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Today’s interesting news stories.

April 26, 2008 Category: Global

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I thought these were pretty good reading.

Interesting story of how ethanol (the wine of the religion of global warming) will starve the world.
http://www.nysun.com/news/f…eclipsing-climate-change

Another reason why I won’t vote at the 2008 presidential election (we have three pussy democrats running).
http://www.reuters.com/article/mark…2535509420080425

Reagan Gahagan’s Weekly Update

March 30, 2008 Category: Global

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“Uncle-Bill” politician Sheila Jackson Lee booed by her constituents (a.k.a. Yessa’ Massa’): http://www.khou.com/….ee.11d275a3.html

Another liberal anti-military movie flops:
http://www….-is-superflop-stop-loss-doa/

Liberal newspaper ad revenue in the shitter:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/…03781895

The Religion of Peace (*ahem*) threatens to kill livleak.com employees for hosting anti-muslim film:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr……/

CBS continues to help with terrorist propaganda: http://www.cbsnews.com/…/main3976928.shtml

Merkel stands on principle and refuses to attend opening day of China olympics: http://www.guardian.co.uk/…olympicgames2008

An inconvenient letter.

February 22, 2008 Category: Global

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Well, I finally had to make the call to the school today. My daughter came home and said that she watched the first 10 minutes of An Inconvenient Truth today in honors science class, and that she would be watching the rest of the movie tomorrow, and writing a paper on the movie. I called the school and spoke to her science teacher, who had a “f*** you” attitude and said that the movie was educational and taught kids how to save the wetlands…and then she admitted that she had never actually seen the movie.

I then told her that I didn’t want my daughter watching the movie and that she was not going to write the required (indoctrination) paper about the movie. Nella and I will be enrolling her in a good private school at the end of this year. Below is the letter that she is carrying to school tomorrow to give to her teacher (not into having her name all over the Internet, so the name has been changed in the letter):

February 20, 2008

Dear Ms. Nick

Please excuse “A” from watching Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and from writing a paper about this movie. This movie is overtly political, and it has been proven inaccurate and purposefully misleading by many climatologists and weather experts. In fact, this movie amounts to little more than liberal propaganda designed to scare people, and I expected more from a Meisler education. Outside of a political science class, this movie is entirely inappropriate for a twelve year old student. In the future, please contact me if you plan on requiring “A” to watch any film that is remotely political. Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at (504) 555-5555.

Sincerely,

Michael W. Gahagan, Esq.

Run!!!

January 18, 2008 Category: Global

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This is great!  Global warming is here…run for your lives!

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bay_environment/blog/2008/01/global_warming_protest_snowed.html

Lafayette, Louisiana Radio Hosts’ On-Air Fight. ‘Get the F*** Out!’

August 24, 2007 Category: Uncategorized

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Reagan Gahagan Report: Georgia Says It Fired on Russian Plane#links#links

August 24, 2007 Category: Global

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Reagan Gahagan Report: Georgia Says It Fired on Russian Plane#links#links

Ohio State Professors Go “Truther” - OSU Professors Speak at a Forum Sponsored by a 9/11 Denial Group

