The Fiction of Barack Obama

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton - the NoisyRoom

The People’s Cube

Everything about Barack Obama is an enormous tapestry of lies woven from interlocking fictions spun from false narrative threads, wrapping and obscuring a dark, poisonous web of malice. An agenda concocted from the depths of Morhdor and wickedly implemented. Given, he is a robber baron politician, worthy of designer torches and gold-plated pitchforks, his deceptions are much worse than surface glitter. They go all the way back to his beginnings, when he was ‘selected’ for his political sainthood. An agenda to bring ‘change’ to America, do away with the Constitution and bring totalitarian rule to the US, enforced with an iron fist.

Barack’s story is coming unraveled, but is it by design or incompetence? Nothing is ever what it seems in this political game. First, Hannity and The Blaze came forward with an interview between Ed Klein and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright outing Obama on bribery and political corruption. More to come on that I’m sure. Read the book The Amateur: Barack Obama in The White House. Then Drudge and Breitbart splashed the political blogosphere with the headline that Obama’s publicist in 1991 had a blurb up on Obama being born in Kenya and then raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The publicist claimed it was a ‘fact checking error,’ but evidently, it’s an error that happened again and again and again. In fact, according to WND, that blurb was still up in 2007. Between Arpaio contesting the birth certificate and this, the birther movement is gaining more and more credibility.

While I believe that the ‘birth certificate’ issue is legitimate, I believe it is being used as a political weapon of distraction to deter Americans from keeping their eye on what is really going on economically, militarily and Constitutionally. All we know definitively is that Obama is a liar – about everything. I would ask him if he was lying then or if he’s lying now, but I suspect it is both. Being from Africa gives Obama street credit, just like being a radical and a Progressive does.

From Mark Steyn:

When it comes to conspiracies, I’m an Occam’s Razor man. The more obvious explanation of the variable first line in the eternally shifting sands of Obama’s biography is that, rather than pretending to have been born in Hawaii, he’s spent much of his life pretending to have been born in Kenya.

After all, if your first book is an exploration of racial identity and has the working title “Journeys In Black And White,” being born in Hawaii doesn’t really help. It’s entirely irrelevant to the twin pillars of contemporary black grievance – American slavery and European imperialism. To 99.99 percent of people, Hawaii is a luxury vacation destination and nothing else.

Whereas Kenya puts you at the heart of what, in an otherwise notably orderly decolonization process by the British, was a bitter and violent struggle against the white man’s rule. Cool! The composite chicks dig it, and the literary agents.

And where’s the harm in it? Everybody does it – at least in the circles in which Obama hangs. At Harvard Law School, where young Barack was “the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review,” there’s no end of famous firsts: As The Fordham Law Review reported, “Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995.” There is no evidence that Mrs. Warren, now the Democrats’ Senate candidate, is anything other than 100 percent white. She walks like a white, quacks like a white, looks whiter than white. She’s the whitest white since Frosty the Snowman fell in a vat of Wite-Out. But she “self-identified” as Cherokee, so that makes her a “woman of color.” Why, back in 1984 she submitted some of her favorite dishes to the “Pow Wow Chow” cookbook, a “compilation of recipes passed down through the Five Tribes families.”

Even Obama’s name was crafted:

“I suppose he’d had the name ready for a long time, even then,” says Nick Carraway in “The Great Gatsby.” “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people – his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself… . So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.”

In a post-modern America, the things that Gatsby attempted to fake – an elite schooling – Obama actually had; the things that Gatsby attempted to obscure – the impoverished roots – merely add to Obama’s luster. Gatsby claimed to have gone to Oxford, but nobody knew him there because he never went; Obama had a million bucks’ worth of elite education at Occidental, Columbia and Harvard Law, and still nobody knew him (“Fox News contacted some 400 of his classmates and found no one who remembered him”). In that sense, Obama out-Gatsbys Gatsby: His “shiftless and unsuccessful” relatives – the deportation-dodging aunt on public housing in Boston, the DWI undocumented uncle, the $12-a-year brother back in Nairobi – are useful props in his story, the ever more vivid bit-players as the central character swims ever more out of focus, but they don’t seem to know him either. The more autobiographies he writes, the less anybody knows.

