Saturday, April 23, 2011

Certificate of Live Birth Time Stamp Revealed

Certificate of Live Birth Time Stamp Revealed

Snopes.com ^ | June, 2008 | Snopes

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 7:26:06 PM by TommyDale

Snopes' Certification of Live Birth shows supposedly issued in August, 1961 but the Revision date is 11/01. 

What is REALLY interesting is the light blue time stamp that reveals the actual date of issuance as Jun 6 2007. See the picture for the highlighted area showing the time stamp from the back side where it bleeds through. 

MINTON: Obama axes the right to play Internet poker

MINTON: Obama axes the right to play Internet poker

The Washington Times ^ | April 23, 2011 | Michelle Minton

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 7:28:07 PM by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Last week, while many people reported their income to the Internal Revenue Service, others suddenly found their source of income shut off. On a day now known among online poker players as “Black Friday,” the Department of Justice did us Americans the favor of saving us from ourselves by shutting down the three most popular and trusted online poker platforms.

Not only did the department seize the three domain names, it also froze 77 accounts around the world and charged the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, among others. What’s there crime?

Homeland Security Black Helicopters Seen In Drill Over Downtown Miami (Video)

Homeland Security Black Helicopters Seen In Drill Over Downtown Miami (Video)

Activist Post ^ | 04/20/2011 | Michael Edwards

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 7:35:32 PM by The Magical Mischief Tour

Miami-Dade County seems to have become a staging ground in preparation of a militarized police state.

The latest event was reported on by The Miami-Herald when a scene right out of the movie Conspiracy Theory led residents to start Tweeting about "pitch black" military helicopters dropping men onto buildings, including the Bank of America building, beginning around 9:15 p.m. as witnessed in the video below:

McDonald's Employee Fired After Taping Video of Fight (Victim Speaks to Baltimore Sun)

McDonald's Employee Fired After Taping Video of Fight (Victim Speaks to Baltimore Sun)

The Baltimore Sun ^ | Saturday, April 23, 2011 | Jill Rosen and Jstin Fenton

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 6:47:08 PM by kristinn

A Baltimore County McDonald's owner announced on Saturday afternoon that an employee who taped the violent beating of a customer — a video that went viral Friday — had been fired.

"My first and foremost concern is with the victim," franchise owner Mitchell McPherson said in a statement, adding that action might be taken against other restaurant workers as well. "I'm as shocked and disturbed by this assault as anyone would be. The behavior displayed in the video is unfathomable and reprehensible."

The video of a beating the Rosedale restaurant went viral Friday, garnering hundreds of thousands of views on websites and prompting the fast-food giant to issue a statement condemning the incident.
SNIP
The three-minute clip was apparently first posted on YouTube, then taken down by administrators who said it violated the site's policies. But it popped back up on other sites and was ultimately linked from the popular Drudge Report, which gave it top billing for much of the day.

Another Obama Administration Cover-up? ~ "There’s something fishy going on over there at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). And we’re trying to get to the bottom of it."

Another Obama Administration Cover-up?
Right Side News ^ | 4/23/2011 | Tom Fitton

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 6:49:02 PM by IbJensen

There’s something fishy going on over there at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). And we’re trying to get to the bottom of it.

GOP Kingmakers Wipe Tea PGOP Kingmakers Wipe Tea Party Seats Off Map

GOP Kingmakers Wipe Tea PGOP Kingmakers Wipe Tea Party Seats Off Map

Newsmax ^

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 5:03:02 PM by deek69

Tea party lawmakers are being targeted for elimination by their own party, as old-guard Republicans use the Census-mandated redistricting process to erase seats won by last year’s upstarts, the National Journal reports. House freshmen from several GOP-majority states are in danger of losing out in a political realignment that rewards more connected veteran representatives.

Military commander affirms punishment of Army birther who balked at obeying Obama

Military commander affirms punishment of Army birther who balked at obeying Obama

Associated Press ^ | April 23, 2011

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 4:25:49 PM by Free ThinkerNY

FORT MEADE, Md. — The commander of the Military District of Washington is affirming the six-month prison sentence of an Army doctor who disobeyed deployment orders because he doubted President Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as commander-in-chief.

What’s Wrong with Our President?

What’s Wrong with Our President?
self/vanity | April 23, 2011 | Jean F. Drew

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 4:09:05 PM by betty boop

When Barack Hussein Obama was Democrat Party presidential nominee in the 2008 national election, he presented himself to the American public as a sort of New Messiah of “Hope and Change,” the new god of “Yes We Can!” (whatever these vaporous, vacuous statements could actually mean).


