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During a session with reporters on Thursday, a local Boston reporter tried to get a straight answer from Elizabeth Warren on the question of her alleged “Cherokee” heritage. Warren went into politician mode: she refused to answer while launching into a bloviation on “middle class families.” She then turned away from the reporter and tried to take another question.
But here’s the kicker: according to a separate report regarding the exchange, Warren is still sticking to claims of American Indian heritage because — her mother told her so….
This comes as the Boston Globe released another curious report on Warren being promoted by Harvard, saying that Harvard used her Cherokee heritage claim in federally mandated diversity statistics:
US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has said she was unaware that Harvard Law School had been promoting her purported Native American heritage until she read about it in a newspaper several weeks ago.
But for at least six straight years during Warren’s tenure, Harvard University reported in federally mandated diversity statistics that it had a Native American woman in its senior ranks at the law school. According to both Harvard officials and federal guidelines, those statistics are almost always based on the way employees describe themselves.
In addition, both Harvard’s guidelines and federal regulations for the statistics lay out a specific definition of Native American that Warren does not meet.
The documents suggest for the first time that either Warren or a Harvard administrator classified her repeatedly as Native American in papers prepared for the government in a way that apparently did not adhere to federal diversity guidelines. They raise further questions about Warren’s statements that she was unaware Harvard was promoting her as Native American.
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SORRY FOR BLOGGING YET ANOTHER POST ON CHIEF WARREN, BUT THIS IS JUST TOO FUNNY! BUT SERIOUSLY, HOW CAN ANYONE QUESTION WARREN’S HERITAGE? ONE LOOK AT HER WILL CONFIRM HER CLAIM THAT SHE’S CHEROKEE. LOL.
Don’t you just love early morning rain! The air is still fresh from the night before, cooling the skin, and the patter of raindrops soothes the soul.
I came out to the back porch with a cup of coffee, my Sony Pocket Reader and the leather-bound journal one of my sons gave me for Christmas 2 years ago. I much prefer a simple spiral-bound journal. This one is almost too lovely to use, which is why I’ve had it 2 years but have only filled a dozen pages.
The birds aren’t quite as raucous this morning as they are on bright, sunny days, but I hear a Mourning Dove cooing somewhere in the woods and another bird, unidentified, chirping steadily. A Blue Jay just “cawed” — no doubt its imitation of a local crow.
Blue Jays are the pollyannas of the bird world. Nothing can dampen their spirits. Many times, I’ve been awakened early on a cold winter morning by a group of Blue Jays clowning around in the woods outside my window, clearly playing and thoroughly enjoying the snow.
On a summer day not long ago, I was walking in a local park, when I heard a duck quacking. There were several ducks at my feet, but they were as puzzled as I, because the quacking came from above us. I looked up and there sat a Blue Jay atop a light post quacking away, having a fine time imitating the ducks!
The wild roses are in bloom. Their proper name is multiflora rose and they’re considered a pest. How can something so lovely ever be a pest?! It has climbed into several of the trees, twining around their trunks, and now blooms profusely in their midst.
The mock orange bush is blooming, too, with its sweetly fragrant faux-orange blossoms and, despite the rain, the air is full of sweet perfume.
I love a rainy day!
Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama’s anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White—which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follow:
Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.
The booklet, which is thirty-six pages long, is printed in blue ink (and, on the cover, silver/grey ink), using offset lithography. It purports to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Acton & Dystel, which was founded in 1976.
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AND NO ONE THOUGHT THIS WAS IMPORTANT WHEN BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008???
NO WONDER THE MAN HAD TO MAKE AN EMERGENCY TRIP TO HAWAII TO DEMAND THAT HIS RECORDS BE SEALED. SHEESH.
I REFER YOU TO ARTICLE II, SECTION 1 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;
OBAMA IS NOT QUALIFIED TO HOLD THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. WHAT MUST BE DONE ABOUT THIS EGREGIOUS VIOLATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION?
anciscan University, a Catholic institution in Steubensville, Ohio, is claiming that Obamacare has forced the school to end its student heath insurance program. The massive health care overhaul, the university says, has led to cost increases that no longer make offering the program a viable possibility.
Not surprisingly, President Obama’s controversial contraception mandate is one of the the provisions that caused Franciscan University to make its startling decision. In addition to the mandate, which the school says would force Catholics to violate conscience, another provision in the president’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — one that requires a maximum coverage amount to be increased to $100,000 for policyholders — was cited as the basis for the decision.