August 17, 2007 Category: Uncategorized

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Ohio State Profs Go “Truther”
By Patrick PooleFrontPageMagazine.com 8/17/2007
Two of The Ohio State University’s most prominent scholars demonstrated how low higher education has sunk by appearing at a panel on “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter” co-sponsored by a local group that promotes the view that the World Trade Center towers were not brought down by two terrorist-controlled planes on 9/11, but through a nefarious US government-controlled conspiracy.
One of the Ohio State scholars, John Mueller, the Woody Hayes Chair for National Security Studies, might be familiar to readers from a FrontPage article last year, “Ohio State Prof: What Terrorist Threat?”, and for his book published last November, Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them, where he argues that al-Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist organizations pose no danger to America because the odds of being killed in a terrorist attack are greater than being struck by a meteoroid.
The other Ohio State scholar on this panel, John Quigley, is currently the Presidents’ Club Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law. A Harvard-educated scholar on the Soviet Union and comparative law, he has now adopted the Palestinian cause as a focus of his studies and identifies Western intervention as the cause of the present troubles in the Middle East. In a 2006 Florida Law Review article, he finds that Osama bin Laden is really an anti-colonial fellow traveler:
“Bin Laden framed his anti-United States arguments in the language of Islam, but he was voicing the same anti-colonialist sentiments that had been directed against France and Britain in the early 20th Century.”
And in a 2005 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review article, Quigley argues that negotiation and diplomacy between Israel and the Palestinians is outmoded, and that a solution should be imposed on the Israelis in accordance with his interpretation of international law:
“The displaced Palestinians should not have to lobby for their right of return vis-à-vis Israel or vis-à-vis the Palestinian leadership. The right is guaranteed by human rights norms. Just as a state that tortures is obliged to desist without being cajoled and without negotiation, so a state that refuses to repatriate is obliged to desist, namely, by repatriating.”
The panel held at Ohio State was co-sponsored by Columbus 9/11 Truth, an organization that also recently sponsored the all-day Truth Film Festival, which screened several 9/11-related documentaries, culminating in previews of 9/11 Press for Truth and Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of Our Republic, films described by a local paper with the following premises:
These pictures have been cannily selected to lay the groundwork for the more controversial claims in the festival’s last two entries: 9/11 Press for Truth, which suggests a government cover-up after the World Trade Center disaster, and Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of Our Republic, which tries to scientifically prove that the buildings could not have been brought down by two jet planes alone.
The other primary co-sponsor for the Ohio State panel was the Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which provided the two additional panel participants: Ahmad Al-Akhras, the CAIR national vice chairman, who moderated the event; and Abukar Arman, CAIR-OH board member who joined Mueller and Quigley on the discussion panel. Both men have been the subjects of recent FrontPage profiles: Al-Akhras for his vocal support of convicted and deported terrorists (“Hometown Jihad: Getting By with a Little Help From His (Terrorist) Friends”); and Arman, for his published support of terrorist organizations (“Hometown Jihad: The Somali Terror Apologist Next Door”), which resulted in his removal from a Central Ohio Homeland Security oversight board (“Terrorist Sympathizer Tossed from Homeland Security Panel”).
A subsequent CAIR press release stated that 90 people attended the event.
When examining the writings of both Mueller and Quigley, it is easy to see why they would find common cause with fringe groups like Columbus 9/11 Truth and CAIR-OH. That both men hold prominent endowed positions at Ohio State (my alma mater) gives proof that academic freedom is alive and well on our college campuses. And so is academic extremism.

