Multivitamins no fountain of youth for US women

Here's my concern with this SUPPOSEDLY new discovery on Multivitamins: BS. I've have highlighted areas that I think are bogus because BIG PHARMA can't control the NATURAL things that help us. My questions or comments are Highlight. 

I am NOT a licensed medical practitioner, these are just my thoughts on this subject. I have not given any medical advice here, just food for thought.

Published October 10, 2011

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women taking multivitamins don't live longer than those who get their nutrients from food alone, a new U.S. study shows.

In fact, they appear to have slightly higher death rates, researchers found.

"There is very little evidence showing that common dietary supplements would be beneficial in prevention of major chronic diseases," said Dr. Jaakko Mursu of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, who worked on the new study. ***My Comment on this:Ever wondered IF Big Pharma would lie to you just so you'd take their BAD DRUGS?***

"Unless you are deficient, there is hardly any reason to take them," he told Reuters Health. ***my comment on this: The reason that you'd be deficient is because THEY don't provide this mineral supplement in their product  and if they did the amount would be so small that it would be insignificant***

About half of adult Americans take dietary supplements, and the industry now boasts of annual sales as high as $20 billion. ***My comment: THIS IS WHY THEY'RE CONCERNED***

Yet research suggests that some of the largely unregulated substances -- such as vitamins A and E -- could be harmful in high doses, according to an editorial published along with the new findings in the Archives of Internal Medicine. ***My comment: DUH!! That's not NEW news idiots***

"The belief that antioxidant supplements are beneficial seems likely to have resulted from a collective error," Dr. Goran Bjelakovic of the University of Nis in Serbia and Dr. Christian Gluud of Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen write. "Perhaps oxidative stress is one of the keys to extension of our life span."

Mursu and his colleagues used data from nearly 39,000 older women who participated in the Iowa Women's Health Study and filled out questionnaires starting in 1986.

The survey asked about use of multivitamins, vitamins A, C, D and E as well as beta-carotene, B vitamins and minerals such as calcium, copper, magnesium, selenium and zinc.

During the study, supplements became increasingly popular: Between 1986 and 2004, the proportion of women who said they took one or more jumped from 63 percent to 85 percent.

Only calcium supplements were linked to a lower risk of death over 19 years of follow-up, with 37 percent of users dying compared to 43 percent of nonusers. That link held up even after considering that women taking supplements had a healthier lifestyle than the rest.

By contrast, women taking other supplements did not live longer. For instance, 41 percent of multivitamin users died versus 40 percent of nonusers -- and the gap became even wider when adjusting the numbers based on health problems like diabetes, high blood pressure and overweight in the two groups. ***My Comment: BUT what was their lifestyles, what did they die of? DUH!! problems that requires BIG PHARMA meds. NO FREAKING wonder. BAD DRUGS***

Mursu said he expects his findings will be true for men as well, adding that they jibe with earlier research hinting that dietary supplements do little good in Western countries where vitamin deficiency is not common. ***BS***

One possible exception is vitamin D, which one recent study suggests may help women live a little longer.

Mursu also cautioned that his study doesn't prove supplements cause harm. ***OH MY GOODNESS...The truth of the LIE***

"I would rather conclude that there is no evidence for benefits," he said. ***IF you READ the Whole TRUTH and SEPERATE it from the LIE, you'll learn the REAL TRUTH***

The 2010 U.S. dietary guidelines recommend getting nutrients from foods, not supplements. ***BS! Most food has been "Genetically Modified" per GOV'T instructions, thus the nutrients are missing and poison injected in their place***

However, ***Here where the rubber meets the road: HOWEVER...SURE SOUNDS LIKE GOV'T BS TO ME. You hear the lie and then interwoven is some truth so it all becomes the truth yet remains a BIG FREAKING LIE*** HOWERVER, women of reproductive age group are advised to get extra folic acid and those who are pregnant may want to take iron supplements if their doctor suggests it. The guidelines also urge people 50 and older to get extra vitamin B12 from fortified foods or supplements.

The government website http://www.choosemyplate.gov has tips on how to eat a balanced diet. Information on individual supplements can be found at http://ods.od.nih.gov.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES BETTER?

