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POPSWisconsin Gov Scott Walker - Business As Usual Also from the source: But that hasn’t deterred Walker from using the same tactic now as governor. The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) concluded that the state would end the year with a surplus, so there is no need for a budget repair bill. Walker disputes those numbers, so he has submitted a budget repair bill that would strip collective bargaining rights from most state workers. Walker has excluded employees whose unions endorsed him in the 2010 election. Instead, Walker is using his unnecessary budget repair bill to drive a stake through the heart of Wisconsin’s social contract that has maintained stable labor relations with public employee unions for decades.
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POPSHouse Republicans Vote Amnesty For Illegal Asteroid From the source, continued: "We believe that the decisions of how to deal with the massive asteroid are best left to the individual," King added. Repealing the act, which opponents have branded 'Obamastroid,' has been the cornerstone of the GOP agenda since the law's passage last August. Throughout the 2010 elections, Republican candidates claimed that the Democrats' plan to smash the space rock and shield citizens from its fragments was "a classic example of the federal government needlessly interfering in the lives of everyday Americans." "This law is a job killer," said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who argued the tax increases required to save the human species from annihilation would impose unbearably high costs on businesses. "If we sit back and do nothing, Obamastroid will result in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs, which we simply can't afford in this economy. Is this the legacy we want to leave our children?"
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POPSTwo More Reasons To Avoid Facebook I've never been a fan of the "social networking" sites (Clipmarks is about as close as I get), but as time goes on, I see more and more reasons to stay away from them. Part of the problem is that there is increasing pressure to enroll at these sites. Some blogs and other news sites run all of their commenting through facebook, and registering on sites more and more often brings a barrage of solicitations to join Twitter or MySpace or others. It's bad enough that collection agencies not only have legal means to harass people in debt, but they also have lots of underhanded but not-quite-illegal means to harass and intimidate. Add to that now using Facebook to ruin peoples' reputations.
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POPSUnprecedented Arizona Lawsuit Tests Limits Of Legal Liability
Mr. Coyote states that on eighty-five separate occasions he has purchased of the Acme Company (hereinafter, "Defendant"), through that company's mail-order department, certain products which did cause him bodily injury due to defects in manufacture or improper cautionary labelling. Sales slips made out to Mr. Coyote as proof of purchase are at present in the possession of the Court, marked Exhibit A. Such injuries sustained by Mr. Coyote have temporarily restricted his ability to make a living in his profession of predator. Mr. Coyote is self-employed and thus not eligible for Workmen's Compensation. Mr. Coyote states that on December 13th he received of Defendant via parcel post one Acme Rocket Sled. Upon receipt of the Rocket Sled Mr. Coyote removed it from its wooden shipping crate and, sighting his prey in the distance, activated the ignition. As he gripped the handlebars, the Rocket Sled accelerated with such sudden force as to stretch his forelimbs to a length of fifty feet.
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POPSEarthly Alien Landscape Explanation: What bizarre planet do these alien creatures inhabit? It's only planet Earth, of course. In this well-composed scene, the sky is filled with star trails around the north celestial pole. A reflection of the Earth's daily rotation on its axis, star trails are familiar to photographers who fix their camera to a tripod and make long exposures of the night sky. But the imposing forms gazing skyward probably look strange to many denizens of Earth. Found on the Canary Island of Tenerife, they are red tajinastes, rare flowering plants that grow to a height of up to 3 meters. Hidden among the rocks of the volcanic terrain, tajinastes bloom in spring and early summer and then die after their seeds mature. On the distant horizon, below and left of the celestial pole, lies the Teide volcano.
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POPSParental Participation My father was somewhat like this, though the gadgets were much simpler. Another difference was that he never would even have done anything like fishing with me.
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POPSThe True Meaning of Easter And a rerun of something I clipped a couple of years ago. Of course the real Real Meaning of Easter is that if Jesus comes out of his tomb and sees a rabbits shadow he goes back inside for six more weeks of winter...
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POPSHope And Fear After a few months away, I've gone back to reading Sinfest on a daily basis.
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POPSAn Open Letter to Conservatives More from the source: You really need to disassociate with those among you who: * assert that people making a quarter-million dollars a year can barely make ends meet or that $1 million "isn't a lot of money"; * say that "Comrade" Obama is a "Bolshevik" who is "taking cues from Lenin"; * ignore the many times your buddies use a term that offends you and complain only when a Dem says it; # question the patriotism of people upholding cherished American values and the rule of law; # claim the president is making us less safe without a hint of evidence; # call a majority vote the "tyranny of the minority," even if you meant to call it tyranny of the majority -- it's democracy, not tyranny; # If you're going to use words like socialism, communism and fascism, you must have at least a basic understanding of what those words mean (hint: they're NOT synonymous!) You can't cut a leading Founding Father out the history books because you've decided you don't like his
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POPSUser Friendly? Maybe. Owner Friendly? Not Really Apple may have built their business on being user-friendly, but the way they treat their users as consumers leaves something to be desired. Strange to think that their early success was based almost entirely on open architecture and third-party support.
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POPSOrrin Hatch Is Wrong - War And Peace IS Longer. Providing an opt-out for the public option requires more words. The bill is printed in with extremely wide margins, very large type, double spaced and with line numbers filling the left hand column. There are only 23 lines per page and the average number of words per page is only 120. A normal document with 12-point fonts, normal margins and normal spacing has 46 and an average of 628 word per page, 5.23 time more. If this bill were printed normally it would only be 380 page long. The first 16 page consist of a table of contents and definitions of word used in the document. So that reduces the size of the document to 364. At least half of the rest of the document consists of more definintions of words. This is typical of every bill that is written by congress because when you make a law, you have to be precise about the meaning of words. So half the bill goes to explaining what the words like ‘health benefits’ means. So now we are down 182 pages.
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POPSStone The Whales More from the source So, your animal kills somebody, your moral responsibility is to put that animal to death. You have no moral culpability in the death, because you didn’t know the animal was going to go postal on somebody. But, the Scripture soberly warns, if one of your animals kills a second time because you didn’t kill it after it claimed its first human victim, this time you die right along with your animal. To use the example from Exodus, if your ox kills a second time, “the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.” (Exodus 21:29) Oh dear. How on earth do you reason with someone who pulls out the Old Testament to say that you should be killed for not destroying an orca? For an antidote, the folks at Orca Network have a more reason-based perspective .
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POPSWhat's In A Name? One can only assume that submitting Zeb's name to a number of Arabic-speaking countries is some unique form of punishment designed by the Pakistani Foreign Ministry -- or the result of a particularly egregious cockup. Reminiscent of a scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian .
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