US Election Coverage 2008


Mbona unajichanganya!?? hivi huonikama ulikuwa umepost empty charges agaisnt Obama..back up your facts, au nenda kale kachori.
 
One more thing to note about Obama's academic record is that we always hear about his achievements at Harvard Law School and nothing prior to that. Why? Why doesn't the Obama camp publish his high school grades/GPA, college grades/GPA, SAT scores, LSAT scores and so forth. My assumption is that his prior academic record is mediocre at best that's why it is not publicized. I believe his prior academic record is nothing to brag about. Obama is nothing more than a marijuana smoker, empty suit, empty rhetoric that without the affirmative action he would have been the janitor, cleaner at Harvard instead of a being admitted to the law school and taught there.
 

Wrong again! written languages zipo bana, je unasemaje kuhusu Tigrinya, Arabic, Tigre, Afar ambayo inaongewa na kuandikwa kwa staili ya subject, object, verb (SOV), na lugha kibao nyingine ambazo tunajua ziliandikwa kwa S&S mbalimbali!? au hilo nalo hulijui? hivi ustaarabu ulianzia wapi? Pune, aaanh?

Wewe kama mjanja na mwerevu, utaabudi vipi mungu anayeishia kwenye dinner table za watu? Tujadili issues huu utoto wako acha bibie Piyushi, ushakuwa, siku si nyingi wata-arrange marriage kwa ajili yako!

Njoo na facts hapa na sio uzushi...
 

YNIM, hamna haja ya kutukanana lakini nimefurahia facts ulizoweka hapa kuhusu written language. Naomba na mimi niongezee kwamba Egyptians also had written language even though it was not that well developped. Lakini also here in Tanzania, the Chagga people had written language, I was able to see samples of it at Mangi Mkuu's library. Kwa hiyo Truth, naomba usitutukane waafrika. There's more to us than voodoo, black magic etc. Albeit I agree India also has got a rich culture.
 
The FANS of Babu Makopo, mnafahamu tosha that he is superstitious, sasa Straight Talk Express imkuwa derailed:

worse it seems that there's a mole on the bus, as we found this Obama sticker on the rear of the bus!!!


And the driver of the mini van is handicapped!


So what does this mean???
 

Sorry but I can't give you credit for semitic written languages. Perhaps I should have been more specific in my statement. Show me Black/Bantu African written language or any type of civilization. I don't want to hear any nonsense about Egypt as we know they were not Black/Bantu.
 
Below is an interesting story about HIV/AIDS rates in Washington, D.C where Obama lives and works. Should the American people be worried about their future president given the alarming statistics?

Black Community in Washington, D.C., Struggles With HIV/AIDS Rates

The rate of HIV/AIDS infections in the U.S. has drawn new attention this week at the International AIDS Conference. Betty Ann Bowser examines the prevalance of AIDS among the African-American community in Washington, D.C.










JIM LEHRER: Next, AIDS in America, which is drawing new focus this week at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.

More than one million Americans have HIV. The latest figures show that, in 2006 alone, there were about 56,000 new infections. African-Americans have been particularly hard-hit.

NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on the situation in Washington, D.C. The Health Unit is a partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

BETTY ANN BOWSER, NewsHour Correspondent: The nation's capital is in the midst of a modern-day HIV-AIDS epidemic. In a city of 600,000 people, the District of Columbia has more than 12,000 cases, and 81 percent of them are African-Americans.

That's why community organizers like Terry Hawkins of the Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church are trying to get to young people before it's too late.

TERRY HAWKINS, Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church: All it takes is one time, just one time, one slip-up, "Oh, I forgot the condom," or, "Oh, I'm going to try. You know, I don't think it can happen to me." One time is all it takes for you to become infected.

BETTY ANN BOWSER: The kids are given very explicit information about how to use condoms and are told that, to stay safe, they must always use them when having sex. It's just one community organization's attempt to get at an issue that is Washington's number-one health problem.

The District of Columbia has more HIV-AIDS cases than any city in the country. Here, a staggering 1 out of 20 people is infected with the virus. And like most American cities with an HIV-AIDS problem, the burden disproportionately falls on the black community.

