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POPSObama: If you love me, ask Congress to pass my jobs bill I thought Rush made this up when I heard him talking about it. It seemed too far fetched for a President to actually say this. What a narcissist. People are still hurting from this economy and we're supposed to help him, because we love him? Give me a break.
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POPSLiving Life is better than Dying in College Right now student loan debt is greater than homeowner debt and credit card debt in this country. Thats a lot of debt. Whereas previously we’ve created generations of innovators and creators, now we are creating a generation of young people mired down in hopeless debt.
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POPSRaising Financially Responsible Children
As a child matures, giving an allowance properly can help teach valuable lessons. The best way is a two-part allowance: part that is paid each week automatically and another part that is to be earned by doing household chores. Children shouldn’t be paid for every job they do in the household. They need to understand that they have responsibilities to each other, and they don’t just do what they’re paid to do. Remind them that the adults do a lot for the household – and they certainly don’t get paid for it! Beyond the base allowance, however, it’s a good idea to pay for big chores. Credit cards will sometimes make it seem as though scarcity doesn’t exist. Advertising makes us think we can spend more on everything, if we just put it on the card. When the bill comes in, however, scarcity is back. Credit cards only delay it. They don’t defeat it. Young people need to learn that before they start getting those attractive credit card offers in the mail and in student newspapers.
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POPSDevastated Parents: Chinese Gov’t Running Infant Abduction Racket for Profit and Population Control The good news is that government-sponsored seizures have apparently diminished a great deal since 2006. The bad news is that it took an abducted eight-month-old boy’s severe injuries in a balcony fall (after his mother tangled with officials over him) to curtail the practice. The latest outcry, however, is that the Chinese government had been hard at work all these years keeping the whole sordid affair under wraps—not terribly surprising, what with the minor sticking point that its own laws forbid infant seizure, even when its Mom and Dad’s second child.
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POPSAmazing Smartphone Strategy for those who think $185 is a lot to pay for a phone and get one “free” with an unlimited plan for only $60 a month: That adds up to $1440 over two years. My approximate expense for those two years is about $240 for service plus $185 for the phone, or $425
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POPSThis Chart Shows The Higher Education Bubble Is Real This is just the next bubble to burst..you'll see. With no jobs, and middle class jobs leaving this country..students are not going to be able to afford to pay them back. Just another enslavement trap for the youth of our future. Now you get to start life with a big old red number under your name to have an education. What parent can afford to pay nearly $100,000 on average for a Bachelor's degree for their kid? That is exactly what happened. I started College in 1988, $1000/semester and finished 5 years later at $3000/semester. But wait it gets worse. The smartest president our country has ever had just took over the student loan business. So when these students start failing to pay back their student loans who's going to get stuck with the bill? You got it - the tax payer. Here comes another government bailout. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-higher-education-bubble-2011-7#ixzz1TLCAWJ47
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POPSWhy not get rid of the Debt Ceiling altogether? The national debt-ceiling law should be judged by what it actually does, not by how good an idea it seems to be. The one thing that the national debt-ceiling has never done is to put a ceiling on the rising national debt. Time and time again, for years on end, the national debt-ceiling has been raised whenever the national debt gets near whatever the current ceiling might be. Regardless of what it is supposed to do, what the national debt-ceiling actually does is enable any administration to get all the political benefits of runaway spending for the benefit of their favorite constituencies -- and then invite the opposition party to share the blame, by either raising the national debt ceiling, or by voting for unpopular cutbacks in spending or increases in taxes. The Obama administration is a classic example. When all its skyrocketing spending bills were being rushed through Congress without even being read, the Democrats had such
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POPSMichele Bachmann vs Politifact She said “all taxes into the federal government” not “all income taxes into the federal government.” On that basis, Politifact rates her statement “false”, which the media translates as a lie. Seriously? This is clearly a minor misspeak. It’s the equivalent of “fact checking” Barack Obama’s 57 states comment. Its’ ridiculous. Michele’s point is completely correct, the numbers are correct, it’s backed up by federal tax data, and it’s a well-known measure of the tax burden on the rich. She slightly misspoke in the specific category of taxes in a way that makes her point no more effective. Even if you do take her statement completely literally, the wealthiest 1% still pays over 28% of “all taxes into the government.” The rich pay a lot of taxes already, that’s the point. It’s obvious, and it’s correct. Politifact does finally acknowledge this: Bachmann would have been right if she’d said, “the top 1 percent of income earners pay about 40 percent of all
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POPSiPod Touch upgrades make best productivity device ever? BOTTOM LINE Without question, if you are considering an iPad for your small business, get down to your local Apple store and give the iPod Touch a test drive instead. Yes, it's a fraction of the size. And fancy new apps for the iPad don't run on it. But the Touch fits in your pocket, runs most of the apps you need and costs about half as much. As I have said in the past, the iPod Touch is Apple's single best device ever. The upgrades only raise that bar.