He probably garnered the vote of every passionate ignoramus in the land. Moreover, there was evidence of irregularities in polling procedures in certain jurisdictions. Few people bother to investigate such matters these days, and certainly not the Dept. of Justice. In the end, with the help of union and left-progressive interest money and the ever-enabling (for left-progressive causes) MSM, Barack Obama/Barry Soetoro managed to get himself elected to the Office of the President of the United States.

Obama knows political fortunes tied to gas prices

Obama knows political fortunes tied to gas prices
Associated Press ^ | April 23, 2011 | MARK S. SMITH

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 4:10:52 PM by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With gas prices climbing and little relief in sight, President Barack Obama is scrambling to get ahead of the latest potential obstacle to his re-election bid, even as Republicans are making plans to exploit the issue.

No one seems more aware of the electoral peril than Obama himself. 

'Birther' claims force GOP leaders to take a stand (Orwellian alert!!!)

'Birther' claims force GOP leaders to take a stand (Orwellian alert!!!)
Associated Press ^ | 4/23/10 | staff

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 1:35:03 PM by Baladas

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's the conspiracy theory that won't go away. And it's forcing Republican officials and presidential contenders to pick sides: Do they think Barack Obama was born outside the United States and disqualified to be president?

Birthers missing critical point ~ "...the unfairness of the conditions in the Constitution to run for president, which are long overdue for change."

Birthers missing critical point
SunSentinal.com ^ | 4/23/2011 | Steven Kurlander

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 1:23:25 PM by GregNH

[snip]The focus on President Obama's birth certificate diminishes the true questions about

the unfairness of the conditions in the Constitution to run for president, which are long overdue for change.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...

Marines' ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal training revealed

Marines' ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal training revealed
The Orange County Register ^ | April 22, 2011 | BRITTANY LEVINE

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 12:16:09 PM by Robert Lomax

Getting straight to the point, male-on-male kissing is the first scenario Marines are discussing at Camp Pendleton as they learn about the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and what it means for them.

Marines may also have to get used to living with an openly gay service member, recruiters could be punished for barring enlistees that talk about being gay and early discharges may not be granted for those that disagree with the repeal, according to training materials released this month by the Marine Corps.

Railroading of Walter Reddy: Patriot's Legally Owned Guns Seized by Thomas R. Eddlem

Railroading of Walter Reddy: Patriot's Legally Owned Guns Seized

Walter Reddy is the patriotic organizer of the Committees of Safety, arguably a founding father of the modern Tea Party movement, and his right to keep and bear arms has been taken from him. It doesn't matter that he has committed no crimes, and has not been charged with a crime. A Connecticut judge told him at a hearing that Reddy had no right to an attorney and that "I'm ready to rule" to take Reddy's guns away before the patriotic organizer had the chance to say one word in his defense.

Ready had organized the first modern-day Tea Party rally, a December 2007 rally at Boston's Faneuil Hall that featured the then-little-known Rand Paul as a keynote speaker. Rand Paul, an eye surgeon and son of Rep. Ron Paul, has since gone on to become the most prominent U.S. senator associated with the Tea Party movement.

The Insurance Geldscheisser by Eric Peters

The Insurance Geldscheisser

Recently by Eric Peters: Garage Security
Insurance is a con. Worse than Social Security, even – because you pay in and (normally) never get anything back.

Consider: You pay say $800 a year to insure your car. Over a ten year period that comes to $8,000. Gone. Out the window. You’ll never see it again.

“Get Used to It,” Replaces Hope and Change

Words of wisdom from the Messiah concerning outrageous gasoline prices was an uninspired, “Get used to it.”

“Get Used to It,” Replaces Hope and Change

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 - John Lillpop  Saturday, April 23, 2011 
 
Just three short years ago, Barack Obama captured the White House with a winning smile, a distracted media, $750 million dollars, and a “Hope and Change” mantra that mesmerized millions into believing that anything was possible.

Elected and Appointed U.S. Government Officials Who Violate Their Oath of Office and the Constitution Must Resign ~ NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION SERIES by Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely (Ret.)

Elected and Appointed U.S. Government Officials Who Violate Their Oath of Office and the Constitution Must Resign


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NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION SERIES

by Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely (Ret.)

