Been absent from the blogosphere for a couple months, and I return to find it in sad shape. The Metropolitian, is he still in Korea? Because there’s not a damn thing about Korea on his blog, it’s all Obama all the time. That along with the unrelenting stream of paleo tripe from the Western Confucian and the usual racism from Occidentalism is really rendering the Marm’s blog aggregator useless. It’s a bad sign when Japundit articles are the most compelling thing up there. At least OnefreeKorea is still fighting the good fight.

In b4 make your own blog then.

His story was just in the KT: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/ww.....20066.html

Those in Korea can do a wire transfer:
KB Bank
794002 04 03 1635
Warren Franklin-William Fund

There’s other donation information on the page linked in the post above mine. There’s also a facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8730028742

Everybody in Korea ought to help out a little bit. We all lead comfortable lives here and there’s sacrificing the cost of a night out (or more) or a nice dinner (or more) isn’t too much to ask.

“William, an English teacher of 14 months in northern Seoul, was left with third degree burns to nearly seventy percent of his body. He is now facing numerous surgeries and a lengthy recovery that could potentially cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Because of William’s contract in Korea he is now left without insurance. His parent’s financial situation is no more promising. They have left 4 children, an exchange student and a grandmother undergoing cancer treatment at home. They are unable to work while taking care of their son in S.Korea, and Will’s bills are already staggering.

Upon showing up at the hospital they were handed a bill for over $6,000 before they could even see their son. His first surgery alone cost $15,000. Our immediate concern is raising money for him to continue having the surgeries he requires. ”

The site: http://www.billkapoun.com/

The site contains the link to the Facebook site, with some truly heart-moving and tragic pictures. One look at them and any suspicions I had of a scam disappeared.

I’m not rich, but we all make some not-bad money here, and a lot of us sending $100 bucks might make a difference here. This could have been any one of us. Are we a community when it counts, when one of us desperately needs help? I’m transferring my $100 this morning.

Please consider it.

Hillary has really massaged the Korean American community of NY as a senator. As a result, they have donated ~ $4M to her campaigns (both senatorial and presidential primary). That’s not a small chunk of change considering the size of the KorAm community. She went to a fund raiser in L.A. Koreatown and netted $350k, not bad for a single night of campaigning (and she got a $5k hanbok out of it too).

Would most KorAms agree w/Hillary’s policies if they really knew what they were? Probably not, but hey, out of all the serious candidates, at least she is trying. The others are honestly leaving a lot of money on the table by not courting the KorAm community more.

[W]hat they don’t understand is, you can’t re-negotiate NAFTA. That’s totally unfair.

Who says you can’t renegotiate NAFTA? Any treaty can be re-negotiated. To my knowledge, however, it is Congress which has the power to abrogate treaty rights — not the President.

Granted, it’s been nearly 15 years since law school for me, and treaty rights were last seriously visited in first-year Con Law and a second-year elective on Indian Law. Too bad we don’t have a Constitutional scholar here.

Whether or not abrogation and renegotiation of a given treaty is sensible or fair is another question. Personally, I think it’s harmful to American interests to do so in the case of NAFTA. (KORUS FTA and the “alliance” are a different story.) But Congress may disagree.

“And he cleans houses too!”

Media and Washington bureaucrats hate him and paint black picture but the public got what they wanted. A house cleaning!

It is about time to send somebody like Obama in there to exterminate vermins (special interest groups).

America will be a much cleaner place after 4 years of Obama.