President-elect Barack Obama is moving swiftly to appoint homosexual activists to positions within his administration.
Quoting Matt Barber:
"Obama, throughout the campaign, signaled...very quietly, but nonetheless signaled on his web page and elsewhere that he essentially had signed off on every major demand of homosexual pressure groups," he said. "So it's not surprising that he has now allowed some of these radical activists to become part of his administration."
For my part, I didn't think Obama's support for the pro-homosexual agenda was all that quiet. I remember he came out against California's Proposition 8.
Okay, Factcheck.org has a page with the most convincing evidence yet indicating that the document possessed by the Obama campaign does indeed reflect the information on the original document that is on file in Hawaii. That would indicate that Obama was indeed born in the United States. Alan Keyes has raised other issues pertaining to Obama's eligibility to be President, but I'm guessing the other issues will not carry much weight with the courts.
So for me, the biggest question that remains is this: When the matter was presented to a federal judge, why did Obama's lawyers choose to argue the plaintiff didn't have standing rather than simply provide proof that Obama was a natural born citizen? Was it just about timing? A quicker, more expeditious method of getting the matter set aside in time for the election? I don't see how it was quicker than simply producing a birth certificate in court that the campaign had in its office.
But it took weeks for the Judge to respond to the "lack of standing" claim. And that was faster than if Obama's lawyers had simply produced the Birth Certificate?
On the other obstacles, they all have to do with other nations recognizing Obama as a citizen. I don't know anything about the law on such matters, but I've got a hunch that federal courts would not put as much stock in what other nations did or didn't do as they would put in actual U.S. birth.
Is it possible that the documents are fraudulent? It seems to me that if there is a question about it, it must be based on something that isn't adding up for someone. Other nations questioning this as well? On one hand, what difference SHOULD it make what other nations think about our President-elect's citizenship or lack thereof. On the other hand, the fact that some of them do NOT recognize him as such almost smacks of a disloyalty on his part that they might be aware of? Scary to think about. I drive myself crazy sometimes thinking about where we are heading, morally and otherwise. My hope and trust is in Jehovah... yet that causes me to fear too... because we do not deserve His notice as a nation - we deserve whatever lot befalls us. I just keep begging for His mercy!
Thank you for explaining about the 20th Amendment. I had been wondering what would happen in such a scenario...the children asked about another scenario that was different but similar, and I hadn't known how to answer. Now, I know. Thank you!
The "other nations" reference wasn't to other nations doubting Obama's eligibility to be president, but to the possibility that at one time or another during his childhood, some other nation may have recognized Obama as a citizen. That's the basis of part of Keye's suit, the idea being that to have citizenship in another country might have necessitated forfeiting citizenship in the U.S. However, I'm having trouble seeing it as likely that a court would rule that a natural born citizen would lose that status just because some other country granted him citizenship while he was a minor and did so at his parent's or parents' request, or based on their status. But again, I don't know what the law is in such cases.
I will, however, admit that it is possible that his lawyers were worried about what everyone would find out if this went into the discovery phase. That's just not the only reason they wouldn't let it get that far.
Yes, I am aware that one does not need to be a natural born citizen to go to Harvard or be a member of congress.
I was just trying to point out that he would have had to present his birth certificate to get married, and perhaps when he was elected senator. Going with the idea that he has faked the certificate on his website, what did he then present in those cases? Where are the copies of those documents?
Thanks! I knew it had to have been a simple oversight! After all, I did help you plan a certain endeavor that involved your future wife one fine Florida afternoon, if you haven't forgotten! Which resulted in my being chastised by a certain someone. Or don't you remember! So, I KNEW your excluding me from your friend's list was just an oversight!!
Does anyone have an example of some phenomenon in nature (it doesn't have to be phenomenal, just an ordinary phenomenon will do) that can be well modeled by an exponential function - now here's the kicker - wherein the domain includes x<0, and that portion of the domain is relevant.
If your example doesn't include x<0, don't bother cluttering up the comments on this one. But if you can't think of one, I'd be glad to here from you. It will give me some idea as to how hard it is to come up with an example.
First one to come up with a good example will receive via email a photo that can be used to blackmail me.
But the grandprize will go to the individual who can come up with an example of such a phenomenon wherein the domain represents time.
maybe...negative time necessarily implies that the time does not affect the dependent variable in nature...at least the way we use these variables? I think that's what I meant to say.
How about uranium isotopes going to lead in a chunk of fresh uranium? Thats exponential, right? And the greater the negative value of t, the greater the amount of uranium.
Natural phenomenon: any rope, cable, line, what-have-you, suspended from two ends will sag in the middle because of gravity. Assuming uniformity of the rope, the shape of the curve it makes can be modeled by the formula 1/2(e^x + e^-x), which is an exponential function and, interestingly, is the definition of the hyperbolic cosine, cosh.
Relevance of x<0: x=0 is always the center and lowest point of this curve, so the negative values of x represent the left side of the rope/curve.
Of course, you could just shift the graph... for example, if the fixed points of the rope are 10 feet across you could substitute the quantity (x-5) for x, and then the domain would be all non-negative. So I don't know if that works for what you're looking for.
I forget whose page I came here from, but I can comment on this topic. Two of the most common examples of e in action are growth - population & financial. Population - as in bacteria/virii. Financial as in compounding interest.
Practically, in terms of a model, unless one started observing a system "late" then this typically is only practical for x>0. One can apply some translations, but then we are talking about mathematics (usually), not real world models.
Well, this guy was defined as elderly due to his graying hair and how he looked (like he could have a few grandchildren running around)... oh wait... ;) Seriously, "elderly" seemed very appropriate *especially* after the whole conversation. I realized after I wrote the elderly/50 thing, I was probably insulting a lot of people, including my mom. Oops!