 

NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION SERIES

by Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely (Ret.)

The Declaration of Independence was written
(Apr. 23, 2011) — As the Declaration of Independence states:

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.
The arrogance of power and incompetence in Washington has generated this dissent I and protest. Elitism and wasteful spending of tax-payers’ dollars is no longer to be tolerated.
Each member of the House of Representatives, the United States Senate and even the President of the United States place their hands on the Bible, raise their hands to the square  and swear on their sacred honor to protect, defend and serve the people of the United States. Sadly, we see them in violation of their oaths. They know who they are as do the people.

Abe Lincoln’s Legacy: Leviathan’s Bondage of All Americans by Scott Lazarowitz

Abe Lincoln’s Legacy: Leviathan’s Bondage of All Americans

 
   
With the 150th year of the start of the American "Civil War," it is necessary to point out that, not only was it not a war to "free the slaves," but a war to force seceding states back into a union involuntarily, and a war to strengthen the federal government’s economic control over the people.
 
For whatever reasons the Southern States had to secede from the "Union," they had an inalienable right to secede. All people have a God-given right to associate or not associate with others, voluntarily. If the people of a particular territory want to separate from a federal union of states, they have every right to separate, just as the Founding Fathers had a right to separate from British rule. 

No institution or authority has the right to compel any individual or group into association or contract involuntarily. To believe that the federal government had any moral right to force the people of the seceding states to return to federal association involuntarily is to believe that some people with armed power have a right to claim ownership and control of other people, pure and simple. 

The argument that the association of states within the federal union is based on some sort of contract – the U.S. Constitution – is misleading, because the people living in 1861 who had been compelled to abide by the contract did not actually participate in the forming of terms and the signing of the contract.

People of later generations are not in any way bound to the terms of any contract agreed to by previous generations. 19th Century individualist and entrepreneur Lysander Spooner explains that further in No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

To bind future generations to a contract to which they themselves did not agree or sign is itself a form of enslavement, just as the politicians in Washington currently continue to enslave future generations with debt.
What Lincoln’s war to compel people into association involuntarily did was literally to reverse the American Revolution. In the Revolution, people fought to free themselves from the tyranny and enslavements of King George III and his British dictatorial regime. 

The Revolutionaries fought for their independence................................

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How Will the Empire End? by Anthony Gregory

How Will the Empire End?


Dismantling the Empire: America’s Last Best Hope

by Chalmers Johnson (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010); 212 pages. 


Most Americans would very likely deny that their government is a global empire, horribly destructive to national security, liberty, and wealth. But whatever we call this U.S. system of ubiquitous military bases, satellite regimes throughout the world, ever-growing “defense” budgets, and an ever-expansive international presence in military hardware and personnel, it is probably even more controversial to say that the whole apparatus cannot be sustained forever and that the pressing question is not whether it will be dismantled but whether its dismantling will happen disastrously and violently or deliberately and peacefully. 

One of the greatest critics of U.S. empire in our time was Chalmers Johnson (d. November 20, 2010), whose entire Blowback trilogy – comprising Blowback (2000), The Sorrows of Empire (2004), and Nemesis (2007) – is must-read material for all students of American foreign policy. 

The first title in the series, published well before 9/11, introduced the public to the concept of foreign retaliation in response to U.S. intervention abroad. The term was coined by the CIA to describe such events as the Iran hostage crisis, a response to the 1953 CIA coup that ousted Mohammad Mosaddegh and put the shah back in power in Iran. The book seemed all the more relevant in the wake of the September 11 attacks, as its ominously prophetic warnings had gone tragically unheeded prior to those attacks.

Reconciling Ayn Rand with the Gospel

Reconciling Ayn Rand with the Gospel
Am ^ | 04/23/2011 | Ann Barnhardt

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:42:56 AM by SeekAndFind

The motion picture Atlas Shrugged - Part 1 was released in theaters last week, and coupled with the positively prophetic mapping of the plot of Atlas Shrugged to current events, Ayn Rand and her Objectivist Philosophy are front-burner topics.  I know that many Christians read Rand and want to stand up and cheer, but at the same time are racked with guilt because of her atheism and decidedly anti-church professions.  Can Rand be reconciled to the Gospel?  Can Christians read and learn from Rand's writings?  I say yes, and emphatically so.