In fact, more than 80 percent of all new cases in the district are African-Americans.







Dr. Theo Hodge
Infectious Disease Specialist

I'm seeing a huge influx of women of color who are HIV-positive. I'm seeing younger patients, patients less than 30. There seems to be an influx of patients coming in with new infections.





Infection numbers have exploded
Dr. Theo Hodge treats a lot of HIV-AIDS patients. And what he's seeing in his practice crosses all demographic groups in the black community.

DR. THEO HODGE, Infectious Disease Specialist: I'm seeing a huge influx of women of color who are HIV-positive. I'm seeing younger patients, patients less than 30. There seems to be an influx of patients coming in with new infections. And African-American men who have sex with men population has exploded, in terms of the numbers of new infections that I seem to see in my practice.

BETTY ANN BOWSER: Hodge says among his patients who are not HIV-positive, he has a hard time getting them to use condoms.

DR. THEO HODGE: A patient actually said to me it was condom fatigue. Another patient did say to me, "Oh, well, there's a pill for that." Another patient actually said, "Well, you know, it's kind of glamorous to have HIV. Look at Magic Johnson. He's out. He's doing all these things, and he's glamorous."

BETTY ANN BOWSER: Dr. Pierre Vigilance is director of the D.C. Health Department. He says what's driving the high numbers in part is people not heeding the advice about safe sex.

DR. PIERRE VIGILANCE, Director, District of Columbia Department of Health: It does come down to a behavior piece. It is a pretty broad segment of the population that conducts various risky behaviors at different times.

What drives the disease, as far as we're concerned, is the multiplicity of behaviors that go on out there and people just really feeling that they don't need to do the things that they know to do.







Sabrina Heard
AIDS Volunteer

We're also going to go over information pertaining to HIV and its transmission.





Early detection helps survival
BETTY ANN BOWSER: According to the medical journal Lancet, that kind of risky behavior is not unique to the black community. The Centers for Disease Control say there are other factors that contribute to the high rates of infection among blacks, including lack of awareness of their HIV status, or their partner's.

The CDC also says other sexually transmitted diseases and substance use increase infection rates.

Sabrina Heard has been living with HIV for 16 years, AIDS for the past three. She got it from having unprotected sex with an infected man and was unaware of his status.

Now she's on a mission to get people tested. She knows that, when the virus is found early, patients have a better chance for long-term survival with today's antiretroviral drugs.

Twice a week, Heard and other members of the Washington, D.C., Women's Collective hit the streets hoping to convince people to get tested in their mobile units. The collective is a nonprofit dedicated to serving women with HIV in the D.C. area.

SABRINA HEARD, Volunteer: We're also going to go over information pertaining to HIV and its transmission.







Terrance Moore
National Alliance, AIDS Directors

There is a sense in 2008, people are not concerned about HIV. It's something that is treatable these days. It's not necessarily something that you are going to die for.





Taking HIV lightly
BETTY ANN BOWSER: And for all those who agree, there are incentives: tote bags laden with coupons for free food, condoms and hygiene products. Heard says her work is important because too many African-Americans don't take HIV seriously enough.

SABRINA HEARD: I talk with lots of people in the community. They don't talk about HIV. They don't believe that this disease is something that's devastatingly taking people's lives to the degree that it is.

BETTY ANN BOWSER: What Heard is seeing in the Washington black community mirrors a pattern cited by the Centers for Disease Control this week. It said 45 percent of all new HIV cases in 2006 were in the African-American community and that rates among blacks were seven times higher than those among whites.

That's why Heard has been so careful to explain the dangers of the virus to her children, but one of them didn't listen.

SABRINA HEARD: I have one daughter who I do know, she makes the decision as to who she's going to be protected with or not. You know, she still has unprotected sex with some people.

BETTY ANN BOWSER: Terrance Moore is a Washington AIDS activist who says people are having unprotected sex because they don't think HIV-AIDS is a big problem. Moore has been HIV-positive for seven years.

