O ... K ... and how would they explain the situation, I'm guessing that it would be completely different from your explanation?
Side question ... why do you folks think that Obama is black? I'm no expert in such things, but to me he looks as much white as he is black. Just looking at his picture. And I went to Wiki, and looked at a picture of his mother, and she looks white to me. So how come he's defined as black? On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > Date sent: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:05:48 +0100 (BST) > From: Drsolly <[email protected]> > > > I can tell there's sarcasm or irony there, by the tone of voice, but other > > than > > that, I cannot work out what this posting is about. > > > > Could someone give me some pukka gen on this? > > One has to go back a bit: > > a) Person of colour runs for US Prez. > > b) US says "We are not bigotted or racist, no, not us!" > > c) Person of colour wins. > > d) Proportion of US population goes seriously flaky, claiming person of > colour > was not born in US, is trying to kill all US grandmothers by providing > medical > treatment, etc. Commodity prices for tin-foil start to creep upward. > > e) Prez of colour takes interest in education, and states intention of giving > pep > talk to students at beginning of school year. > > f) Proportion of US population, terrified at the thought of someone > encouraging > students to learn something during the school year, tries all possible means > to > prevent said pep talk from happening. > > (In Chris' case, the school board said that the telecast could be shown, but > only if > all parents signed off permission for their youngsters to attend, said > permission to > be publicized and obtained during a holiday weekend.) (In opposition to the > rest of > the world, which celebrates labour holiday at the beginning of the summer > holiday > period, North Am reminds workers that the next day is when they have to go > *back* to work ...) > > ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) > [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal. But if it > is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper. > - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, March 30, 1988 > http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm > http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ > http://twitter.com/NoticeBored > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
