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Several years ago, I was browsing the racks at Abercrombie & Fitch when a store employee approached me. “Hey, do you want to work here?” she asked, over the store’s notoriously loud (and obnoxious) music. In case you didn’t know, no one applies to work at Abercrombie. They offer jobs to good-looking, stylish patrons. For a brief moment, I felt anointed. I shouldn’t have. It turned out the store had dozens of teenaged and twenty-something employees—all of whom could expect to work five hours a week, if that. But there was a catch: in order to secure the job, you...

Three events that made no sense at the time now make sense. I'll C&P the substance in the first comment so the HTML will (hopefully) transfer.

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat, will have a limited choice of successors to appoint to succeed the late Sen. Daniel K. Inouye. According to Hawaii election official, the governor will choose from a list of three candidates submitted to him by the state Democratic Party. The appointee will serve until November 2014, when a special election will be held to fill the final two years of Inouye’s current term.

Upon taking office, Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie once declared he was going to solve the mystery of Barack Obama’s missing birth certificate. But after searching for it, he suggested it might not exist. If the governor couldn’t find it, how is it that the Hawaii Health Department produced it so quickly upon the request of the White House? That’s a question Abercrombie is no longer eager to address. In fact, in Hawaii, questions about the authenticity of the document released by the White House are still considered radioactive. In Abercrombie’s office, spokeswoman Donalyn Delacruz expressed that she was happy to...

President Obama met with a group of Democratic governors on Friday and discussed plans to work around Congress toward policy goals. Gov. Jack Markell, the Democratic governor of Delaware and the vice chairman of the National Governors Association, told The Hill that the meeting was “very good” and said many of the governors were responsive to ideas about bypassing Congress. “There was a sense that none of us should wait, we can’t wait for things to happen in Congress,” Markell said of the meeting. “We’re going to do what we can do [now].” Obama has positioned himself against Congress as...

Gov. Abercrombie requires a review of helicopters' environmental impact, forcing an $11 million move to Colorado. The Army is shifting at least some high-altitude helicopter training from Hawaii to Colorado — at a taxpayer cost of up to $11 million — following an additional environmental review imposed by the state. The regulatory process has already delayed training by four months, creating a tight deadline for Wheeler Army Airfield pilots preparing for a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan in January. Now Gov. Neil Abercrombie has informed the Army it must conduct a state environmental assessment in addition to a federal environmental assessment to use...

Abercrombie vows to fix system. West Hawaii pays a disproportionate percent of property taxes on Hawaii Island, and "we Democrats have to do something about it, and do something now," Gov. Neil Abercrombie told party supporters Saturday in Kailua-Kona. Some 116 people attended the Hawaii County Democratic Party's luncheon held at Hualalai Academy's Bridge Building. Abercrombie also covered topics ranging from energy and sustainability, affordable housing and the failed soda tax legislation. The governor noted that property owners on the west side Hawaii Island pay around 70 percent of all property taxes, even though far more people live on the...

Obama's birth certificate. How is that coming? A: I got a letter from someone the other day who was genuinely concerned about it; it is not all just political agenda. They were talking on Olelo last night about this; it has a political implication for 2012 that we simply cannot have. (Abercrombie said there is a recording of the birth in the State Archives and he wants to use that.) It was actually written I am told, this is what our investigation is showing, it actually exists in the archives, written down ... ...What I can do, and all I...

Only Barack Obama could take the birther controversy out into the deep woods and kill it graveyard dead. But he won’t, and that’s the mystery.

There is evidence to refute the claim that President Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii, and therefore is not eligible to be president of the United States, but "birthers" persist with their claims that Obama is in office illegally. Donald Trump is the latest to question the president's birthplace. SNIP As for Obama's roots in Hawaii, Abercrombie told Hawaii News Now he first laid eyes on baby Barack Obama a few days after he was born. Abercrombie said Obama's parents introduced their newborn to friends at the University of Hawaii where Abercrombie was going to college with the president's...

Can you imagine the utter humiliation of the GOP, Romney, MSM, and much of the American public when Trump proves Obama wasn't born here?  After these fools all gave Obama a free pass! It seems abundantly clear that Donald Trump plans to ride this issue and resulting constitutional crisis right to the White House in 2012... just you watch, he's spending millions and finding PLENTY in Hawaii, precisely as he told Fox's Neil Cavuto three days ago.  While he's at it, might as well have a good look at Obama family comrade and Hawaii's hippy governor, Neil Abercrombie... his...