Duffy MacKay of the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade association representing manufacturers and ingredient suppliers of dietary supplements, disagreed with the researchers' conclusion that doctors should only recommend supplements to people with deficiencies.

He added that in the case of iron, women on high doses may have underlying conditions that could explain their higher death rates.

While Mursu acknowledged that shortcoming, he said it is unlikely to be relevant for multivitamins, which usually aren't prescribed by a doctor.

Short of getting sick, he said it's hard to know if you are getting enough vitamins and minerals -- and screening everybody would be prohibitively expensive.

His advice?

"Include as many vegetables and as much fruit as you can. There is hardly any reason to limit those, and they contain a whole lot of vitamins and minerals."

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/7qXyI Archives of Internal Medicine, October 10, 2011.

DIVORCE AGREEMENT

YEP, GOTTA LOVE THIS!!
The person who wrote this is a college student. Perhaps there is hope for us after all.

THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY WELL PUT AND I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT'S BY A YOUNG PERSON, A STUDENT!!! WHATEVER HE RUNS FOR, I'LL VOTE FOR HIM.

DIVORCE AGREEMENT

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950's for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce.
I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.

Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.

Here is a model separation agreement:
--Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.

--We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them.
--You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
--Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.
--We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar and bio diesel.
--You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.

--We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.
--You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, home boys, hippies, druggies and illegal aliens.
--We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks.
--We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood .

--You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
--You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.

--We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
--You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McLane. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill.

--We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.
--You can give everyone health care if you can find any practicing doctors.
--We'll continue to believe health care is a luxury and not a right.
--We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
--I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya" or "We Are the World".

--We'll practice trickle down economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.

--Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.

Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American

P.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, & Jane Fonda with you.

P.S.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.

Barack Obama's 32 Month Report Card

Barack Obama's 32 Month Report Card by Rich Carroll Copy this article. You will need researched material to mail your friends and/or relatives. If Mr. 'Hope and Change' wants to create a nation humbled; humiliated, casting-aside capitalism and individual freedoms for one where “we the people” are government controlled. This would be a system that genuflects mediocrity, steals personal aspiration and opportunity, and punishes those who strive to succeed. A gallon of regular gasoline the day Obama was inaugurated was $1.79 on average in the U.S. Today that price is $3.59, a 100.6% increase. The number of food stamp recipients has risen since Obama took office from 31,983,716 to 43,200,878, a 35.1% jump. Long term unemployment soared 146.2% during the same 32 month period from 2,600,000 to 6,400,000. Staggering “hope and change” isn't it? American citizens living in poverty have risen 9.5% from 39,800,000 to 43,600,000.  The number of unemployed has jumped almost 25% from 11,616,000 to 14,485,000 as of August 31, 2011. The number of unemployed blacks has risen from 12.6% at the end of George Bush's term to 15.8% today, a 25.4% increase. Our national debt is up 34.4% from 10.627 trillion to 14,278 trillion * ***************************  Keep these figures in mind as we recount the number of “firsts” for this presidency:  First President to refuse to show a valid birth certificate. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in. First President to preside over a cut to the credit rating of the United States. First President to violate the War Powers Act. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. First President to defy a Federal Judges court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party. First President to spend a trillion dollars on shovel-ready jobs and later admit there was no such thing as shovel-ready jobs. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control or private companies to his union supporters. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U..S. , including those with criminal convictions. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees. First President to terminate Americas ability to put a man in space. First President to encourage racial discrimination and intimidation at polling places. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly speak-out on the reasons for their rate increases. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state they are allowed to locate a factory. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN) First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago. First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for  catching one of his friends in a corruption case. First President to appoint 45 Czars to replace elected officials in his office. First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office. First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it. I bet he wouldn't get that now. First President to coddle American enemies while alienating Americas allies. First President to publicly bow to Americas enemies while refusing to salute the U.S. Flag. First President to go on multiple global apology tours. First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends, paid for by the taxpayer. First President to refuse to wear the U.S. Flag lapel pin. First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000.00 a year at taxpayer expense. First President to repeat “the Holy Qur'an  tells us,”  and openly admit “the early morning call of the Azan  (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.” Remember that 32 months of Obama White House we the people have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our nation's entire history, as the Obama's plan their next extravagant vacation to the Indonesian Island nation of Bali .  Hope and change anyone?  * sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Wall Street Journal, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Dept of Labor, Standard & Poors/Case-Shiller, Federal Reserve, US Treasury, Heritage Foundation.  OK, and have you had enough yet?