In an interview with Fox News, Mike Hernon, the university’s vice president of advancement, claimed that Obamacare would cause the $600 student policy to double in cost next fall. He also said that the same policy would triple in cost the following year.
“This is putting people in a position where they are having to choose between their faith and their morality, and now an unjust cost,” Hernon said. “These sorts of regulations from the government are forcing our hand in a way that’s really wrong.”
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WAY TO GO, OBAMA! NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL PROVIDING “AFFORDABLE CARE” TO ALL AMERICANS!
So it’s come to this. The Obama campaign has reportedly banned cell phones at small fundraisers held in private homes. The measure, presumably, is being taken to avoid any gaffes that might damage the president’s 2012 re-election hopes.
The phenomenon was first reported by the Washington Post‘s David Nakamura, who described how guests who paid $35,800 to meet the President at the New York City home of Blackstone Group COO Hamilton “Tony” James on Monday were asked to drop their phones in a plastic bag at the door.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/15/obama-campaign-bans-cell-phones-at-private-fundraisers/#ixzz1v2XPmCz9
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WELL, THAT COMES AS NO SURPRISE. AFTER ALL, WE WOULDN’T WANT IT GETTING OUT THAT OBAMA PRIVATELY REFERS TO PENNSYLVANIANS AS “BITTER PEOPLE CLINGING TO THEIR GUNS AND RELIGION,” NOW WOULD WE?
IDIOT.
REV. EMMETT C. BURNS, JR.
On Sunday, the Rev. Emmett C. Burns Jr., pastor of the Rising Sun Baptist Church in Baltimore MD, publicly withdrew support from Obama over his position on same-sex marriage, CNN reported. “I love the president, but I cannot support what he has done,” Burns was quoted as saying at the church. He also predicted that Obama’s stance would lead to his defeat in November.
However, today he reversed his position. While speaking on Fox & Friends this morning, Rev. Burns said that while his religious beliefs were diametrically opposed to Obama’s stated positions on many things, including gay marriage, he would continue to support Obama’s reelection bid.
When asked why he wouldn’t support Mitt Romney, since Romney’s beliefs more closely aligned with his, Emmett said, “Because we don’t trust him. Romney has no record, except his record as Governor of Massachusetts.” (Huh? That’s not a record? Apparently Obama’s VERY REAL lack of a record AND a complete and utter lack of experience in 2008 hadn’t concerned him.)
Emmett continued to dissemble, refusing to admit that he supports Obama solely because Obama is black.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DIRECTOR JONATHAN B. JARVIS
By Allen Reed
RALEIGH, N.C.
Mowing at all national parks has been suspended indefinitely because of safety concerns after a maintenance worker cutting grass along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina fell to his death.
The National Park Service sent an order to its regional offices Friday to halt mowing at its 397 parks that are spread across every state except Delaware.
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Cutting the grass at national parks has been suspended because of safety concerns following the death of a Blue Ridge Parkway maintenance worker.
On Monday, The National Park Service suspended mowing at its 397 parks nationwide….
The agency is reviewing safety procedures after 63-year-old Dana Bruce of Alexander died at the Haw Creek Overlook near North Asheville when his riding mower fell more than 140 feet down an embankment May 7.
Officials don’t know when mowing will resume. Each park in the system must assess its maintenance practices….
“People can expect to see tall grass on the shoulders of the parkway, in the overlooks, in the picnic areas, and in the developed areas,” according to Stinnett. He doesn’t believe uncut grass will deter the people from visiting the parkway or any other location, but says it may have some impact on their experience.
“I run the trails and use the park service quite a bit and I know it will make it difficult,” said Dean Clayton of Asheville.
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IT MAY “IMPACT THEIR EXPERIENCE”? YA THINK?!
TYPICAL BUREAUCRATIC OVERREACTION. ONE GUY PULLS A DUMB STUNT AND GETS HIMSELF KILLED, SO MOWING OPERATIONS MUST HALT IN ALL 397 NATIONAL PARKS.
YOU CAN’T HOLD THE MAINTENANCE WORKERS’ HANDS, MR. JARVIS, NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU MAY WANT TO. BUT BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT IDIOCY, EVERYONE WHO GOES TO THE NATIONAL PARKS ON VACATION THIS SUMMER WILL HAVE TO WADE THROUGH KNEE-HIGH WEEDS AND BATTLE EXPLODING INSECT POPULATIONS. THANK YOU.
