[tired_old_conservative]

Actually, I think it's metaphorically perfect that the quest for the birther Holy Grail has reached the latrine.

Or laterine, as it were, perhaps for the French.

[Gondring]

Or laterine, as it were, perhaps for the French.

Nah, they don't use French..that would show that the original translation of the part they are talking about in Vattel is NATIVES, instead of "natural-born" (a later creation with regard to Vattel).

Besides, doesn't "Laterine" mean "Bath-like"? ;-)