Thomas Jefferson

Too bad the young people of today are so DUMB. They need to see who and what Thomas Jefferson did with his life, and here's a preview that should be mounted on the walls of ALL Schools.

Thomas Jefferson   At  5, began studying under his  cousins tutor.

At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.

At  14, studied classical literature and additional languages.

At  16, entered the College of William and Mary.

At 19, studied Law  for 5 years starting under George Wythe.

At 23, started his own  law practice.

At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of  Burgesses.

At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of  the Rights of British America " and retired from his law  practice.

At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental  Congress.

At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence  .

At 33, took three years to revise Virginia ’s legal code and  wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious  Freedom.

At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia  succeeding Patrick Henry.

At 40, served in Congress for two  years.

At 41, was the American minister to France and  negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben
Franklin and John Adams.

At 46, served as the first  Secretary of State under George Washington.

At 53, served as  Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical  Society..

At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became  the active head of Republican Party.

At 57, was elected the  third president of the United States .

At 60, obtained the  Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation’s size.

At 61, was  elected to a second term as President.

At 65, retired to  Monticello .

At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe  Doctrine.

At 81, almost single-handedly created the University  of Virginia and served as its first president.

At 83, died on  the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence  .

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group  of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this  statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever  to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when  Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

When we get piled upon one  another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as  Europe .
>>> Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will  cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work  and give to those who would not.
>>> Thomas  Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own  debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half  the wars of the world.
>>> Thomas Jefferson

I  predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the  government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of  taking care of them..
>>> Thomas Jefferson

My  reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from  too much government.
>>> Thomas Jefferson

No free  man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
>>> Thomas  Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the  right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect  themselves against tyranny in government.
>>> Thomas  Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to  time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
>>> Thomas  Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the  propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and  tyrannical.
>>> Thomas Jefferson

Thomas  Jefferson said in 1802:
I believe that banking institutions are  more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American  people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their  currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and  corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive
the  people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the  continent their fathers conquered.

Operational Security: Basics for Protecting Your Survival Preparations

This is a repost of an article by Bama Bull, a reader of SurvivalCache.com

     Are you intentionally setting your survival preparations up for failure?  Are you or others in your family or group telling extended family, friends and/or strangers what you are doing to survive the next disaster or the coming apocalypse?  Are you advertising to others that you are the "GTG" (go-to-guy or gal) to flock to during an emergency or SHTF event? 

Operational Security: Basics for Protecting Your Survival Preparations

            This brief article provides an overview on the topic of operational security of your survival planning and preparations before whatever SHTF or TEOWAWKI event you are prepping for occurs.  If you don't take precautions ahead of time to protect and safeguard your actions, all your efforts could be vain.

What's OPSEC?

  Operational security, known as OPSEC,  is the process of protecting your planning and actions; safeguarding  information on you, your family, or survival group; and preventing potential adversaries from discovering or learning about our preparations.  It is used to preserve our plans, safeguard in progress efforts, and protect what has been accomplished.  Your overall success will depend upon secrecy so that others cannot target you during a crisis event.  The human animal is the most dangerous animal to confront, since he/she is a thinking predator capable of adapting. 

The less information that is known about you and your efforts by others in a crisis, the safer you and yours will be, and the harder for others to target you.  A good motto from World War II is "Loose lips sink ships."  This well known slogan is a reference to helping safeguard information on the sailing of troop and supply convoys in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

A "The Twilight Zone" Lesson

           

   Some of you may be familiar with the old television show "The Twilight Zone" which aired in the late 1950s and early 1960s. There is an episode called "The Shelter" (first aired Sept. 29, 1961) which gives viewers a look at how people can react in a crisis.  This short 25 minute story depicts the problem of friends and neighbors knowing about your survival preparations for a disaster.  In the episode, a suburban dinner party is interrupted by a government bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack on the country.  As the neighbors scramble in panic to prepare themselves, many turn against the one family that had the foresight to install a permanent bomb shelter in their basement with supplies.  Since the neighborhood knows about the shelter, the situation quickly deteriorates into a "dog-eat-dog" situation.  It is not until a "false alarm" announcement is made that calm is restored.  However, the damage is done and a real and ugly lesson is learned about all concerned.  It is well worth watching.

