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POPSCalling A Bribe A BRIBE Probably because when we think of bribes, we usually think of the petty kind – slipping a bill to a policeman to avoid getting a ticket, using the money-scissors to snip annoying red tape, and the like. But a politician, just like a cop, is a public official with power over citizens and the potential to be corrupted. The difference is only in scope. Jack Abramoff, who went to prison for managing to dig beneath even Washington’s bedrock of corruption, has apparently reformed, coming out with a book that’s earned praise even from Michael Moore. WorldNetDaily sums up Abramoff’s history: “The scandals triggered by Abramoff led to the convictions of 20 people for payoffs in exchange for political favors, including Republican Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio. Abramoff was released in June after nearly fours years in federal prison.” Alas, those 20 unfortunates were only the cutting edge, the few caught going beyond accepted limits.
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POPSSkateboarding Drug Dealers Chase Occupiers Off Their Turf But another occupier who said she watched the confrontation argued it wasn’t as violent as some were claiming. Yes, some face-spitting happened, but only after a lone dealer—a pot dealer—asked the lingering campers to please leave and keep the police away from his previous place of business. http://bit.ly/uI1PsK http://www.thegatewaypundit.com
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POPSRare Attack on Afghan Shiites Kills Dozens
The faction, which isn't thought to have attacked in Afghanistan before, previously was known for kidnapping two former Pakistani spies and a British journalist in Pakistan's tribal area. The spies, including Col. Imam, known as the godfather of the Taliban, later were killed. Afghanistan's Shiites are mostly members of the Hazara ethnic minority, which suffered brutal discrimination at the hands of the Taliban government that ruled the country before the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. The attacks came as representatives from the United States and some 90 other nations and organizations concluded a meeting in Germany about the transition of security responsibilities to Afghan forces, which are due to take full control of the country by 2014. "An attack against Ashoura pilgrims on one of the holiest of days in the Islamic calendar is an attack against Islam itself, and we denounce and condemn these atrocities in the strongest of terms," said Gen. John R. Allen, ...
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POPSObama’s Threatened Veto of Indefinite Detention Bill Is NOT to Protect Liberty By requiring military detention of the captured, Congress is undoing all the maneuvering that two regimes have accomplished in removing POW status from detainees. he November 17 letter to the Senate from the Executive Office of the President says that the Obama regime does not want the authority it has under the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), Public Law 107-40, to be codified. Codification is risky, the regime says. In other words, the regime is saying that under AUMF the executive branch has total discretion as to who it detains and how it treats detainees. Moreover, as the executive branch has total discretion, no one can find out what the executive branch is doing, who detainees are, or what is being done to them. Those who see hope in Obama’s threatened veto have jumped to conclusions if they think the veto is based on constitutional scruples. more How Does Liberty Die? http://bit.ly/txrqVR http://www.washingtonsblog.com
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POPSThe National Geographic Photo Contest Photographers of all skill levels (last year more than 16,000 images submitted by photographers from 130 countries) enter photographs in three categories: Nature, People and Places. The photographs are judged on creativity and photographic quality by a panel of experts. There is one first place winner in each category and a grand prize winner as well. The following is a selection of 54 entries from each of the 3 categories. The caption information is provided and written by the individual photographer. -- Paula Nelson (54 photos total) view all photos http://bo.st/vIHZw0 http://www.boston.com
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POPSNetworks Cheer Obama 'Channeling Teddy' Roosevelt, Attacking 'Grinch-Like' GOP 'Misers' Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley says that's why Mr. Obama chose the same small town in Kansas to frame his message. DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: He's trying to paint the Republicans as sort of being anti-American, of being Grinch-like, being misers. And this is timed here with the holiday season, with the need for some, you know, tax breaks for the middle class. He's got to reclaim the great American center right now, and the figure who speaks for the center is Theodore Roosevelt. PLANTE (on-camera): Now, Kansas is a red state, of course. No Democrat has won there since '64. But the point is that the President's goal is to paint himself as the populist candidate, a champion of the middle class. full transcript of Plante's December 6 Early Show report http://bit.ly/tlx10u http://www.mrc.org US Debt Clock http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html Obama's "Pass The Tax-Cut Bill" Clock http://1.usa.gov/14XDw http://www.whitehouse.gov