Governor Neil Abercrombie has named attorney CheryL Kakazu Park to head of the stateOffice of Information Practices, replacing ousted director Cathy Takase. Park is a 1981 graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii and has lived in Nevada since 1995, working as a Nevada Supreme Court staff attorney since 2003, according to Abercrombie’s office. Park earned a Masters degree in business administration from UH and previously worked for American Express and Wells Fargo Insurance, the governor’s office said. Takase was acting director at OIP when Abercrombie took office but the governor did not...

"You know what I get a kick out of the governor of Hawaii says, 'Oh I remember when he was born 50 years ago.' I doubt it. I think this guy should be investigated. I doubt he remembers when Obama was born give me a break." Governor Abercrombie had no comment on Trump's statement.

<p>POSTED: 5:51 pm HST February 15, 2011 UPDATED: 11:46 am HST February 16, 2011 [EMAIL: Health Director Fired 2 Before He Resigned] Email [PRINT: Health Director Fired 2 Before He Resigned] Print [COMMENTS: Health Director Fired 2 Before He Resigned] Comments (17) Bookmark and Share HONOLULU -- Dr. Neal Palafox, who was nominated by Gov. Neil Abercrombie to head the state health department, withdrew his nomination abruptly last month.</p>

State Senate Minority Leader Sam Slom has urged Gov. Neil Abercrombie to provide additional information regarding the governor's decision to ask Dr. Neal Palafox to withdraw his nomination as director of the state Department of Health. Abercrombie asked Palafox to withdraw his nomination in January but has not disclosed the reason. A television news report, citing unnamed sources, said Palafox was involved in a medical reimbursement investigation. In a letter to Abercrombie on Friday, Slom (R, Diamond Head-Hawaii Kai) said he has spoken with federal sources that say Palafox is not under investigation. The senator had no information about a...

Hawaii's Senate minority leader is accusing Gov. Neil Abercrombie of politicizing the state's health department by firing his nominee to replace Chiyome Fukino, a woman best known to the nation as Barack Obama's birth certificate guardian. Sen. Sam Slom, the sole Republican in Hawaii's upper house, is denouncing Abercrombie's handling of the nomination of Dr. Neal Palafox to be the successor to Fukino as director of the state's health department. He said he is convinced Abercrombie asked Dr. Palafox to withdraw his nomination because the nominee fired two Hawaii health department employees who were politically connected. "Palafox was determined to...

Abercrombie & Fitch has had strong financial results since mid-2010, but it was one of the slowest major retailers to respond to the new reality of the recession, and as a result its recovery lagged far behind most of its competitors.

Hawaii's new governor, Neil Abercrombie, stirred the "birther" pot just before Christmas when he promised to launch an expedition for Obama's long form birth certificate.

Video: Lost in Translation; Hollywood Reporter and friend of Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie, Mike Evans, stated that Governor Abercrombie used a search warrant to try and acquire Obama's birth certificate at the hospitals in Hawaii. I missed this shocking tidbit the first 20 times listening to the numerous Evans' audio clips. A search warrant!? Hat tip to Guildgob for pointing out this shocking revelation. Video clip below...

The Governor Spoke... I watched Governor Neil Abercrombie's State of the State address on TV, only a few days after attending an event where the Governor spoke and took questions from a gathering of perhaps 100 diehard Democrat supporters and 12-15 elected Democrats. I thought the two speeches eloquent, well composed, and both were delivered in a far-more measured tone than one might have expected from "firebrand" Neil Abercrombie. While the old Neil was very much in evident, he was uncharacteristically subdued, and I rather like his new style. I've known the Governor for many years and once had what...

Posted: Jan 28, 2011 11:23 PM MST Updated: Jan 28, 2011 11:36 PM MST HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The lawyer for Hawaii's former health director says he still has no idea why the governor asked him to step down. Doctor Neal Palafox resigned after about five weeks on the job. The governor's staff is being tight lipped about the investigation. Although it was the reason he asked the doctor to resign and even though no one claims to know details, sources tell Hawaii News Now it's because he's linked to a medical reimbursement fraud investigation. "The governor came and told him...

