Did you know that some people believe that President Obama was part of a super-secret project that involved time-travel and visiting Mars to establish America’s “territorial sovereignty” in the 1980s? Of course you didn’t, you were too busy trying to find his real birth certificate. That’s what one wacky conspiracy theory website “uncovered,” except, unlike most wacky conspiracy theories, this one got the White House to confirm whether it is true. The short answer: um, no.

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Unfortunately for illegal immigration supporters and tea party activists gunning for the title of most outrageous protesters, the heavyweights of political nuttery are getting in on the game. Yes, get out the legal papers and Obama Witch Doctor posters: the “Obama Birth Certificate/Eligibility/Obamacare/March on Washington” is on!

If you thought 2010 was the future, think again. A phony new email chain letter — one of the antiquated viral sort leftover from the AOL era — is claiming that the case against President Barack Obama‘s citizenship has reached the Supreme Court, based on a forged and typo-riddled Associated Press “report.” The birther movement seemed to lose steam in the year since the 2008 election, but this new email spreading takes the accusations to a new level of ridiculousness based on fake news done poorly. And those typos!