Reagan Gahagan Report: China threatens to trigger US dollar crash#links

August 08, 2007 Category: Uncategorized

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China threatens ‘nuclear option’ of dollar sales
By Ambrose Evans-PritchardLast Updated: 9:54am BST 08/08/2007The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.Fistful of dollars - China’s trade surplus reached $26.9bn in JuneTwo officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning - for the first time - that Beijing may use its $1.33 trillion (£658bn) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the US Congress.Shifts in Chinese policy are often announced through key think tanks and academies.Described as China’s “nuclear option” in the state media, such action could trigger a dollar crash at a time when the US currency is already breaking down through historic support levels.It would also cause a spike in US bond yields, hammering the US housing market and perhaps tipping the economy into recession. It is estimated that China holds over $900bn in a mix of US bonds.Xia Bin, finance chief at the Development Research Centre (which has cabinet rank), kicked off what now appears to be government policy with a comment last week that Beijing’s foreign reserves should be used as a “bargaining chip” in talks with the US.”Of course, China doesn’t want any undesirable phenomenon in the global financial order,” he added.He Fan, an official at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, went even further today, letting it be known that Beijing had the power to set off a dollar collapse if it choose to do so.”China has accumulated a large sum of US dollars. Such a big sum, of which a considerable portion is in US treasury bonds, contributes a great deal to maintaining the position of the dollar as a reserve currency. Russia, Switzerland, and several other countries have reduced the their dollar holdings.”China is unlikely to follow suit as long as the yuan’s exchange rate is stable against the dollar. The Chinese central bank will be forced to sell dollars once the yuan appreciated dramatically, which might lead to a mass depreciation of the dollar,” he told China Daily.The threats play into the presidential electoral campaign of Hillary Clinton, who has called for restrictive legislation to prevent America being “held hostage to economic decicions being made in Beijing, Shanghai, or Tokyo”.She said foreign control over 44pc of the US national debt had left America acutely vulnerable.Simon Derrick, a currency strategist at the Bank of New York Mellon, said the comments were a message to the US Senate as Capitol Hill prepares legislation for the Autumn session.”The words are alarming and unambiguous. This carries a clear political threat and could have very serious consequences at a time when the credit markets are already afraid of contagion from the subprime troubles,” he said.A bill drafted by a group of US senators, and backed by the Senate Finance Committee, calls for trade tariffs against Chinese goods as retaliation for alleged currency manipulation.The yuan has appreciated 9pc against the dollar over the last two years under a crawling peg but it has failed to halt the rise of China’s trade surplus, which reached $26.9bn in June.Henry Paulson, the US Tresury Secretary, said any such sanctions would undermine American authority and “could trigger a global cycle of protectionist legislation”.Mr Paulson is a China expert from his days as head of Goldman Sachs. He has opted for a softer form of diplomacy, but appeared to win few concession from Beijing on a unscheduled trip to China last week aimed at calming the waters.

Reagan Gahagan Report: New Flashlight Weapon Makes Targets Throw Up (The Puke-Saber)#links

August 06, 2007 Category: Uncategorized

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Flashlight Weapon Makes Targets Throw Up
Monday, August 06, 2007
It looks like a big flashlight — but it’s really a nonlethal weapon designed to make you sick.Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., of Torrance, Calif., has been granted a contract by the Department of Homeland Security to develop what it calls the “LED Incapacitator,” according to a DHS online newsletter.The handheld device using light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it’s pointed at.”There’s one wavelength that gets everybody,” says IOS President Bob Lieberman. “Vlad [IOS top scientist Vladimir Rubtsov] calls it ‘the evil color.’”Phase 1 of the contract — creating a working prototype — has already been completed, and Phase 2 will begin this fall as researchers at Penn State’s Institute of Nonlethal Defense Technology put the puke-saber through its paces.”Phase 3 will be our shrink phase,” Lieberman said, admitting that the prototype, 15 inches long with a 4-inch lens, is too large and heavy to be comfortably carried on a belt.DHS hopes to equip police, Border Patrol agents and National Guardsmen with the barf-beamers by 2010.

NASA Reports Sabotage of Flight Computer

July 27, 2007 Category: Uncategorized

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NASA Reports Sabotage of Flight Computer
Jul 26, 4:44 PM (ET)By MARCIA DUNN
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A space program worker deliberately damaged a computer that is supposed to fly aboard shuttle Endeavour in less than two weeks, an act of sabotage that was caught before the equipment was loaded onto the spaceship, NASA said Thursday.
The unidentified employee, who works for a NASA subcontractor, cut wires inside the computer that is supposed to be delivered to the international space station by Endeavour, said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s space operations chief. The worker also damaged a similar computer that was not meant to fly to space.
The sabotage occurred outside Florida. Gerstenmaier did not identify the subcontractor or where the damage took place.
NASA’s inspector general office is investigating.
NASA hopes to fix the computer and launch it Aug. 7 as planned aboard Endeavour. The computer is designed for use aboard the space station, not the shuttle, and the damage would have posed no danger to either shuttle or station astronauts, Gerstenmaier said.