A Simply Amazing Rebuttal to the Simply Amazed Obama Skeptics, or "Oh Yes They Can"

So here's the latest nonsense being passed around:

Isn't it amazing that, within only one week of Tiger Woods crashing his Escalade, the press found every woman with whom Tiger has had an affair during the last few years? And, they even uncovered photos, text messages, recorded phone calls, etc.! Furthermore, they not only know the cause of the family fight, but they even know it was a wedge from his golf bag that his wife used to break out the windows in the Escalade. Not only that, they know which wedge! And, each & every day, they were able to continue to provide America with updates on Tiger's sex rehab stay, his wife's plans for divorce, as well as the dates & tournaments in which he will play.
Now, Barack Hussein Obama has been in office for two years, yet this very same press:

· Cannot find any of his childhood friends or neighbors;
· Or find any of Obama's high school or college classmates;
· Or locate any of his college papers or grades;
· Or determine how he paid for both a Columbia & a Harvard education;
· Or discover which country issued his visa to travel to Pakistan in the 1980's;
· Or even find Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis on racism
They just can't seem to uncover any of this.
Yet, the public still trusts that same press to give them the whole truth!
Simply amazing, isn't it?

Here's my rebuttal:

Simply amazing how stubbornly some people cling to lies, and perpetuate gossip! Of course, if one is a skeptic, no amount of memory, testimony or sense experience will convince him. Just try proving to a skeptic that he is not the only one with a mind, and that other people aren't robots! Or try proving to him that the world wasn't created five minutes ago! If one prefers doubt, then not even God himself can change his mind--as Jesus demonstrated when he walked among us. http://bible.cc/luke/13-34.htm

Not that it will probably change many minds, but just for the record, here are responses to all the allegations:


Now, Barack Hussein Obama has been in office for two years, yet this very same press:

1) Cannot find any of his childhood friends or neighbors;

Oh yes they can!

http://obamasneighborhood.com/friends.html

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2989722&page=1

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/2637523/Barack-Obamas-childhood-friends-deny-he-was-a-Muslim.html

http://www.barackobamahawaii.com/

2) Or find any of Obama's high school or college classmates

Oh yes they can!

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=3082803&page=1

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/columbia.asp
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2081836/posts

3) Or locate any of his college papers or grades

Oh yes, they could if it were legal!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/columbiathesis.asp

http://www.oxy.edu/x7992.xml

here's another perspective:
http://www.redstate.com/davenj1/2011/04/28/farewell-birthers-hello-transcripters/

I have been a college instructor for over 20 years.The 1974 federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (34 CFR Part 99) protects the privacy of student education records. Remember how teachers used to leave graded papers and tests outside their office doors for students to rifle through and pick up? Thanks to this act, it is illegal for instructors to reveal student info to anyone except the student, without his or her permission. Think of it as HIPPA for education.

I've thrown out my own papers, and I routinely throw out student papers/tests if they are not reclaimed after one semester. It is only recently that computers have been around to easily store information. Now that that is possible, I do have student's online work.

4) Or determine how he paid for both a Columbia & a Harvard education;
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp

Oh yes they can!

Per Obahma's book Audacity of Hope, p194 "Where Americans do need help, immediately, is in managing the rising cost of college-- something with which Michelle and I are all too familiar (for the first ten years of our marriage, our combined monthly payments on our undergraduate and law school debt exceeded our mortgage by a healthy margin)."

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_Barack_Obama_pay_for_his_extensive_education#ixzz1SlYT3ybk

How did W pay for his education?

5) Or discover which country issued his visa to travel to Pakistan in the 1980's;

Yes, they have a good idea:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/passport.asp

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/06/more-birther-nonsense-obamas-1981-pakistan-trip/

(One good question deserves another: Exactly where was George Bush during the Vietnam War, particularly 1972-73?  http://www.google.com/search?q=Oh+yes+they+can%21&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8&rlz=   )
6) Or even find Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis on racism.

Oh, yes they can!  This is too easy:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/columbiathesis.asp


Michelle LeVaughan Robinson Obama's Princeton thesis is available for you to read here:

part 1: http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf

pert 2: http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_26-501.pdf

part3: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html

part 4: http://dyn.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_76-981.pdf

BIZARRE AND OUTRAGEOUS: People of Walmart

A while back, Time did the article below. Now there's the song...


That Viral Thing: People of Walmart
By Claire Suddath Monday, Aug. 31, 2009

Why don't people wear shirts when they shop at Walmart? Or pants that fit? Has that woman been wearing a fanny pack for 15 years or did she just recently pick up on the belt-as-purse trend? Is that guy wearing a cape?