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POPSThe Delphi Technique — How to Disrupt It dispersed through the crowd; who, when the facilitator digresses from the question, will stand up and say nicely, "but you didn't answer that lady's/gentleman's question." The facilitator, even if suspecting you are together, certainly will not want to alienate the crowd by making that accusation. Sometimes it only takes one occurrence of this type for the crowd to figure out what's going on, sometimes it takes more than one.
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POPSSync Manager for Pre - Double twist doubleTwist takes any music you transfer to the Pre -- including all your Music from iTunes -- and puts it in the Music directory on your Pre. Movies go in the Movies directory. Pictures go in the Pictures directory. doubleTwist Works Both Ways This is what sold me on doubleTwist. Like Kevin C Tofel of jkOnTheRun, I find the experience of managing the tracks I've puchased on the Pre in the App frustrating. With doubleTwist you can drag and drop any media from your Pre to your PC or Mac. Presumably that's the 'double' in 'doubleTwist.' doubleTwist isn't perfect. It's not as full-featured of a media player as iTunes by a long shot -- but then it's not really meant to be (yet?). As a tool for moving media to and from the Pre, it's pretty darn good - I've replaced iTunes with it.
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POPSTurns out Obama's Story about his Mother's Healthcare Struggle is Inaccurate Often in his 2008 campaign and throughout his push for national healthcare reform, Barack Obama retold a compelling story of his mother’s struggle against non-budging insurance companies for care in the final years of her life before the cancer over took her. “‘I remember in the last month of her life, she wasn’t thinking about how to get well, she wasn’t thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality, she was thinking about whether or not insurance was going to cover the medical bills and whether our family would be bankrupt as a consequence,’ Obama said in September 2007. ‘She was in her hospital room looking at insurance forms because the insurance company said that maybe she had a pre-existing condition and maybe they wouldn’t have to reimburse her for her medical bills,’ Obama added in January 2008.”
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POPSObama Executive Orders Impose New Gun Rules The Executive Orders come in the middle of the “Fast and Furious” scandal currently plaguing the administration. Already, there is talk on Capitol Hill of a cover-up at the highest levels of government, and it appears to some that the administration was feeding the lethal problem of firearms trafficking it ostensibly intended to address with “Fast and Furious.” The question remains- if these Executive Orders are ‘common sense’ measures as the administration claims, why not let Congress enact them as laws? And if they are minor tweaks to existing law as others claim, are they necessary at all?
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POPSThe Secret to Digital Sanity reserve a significant amount of time during your day to be actively working on your projects rather than passively ingesting the flow. Digital flow or noise, if not handled properly, will compromise and destroy focus. Every tweet, news article or phone call is taking us away from our task at hand. Your mind only has so much space. Be judicious with your mental real estate. Schedule the flow to serve your schedule, not the reverse. "technology is a great servant but it is a terrible master" -- when you are "living in emergency scan mode," your inputs, AKA "the flow," controls your schedule. This is just like getting lost in the flow of information, spending your time serving it instead of the flow serving you. So when you factor in Allen's logic, you come to understand it's not only your information that overwhelms and has potential to consume but also your tasks and commitments. These too are a sort of flow that needs to be managed lest it sweep you away.
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