Wow, it’s been a busy day today. Which I suppose is a good thing, because it makes the day go faster. But all this chair time is really killing me. I did have a chance to see that Mitt Romney praised Israel for being a health country that only spend 8% of its GDP on health care (as opposed to 17.5% for us). Of course, Israel has socialized health care that covers 100% of its citizens (I wonder if that includes Palestinians?), and which the teabaggers would become apoplectic over if somebody tried it here.
I also saw that Ancestry.com has been snooping around Obama’s family tree (probably trying to prove he was born in Kenya), and found that Obama is a direct descendant of the first American slave (through his white mom, no less).
A research team from Ancestry.com (NASDAQ:ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, has concluded that President Barack Obama is the 11thgreat-grandson of John Punch, the first documented African enslaved for life in American history. Remarkably, the connection was made through President Obama’s Caucasian mother’s side of the family.
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“Two of the most historically significant African Americans in the history of our country are amazingly directly related,†said Ancestry.com genealogist Joseph Shumway. “John Punch was more than likely the genesis of legalized slavery in America. But after centuries of suffering, the Civil War, and decades of civil rights efforts, his 11th great-grandson became the leader of the free world and the ultimate realization of the American Dream.â€
So, that’s kinda cool.
Oh well, back to work.
Oh, and Happy 76th Birthday to Buddy Guy!
Whiplash-Mitt Romney Lavishes Praise On Israel’s Socialist, Government Controlled Healthcare System
:omg: :rofl2:
One of the teachers with whom I worked was an Orthodox Jew. She was very much against Obama’s health plan arguing against the scourge of socialized medicine. So I asked her about Israel and she told me that her Israeli friend had just had a baby and that it was completely covered. I asked what she thought of Israeli socialized medicine. She said she liked it and after a bit conceded that it might not be so bad at that.
Her rabbi had told her that under Obama’s plan her husband, a physical therapist, would have his salary cut in half.