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that even suggests otherwise this is how utterly care less these people are in their analysis of alana'slife and career. why? listen to this line. here's what he does. he recites an old poem he wrote before his mother dies. his mother committed suicide when he was 8-years-old. frank marshall davis, the poet i referred to earlier, when his mother died he already felt like he was a poet. at kansas state university he had a great experience their this is frank marshall davis about whom the poem is written and now look at the title of the poem. why did interim knight asked okay if it's about brands which is what obama called his grandfather, why call with pop? it's an implication of paternity in the poem pop. i realized it wasn't only the poem about frank marshall davis, but i would say this is at least 90% confidence and i would assure you why in the book. the poem is by frank marshall davis. when barack obama was 19-years-old. i'm not going to go into detail here but let me sum this up by saying we know less and i mean it is about the first few years of his life than we know about george w

we convened this hearing which had been long planned, laskier alana fema's ability to respond to a major catastrophe against the compelling backdrop of the tragically catastrophic event unfolding in japan. an earthquake and tsunami and rapid succession that had already resulted in twice as many deaths as al qaeda's attack on america 9/11 and of course no one believes that the deaths and the finding of the day is over yet. the earthquake and the tsunami have also caused fires and explosions of nuclear power plants that could have nightmares consequences for japan and perhaps other countries as well. japan has been considered the gold standard of earthquake preparedness because they had repeated experience with earthquakes, but this earthquake registered 9.0 on the richter scale. when i say that i always remember the great san francisco earthquake was apparently 7.6 on the richter scale so you can imagine the consequences here. the ways of disaster set off by this earthquake in japan have exceeded the country's extraordinary preparations. so the event of the past week in japan lind a sense