If The Hippies Cut Off Their Hair,I Wouldn't Care*

* Jimi Hendrix,paratrooper and Barack Obama's father

How much cooler can President Obama become now that he's the illegitimate son of Jimi Hendrix? Jack Cashill in his new book "Deconstructing Obama" posits the view that Ann Dunham met a left-handed guitarist named "Johnnie" in Seattle in 1960 and had an affair with this person, who later became Jimi Hendrix, whom we also are told loved to have affairs with white women. Ann Dunham would have been two years older than Jimi at the time and she was living in Seattle at the time.

If true this would damage the great birther myths that Obama was a Muslim by birth as originally argued by Daniel Pipes.

But Cashill isn't so sure. You see he spent alot of time researching David Horowitz' bugaboo--Communist poet and jazz critic Frank Marshall Davis, who has been mentioned in Obama's autobiography. Horowitz also maintained that Obama was a Stalinist as influenced by Davis, a man who was exiled by the Communist Party USA to Hawaii. Cashill thinks there is more to this. Davis wrote an autobiographical book under an assumed name about his amorous advantures. Sort of a radical Frank Harris. In it he talks about affairs with white teenagers. Cashill claims to have discovered nude shots taken by Davis, one of which he thinks is Ann Dunham. He suggests Davis may have gotten Ann pregnant with Barack but the time-line doesn't pan out. Instead, he suggests that Davis sexually molested Obama.

Cashill is the genius who discovered that Bill Ayers wrote Obama's "Dreams of my Father". So he must be credible.

Maybe the Hendrix connection is true. Obama is left-handed. He's been great for the American Indians. Perhaps Obama remembered that Hendrix was part Cherokee. Will the Hendrix family give Obama his part of the royalties now that the family has finally secured rights to all of Jimi's work?

Factional fighting has broken out in birtherland. There is a new theory about why Obama's birth certificate is sealed. You see he was adopted when Ann Dunham married her second husband, an Indonesian, so that Obama became known by an Indonesian name. This name would have been considered alien to Americans--Obama's mother was always thinking about the presidency--so these papers were hidden. The author argues that Obama's birth certificate were changed to reflect this new name. Of course, Barack Hussein Obama was simply accepted as another normal American name.

Jerome Corsi and World Nut Daily have a new DVD out about Obama's eligibility to be President. They use the original birther scheme. I'm sure you will have the DVD show up in the mail during the 2012 election time.

But it may not get there. Newt Gingrich claims that Obama's refusal to defend DOMA is an impeachable offense. See, it's unlike Ronald Reagan refusing to defend a "legislative veto" passed by Congress because it would be unconstitutional. The Christian Right is up in arms about this and has started beating the drumbeat for impeachment on DOMA. Don't worry there will many more reasons by the time Obama is done.

Another Georgian--Bobby Franklin, a Republican in Georgia, has introduced a new bill which would require that women who have had miscarriages be tried for homicide. On the flip side, Nebraska and Iowa are introducing bills that would make it justifiable homicide to murder to protect unborn fetuses. You can run the awful scenarios out in your mind--abortion providers, women killed by outraged husbands and lovers. Here in Virginia, our House of Delegates limited abortion rights by adopting a law that requires the procedure to be done in a hospital, not a clinic. The clinics would have to have corridors to fit a full-sized hospital gurney. Some progressive blogger remarked that a woman would have to be right of the Westbro Baptist Church to support any Republican.

Radio D.J. asked Donald Rumsfeld whether he and Dick Cheney were "Lizard people from outer space who eat human flesh." Rummy didn't respond so I guess it's right.

Montana's Democratic governor Brian Schweitzer has patented a VETO cowbrand to use on all "the Republican's lunatic bills." Schweitzer has vowed to veto anything that doesn't deal with creating jobs. The Montana Republicans have drafted bills to outlaw homosexuality,nullify federal laws,and God knows what's next.