Like Gatsby presiding over his wild, lavish parties, Obama is aloof and remote: let everyone else rave deliriously; he just has to be. He is, in his way, the apotheosis of the Age of American Incredibility. When just being who you are anyway is an incredible accomplishment, Obama managed to run and win on biography almost entirely unmoored from life. But then, like Gatsby, he knew a thing or two about “the unreality of reality.”

And America fell for it, hook, line and ‘sinker.’ We put a Communist in the White House and painted DC red.

I also have severe doubts about Obama’s claim to be a Christian. The Jeremiah Wright tapes bring that to the forefront as well. Wright said that he “made it comfortable” for Obama to accept Christianity “without having to renounce his Islamic background.” Why should we doubt that? Read that again – the meaning there is as plain as day.

Then you have Obama’s militant wife. Both the Obamas, in my opinion, are hardcore racists. They support race wars; they support Islam and they hate America and her ideals. How’s that for blunt?

Obama’s college records have never been released and in fact, we know very little about his time in college. There could certainly be a smoking gun in all that. But, the “watchdog” Fourth Estate has hushed it up like everything else about Obama.

More and ongoing media failures such as:

• His Communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis.
• His real relationship with Bill Ayers and Ayers’ father.
• His real relationship with George Soros.
• His military intentions.
• His ties with the unions.
• The facts on his family and his girlfriends. Especially family in Africa.
• His connections with Democratic Socialists of America and other radical Communist groups.
• Who his benefactors are – i.e. who paid for his education? Who donated to his campaigns?
• Why he disses (actually hates) Israel and puts all Islamic countries first in his actions.
• How much has been spent (in detail) on trips and vacations.
• What do his finances really entail?
• Who really wrote his books?
• His ties with Russia and China.

I want to know all that and more. I want to know who ‘selected’ him as Farrakhan put it in the Wright tapes. What groups and individuals are running this show? Why aren’t his actions considered treasonous and at the very least merit a congressional investigation into his background and his actions? How is it that a man who could never begin to pass a background check has become the most powerful man in the world? I don’t want verbal effigies, I want him vetted completely and then held accountable along with all in his sphere of influence, especially his Cabinet and his czars. Include the Democrat Party while you are at it, with special emphasis on the Congressional Progressive Congress.

Reverend Wright’s revelations could bring Obama down. Obama’s chickens may indeed be coming home to roost.

Considering his violations of the Constitution and the invocation of Executive Orders, there is a monumental case for impeachment here. Chicago corruption has been brought into our White House. The fiction of Barack Obama will go down in infamy as the ultimate enemy within.

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The Blaze: Part One: The Fiction and Non-Fiction of Obama

The Blaze: Part Two: The Fiction and Non-Fiction of Obama

View in-depth research on Barack Obama at KeyWiki. Read Barack Obama and the Enemies Within (Paperback). If you want to know the truth about Barack Obama, visit and browse:

• New Zeal
• Accuracy in Media
• Discover the Networks
• Breitbart.com
• The Blaze
• Ask Marion

Research on Obama:

• A Biography of Barack Obama
• Obama’s Political Career
• Obama’s Controversial and Radical Associates
• Radical People Obama has Appointed
• Obama’s Ties to Islam
• Barack Obama’s Presidency

Below is a list of pages detailing Barack Obama’s involvement with:

• Democratic Socialists of America
• New Party/Progressive Chicago
• Communist Party USA
• Committees of Correspondence
• The Labor Movement
• ACORN & Project Vote
• Other organizations…

Video: Literary Bio Claims Obama Born in Kenya

Read more and see videos at The Blaze… and stay tuned for more on this here in ‘Who Really Is Barack Obama – Fact… Fiction… Does It Matter?

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Who Is Derrick Bell? Why Did Team Obama Try to Hide Him?

