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Antigua's highest peak renamed 'Mount Obama'
Associated Press via Mercury News ^
| Posted: 08/04/2009 01:57:04 PM PDT
Posted on 08/05/2009 12:27:51 AM PDT by Simmy2.5
ST JOHN'S, Antigua — Antigua's highest mountain officially became "Mount Obama" on Tuesday as the small Caribbean nation celebrated the American president on his birthday and saluted him as a symbol of black achievement.
Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer presided over the re-christening ceremony at the base of the mountain, unveiling a stone sculpture and plaque honoring the president as an inspiration in the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda and throughout the Caribbean.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antigua; mountobama; obama
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Mount Obama, full of debt and bad healthcare?
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:27:51 AM PDT
by
Simmy2.5
To: Simmy2.5
Bet it's cursed...
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:31:53 AM PDT
by
SolidWood
(Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
To: Simmy2.5
I can’t wait till everyone realizes Obama is a dismal failure and quickly go back and rename all this crap to their original names.
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:33:41 AM PDT
by
Domandred
(Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.. I am Jim Thompson.)
To: Simmy2.5
Mountain of debt, bills, and unpaid parking tickets?
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:34:31 AM PDT
by
Ben Reyes
(Chuck Devore for US Senate California 2010 and Palin for President 2012)
To: Simmy2.5
Hoo boy, I bet they will come to regret this.
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:36:39 AM PDT
by
MarMema
To: SolidWood
Eventually the muslims through violent expansion will build a mosque there and declare it one of their most holy places.
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:38:02 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(...and never forget that!)
To: Simmy2.5
Is mount obama a volcano?
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:38:55 AM PDT
by
machogirl
(If Obama's handing out Pie, I like Lemon Meringue.)
To: Simmy2.5
Antigua must want a stimulus package deal.
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:39:40 AM PDT
by
machogirl
(If Obama's handing out Pie, I like Lemon Meringue.)
To: Ben Reyes
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:41:07 AM PDT
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: Simmy2.5
Omitted from this article is the former name for this modest peak, Mount Arrogance. Tourists will soon be offered guided walking tours named, appropriately enough, “Journey to the Heights of Arrogance”.
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:43:43 AM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
After which they will be invited into a friendly casino where they can lose money and then get mugged.
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:44:59 AM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
To: Simmy2.5
as an inspiration to do what?
can they answer that?
What is his acheivement that inspired them? and Inspired them to do what?
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:46:45 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Guilty of the crime of deviationism.)
To: Simmy2.5
Is their self-esteem so low that they have to become synchophantic lickspittles of a man who wouldn't urinate on them if they were fully ablaze?
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:47:51 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(If we're an Empire, why are Cuba, Iraq, Philippines, Japan & Germany independent?)
To: Simmy2.5
Aside from what we do know of Obama, his last name is a bit more poetic than the mountain’s previous name, “Boggy Peak”.
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posted on
08/05/2009 12:48:26 AM PDT
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: Simmy2.5
MOUNT OBAMA???Did Larry Sinclair have anything to do with this?
To: blues_guitarist
To: Simmy2.5
More like Mnt. Fraudmore.
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posted on
08/05/2009 1:24:23 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(Ifanationexpects tobe ignorantandfree,inastateofcivilization,itexpects whatneverwas andnever will be)
To: Simmy2.5
Can the mountain produce a birth certificate, school records, passport? If not it’ll be just like its namesake.
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posted on
08/05/2009 1:33:31 AM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: Domandred
What gets me is how people can be so ridiculous as to name monuments and mountains and what-not after a person who
has no record to speak of. It just exposes them to serious egg on their faces ...Obama just came from nowhere, got elected president just a few months ago (and who knows if he'll even keep that), and has no track record of note to speak of. Yet kids are sewing beads and Antiguans naming mountains!
It is ridiculous!
Naming of things should only happen once someone has finished whatever task/mandate/term/objective they are doing, and once the final tally is done and it is deemed a success worth of the monument, then the celebrations done. Naming things at the start of someone's run, with signs of that run being rife with problems and mistakes, is just silly.
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posted on
08/05/2009 1:37:26 AM PDT
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
That’s funny. :) The original name of the “mountain” though was “Boggy Peak.”
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posted on
08/05/2009 1:39:36 AM PDT
by
PureSolace
(Trust in God)
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