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POPS“Twin-Earth” Has Right Temperature for Life Kepler-22b is 600 light-years away. Every 290 days, it orbits a star that is just a bit smaller and cooler than our own sun. The Kepler telescope, launched in 2009 to scan the skies for Earth-like worlds, found the planet because it sees the orbit edge on. That means that every 290 days, the world transits the surface of the star, blocking out a minute fraction of its light. Borucki likes to call the new discovery the Christmas planet. “It’s a great gift,” he said at a press conference here this morning. “We were very fortunate to find it.” The first of the three observed transits occurred only days after Kepler started observing. The third one was seen just before Christmas 2010, shortly before the spacecraft was unable to carry out any observations because of a technical glitch. Says Borucki: “We could’ve easily missed it altogether.” more http://bit.ly/tYlS52 http://www.wired.com
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POPSFast and Furious Probe Expands to Include Alleged Money Laundering Agents have testified before Issa, the operation didn’t provide adequate surveillance of the weapons, allowing them to “walk,” only to be discovered later at crime scenes. Two guns solde under Fast and Furious were found last year at the murder scene of Border Patrol Brian Terry. Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, have been investigating the matter ever since. Holder directed the DOJ’s inspector general (IG) to conduct its own investigation, which is ongoing. more http://bit.ly/uPgypu http://thehill.com
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POPSThe Winter of Our Economic Discontent Russian voters who watched Putin build palaces for himself while their roads decayed did the unthinkable by challenging his cult of personality at the polls, and despite the massive voter fraud, dealt a severe blow to his grip on power. As long as Putin holds executive power, the repression will double and the suicides, violent assaults and criminal trials against critics will continue—but it’s clear to everyone that he has lost any popular mandate to rule. Obama lost his popular mandate in 2010, and no matter what happens in 2012, his rule has already ended. Like Putin, he wields executive power, but without the support of the public. It’s ironic that he played such a key role in removing Gaddafi when he had more than a little in common with him. The vain showboating, the flagrant corruption and the constant speeches are a feature of both regimes.
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POPSA picture from President Obama's post-Constitutional America ... Earlier this year, the department sent a request to companies seeking help in compiling hard data... Doesn't that just warm the cockles of your heart? On average, each taxpaying household in America sends about $1,000 a year to the USDA to provide food stamps to the "needy". And the USDA has no idea what kinds of foods are actually being purchased with your money. Isn't a vast, unelected, unaccountable federal bureaucracy grand? And then there's the criminal activity associated with EBTs. As you might have predicted with billions in "free", taxpayer money at stake, fraud is rampant with EBTs. Recent investigations in Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois*, Indiana*, Kansas*, Massachusetts, Michigan*, Minnesota*, New York, Ohio*, Oklahoma*, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, and Wyoming* point to systematic exploitation of food stamps for criminal and terrorist activities. by Doug Ross http://directorblue.blogspot.com
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POPSAvtobaza: Iran's Weapon in Alleged RQ-170 Affair? So there is no script in the propaganda textbook for these kinds of incidents. They tend to evolve in their own way. Iran may never produce evidence to back up their claims, or they might later today. Interestingly, the International Security Assistance Force has made no effort to deny Iran's claims. Instead, the NATO headquarters in Kabul issued a statement acknowledging the loss of one of their UAVs over western Afghanistan last week. The statement also suggested the Iranians may have simply found the misplaced UAV for them. It may be important that NATO officials did not deny Iran's claims that the UAV was the RQ-170, which is known to operate from Kandahar where it was originally spotted. more Iran's Weapon in Alleged RQ-170 affair? By Stephen Trimble http://bit.ly/vkjbho http://www.flightglobal.com
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POPSThe 94-Year-Old Frenchman's Pamphlet "Outrage" Behind "Occupy" Who on Earth would contend with that, especially when the enemy was not the Third Reich, but benign modern democracies? Moreover, the villain Hessel repeatedly mentioned and attacked was Israel — the country most people in France love to hate already. “Outraged” movements claiming to follow the old Frenchman’s philosophy bloomed in countries hit by recession or bankruptcy, like Spain, Greece, the UK, Chile, and more recently the United States. All “outraged“ movements tended to follow a single pattern. Citizens with no explicit political affiliation “occupied“ major streets, squares, or public spaces for days or weeks, day and night, insisting upon “social justice” or “change.” They erected little booths and tent villages, both in order to sleep there and to make it more difficult to be moved out or blocked by police the following day. Clearly, the so-called Arab Spring was connected to Hessel’s “outraged“ campaign. ... The much more complex Libyan, Yemenite, Bahraini, ...
