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Brazil a model for troubled Middle East, says Obama
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| 3/20/11
| Tangi Quemener - AFP
Posted on 03/20/2011 2:12:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Obama is reported driving through the slums of Rio [like when you drove through the old Cabrini Green in Chi-town and didn't dare stop?] in his black limo, glories in the government's "pacification program", a slum tenant even has her hair done for the "expected" drive-by; but the government housing now given utilities and pacification is still referenced as slums.
The Middle East already has slums..so take government control of them = still slums.
To: NormsRevenge
With a population that is 6.84 black, and 0.02% muslim, I can see where it might be a country to be emulated.
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posted on
03/20/2011 2:33:33 PM PDT
by
matthew fuller
(God bless and protect Michelle Bachmann!)
To: bill1952
Stir the pot, community organizing at its best.....
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posted on
03/20/2011 2:37:29 PM PDT
by
Las Vegas Ron
(The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
To: NormsRevenge
The company I am employed with was bought out by a corp. based in Brazil. We've had several people from Brazil facilities come up here to work with us, as well at other facilities in our country. They were to stay for two years, after which they had the option of remaining here or returning home. To a man they all chose to remain in the United States. They have all bought houses and plan on becoming citizens. And I'll add, each has a wife who is drop dead gorgeous.
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posted on
03/20/2011 2:43:55 PM PDT
by
jla
To: matthew fuller
With a population that is 6.84 black, and 0.02% muslim, I can see where it might be a country to be emulated. Are you quoting a recent breakdown? I've seen them where 85% plus of the population claim "Brasilian" ancestry, which is a little of everything.
I've met many Brasilians, but at least half of them had some black ancestry. I've met the descendants of Cabral, which was pretty cool.
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posted on
03/20/2011 2:44:13 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: NormsRevenge
Hey, I’ll throw in a dollar to help him move there.
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posted on
03/20/2011 2:50:27 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a U.S. Marine.)
To: NormsRevenge
Hey, I’ll throw in a dollar to help him move there.
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posted on
03/20/2011 2:51:20 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a U.S. Marine.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
03/20/2011 2:53:07 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts!I)
To: NormsRevenge
” poignantly recalled how he had watched “Black Orpheus,” a movie set in a Brazilian favela, with his mother as a child.”
I’m trying to figure out how and when Barry saw
this very dark foreign film with his mother.
Or why she thought it was appropriate fare for a child.
I remember seeing Disney movies with my parents...
Black Orpheus was filmed in Portuguese in 1959.
Barry was born in 1961.
He moved to Indonesia with his mother at age 6
and returned to Hawaii around age 10,
while his mother remained in Indonesia.
So, he had to have allegedly seen it before he was 6.
But, where ?
If this foreign film was still being shown a few years
after it as made ,
it would have been featured in an art house theater .
Were there any in Honolulu in the early 1960s ?
And the film would have been shown with English subtitles.
Could Barry read them at 6 ??
And if he saw the film with his mother in Jakarta-it would have had Indonesian subtitles.
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:06:52 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts!I)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:15:21 PM PDT
by
EBH
( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
To: the invisib1e hand
So wheres the pic of the Brazilian model?
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:18:21 PM PDT
by
Polybius
To: tsowellfan
The middle east would be an economic powerhouse and great place to live if it wasn't full of moslums.
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:37:39 PM PDT
by
peeps36
(America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
To: NormsRevenge
I’m not sure exactly where to start here. I suppose the even more obvious question is, exactly how anyone in the US government, particularly the leader, who has blown through trillions of dollars of money the people don’t actually have, is in a position to suggest behavior to anyone.
Maybe it’s that wherever he was born, he spent a lot of time in Chicago, where you might hear...”Y’know whatcher problem is? I’ll tell ya whatcher problem is...”
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:38:15 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: Caipirabob
From Wikipedia, 2008-
Ethnic groups
48.43% White
43.80% Brown (Multiracial)
6.84% Black
0.58% Asian
0.28% Amerindian
I used to know a guy named Cabral, a Portugese from Mass.
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posted on
03/20/2011 4:01:29 PM PDT
by
matthew fuller
(God bless and protect Michelle Bachmann!)
To: Polybius
Umm, WTF is that, smartass?
To: the invisib1e hand
That is Tom Brady, a football player, who seems to have stolen Sean Cassidy’s hair from 1978. He is married to Gisele Bundchen, a Brazilian model.
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posted on
03/20/2011 4:15:30 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Nadie me ama como Jesus.)
To: NormsRevenge
RIIIGGGHHHTT State Capitalism, that’s the answer (only if you want to become a surf). Watch Obama put the Screws to the free market.
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posted on
03/20/2011 4:19:17 PM PDT
by
steveab
(When was the last time someone tried to sell you a CO2 induced climate control system for your home?)
To: NormsRevenge
Obama held up emerging powerhouse Brazil on Sunday as a model of economic and democratic transformation that leaders in the troubled Middle East should try to copy. So... Obama is going to give Middle Eastern countries billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars so they can drill in the Gulf of Mexico too?
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posted on
03/20/2011 4:21:25 PM PDT
by
PalmettoMason
(It's easy being a menace to society when WAY OVER half the population is happy being sheep.)
To: NormsRevenge
"My mother is gone now, but she would have never imagined that her son's first trip to Brazil would be as president of the United States."It is ALWAYS about him. What a classless thing to say.
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