This billboard was spotted on I-35 near Wyoming, Minnesota.

• A British MP, who went on a reality television series to learn how the poor live, was given £64.30 to live on for a week. However, MP Nadine Dorries slipped an extra £50 note into her bra. The extra cash was discovered and Dorries claimed it was just so she could buy gifts for her kids.
• Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson revealed that he was concerned that John McCain might oppose the TARP bailout during the Presidential campaign and bring down the Bush administrations plans for halting the economic slide.
• Topless women protested during the voting for Ukrainian President by proclaiming the “rape of democracy.”
• Texas lawmakers are trying to make the state capitol safer. Some want to prohibit guns while others want to make it easier to carry firearms.
• This week is the 31^st anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is promising a “punch” to stun the world’s powers.
• Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann wants to “wean” everyone off of social security and Medicare.
• The Birther movement may have started on the left with die-hard Hillary Clinton supporters.
• The San Francisco judge who is hearing the constitutionality of Proposition 8 happens to be gay.
• Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, now a candidate for governor, appears to be calling for an armed insurrection. “If we wish to be free, we must fight!…Would it be when we are told to disarm and a UN guard is stationed outside every house?”
• President Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, will be allowed to stay in the U.S. while her deportation proceedings play out.

Queen of the birthers Orlay Taitz claims that Barack Obama has used 39 Social Security numbers. I assume that is because he does not have an American birth certificate and has to keep changing them so he can keep a driver’s license, passport, etc.

One would think that John McCain or Hillary Clinton would have uncovered this during the 2008 Presidential election. I guess they are not the detective Taitz is, or at least do not have her imagination.

If the President can keep track of 39 Social security numbers, all the power to him. I can’t remember the numbers for my two kids.

If you listen to the video, then you also get the bonus of hearing the prominent people who are signed up as Taitz’s Facebook friends.

South Carolina’s Legislature has outdone itself. Last year it passed the “Subversive Activities Registration Act.” That law is now on the books.

It is one of the stupidest, most worthless pieces of legislation to come along in a longtime.

If you want to overthrow the United States and come to South Carolina, then you have thirty days to register with South Carolina officials.

I kid you not.

As if there are not enough federal and state laws on the books to prosecute anyone planning a terrorist act, South Carolina wasted the time, precious fibers from a wonderful tree and some ink on a ridiculous law that will never be complied with and never used.

Can you imagine trying to prosecute someone before a jury because they did not register as a subversive? If there is hard evidence to prove a subversive plot, failure to register is the least thing anyone is going to worry about.

So just what is a “subversive activity?”

Those fine lawmakers in Columbia state that anyone who “transacts any business or attempts to influence political action in this State” through “force or violence or other unlawful means” with the intent of “controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States” needs to register.

Just for good measure “business includes, but is not limited to, speaking engagements.”

Why cannot South Carolina just use this language and make these things illegal with a 10-year prison sentence and $25,000 fine? Instead, they have to appear as buffoons who think Osama bin Laden is going to be concerned that he needs to register if he shows up in The Palmetto State.

Did I say there is a $5 filling fee?

Ah, but there is a loophole in this well-though out law. All subversive organizations must register within 30 days of arriving in South Carolina. So if a terrorist can do a dirty deed within 30 days, then he can forget having to register.

In case you plan on staying in South Carolina for 30 days or longer and have any subversive ideas, here is the form to fill out.

I particularly like the question that asks the submitter to include his organizations bylaws and to identify all other members of the organization in South Carolina. Are the politicians dumber than a stump in this state or what?

I also find it ironic that the first state to secede from the Union, South Carolina, pushes a trash law like this. If only Lincoln and the federal government had just sent a form like this to all the southern states, all the subversives could have been rounded up and the Civil War avoided.

If you live in South Carolina, here is your government in action.

Tennessee’s Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey is this week’s “Fool of the Week” for jumping onto the birther bandwagon.

Ramsey responded to a question when he said, “I don’t know whether President Obama is a citizen of the United States or not.”

Ramsey went onto say this is not the issue Americans are concerned about and called it an unwinnable issue for the Republican Party. However, Ramsey was not questioning the veracity of birther charges, he was only emphasizing that people are concerned about other issues with two wars and an economic downturn.

Ramsey’s campaign advisor Brad Todd immediately tried to undue his client’s words by suggesting that the comment was taken out of context.

If you want to see the full context, including the question directed to Ramsey by a birther, those words are in this earlier article by Foolocracy.

There’s nothing taken out of context. It is a full sentence, backed up by other comments like “I don’t know the full deal there” or “I’m not saying you’re not right.”

The only out of context going on is what Ramsey’s spokesman is trying to create.

• The G-7 nations have cancelled all debt owed to them by Haiti.
• Target has pulled a mini-globe off the shelves after complaints that it replaced the state of Israel with Palestine. Target initially claimed that there was not enough space for the word “Israel,” but there was for “Palestine?”…and the world is flat too.
• South African President Jacob Zuma apologized for fathering a child out of wedlock.
• Sarah Palin needs cheat notes to do interviews.
• I don’t know what anyone can say to me to make me sexually be with a man,” Harold Ford, Jr., expressing his doubt that a homosexual can be converted to heterosexuality.
• Cleveland is taking down its red light cameras because the company operating them was not making money.
• Hawaii may ban foie gras.
• Singapore is ending its 40-year ban on gambling.
• At one time, Adolph Hitler took 28 medicines per day, including testosterone mixed with semen from bulls.
• “The census is sexy” urges a Florida Commissioner.
• Vladimir Putin’s mistress and mother of his alleged “love child” have vanished.
• Nadine Dorries promised to live on

It may be difficult to take Kristin Davis’ candidacy seriously, but it should not be dismissed for several reasons.

