conspiracy

This story just keeps taking more new and interesting turns:

In another twist in the News Of The World scandal, a former reporter for the tabloid who initially alleged that editor Andy Coulson knew about the practice of phone hacking by his staff, was reportedly found dead Monday.

The Guardian reports that though police wouldn't confirm the identity of the man found dead, it is believed to be Sean Hoare, formerly of NOTW and The Sun, who worked under Coulson but was fired for alcohol and drug problems in 2005. According to the police report, "the death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."

Bob Cesca adds this to the news that police aren't treating the death as "suspicious":

Whenever there’s a major conspiracy, and someone directly involved mysteriously dies, it’s always suspicious.

Which is a very true statement, but given the growing evidence against some high profile public officials in London, they are probably doing everything they can to keep this story turned down. It's quickly going to get to the point that Parliament has to intervene to get to the bottom of it.

Now this is funny:

Birthers beware: Hawaii may start ignoring your repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here.

As the state continues to receive e-mails seeking Obama's birth certificate, the state House Judiciary Committee heard a bill Tuesday permitting government officials to ignore people who won't give up.

"Sometimes we may be dealing with a cohort of people who believe lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy," said Lorrin Kim, chief of the Hawaii Department of Health's Office of Planning, Policy and Program Development.

You know, they could have a video of Obama being born and Ronald Reagan delivering him with Pearl Harbor in the background and these morons still won’t buy it. They are so removed from reality that it is really scary. Welcome to Dale Gribble’s America.

That would be Charlie Crist:

Governor Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio are now tied in the 2010 race for the Republican Senate nomination in Florida.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely GOP Primary voters finds Crist and Rubio each with 43% of the vote. Five percent (5%) prefer another candidate, and nine percent (9%) are undecided.

Jonathon Singer reminds us:

A month and a half ago, when the Club for Growth began setting its sights on Charlie Crist, I asked how long it would take Charlie Crist to pull a half or full Specter -- that is, pull out of the GOP primary and run either as an Independent or a Democrat. With numbers showing it decreasingly likely that the somewhat moderate Crist can make it out of a GOP primary, decision time might be nearer than we previously thought.

Singer could be onto something here. Watch as more moderate Republicans do the quick party switch and become Democrats, helping to pull the Democratic Party even further to the right. This will really leave Liberals feeling like they have no home, and that will be a very bad thing. I hate to put on my conspiracy hat, but perhaps this is a little known motive to the tea party movement.

The daily Obama conspiracy yesterday was that the President plans to “desecrate 9/11”:

On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something "positive," "forward-leaning," and "productive," said a source with knowledge of the teleconference.

The plan is to turn a "day of fear" that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.

So by turning 9/11 into a day of national honor and service, President Obama would trample the memories of those who perished?

The Republicans cling to the fear that struck American on that September morning as though it was oxygen, which is why the wingnuts are up in arms over this. They would be thrilled if on September 11 of every year Americans curled up into little balls, shaking nervously going “bad Muslims, bad Muslims”.

How about this 9/11 we do something else to remember what happened. How about we recall how the Bush administration let the attackers go by shifting their focus to Iraq? This was something championed by the wingnuts. Let’s also recall how some Republicans and right wing news networks are praying for another attack on this country.

These idiots aren’t patriots, they are enablers of terrorism. They only know life through fear, and they thrive for wars which kill our soldiers, destroy countries and weaken our national security. It’s like some goddamn sporting event to them.

We all knew this was coming, but now its official:

Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers pleaded guilty this morning to conspiring to commit bribery and is free on personal bond.

U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn said, "The defendant now stands convicted."

The one count of conspiring to commit bribery is punishable for up to five years in prison.

[SNIP]

Conyers, the wife of powerful Democratic congressman U.S. Rep. John Conyers, appeared before Cohn to answer charges in connection with the wide-ranging probe of wrongdoing at Detroit city hall.

She has long been under suspicion in the Synagro bribery probe, not least because she had been a vocal opponent of the contract before suddenly switching her sentiments. She became the deciding voice in the city council’s 5-4 vote to approve the sludge-hauling deal in November 2007.

A crook is a crook, it doesn’t matter if they are a D or a R. I’m glad justice caught up with her.

Last week we saw lots of conspiracies the right has been pushing about Obama’s trip over seas. One that really amazed me was the entire “Obama bowing” before King Abdullah. The right went viral on it (and still are). As matter of fact the idiots over at Hot Air have even put together a video:

Don’t you love that title; “A Tale of Two Bows”.

Well guys, I happened to find a bow you could also add into the mix:

George Bush bowed, held hands and kissed this man, yet the Republicans had no problem with that at all. The hypocrisy they show runs so deep, but I just love yanking the tinfoil off their silly little heads.

(h/t LGF)

From Lexington, Kentucky:

Five Clay County officials, including the circuit court judge, the county clerk, and election officers were arrested Thursday after they were indicted on federal charges accusing them of using corrupt tactics to obtain political power and personal gain.

The 10-count indictment, unsealed Thursday, accused the defendants of a conspiracy from March 2002 until November 2006 that violated the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). RICO is a federal statute that prosecutors use to combat organized crime. The defendants were also indicted for extortion, mail fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to injure voters' rights and conspiracy to commit voter fraud.

According to the indictment, these alleged criminal actions affected the outcome of federal, local, and state primary and general elections in 2002, 2004, and 2006.

Brad has much more on this.

And the RNC crime family looses another one:

Representative Rick Renzi, a Republican from Arizona, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in an alleged scheme to profit from a land deal.

Renzi, 49, announced in August that he wasn't seeking re- election. He was first elected to the House in 2002.

Two others were indicted with Renzi. The charges in the indictment include conspiracy, money laundering, insurance fraud and wire fraud.

I wonder how his friends feel about this?

"So happy together!"

How about John?

UPDATE:

Huffington Post reminds us that Renzi is the co-chair of McCain's Arizona campaign. I wonder what the Senator has to say about that.