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The REAL Reason Obama Keeps Dissing the Brits: Grandpa & the Mau Mau
Canada Free Press ^ | 03/22/2009 | Joy Tiz

Posted on 05/29/2009 9:40:40 AM PDT by jazminerose

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To: mrmeangenes
She was a woman volunteer who was a truck mechanic and and eventually a truck driver. The artcle was on here yesterday.

And, giving a visiting Prime Minister of our closest ally a set of DVDs he can't even play and his kids cheap plastic models from the White House gift shop after they have given you thoughtful handcrafted gifts of historical significance and then cancelling the traditional press conference is humiliating to a British politician.

Do you even read the news?

21 posted on 05/29/2009 11:31:53 AM PDT by CaptRon (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: Shady Ray

I see that. Thank you !


22 posted on 05/29/2009 11:42:03 AM PDT by mrmeangenes
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To: CaptRon

Yeah, I read the news-but try to stick to the important stuff. On a scale of 10, this “gifting” business is about a minus-5.


23 posted on 05/29/2009 11:45:08 AM PDT by mrmeangenes
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To: mrmeangenes

It’s well documented that O’s “cousin” Odinga’s (who’s supporters rioted and murdered after the last Kenyan election) father was up to his eyeballs in the Mau Mau and a lieutenant of Kenyatta.

This was confirmed to me by a family member who was in Kenya during that period.


24 posted on 05/29/2009 11:48:14 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: MortMan

Welcome yourself. I’ve been here 2 years longer than you - if you like getting into whizzing contests.

It was - for the literacy challenged - SARKOZY of France who “snubbed” the Queen ; Obama who was merely an invitee.

Apparently our Canadian friends didn’t get the memo.


25 posted on 05/29/2009 11:54:05 AM PDT by mrmeangenes
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To: mrmeangenes

Thank you for presenting your evidence of the story being wrong.


26 posted on 05/29/2009 12:00:35 PM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: mrmeangenes

I was really surprised to learn that, as well...I figured she would have been too young, and definitely too royal.


27 posted on 05/29/2009 12:02:38 PM PDT by Shady Ray
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To: Shady Ray

I should have checked, but relied on my memory of newsreels: Royal Family keeping stiff upper lip and all that.It was probably Princess Margaret I saw.


28 posted on 05/29/2009 12:08:21 PM PDT by mrmeangenes
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I’ve been here 2 years longer than you...

I had no idea it was 2011. My calendar needs an update or you're not only a troll but a space cadet as well.

29 posted on 05/29/2009 12:29:25 PM PDT by penowa
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Why thank you for the kind words!
“a troll but a space cadet as well.”

I was on as “genefromjersey” for many years, but, after my ‘puter broke, decided to use the same name I use on other sites when I got around to signing up again.

At my age, it’s easier to remember.


30 posted on 05/29/2009 12:41:54 PM PDT by mrmeangenes
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At my age...

If you're old, as you claim, you shouldn't have needed to read the article about the Mau Mau, but maybe you're old and have a bad memory too. I apologize for thinking you were another of the kids who have recently joined FR who couldn't find Africa on a globe, let alone have heard of the Mau Mau.

31 posted on 05/29/2009 1:20:37 PM PDT by penowa
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Yes, I do recall the Mau Mau. They were quite the topic in the 1950's : running around with pangas and all that.
32 posted on 05/29/2009 2:27:29 PM PDT by mrmeangenes
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I was on as “genefromjersey” for many years, but, after my ‘puter broke, decided to use the same name I use on other sites when I got around to signing up again.

Signing up again? Dude! You just had to log on.

Age and Guile beat Youth and Inexperience.

33 posted on 05/29/2009 7:55:11 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (a competent small government conservative is good enough for government work)
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