The Racist Ravings of Derrick Bell

By now, you may already have seen the 1991 video footage of Barack Obama, who was then a 30-year-old student at Harvard Law School, speaking in glowing terms about Harvard professor Derrick Bell, whom Obama described as a man known for “speaking the truth” and for an “excellence of … scholarship” that had not only “opened up new vistas and new horizons,” but had “changed the standards [of what] legal writing is about.” “Open up your hearts and your minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell,” Obama urged the sizable crowd which had gathered to show their support for Professor Bell that day.

Since the release of the video, Obama’s backers have been quick to dismiss it as nothing more than a young scholar’s affectionate tribute to a liberal academic icon who not only made major intellectual contributions to his profession, but who also was a leading champion of racial “diversity” in higher education. For instance, CNN host Soledad O’Brien, when interviewing Breitbart.com’s editor-in-chief Joel Pollak yesterday about the significance of the video, described Bell benignly as “the first tenured African American professor of law at Harvard University,” and characterized the gathering merely as “a rally in support of racial equality among the faculty at Harvard Law School.” O’Brien then asked her guest, with apparent bewilderment, “What part of that was the bombshell? Because I missed it. I don’t get it. What was a bombshell?”

In a similar spirit of willful blindness, Media Matters describes Derrick Bell as “a respected academic” and “an influential figure in the Civil Rights movement.” This portrayal is reminiscent of Barack Obama’s pathetic characterization, a few years back, of Bill Ayers as “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” But just as the reality of Bill Ayers was far more interesting than Obama indicated at that time, the truth about Derrick Bell is likewise far more compelling than the pablum the left has provided in the wake of this latest video. For you see, by the time Barack Obama was delivering his glowing remarks about Derrick Bell in 1991, the professor had already established—and would continue to cultivate for another two decades—a reputation as someone who thoroughly, resolutely detested the United States and who viewed the nation’s institutions and its people as irremediably racist. In short, until his death last October at the age of 80, Bell was secular academia’s version of Jeremiah Wright—a raging, fulminating racist without the clergyman’s robe. And something about his philosophy resonated strongly with Barack Obama.

Derrick Bell is best known as the founding father of Critical Race Theory, an academic discipline which maintains that society is divided along racial lines into (white) oppressors and (black) victims, similar to the way Marxism frames the oppressor/victim dichotomy along class lines. Critical Race Theory contends that America is permanently racist to its core, and that consequently its legal structures are, by definition, racist and invalid. A logical derivative of this premise, according to Critical Race Theory, is that the members of “oppressed” racial groups are entitled—in fact obligated—to determine for themselves which laws and traditions have merit and are worth observing. Such a perspective’s implications for the ability of civil society to function at all, are nothing short of monumental.

Read more HERE on Derrick Bell: Barack Obama’s First Jeremiah Wright

Below Bell  is saying that our society may not be able to exist without racism and that white people feel entitled because they are white.  Obama got the academic version of Jeremiah Wright before he was fed the theological version.

Obama’s Derrick Bell Believes White People Have A Sense Of Entitlement (Video)

Video:  Thomas Sowell on Derrick Bell

Derrick A. Bell Visited the White House Twice in 2010

by: Lachlan Markay

Visitor logs show that Derrick A. Bell visited the White House twice since President Obama took office. The logs show two visits by an individual of that name on January 29 and 31, 2010.

Derrick Albert Bell, the late Harvard professor and controversial scholar in the field of Critical Race Theory has been thrust into national headlines after conservative bloggers at Breitbart.com posted video of Obama lauding his work at a 1991 rally at Harvard.

Read more at Heritage.org

White House: No Comment on Derrick A. Bell's 2010 Visits

by Dan Riehl – Breitbart.com

Via Lachlan Markay at Heritage, we learn a Derrick A. Bell visited the Obama White House twice in 2010. The White House did not return a request for comment. The visits were on 1/29/2010, a Friday and 1/31/2010, a Sunday. For now, a web search of news reports did not turn up why Bell may have been in Washington that particular weekend.

