Friday, October 31, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Political Awakening
Stranger things have happened but I credit my true political awakening to an urban legend. When I received the email "Obama in Kenya", I saw that it had been rapidly forwarded multiple times. I researched the "facts" outlined and wrote my response, posted unedited below...
On this Memorial Day weekend, here is my tribute to our First Amendment. My ancestors who fought in the American Revolution and wars since have assured me this right….no matter what the current political climate! They felt so strongly about their liberty that they left their homes and lands in England, Scotland, Ireland and Holland to come to the colonies in the early 1700’s. From them, I am “Garg'n Uair Dhuisgear"!
Next time, before you blithely hit forward….check and then re-check your facts! Over 150+ people were on the email entitled Obama in Kenya (full text is below)….did any of you question its authenticity or the source? Well, I did……one of my pet peeves is an urban legend passing as truth, which is exactly what this email is……an urban legend http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/kenya.asp
Background:
Kenya, until the recent election, was one of the few stable countries in Africa. The recent election re-ignited ethnic divides…..Kikuyu vs Luo. Here is a bird’s eye view
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010404300_pf.html
Also, in the American sense, a cousin is the child of your parents’ siblings. But in Luo culture, the members of your father’s or mother’s clans are your cousins. A clan would typically have hundreds of thousands of members, and the relationship is more social than biological.
Obama and Odinga (Kenya): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm
Obama and Dick Cheney: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7048325.stm
And my personal favorites: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/resume.asp
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bljokebushresume.htm
QUOTE of THE DAY The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
BTW - Loren and Celeste Davis exist….and so does (did) Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker! As for their credibility, well……
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Obama in Kenya
Good friend of ours sent this - Celeste and Loren Davis are missionaries in Africa and can shed some light on one of our Presidential candidates.
Thanks for sending out alert about Obama. We are living and working in Kenya for almost 12 years now and know his family (tribe) well.. They are the ones who were behind the recent Presidential election chaos here. Thousands of people have been displaced by election violance (over 350,000) and I don't know the last count of the dead. Obama under "friends of Obama" gave almost a million dollars to the opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga, who is a socialist trained in East Germany. He has been trying to bring Kenya down for years and the last president threw him in prison for trying to subvert this country! December 27th elections brought cries from ODM (Odinga Camp) of rigged election. Obama and Raila speak daily. As we watch Obama rise in the U.S we are sure that whatever happens, he will use the same tactic, crying rigged election if he doesn't win and possibly cause a race war in America. What we would like you to know is what the American press has been keeping secret. Obama is a Muslem and he is a racist and this is a fullfillment of the 911 threat that was just the beginning. Jihad is the 0nly true muslim way. We have been working with them for 20 years this July! He is not an American as we know it. Please encourage your friends and associates not to be taken in by those that are promoting him. It is worldwide Jihad. All our friends in Europe are very disturbed by rhe muslim infiltration into their countries. By the way, his true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama. Won't that sound sweet to our enemies as they swear him in on the Koran! God bless you and pray for us here in Kenya. We are still fighting for our nation to withstand the same kind of assault that every nation, incuding America, is fighting. Takeover from the outside to fit the new world order. As believers, this means we will be the first targets. Here in Kenya, not one mosque was burned down, but hundreds of churches were burned down, some of them with people in them, buried alive! Jesus Christ is our peace but the new world order of Globalism has infiltrated the church and confused believers into thinking they can compromise and survive. It won't be so. I will send you a newsletter we sent out in Feb. documenting in a more cohesive manner what I've tried to say in a few paragraphs. Love, Celeste
On this Memorial Day weekend, here is my tribute to our First Amendment. My ancestors who fought in the American Revolution and wars since have assured me this right….no matter what the current political climate! They felt so strongly about their liberty that they left their homes and lands in England, Scotland, Ireland and Holland to come to the colonies in the early 1700’s. From them, I am “Garg'n Uair Dhuisgear"!
Next time, before you blithely hit forward….check and then re-check your facts! Over 150+ people were on the email entitled Obama in Kenya (full text is below)….did any of you question its authenticity or the source? Well, I did……one of my pet peeves is an urban legend passing as truth, which is exactly what this email is……an urban legend http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/kenya.asp
Background:
Kenya, until the recent election, was one of the few stable countries in Africa. The recent election re-ignited ethnic divides…..Kikuyu vs Luo. Here is a bird’s eye view
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010404300_pf.html
Also, in the American sense, a cousin is the child of your parents’ siblings. But in Luo culture, the members of your father’s or mother’s clans are your cousins. A clan would typically have hundreds of thousands of members, and the relationship is more social than biological.
Obama and Odinga (Kenya): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm
Obama and Dick Cheney: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7048325.stm
And my personal favorites: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/resume.asp
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bljokebushresume.htm
QUOTE of THE DAY The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
BTW - Loren and Celeste Davis exist….and so does (did) Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker! As for their credibility, well……
_________________________________________________________________________________
Obama in Kenya
Good friend of ours sent this - Celeste and Loren Davis are missionaries in Africa and can shed some light on one of our Presidential candidates.
Thanks for sending out alert about Obama. We are living and working in Kenya for almost 12 years now and know his family (tribe) well.. They are the ones who were behind the recent Presidential election chaos here. Thousands of people have been displaced by election violance (over 350,000) and I don't know the last count of the dead. Obama under "friends of Obama" gave almost a million dollars to the opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga, who is a socialist trained in East Germany. He has been trying to bring Kenya down for years and the last president threw him in prison for trying to subvert this country! December 27th elections brought cries from ODM (Odinga Camp) of rigged election. Obama and Raila speak daily. As we watch Obama rise in the U.S we are sure that whatever happens, he will use the same tactic, crying rigged election if he doesn't win and possibly cause a race war in America. What we would like you to know is what the American press has been keeping secret. Obama is a Muslem and he is a racist and this is a fullfillment of the 911 threat that was just the beginning. Jihad is the 0nly true muslim way. We have been working with them for 20 years this July! He is not an American as we know it. Please encourage your friends and associates not to be taken in by those that are promoting him. It is worldwide Jihad. All our friends in Europe are very disturbed by rhe muslim infiltration into their countries. By the way, his true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama. Won't that sound sweet to our enemies as they swear him in on the Koran! God bless you and pray for us here in Kenya. We are still fighting for our nation to withstand the same kind of assault that every nation, incuding America, is fighting. Takeover from the outside to fit the new world order. As believers, this means we will be the first targets. Here in Kenya, not one mosque was burned down, but hundreds of churches were burned down, some of them with people in them, buried alive! Jesus Christ is our peace but the new world order of Globalism has infiltrated the church and confused believers into thinking they can compromise and survive. It won't be so. I will send you a newsletter we sent out in Feb. documenting in a more cohesive manner what I've tried to say in a few paragraphs. Love, Celeste
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