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POPSGunwalker: Did Justice Dept. Violate U.S. Kingpin Act? ... national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States. A violation of any of the IEEPA sanctioning programs or the Kingpin Act carries stiff penalties, both criminal and civil, and potentially totaling decades in prison and tens of millions of dollars in fines. It is not necessary that an individual or governmental entity be shown to have “knowingly” violated any of these programs: it is illegal for any U.S. entity or individual to aid, abet, or materially assist — or in the case of Operation Fast and Furious, to facilitate others to aid, abet, or materially assist — designated drug traffickers. There are no exceptions within IEEPA programs for unlicensed U.S. law enforcement or intelligence agency operations. Based on the July 5, 2010, memo to Eric Holder, it would appear that Fast and Furious facilitated the delivery of weapons to — at a minimum — the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico .
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POPSex-Speaker Pelosi vs. ex-Speaker Gingrich “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi said. “I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.” http://www.jammiewf.com Nancy Pelosi: I Can't Wait To Reveal The Confidential Material From Newt's Ethics Hearings Newt Gingrich: I Can't Wait For You To Get Your Own Ethics Investigation Either Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants: "One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. “When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.” That, of course, would itself be a major ethical breach, as Gingrich points out. First of all I’d like to thank Speaker Pelosi for what I regard as an early ...
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POPSHas War With Iran Begun Already? ... which has increasingly exerted control over the Tehran regime, were involved in a plot to kill that Saudi ambassador to Washington in a restaurant. Iran denied the allegations. Then, on Sunday, in what have been another escalation, Iran’s news agency reported that Iranian armed forces shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane that illegally crossed the country's eastern border. Responding to the Iranian report, NATO command in Afghanistan released a terse statement Sunday: "The UAV to which the Iranians are referring may be a US unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan late last week. Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council in Washington, said the tit-for-tat incidents “add up to a very worrisome picture,” in part because “the Iranians are absorbing all of these assassinations without seeing the pace of their nuclear program slow down to the extent it would be acceptable to the West.”
