History for August 16

History for August 16 - On-This-Day.com:
Menachem Begin (Israel) 1913, Charles Bukowski 1920, Shimon Peres 1923 - Israeli politician


Julie Newmar 1933 - Actress ("Batman"), Lesley Ann Warren 1946 - Actress, Madonna Louise Ciccone 1958 - Singer Madonna Merchandise


1812 - Detroit fell to Indian and British troops in the War of 1812.


1829 - The "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston, MA. They had come to the Western world to be exhibited. They were 18 years old and joined at the waist.


1861 - U.S. President Lincoln prohibited the Union states from trading with the states of the Confederacy.


1954 - Sports Illustrated was published for the first time. It was claimed that 250,000 subscriptions had been sold before the first issue came off of the presses.


1978 - Xerox was fined for excluding Smith-Corona Mfg. from the copier market. The fine was $25.6 million.


1984 - The U.S. Jaycees voted to admit women to full membership in the organization.



1995 - Voters in Bermuda rejected independence from Great Britain.


1999 - In Russia, Vladimir V. Putin was confirmed as prime minister by the lower house of parliament.

FBI Director Just CONFIRMED Obama’s Lie To The Entire Country…Enough is Enough! | The Proud Conservative

FBI Director Just CONFIRMED Obama’s Lie To The Entire Country…Enough is Enough! | The Proud Conservative:

Barack Obama and his loyal supporters want you to believe that our hands are totally tied if someone on the terrorist watch list or the no-fly list walks into a gun store and wants to buy a gun. They want you to believe there is nothing that can be done to stop the transaction, but FBI Director James Comey just exposed Obama’s lie for the entire nation to see."

NFL denies Cowboys' request to wear helmet decal honoring Dallas police

NFL denies Cowboys' request to wear helmet decal honoring Dallas police | FOX Sports:
"Despite their best efforts, the Cowboys' helmets will not feature a decal supporting Dallas police officers this season.
According to Brandon George of the Dallas Morning News, the NFL denied the team's request for permission to include a decal reading "Arm In Arm" on their lids for the upcoming season. 
That decal, which the team has been wearing on its helmets during training camp, is in support of Dallas Police and the officers killed in July's sniper attack..."

The 'Racist' Milwaukee Officer Who Shot Sylville Smith? Yeah, He's Black...

The 'Racist' Milwaukee Officer Who Shot Sylville Smith? Yeah, He's Black... » Louder With Crowder
"The latest in Black Lives Matter outrage surrounds the shooting of a black criminal named Sylville Smith. 
Except now that the facts have been released, there’s one smidgen of information that BLM overlooked. 
The cop who shot Sylville Smith? 
He’s black himself…

Barrett said officers were in the area Saturday afternoon around 4:00 a.m. “to preserve the safety of the neighborhood” when the officer-involved shooting occurred following the traffic stop.

A pair of police officers stopped two people driving through the north-side neighborhood… That led to a foot chase between the people in the car and the police, which ended when an officer shot one of the two — a 23-year-old man who was armed with a handgun.

Chief Flynn said this Sunday afternoon that officer is African-American. That officer is not being identified, as Flynn said there are concerns for his safety.

Facts. 
They’re important. 
It’s silly that we even have to point out skin color to validate the life-saving actions of police. Earlier Sheriff Clarke mentioned that culture is to blame for the events that lead up to Milwaukee’s current crapstorm.
Not cops. 
For the record, he’s right. 
He’s also black.
Anti-copness has enabled dangerous criminals to continue on being dangerous criminals. For reference, see the aforementioned rioting and looting in Milwaukee. Or Ferguson. Or Baltimore. Or any “peaceful” BLM protest. Speaking of “peaceful,” here’s how self-proclaimed peace seeking activists responded.

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Peaceful Streets @PeacefulStreets

Racists are coming out of the woodwork to defend the killing of#SylvilleSmith. The same idiots who cry over dead pigs.

