18-10-2009, 09:43 AM
Wow, more safaris and disappearing national leaders a la Harold Holt, sucked under by deep currents. Since the Safari Club mentioned in this was in Kenya, I went through Dreams from my Father by Barrack O'Bama, the pen-name of Barry Soetero, and sure enough, there he is, in Kenya, going on safari, with the requisite amount of drivel native to that book about the racial backgrounds of his fellow travellers, and the stark pathos of black Kenyans engaged in the white man's sport of big game hunting/spotting. No mention of Saudis or a clubhouse though.
Also completely off-topic, there was a South African radio serial on Springboek Radio called General Motors on Safari, which featured real animal sounds from the bush and jungle. It ran for about 140 episodes before morphing into Squad Cars, a show that features actual cases from the South African Police, only changing the names and places to protect the innocent. A good example can be found here:
http://154.ca/otr/shared/Squad_Cars_-_Dr...ggling.mp3
That's how South African Police are supposed to act, when the dealers haven't infiltrated the constabulary.
Still at a loss for the connection between Operation/Project Big Safari that began around the time JFK was shot and became a secret USAF aerospace customization project including support for the secret SR-17 or whatever the plane Bush Sr flew in to Paris is called (http://www.bigsafariassociation.org/)... between whatever that is, and the secret club of Arab Franco American intelligence chiefs in Nairobi, I looked in a dictionary. For SAFARI it says:
1.an overland journey or hunting expedition, esp. in Africat
2. he people, animals, etc., that go on the expedition[C19: from Swahili: journey, from Arabic safar“ya, from safara to travel]
Then SWAHILI:
1. a language of E Africa that is an official language of Kenya and Tanzania and is widely used as a lingua franca throughout E and central Africa. It is a member of the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family, originally spoken in Zanzibar, and has a large number of loan words taken from Arabic and other languages
2. (pl, -lis or -li) a member of a people speaking this language, living chiefly in Zanzibar
adj.
of or relating to the Swahilis or their language[C19: from Arabic sawhil coasts]
Swa`hilian adj.
Walter W. Skeat's Concise Dictionary of English Etymology of 1882 does not list Safari in its main lexicon or in the lists of loan words from various languages. Swahili is the trading language that arose between Arab slavers and East African Bantu speakers, just as the Chinook and Mobilian jargons arose in the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf of Mexico states for trading goods.
What's the connexion between the Safaris, Jan? Does it include termini at Palmdale/Skunkworks and/or Cabazon/Indio/29 Palms? madcowprod puts Venice in there too. Very intriguing.
Also completely off-topic, there was a South African radio serial on Springboek Radio called General Motors on Safari, which featured real animal sounds from the bush and jungle. It ran for about 140 episodes before morphing into Squad Cars, a show that features actual cases from the South African Police, only changing the names and places to protect the innocent. A good example can be found here:
http://154.ca/otr/shared/Squad_Cars_-_Dr...ggling.mp3
That's how South African Police are supposed to act, when the dealers haven't infiltrated the constabulary.
Still at a loss for the connection between Operation/Project Big Safari that began around the time JFK was shot and became a secret USAF aerospace customization project including support for the secret SR-17 or whatever the plane Bush Sr flew in to Paris is called (http://www.bigsafariassociation.org/)... between whatever that is, and the secret club of Arab Franco American intelligence chiefs in Nairobi, I looked in a dictionary. For SAFARI it says:
1.an overland journey or hunting expedition, esp. in Africat
2. he people, animals, etc., that go on the expedition[C19: from Swahili: journey, from Arabic safar“ya, from safara to travel]
Then SWAHILI:
1. a language of E Africa that is an official language of Kenya and Tanzania and is widely used as a lingua franca throughout E and central Africa. It is a member of the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family, originally spoken in Zanzibar, and has a large number of loan words taken from Arabic and other languages
2. (pl, -lis or -li) a member of a people speaking this language, living chiefly in Zanzibar
adj.
of or relating to the Swahilis or their language[C19: from Arabic sawhil coasts]
Swa`hilian adj.
Walter W. Skeat's Concise Dictionary of English Etymology of 1882 does not list Safari in its main lexicon or in the lists of loan words from various languages. Swahili is the trading language that arose between Arab slavers and East African Bantu speakers, just as the Chinook and Mobilian jargons arose in the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf of Mexico states for trading goods.
What's the connexion between the Safaris, Jan? Does it include termini at Palmdale/Skunkworks and/or Cabazon/Indio/29 Palms? madcowprod puts Venice in there too. Very intriguing.