Barack Obama’s biographical brief edited repeatedly over 17 years, but Kenyan birthplace changed just weeks after his presidential run announced http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/05/barack-obamas-biographical-brief-was.html

This is a fundamental aspect of the Breitbart Way: Let ‘em have it one card at a time, so that the palace guard can paint itself into a corner with evasions, lies and justifications, then reveal the next card. There is definitely more coming.

I’m still a little skeptical, though. Can’t this be explained by how fuckin’ lazy this guy is?

“Tell me, what are providence and predestination?”

What do you mean? The Calvinist concept of predestination or the Arminian variety?

Jeffery Hodges

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“The biography provided by Barack Obama to his literary agent specified his birthplace as “Kenya”. And, over the course of 17 years, despite multiple revisions by Obama, the Kenyan birthplace remained a fundamental part of the bio on the agent’s website.”

http://www.blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2011/09/27/asbestos-scare-at-south-korean-ballparks/

http://www.blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2011/09/30/play-ball-the-asbestos-cleanup-will-wait/

Can’t anybody play this game?

Basic theology? Ah! You American Christians are just too much.

Tell me, what are providence and predestination?

‘finally, let us agree with the South Korean president when he insists on Historical Awareness, because that is the real issue. Koreans themselves are all too aware of their history, and Mr. Lee must deconstruct it, revise it, and turn it inside out, because accepting that history would be emotional hemlock for the nation.

The Koreans know that some of their mothers and grandmothers were willing prostitutes for Japanese Imperial forces. How could they not? The newspaper advertisements for a then-legal activity still exist. So do articles in Korean newspapers in which Japanese authorities warn the public of unscrupulous Korean brokers.

They know the Japanese were the ones to bring them out of their Hermit Kingdom spider hole into the 20th century. They know there was a pro-Japan faction during the merger period, inspired not by the base motive of “collaboration”, but by a desire to join the modern world. They know some of their great-grandparents saw it as their version of the Meiji–period opening of Japan.

They know that roughly 90% of the Koreans who went to Japan did so voluntarily to seek a better life in same the way that Europeans emigrated to the United States in the previous century.

They know that some of their grandparents fought willingly in the Japanese armed services during the war, and that some even volunteered as kamikaze pilots.

They know that had Japan not stepped in when it did, it is possible they would all be speaking Russian now. They know another possibility is that they would have spent several more decades in darkness as black as the North Korean night, but without the gulags.

But at least their cousins in the north provide public education for girls. They know that was another Japanese innovation on the peninsula, too.

Perhaps most galling of all, they know that they were incapable of achieving independence on their own and owe it to the Japanese defeat in the war.

The intensity of contemporary Korean anger toward Japan is not derived from what Japan did or did not do. It is derived from what Korea did and did not do. The emotion is all the more intense because it is self-anger projected onto contemporary Japan.