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POPSHi, I Came From A Muslim Country to Enroll in Pilot Training .... What? Too Soon? The complaint alleges Chuang helped foreign nationals obtain visas to attend flight schools approved to train foreign students when the students actually intended to enroll at Blue Diamond Aviation, which was not approved to enroll foreign nationals in its pilot training program. Chuang recruited students by offering lower tuition and a shorter training program than those offered by the authorized flight schools, according to Mrozek. Foreign nationals who want to obtain commercial pilot training in the United States are required to obtain an M-1 student visa, and apply to a flight training school that has been certified by the U.S. government to enroll foreign students. more http://bit.ly/uu2eMr http://www.ktla.com
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POPSTaxpayers May Be on Hook for $150 Million Loss on Another ‘Green’ Company Venture capital firms earlier indicated a willingness to invest if Aptera received the federal advanced vehicle technology loan. But in the interim, the difficulties of launching EVs became apparent, he said. One thing that is certain is that the Energy Department’s venture socialism program clearly did not put company balance sheets at the top of the priority list when deciding where to send taxpayer dollars, instead relying on social engineering goals to guide their spending. Read more at http://netrightdaily.com
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POPSYour Phone Carrier Is Tracking You; Here’s How to Disable It We don’t know about you, but we’re not comfortable taking the word of a company that they’re not accessing our private data, text messages, and other phone contents when Caller IQ makes it trivially easy to do so–and to remain completely undetected in the process. So the best case scenario is that your provider is not actively collecting data on you, but the Caller IQ rootkit is wasting precious battery life and clock cycles; the worst case scenario is that, unbeknownst to you, it’s radically compromising your privacy in ways you never authorized. more http://www.howtogeek.com http://bit.ly/sW2P4e http://www.youtube.com (17:10)
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POPSBREAKING NEWS on Fast and Furious: Obama Knew in May 2010? The President has directed us to take action to fight cartels…and Attorney General Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the administration’s comprehensive plan. And the following month, April 2009, he stood beside Mexican President Felipe Calderón and uttered words we now recognize as hypocritical and duplicitous at best: I continue to believe that we can respect and honor the Second Amendment right in our Constitution — the rights of sportsmen and hunters and homeowners that want to keep their families safe — to lawfully bear arms, while dealing with assault weapons that, as we know here in Mexico, are used to fuel violence. Fast forward one year, and White House logs show that then-Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler met personally with Obama four times between May 7 and May 19, 2010.
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POPSObama Doesn't Want Us to Know About "The Magical Shrinking Labor Force" -- falls even further. Admitting part of what your opponent says is true is very helpful towards establishing your own credibility and honesty. And then that makes the ensuing attack all the more potent. Why don't politicians do this more often? Possibly it's because some of them are dumbasses, but I think it's largely because they are underestimating the public's ability to process information. They really want everything in terms of general themes and slogans, because they figure there are some people out there who really can't process something as complicated as "the unemployed fraction is not as important as the employed fraction, which is itself falling." posted by Ace http://bit.ly/rH9oaa http://ace.mu.nu When the U.S. economy grows as slowly as this one has for the past year, history suggests there’s a 70 percent chance of recession happening in the upcoming year. But maybe we will be in the 30 percent group. By James Pethokoukis http://bit.ly/tmR
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POPSLightSquared, The FCC and the Law Firm That Represented Solyndra AT&T finally decided to abandon their merger plans after this hassle and asked the FCC to allow them to withdraw their application, which was granted. This, apparently, wasn't enough for the FCC who decided to take a shot at AT&T on their way out the door. When AT&T and T-Mobile requested to withdraw their application for FCC review of their proposed merger, preferring to concentrate for now on winning the unfair suit brought against them by the Justice Department, the initial response from progressives was furious. Today, AT&T has accused the FCC of cherry-picking facts to support its position. AT&T is also making a charge that has become all too familiar in this era of Obama: The FCC recently said its $4.5 billion annual fund to promote broadband to underserved communities would create 500,000 jobs over the next six years. "This notion -- that government spending on broadband deployment creates jobs and economic growth, but private investment does not --
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POPSThe Only Unemployment Chart You Need to See Today No matter how the dying, legacy media tries to spin it, no matter how the administration twists arms at the Bureau of Labor Statistics to make things look rosier, the facts are clear: The American economy is dying under this President. http://directorblue.blogspot.com http://www.calculatedriskblog.com The Bureau of Labor Statistics Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject Data extracted on: December 3, 2011 Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
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POPSObama - The Anti-Israel President In his stab-Israel-in-the-back speech delivered on Thursday at the State Department, Obama declared: The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state. Obama waited towards the end of his speech on the Middle East and North Africa to throw our most reliable Mideast ally, and the region’s only true democracy, under the bus. His timing, on the eve of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House on Friday, could not have been more provocative. Prime Minister Netanyahu did not waste any time in reacting to Obama’s gambit. He said that Israel would object to any withdrawal to “indefensible” borders, which the pre-1967 borders would most certainly be.
