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Data.gov To Launch In May
An anonymous reader writes "In late May, Data.gov will launch, in what US CIO Vivek Kundra calls an attempt to ensure that all government data 'that is not restricted for national security reasons can be made public' through data feeds. This appears to be a tremendous expansion on (and an official form of) third-party products like the Sunlight Labs API. Of course, it is still a far cry from 'open sourcing' the actual decision-making processes of government. Wired has launched a wiki for calling attention to datasets that should be shared as part of the Data.gov plan, and an article on O'Reilly discusses the importance of making this information easily accessible."
Obama's driving a car with 300 million mothers-in-law in the back seat. This will be the sequel to Driving Miss Daisy.
What?
First thing I want to get data on: Obama's birth certificate _>
It's too bad this was modded as Troll. Here's the mod's thought process: "I really like Obama and that guy seems to be saying something that doesn't promote Obama. Clearly he must be a troll!" That's sort of like saying that if you disagree with Obama on a political issue, it could only be because he is black and you are racist.
How many presidents are asked to provide a birth certificate for the public?
This is not a political issue, it's pointless stirring.
First thing I want to get data on: Obama's birth certificate _>
It's too bad this was modded as Troll. Here's the mod's thought process: "I really like Obama and that guy seems to be saying something that doesn't promote Obama. Clearly he must be a troll!" That's sort of like saying that if you disagree with Obama on a political issue, it could only be because he is black and you are racist.
How many presidents are asked to provide a birth certificate for the public?
This is not a political issue, it's pointless stirring.
I see that the number of Presidents who may have been born outside the United States and about which there is some doubt, however small, is approximately equal to the number of Presidents who are being asked to provide a birth certificate. That is, he's the only one of whom I know. I still don't see what's unreasonable about this. If it's pointless stirring it's because the birth certificate wasn't provided a long time ago to put an end to it.
Normally privacy would be my main concern, along with the concern of not validating potentially dishonest requests ("stirring" as you call it). However, this man wants a public office. He should therefore be an open book, at least as far as basic things like his place of birth are concerned. Therefore, I consider those two concerns to be negligible in his case and in the case of anyone who wants political power.
I've always felt that anyone who wants to have power over us needs to be held to some very strict standards. That's especially true when they break a law that none of us would get away with breaking but also true in terms of full disclosure. If that is too much to ask of a person, then that person is unfit to hold political power.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
How many presidents are asked to provide a birth certificate for the public?
This is not a political issue, it's pointless stirring.
How many have been asked to provide it? as the GP said, if he were to provide it (which would probably take all of 15 minutes) it would shut up all those who are currently asking and it would be cheaper than fighting the 10 or so lawsuits that have been started, most (all?) of whom have said that if they can see the Birth Certificate (as opposed to the Certification of Live Birth) they will drop their lawsuits, see here for a details of the differences.
According to the Department of Hawaiian Homelands:
In order to process your application (to verify that you are a genuine native Hawaiian), DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL.
Aaron Z
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote