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BLAGOVIDEO MEDIA MEDLEY:

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4 Also too: Fun with Mittens, and angry kittens HERE.

open thread.

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Leo C. Donofrio, natural-born idiot:

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Obama Nationality Case
[WaPo / Dec. 07, 2008]

The Supreme Court this morning unceremoniously declined to hear an emergency appeal from a man who claimed President-elect Barack Obama is not qualified for the presidency because he is not a "natural-born" citizen.

The court without comment declined to hear "Donofrio v. Wells," a suit that had attempted to keep Obama off the New Jersey ballot. Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick had claimed Obama had dual nationality at birth, because of his Kansas-born mother and his Kenyan-born father, who was a British subject at the time.

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In fact, both were routine procedures, as the court's action today shows. There were no recorded dissents to the decision dismissing the case.

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Back to playing strip poker with Alfonse D'Amato. (I'll see your condo in Arkansas and raise you a book deal with Regnery Publishing!)


Chairman pothole: Former New York Senator Joins the Poker Players Alliance (Card Player Magazine / March, 2007)

Former New York Sen. Alfonse D'Amato has graciously agreed to serve as chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA),...

Leo Donofrio (total winnings: $46,255 -- includes photo)

Docket No. 08A407:

Leo C. Donofrio, Applicant v. Nina Mitchell Wells, New Jersey Secretary of State

Nov 3 2008 Application (08A407) for stay pending the filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, submitted to Justice Souter.
Nov 6 2008 Application (08A407) denied by Justice Souter.
Nov 14 2008 Application (08A407) refiled and submitted to Justice Thomas.
Nov 19 2008 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of December 5, 2008.
Nov 19 2008 Application (08A407) referred to the Court by Justice Thomas.
Nov 26 2008 Supplemental brief of applicant Leo C. Donofrio filed. (Distributed)
Dec 1 2008 Letter from applicant dated November 22, 2008, received.
Dec 8 2008 Application (08A407) denied by the Court.

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Replacing Senator Clinton (NYTimes / Dec. 07, 2008).

The list of mentioned possibilities already reads like a state Democratic Party caucus: Attorney General Andrew Cuomo; Congressman Brian Higgins of Buffalo; Thomas Suozzi, the Nassau County executive; Caroline Kennedy; William Thompson, the city comptroller; Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand of Hudson; and Adolfo Carrión, the Bronx borough president, to name a few.

I have a suggestion:
Congressman John Hall from New York's 19th congessional district and a member of New York State's Congressional Progressive Caucus.

info:
John Hall / house.gov
Wiki entry

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