December 2008

<div style="text-align: justify;">Just when you thought the global warming hysteria had reached an apogee beyond which it couldn’t possibly go, the nutters working the climate change hustle reach new heights of lunacy.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;">World’s current oldest woman dies.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify"><img alt="" hspace="3" align="left" src="../../../../newimages/fistsmall.gif" /><i>Page Six Magazine</i>, wherein the <i>New York Post</i> keeps track of all that&rsquo;s trendy, tells us the city&rsquo;s hot spots are truly smoking again.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="5" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/images4/smoke_in_your_face.jpg" alt="" />&quot;Light Up Durham,&quot; a &quot;magical weekend,&quot; includes celebration of tobacco. Durham, North Carolina offers fun for all including free performances. The festival, evidently sponsored in large part by Big Tobacco, is described in a press release as a family tradition.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify">If you start scratching your head at the beginning of this piece by Michael Kinsley, you will end up being bald by the time you are through with it.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;">Stealing directly from the anti-smoking agenda, &quot;researchers&quot; found that banning fast food advertisements will reduce childhood obesity.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="3" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/newimages/fistsmall.gif" alt="" />Last Saturday Nov. 29 in The Hague, the capital of&nbsp;Holland, 5-6,000 people demonstrated against the smoking ban.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify">We THINK that we live in advanced, progressive times dominated by science but we are wrong. We <i>used</i> to, in the first 80 years of the 20^th century.&nbsp; But now those times are gone, and we are quickly returning to superstition and fear of the unknown.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify">Missing the target seems to be the favourite sport in the world, today.&nbsp; We don&rsquo;t seem to be able to focus on the real root of problems. Could it be because of the lesser use of nicotine?</div>

In England, allowing smoking in public is now an &ldquo;act of crime and disorder&rdquo;.