2:45 PM - 14 Aug 2016

 
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Keith B. Still @NaYaKnoMi

#Milwaukee mayor tom barrett is doing fop propaganda, "gun in hand" doesn't mean he pointed the gun at police. #SylvilleSmith.

3:55 PM - 14 Aug 2016

 
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D @Delo_Taylor

Coons like @SheriffClarke are danger to Black folks because they provide cover to white supremacists to accost us.#Milwaukee #SylvilleSmith

6:40 PM - 14 Aug 2016

 
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Congress to Receive Notes From Clinton FBI Interview | TheBlaze.com

Congress to Receive Notes From Clinton FBI Interview | TheBlaze.com:

"FBI Director James Comey told Congress in a testimony earlier this summer that the bureau does not have a full transcript of the actual interview, adding that Clinton was not under oath. Members of Congress will, however, have access to notes taken during that interview."

Sister of man shot by Milwaukee police calls for agitators to 'burn down' suburbs

Sister of man shot by Milwaukee police calls for agitators to 'burn down' suburbs - The American MirrorThe American Mirror
"Some of the Milwaukee race agitators are realizing it may be counterproductive to burn down their own neighborhoods.

That’s why the sister of the armed man killed by police on Saturday is telling them to take out their rage on the suburbs.

During a press conference Sunday night — before more clashes with police — Sylville Smith’s sister Sherelle challenged the agitators not to burn down their own community — but instead, someone else’s.

“Burning down sh*t ain’t gonna help nothin’,” Sherelle said.

“You’re burnin’ down sh*t we need in our community.

“Take that sh*t to the suburbs. Burn that sh*t down! We need our sh*t! We need our weave! I don’t wear it, but we need it!”

“We keep focusing on the police and I’ve said publicly before,” Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said on Sunday. “Stop trying to the police, fix the ghetto.”

Cube Guide to Going Back to College

Cube Guide to Going Back to College:

"Comrades,
It's that wonderful time of year when young people get back to college to be indoctrinated educated! 
I thought this might be a good time to compile a People's Cube Guide to College for both freshmenpersons and those upperclassmenpersons, (oh wait, sorry for the microaggression because there are no upper or lower classes in the Glorious World of Next Tuesday™) who might have forgotten and need to be reeducated...
1. Essays/Papers.
The People's Cube is a good source to get the korrekt perspective for all essays.
Essays that in any way deal with political philosophy should reflect the ideals of the Party™ to which most of your professors belong. 
The 0.000000000001% who don't will never be given tenure and will be sent to a reeducation camp or a gulag (but then, what difference at this point does it make?™) anyway.
So, the best bet is for all papers is to reflect the Current Truth™ as described here..."
Read on!

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Alveda King Speaks Out Against Milwaukee Violence With Calls for ‘Reason and Sanity’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Alveda King Speaks Out Against Milwaukee Violence With Calls for ‘Reason and Sanity’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Dr. King, the niece of civil rights champion Martin Luther King Jr., called on people to “pray first, and then act.”

She expressed her unequivocal disapproval of the violence protests that began Saturday evening and continued for several hours, with protesters assaulting police officers and setting fire to at least four businesses. Many could be heard chanting, “Black power!”"

Voting Machines Can Be Easily Compromised, Symantec Demonstrates

Voting Machines Can Be Easily Compromised, Symantec Demonstrates - Slashdot:
"An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes a report from CBS News:
For the hackers at Symantec Security Response, Election Day results could be manipulated by an affordable device you can find online. "I can insert it, and then it resets the card, and now I'm able to vote again," said Brian Varner, a principle researcher at Symantec, demonstrating the device...

Symantec Security Response director Kevin Haley said elections can also be hacked by breaking into the machines after the votes are collected.
"The results go from that machine into a piece of electronics that takes it to the central counting place," Haley said. 
"That data is not encrypted and that's vulnerable for manipulation."
40 states are using a voting technology that's at least 10 years old, according to the article.
And while one of America's national election official argues that "there are paper trails everywhere," CBS reports that only 60% of states conduct routine audits of their paper trails, while "not all states even have paper records, like in some parts of swing states Virginia and Pennsylvania, which experts say could be devastating.""

