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the_wicker_man
Joined: 14 Jan 2009
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 Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:25 pm Post subject: DC Parties While Children Starve In Africa |
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$170 million would have gone a long way for Botswana Aids victims but I guess they'll have to wait until the hangover clears. Same for Katrina victims and Albuquerque school children that are having free lunches rationed into cheese sandwiches.
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Michelle Malkin
Partying in D.C.: Illegal alien/deportation fugitive Aunti Zeituni Onyango
By Michelle Malkin � January 20, 2009 10:38 PM
Well, isn�t this special? After overstaying her visa, ignoring a federal deportation order for years, escaping apprehension in Boston, and taking refuge in Cleveland, the destitute illegal alien aunt of Barack Obama somehow found her way to Washington, D.C., for her nephew�s inauguration.
Federal immigration officials couldn�t find her, but she was spotted by several media outlets and partygoers around the Beltway.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported:
Ohio Democrats put aside the state�s financial troubles and cold weather Sunday night to celebrate its part in electing Barack Obama to the White House.
Just a few blocks from Obama�s soon-to-be residence, elected officials, former officeholders, proud volunteers and party activists from the Buckeye State noshed and drank at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, a historic luxury hotel�
� One special guest who commanded attention at the party was Zeituni Onyango, 56, Obama�s aunt from Kenya who has been in this country illegally and is getting help in her immigration fight from another ball guest, Cleveland attorney Margaret Wong.
About 900 people, who each paid $300, attended the ball, which was put on by a special committee set up for the event.
It sold corporate sponsorships � ranging from $10,000 to $75,000 � to help underwrite the cost of the ball and related activities. Among the sponsors were Duke Energy, Nationwide, the Ohio Education Association and Penn National Gaming.
The NYTimes, which doesn�t seem to have caught up to the news that Onyango ditched her Boston public housing for sanctuary in Ohio, added:
On Monday, some of Mr. Obama�s Kenyan relatives milled around the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel here, their colorful headscarves earning them more curious glances than even the sports and pop music stars in the room. Zeituni Onyango, the president�s aunt, explained that their family had always been able to absorb newcomers.
Pointing out that her male relatives used to take on multiple wives, she said, �My daddy said anyone coming into my family is my family.� (Ms. Onyango, who lives in Boston, recently faced deportation charges, but those orders have been stayed and she is pursuing a green card.)
Michelle Obama�s brother is quoted in the very next paragraph:
At holidays and celebrations, �you get a whole lot of people who are happy to be around family,� Craig Robinson said.
Guess Aunti has been rescued from under the bus � giving Hope to deportation fugitives across the country that Obama will look the other way at their cases, too.
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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if the aunt of any President of the United States of America isn't deported, that wouldn't be shocking
in fact, I suspect most people would nod in acceptance at the granting of citizenship in such a case |
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the_wicker_man
Joined: 14 Jan 2009
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| I disagree, outlander. His aunt has no valid asylum claim or other valid reason to remain. Its just corruption. We Americans went through this at least twice. We said no. We still say no, if we the gov't has the courage, nay - integrity to ask. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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Liz: How come men can be heavy and be respected, like James Gandolfini or Fat Albert? It's a double standard, and America needs to get over its body image madness.
Jack: Oh, come on. What are we, back in college, freshman year? Let's go to the common room and talk about apartheid.
http://www.tv.com/30-rock/jack-gets-in-the-game/episode/1140968/trivia.html |
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wesharris
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Better African Children starve than our own. PARTY ON. |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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Seriously who gives a *beep* about africa .. How do you think they could deliver thatt 170 mil. Last time US tried to help it blew up in their face, Somalia is a good example of them trying to help and geting fucked by the UN or the fucking african shit eating monkeys that run that shit hole.
LET THEM starve. Every nation in the western hemesphere went through growing pains industrial revolution and went through some awful crap I don't see why they shouldn't. Sorry maybe they will have to stop their silly tribalism and do something for the common good of their people. |
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RJjr
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Turning on a Lamp
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| Why would we care about the blacks starving in Africa when we don't even care about the blacks starving nearby in Haiti? We're one nation under God, so we ship bombs, not food. |
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ManintheMiddle
Joined: 20 Oct 2008
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wicker man:
Give it a rest, will ya?
Why is it America's obligation to keep forking over aid, especially since we didn't even colonize the place?
Bush did more than anyone other Western leader to provide aid to this region, as even Bono readily acknowledged.
What about the former Black slave owner paying up? No, not Whites but the Arabs? Lots of oil money sloshing around in their pockets, eh?
And, anyhow, most of it would likely have ended up in the pockets of corrupt African leaders.
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| Why would we care about the blacks starving in Africa when we don't even care about the blacks starving nearby in Haiti? We're one nation under God, so we ship bombs, not food. |
You're beginning to sound like Dennis Kucinich on crack.
Tell me, which is it: Is the Western Hemisphere our backyard and hence our responsibility to sustain or isn't it? Once again Leftists want to have their cake and eat it too.
I do believe Haiti is a former French colony. Pen an email to Paris instead and lodge your complaint. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:47 am Post subject: Re: DC Parties While Children Starve In Africa |
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| the_wicker_man wrote: |
| $170 million would have gone a long way for Botswana Aids victims but I guess they'll have to wait until the hangover clears. Same for Katrina victims and Albuquerque school children that are having free lunches rationed into cheese sandwiches. |
Hey that 200,00 won you blew in Itaewon last weekend could have been sent to Africa...that 3,000,000 you spent in Thailand last vacation could have been as well...the 3,000 won for you to fiddle around at the internet cafe to post this as well.
Hopefully you REALLY are a great samaritian who lives by your these 'values' you place on others...but I have this feeling that you don't. |
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