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POPSThe Blindness of Big Government Democracy When central banks in America and Europe injected liquidity into the global marketplace earlier this week, the stock market soared to euphoric highs, even though the underlying dangers remained. Successful people learn the value of making sacrifices to achieve long-term goals. They realize, in short, that there is a cost associated with immediate gratification, and sometimes conclude these costs are too high to bear. These calculations dissolve completely when politics and Big Government are involved. Last year, responding to questions about the impending collapse of Social Security, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in essence that he didn’t see a serious problem right away, and someone should wake him up when it becomes a front-page disaster. That’s Big Government in a nutshell. The long-term promises contained in something like the Budget Control Act of 2011 are just words on paper.
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POPSEU Debt Crisis Analysis–Proves Obama and Democrats at Fault ... elections, losing big holdings in both the United States House and Senate, and affecting their positions and power all the way down to municipal elections–as a repudiation of their extreme “socialist” agenda and shamelessly governing against the will of the people. The catalyst for the Democrat devastation was the Tea Party movement, whose mission is to minimize the role of government, lower taxes, eliminate budget deficits and thereby retire our massive national debt, all while promoting job creation in the private sector–all of which is in diametric opposition to the Liberal liturgy. Headlines today read that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) will turn to Democrats to avert a shut down, leaving “Conservatives” behind. This is a reference to the fact that even though the mid-term elections handed Conservatives and Republicans enormous victories, the only segment of the federal government they control is the ...
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POPSPutin Prepares The Russian Empire to Strike Back Elements of Putin's strategy to make Russia great again are slowly coming into focus. Much of the plan is defined by Russia's opposition to the US, the traditional foe. Thus the Kremlin announced last week that it would renounce the strategic arms reduction treaty (known as New Start) agreed with Washington two years ago if the US did not abandon its European missile defence plans. This announcement, coupled with the unveiling of a new Russian missile base in Kaliningrad on Nato's doorstep, has striking implications. New Start was the centrepiece of Barack Obama's 2009 "reset" of bilateral relations. The reset is viewed by the White House as a major foreign achievement (and 2012 re-election asset) for a president who has but few to his name.
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POPSAl Qaeda Leader Zawahiri Says He Has American Hostage The leader of Al Qaeda addresses Weinstein's family, telling them that "your government tortures our prisoners, but we have not tortured your prisoner." He also warns them not to trust President Obama's assurances that everything is being done to secure Weinstein's release, accusing the president of wishing " would be killed to get rid of his problem." A U.S. official told ABC News that although there has been no "proof of life" offered by al Qaeda or its allies that proves they have Weinstein, there were already "indications" he may be held by al Qaeda. "The documents from bin Laden's hideout show his frustrated deputies were considering kidnapping and other criminal enterprises as a means of striking for their weakened state," said the official. Zawahiri assumed the leadership of al Qaeda after Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. strike on his Pakistan hideout in May. more http://abcn.ws/uLcKTO
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POPS10 Alternative Web Browsers for Ubuntu Linux Posted on March 30th, 2010 While Firefox is arguably still the champion of Linux web browsers, it has a history of being slow and getting bogged down by sites like Facebook. As a result, the Linux browser market has never been more full of competition. If you’re looking for a break from Firefox, there’s probably an alternative browser out there for you. I've just installed Arora on my Linux system, and compared to the Firefox browser which I've been using for nearly a year, I highly recommend it. It is super-fast loading pages, it's very light and it looks exactly like my Firefox with all my FF addons. There's no discernible difference except for Arora's superior performance. It's actually an 'unbranded' Firefox browser and it works on Windows, Mac OS X and other systems as well. The other two browsers I posted also work on Windows, as I had used them on my XP machine.
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POPSNewt Gingrich Accuses Obama of Left-Wing Alinskyite Tactics And if they think that this will poison the general electorate against Obama-- not so much. The middle doesn't really like Obama, and are not going to be making decisions not to vote for Gingrich based on him talking smack about someone they don't particularly like (and may in fact feel they've been sold a bill of goods about). At worse, it's an arrogant guy doing some smack talking about a really arrogant guy who doesn't know what the hell he's doing. And what's even more clever than this? Well, this is the time when the media turns to vetting Gingrich and trying to take him out. And they are doing so. And of course his rivals turn to him as well, as we saw with the Ron Paul ad. I don't know if it's going to work, but if Gingrich's "intemperate, extremist" statements do crowd out the stuff about him lobbying for Fannie and Freddie, it's win-win-win for him. The base likes the allegedly "intemperate, extremist" attack on Obama -- who is in fact a disciple of Alinsky ...