Doomed Before the Disaster?

            Two examples of preppers who have violated basic OPSEC principles and compromised their own secrecy and exposed their preparations are the McClung family and Lisa Bedford of Phoenix, Ariz.  The silver lining here is that their public disclosures serve as a good lesson and a distraction away from the rest of us.

             Dennis and Danielle McClung, from the suburb of Mesa, have made their presence and preparations known not just locally, but nationally and internationally via the internet on a host of survival websites and YouTube; and by appearing on such cable channel shows as National Geographic's "Doomsday Preppers" and on TLC's "Livin' for the Apocalypse."  The McClung's have opened their home and preparations, to include their elaborate aquaponic greenhouse in the yard and the store room of food and supplies, for the world to see.

            Bedford is the popular survival blogger known as "The Survival Mom" with about 60,000 readers a month.  While she does a great job of sharing information and her knowledge with tens of thousands of preppers, she's unfortunately exposed herself and her family to all sorts of potential dangers when the SHTF.  She's disclosed her extensive stockpiles of supplies, and allowed TV cameras to show the front of her house in her cul-de-sac neighborhood and how trucks make nighttime deliveries.

            Greater Phoenix is an isolated desert urban area of more than 1.5 million people, and is highly dependent on interstate trucking and the railroads to keep the flow of food, fuel and goods coming to feed and service the population.  In a SHTF or TEOWAWKI event, depending upon the situation and time of the year, Phoenix and Mesa's isolation in a harsh and barren desert environment may leave hundreds of thousands trapped and forced to fight for resources.  Unfortunately, crime-wise, Phoenix and Mesa are well above the national averages for all types of crimes and has a significantly large number of ethnic street gangs - many are well organized and armed.

            Both the McClung and Bedford families have openly discussed their plans to "bug-in" when apocalypse event occurs.  It is great they are sharing information with others, but at what peril to them?  If there was ever a better "famous last quote" it would have to be Dennis McClung on camera with NatGeo saying "We try to stay under the radar as much as possible."  McClung might as well paint his house orange and wire up neon "Loot Here" signs to the roof solar panels.  They may get lucky and last a full week before the armed and violent hoards come a knocking at their respective doors! 

What Can You Do?

       Look at your daily activities from an adversaries' point of view and determine how you can alter your behavior and actions.  Here are basis suggestions:

·  Safeguard what others might learn about you and your family.

·  Develop and apply countermeasures, which are ways of preventing others from obtaining your information.

·  Determine who you can trust and confide in with your information - be very selective.

·  Develop a cover story that is plausible that deflects from your preparations and satisfies curiosity.

Measures You Can Practice:

·  Make sure that your family and inner-circle knows what OPSEC is and that information needs to be safeguarded.

·  Routinely reinforce the importance OPSEC.

·  Be aware of your surroundings, who is watching you, and what you say in public, in emails, on social media sites, and on cell phones and hard phone lines.

·  Keep a "need-to-know" mindset - only inform people with a need to know your business.

·  Shred any documents with personal and financial information, and receipts of your purchases.

·  Don't stack up boxes or throw out wrappers and packing for your survival gear and supplies in your curbside trash.  Dispose of this trash at dumpster away from your area.

·  Use a different "ship to" address for deliveries, such as your work or a P.O. box, instead of your residence.

Limit What You Say About:

·  Where you live (your specific street location or neighborhood) and your family members.

·  The location of your "bug-in" or "bug-out" sites.

·  Where you keep your "bug-out" or "get-home" bags.

·  The location of any prepositioned caches. 

·  Your bug-out routes and methods (avoid potential ambushes).

·  Any issues concerning your security systems or protective measures.