Davis announced at a Libertarian Party conference that she will seek the New York governorship once held by her famous “Client 9,” Eliot Spitzer.

Davis has the help of longtime Republican political operative Roger Stone. Stone is taking the campaign seriously, having worked with Davis for months on planning campaign strategy. His goal is to get her half-a-million votes. That will not get her elected governor. It is probably a pie-in-the-sky dream. However, if the effort is commensurate, then Davis may be an entertaining sideline in the gubernatorial campaign, as well as a thorn in the side of Eliot Spitzer’s plans for a political comeback.

Davis’ platform includes legalizing prostitution and marijuana. She claims that will bring $2.5 billion into New York’s coffers. Davis also supports gay marriage and supports the NRA in its support of gun owners.

Davis has been a vocal critic of the way justice was meted out in the Spitzer scandal. She notes that she spent four months in jail after being convicted of running a prostitution ring. Spitzer never was indicted.

Davis has more to say about Spitzer, however.

“His abuse of some of the women I arranged for him to spend time with raises serious questions about his character,” Davis said.

I guess character is a sliding scale in this evaluation. Many people would not think Davis is one to judge character. Still, consensual prostitution is one thing. Abuse, if Spitzer did that, is another.

Davis and Stone have plans for a rather unconventional campaign.

She already has lined up support from rapper 50-Cent and California marijuana growers, and then there are her wealthy former clients.

Davis plans to put to work members of the sex industry, such as Penthouse pets.

“We’ll get four, make them notary publics and have them, suitably attired, collecting signatures at Grand Central Station during rush hour,” suggested Davis.

This will help keep Eliot Spitzer underground for a while longer.

• The FBI wants ISPs to keep origin and destination information of every URL visited by their customers for up to two years.
• India’s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh announced that it was creating its own panel of experts to explore climate change because the UN studies cannot be trusted. “There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism,” Ramesh said.
• The UN Climate Change Panel has another embarrassment as one of its reports declared that 55% of the Netherlands is below sea level. That is over double the actual figure.
• Sarah Palin has not paid any property taxes on two plots with cabins that she owns.
• Indonesia is going to relocate a 43-inch statue of Barack Obama from a park to a school that he attended in the late 1960’s. Local residents felt it was improper to have a statue of a person who has done nothing for Indonesia except live there for a few years.
• “Trust me, after taxes, a million dollars is not a lot of money,” RNC Chair Michael Steele said.
• Indonesia’s 45-year-old anti-blasphemy law is facing its first challenge before the Constitutional Court.
• The Pentagon has released for the first time the names of 645 prisoners held at the US prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. Bagram is also known as the Afghan Guantanamo.

Oliver North, a convicted felon who lied to Congress about secret arms deals back in the Reagan administration, has weighed in on the gays in the military controversy. 

North proclaimed that allowing gays in the military will lead to same-sex marriages in the military.  

“Are chaplains in the US military going to be required to perform those kinds of rituals? Do they get government housing?” asked North.

But North is not talking about just gays and lesbians here. No, according to North, if gays and lesbians serve openly in the military, the pedophiles are right behind.

“Now, here’s what’s next. NAMBLA members, same-sex marriages,” asserted North.

That is right. Oliver North suggests that if the U.S. opens the door to gays, child-molesters are going to beat a path to an armed forces recruiting office.

According to North, repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will create a “stunning assault on the all-volunteer military, the very best in the world. Barack Obama now intents to treat them like lab rats in a radical social experiment, and it can be very, very detrimental.”

Of course.

Is this “radical social experiment” going to end there? If pedophiles are let in to the military, as North suggests will happen, soon they will be on the Joint Chief of Staffs, in Congress, in the Presidency, and they will create laws legalizing pedophilia, right?

All because gays were allowed in the military.

No wonder the Iran-Contra debacle went bad. North’s brain is discombobulated from the real world. He must have been one of those kids that kept trying to put the square peg in the round hole. Trying to build a connection between gays and pedophiles is the same thing.

And about that “radical social experiment,” well, it so happens that these countries allow gays in the military:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Uruguay.

See any countries that the United States shares cultural and political values with? Yeh, like just about every one of them.

Even Israel allows gays into the military. If there is any country that would not experiment with the effectiveness of its military, it is Israel.

The militaries in these countries are not falling apart. They also do not have an influx of pedophiles pouring into the armed services.

It looks like another Ollie North lie.

If you live in California, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota and Vermont, you might be surprised to know that the government is keeping DNA on your baby for as long as it wants.

The federal government mandates genetic screening of all babies. That has saved countless lives over the years as states have tested newborns for 28 to 54 genetic conditions.

The DNA in most states is held about a year and in Kansas for only a month. The states listed above have no deadline to dispose of a baby’s DNA. All those states hold the DNA indefinitely. In the case of Vermont, that state does not even have a written policy for storage and disposal of the specimens.

Because the screening being federally mandated, parents’ consent is not needed. Indeed, in most cases parents do not learn that testing was done unless the results turn up positive. Yet, the DNA, often identified by the baby’s name, remains on file for research or, as some state’s claim, for identification in case the child goes missing at a future date.

In Minnesota and Texas, a parent can fill out a form requesting that the DNA be destroyed. Elsewhere, the only option is to write a letter and ask “please.”

If birth expenses were paid by an insurance company, the results of the DNA test will be on record with that insurance company. The parents might not even know that. A child’s future access to insurance or even a job might be jeopardized with this information floating through insurance company databases.

Although there are substantial reasons to allow the genetic testing and catch a disease before it begins, to hold onto DNA samples for even healthy babies serves no overriding medical purpose.