<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of National Review Online at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/362142/nigerian-ambassador-calls-cruz-apologize-comment-andrew-johnson">http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/362142/nigerian-ambassador-calls-cruz-apologize-comment-andrew-johnson</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p></p><div class="blog_author_block" style="position: relative; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><p></p><p class="article_title" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 28px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/362142/nigerian-ambassador-calls-cruz-apologize-comment-andrew-johnson" class="article_title active" style="text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 28px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Nigerian Ambassador Calls on Cruz to Apologize for Comment</a></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States is demanding that Senator Ted Cruz apologize for comments in which he <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/361879/cruz-jokes-nigerian-e-mail-scammers-must-have-created-obamacare-site-andrew-johnson">joked</a> that it seems like “Nigerian e-mail scammers” have been running the dysfunctional <a href="http://Healthcare.gov">Healthcare.gov</a> website. Ambassador Ade Adefuye suggested that the Texas senator made the remark to appeal to prejudiced opponents of President Obama.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It is unfair of any senator to essentially use citizens that are law abiding, to use Nigerians as cannon fodder,” Adefuye <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/nigerian-ambassador-ted-cruz-98814.html">told</a> <em>Politico</em>. “Many people from Nigeria are making meaningful contributions to American society, and Nigerians are very law abiding and making contributions to their host community.”</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We recognize that we have efforts on the part of Senator Cruz to appeal to some animus in his domestic base,” he added. He said Cruz’s comments were “completely over the top,” “went too far,” and had angered Nigerians.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cruz’s joke referred to a type of online financial scam which is famous for being frequently launched from Nigeria.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>