·  The extent of your preparations and your weapons, equipment and stockpiles.

·  The physical health of you and family/survival members, and any disabilities each may have.

            This is no intended to be an all encompassing article on OPSEC, but serves as an initial primer to provide some of the basics. There is much more you can learn and put into practice.  The important take-away is that you need to take precautions so you and your survival group doesn't become a target if the worst happens.  For more information or to discuss this topic with others, visit the Survival Cache Forums.

About the author: Bama Bull is an Army veteran and lives in southeastern Alabama. His interest in survival preparedness are based on the threats associated with hurricanes, tornadoes, coronal mass ejections, pandemic diseases, and financial collapse.  The views of the author do not necessary reflect the opinions of Survival Cache and Forge Solutions.

WHERE ARE THE GIRL FRIENDS?

I hadn't thought about this - but where are Obama's past girlfriends - surely he had at least one? No past girl friends popping up anywhere? Strange - strange to the point of being downright weird!

OK, this is just plain old common sense, no political agendas for either side. Just common knowledge for citizens of a country, especially American citizens, who know every little tidbit about every other president (and their wives) that even know that Andrew Jackson's wife smoked a corn cob pipe and was accused of adultery, or that Lincoln never went to school or Kennedy wore a back brace or Truman played the piano.

We are Americans! Our Media vets these things out! We are known for our humanitarian interests and caring for our 'fellow man.' We care, but none of us know one single humanizing fact about the history of our own president.

Honestly, and this is a personal thing .... but it's bugged me for years that no one who ever dated him ever showed up. Taken his charisma, which caused the women to be drawn to him so obviously during his campaign, looks like some lady would not have missed the opportunity....

We all know about JFK's magnetism, McCain was no monk, Palin's courtship and even her athletic prowess were probed. Biden's aneurisms are no secret. Look at Cheney and Clinton-we all know about their heart problems. How could I have left out Wild Bill before or during the White House?

Nope... not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was soooo shy," or "What a great dancer!"


Now look at the rest of what we know... no classmates, not even the recorder for the Columbia class notes ever heard of him.

Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there. Check for groomsmen. Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony.

Has anyone talked to the professors? Isn't it odd that no one is bragging that they knew him or taught him or lived with him.

When did he meet Michele and how? Are there photos? Every president provides the public with all their photos, etc. for their library. What has he released? Nada - other than what was in this so-called biography! And experts who study writing styles, etc. claim it was not Obama's own words or typical of his speech patterns, etc.

Does this make any of you wonder?

Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc. ? Not one person has ever come forward from his past. This should really be a cause for great concern. Did you see the movie titled, The Manchurian Candidate?

Let's face it. As insignificant as we all are... someone whom we went to school with remembers our name or face...someone remembers we were the clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something about us.

George Stephanopoulos, ABC News said the same thing during the 2008 campaign.. Even George questions why no one has acknowledged that the president was in their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches on campus. Stephanopoulos was a classmate of Obama at Columbia-class of 1984.He says he never had a single class with him.
Since he is such a great orator, why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him? And, why won't he allow Columbia to release his records?
Do you like millions of others, simply assume all this is explainable - even though no one can?

NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA

Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but not one remembers him. For example,Wayne Allyn Root was (like Obama) a political science major at Columbia , who graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me.. I don't have a single classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia .... EVER!

Nobody recalls him.

Root adds that he was, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that.. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him."

At our 20th class reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, 'the macha' who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."

Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook, and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.

How can this be?

NOTE: Wayne Allyn Root can easily be verified. He graduated valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School , then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major in the same '83 class in which Barack Hussein Obama states he was..

Some other interesting questions.

Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002?

Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by court order?

According to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama - but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases.

WHAT!?

The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is never reported to have lived.

No wonder all his records are sealed!

Please continue sending this out to everyone. Somewhere, someone had to know him in school...before he "reorganized" Chicago and burst upon the scene at the 2004 Democratic Convention and made us swoon with his charm, poise, and speaking pizzazz.

One of the biggest CONS this country has ever seen, and getting away with it. Go watch the movie The Manchurian Candidate, with Lawrence Harvey ! Good movie!