Sheriff Joe's investigation discovers Obama's birth certificate was photoshopped, pieced together with snips from a valid certificate:

http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/investigators-find-source-for-obamas-online-birth-certification-image/

2nd conversation in Russian.

Hey Boss our low-level scammers did not get anywhere with the RNC. Their computers blocked our phishing.

Yeah. I expected that. They follow protocol. What about that stuff from the DNC.

Wow Boss. Sanders got screwed. Clinton's either really really smart or just well-protected. Getting some good stuff.

Well, don't bother the RNC anymore. Not worth the effort when you are making good money with little effort. Besides this stuff is funny considering the DNC "platform".

No problem Boss. They don't even know we are there. What's our high-level scammers doing?

You should not have asked that. Katya show this man the back door.

Ignoring another untimely political rant (suggesting we would be better off under a King than Trump) there's some interesting history about Handel’s “Messiah” .

http://thefederalist.com/2016/12/16/can-progressives-stop-making-christmas-traditions-political/

We told you that Obama and Hillary's feckless foreign policy would get people killed, and you called us racists and misogynists. Five years ago.

Above all, Aleppo represents a meltdown of the West’s moral and political will — and in particular, a collapse of U.S. leadership. By refusing to intervene against the Assad regime’s atrocities, or even to enforce the “red line” he declared on the use of chemical weapons, President Obama created a vacuum that was filled by Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. As recently as October, Mr. Obama set aside options drawn up by his advisers to save Aleppo. Instead, he supported the delusional diplomacy of Secretary of State John F. Kerry, whose endless appeals to Moscow for cease-fires yielded — as Mr. Putin no doubt intended — nothing more than a humiliating display of American weakness.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-bloodbath-in-aleppo-will-haunt-humanity/2016/12/14/ffe0d646-c22a-11e6-9a51-cd56ea1c2bb7_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.eefe7617ba5f

On one hand, I think the team should fulfill their commitments, but on the other hand if they feel their friends are getting a raw deal, I get that.

STANDING UP FOR DUE PROCESS: Minnesota football players announced Thursday night that they were boycotting all football activities in the wake of the suspensions this week of 10 teammates.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/251992/

This goes well with my theory that Putin was reminding Hillary that what is bought stays bought.

But there’s an easy way to find out what went on. Congress should ask the National Security Agency (NSA), which I wrote was hacking the Russians while the Russians were hacking the us.

http://nypost.com/2016/12/14/russias-election-hack-aimed-to-hurt-hillary-not-help-trump/

We love immigrants, as long as the dirty wretches don't move into my neighborhood.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/SF-supports-immigrants-just-not-into-our-10791974.php

I'm OK if The Donald strips them of all their federal funding.

College football upsets are much more fun when they happen to Michigan. Also, you get the key plays in about 10 minutes.

https://youtu.be/iA_zeMCnlWY

The four wealthiest counties in the United States, and 9 of the top 20, are Washington, D.C. suburbs. Only three of the top 20 are not suburbs of Washington, New York, or Los Angeles.

(An aside: The article speaks of "median" income, but I think they meant "mean".)

Let me try that again: The four wealthiest counties in the United States, and 9 of the top 20, are Washington, D.C. suburbs. This time with the correct link.

More Wikileaks fun: The Colbert Report shot at least two episodes under the direct control of the Clinton Foundation. The episodes were puff pieces on the Clinton Global University Initiative.

The Atlantic just hired a reporter who has, with no evidence whatsoever, accused Trump of having an incestuous affair with his daughter Ivanka. As a result, on January 20, the magazine will lose its access to the White House. Payback's a bitch.

Peace Prize update.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/u-s-army-returns-tanks-to-europe-thats-the-title-of-this-nbc-report-three-years-after-the/

Vegans are an odd bunch. Also: beware of auto-play video.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/posh-cheese-festival-descends-chaos-9465159

Ugh.

Ah, a red line that Teh Won will enforce?

Mind you, he's talking about Russian hacks of Democratic emails and not foreign government donations to the Clinton Foundation.

But I'm an optimist. So I welcome the new Democratic resolve to stand up to Russian aggression.

http://thedignifiedrant.blogspot.com/2016/12/enforcing-red-line.html

Patrick, I'm pretty sure Mark Grace would call her a slump buster.

Just in time for Christmas:

Islam And The Big Bag o' Nails Bomb.

German-Iraqi 12-year-old's nail bomb fails to explode. Again.

Oh, Florida Man.

“Are you trying to rob me?” a witness overheard Gaspard say.

Anyone with half a brain knows that question, asked in this tone of voice, by a man of that size has exactly one answer.

Showing your weapon is not it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/12/15/a-florida-man-tried-to-rob-a-former-wwe-wrestler-and-got-body-slammed/?utm_term=.8fbe880983ed#comments

Someone tried to hack the election.

Why was it out of Homeland Security? our Homeland Security.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/more-states-confirm-cyber-attacks-sourced-to-dhs/476227320

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/mothers-of-two-alberta-children-accused-of-leaving-youngsters-in-extreme-cold-1.3206501

An expensive Don't-Forget-Junior device on the car surely would've stopped this prize mom from leaving the kids in the car in subzero weather while she spent the day in a bar.

Oh, that "Forgotten Baby Syndrome"!

Zuckersperg is at it again!

http://constitution.com/facebook-use-left-wing-snopes-politifact-factcheck-org-crush-conservative-news-sites/

"In heavily-Democratic Detroit, more votes than voters were found across the city and now state Republicans are calling for an investigation.

According to the Detroit News, voting machines in more than one-third of Detroit precincts counted more votes than the actual number of voters who showed up."

http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/12/14/steins-recount-turns-more-votes-voters-detroit

More on Zuckerberg's effort to stop "fake news."

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/12/15/facebook-introduce-warning-labels-stories-deemed-fake-news/