State Department: Hillary’s ethics pledge did not apply to her top aides

State Department: Hillary’s ethics pledge did not apply to her top aides « Hot Air
"A State Department spokesperson clarified Thursday that Hillary Clinton’s 2009 ethics pledge—to avoid conflicts of interest with the Clinton Foundation—did not extend to Clinton’s top aides at the Department.

Spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau was asked about recently revealed emails that showed top members of Hillary Clinton’s staff doing favors for Clinton Foundation associates. “I’m not going to speak to specific emails, but I think you guys know State Department officials are regularly in touch with a wide variety of outside individuals and organizations including businesses, nonprofits, NGOs, think tanks,” Trudeau replied.

“You don’t feel like there was impropriety in the relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department at the time?” the reporter asked. But Trudeau simply repeated her statement about the Department talking to a wide range of people.

At this point another reporter interjected, “Importantly, in this case, Secretary Clinton made a pledge that she would not personally or substantially, in any way, involve herself with the Clinton Foundation.” He continued, “So it’s not just any outside organization, it’s the specific organization that she said ahead of time she wouldn’t have contact with.” “Doesn’t this then seem to violate that pledge?” he asked.

“I’m sorry, am I not speaking English?” Lee snapped. “Is it coming across as a foreign…I’m not asking you if…no one is saying it’s not okay, or bad, for the department to get a broad variety of input from different people. The question is whether or not you’ve determined that there was nothing improper here.”

Here’s video of the exchange:

Wow!!!-----E-2C Hawkeye Nearly Crashes Into Sea After Arresting Cable Snaps

E-2C Hawkeye Nearly Crashes Into Sea After Arresting Cable Snaps – U.S ARMY FOR LIFE:
E-2C HAWKEYE NEARLY CRASHES INTO SEA AFTER ARRESTING CABLE SNAPS

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Navy Pilots assigned to the Screwtops of Airborne Early Warning (VAW) 123 are awarded the Armed Forces’ Air Medal aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) for saving their aircraft from crash during a landing accident.

On 19 March 2016, and E-2C assigned to VAW-123 attempted an arrested landing onboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). 

The mishap aircraft successfully engaged the number 4 wire, but the #4 arresting gear engine failed to effectively decelerate the aircraft as it continued through the landing area. 

As the aircraft approached the angled deck, the cress deck pendant parted, and the forward momentum of the aircraft carried it over the end of the angled deck. 

The mishap aircrew recovered the aircraft and safely returned to port.

Milwaukee Officials Plead for Calm as Violence Wracks City After Man Fatally Shot by Police | Video | TheBlaze.com

Milwaukee Officials Plead for Calm as Violence Wracks City After Man Fatally Shot by Police | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Barrett said the 23-year-old man who died was stopped by police for “suspicious activity.” Police said earlier that he was carrying a gun that had been stolen in a March burglary in suburban Waukesha.

“This stop took place because two officers … saw suspicious activity,” the mayor said. “There were 23 rounds in that gun that that officer was staring at. I want to make sure we don’t lose any police officers in this community, either.”"

Islamic Islamophobia: When Muslims Are Not Muslim Enough, What Does It Promise for the Rest of Us?

Islamic Islamophobia: When Muslims Are Not Muslim Enough, What Does It Promise for the Rest of Us?:

• Mr Shah's murderer was a Sunni Muslim, Tanveer Ahmed, who had travelled to Glasgow to kill Mr Shah because he believed Mr Shah had "disrespected the Prophet Mohammed." At this point the comfortable narratives of modern Britain began to fray.
• If Mr Shah's murderer had been a non-Muslim, there would be a concerted effort by the entirety of the media and political class to find out what inspirations and associations the murderer had. Specifically, they would want to know if there was anybody -- especially any figure of authority -- who had ever called for the murder of Muslim shopkeepers. Yet when a British Muslim kills another British Muslim for alleged "apostasy" and local religious authorities are found to have praised or mourned the killers of people accused of "apostasy," the same people cannot bother to stir themselves.