Herman Cain on the Mark Levin Show

Herman Cain on the Mark Levin Show
The Right Scoop ^ | 4/22/11 | The Right Scoop

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:31:32 AM by justsaynomore

Herman talks with Levin about Obama, Trump, economy, fundraising...
http://www.therightscoop.com/herman-cain-on-the-mark-levin-show/

'Atlas' Movie Is Stirring But Overly Messianic

'Atlas' Movie Is Stirring But Overly Messianic
Townhall.com ^ | April 23, 2011 | John Andrews

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:23:00 AM by Kaslin

"Remember his megalomaniacal boast upon securing the Democratic nomination? “I am absolutely certain,” Obama said, that history will record “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. This was the moment when we came together to remake this great nation.” Right. Even if we did need the nation remade or the planet healed – and we don’t – this president has done neither.
Messianism is messianism: foolish at best, hypnotic at worst. The grandiosity of Barack Obama and the will to power of Saul Alinsky cry for relief. The country must be rid of them, and soon. But the antidote is not John Galt and Ayn Rand. The messianic similarities are too close. One political panacea can’t cure another."


“To the Colorado renaissance.” That’s the oilman’s toast to the steelmaker and the railroad mogul in the new film version of “Atlas Shrugged.” As Ayn Rand’s epic novel of capitalism finally comes to the screen, more timely now than when she wrote it in 1957, my home state has a starring role. You never saw the aspens so golden, the individualism so heroic, the bureaucrats so villainous.

A SHATTERED NATION - A SHATTERED PEOPLE By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.

A SHATTERED NATION - A SHATTERED PEOPLE

By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.
April 23, 2011
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“But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.” Ezekiel 18:24

THE TRAVAILS OF A NATION YIELDED UNTO THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS
“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” -Romans 6:16

Obama’s ineligibility: Congress needs to be dope-slapped

Obama’s ineligibility: Congress needs to be dope-slapped
Canada Free Press ^ | April 23, 2011 | Lawrence Sellin

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 9:10:01 AM by Ordinary_American

James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, stated:
“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”

Martial Law in the Land of Confusion! by Gary D. Barnett

Martial Law in the Land of Confusion!

Recently by Gary D. Barnett: Orders From On High Obeyed by Military!


I must’ve have dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
I can hear the marching feet
They’re moving into the street


~ From the first verse of the song Land of Confusion by Phil Collins and Genesis [1986]
Obviously, those in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, and other parts of the Middle East understand fully the sound of marching feet in their streets. U.S. soldiers carrying out the orders of those in command over them have been marching there for many years. They have brutalized those mostly innocent people all over that region, and in the process, entire infrastructures have been destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and maimed, and aggressive occupations have become the norm. 

This is only the beginning, and most Americans don’t expect nor do they realize that the probability of marching feet in our own streets is great. This will not come from invaders from abroad, but by our own federal government and its agents in the police and military.

Nazi Lover Schwarzenegger: Make Me President of European Union * The Alex Jones Channel Alex Jones Show podcast Prison Planet TV Infowars.com Twitter Alex Jones' Facebook Infowars store Kurt Nimmo

Nazi Lover Schwarzenegger: Make Me President of European Union

  • The Alex Jones Channel Alex Jones Show podcast Prison Planet TV Infowars.com Twitter Alex Jones' Facebook Infowars store
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 23, 2011
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the washed up B-actor who served a disastrous stint as California’s governor, is now gunning for the presidency of the European Union.
Nazi Lover Schwarzenegger: Make Me President of European Union schwhitler
“The Austrian-born former body builder, 63, at loose ends as he tries to figure out what his next act should be, reportedly is being advised by aides to return to his native Europe to run for the EU presidency,” reports the AFP.
“In the next few years, the EU will be looking for a much more high-profile president – somebody who can unify Europe,” Schwarzenegger’s chief of staff Terry Tamminen told Newsweek.
The role of unelected unifier fits Schwarzenegger’s aspirations perfectly. His high profile includes an admiration for one of the 20th century’s most brutal dictators, Adolph Hitler.

Hang on! 'Don't Ask' repeal faces fresh fire Congress wary after generals admit they 'don't know' how 'gays' impact readiness

Hang on! 'Don't Ask' repeal faces fresh fire

Congress wary after generals admit they 'don't know' how 'gays' impact readiness



Posted: April 22, 2011
9:19 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2011 WorldNetDaily 
 



Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.
Republican leaders in Congress are talking about new ways of putting the brakes on repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" after top military brass repeatedly told a House committee hearing they "don't know" how welcoming open homosexuality in the ranks will affect combat readiness.