As I wrote before, Americans would actually believe that the House vote to repeal the healthreform bill would mean that it actually was repealed. 20% believe this is true and another 25% are not so sure. The Federal judge's decision to uphold the law makes it 3 to 2 so far. But as Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly points out ,media coverage has been overwhelmingly on the two decisions against healthcare, even though the three affirming it are more legally sound and well-argued.

What do Emma Goldman and David Koch have in common? Both are self-proclaimed anarchists. You can look it up as Casey would say.

Remember all the fuss made about Armand Hammer, the owner of Occidental Petroleum? Edward Jay Epstein wrote an entire book proving that Hammer's father, who was a physician to Lenin, was a KGB agent as was Armand. The Right used this against All Gore because Gore's father was Hammer's business partner. Conservatives even pressured Nancy Reagan not to invite Armand Hammer to the White House. Then, why isn't there a fuss about the Koch Brothers?

Fred Koch made his fortune first in Stalin's Russia building refineries and then later hooked up with his German relatives in Nazi Germany. While he later claimed that his falling out with Stalin was because he "purged engineers", he would later state he supported Benito Mussolini for the way he dealt with unions,a trait that lives on in the family. But then he emerges in the 1950s to fund, if not create the John Birch Society, which focused its attention on Communist China and American politicians. Shouldn't some red flags go up on this? Kim Philby was thought to be a Tory who backed Franco while he was a KGB agent all the time. Why should anyone take Fred Koch's account of his Soviet and Nazi German years at face value. After all he was livid at the American oil industry for "stealing his patents" and had every reason to resent the American system. What better way to discredit these people, who were conservative Republicans, then to create the John Birch Society and discredit all conservative thought?

As I wrote last year, the Koch Brothers adhere to a type of libertarianism, which is known as Anarcho-Fascism,first generated by a German thinker about the time their father was politically involved back here in the States.

This stuff makes the Koch Brothers helluva lot more interesting and nefarious than George Soros.

One of the more interesting Koch relatives is an aunt in Germany named Ilse Koch, formerly Kohler. Ilse was married to SS Col.Karl Otto Koch ,who was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald. He was later investigated for improper conduct that included corruption,fraud, embezzlement, drunkeness, sexual offences and murder. And that was by the Gestapo, not us. Ilse was a "specialist in making artifacts from human skin"--an actual technical title in German.

Ilse became known as the "Bitch of Buchenwald". She was accused of making souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos. She was investigated by the Gestapo when she built an indoor sports arena costing 250,000 marks. She was suspected of embezzling SS funds and murdering certain inmates in an attempt to cover up her crimes. She was later tried for war crimes by an American military tribunal in 1947. She was charged with "participating in a criminal plan for aiding, abetting and participating in the murders at Buchenwald." She was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

She only served two years. General Lucius Clay , the interim governor of the American Zone in Germany, pardoned her. That should be investigated--why? The Germans themselves were outraged and international pressure was brought so that she was re-arrested in 1949 and tried before West German courts for 135 cases of murder. She was sentenced to life in 1951. She committed suicide in prison in 1967.

Our war commander was naturally Dwight David Eisenhower,which the John Birch Society called "Ike The Kike". I wonder if there are any connections. Also why was the John Birch Society allowed back into CPAC this year--a quid pro quo for Koch money?

One of the sources for Glenn Beck as he has said openly is David Koch. Perhaps his infuence on him is what has suddenly turned Commentary magazine and other conservatives suddenly against him. Morning Joe openly denounced him this week and his conspiracy theories, saying that politicians and people involved in politics could get hurt. Commentary took after him on the whole issue of Reform Judaism and even though they acknowledged Reforms Jews were "lamentably" liberal, they sense the Kossacks were coming with Beck's continued assaults on rabbis and his list of the Nine who govern the United States,eight of whom are Jews. It's Richard Trumpka who might be the clue to the origins of this nonsense. Of east European stock, Ilse Koch would have put his family into the gas chambers for racial impurity.

But let's suppose the Koch Brothers are simply billionaire businessmen. Why would you have the PR people for your business respond to the new Scot Walker was punked by the Buffalo Beast pretending to be David Koch by denouncing "leftists"? This was the strangest response I've seen a business give to any situation. So I guess leftists don't buy Brawny Paper Towels or use any Dixie cups? A little too sensitive--heh?