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POPSThe Newt to Meet With The Donald First, it may help him appeal even more to the Tea Party wing of the GOP that Gingrich has aggressively courted. Second, Trump’s endorsement would invite scorn and ridicule from the mainstream media, which would set Gingrich up as an antagonist against an institution, the mainstream press, that rank and file conservative voters tend to despise. Gingrich’s comeback can be traced back to when he started pugnaciously snarling at questions posed by members of the elite media and a Trump endorsement would give Gingrich another opportunity to jostle and spar with the media, something Gingrich does with relish and better than anyone next to Sarah Palin. And third, a Trump endorsement of Gingrich would almost surely ensure that should Gingrich win the nomination, Trump would not run as an independent candidate in the general election, something Trump and his advisers have repeatedly threatened he would do if Trump was not satisfied with the Republican nominee.
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POPSdownload.cnet.com/Advanced-SystemCare-Free One part of the program we recommend new users approach with extreme caution is the Turbo Boost, which can be set to optimize for either gaming or work purposes. It sounds fun, but you must first configure the tool by telling it which core system services to disable in order to accelerate your computer's performance. Since the Turbo Boost section doesn't spell out how disabling these services might affect your computer, we highly recommend doing your research before exploring. To its credit, though, Advanced SystemCare can create rescue points, so it's not hard to undo changes if you end up making any mistakes. Read more: http://cnet.co/nvsfF downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com http://download.cnet.com
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POPSObama Proposes Tax Increases to Pay for Tax Cuts He wants to beat up on the oil industry to fund green energy boondoggles. And he wants to beat up on private equity when it's already hard to get people to invest (as Megan McArdle points out, hedge fund managers don't really get that much tax benefit from carried interests) Megan McArdle points out the obvious: But more importantly, paying for the bill with tax hikes--any tax hikes--is going to substantially reduce the stimulus this bill provides. Just as government spending boosts aggregate demand, tax hikes (yes, even on rich people), reduce aggregate demand. Providing stimulus through payroll tax cuts that are financed with tax hikes on other people is like trying to boost your household income by making your wife pay you to mow the lawn. I'm sceptical that "aggregate demand" is really the problem (see Arnold Kling), but if you believe in it, then increasing taxes to cut taxes is self-evidently silly. by Joe Kristan Tax Update Blog http://www.rothcpa.com
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POPSWelcome to "Battlefield America" Not a single Republican Senator brought this gross violation of our 6th Amendment rights to light. All of these feckless quislings turned their back on the guarantees Americans have fought and died for over the past 236 years. The heart of the 6th Amendment reads as follows: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution Welcome to "Battlefield America" By Kevin Coach Collins http://bit.ly/vSgzLD http://www.westernjournalism.com
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POPSBarney Frank Wants to Abolish His Fannie and Freddie Past Mistakes No worries, Mr. Frank. We believed you then, and we believe you now. Really. Even a common citizen of America with no formal training or schooling in Economics can tell you that you have brought this upon yourself, and worse yet, upon America. For Barney Frank to now come forth and propose a “new system”, is simply putting a 24-carat gold covering onto a old banana peel. Sure, it may look nice, but it’s still rotten on the inside. Beware, America, of any Democrat who feigns concern for America’s bruised economy when that particular Democrat can be found at its genesis. Barney Frank and his desire to make sure all Americans can achieve the American Dream of home ownership, has only become America’s nightmare. http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=5363
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POPSBilly Graham Admitted to North Carolina Hospital ASHEVILLE — Evangelist Billy Graham has been hospitalized at Mission Hospital for evaluation and treatment of his lungs. Upon admittance, he was alert, smiling and waving at hospital staff, according to a press release from Mission Hospital. Graham’s personal physician, Lucian Rice, said that Graham’s condition is stable. The pulmonologist treating Graham, Mark Hellreich, said he is being tested for possible pneumonia. Graham, 93, was previously hospitalized for successful treatment of pneumonia in May 2011. He resumed his ongoing program of physical therapy and normal activity shortly after release, according to his staff. This included finalizing his most recent book, “Nearing Home,” published last month, and beginning work on a new project reaffirming the evangelistic message he has preached for more than 60 years. While no date has been set for discharge, Graham is looking forward to returning home to spend the upcoming Christmas holidays with his family ...