Heritage could not independently confirm that the Derrick A. Bell listed is the same individual who spoke at the rally. The White House did not return a request for comment.

In the video, Obama tells the crowd to “Open your hearts and open your minds to the words of professor Derrick Bell.” Those words tended to be quite controversial. Bell is widely credited with pioneering the field of Critical Race Theory, a radical school of legal thought that holds that the American legal and political systems are inherently racist.

OBAMA: “Open up your hearts and your minds” to racialist prof…

But remember the beer summit and another professor… Professor and Historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr.?

Gates says Obama’s racism and radicalism just might not be Professor Bell’s fault, but rather the fault of Obama’s anti-colonialist father Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. I would say that it is a combination… Obama’s radical progressive views, his internal rage as well as his racism come from a combination of his father, Obama Sr.; his grandparents, who attended the Little Red Church where they also took Obama’s mother, were Communists; his youthful mentor Frank Marshall Davis; his college professors including Professor Bell and his pastor of 20-years Jeremiah Wright… plus everyone they connected him to. Take that cast of characters and add the indoctrination of Saul Alinsky (the Alinsky Method) and Cloward and Piven plus the puppet-master George Soros and his The Shadow Party allies and you can ask yourself, “How could Obama not be The Manchurian President?”… chosen, programmed and placed into the most powerful office in the world for just this moment in time (when America had fallen asleep, the media was controlled so no longer connected the dots and the globalists, with their tentacles in groups like the CFR were ready to make their move), still surrounded by all the same radicals or their children which includes Timothy Geithner and the ever elusive Valerie Jarrett (both have parental and childhood ties to Obama and his family and people now in Obama’s inner circle in the White House). And then there are all the unknowns.

But hold unto your hats… just when you think it can’t become anymore incestuous…

Derrick Bell article edited by Elena Kagan in college says the U.S. Constitution is the “original sin”

So not only is Elena Kagan a conflict of interest in the ObamaCARE SCOTUS case, because she was Solicitor General for Obama while the bill was being past, but she also edited an article by Derrick Bell while at Harvard that makes clear that Critical Race Theory sees the U.S. Constitution as a form of “original sin.” So not only is Kagan a conflict of interest in maybe the most important case ever to hit the Supreme Court, she is also anti-constitution that she is supposed to uphold and defend as SCOTUS judge. Great. From Breitbart:

In November 1985, the Harvard Law Review published an article by Derrick Bell that was a “classic” in the development of Critical Race Theory. The article was edited by then-student Elena Kagan, and was cited by Prof. Charles Ogletree in support of her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2010. The article makes clear that Critical Race Theory sees the U.S. Constitution as a form of “original sin”–a view later embraced by Obama as a state legislator, and reflected in his actions and appointments. The following is an excerpt from the non-fiction portion of the article; much of what follows is a fictional story that Bell intended as a parable of racial “fantasy.” (99 Harv. L. Rev. 4)  -  fireandreamitchell ^

h/t to MJ and AJ

Barack Obama: “We’re no longer a Christian nation.” – But Now that He Is Desperate is Pleading and Praying for a ‘Hail Mary’

Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States was, as we know, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and one of the principal framers of the  Constitution.  He believed religious freedom is an important and personal freedom and that there should be a wall of separation between Church and State.  However is also realized that in order for a nation to succeed it needed to have a strong moral and religious basis at its core and he saw Christianity as the highest expression of natural religion and Jesus as an incomparably great moral teacher, and therefore chose Christianity as America’s moral compass, while allowing the personal freedom of Americans to worship or not worship as they pleased.

Yet to the dismay and anger of many Americans and religious leaders in the U.S., President Barack Obama has gone out of his way to ignore and minimize the value of religion in the United States, except for his bazaar and incorrect comments like, “We’re no longer a Christian nation” and "The U.S. is a large Muslim Country" plus his dealings with his extremist pastor, Reverend Wright.

