O’bamas Land to Put Moneygall on the Map UPDATED: Grinch spotted in Moneygall too

I’ve got a very busy morning, as you might imagine, butt just wanted to get this out to you from the olde sod.

As you can see, we did much better coming:

 

then we did going:

Petulant,

butt breezy:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although the arrival was not without it’s WTF moments:

Lady M gets Trumped

So far we’ve met with what passes for a President here: a pasty white woman by the name of Mary McAleese. She seemed really nice though, and offered everyone a Guinness (a dark brew, fyi).

Then we went to plant a tree  50 feet from the sequoia that JFK planted in 1963. I didn’t get a good look at the tree Big Guy planted butt it looked like it may have been a dwarf fig tree. Either that or an apple.

And since the Irish are always so thoughtful,  the Irish President found the only child of color in all of Ireland to come to the tree planting so Lady M would have a child to hug.

Before I have to run, here’s an update from yesterday’s AIPAC meeting. Good news, the tattoo on Big Guy’s face turned out to be temporary,

it was not a gang symbol,

and had disappeared completely by the time he and Lady M left to visit one of his homelands.

UPDATE: Sara B thought she also spotted the Grinch in Moneygall:

and now, due to Sara B’s sleuthing, Jim Carey is demanding his hair back and threatening to sue for infringement of intellectual property.

Also filing suit under the same statute butt in separate proceedings, Cindy Lou has served papers on Princess Beatrice for copyright infringement.

I’m not sure, and certainly not looking to make trouble, but I think perhaps Jim Carey could add Princess Eugenie to the hair suit.

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Our Irish Heritage meets CRT: Brewski’s All Around!

You just have to admire Big Guy’s stamina don’t you? He didn’t get home from Friday's Moneyhaul until nearly 1:00 AM Saturday, and yet there he was again at 1:00 PM yesterday, off to an Irish Pub in D.C. celebrating St. Paddy’s day with his red-headed cousin from his ancestral village of Moneygall. That’s him in the middle, Henry Healy, 8th cousin on dear old Mum’s side:

Big Guy, cuz Henry Healy and Ollie Hayes at D.C.’s very popular watering hole, The Dubliner.

You may recognize Ollie, he was the bar tender at the pub where Lady M and Big Guy stopped in for a pint last May while visiting Ireland:

Ollie showing Lady M how to pull a pint, May 2011

While technically green, Big Guy’s bluish green jacket doesn’t really pass the authenticity test in a sea of Kelly  green Irish revelers. 

In case you’re not familiar with the family lore, Big Guy’s great-great-great grandfather on his mother’s side, Falmouth Kearney,a shoemaker from Moneygall emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1850. The rest, as they say, is history.

Unless of course you’re one of those conspiracy theorists who’s still questioning Big Guy’s birth certificate authenticity. There’s long been a theory floating around that BO’s real father wasn’t Barack Hussein Obama Sr. at all, butt rather Frank Marshall Davis, or even Malcolm X. Then came the silly stories that Stanley Ann wasn’t even Big Guy’s real mother!

Butt then… there is the issue of the widely ignored cold case investigation conducted by Sheriff Arpaio that concluded that the “original” birth certificate issued last year by Big Guy was indeed a forgery. Along with his Selective Service registration.

                     AP

“Based on all of the evidence presented and investigated, I cannot in good faith report to you that these documents are authentic,” Arpaio said. “My investigators believe that the long-form birth certificate was manufactured electronically and that it did not originate in paper format as claimed by the White House.”

That’s the work of the vast right-wing conspiracy, butt that doesn’t mean that it won’t open up a whole other can of worms that we really don’t need around here.

The right-wing nutz have long proffered the hypothesis that Frank Marshall Davis is the real father of Big Guy, butt come on…he was just some crazy communist guy in the neighborhood:

Obama's mentor Frank Marshall Davis -- the veiled figure known only as "Frank" in Barack Obama's memoir Dreams from my Father -- was openly sympathetic to Communists. His affiliations with a variety of hard left groups were open. At that time, the Communist Party had tens of thousands of members, some of them clandestine Soviet officials who had penetrated government and industry. It received covert subsidies from the Soviet Union itself. In 1949, Davis himself predicted the collapse of Capitalism:
"Democracy today lies weak and slowly dying from the poison administered by the divident doctors in Washington and Wall Street who have fooled a trusting public into believing that they are the specialists who would save us from the dread diseases of socialism and communism. . . . They hope to hand us fascism disguised as the healed democracy." (Honolulu Record, July 28, 1949, p. 8)

And Big Guy doesn’t even look like him, except for the cigarette.

                            

Now Malcolm X -(another favorite right-wing nutz theory) I have to admit: he could pass as daddy.

                  

Well, except for the ears. And with Big Guy’s original nose.