People of Walmart, a website that launched earlier this month, catalogs the gloriously absurd attire that is sported by the big-box retailer's customer base. There are photos of fat people in sweatpants, a child with a rattail and a guy wearing a Captain America costume. But the website's founders, three guys in their early 20s who preferred to provide only their first names, aren't interested in stereotypical rednecks or run-of-the-mill mullet sightings. "Mullets are too common," says Andrew, who is 23 and lives in Indiana. "We want to document the kind of stuff that when you see it, you immediately have to call someone and be like, 'Dude, I'm at Walmart and I just saw a goat.' "

Andrew, his brother Adam and their friend Luke started People of Walmart after a shopping trip to a South Carolina branch earlier this month. "We turned a corner to see a stripper — at least, I think she was a stripper — with a shirt that read 'Go F___ Yourself,' and she had a 2-year-old kid in one of those child harnesses that looked like a dog leash," says Adam. They turned another corner and saw a guy with a ZZ Top beard.

Inspired by the experience, the three friends — who shop at Walmart regularly, sometimes while wearing ugly clothes — went home and created the website. They asked their friends to submit photos and naively assumed that no one outside their social circle would ever see it. "Honestly," says Andrew, "we didn't think we'd even update it very often."

But the last week in August, People of Walmart went viral, earning mention on websites like Funny or Die. Its traffic increased by 700% on Aug. 27 alone. Photo submissions went from one or two to more than 120. The flood of visitors has even crashed the site.
(See the 50 best websites of 2009.)

People of Walmart's founders expect some people to take issue with the site's tone. "I'm not gonna sit here and say the site isn't pretentious or that it doesn't poke fun at people — because it does," admits Adam, who says he "loves" Walmart. "But we have limits. We won't make fun of the people who can't help it." They do not publish photos of disabled people or Walmart employees who are just doing their job. "I can't tell you how many people send in pictures of overweight people on motorized scooters," he says. "But we won't post them because some of those people need scooters for a reason." He also refuses to post pictures of the Amish.

Because of those ground rules, People of Walmart mostly ridicules folks with bad hairdos, excessive tattoos or ill-fitting clothing. "Look, I'm a big guy," says Adam. "I'm not going to walk around in medium-size clothes. I'd look like an idiot." By the same token, he figures, you shouldn't wear a Captain America costume, put your goat on a leash or let your pants fall down in public. If you do, you're begging to be laughed at — just like this woman.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1919401,00.html#ixzz1NaeQ1goA

Bizarre and Outrageous Department: World beard and Moustasche Competition

Books after Nooks

Is this what will eventually happen to books,

now that there are Kindles and there are Nooks?

Perhaps you will disagree,

but for me it's like cutting down a tree.

Aftercomers will never guess

The way these books are able to bless

a wondering mind, a searching heart;

or know the joy that they impart!

Electronic readers certainly have their advantages, and doubtless I will end up owning one someday soon. However, there's an aesthetic that goes with books that future generations will miss: the feel of the paper, the smell of print; cover art (remember record jackets, as opposed to CD boxes?) deckle edged pages...Funny, but I still remember with great fondness my third-grade lanugage arts book. It was a beautiful pale green, and was printed on paper that felt like silk.

 Not to mention autographs and hidden treasure! Susan has now given me two books on opera that she found at the University of Toronto booksale that once belonged to Father M. Owen Lee, the great classicist, operaphile and frequent commenator on the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. When I opened one to read it, out tumbled 1983 San Francisco Opera ticket stub for Die Walkure  and a sheet of notes, in his own hand.
There's something wonderful about holding a book that has been passed down to you!

Incense needed...lots of incense!

via Brad, Internet Monk explains that "If I become Lutheran, Anglican or Catholic, it will be because I watched this too many times." Specifically, IMonk presents us with "The worst worship ever."



The comments are really the best part of the blog entry. I love Father Ernesto's suggestion:

"Well, in situations like this, I suggest a healthy dollop of incense, to be used at the time when the socks are being taken off to be flung around."

Wonders for Oyarsa offers an amazing contrasting video:

Tales of the Outrageous and Bizarre: #1

Fill 'Er Up With Human Fat

Peter C. Beller, 12.22.08, 05:00 AM EST

How a Beverly Hills doctor powered his SUV using his patients' spare tires.

read the story here (Forbes)

and here (Times Online)