Goats Sacrificed for Obama

(Kisumu, Kenya) Kenyans are excited about the possibility of an Obama victory today.

Awash with radio, television, and newspapers, Kenyan city-dwellers do not want for news about the U.S. presidential race. Kenyan television correspondents report live daily from the United States, and even Sarah Palin has become a household name.

Framed photographs of Obama are sold in the street next to portraits of Kenya's president and prime minister, which customarily are hung in offices. Peddlers also hawk Obama T-shirts, buttons and keychains.

Songs praising Obama are hits, heard nationwide in nightclubs, drinking dens and people's homes. And drivers of the colorful matatu, the minibuses that swarm Kenya's roads, have covered their rigs with Obama paraphernalia. [...]

At Kit Mikayi, a sacrificial rock shrine 20 miles from Kisumu, about a dozen people have visited on the senator's behalf, according to Jennifer Okot, an elderly villager who lives near the shrine.

Customarily, those seeking large blessings sacrifice a goat by swinging it by its legs so that its head and neck are bludgeoned against a large rock in a naturally occurring enclosure between two massive boulders that serves as the shrine's sanctuary. The goat's demise incurs the blessings of the rock shrine's god, said Caroline Odhiambo, a 24-year-old who tends to the shrine.

Good times.

Tipped by C & S who has the strangest pic posted.