Posted on 12/05/2013 7:14:03 PM PST by ConservativeInPA
Ok. Thanks
With apologies to the obscure “dead Kennedys” band:
I’m glad that Nelson is dead - oh yeah
I’m glad that Nelson is dead - oh yeah
See him right now, kick him right in the head
Step on his blue suede shoes
History is written by the winners.
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The President issued the proclamation shortly after Mandela passed away on Thursday afternoon.
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/12/05/pres-obama-orders-all-flags-to-half-staff-following-mandelas-death/
The extent of the carnage is illustrated by these statistics for the five years September 1984 to August 1989: 1 770 schools, 7 187 homes of black owners suspected to be non-members of the ANC, 10 318 buses, 152 trains, 12 188 private vehicles,1 256 shops and factories, 60 post offices, 47 churches and 30 clinics were destroyed. During the same period, 300 blacks were murdered, mostly by the barbarous “necklace” method.
and then there is this link from 2004, an essay by Nelson Mandela himself....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255245/posts
Hey Hal ... what kind of Christmas ornaments do you think Nobama will have on his Kwanza tree this year?
We’ve been mourning what’s been going on in the WH for five years.
Maybe they could raise it when the Worst Family is out of town, on vacation, which is most of the time anyway.
Wow. Thanks for tracking the essay down. Printing now.
I am not sure about the source but I thought this was interesting
http://www.hnp.org.za/site/index.php?id=67
I still want to know where the school bus thing first came from. I’d rather not have to be like Homer_J_Simpson digging through 80’s newspaper archives.
Not that there is anything wrong with that. :p
Looked it up on www.whitehouse.gov. Not included in Preezy’s remarks and no proclamation, yet. But that is not definitive. That website is run in a very haphazard manner.
Nobody familiar with www.whitehouse.gov could be surprised by the problems with www.healthcare.gov.
I get email notices at work from American Flagpole & Flag Company, and they have sent nothing on Mandela. They did, however, send me a notice that the President encourages Americans to fly the flag at half mast from sun up to sun down on December 7, for Pearl Harbor Day.
Hopefully, HE’ll be wearing handcuffs. However, most likely he will have mandala ornaments with a hammer and sickle on top (in the Private Residence, of course).
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