While writing the Healthcare Reform Bill(s) nobody at the White House or from Congress was asking for clergy input.  In fact the mention of abortions and abortion funding has intentionally been left out of the bill, which makes the government funding of abortions with taxpayer money part of the bill(s) by default, whether the American people and their churches approve or not.  And forcing doctors and medical practitioners and religiously funded hospitals to perform abortions even if it is against their moral convictions is also on the table.

And in every opportunity to be a friend to Israel, Obama has chosen not to be.

Yet with all that said, now that the possibility of desperation and defeat has crept into the Obama/Pelosi style healthcare reform debate, both President Obama and Speaker Pelosi (who was lectured by the Pope earlier this year about her Sunday Catholic politics) are holding meetings with religious leaders (Christian and Jewish leaders) begging, pleading and quoting scripture (and lying) to get their help. We shall hope that 'they', the American people, and God see the bigger picture!

Obama Plays the God Card

(AP) It’s said that when people are experiencing trials and tribulations, they often seek a higher power. The President is apparently one of them.

Yesterday, in perhaps the most overtly religious move of his tenure thus far, the selectively faithful Obama preached his message to more than 1,000 leaders of different faiths in two conference calls, hoping they will see the light with regard to his overhaul. No word if Reverend Wright was on the line.

According to the LA Times: “The effort, known as ‘40 Days for Health Reform,’ features a national television ad, prayer rallies, meetings in congressional districts where lawmakers are waffling and a nationwide ‘sermon weekend’ at the end of August. The push also aims to influence leaders in the Jewish faith before the fall religious holidays.

I suppose grassroots organizing isn’t so bad when you have the guy upstairs on your side. Take that town hall evil doers!

“We are God's partners in matters of life and death," Obama said during the call with Jewish leaders, according to Washington Rabbi Jack Moline via Twitter.

Translation: Seeee America?? It’s just you and the man upstairs. No death panels!

Further, Pastor Obama said that many were “bearing false witness” and took a shot at his opposition calling the pushback to date: “fabrications that have been put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation: that is that we look out for one another, that I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper. In the wealthiest nation on earth right now, we are neglecting to live up to that call.”

If Obama wants to be his brother's keeper, shouldn’t he start with his own family?

So much has been made over Obama’s religion it’s an interesting turn of events that he has strategically decided to channel biblical references in hopes of turning believers into believing in his plan.

But will this theme of holy healthcare stick? When it comes to messages on universal health reform Obama has been all over the map. He initially argued it was a moral imperative, then quickly shifted to an economic imperative that reform would save costs. When the Congressional Budget Office debunked that theory saying the plan would actually raise costs, the White House pivoted yet again to a political imperative: demonizing the big insurance companies. Now with his plan and poll numbers in peril, he’s back to embracing the moral dimension to this discussion in the hopes of a political miracle.

But what exactly are Obama’s morals? Defend the weakest or reward the dumbest? Obama paints a picture of an indigenous mass of nomads but the CBO projects that among the uninsured in 2009, 17 percent will have family income above 300 percent of the poverty level (about $65,000 for a family of four); 18 percent will be eligible for but not enrolled in Medicaid; and 30 percent will be offered, but will decline, coverage from an employer.

Isn’t it their moral duty to get coverage, rather than have others foot the bill for those who make bad decisions? And isn’t our moral duty to try and cover them first before strapping future generations into massive debt? Can I get an amen for personal responsibility?

Not long ago Obama criticized those who cling to their religion. With support for his mission rapidly fleeting, he’s now the one with open arms asserting that if you believe in God you should believe in his policies. I guess in times of adversity, it’s acceptable to use a Hail Mary to get us to cling to him.