MY FVCC TRUSTEE CAMPAIGN: WHY I AM RUNNING By Timothy N. Baldwin, JD.

MY FVCC TRUSTEE CAMPAIGN: WHY I AM RUNNING


By Timothy N. Baldwin, JD.
April 23, 2011
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Thomas Jefferson said, “education is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power” (see, Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, 2). Given my involvement in the study and practice of law and politics, I find this quote to be fascinating and profound. At first glance, the statement may appear overstated or too generalized, but when one understands what education truly is, Jefferson’s statement should ring true as applied not only to constitutional power, but to all areas of life.

To me, education is one of the most crucial elements of a successful life. Upon this basis, I have placed my name as a candidate for the Flathead Valley Community College trustee position, the election for which is May 3, 2011 in Flathead County, Montana.
So, what is education?

Before stating what it is, it is important to observe what it is not. Education is not mere dogma or recital. A student being told by his political science teacher that positive law is the only binding law on societies is not education. That is dogma. A child having to regurgitate his professor’s lectures is not education. That is recital.

Education is a process through which the student is instructed on how to use his or her faculties to obtain the truth of a general and particular matter. It is “the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life” (See, dictionary.com).

What is distinctive quality between dogma/recital and education?
In short, education is learning how to learn—denoting a cycle or process, a never-ending phenomenon. It is learning how to become intellectually creative, independent and self-reliant. 

The process of education never stops, and the more mature one becomes, the more important it is that the process becomes more intricate, elaborate and accurate.

When Jefferson said “education is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power”, did he mean that knowing how to derive complicated algebraic formulas will equip a citizen with knowledge of how to correctly judge government actions relative to constitutional limitations?.....................................

COPS TO HIJACK CITIZENS' CELL PHONE DATA

COPS TO HIJACK CITIZENS' CELL PHONE DATA

By NWV News writer Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
April 23, 2011
© 2011 NewsWithViews.com

Imagine driving in your automobile with your family on a bright, summer day and you hear a police cruiser's siren and the officer motions for you to pull over. The police officer walks up to your car and says hello using your full name without seeing your license. 

Not only that, he requests your cellular phone, and within seconds knows your home address, workplace, work-related telephone numbers, pictures and personal Internet information. Welcome to the 21st Century.

If what's happening in Michigan becomes the model for the rest of the country, Americans are in for a big surprise when they discover their secrets aren't so secret anymore thanks to modern technology, say national security and civil rights professionals.

Michigan State Police officers have begun using state-of-the-art handheld equipment known as "extraction devices" to download personal information from motorists they pull over, even if they're not suspected of any crime.
The devices, manufactured and sold by Cellebrite, Incorporated, give police officers the ability download text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various interfaces to work with different models. 

"A disturbing part of this new gizmo is that it can bypass security passwords and access information American mistakenly believe is secure from prying eyes," said political strategist and attorney Mike Baker. 

"The fact that a person's confidential data is ripe to be gathered by prying government officials could bring new meaning to the term 'innocent till proven guilty' and make a sham of the Fourth Amendment," said Baker.

"Everybody -- even weak-minded liberals -- can easily perceive that by-and-large it's the Democrats who are way over-the-top with regards to bloated in-your-face intrusive government and the disregarding and trampling of the personal liberties of citizens. The leftists invariably view the U.S. Bill of Rights and U.S. Constitution as impediments to their agenda.

OBAMA FAKED BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT!

News Link  •  PoliticsOBAMA FAKED BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT!
04-22-2011  •  Swamp-Ass 
Here are two Obama birth announcments. The first is supposed to be the genuine thing. Notice the dotted line on both sides of the original on the top and bottom edges of the Obama announcement box going horizontally all the way across the page - an  

Trump in full Gallup

Trump in full Gallup
NY Post ^ | April 23, 2011 | S.A. MILLER

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 7:41:01 AM by Scanian

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump's stock is rising.
Trump was tied for first place with Mike Huckabee in his debut yesterday in the Gallup poll of Republicans' choices for the 2012 presidential nomination.

So O hates his job?

So O hates his job?
NY Post ^ | April 22, 2011 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 7:35:32 AM by Scanian

"The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and stuff. . . I'm like, 'C'mon guys, I'm the president of the United States. Where's the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen comes up?'

It doesn't happen." -- President Obama