Global Warming Solution

In order to reduce the CO2 emissions, a large contributor to global warming, it only takes world-wide commitment. If only 1% of the world's population will, each day for the next year, commit to holding their breath for 24-hours, there will be a significant reduction in greenhouse gases. I THINK THIS IS SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND....DON'T YOU?

Is Barak Obama an African-American?

It is clear that Barak Obama is African. But is he an African-American in the understood context? As much as I dislike hyphenated American designations, I have to admit that Senator Barak Obama is truly an African-American; at least in the denotative sense. He is half-Kenyan. Unfortunately, most African-American are such in the connotative sense. Their ancestry descends from a American slavery history...as property. Ironically, Senator Obama's "white" side also descends, at least collaterally, from an American slavery history...but on the ownership side.
I like Senator Obama. He is as charismatic as John Kennedy. But, as I watch the South Carolina Democratic debates, it disturbs me to see him trying to draw an affinity to the South Carolina black community. They really have nothing in common. I find it disingenuous. It would be better if he were Colin Powell. I think Powell, pre-Bush Administration, would have had more street cred.

Kenya, Rwanda, and the USA

As I follow the news and the political contests, and I tend to be reasonably informed, I find it VERY DISTURBING that I have not seen or heard ANYTHING regarding Kenya. President Bush and his administration have not uttered ANY WORD that has reached my ears regarding Kenya. Senator Hillary Clinton, who purportedly implored her husband and President, Bill Clinton, about the genocidal tribal warfare in Rwanda, has not uttered a word that has reached my ears regarding Kenya. But most distressing, Senator Barak Obama, WHO IS HALF-KENYAN, has not uttered a word about Kenya. Kenya is a country of great importance strategically, let alone the the human rights issues, to our country. Tribal, genocidal warfare has broken out in this country after the disaster of its mutually corrupted "democratic" elections. Who is speaking out for Kenya? Apparently not us.