Abercrombie asked nominee to withdraw Doctor says he doesn’t know the reason for request January 29, 2011 HONOLULU (AP) - Gov. Neil Abercrombie's office said he asked Dr. Neal Palafox to withdraw his nomination to lead the state Department of Health, contradicting his administration's previous claim that Palafox withdrew himself. Abercrombie spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz confirmed it was the governor and not Palafox who asked for the withdrawal. Dela Cruz declined to discuss the reason for Palafox's abrupt departure, and Palafox has said he doesn't know what led to his Wednesday dismissal after a month as interim Health Department director.

The health nominee for the Hawaii Department of Health withdrew the nomination. Read the article: www.staradvertiser.com/news/hawaiinews/20110127_health_nominee_pulls_out.html.  Dr. Neal Palafox withdrew his nomination by Gov. Neil Abercrombie because he said that he was blindsided by an investigation into his billing practices.  That is the external reason, which is acceptable.  However, in every case like this, there is an internal, below-the-surface reason, which is usually the real reason.  Reading between the lines, I hypothesize that since this position has become a very "hot potato" because the Department of Health is where usurper POTUS Barack Hussein Obama's "real" birth certificate supposed to have...

Bill introduced to the Missouri House on January 24, 2011 dealing with the issue of Proof of United States Citizenship. Summary of the Introduced Bill HB 283 -- Declarations of Candidacy Sponsor: Rowland This bill requires each established political party to provide the Missouri Secretary of State with proof of the identity and proof of United States citizenship for each nominee for President and Vice President of the United States. The proof must be submitted with the other certification documents that are required to be filed with the Secretary of State pursuant to Chapter 115, RSMo. Missouri House of Representatives...

New Audio: Mike Evans Told Numerous Stations He Spoke with Governor Abercrombie and He Told Him No Hawaii Birth Certificate for Obama. [UPDATES] Video: The Plot Thickens. Peter Boyles found a second audio clip of Hollywood Reporter Mike Evans saying he spoke with Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie about Obama's missing birth certificate, even though Evans now backtracks his comment that He spoke with Abercrombie. New Audio of Mike Evans embedded below. Previous reports on Mike Evans can be found here, here and here. UPDATE 1: I am told by a reputable source that he told 3 radio stations. According to...

HONOLULU (AP) -- Five Hawaii Democratic representatives want to pass a law making President Barack Obama's birth records public and charge $100 to see them.

Mike Evans says he spoke to Neil Abercrombie From the Jan 20, 2011 broadcast of “Austin’s Morning News” AKA “Mark, Ed, and Sgt. Sam Show”, at 590KLBJ.com. Starting at 7:45 at http://media.590klbj.com/Podcasts/133/01-20-11-_Hour_2.mp3 , This is the transcript: Mike Evans: This is a uh, not a Hollywood nugget but is is so important I had to bring it to the table. Former United States Congressman from Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie, has been a friend of mine for decades. When I spent time with Neil during the Obama inauguration in Washington, DC, uh, Neil told me that he was gonna run for governor...

Radio personality Mike Evans, who told at least three radio stations and possibly more that Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie said there is no birth certificate in Hawaii for Barack Obama, now says he's going to be grilling the governor on the issue, if he can get hold of him. WND reported earlier this week when Evans said in an interview with 92 KQRS Morning Show in Minneapolis that the governor told him he simply wasn't able to find any of the documentation he was hunting. At the time Evans, a long-time Hawaii resident, explained that Abercrombie, whom Evans has known...

Mike Evans, the celebrity journalist/friend of Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie who claimed the Governor told him that there was no Barack Obama birth certificate, is now claiming he "misspoke." Jana Winter of Fox News reports: Mike Evans told FoxNews.com on Wednesday he was remorseful and embarrassed that he appeared to have given the impression that he had discussed the search for Obama's birth certificate with Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie.

<p>The reason for Palafox's resignation was a mystery, and he wouldn't say whether he was asked to resign.</p> <p>Abercrombie's office said Palafox asked the Democratic governor to withdraw his nomination.</p> <p>"Gov. Abercrombie accepted Dr. Palafox's request and will make a new appointment for the Health Director as soon as possible," spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said in a statement.</p>

verbal diarrhea from Limbaugh is nothing new of course, the four times married, prescription pain killer drug addled paragon of perfection presumes to lecture all Americans on morality and proper behavior.Rush Limbaugh among others is calling again for Obama to produce the long form of his birth certificate to prove he was born an American. It is a sad reflection that after the Gabbie Giffords shooting that he and his fellow pundits are back beating this dead horse one more time........ The right wing web was aflame yesterday with stories that Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie had not found the version...