Oh by the way, Scott Walker says that unions must pay more for their pensions. Taxpayers don't pay for their pensions. Those were actually givebacks over the years in Wisconsin for wage cuts. Also the pension funds--until Walker--were in fine shape. The problem is that he wants to use them to shore up the budget.

The Wisconsin scene gets even more interesting. Democratic Senators, who cooperated with Republican Tommy Thompson for three terms, have contacted him to pull Walker off the union-busting part of the bill. Walker ordered, then didn't order the state police to seal off the Capitol but they refused, saying they would sleep there with the protestors. Dick Morris waved around a poll of his own saying it was good news for Walker--but it showed that nearly 55% of the state opposed what he was doing. The Governor had to leave a tavern last night because the owner insisted on it--he was being booed so loudly it interferred with others' dining pleasure.

It was really classy--that Assembly vote at 1am to pass the union-busting bill. The vote was called and it was closed within seconds. The videos of the Democrats shouting "Shame" had to do with the process, more than the bill itself.

The RNC sent around a fund-raising letter--I received one--that asked for money to fight Obama and his Union Bosses. The national campaign to bust unions seems to be sputtering a bit. Chris Chrissie,Mitch Daniels and even Kasich of Ohio have backed away for now. Rick Scott backed away almost immediately but now he wants collective bargaining stripped from the Florida constitution. Michigan's Snyder, who was mentioned in the Walker fake Koch call, isn't biting at the union business at all.

Poland's own Solidarnosc sent a long letter to Wisconsin in support of their public service unions. Wisconsin union members have been circulating videos of Ronald Reagan saying "everyone has the right to belong to a union", a tape he made in support of Solidarity. Remember Walker believes that Reagan's busting of the air traffic controllers led to the end of the Communist Bloc. Most people think that Poland's own Solidarnosc played a pivotal role in cracking the East Bloc.

I know I feel safer knowing that Jimmi Hendrix's son is in the White House.

What A Difference A Day Makes

Ipsos/ Reuters put out a poll yesterday afternoon that shows Democrats with a 5-pt lead in the generic congressional poll and voter enthusiasm for the GOP at 8.8 out of 10 and Democrats at 7.6 out of 10. So it's tied. To stay even Democrats always need at least a 5pt lead and the so-called enthusiasm gap looks fairly traditional. Remember Democrats have a larger voter pool to draw from. It's beginning to look like the Democratic base is coming home to roost.

What I've noticed in the polling is that almost all races are tightening up from the Senate to the House. David Plouffe on his book tour commented that the teabaggers' importance was to motivate the Republican base, but they alienate independents. So his conclusion was higher Republican turnout as a result but , as he has argued on video briefs to OFA members,this election will be determined by very small margins of victory. That's why the Democrats are now in full Get Out The Vote mode in all their calling.

The Chamber of Commerce's Tom Donoghue is about the launch his $75 million blitz for the GOP but has admitted that he's examined every House race and believes at the end of the day Democrats will keep both the Senate and the House. Some say he was trying to lower expectations about the GOP tide but others claim that really his belief.

While Christine O' Donnell continues to amuse,one has to be concerned about Sharron Angle and Harry Reid being locked in a tie. Rachel Maddow last night revealed the rather mind-blowing fact that Angle recently attended the John Birch Society's convention in Utah, where she bragged about being with "mainstream Americans" there. Marco Rubio has gone further strange in Florida, where right now he looks like he may win. He claims he knows what it's like to lose a country--Cuba--and will fight Obama to save our own. Obama's Gulag is getting oppressive.

I think Russ Feingold is toast in Wisconsin. I believe the poll showing a close West Virginia Senate race is an outlier. And I applaud Meg Whitman having a fund-raiser with the Koch family as sponsors. I guess she's having a cash flow problem. Also the founder of EBay came out and said he could not support her and if he still lived in California, he wouldn't vote for her. Meanwhile cheapskate Brown continues to lead her in another two polls. I sense a trend.

