First pretend to be his friend, then talk him into destroying himself.

Russia wants to negotiate arms control with Obama

2 days ago

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news agencies quote the foreign minister as saying Moscow hopes to conduct constructive arms control talks with the new U.S. administration.

Interfax and ITAR-Tass report that Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Russia is eager to maintain control and verification procedures contained in the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

The START I pact expires in December 2009, and Russian and U.S. negotiators have already launched efforts to negotiate a follow-up pact. The talks have been unsuccessful so far amid a cold spell in Russia-U.S. relations.

Lavrov is quoted as saying that Moscow expects that Barack Obama’s administration will cooperate in a “constructive” way to reach a deal that would strengthen arms control.

Although this Reuters article seems to be for informational purposes only, take a closer look.  The main purpose of this article is that the more each state spends on healthcare, the healtier it is; thus, setting the stage for universal health care.  If you think that government healthcare is good, take a trip to your local post office tomorrow to get a preview of how long it will take to be seen by a doctor.

Louisiana ranked least healthiest state
By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Louisiana has displaced Mississippi as the unhealthiest U.S. state and other Southern states were close rivals due to high obesity and smoking rates in new rankings that deemed Vermont the healthiest.

The overall health of Americans remained static for a fourth year, according to an annual report issued on Wednesday assessing a series of measures also including binge drinking, health insurance coverage, air pollution, infectious disease rates, crime levels and immunization coverage.

Many Southern states were clustered near the bottom of the rankings. The region has some of the highest rates of obesity, which contributes to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some types of cancer, as well as high rates of smoking, which causes cancer, lung disease, heart disease and other problems.

One in five Louisianians lacked health insurance, while 31 percent were obese. It also suffers from high child poverty, infant mortality, premature death rate and cancer deaths, according to the report.

“We’ve just not made any improvement in the overall healthiness of the nation,” said Dr. Reed Tuckson of UnitedHealth Group Inc, the largest U.S. health insurer, and the private United Health Foundation.

The foundation, American Public Health Association and the Partnership for Prevention advocacy group put together the 19th annual state-by-state rankings.

It was the second straight year that Vermont topped the rankings. It was followed by Hawaii, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Utah, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Idaho and Maine.

Louisiana fell from 49th to 50th, replacing Mississippi. Rounding out the bottom 10 were South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nevada and Georgia.

California, the most populous state, ranked 24th and New York 25th.

Vermont, with the second smallest population of any state, had the third-highest public health spending and an obesity rate of 22 percent, four points below the national average.

It also had low child poverty and violent crime, a large number of doctors per capita and good high school graduation rates.

Hawaii had similarly low obesity, the highest public health spending, little air pollution, low rates of uninsured people, a low rate of preventable hospitalizations and low rates of death from cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Mississippi led the nation in obesity at 33 percent of the population, while Colorado was lowest at 19 percent.

President-elect Barack Obama and leading lawmakers want to engineer a major reform of U.S. health care, which leaves 45.7 million people without coverage while costing more than any other national health system.

The United States trails many other industrialized nations in infant mortality, life expectancy, mortality for treatable conditions and overall health care system performance.

(Editing by Alan Elsner)

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE4B276H20081203

It is now time to nail McCain to the wall for being a closet democrat. Let’s get this party started:

Interesting pledge of allegiance battle

Liberals in NASA promoting the global warming hoax get busted

(in my opinion, the first order of business for the next Republican president should be to fire every single registered democrat working for the federal government in any capacity, most importantly for the CIA, FBI, or NASA. Bush made a crucial mistake by not doing this. see the scores of secrets leaked to the New York Times).

It appears that the worldwide backlash to the global warming hoax (new socialism) has begun.

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

“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

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.

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

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

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.