                

Butt if the birth certificate is indeed fake, that means anyone could be Big Guy’s father – or mother! And while I don’t usually like to start rumors, I couldn’t help butt notice while I was  researching my post on Angela last week, that she and Big Guy do share an uncanny resemblance:

          

                  

Of course, we can’t confirm the ears…yet!

Now, I’m NOT saying that Frank Marshall Davis is related to  Angela Davis, butt they DO have the same last name (in addition to both being communists and big promoters of “social justice” whatever that is). And I have determined that Angie’s father’s name was “Frank Davis” too! Although not “Frank Marshall Davis” – butt still…

Anyway, Big Frank was Big Guy’s early mentor according to his book, Dreams From My Father: "It made me smile, thinking back on Frank and his old Black Power, dashiki self. In some ways he was as incurable as my mother, as certain in his faith, living in the same sixties time warp that Hawaii had created.”

So anyway, I’m sure the physical resemblance between Angie and BO is just a coincidence. Because it doesn’t make any sense: if Black Power advocate Angela was Big Guy’s mother, who on earth could Big Guy’s father possibly be?

       

“Grandpa” Stanley Dunham and young Big Guy

I’m not looking to start any more rumors, I’m just here to reflect on things. And I sure don’t want to cast any doubt on the authenticity of Big Guy’s Irish roots, because they seem to be real.

Bo, getting into his St. Paddy’s day cups

I was just hoping to shed a little light on Big Guy’s background in a way that would explain his commitment to “social justice” and “critical race theory” (CRT) as first articulated by his good friend and teacher at Harvard Law School, Derrick Bell. Butt I’m afraid I didn’t do a very good job, so I refer you to Clarice’s Piece today for a more complete explanation. It is definitely a “must read” – it provides all the basic tenets of CRT as well as insights into how  Big Guy and his team have expertly incorporated them into his (and our) life. Just because Soledad O’Brian doesn’t know anything about CRT that’s not in Wikipedia is no reason why you shouldn’t.

Joe Lewis “Fist” sculpture presiding over downtown Detroit: you might say it’s a monument to CRT.

Big Guy wishes to issue everyone a Black Irish Power salute (or Sláinte, as the case may be) 

Oh, and  speaking of Black Power Salutes reminds me! Because I am now officially a capitalist pig (although not won who can afford to pay a little bit more) and because mainer “double dared” me, Little Mo & Little Bo have stocked my MOTUS Boutique with the new pins:

Shoppe till you drop,and let’s all get out there on November 6th and set them FREE!

FLOTUS Friday

LoyalReader writes: “MOTUS, I always enjoyed your’“reflections’ of our previous FLOTUS, Lady M, even though the images left me mildly nauseous. Will you be reflecting our new FLOTUS?”

MOTUS replies: Thank you LoyalReader.  I will be reflecting FLOTUS Melania Trump from time to time. In fact, this is the first edition of a new feature, “FLOTUS Friday.” I hope you enjoy it and find most of the images less, uh, challenging.

Let’s begin with FLOTUS 45 arrival in Warsaw, Poland late Wednesday:

Stunning!

     Vogue reports:

…First Lady Melania Trump made a bold impression upon her arrival in Warsaw today. Donning an emerald suede Diane von Furstenberg trench coat, whose silhouette echoed the designer's iconic wrap dress, she punctuating the ensemble with a graphic scarf, also by the American designer. This was a departure from the wardrobe of Trump's first international trip, which favored strict and militaristic silhouettes. The coat-and-scarf combo, by contrast, appeared to take its cues from ‘70s fashion, projecting a polished yet louche quality.

Now, let’s compare that image with FLOTUS 44 arriving in Poland at the end of Big Guy’s 2011 European vacation apology tour meeting with important, international people:

Oh wait – I forgot: Lady M didn’t continue on to Poland with Big Guy, choosing instead to go home following the visit to one of Barack Hussein O’Bama’s ancestral homelands - Ireland:

MO, arriving in Moneygall, Ireland as elegant as usual

Although she did have a Trumpian moment there, due to the prevailing winds:

As I reported at the time (A Polish Joke: How many terms does it take an Obama administration to screw democracy?):

I know many of you were disappointed that Lady M decided to go home with a sick headache instead of accompanying Big Guy to Poland. Butt trust me, I saw what she had packed for that leg of the trip, and I think it was just as well.

Backward Blouses – could be mistaken for a Polish Joke

And in case anyone is still missing the good old days – of non-“louche” FLOTUS fashion - here’s a retrospective of Lady M’s 4th of July White House attire:

        Decidedly not as “louchey” as Melania’s first 4th of July selection:

I don’t know about you but I think we’ll manage the “louche” FLOTUS years quite well, thank you very much.

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