By Andrea Tantaros

Related Resources:

• The Smell of Desperation:  Pulling out the Race Card and Religion…
• Catholics Fear ‘Stealth’ Abortion Push in Healthcare – Could Cause Hospital Closures and Doctor Shortages
• What Would Jesus Do?  Ask Obama
• ObamaCare Gets Religion
• Jews Very Concerned About Obama, Leader of Jewish Organization Says
• No Turning Back From Obamacare
• Did Obama Really Say Healthcare Critics Are Guilty of Sin? – U-Tube
• Catastrophe

Pinch Yourself

The contrast between, on the one hand, the huge amount of material about Obama’s radical associations that has been published in on-line journals and in a few brave newspapers, and on the other the refusal by big media to address it and to vilify those who do, becomes more astounding by the day. The Obamaniacs are spinning the relationship between Obama and William Ayers, former of Weather Undergound Terrorism Inc, as of no consequence because this was supposedly a chance acquaintance and because the educational project they worked on, the Annenberg Challenge, was a worthy one.

Stanley Kurtz now nails that canard by showing how, through the Annenberg Challenge, Obama and Ayers channelled funds to extremist anti-American Afrocentric ‘educational’ programmes which were a carbon-copy of the world view of Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s black racist mentor who, under pressure, Obama was forced to repudiate.  These programmes promoted, amongst other radical ideas, the ‘rites of passage’ philosophy which attempted to create a ‘virtually separate and intensely anti-American black social world’ in order to ‘counter the potentially detrimental effects of a Eurocentrically oriented society.’ One such teacher taught that

‘The submission to Western civilization and its most outstanding offspring, American civilization, is, in reality, surrender to white supremacy.’

Kurtz concludes:

However he may seek to deny it, all evidence points to the fact that, from his position as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama knowingly and persistently funded an educational project that shared the extremist and anti-American philosophy of Jeremiah Wright.

No surprise there, since back in June Kurtz pointed to evidence that Obama shared the black racism of the Trinity United Church of Christ.  In this article Obama was reported as rejecting ‘integrationist assimilation’ and wanting to channel black rage more effectively into political organisation. Kurtz dug out a chapter in a 1990 book called After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois in which Obama sketched out how radical black churches could be harnessed to help radicalise the black population. As Kurtz wrote:

So it would appear that Obama’s own writings solve the mystery of why he stayed at Trinity for 20 years. Obama’s long-held and decidedly audacious hope has been to spread Wright’s radical spirit by linking it to a viable, left-leaning political program, with Obama himself at the center. The revolutionizing power of a politically awakened black church is not some side issue, or merely a personal matter, but has been the signature theme of Obama’s grand political strategy.

Those few brave souls who do try to enlighten the public about all this come up against the kind of intimidation by Camp Obama charted here by Michael Barone:

Stanley Kurtz appeared on Milt Rosenberg's WGN radio program in Chicago. Mr. Kurtz had been researching Mr. Obama's relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers in Chicago Annenberg Challenge papers in the Richard J. Daley Library in Chicago - papers that were closed off to him for some days, apparently at the behest of Obama supporters. Obama fans jammed WGN's phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest e-mails. The message was clear to anyone who would follow Mr. Rosenberg's example. We will make trouble for you if you let anyone make the case against The One.

Other Obama supporters have threatened critics with criminal prosecution. In September, St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who made statements against Mr. Obama that were ‘false.’ I had been under the impression that the Alien and Sedition Acts had gone out of existence in 1801-'02. Not so, apparently, in metropolitan St. Louis. Similarly, the Obama campaign called for a criminal investigation of the American Issues Project when it ran ads highlighting Mr. Obama's ties to Mr. Ayers.

No such threats, of course, will be made against this new book whose publication is tactfully timed for next year so as not to frighten the horses --Race Course Against White Supremacy, by none other than William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

Meanwhile, it turns out that not only did Obama do favours for convicted Chicago fraudster Tony Rezko, but as this story reports Alexi Giannoulias, who reputedly bankrolled Michael ‘Jaws’ Giorango, a Chicagoan twice convicted of bookmaking and promoting prostitution, became Illinois state treasurer last year after Obama vouched for him, and has now has pledged to raise $100,000 for Obama’s campaign.

You have to pinch yourself – a Marxisant radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshipped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And apparently it’s considered impolite to say so.

By Melanie Phillips - http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2293196/pinch-yourself.thtml