On Tuesday 04 March 2008 18:18, Jed Rothwell wrote:
> This is cute. Readers here may have heard about this already, but
> there is a town in Japan called "Obama" which has gone gah-gah over
> Obama, the candidate. See:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/world/asia/19japan.html
>
> "Candidate Wins Support in the East. No, Farther East."
>
> The reception desk photo shows a serious looking young woman in a
> blue kimono standing behind a desk with a hilarious poster saying (in
> Japanese), "Go Obama" and next to it "Unauthorized committee to
> support Obama's candidacy" The word means "unauthorized" or "sticking
> your nose in where you have no business." In other words they know it
> is bad form to support a candidate in another country, but they can't
> help themselves. And they are hoping to attract tourists.
>
> "Obama" is a fairly common name in Japanese. The resemblance is not
> surprising because Japanese and many African languages both always
> follow a consonant with a vowel. "Obama" means "small beach" (cove)
> in Japanese. Not sure what it means in Luo. "Barack" comes from
> "Blessed" in Hebrew and other Semitic languages. "Hussein" is Hebrew
> / Semitic for "good, handsome."
>
> The last U.S. presidential wannabee candidate to get widespread
> support in Japan was Gen. MacArthur, in 1948. According to one
> Occupation Legend, there was a large poster in downtown Tokyo that
> was meant to proclaim in English:
>
> "We pray for MacArthur's election"
>
> Unfortunately, as often happens, they mixed up their L's and R's and
> it came out:
>
> "We play for MacArthur's erection"
>
> Myth? Truth? Too good to be true?
>
> - Jed
The below is not cute. A recent interview of Obama had him stating words to
the effect that if elected he would gut the space program as we know it. He
said that out present program was 'not coherent', and went on to say that as
President he would order a thorough review of all programs...euphemism for
put all programs on hold and prep for defunding. He mentioned a rambling
reference to a robotic 'Jupiter mission' that seems reminiscent of one of
George Bush's promises under the discarded Prometheus program, the Jupiter
Icy Moons Orbiter that was similarly binned when politically expedient, the
Bushies having gotten all the photo op juices out of it. I really do not
trust this man with our space program. First he will gut the manned
missions, then 'accounting office study' the 'robotic missions'.
Our space program does'nt hold a candle to the monies tossed down that
Halliburton/KBR tax paid corporate gunboat diplomacy welfare rathole that is
Iraq. Cut it back and we might as well start learning Mandarin and
Cantonese. The Chinese, if intelligence estimates of actual vs openly stated
war budget figures continue to serve, just approved a probable two hundred
billion dollar equivalent war budget, a twenty percent increase over last
year's budget. This budget is a large increase even considering that the
Chinese have consistantly expanded their military budget by double digit
percentages for the last twenty years. Absolutely wrong time to stand down
military or gut space programs as Mr Barack (Arabic/English spelling is
'Buraq' for the horse with the woman's face that transported Mohammed
to the 'far away Mosque' faster than the speed of light according to the
Qu'Ran) Hussein (grandson of Mohammed) Obama has imtimated he would
do. Mr Obama has stated that he is a Christian. Then why does he cling to
Moslem names, and why does his stated Church not know him? Why does
he always have only black folks around him? Why has he not denounced Mr
Farrakhan for racism (Farrakhan is Moslem), and why does he seem to accept Mr
Farrakhan's endorsement and probably money? All Buraq Hussein Obama's
Kenyan ancestors for the last three generations have had the same name,
'Barack Hussein Obama' since the oldest known Kenyan male ancestor
converted to Moslem in the eighteen hundreds and consequently named
his son the original Barack Hussein Obama (so Moslem meanings for the
names have to be considered first among alternative explanations); and all
Buraq Hussein Obama's ancestors have had four wives, even his father who died
in a car crash in Nairobi ...leaving four wives..and many half siblings of
Buraq. Born into that family and living in Indonesia for years with a Moslem
step father (mother's second husband...yet another Moslem) leads me to
speculate that Buraq's mother was not an athiest but rather a Moslem convert.
Else she would not have been so readily accepted into Indonesian society and
would not have registered Buraq into an Indonesian elementary school some
websites have claimed was and is a 'Madrassa'.
No Moslem individual or group has denounced Buraq for 'leaving the Moslem
church'. Leaving the Moslem church (or Moslem Apostasy in their terms)
usually brings death threats, Fatwas, execution in Moslem countries, etc!.
Why? Is this man really a Manchurian Candidate? And lastly, why do Moslems
all over the world seem to be publicly praying for the success of this man?
Does Michelle have to be seen in public wearing a veil for the public to wake
up?
Black folks seem to go for him by ninety percent margins and yet he is
not really one of them. He is not Black but Nilotic, as from the Nile River
region of Africa's northeast; the same variety of human as the ancient
Nubians and Kushans who were the Shepherd Kings of Egypt.....and gave the
world the Queen of Sheba before climate change and desertification destroyed
their lands.
I guess on the positive side, Moslems reject Einstein and seem to use that
Qu'Ran as the basis for this (.."faster than the speed of light.."). Maybe he
will order astronomers to stop applying 'relativistic corrections' to FTL
observations in order to not have to admit what they have seen.
