Better Health Requires Our Survival 

It may be that about a third think Global Warming is real, a third think its a Hoax (by VP A. Gore?) and the rest might say "Global What?" in their language or dialect.

Any superficial study would show that the problem is real and its proximate cause is Carbon Emission. But, we are up against a Law that is older than Matuzalem's 969 years:
Its NEW formulation is: PRECONCEPTIONS INTERPRET PERCEPTIONS.
Some say "You see what you want to see!"
Others say "You judge by views you learned as a child!"
or say "The Earth is Flat! Go talk to somebody else!"

The implication I see is hat less than a third accept that Population is part of the Global Warming Issue because No Law of God will be changed by idiots that try to change it! YOU HEAR! Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "sometimes you tuck your Bible in your coat and ride the last train out of town!" Such seems to be the case on Reproductive Rights.
Nobody is ready to change their minds and it IS a religious problem because it held as a God-given right. THEREFORE, tell ALL Religions and churches "It is YOUR problem to solve"

The Challenge is for all religions to address the population issue and arrive at a solution. This is the first plan, to be followed by others as the responses and GW develops.
1. Propose the UN Sponsor a Global Religion Conference on Population, to consider plans to deal with unsustainable population growth rates and write one statement that a 2/3rd majority of church members they represent and they would all be asked to support. Clearly put the burden where it belongs.

2. The name of the conference to be "The Ibn Rushd, Maimonides and Aquinas Conference on Population". The major leaders of all churches will be asked to attend at the Closing Session, if they are willing to endorse and support whatever the Conference Recommends to the World.

3. Conference to be held in the Canary Islands, for reasons of security and keep demonstrators to a minimum. The word Canary will remind them of the canary put in coal mines to die and allow others to live. There is something in the Bible "No greater love..." The Conference President may be someone like the Dalai Lama and the Conference CEO a UN Ambassador, like the one for Sweden or Switzerland?

4. Conference to begin not earlier than 2015. All churches need to examine their views and the views of their members on this matter. Ultimately, the biggest benefit may be derived from words said during this time in the Providential sites they meet. Thomas Jefferson considered himself to be a "Providential" Preacher because he spoke so often about the Divine Providence. Pres. Kennedy said "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." April 29, 1962 Breakfast for Scientists for 49 Nobel Laureates at the White House. We NEED ANOTHER!

The Power of Economics 

The problem of Iran can be made to go away by either a blockade, that nobody wants, or by not buying their oil.
Put it this way to the American people: Stop buying gasoline and Iran will go froam a menace to starvation faster than we can imagine.

The same will not work with North Korea. Their people are already starving and their puny "nuclear" test may prove to have been a non-nuclear one, after all.

Population and Global Warming 

It is not too early or too late to begin a discussion on where do we want our United States of America to stand on the issue of Overpopulation.
Some see the intrusion of the Government in reproduction rights, others say that sooner or later, once Global Warming brings up the Methane from the ocean, it will be too late! All the children lovingly brought into the world will begin to bake, not at the final 846 Deg. Fahrenheit, but starvation, when most people will not be able to grow enough food.
OK, this is not going to happen in the next 20 years and after that I will be dead, so if you plan to have children that will be around by 2080, you may want to consider a voluntary target family size.
The ballot every four years could inform us on the average family life preference. Nothing mandatory just a word from fellow voters.
The smaller the average family, the longer your children shall live, until they bake at a temperature comparable to that in a Auschwitz Oven

We Must Support Our Troops, Now 

Our troops in Afghanistan are attacked, daily, with bullets, bombs and weapons too often bought with American Dollars. Every dollar our Citizens spend on Heroin and Opium sold by Osama ben Laden goes to destroy the mind of an American, here and now, and, later, the money is used to pay for bullets that kill our soldiers. We must stop supporting the enemy that is killing our soldiers!
Drug dealers supplied by ben Laden ought to be tried as "Enemy Combatants" and after a trial, shot.
Of course, I do not expect addicts, pushers and those that firmly and sincerely believe that the freedom to use Drugs can be based on the Constitution like, we were all created equal, users and pushers included. Remember, it ia a big net of powerful groups that even governments consider in their legal planning. The fact that ALL our War on Drugs have failed may, or not, prove that their use of force is as weak as their use of Education. Should we disarm the police and stop Education? Of course NOT!

List ALL Factors That Impact New Fed Projects  

Too often I read about a project, like building a Bridge to Nowhere or to an Airport, without mention on the number of people or vehicles, now and five years from now, that would use the bridge, Airport, Shopping Mall, Shipping Dock, Train Tunnel, Street Tunnel, etc.
I have seen the building of a shipping port without a plan on how to remove the shipping containers or, even worse, assume a solution that is either uneconomical or intolerable to the public, like using 20 trains daily through the middle of a many cities. The trains travel at an uneconomical 10 mph.