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Could you imagine four more years of this self-conceit?

Three business people, five students, a teacher and a North Korean refugee in South Korea won copies of Obama's personal political manifesto as a prize for submitting questions to the president in advance of his visit to Seoul for an international nuclear summit.

The top three questioners to the "Ask President Obama" competition also got actual replies from the president, including a rare reflection on the favorite speeches that he has delivered.

Not surprisingly, he listed his 2004 speech to the Democratic National Convention, an address that immediately made him a national political figure. He also listed his 2008 speech on race, a discourse forced upon him by the controversial sermons of his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and his Nobel Peace Prize speech in Oslo that tried to reconcile the prosecution of just wars with the pursuit of peace.

 If you want the South Koreans' respect, take a hardline to the remaining Tub-in-Chief, Mr. "President".



Related: these men are dead because of the Kim dynasty and something just as bad, if not worse, than trade with China.



Also related:

At the tail end of his 90 minute meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monday, President Obama said that he would have “more flexibility” to deal with controversial issues such as missile defense, but incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to give him “space.”

The exchange was picked up by microphones as reporters were let into the room for remarks by the two leaders.

The exchange:

President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.

President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…

President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.

President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.

(Thank you)



The brother of the "lone wolf" is charged as an accomplice and his father wants to sue the French government for his son's "martyrdom":

The Islamist gunman whose murder spree shocked France will be buried in his ancestral homeland Algeria, his father told AFP Monday, adding that he planned to sue France over his son’s death....

He also hit out against France for having shot his son instead of taking him alive at the end of a 32-hour siege at his apartment in Toulouse.

“France is a big country that had the means to take my son alive. They could have knocked him out with gas and taken him in,” he said. “They preferred to kill him.”

“I will hire the biggest named lawyers and work for the rest of my life to pay (their) costs. I will sue France for having killing my son.”

She has "Islamophobia" AND the Crusades all in one article:

Islamophobia is also a violation of essential Western values: tolerance, liberalism and egalitarianism. Founded on fear and ignorance, it also flies in the face of Western rationalism. We have created a global market in which, whether we like it or not, we’re interconnected as never before. If we want a peaceful, stable and sustainable world, we have to learn to live with those we instinctively regard as “other.” 

I imagine it has never occurred to Miss Armstrong that pulling a girl's hair just so one can shoot her directly in the head is an act of barbarity not unfamiliar to the unscholarly Islamic world which does not espouse values like tolerance, liberalism and egalitarianism.



But why bring things like THAT up?



(with thanks)



Benedict XVI visits Cuba, asks for religious freedom, won't get it:

Pope Benedict arrived in Cuba on Monday and told the government it had nothing to fear from the Catholic Church, asking for more freedoms to help the communist country in times of change.

Just three days after saying that communism no longer works in Cuba, the pope took a softer stance as he landed in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba for a three-day trip aimed at boosting the Church's role on the island.

Hey! Let's vacation in Cuba!



Ontario is in the hole for $16 billion. Thanks, Premier Dad!



And now, chocolate-eaters have a lower body mass:

Healthy people who exercise and also eat chocolate regularly tend to have a lower body mass index than those who eat the rich brown sweets less often, a US study suggested on Monday.

The survey of a population of more than 1,000 adults, published as a research letter in the Archives of Internal Medicine, reinforces the notion that chocolate packs heart healthy benefits, despite its high calorie and sugar content.

People in the study, whose ages ranged from 20 to 85, reported eating chocolate an average of twice a week and exercising an average of 3.6 times a week.

Those who said they ate chocolate more often than the norm tended to have a lower ratio of weight over height, a calculation made by taking a person's weight and dividing it by their height times two.

A normal BMI is typically 18.5 to 24.9, while people who figure lower are considered underweight and those above 25 are overweight.

"Adults who consumed chocolate more frequently had a lower BMI than those who consumed chocolate less often," said the study led by Beatrice Golomb and colleagues at the University of California San Diego.