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vinnytmd
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Now there is a Party that looks like fun!
Why do we have do get all of these tidbits from the UK Press? 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5082040.ece
Times reporter attends the Obama family victory feast in the village of Kogelo, Kenya, and brings along a live goat
There's only one thing to take to a Kenyan election victory feast: a goat. Preferably still breathing - “a sign of freshness“ - and with big testicles, apparently the sign of quality breeding.
And so it was that I found myself bouncing along a dirt track towards the ancestral home of the Obamas in a saloon car with the sound of John the goat bleating miserably from the boot.
It had not been easy finding such a quality specimen. The local livestock market had mostly sheep and cattle, with only a few scrawny goats on hand.
Instead, John was spotted at the side of the road by my driver George, who was impressed by the size of its belly and, well, other attributes.
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He was mine for 2500 shillings, a little under £20, and roughly the price of 20 pints of beer or eight malaria-proof bednets.
“This is a fine animal,” said Abongo Malik Obama, at the lush family homestead in the far west of Kenya, surrounded by grazing cattle and fields thick with maize. “You are certainly welcome now to stay and sit around the fire tonight.” By then John will be nyama choma - the Swahili term for grilled meat.
He was to be only one small part of a vast celebration feast starting last night and comprising four bulls, 16 chickens and assorted sheep and goats.
“We are Africans, so our plan is to slaughter a bull and have friends come over,” said Abongo, the candidate’s oldest half-brother.
“We invite Kogelo (the village where Mr Obama's Kenyan family lives) to come over and it will be open house. People will just come on over and bring a couple of sodas.”
Losing has never been considered in a country gripped by Obamamania for the best part of four years. Ever since their “lost son” was elected to the Senate everyone has been expecting him to become president.
Every twist and turn of his primary battle and general election campaign have been followed in the local papers and on television in the belief that his rise was inevitable.
Today, early signs of celebration were obvious everywhere, long before the polls opened.
American flags hung from trees in the city centre of Kisumu, the regional capital, and flapped from the handlebars of bicycle taxis.
The Jamaican reggae hit, “Barack Obama”, by Cocoa Tea boomed from matatus - the battered minibus taxis that most locals use to get around.
And bars were setting up big screens so that patrons could watch television coverage from the US as a whole nation held its breath for the signal to celebrate.
In Kogelo, women peeled onions and stoked cooking fires - yet another reminder of the vast gulf between his American dream and their African reality.
Children rehearsed their songs ahead of a party being held at a neighbouring school, the Senator Barack Obama Secondary School, while gospel music pumped from a marquee where priests were praying for victory.
Abongo, sitting in front of the tin-roofed shack that once belonged to Obama’s father, a government economist who died in a car accident more than two decades ago, said dozens of family members had congregated for a historic event.
“The reason we are here is that we are looking forward to a great day to celebrate,” he said, rubbishing any suggestion that Mr McCain might win. “We are not considering that possibility. I am not,” he said confidently, as a cock crowed in the shade of a mango tree.” The first stage of the celebrations was starting tonight.
Relatives, including some from England, were planning to stay up watching the results start to filter across the Atlantic.
Tomorrow, they will move to the neighbouring school where the chickens are breathing their last.
“It’s going to be chaotic,” said Ben Semel, from New York, who was helping organise the feast, “especially when everyone goes through the election night without sleeping.
[Edited on 11/4/2008 5:41 PM]
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 5:40 PM |
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DeputyWitch
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Anybody called PETA yet?
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 5:42 PM |
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vinnytmd
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How does one know if a Goat has big testicles or small testicles?
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 5:44 PM |
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Loreli
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People have hog roasts in the states all the time. 
Every country has "traditions"
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 5:47 PM |
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vinnytmd
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loreli - Did you read the article or just look at the pics?
It sounds like the sacrificial barbarism that was practiced in the First Temple in the Bible!
I bet the wimmen get all excited!
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 5:48 PM |
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DeputyWitch
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How does one know if a Goat has big testicles or small testicles?
Careful examination?
EWWWWW! Isn't that illegal, anyway?
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 5:51 PM |
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ColdinWisconsin
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It depends on how carefully you do it I assume.... 
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 5:52 PM |
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CPUfan
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A goat with big testicles eats the furniture inside,...
and a goat with small testicles mows the lawn in the back yard lol... 
You don't need to weigh 'em, Cold heheh
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 5:53 PM |
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DeputyWitch
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It depends on how carefully you do it I assume....
I did NOT need that mental image! 
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 5:56 PM |
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burnslikethesun
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Read it.
And I agree this is really weird.
But yet I have built a tolerance to people and their off the wall traditions. Like lighting candles instead of a Christmas Tree. Circumcisions at age 12 instead of birth. OUCH!. You can keep it.
The big nutter goat and the dick sniping at age 12.
Did ya know that this years Christmas tree for the white house comes from Montana. A big sonofa tree too.
Obama, the good Christian he is, is even have a 9 year old from Harve, Mt. help light it all up.  back to your goat nuts. Enjoy.
[Edited on 11/4/2008 5:57 PM]
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 5:57 PM |
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ColdinWisconsin
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It's all about the visual people. 
Nobody said you had to eat them.
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 5:58 PM |
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vinnytmd
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CPU - good that we have a knowledgeable Brit here like you.
If it weren't for your press we would know even less about Barry, his brother, his Auntie, His Uncle, His Brothers Sister's Mother, His Mothers, Brothers Child..............
Now we know all about Goat balls too!
Hat tip CPU!
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 5:59 PM |
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ColdinWisconsin
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Hat tip CPU!
Is that what they are calling that these days?
Well wonders never cease.
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 6:04 PM |
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vinnytmd
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errr ahhhh CPU, I know people that let pot belly pigs in the house. But GOATS?
DO they have furniture in Mud Huts?
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 6:13 PM |
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CPUfan
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I heard that O's Dad lived in the West Indies too?
Sounds like a history of the Commonwealth... Hey watch out he isn't a Loyalist heheh... He might want to sneak the US back into the empire 
Now that's not a bad plot for a book... hmmmm.
How on earth did they end up on Hawaii ?? Wasn't that where he met his wife?
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 6:14 PM |
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CPUfan
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Only goats with really big testicles lol... and a horn...  
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 6:16 PM |
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vinnytmd
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DO you know that Barry spent $700,000 for lighting at his German Free Beer Festival.
One would think that Barry would at least cater his Kenyan party with fried chicken, ribs, Hennesey and some kegs of Colt 45.
What a cheapskate!
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 6:21 PM |
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Loreli
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Nope, Vinny....just read the article.
Not certain what your point is, though?
They are going to kill animals to eat?
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 6:23 PM |
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CPUfan
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Yeah I saw the Berlin gig... They fenced off the whole Tiergarten park up to Brandenburger Tor, where the wall was. There was a major security showing.
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| Nov 4, 2008 @ 6:25 PM |
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vinnytmd
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loreli - Nevahmind 
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