The Team Obama strategy of keeping quiet whilst painting the birthers as kooks and Nazis has crumbled to pieces in the wake of Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie's very public failure to produce an Obama long-form birth certificate, as pledged in December. Now it's back in the public eye, in a big way: even those who had kept the issue at arm's length are taking a fresh look at the birthers' much-maligned claims this week. Neil Abercrombie had pledged to put the issue to bed for good... but has instead popped-open hornet's nest. So who is this odd duck, anyway? Buffalo, NY...

Mike Evans, the syndicated Hollywood gossip radio commentator and self described good friend of Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie, admitted this morning that he has not personally spoken with the Governor regarding the unlocatable Soetoro/Obama long form birth certificate. Evans had his story picked apart by Peter Boyles and Jerome Corsi on 630 KHOW in Denver. Download the entire conversation/confession at the link.

Neil Abercrombie admitted to close friend and reporter Mike Evans - there is no records of Obama's birth in Hawaii.

Hawai'i election official's sworn affadavit:  "No Obama birth certificate exists" ALL Americans who support our nation's Constitution and election laws must now ask: WHERE IS IT? As the Obama birth certificate controversy drags-on, any unbiased observer could tell you that events are strengthening the birthers' case by the day... not the other way around. Oczam's razor theory dictates that if they can't find it... there must not be one. This would also provide the most viable explanation for why Obama has spent almost $2M fighting the claims in court. And to since it's a principle requirement for presidential eligibility... would someone please tell me WHY...

Friend says Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie told him there is no Obama birth certificateThe Daily Caller – Tue Jan 25, 4:52 pm ET Celebrity journalist Mike Evans told Minnesota’s KQRS radio last week that his friend, Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, has been unable to find President Barack Obama’s birth certificate despite an intensive search. A group of conspiracy theorists known as “birthers” have long claimed that Obama is constitutionally ineligible for the presidency because he was actually born in Kenya. Abercrombie, an old friend of Obama’s family, made headlines last month when he announced that he was trying to figure...

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie's much-publicized effort to find and make public Barack Obama's Hawaiian birth credentials left him with "egg on his face," according to a radio personality who says he's a good friend of the former congressman. Radio personality Mike Evans said in an interview with 92 KQRS Morning Show in Minneapolis that the governor simply wasn't able to find any of the documentation he was hunting. Evans, a long-time Hawaii resident, explained that Abercrombie, whom Evans has known for decades, gave up his search for Obama's nativity records because the governor was unable to find in Hawaii's vital...

Author Jack Cashill of the American Thinker discusses the explosive details regarding Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie's long-time friend and reporter Mike Evans claim that Gov. Abercrombie told him that there is no Obama hospital-generated long-form birth certificate in the state of Hawaii. Cashill also slams the Conservative Media for not reporting the facts surrounding Barack Hussein Obama Soebarkah AKA Barry Soetoro's background. The interview is from the Peter Boyles radio show which aired on 1/25/2011. -

By: HONOLULU (AP) and - A privacy law that shields birth certificates has prompted Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie to abandon efforts to dispel claims that President Barack Obama was born outside Hawaii, his office says. ......frpa .... "There is nothing more that Gov. Abercrombie can do within the law to produce a document," said Dela Cruz. "Unfortunately, there are conspirators who will continue to question the citizenship of our president."...

On January 21, 2009, the day after Obama was inaugurated, talk radio host Mike Evans interviewed then Congressman Neil Abercrombie on his relationships with the Barack Obamas, senior and junior. During this little-seen, congenial, 7-minute interview on C-SPAN, a relaxed Abercrombie reminisced about his own arrival in Hawaii in 1959 and his acquaintance with Barack Obama Sr., whom he described in glowing terms. When the subject turned to President Obama, Evans asked, "Do you remember him growing up." "I remember him as a little boy with his grandfather," Abercrombie answered, "because his mother and father separated." Abercrombie elaborated that "little...

