Number Five: Luke Scott, an OF for the Baltimore Orioles, who remains unconvinced that President Obama is an American citizen despite the recent release of Obama's birth certificate. Mr. Scott's logic? "If they can counterfeit $100 bills, I think it is a million times easier to counterfeit a birth certificate." (Mr. Scott's previous comments had prompted the Orioles ballclub to issue statements that he is not speaking for their entire organization, and they felt the need to do the same this time.)
At the start of play today, Baltimore was well under .500 and in last place in the AL East. Perhaps Mr. Scott should work on improving his, and his team's, play more than he worries about "proving" that the president's birth certificate is :authentic". Just sayin'................
Number Four: William Melchert-Dinkel of Faribault, MN, who was recently sentenced to 360 days in jail for encouraging and English man and a Canadian woman with whom he corresponded on the internet to kill themselves. Both did. Mr. Melchert-Dinkel was convicted of two counts of assisting suicide.
Okay, seriously ladies and gentlemen, what kind of sick bastard encourages people he has never actually met to commit suicide. We can only hope this person spends his entire sentence thinking about these two folks and how he encouraged them to prematurely end their lives.
Number Three: An unnamed Waueson, OH school bus driver who had a blood alcohol content three times the legal limit AFTER running his route recently. The driver resigned, and the investigation continues.
Wow. So much for carrying "precious cargo", huh?
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/local&id=8114624
Number Two: Marilyn Davenport, a member of the Orange County, California, Republican Central Committee who was recently censured for distributing an e-mail that depicted President Obama as a chimpanzee.
And you wonder why I have to write columns explaining that not all folks on the right in this country aren't racists.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/05/california.obama.chimp.email/index.html
Number One: Conspiracy theorists of all sizes and shapes. First, they don't believe President Obama was born in the US. Then, they don't believe bin Laden is actually dead. "Birthers and Deathers", if you will. Am I the only one who remembers when this type of nonsense was relegated to simple-minded kooks? Now, people of above average intelligence with whom I have personal, professional, academic, or some combination thereof relationships sincerely believe this baseless drivel. I just don't get it.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria has some interesting insight on this matter in the attached column.
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/06/why-do-we-embrace-conspiracy-theories/?hpt=T1
Peace and love, my brothers and sisters.
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