My Advice To Birthers: Hire A New Lawyer (With Update)

This is pretty funny:

It's become very clear that the Birthers simply aren't going to stop -- ever. In fact, their craziness and ineptitude is now starting to spread over the whole globe in some pretty funny ways.

The Birthers dragged a complete bystander from yet another country, David Bomford of Adelaide, Australia, into this whole mess. And now, it appears, their ringleader is saying that he's the phony. It really is worth thinking about what has happened here.

After Orly Taitz released the quickly-debunked forged Kenyan birth certificate, it was discovered that the document was altered from a source document that didn't even come from Kenya, but was taken from Bomford's family genealogy site.

Bomford himself chimed in, and told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that he would be taking his birth certificate off the family genealogy Web site, after security experts said he'd left himself open to identity theft. But he did seem a bit entertained about the whole experience: "I'm not particularly worried about it because no-one would honestly believe that anyone like me would be involved in it - just a grey-haired old guy sitting in a corner in quiet old Adelaide."

But Taitz is carrying on, having posted two days ago on her Web site that Bomford's certificate is the suspect one: "Bomford report was created to try to discredit my efforts." * * *

So let me see if I've got this right: Someone in the Birther Movement took this Aussie guy's birth certificate and used it as a template to forge Obama's "Kenyan" birth certificate, which Oily Taint herself presented as a legitimate Kenyan birth certificate. But now that this "Kenyan" document has been proved a forgery, Taint blames the victim of this whole fraud -- namely, the dude from Australia -- for being the one behind the conspiracy to discredit the forged birth certificate. In other words, the Aussie's birth certificate is the forgery.

The sound you just heard was my head exploding. I'm not certain how to make sense of all this, but I'm pretty sure that time travel would once again be a necessary component to such an explanation.

As an aside, wouldn't it be great to have a law practice where you could just make shit up all the time? You'd never have to worry about troublesome concepts such as ethics or truth. In fact, you wouldn't even have to be coherent.

UPDATE: Having some trouble locating your Kenyan birth certificate? No problem -- you can get it here.