Define "Lasting"

Okay, to summarize - from the time he was a child until he was a young man, I guess, Barack Obama drank whiskey, wrote dirty limericks, read poetry and, um, was counseled by a sexual deviant, child molester, rapist of children? That about cover it? And in his book he said it had a lasting effect on him? Damn. That could actually be very sad.

That may be worse than his having been counseled by Jeremiah Wright.

No wonder he says "Pakit-stan" in that funny way of his! heh!

Barack describes how Frank Davis had a lasting effect on him and became a father figure over the seven years they knew one another on the tropical island.

In Dreams from My Father, Obama wrote: "He would read us poetry whenever we stopped by his house, sharing whiskey with Gramps out of an emptied jelly jar.

"As the night wore on, the two of them would solicit my help in composing dirty limericks."

Obama described being counseled by Frank often and recalled drinking whiskey with him.

Since Frank Davis has been identified as the author of Sex Rebel: Black, Obama has been extremely secretive about the true nature of his experience with the self-admitted deviant.

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[snaveca]

I can't believe I clicked on a link and ended up here.

What a vile bunch of of conspiracy nuts and ignorant scum.

And it sounds like some of you seem to really identify with pedophiles...I wonder why?

I bet most of you call yourself Christians too? What kind of whacked out version of the New Testament do YOU follow? Have you ever even READ the Bible? Not likely.

[Worst President Ever]

Hmmmm, so since the National Enquirier is such a great source, Ms. Palin really did have that affair with her husband's partner.

I guess that would make McCain / Palin the adulterers' go-to ticket:

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/national_enquirer_w

No less than three members of the man’s family including one by sworn affidavit have claimed that Sarah Palin engaged in an extramarital affair with hus­band Todd’s former business partner, Brad Hanson. orld_exclusive_sarah_palins_secret_lover_revealed/celebrity/65481

[Worst President Ever]

http://tinyurl.com/3gzssc

[ice9]

I'd like to see you apply the same deductive research skills to Palin's time as governor as you have to Obama's time in the clutches of a sex offender. What would we get then? Steamy affairs, swinger-governess, Bristol bong-hits on Facebook, secession from the Union, Putin's reared head, sexual abuse of a moose, a violent dispute over copies of the Apocrypha in the Wasilla library, black helicopters and cold dead hands, a desperate struggle to save Big Diomede from having to look at Russia all the time...what fun we'd have.

And, to offer another foreign policy axiom: If you can't pronounce the name of a place, you are likely to fuck up your relations with that place. I used to call it "eye ran;" then I met a person from Iran and started saying it the way he did. Not that it matters--we know what you mean--but that it's polite to let people define themselves, in everything from pronunciation on up to political self-determination. Maybe we'd be greeted with roses if we invaded Ni-jer. But the simple fact: calling a country according to your own accent and habit rather than the generally used pronunciation is the mark of a jackass who is acting on his right to say what he wants how he wants it regardless of what is right or proper.

ice

[seekeronos]

"--- But the simple fact: calling a country according to your own accent and habit rather than the generally used pronunciation is the mark of a jackass who is acting on his right to say what he wants how he wants it regardless of what is right or proper. ---"

Now this depends upon where you are at:

If you are an American, speaking the general mid-western "newscaster" accent, you will probably follow the generally accepted American English rules of pronunciation for place names.

Iran is typically pronounced "eye-RAN", not "ē'rŭn".

Iraq is typically pronounced "eye-RACK", not "ē'rŭck"

Arab is pronounced either as "AY-rab" or "eh'RIB", not "a'rŭb"

Arabia is pronounced typically as "eh'RAY-bēē-ah", not "a'rŭ'bīah"

Germany is usually referred to as "Germany" and not in English as "Deutschland".

Japan's native name is 日本国 "Nihon Koku", with the second syllable occasionally voiced "Nippon" for dramatic effect but we still say "Japan", which is actually derived from a Portuguese corruption of "Cipangu", in turn borrowed from the Chinese word for Japan 日本国 "Ri ben guo", or possibly corrupted from another dialect, "Zhi ben guo".

And it gets pronounced in English as "jī'PĂN".

The point of this is: when in America, speak as Americans do.

If you feel the need to be friendly to foreigners or do business with them, then by all means, feel free to pronounce proper place names as they might expect to hear them.