Earlier this year there was a murder that shocked Britain. Just before Easter, a 40-year old shopkeeper in Glasgow, Asad Shah, was repeatedly stabbed in his shop; he died in the road outside. The news immediately went out that this was a religiously-motivated attack. But the type of religiously motivated attack it was came as a surprise to most of Britain.

There is so much attention paid to the idea of "Islamophobia" in the country that many people -- including some Muslim groups -- immediately assumed that the killing of Asad Shah was an "Islamophobic" murder. It turned out, however, that the man who had been detained by police -- and this week sentenced to a minimum of 27 years in prison for the murder -- was also a Muslim.

Mr Shah was an Ahmadiyya Muslim -- that is, a member of the peaceable Islamic sect which is dismissed as "heretical" by many Muslims. Mr Shah's murderer, on the other hand, was a Sunni Muslim, Tanveer Ahmed, who had travelled up from Bradford to kill Mr Shah because he believed Mr Shah had "disrespected the Prophet Mohammed." At this point the comfortable narratives of modern Britain began to fray..."

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History for August 15

History for August 15 - On-This-Day.com
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769, Sir Walter Scott 1771, T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") 1888


Julia Child 1912, Phyllis Schlafly 1924, Jennifer Lawrence 1990 - Actress (TV: "The Bill Engvall Show," Movies: the "Hunger Games" series)


1057 - Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was killed by the son of King Duncan.


1911 - The product Crisco was introduced by Procter & Gamble Company.


1914 - The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic as an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The first vessel to pass through the canal was the American cargo and passenger ship SS Ancon.


1935 - Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed in an airplane crash in near Point Barrow, AK.


1945 - The Allies proclaimed V-J Day a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.


1947 - India became independent from Britain and was divided into the countries of India and Pakistan. India had been under British about 200 years.


1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, rents and prices.


1997 - The U.S. Justice Department decided not to prosecute FBI officials in connection with the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho. The investigation dealt with an alleged cover-up.

Almost All of Hillary Clinton's Charitable Donations Went to This One Organization | PJ Media

Almost All of Hillary Clinton's Charitable Donations Went to This One Organization | PJ Media:

"According to tax returns for 2015 released by the Clinton campaign, 96% of the candidate's charitable donations went to the Clinton Foundation.

Daily Caller:
The documents show that the power couple earned $10,745,378 last year, mostly on income earned from giving public speeches.
Of that, they gave just over a million to charity. But the contributions can hardly be seen as altruistic, since the money flowed back to an entity they control."

While a Family Innocently Slept, the Roomba Was Smearing a 'War Zone of Poop' All Over the Living Room

While a Family Innocently Slept, the Roomba Was Smearing a 'War Zone of Poop' All Over the Living Room | PJ Media:
"Jesse Newton wrote on his Facebook page about the horrific carnage that he discovered after being awakened in the middle of the night by his son. The problem actually started the night before when the Newtons set their programmable Roomba to vacuum at 1:30 a.m., when the family was nestled all snug in their beds. Somewhere along the way their puppy Evie pooped on the rug in the living room. Newton wrote about the "pooptastrophe" that ensued, which he described as resembling a "Jackson Pollack poop painting." He warned what can happen if you turn your Roomba loose on a pile of poop:

It will be on your floorboards. It will be on your furniture legs. It will be on your carpets. It will be on your rugs. It will be on your kids' toy boxes. If it's near the floor, it will have poop on it. Those awesome wheels, which have a checkered surface for better traction, left 25-foot poop trails all over the house. Our lovable Roomba, who gets a careful cleaning every night, looked like it had been mudding. Yes, mudding - like what you do with a Jeep on a pipeline road. But in poop.

