Well possums, it looks like Auntie Zeituni has moved on up to the East Side. I know I remarked upon Auntie Zeituni's red wig here, but a fur coat and pearls, too?
Get back, Loretta! (Thanks to the Big Feed)
Here is Auntie Z before Obama became president.
And here is Auntie Z at her deportation hearing.
Attention Kenyan shoppers: If you go into Somalia you will be kidnapped and held by al-Shabab
Islamist store security guards. -->
A statement from police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said on Thursday the five were on an official visit to the Kenyan border town of Mandera, when their vehicle was attacked by heavily armed Somali militia.
"The five had crossed the border from Mandera town to go to the border village of Bula Hawa inside Somalia for shopping," Kiraithe said in a statement. He said the police have sent two prominent local emissaries to secure the release of the five Kenyans and contact has already been established with the local leaders for the same purpose.
Here's the bad news: Somali militants to try Kenyan officials shoppers.
The five have been identified as Wajir South district education officer Moses Mwangi, his quality assurance colleague Charles Nyakundi, the provincial quality assurance officer Onchiri Onyancha, their driver only identified as Abdullahi and an unnamed Wajir South education official.
The officials were attending the provincial primary school ball games tournament in Mandera Town in north eastern Kenya.
They were abducted at Bula Hawo Town, a kilometre away from the border town of Mandera. They had apparently gone shopping on the Somali side of the border, a fairly normal activity in the area.
An Investor's Business Daily blast from the past - August 2008.
Eerily prescient and almost spooky.
As a Nairobi bureaucrat, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. advised the pro-Western Kenyan government there to "redistribute" income through higher taxes. He also demonized corporations and called for massive government "investment" in social programs.
Writing in a 1965 scholarly paper, Obama's late father slammed the administration of then-President Jomo Kenyatta for moving the Third World country away from socialism toward capitalism. He chafed at the idea of relying on private investors — who earn "dividends" on their venture capital — to develop the country's fledgling economy.
"What is more important is to find means by which we can redistribute our economic gains to the benefit of all," said the senior Obama, a Harvard-educated economist. "This is the government's obligation." The "means" he had in mind were confiscatory taxes on a scale that redefines the term "progressive taxation."
"Theoretically," he wrote, "there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed."
Therefore, he added, "I do not see why the government cannot tax those who have more and syphon some of these revenues into savings which can be utilized in investment for future development."
There's more at the link. And the full text of the original Obama Sr's. paper can be found at this pdf.