Is anyone really surprised that Hawaii's new governor, Neil Abercrombie, was unable to produce the promised Obama long-form birth certificate? No matter how Abercrombie's words are parsed or interpreted or spun, the fact is, there is no new evidence -- just a story about a supposedly well-intentioned but bungling Hawaiian governor, prohibited from access to the certificate because of Hawaii's privacy laws, who must cease the search before he finds himself labeled another "vexatious requester." The only thing I've found surprising lately was Chris Matthews' tacit admission that a real long-form is indeed an additional document that Obama should present....

During an interview on the KQRS morning radio show on January 20, Mike Evans, a long-time friend of Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie, shared a conversation he had with the governor the day prior. The reader is advised to judge for himself the credibility of Evans' account, but he sounds convincing. Evans, Honolulu born and now a Hollywood-based celebrity journalist, claimed that Abercrombie had promised him that he when he became governor, he planned to find absolute proof that Obama was born in Hawaii. When Evans spoke to Abercrombie on January 19, Abercrombie reportedly told him that he searched the relevant...

Breaking News: (From a radio interview) Mike Evans, of Hollywood Reporter, has been a friend of Gov. Abercrombie's for "decades". Evans spoke to him yesterday. "Neil and I spent a lot of time together during Obama's Inauguration. He promised me that he when he became Governor, he was going to cut thru all the BS and find absolute proof that "Barry" was born in Hawaii. Well, I spoke to him YESTERDAY and Abercrombie told me "He searched everywhere using his powers as governor, and... There is NO Barack Obama Birth Certificate in Hawaii ... absolutely no proof at all that...

"This is from the KQRS morning show from 1/20/2011. Their Hollywood reporter Mike Evans that knows Neil Abercrombie for Governor of Hawaii personally, gave an interesting story about the birth certificate situation. " Mike Evans - ...Neil promised me when he became governor he would cut through all the red tape...end this stupid controversy... He searched everywhere using his powers as governor at the Kapiolani Woman's and Children's hospital and Queens hospital. There is no Barack Obama birth certificate in Hawaii, absolutely no proof at all that he was born in Hawaii....

Something doesn’t add up here: Back in June 2008, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned short form of his Hawaii birth certificate. When people questioned the scanning, a few carefully chosen media types were invited to attest to the underlying long-form document’s authenticity, including FactCheck.org: FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as “supporting documents”...

Republican Congressman Bill Posey of Florida introduced legislation last year

The cat is already out of the bag, so no amount of backpeddling by Governor Neil Abercrombie will do. Obama is not an American citizen, he was not born in Hawaii, and there is no long-form birth certificate. The Governor has committed perjury: As a representative, Abercrombie was responsible for inserting language into appropriations bills that stated Obama was born in Hawaii, As a representative, Abercrombie spoke at a fund-raiser for Kapiolani Hospital and read aloud a letter purportedly from the White House stating Obama was born at Kapiolani Hospital in Honolulu;As newly elected Governor, Abercrombie stated “I’m one of...

Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie will end his quest to prove President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii because it's against state law to release private documents, his office said today. State Attorney General David Louie told the governor he can't disclose an individual's birth documentation without a person's consent, Abercrombie spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said. "There is nothing more that Gov. Abercrombie can do within the law to produce a document," said Dela Cruz. "Unfortunately, there are conspirators who will continue to question the citizenship of our president."

(Jan. 22, 2011) — Yesterday an article was published in the Honolulu Star Advertiser entitled “Abercrombie Drops Quest for Obama’s Birth Certificate” written by an unnamed Associated Press writer. Here are my comments: In an incredibly lame and cowardly anticlimactic announcement, hiding behind his spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz, Abercrombie’s spokeswoman, in plain political defense, in the Hawaiian Sun Advertiser, said this:There is nothing more that Gov. Abercrombie can do within the law to produce a document. Unfortunately, there are conspirators who will continue to question the citizenship of our president. The Star Advertiser continues: Abercrombie, who was a friend of...

<p>HONOLULU – A privacy law that shields birth certificates has prompted Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie to abandon efforts to dispel claims that President Barack Obama was born outside Hawaii, his office says.</p> <p>State Attorney General David Louie told the governor that privacy laws bar him from disclosing an individual's birth documentation without the person's consent, Abercrombie spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said Friday.</p>