The story of how the President's grandfather was jailed by British troops in 1949 and brutally whipped for aiding the violent struggle for Kenyan independence is probably untrue, a new book has concluded.
It is a harrowing tale of torture in a colonial prison in Kenya that is said to explain the President's coolness towards Britain and even his removal of Winston Churchill's bust from the Oval Office.
David Maraniss, the author of Mr Obama's most comprehensive biography so far, said five associates of Hussein Onyango Obama doubt he was even jailed. One told him: "People make up stories".
Mr Onyango, a Muslim convert who worked for the British Army in Burma during the Second World War, was accused of sympathising with the burgeoning pro-independence movement that eventually turned into the Mau Mau rebellion in 1952.
Mr Obama wrote in his memoir, Dreams From My Father, that his grandfather "was placed in a detention camp" after being reported as a subversive "to the white man" by a rival land-owner.
After his release, "he was very thin and dirty", he "had difficulty walking, and his head was full of lice," wrote Mr Obama, who was told the story by relatives during his first visit to Kenya in 1988.
Only in San Francisco. San Francisco is to appease the Golden Gate Audubon Society by spending $150,000 on top of $75,000 in legal fees to study if Americas Cup yachts scare birds.
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I think most birds have good enough vision that they can see a boat coming and they're smart enough to get the hell out of the way. I would not give the human residents of San Francisco the same credit.
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In other news, the city of San Francisco is trying to curb panhandling with puppies. They're going to pay homeless people to adopt dogs. So now they'll have dogs and people peeing and pooping in the streets.
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What is this? These things look like laws passed by a totalitarian regime. Since when did we elect a king with a four year regency? If one of these kings felt like it they could probably write themselves all subsequent elections.
Where is Congress? Since when did they be one subservient to this self-proclaimed monarch?
Where does this power end? Worst case suggests it ends at the Constitutional boundary except in times of war as recognized by Congress alone.
The good thing is that whatever Obean taketh, Romney could give back.
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Just scanning down the list, it looks like someone preparing to take over. I hope the plan was for the second term...
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I'm not a great fan of BHO but something doesn't square with the list of executive orders reported by Dr. Laurie Roth. The archives and other sites report that Obummer signed executive orders as follows:
Executive orders tend to abrogate and diminish the legislative branch of government. They basically end-run Congress. They are more the instrument of a dictator than a freely elected government.
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I'm afraid it is later than most Americans realize. Soros estimated 3 more months--Romney may not be able to undo it as we may not survive until the election. Greece and Spain may surrender sovereignty in exchange for a bailout and the Axis of Evil is profitting from carbon credit exchanges. Global Governance born out of chaos is upon us. The Constitution does provide for endemic corruption, however...a convention.
However, it may be that, for example, one of Obama's EOs modified 10990 for example.
In addition, EOs are, if properly used, a simple and transparent method of improving accountability.
For example, a law may be passed saying, "X dollars are provided for the purpose of Y". An EO or even a departmental order would then say, "With respect to the law "X dollars...Y", the Administrator of Z will issue a notice in the Federal Register with the required information that must be in a grant proposal".
The first on the Dr. Roth's list is Exec order 10990, which per Dr. Roth takes of transportation facilities.
As far as I know, Exec order 10990 dates from the JFK admin and has to do appointing officials to a safety council pursuant to an earlier act by Congress. Obama's exec orders begin at about number 13,400 or so, although some merely amend previous EOs.
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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. George Washington
He has to wash his hair those four days....oh, and doesn't want to get the stank on him. Ay-Pee article
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Oops! Appears a whole lotta WV Dems have....something...else...to do that week
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Democratic West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin says he won't attend the party's national convention, citing serious problems with President Barack Obama.
Same reason most of us won't be attending as well.
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Well, talk openly about crucifying the energy industry and phasing out coal energy doesn't sell in some places outside of urban environments like the Beltway.
William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has been all over the Warren story from the beginning. Go there and read.
Four outraged Cherokee activists who say Elizabeth Warren's campaign has ignored their emails and phone calls will trek to Boston this week in hopes they can force a meeting with the Democratic Senate candidate over her "offensive" Native American heritage claims.
"It's almost becoming extremely offensive to us," said Twila Barnes, a Cherokee genealogist who has researched Warren's family tree. "We're trying to get in contact and explain why her behavior hurts us and is offensive, and she totally ignores that. Like we don't exist."
Late last night, a Warren campaign official told the Herald that staffers will "connect" and "offer to have staff meet with them."
The four women, who Barnes said are all registered Cherokee tribal members -- from Missouri, Oregon, Oklahoma and one within the Bay State -- are due to arrive in Boston late today for four days. But they are closely guarding their itinerary, and Barnes would not say exactly what they have in mind.
"We're going to be visible. We have some things planned," said Barnes, hinting: "It's (Warren's) birthday this week."
Politics isn't a motivator, Barnes insisted. One of the women is a registered Democrat, and the other three are left-leaning independents, said Barnes, who said she voted for President Obama in 2008.
"Everyone has put their political issues aside, because we feel we're not going to sacrifice our integrity for a seat in Congress," Barnes said.
What they want, Barnes said, is for Warren to sit down with them and to stop claiming she's a Native American.
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"It's almost becoming extremely offensive to us," said Twila Barnes, a Cherokee genealogist who has researched Warren's family tree. "We're trying to get in contact and explain why her behavior hurts us and is offensive, and she totally ignores that. Like we don't exist."
Of course you don't exist anymore than free will conservative women or blacks.
And its OK, because as a liberal, it not the reality or truth that is important but that she means well by identifying with 'oppressed people' unlike the bigoted small mined people she runs against. /sarc off
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1. You would think someone could meet and at least pretend to be sympathetic and sincere for four fours (or even four minutes) but Elizabeth Warren is such an arrogant jerk that she might not be able to that.
2. Even if Warren does 'charm' the gang of four, there is the issue of truth. Much of Massachusetts is not following the real story and actually believes that Warren is telling the truth or something close to the truth on this.
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"Almost extremely offensive" > Yokay, I'll bite, not sure WTH that means - IMO either the Cherokee Nation, etal. is offended or extremely offended, or else it is NOT???
The United States will not bail out European countries if the eurozone economy falls apart under a spiraling debt crisis, Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney said Sunday.
"We're not going to send checks to Europe. We're not going to bail out the European banks. We're going to be poised here to support our economy," Romney told CBS television's "Face the Nation" program.
He expressed hope that "regardless of what happens in Europe, that our banking sector is able to weather the storm," noting that US banks are on a "much stronger basis" than during the last crisis.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The United States will not bail out European countries if the eurozone economy falls apart under a spiraling debt crisis, Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney said Sunday.
