionally shutting down blogs because these blogs were questioning the validity of Obama’s birth certificate. That was until I received an email from Dr. Mitchell Langbert last night, a blogger and Professor at Brooklyn College, who advised that Google had placed a temporary hold on future posts at his website.

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay missed the births of his four kids - because he feared it would spoil his sex life. Ramsay's fear was not hidden from his wife Tana. He told her everything honestly. "We have the most amazing life. We're very active in the bedroom and I think you're a beautiful lady," The Sun quoted him, as telling his wife. "I don't want to see something coming out of a sort of sci-fi movie. "I don't want to see a skinned rabbit or skinned pigeon coming out of your ninny and then get excited and hold it. "Give...

There are three facts about Internet blog stories that you need to know: Plagiarism is rampant on the Internet. You cannot always believe what you see and read.When you see the word, "EXCLUSIVE," in the title, it does not mean that the story was the first one or even the only one. You can imagine my chagrin when I read the following headline in the Atlasshruggs blog: ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: FINAL REPORT ON OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE INWhat this headline, and the story it trumpets, confirm is that all three of the "facts" listed above are validated...

Proud papa Michael Cintron looks on via Webcam from Iraq after wife, Jeannine, gave birth to baby son Michael in Brooklyn.He was 6,000 miles from Brooklyn, but Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Cintron got a glimpse of his newborn son before his wife did. "Hi, I'm your daddy," Cintron announced to his minutes-old son. "Look, your nose is squishy." In a remarkable four-hour Web cast from a maternity ward at Maimonides Medical Center, mom Jeannine Cintron's delivery of son Michael James Cintron was beamed clear across ocean and land to his 26-year-old father in Iraq. The baby weighed in at 7...

I just read the Strata-Sphere's supposed debunking of the Obama birth certificate forgery situation. http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/5626 And I've got two (maybe more) problems/questions. 1. Where are the folds in the paper? It was posted in a previous article on FR that someone had talked to the department that sends out BC's in Hawaii and the lady confirmed that they never send out a electronic version. It is ALWAYS folded and mailed. Why would anyone go to the trouble to remove the folds to post it online? It would only call into question the authenticity of the document. The Decosta BC has...

This is to summarize the law on two issues: One, Citizenship of a person, one of whose parents is a Citizen, the other an alien; and, two, eligibility of a person born outside the geographical limits of the fifty states to serve as President of the United States under Article II, Sec. 1, Par. 4 of the U S Constitution. This is addressed to Obama's status if he was born in Kenya and to John McCain's status on the record birth in Panama. I do not intend to address any of the collateral factual issues. I take it as a...

CLICK HERE for my latest post. First of all, PJ...you were RIGHT about the hidden seal Many thanks to Texas Darlin and Greg Gelembiuk, but props to the GIMP development team (http://www.gimp.org/) for providing the software used to examine these images. * QUESTION: Are there seals hidden from view on the "Certificate of Live Birth" images posted to (a) the Daily Kos. (b) BarackObama.com (aka "Fight the Smears") and/or (c) the two images posted on OPENDNA's PhotoBucket account? * ANSWER: YES to (a), but a big, fat NO to (b) and (c) Basically, I believe I put to rest a...

Here is hard, irrefutable proof that the Obama campaign is engaged in a huge deceit related to what they are claiming is a copy of his birth certificate. Notice on Obama's official site, his birth certificate says OHBM 1.1 in the lower left corner. The original document displayed on the Daily KOS website says OHSM 1.1 in the lower left corner. The million dollar question is: If the Daily KOS document was supplied by a Obama campaign staffer, as was reported, then how on earth can these two documents differ? There may be a Hawaiian state agency or department with...

Did I just lose some brain matter, or did the Obama's Fact Check website, aka "Fight the Smears," retract the "Here is his birth certificate" statement? I could swear that this statement used to precede the image . Am I wrong? Did anyone else note the change? The way the page is now, there is no lead-in line to the image. BTW, I have a new post today explaining the possible reasons for blacking out certificate number.