He said he first realized there was a problem when his 4-year-old climbed into bed with him and his wife at 3:30 a.m., smelling poopy. He described his reaction:

Oh, and you're not just using profanity - you're inventing new types of profanity. You're saying things that would make Satan shudder in revulsion. You hope your kid stayed in bed, because if he hears you talking like this, there's no way he's not ending up in prison.

And that's when the real nightmare began:..."

What should Detroit's new school district be called?

What should Detroit's new school district be called?:
"Detroit has a new school district — and it needs a new name.
Detroit Public Schools Community District officials, in partnership with 105.9 FM, are inviting members of the public to vote next week on what to call the school district that was launched earlier this summer.
An online poll will be open from Monday through midnight Aug. 21.
"Our cabinet agreed that DPSCD and its students deserve a fresh start," Steven Rhodes, the district's transition manager, said in an e-mail. "Because we are committed to democracy and we want the community to have a voice in decisions moving forward, this naming contest is an appropriate process."
In recent weeks, people submitted suggestions on 105.9's website. The finalists are:

•    Community of Detroit Schools
•    Detroit City Schools
•    Detroit Community District
•    Detroit Metropolitan School District
•    Detroit Public Community District
•    Detroit Public Schools
•    Detroit Public Schools of Excellence
•    New Detroit Public School District
•    The New Detroit Public Schools...

Bill Clinton accuses FBI of serving up a ‘load of bull’ | New York Post

Bill Clinton accuses FBI of serving up a ‘load of bull’ | New York Post:

"Bill Clinton is accusing the FBI director of serving up “the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard” — marking the first significant public comments from the husband of the Democratic nominee on the scandal that’s plagued his wife’s campaign for over a year."

Blog: Media-driven political insanity

Blog: Media-driven political insanity:
"Psycholinguistics and cognitive science have long been interested in linguistic relativity – the concept that language influences way of thinking.
George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, also considered: “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” 
In the dystopian novel, Orwell depicted a totalitarian state using controlled language and “thoughtcrime” charges to keep people from thinking.  
Throughout history, real-life dictatorships have been known to “pre-define” reality via meaningless slogans, political correctness, and punishment of cerebral dissent.
The fact that several months before elections we are constantly told that a candidate has already won definitely rings an alarm bell.
Orwellian “Newspeak” morphed today into NewsSpeak, with the mainstream media acting as thought police.
While we are being nonchalantly reminded about a long list of observable crimes that go unpunished, the media cheer those crimes’ authors and try to contaminate us with the “enthusiasm.”
One can’t help but notice how visionary Orwell’s writing was: “[s]o much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.”
...Human history has proven that the reign of political correctness, coercion, and no matter how big of a lie always comes to an end; the question is not “if,” but “when.” 
Will elections be enough to say “enough”?
One thing is sure: when it comes to accountability for “disorganizing” the world, pleading political insanity won’t be enough."

Physicist who foresees global cooling says other scientists tried to 'silence' her

Physicist who foresees global cooling says other scientists tried to 'silence' her - Washington Times: "A physicist who foresees a 30-year period of global cooling says other climatologists have tried to “silence” her latest research on solar cycles.
Valentina Zharkova, a professor at Northumbria University at Newcastle in the United Kingdom, said the Royal Astronomical Society received requests to withdraw a press release on her team’s latest research pointing to a significant drop in solar activity by mid-century.
She presented her results July 9 at the National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno, Wales.
“Some of them [scientists] were welcoming and discussing.
But some of them were quite, I would say, pushy,” saidMs. Zharkova in a video interview posted Tuesday by the Global Warming Policy Forum. “They were trying to actually silence us.
Some of them contacted the Royal Astronomical Society demanding behind our back that they withdraw our press release.”
She said the society refused.
...She offered to work with the scientists by adding their data to her results, but she said that “they didn’t want to.”
The press release on her research, “Irregular heartbeat of the Sun driven by double dynamo,” was posted July 9 on the society’s website.
Her sunspot modeling indicates a reduced solar magnetic field from 2020 to 2053, producing conditions similar to those during the Maunder Minimum, or “Little Ice Age,” a 65-year period of reduced solar activity and low global temperatures during the 17th century.
“We didn’t have many measurements in the Southern hemisphere, we don’t know what will happen with that, but in the Northern hemisphere, we know it’s very well protocoled,” Ms. Zharkova said. “The rivers are frozen.
There are no winters and no summers, and so on...”

