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I was reading today in the news that Ancestery.com had genealogist that concluded that Barack Obama and Sarah Palin shared a common ancestor. Now it just struck me that Hawaii Dept of Health has not released Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate to anyone who has requested it. So now that Sarah Palin has a common ancestor she should be able to aquire his vital records according to HRS 338-18 (b)(5) which is this: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrs2008/Vol06_Ch0321-0344/HRS0338/HRS_0338-0018.htm §338-18 Disclosure of records. (a) To protect the integrity of vital statistics records, to ensure their proper use, and to ensure the efficient and proper administration...

WASHINGTON -- Do you know who Harry M. Reid might be? Frankly I did not know either until he was quoted in the newspapers as having said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Justice Clarence Thomas is "an embarrassment to the Supreme Court." He also asseverated that Justice Thomas's opinions "are poorly written." As he made these utterances recently on "Meet the Press" I concluded that the man must have some stature, unless, of course, the issue being treated on the show was small-town bigotry. Well, it turns out that this fellow Reid is a United States senator. In fact,...