Jerome Corsi, who really is the father of the birthers with his scurrilous book on Obama, wants Obama to denounce Lucifer. This raises the awkward issue of whether Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck should do the same since both believe Jesus is the brother of Lucifer. At least Christine O'Donnell gets off the hook for her witchcraft by claiming she's "born-again"--that wonderful Get Out of Jail free card for all sinners.

I had only read Eugene Robinson's column on Leroy Gingrich's fear-mongering on Sharia law. I had not read that Newt actually recommended Congress outlaw Sharia Law. What's great is how oblivious conservatives are to the Constitution. The First Amendment would do the trick in this case. Oh wait... Fat Tony Scalia told law students in a speech in San Francisco that the founders really didn't mean it about the separation of church and state and that the Constitution really doesn't allow for treating genders equally. Poor Steven Beyer has another book out on the Constitution attacking the originalists like Scalia for getting the most important things about our system wrong.

I owe Senator Webb an apology. He did not vote with the Republicans to filibuster the Defense Appropriations Bill. He does oppose the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. But he had other fish to fry--namely the bill bringing Tricare, the military's healthcare system in line with the Health Reform bill, and the allocation of more funds and facilities for the Wounded Warriors program, which is dealing with severe injuries and PTSD. Also, the Dream Act, which allows younger illegal immigrants to go to college or join the service to rectify their legal status, was included in the bill.

In poll after poll, a vast majority of Americans--from both parties--believe that openly gay people should be able to serve in our military. And, contrary to Senator McCain's statements yesterday, the military has been de-commissioning those people who never mentioned they were gay by reading private e-mails and even taking testimony from local American law enforcement officials. Over 14,000 gay personnel have been ousted since the beginning of this law. One problem is generational. The elderly Republican senators are nostalgia for an America that no longer exists and forgets that the young men and women in the military already are familiar with gays, having grown up with them. It is estimated that over 50,000 American military personnel are gay or lesbian, serving in fairly sensitive positions up the chain of command.

American support for gays in the military dwarfs popular support for same-sex marriage and other gays rights issues. (Although we have to note majority support for same sex marriage has now been recorded in two recent polls.) The judge's full opinion on the unconstitutionality of DADT is worth reading and is as devastating as Vaughn Walker's opinion on same-sex marriage. Obama's error came from his reasonableness by allowing the military to conduct a survey of the armed forces to determine whether gays affect military readiness. The publically released surveys were already biased in terms of their questions. Harry Truman actually did the same concerning blacks in the military, but decided to throw that all out with an Executive Order. Buried in our history is also surveys of the military concerning Jews serving during WWII and questions of their loyalty.

The current limbo state of gays in the military isn't healthy for anyone and is simply hypocritical. When the armed forces had trouble recruiting people around 2004, there were "medical waivers" for gays and other allowances so as to retain force strength. With DADT pronounced unconstitutional, the Obama Administration should refrain from appealing the decision. The executive branch usually is duty bound to argue for existing law even though they may not believe them. But in this case, since the train is moving in this direction anyway, the administration should take a by. Also, there should be a moratorium on further hearings on dismissing gays or lesbians from the military. And, once the December report is in, President Obama should simply announce that he is signing an executive order eliminating DADT. The policy started as an executive order under Clinton, even though it was later ratified by Congress. Given the polarization in the Senate (The House has already repealed it), there is no sense to get its repeal hung up by the looney tune Right. After all he is the commander-in-chief, not Old Walnuts McCain.

Now if you are a practitioner of civil disobedience, there is another option. All the 50,000+ gays and lesbians in the armed forces could proclaim their gender preference openly and demand the military take actions against them. This would cause a bureaucratic collapse and also make the USG liable for enormous civil damages because of the unconstitionality of the law. In fact, the gays and lesbians swore to uphold the Constitution so this would be in line of fulfilling their duty. Then, see how the old geezers react. The gays and lesbians would have public opinion on their side as well as the Law.