Lunch video-----Putin Tells Everyone Exactly Who Created ISIS

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Newly Released Emails Reveal Billionaire Donor George Soros Sent Clinton Foreign Policy Advice | TheBlaze.com

Newly Released Emails Reveal Billionaire Donor George Soros Sent Clinton Foreign Policy Advice | TheBlaze.com:

"During her time as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton received foreign policy advice from none other than liberal billionaire George Soros, according to newly released emails from WikiLeaks.

In one email with the subject line “Unrest in Albania” sent to Clinton on Jan. 24, 2011, State Department official Jake Sullivan gave Clinton an “FYI” about Soros’ message, which former assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs Richard Verma indicated had been sent “through other channels as well.”"

Will EMBRYONIC Stem Cells Ever Cure Anything?

Will Embryonic Stem Cells Ever Cure Anything?:
"When his son Sam was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at six months of age, Doug Melton was incredulous. “I remember at night, my wife and I pricking his heel, and saying ‘No, this can’t be, this can’t be,’” he says. “It felt like we had lost the lottery.”
Later, his daughter would receive the same diagnosis.
By then, Melton had already dropped what he was doing—studying frog eggs at Harvard—and launched an effort to grow pancreatic cells from scratch in his lab.
...Melton’s effort, involving a 30-person lab at Harvard and a startup company, Semma Therapeutics, which he named after his children, Sam and Emma, is one of the most costly and sustained efforts to turn stem cells into transplantable tissue, an attempt that Melton admits has been full of false starts and dead ends.
“The public definitely doesn’t appreciate that much of science is failure,” he says.
In fact, no field of biotechnology has promised more and delivered less in the way of treatments than embryonic stem cells. 
Only a handful of human studies has ever been carried out, without significant results.
The cells, culled from IVF embryos, are capable of developing into any other tissue type in the body, and therefore promise an unlimited supply of replacement tissue.
Sounds simple, but it hasn’t been..."

Cannes bans full-body 'burkini' swimsuits from beaches

Cannes bans full-body 'burkini' swimsuits from beaches:
"CANNES, France (AP) – The French resort of Cannes has banned full-body, head-covering swimsuits from its beaches, citing security reasons — a measure some are decrying as a discriminatory anti-Muslim move that only worsens religious tensions.
The ban on so-called burkinis, at the height of the French Riviera’s vacation season, comes as France remains on edge after deadly Islamic extremist attacks in nearby Nice and on a Catholic church in northwest France.
Cannes Mayor David Lisnard issued an ordinance in late July forbidding beachwear that doesn’t respect “good morals and secularism.”
It notes that swimwear “manifesting religious affiliation in an ostentatious way, while France and its religious sites are currently the target of terrorist attacks, could create risks of trouble to public order...”

That Awkward Moment in 2008 When Hillary Clinton Mused About Assassination

That Awkward Moment in 2008 When Hillary Clinton Mused About Assassination | PJ Media:
"After the ridiculous dust-up over Donald Trump's remarks about "Second Amendment people" (you can read the New Yorker hyperventilating about it here), let's all hop in the Wayback Machine and see what Hillary Clinton cheerily said regarding Barack Obama during her losing campaign against the nobody from Illinois back in 2008:
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton defended staying in the Democratic nominating contest on Friday by pointing out that her husband had not wrapped up the nomination until June 1992, adding, 
“We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”
Well, those of us who weren't born yesterday certainly remembered, and understood the point Hillary was trying to make.
Because she actually used the word, "assassination," for starters. 
But the media quickly covered for her:
Her remarks were met with quick criticism from the campaign of Senator Barack Obama..."