OK, here's the 411 on Hawaii's "Certification of Live Birth.   I just got off the phone after talking with their Vital Records office and the Office that issues these certifications.  HAWAII NO LONGER ISSUES COPIES OF ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES. WHAT THEY ISSUE IS THIS COMPUTER-GENERATED CERTIFICATION OF LIVE BIRTH THAT IS PRINTED ON GREEN PAPER USING A LASER PRINTER.  In other words, folks, we are not going to get any other kind of certificate from the Vital Records division of the Hawaiian government, except this certification.  OHSM 1.1 is the number of the Certification of Live Birth form, and...

No word of how he got it-Team Barry isn't actually leaking to dKos, is it?-and naturally he misunderstands Jim Geraghty's point about Obama's place of birth, which would have been relevant not with respect to his "Americanness" but whether he was constitutionally qualified to run as a natural-born citizen. But here it is.Update: Not that it matters for purposes of addressing Geraghty's concerns, but Flip notes that the posted document is a certification of birth, which is slightly different from a birth certificate.

Gov. Sarah Palin was back at work today, holding a meeting on the natural gas pipeline three days after giving birth to her fifth child. Palin and her husband, Todd, showed the baby, Trig Paxson Van Palin, to a few reporters and talked about the sooner-than-expected delivery. Trig arrived about a month early and has Down syndrome, the governor confirmed. Testing during early pregnancy revealed the condition. Palin said she was sad at first but they now feel blessed that God chose them. The couple has lots of family support, she said.

A new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows baby stars sprouting in the backwoods of a galaxy -- a relatively desolate region of space more than 100,000 light-years from the galaxy's bustling center. The striking image, a composite of ultraviolet data from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer and radio data from the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array in New Mexico, shows the Southern Pinwheel galaxy, also known simply as M83. In the new view, the main spiral, or stellar, disk of M83 looks like a pink and blue pinwheel, while its outer arms appear to flap away from the...

Gov. Sarah Palin gave birth to her fifth child at 6:30 this morning at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, her spokeswoman said today. The boy's name is Trig Paxson Van Palin. He's 6 pounds, 2 ounces. "The governor's labor began while she was in Texas, and I do know that she got on a plane and landed in Anchorage late last night," said Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow. Leighow said the governor and her son are healthy and resting comfortably today. The baby wasn't due until May 18. "It was quite a surprise," Leighow

4/4/2008 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Rylan Todd was born weighing 8 pounds and 5 ounces at 11:01 p.m. March 25, and his parents watched him being born at a hospital near Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. The only thing different about this birth was that the father, Staff Sgt. Nicholas Todd, watched the birth via Web cam from thousands of miles away while supporting the war on terrorism at an air base in Southwest Asia. Sergeant Todd, deployed to the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Operations Squadron from his home station at Ellsworth AFB, was informed of his upcoming deployment when...

Jenny Hatch: Aunt and Doula to my nephew Jonah a few hours after he was born. I had just given him a massage! This article in the New York Times really dissed the whole idea of hiring a doula, so I thought I would chime in with a Defense of the Doula. QUOTE: "Then “she urged my husband and me to take a shower to ease the pain,” Ms. Myers said. “I told her I didn’t want to, but she was adamant.” Dripping wet, freezing and in bone-shattering pain, Ms. Myers said she seethed in silence. When she ultimately chose...

A growing number of bloggers such as Richard Cohen, Brigitte Gabriel, Sharon Hughes, Charles Krauthammer, Kenneth Blackwell, Naomi Ragen, Debbie Schlussel, Ed Lasky, and William Levinson are pointing out Barack Obama’s numerous connections to unsavory individuals and organizations that espouse and promote hatred of Jews, Catholics, white people, Israel, and/or the United States. By “connections” we do not mean casual social contacts, but Obama’s deliberate efforts to seek out these entities and gain their support. ...Naomi Ragen Naomi Ragen dismisses the “smear” and makes frontal attack on Obama The Jews who are considering voting for Obama (or Clinton) should be...

Imprisoned in a tank hundreds of miles from a mate, Ibolya the female shark resorted to desperate measures. To the astonishment of her keepers, she spontaneously produced a perfectly healthy pup. The virgin birth is making biologists think again about one of the oldest and - in evolutionary terms - most successful creatures. "When I saw the baby shark lying on the bottom of the tank I thought it was a joke," said Attilia Varga, the director of the Nyiregyahaza Centre in Hungary. "I was amazed when I realised it was a real shark." Ibolya, a white-tipped reef shark, has...

