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KFC in Fallujah (Thanks to Blue Star Chronicles)

UPDATE: US [July] monthly toll in Iraq at lowest since invasion--though still eleven too many.

Save Obama School: The Funding

What a difference a day makes. The non-profit is going through the California legal gauntlet, but I have had it expedited. I was only able to do that because of the nice little surge in donations due to promotion of the cause by several sites. (No worries. I’m keeping a list of them as I see them in my referrers log and plan to give them their props.)

At present the haul is over $1,200 $2200 and that’s not counting the initial $500+ laid out to incorporate the non-profit! I’ve spent the morning writing ‘thank you’ notes. You all are wonderful.

I have a hidden helper who is assisting me with the website. I had said that it would be a blog but it won’t be—though it will certainly have a blog. One thing necessary for this endeavor to be successful: keeping an eye on what’s happening in Kenya so that will be a part of the site as well. I do have some experience in the area, as well as a contact or two.

Keep it going!

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Obama Kogelo School Update: Non-Profit Done!
Save Obama School: The Site and The Non-profit
Saving Obama School
Raising A Village

The Tactic of Smear

Obama may have left Black Liberation Theology’s Trinity United Church of “Christ,” but it certainly hasn’t left him.

Obama continued: "And so the only way they [sic] figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me. So what they’re saying is, ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he’s... doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, you know, he’s got a, he’s got a funny name.'

The candidate belonged to a church that subscribed to an ideology of racial vengeance and victory. He may have left the church, but he hasn’t left the racial combat notions behind, not by a long shot. So he must keep Sowing the racial Discord. Fortunately, for him, that isn’t difficult, since the idea that Republicans were the party of racists was planted long before Obama came on the scene.

So no matter how much McCain demonstrates that he is the very opposite of racist, he is at a disadvantage. It’s tough to fight forty years of indoctrination.

Obama’s purpose in keeping up this tactic of racist smearing is twofold: 1) to keep the troops stoked, and 2) to help the nation to forget that he allied himself with a set of racists for twenty years, the truth be damned.

(Thanks to Hot Air)

UPDATE: Ace:

These guys are so horny for someone to call Obama a shiftless darkie they're thisclose to saying it themselves.

I'm trying to be offended. Maybe after I stop laughing.

Obama Kogelo School Update: Non-Profit Done!

Several good, kind readers--including anonymous Milbloggers--come to my rescue, or rather, to the rescue of Obama Kogelo Secondary School Students and the non-profit is created! Now the website is being built at obamaschool.org; I will let everyone know when it goes up.

So the first battle is won, now the second, longer one looms. Stay tuned and please...

UPDATE: Non-Profit name: Save Senator Obama Kogelo School, Inc.

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Save Obama School: The Site and The Non-profit
Saving Obama School
Raising A Village

UPDATE: Hello, my friends from Hot Air.

"Doing Something" for Black People

My essay, 'Why is the Black Vote in the Democrats' Pocket?' is up at Pajamas Media. To those who take issue with the slavery metaphor as it relates to the relationship between black Americans and the Democrat Party: prepare to be offended.

UPDATE: Of course, some Liberals are "arguing" with the essay in the PJM comment section. The fun part about this is that they don't seem to realize that the op-ed's author is black and their condescension toward blacks is shining brightly through. Shhh! Don't tell them!

Save Obama School, July 30, 2008

So I have $110 for my project. When the total gets to $500 I’ll apply for the non-profit. Can we get there today? I think so.

I had decided to set up the site in a blog format since that’s something that I can do personally, since, with Typepad Pro, one can have infinite bloggage for a base fee. One big problem: the name ‘Luo American’--the URL of this site--is incorporated and if I set up a non-profit in connection with this blog, I can imagine that our friendly tax collectors would take a dim view of such a thing. So I’m going to set this up separately with Blogger or Wordpress.

Let’s do this thing!

(Photo courtesy of Democrat=Socialist)

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Save Obama School, July 30, 2008
Save Obama School: The Site and The Non-profit
Saving Obama School
Raising A Village

Milblogs TV: Anbar Rising

Part 1 Part 2

No More Burgers

...say our betters at the LA City Council. I need to stay away from In-n-Out, etc. anyway.

So I guess the next mandate will be to put a Trader Joe's or a Whole Foods Market across from the County building. That would be fine with me if I didn't know that it would be another sign that the leaders of this fair metropolis were emboldened enough to their true colors: Red.

Stupid, shaky city.

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How About a Moratorium on Shootings First?

Earthquake (UPDATED: It's Not That Serious)

In LA right now...rockin the house.

UPDATE: Alles in Ordnung. For now.

UPDATE:5.6 5.8; felt from San Diego to San Francisco Santa Barbara. LA Times server must have caught something heavy. It's down.

Epicenter: 29 miles east of LA...Chino Hills.

UPDATE:LAT back up.

UPDATE: Breitbart (AP):

Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said there were no immediate reports of damage or injury in Los Angeles. San Bernardino County fire dispatch also had no immediate reports of damage.

The quake struck at 11:42 a.m. PDT. Buildings swayed in downtown Los Angeles for several seconds.

Workers quickly evacuated some office buildings.

"It was dramatic. The whole building moved and it lasted for a while," said Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore, who was in the sheriff's suburban Monterey Park headquarters east of Los Angeles.

UPDATE: My great-aunt, a Californian through and through: "Enough with the earthquake coverage already!"

UPDATE: They're still talking about it on FNC. Overheard passing by the TV: "...as soon as we get some video of those [presumably broken] ceiling tiles..." ZZZZ

East Coasters, relax. We're used to this.

UPDATE: Gabriel Malor was taking his bar exam in the LA Ontario Convention Center where the ceiling tiles in question fell and that they're heavy enough to hurt someone. My bad. I'm glad that no future lawyers were hurt.

Seriously, though.

Of Interest, July 29, 2008

Europeans say, Screw (on) the Heroes!

Unholy troika: Linking the 2008 Democrat nominee for President of the United States to Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) and Speaker of the US House of Representatives Pelosi (D-CA is an “attack” now—especially when the subject is oil-drilling.

And why wouldn’t Obama want to be associated with the Speaker? After all, by driving us all into the poorhouse via the refusal to allow domestic drilling, she’s Saving the Planet!

Part of the problem: Senator Ted Steven (R-AK) is indicted for seven counts of lying according to the federal grand jury.

Lenin twirls: The billionaires come out at night in Moscow. Rich, no doubt, due to oil.

Lots of things happened in 1968: Jonah Goldberg jeers at the observation of the 40th anniversary of the black power salute which Olympic athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos offered as the American National Anthem played during the Olympic medal ceremony. (HT Hot Air)

Eat this! A recipe for recession, featuring guess-who as the chef.

But I'm not depressed, no sir.

UPDATE: The Third Man On the Podium: Peter Norman (1942-2006).

Have you ever watched a movie for the 10th time and noticed something that you've never seen before? Did you wonder how you possibly could have missed it?

That's the way I felt when I learned that John Carlos and Tommie Smith flew to Australia to serve as pallbearers in the funeral of Peter Norman, the third man on the medal stand with them in that iconic photo of their black-gloved protest at the 1968 Olympics.

Read the whole thing.