TERRANCE MOORE, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors: There is a sense in 2008, people are not concerned about HIV. It's something that is treatable these days. It's not necessarily something that you are going to die for.

We see these wonderful ads in newspapers and magazines of, you know, gay men climbing mountains, you know, only if they take their medications. And so I think that there is a perception out there that this is something that you can live with and that you don't need to worry about.







Phil Wilson
Black AIDS Institute

When you look at populations like black gay men or black men in general, you see epidemics that outstrip the same epidemic that you might see in Botswana, or Zimbabwe, or Senegal.





Responses to the crisis
BETTY ANN BOWSER: Adjusted statistics released this week by the CDC show that, in 2006, 53 percent of all new HIV-AIDS cases were contracted from men having sex with men. It's those high numbers that have Dr. Shannon Hader, the D.C. AIDS czar, urging every physician in the district to offer voluntary testing to their patients.

DR. SHANNON HADER, Director, HIV-AIDS Administration: Part of the reason most people aren't getting tested is it's not being offered. Some of our studies that we've done, 75 percent of people who are newly testing positive, their first diagnosis had at least one visit with a medical provider in the last 12 months where they weren't diagnosed. So missed opportunities are happening all the time.

BETTY ANN BOWSER: Because of the scope of the epidemic, two area emergency rooms are offering HIV testing to all who come in for treatment. Hader's department hopes that will eventually be a policy city-wide.

Phil Wilson is an HIV-AIDS activist who says what's needed is a massive increase in federal government spending on AIDS in the black community. His organization, the Black AIDS Institute, has just released a report that says, in part, "The U.S. government's response to the most serious health crisis facing black America remains timid and lethargic."

Wilson applauds Congress for its recent passage of the $48 billion President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the developing world, but thinks the government is neglecting its own people.

PHIL WILSON, CEO, Black AIDS Institute: We have an AIDS epidemic that's worse than the AIDS epidemic in Port-au-Prince, the capital of one of the poorest countries on the planet. Furthermore, when you look at populations like black gay men or black men in general, you see epidemics that outstrip the same epidemic that you might see in Botswana, or Zimbabwe, or Senegal.

BETTY ANN BOWSER: Wilson's organization has called for implementation of a national AIDS strategy and increased spending by the CDC on prevention. AIDS activists in the short run say they hope to put the AIDS crisis in the black community on the national agenda by making it a focus of the presidential candidates and the campaign in the weeks to come.

Source:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec08/aidsdc_08-05.html
 

Ding ding diiing, naona darasa linakuingia dogo! nenda kasome historia, hizo lugha nilizoziorodhesha zinaongewa na watu weusi..kwani umesahau yule Queen Sheba alitokea wapi? kwa taarifa yako Hata Nabii Suleiman alikuwa anapiga misele mitaa ya Ethiopia..au unataka kusema kwamba watu wa Ethiopia na Eritrea si wa africa? Kwani kuna watu wangapi kutoka horn of africa hasa eritrea walioamia Israel na kupass kama jews wanaotoka Russia au Ukraine?hizo semitics languages zote asili yake ni africa! Hata yesu wa Nazareth alikuwa mwafrika mweusi tii au hilo nalo mpaka mimi nikwambie?

Naona umerefine suala lako kwamba "bantu/waafrika weusi"..ok waethiopia na waeritrea pia ni weusi ingawa si bantu! Afrika si bara la wabantu ni bara la waafrica! so, what's your point? unachokitafuta ni ngumu sana kukipata kwa mtu mwenye uwezo finyu wa ku-research mambo kama wewe, ambaye upo driven na kufanya maamuzi ktk misingi ya chuki, jazba na dharau..upo bias na una spin kila kitu against watu weusi. Kama waafrika wabaya na bara lao baya wewe na familia yako mnafanya nini Bongo? acha dharau..tukate issue, sana sana unajionyesha jinsi gani uwezo wako katika masuala mengi ya msingi ni mdogo sana!