EDMONTON -- Two teams of surgeons in Edmonton delivered a baby while operating on the mother for a life-threatening heart rupture last month. The 36-year-old woman -- who was 35 weeks pregnant -- was airlifted from the Alberta city of Grande Prairie on Jan. 24 with a ruptured aorta - a condition that is fatal 40 per cent of the time without surgery within 48 hours. Grande Prairie is about 460 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. She was taken immediately into an operating room at the University of Alberta while a obstetrical team raced from the nearby Royal Alexandra hospital to...

The Business of Being Born Birth: "It's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to examine and question the way American women have babies. The film interlaces intimate birth stories with surprising historical, political and scientific insights and shocking statistics about the current maternity care system. When director Epstein discovers she is pregnant during the making of the film, the journey becomes even more personal. Should most births...

"Skipping the Hospital and Its Rules Has Benefits, and Dangers, for Mother and Child" More women are opting for do-it-yourself deliveries rather than dealing with the regulations, constrictions and rules they'd face if they gave birth in a hospital. Home births comprise about 1 percent of all U.S. births, and while no hard data exists to indicate how many of them take place without a midwife or doctor present, experts said the number of unassisted births is rising. More than 100 discussion groups about the subject have sprung up on Yahoo's Web site.

Well, this is it. Suddenly, amazingly, by the Grace of God - Kayleigh LouAnn is to be born tomorrow. I've learned that if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. When my wife and I first discussed marriage, we had decided no more children. I have a fourteen year old daughter by a previous marriage, and she felt that if she had been meant to have a child, she would have done so by this time. God chuckled. My wife, whom God blessed me with, was worried I'd be upset. Be upset? Hardly. I've had to explain...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Two researchers say reducing abortions in the United States would significantly cut the rate of premature births. They say the rate has increased as abortion has been legalized and point to Poland as an example of how banning or significantly reducing abortions would help pregnant women. Dr. Richard E. Behrman, representing the Institute of Medicine, has identified prior first-trimester induced abortion as an “immutable medical risk factor associated with pre-term birth.”In his book Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention, Behrman found that the premature birth rate in the U.S. was 12.5% in 2004 -- 40 percent...

Britain's highest birth rates among migrants By Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent Last Updated: 1:11am GMT 09/12/2007 A baby boom among immigrant families is driving the population to a record high, government figures will show this week. The figures, from the Office for National Statistics, will reveal that Britain's highest birth rates are in the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities, both predominantly Muslim. The birth rate among women born in Pakistan but living in the UK is three times higher than that among British-born women, the figures will show. Separate figures due this month will reveal whether Mohammed has overtaken Jack...

Childbirth author Lynn M. Griesemer will be featured on PBS's TO THE CONTRARY during the week of October 19th. TO THE CONTRARY, carried on 260 stations across the U.S. is viewed by over 1 million people. The topic will be childbirth / unassisted homebirth.

   Phone birth ... Jacob, Leo and JanePicture: LINDA NYLIND, 2007 Dramatic transcript of a birth By SAMANTHA WOSTEARSeptember 25, 2007       THE moment a new life entered the world has been captured in a moving 999 call between an anxious dad and an emergency operator.  Cool-headed Katie Vellis calmly guided Leo Hickman through his wife Jane’s labour, resulting in the birth of healthy 8lb baby Jacob.The 20-minute delivery was recorded on tape — along with the couple’s fear, desperation and eventual elation — after their midwife got stuck in traffic.Incredibly, 20-year-old Katie only finished her training in March...

ST. PETERSBURG - Most of the 35-member team that helped bring the Byler sextuplets into the world during three hectic minutes held hands with Karoline and Ben Byler before the Caesarean section delivery. Then they prayed. Ben Byler said that was the most memorable moment in the Saturday night births of the couple's five sons and daughter at Bayfront Medical Center. They were the first sextuplets born in Florida and the 14th in the United States. "Thanks to the Lord above," he said Sunday morning. "It's sunk in now, and there's a lot of relief, except for this one. We've...