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POPS*UPDATED* The #OccupyWallStreet Rap Sheet The plan was a simple one. The path to Obama’s second term requires that enough voters forget that our current economic woes are the fault of a failed President who enjoyed two years of having every single item on his wish-list passed by (Democratic Congress.) And so the idea was to create Occupy in order to give the MSM the cover they desired to spend every single day up until the election talking about greed and income inequality in order to blame both for the stagnant economy. The hope was that by repeating this message incessantly, enough voters could be convinced that Wall Street, and by extension, evil Republicans, were to blame for our chronic unemployment, record deficits, and stillborn economic growth. President Obama who? Fortunately for America, this plan has not only failed miserably it has backfired completely. Thanks to the rise of New Media and our unwillingness to let the MSM’s lies, bias, and cover ups stand for even one more day...
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POPS“The Vultures are Starting to Circle," says fmr WH Spox Bill Burton “But there is good news for the President,” according to Steve Chapman, ”I checked the Constitution, and he is under no compulsion to run for re-election. He can scrap the campaign, bag the fundraising calls and never watch another Republican debate as long as he’s willing to vacate the premises by Jan. 20, 2013 .” Obama Should “Step Aside” -Chicago Tribune Posted by Robert Butler http://bit.ly/ugcsWx http://thepresidency.us
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POPSSteve Jobs Was Right: Google IS Turning Into Microsoft The Kansas City Fiber experiment is like Microsoft's huge cable investments in the 1990s Google has rolled out a fiber optic network in Kansas City and is reportedly planning on delivering TV directly over the Internet to those homes. The Motorola deal could also play a part, as Motorola makes cable TV set top boxes. Few remember now, but Microsoft once made a big play for the TV space as well. The company invested billions in cable companies in the late 1990s -- including Comcast ($1 billion) and AT&T ($5 billion) -- plus more in Japan and Europe. The hope was to get Microsoft software embedded in TV set top boxes. The effort did not work, and Microsoft ended up having to write down billions from those investments. Read more: by Matt Rosoff http://read.bi/sx8oqF http://www.businessinsider.com
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POPSObama’s Approval Rating on Handing the Economy Hits Record Low of 34% … … 60% Disapprove .... Sorry, but there is no way if 60% of Americans disapprove of how Obama is handling the economy he can win reelection. Hmm, wonder why he has embraced the class warfare Occupy protesters? Obama’s Approval Rating on Handing the Economy Hits Record Low of 34% http://bit.ly/vHyOr8 http://scaredmonkeys.com
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POPS"What the hell are we paying you for?" Gov Christie to Bystander in Chief GOP Group Sees 100 House Seats In Play November 29, 2011 Leaders of an influential GOP "super PAC" that funds House races expects a quarter of all House seats to be in play early in the 2012 elections, but in the end Republicans will keep control, the group says. The bosses of the Congressional Leadership Fund today said that they agree with political expert and author Charlie Cook's prediction that Democrats at most will win 15 more House seats—about 10 short of what they need to regain control. Former Sen. Norm Coleman, the chairman of the group, said that with congressional approval so low, it isn't surprising that the House GOP could get whacked. "It tells you that anger is a great motivator," said Coleman. "In this environment today, that is the motivator." http://bit.ly/vz6nIR http://www.usnews.com
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