Hapo juu Susuviri kakuelezea juu ya wachaga au nao sio bantu? hivi yale maandishi kule amboni n.k nayo kwani si lugha? au mpaka na sisi tungekuwa tunachora vinyokanyoka kama hindu ndio ungekubali?

Inaoneka una ka-complex flani hivi, probably unatoka kwenye lower cast, na hapa unataka kujiridhisha! hivi ile protest yenu ya kupatiwa indian version ya affirmative action iliishia wapi?..Naangalia Keith Olberman hapa..hivyo basi, you're todayz worst in the world.

Post ya mwisho hii kukujibu, vinginevyo badili topic...

goodnight and goodluck.
 
Hot damn! Looks like you've all finally fallen for the ignorant mdosi's Race & IQ bait! He's finally got you into his clutches and he's about to drag you all into the mud! Enjoy the ride fellas!
 

Using your "logic" then you might as well take credit for Afrikaans language too just because Afrikaners are "Africans". Do you want to take credit for Hindi language too because of Indians that are "Africans"? Heck take credit for all written languages of the world just because mankind originated in Africa. Bwahahahaha.....only in your warped double digit IQ mind!!! You know I have heard or seen some Afrocentric centric drivel before but none so blatant and none as pathetic as what you spewing on this thread. Bwahahahahaha....
 

Let's see some evidence of this written language of Chagga people. I am open-minded and always looking to be proven wrong. Take pictures of this written language of Chagga people and post it here for the world to see. As I am sure not so many historians know about this language.
 
Truth: I saw the writings in the library some years ago that I can reassure you, however, since the death of Mangi Mkuu, access to his collection and library has not been clarified. I think that this debate should be taken to another thread, as this is dedicated to THE ONE - Obama! Kwikwikwi!
 

Wewe ponjoro inavyoonekana tayari una conclusion based on bantuism..... Na mbaya zaidi unashutumu vitu usivyovijua, poor you wewe kama si chakula basi utakuwa ulishawahi kukunwa kunwa hapo nyuma........ anyways ni uhuru wa mawazo. Maoni yako yanaonyesha wazi kabisa unawashwa washwa.......
 

Umemshtukia eeenh! mie nimeamua kutomjibu, nshamalizana nae.....utoto mwingi sana kwa huyu jamaa.
 


I understand! I hope you will also understand that I can't just take your word when it comes to those writings. Anyways, back to THE ONE (with empty rhetoric) - Obama, why exactly are you supporting him? Is it because his biological father was Kenyan or do you hope that he will give you (not you in particular but Africans in general) financial support or welfare from his policies of income distribution from Whites? If it is the latter, surely you must understand the benefits to Africans are only temporarily and soon the gravy train will dry out. Then what?
 

Truth: I know that there are hundreds of pages on this thread and it is difficult to go back and find the posting where I wrote why I support Obama, but I would like to ensure you that it has nothing to do with who is father is and where he is from, nor about short sighted hopes that he will be obliged to help us Blacks. That is actually very wrong because he has made it clear he will not favor any race. I primarily admire him for his intelligence, his strategies, his communications skills and his accomplishments as community organizer, law profesor etc. I have read his books (have you?) and learnt a lot about him and decided that he is genuine, intelligent, realistic and what the world needs right now in order to heal after 8 years of a walking disaster called W. Bush! Now tell me why you support McCain or why you are against Obama! Is it because you think McCain will make Jindal his VP? (See how unfair this question sounds? ) But seriously, why?
 
Lakini democrats tumepata pigo na hii skendo ya John Edwards. alichonikera ni kwamba ameshindwa ku-handle vyema publicity ya hii extramarital affair. Sasa anazidi kujikanyaga na kusema uongo ingawa anadai anasema ukweli. Duh! Heri Barack alishinda, angekuwa Edwards saa hizi tungekuwa tunashika vichwa!
Alafu NN cheki Babu yako anavyochemka. Ukiweza kuweka chuki yako binafsi dhidi ya Obama pembeni inabidi ukubali that he is able to run a tight ship unlike Anko wako Babu Makopo:

Sijui ni hulka yake huyu Babu au ni uzee... kwikwikwi!
 
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