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POPSGlow-In-The-Dark Beagle Created By S. Korean Scientists The practical application of the ability to make the dog glow helps to identify possible complications from diseases, without harming the dog. From Discovery News: Lee said the genes injected to make the dog glow could be substituted with genes that trigger fatal diseases. He and his team would then be able to chart the course of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and more, better understanding how such diseases develop. The process behind creating the dog was also rather astonishing. According to Care2, Tegon was created through a multi-step cloning process. A process called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer was used to generate an embryo with the modified DNA (a dog's combined with a green fluorescent gene from a sea anemone). Finally, the embryo was implanted in a surrogate beagle mother.
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POPSMilitia Training in Michigan's National Forest But Bowyer and Smith were worried. So they started calling state and national lawmakers and officials in Washington, D.C., for help keeping gun-toting militia out of the woods dotted with motorcycle trails and where horseback riders come from all over to enjoy peace and quiet. The officers told the couple the militia had a right to be in the forest, even if they were shooting guns — anyone, in fact, can do that.
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POPSSC Killer Claimed Militia Training/"Gov't Out to Get Him" Myers fatally shot his 25-year-old wife, Angela Myers; her twin sister, Tabatha T. Brown; and their 50-year-old mother, Vicky May Hook Brown; about four miles from Wagener. He also fatally shot his ex-girlfriend, Esther Baldwin, at another location about four miles from the first murder scene. As police responded, Myers steered his pickup at three officers. The officers, who weren’t injured, were able to fire gunshots at the fleeing vehicle. After a brief chase, Myers drove back to the scene of the triple murders and killed himself with the same shotgun he used earlier, as the deputies arrived, Elwell said. Myers subscribed to the views and philosophy of the John Birch Society and regularly read its publication New American. “He once offered me a copy, but I wasn’t particularly interested.”
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POPSChristian Was Caged, Beaten, and Murdered By Heinous Monsters Riley Choate kept the boy in a dog cage secured with seven locks. The boy lived in the cage every day for more than a year before his death, Christina said. The cage was kept in a front bedroom Christian shared with his father while Kimberly slept on a living room couch and her children and Christina slept in a back bedroom. Christina told authorities she was the sole person responsible for caring for Christian. Her duties included feeding him, taking him to the bathroom, forcing him to exercise and physically punishing him for failing to take orders. She often was instructed to hit her brother, she said.
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POPSPalin's Cult Followers Try To Change Paul Revere Wiki Page One of the most pernicious and dangerous features of Palin is her clinical refusal to understand reality, to accept error, to acknowledge when the facts she has cited are not actually facts, but delusions. And her vanity and pathologies are so deep she will insist that black is white until her minions actually find a source to prove it. She's dangerous; she's shrewd; she's an exhibitionist. But she is also, we must keep reminding ourselves, a farce. What worries me about this political leader incapable of telling fantasy apart from fact is that, in a long and deep recession, someone who can lie that readily and manipulate religious and cultural resentment as well as she does is a danger. Not just to America, but to the world.
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POPSAnonymous claims control of Iranian gov’t servers The group also claimed it had hacked servers belonging to the government in Dubai, obtaining about 100 account logins. Anonymous is reportedly planning another cyber attack on the Iranian government to coincide with the election's anniversary. The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website was still offline at time of this writing.
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POPSThe Masked Monkeys of Indonesia Wray decided to venture past the sidewalk performances and explore where the monkeys lived and how they were trained. “Initially I was purely interested in the masked monkeys,” Wray said. “But once I saw the village and the condition in which the people there lived alongside the monkeys, another grim layer was added to the pictures and to my thinking about the monkeys.” “The idea came to me that the disturbing image of the monkeys wearing the masks is a visual distillation of the kinds of horrible things that happen when people are driven to desperation by poverty.” Wray said he was going to continue with the project, adding, “One thing I would definitely like to concentrate on is how the monkeys get to the city from the jungle—the commercial process that brings them into urban areas as pets or performers.” Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/05/25/the-masked-monkeys-of-indonesia/#ixzz1ObEFgEv8
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POPS84-year-old man allegedly beaten by police officer after calling 911 Henderson's wife, Dorris, watched from a wheelchair at the front window of her house, telling a 911 dispatcher that the officer was "beating the hell out of my husband." At no point did Scott place Henderson under arrest or charge him with any crime, but kept Henderson handcuffed in the backseat of his police cruiser. Roughly ten minutes later, Scott sent an ambulance that had arrived away, telling the paramedics that the elderly man "doesn't need an ambulance." A superior office who later arrived on the scene ordered the ambulance to return and Henderson was taken to the hospital, where he doctors said he suffered a broken nose, multiple contusions and a torn rotator cuff. As of May 16, 2011, Scott was still employed by the Fairhope Police Department. How awful!
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POPSWoot! "Now We Are illegal!" Spanish Protesters Cheer World Revolution Thousands of people have massed in city centres across the country in an swelling movement that began May 15, the biggest spontaneous protests since the property bubble exploded in 2008 and plunged Spain into a recession from which it only emerged this year. Spain's electoral commission late on Thursday declared that protests planned for Saturday and for Sunday are illegal as they "go beyond the constitutionally guaranteed right to demonstrate." Saturday is by law "a day of reflection" ahead of the local elections, meaning political activity is barred. But organisers of the spearhead protest in Madrid vowed to defy the ban. Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Friday that police "will enforce the law" against the protesters but "in a proportional manner." But Spain's leading daily El Pais quoted government sources as saying police will only intervene if there is violence. Good Luck to them!
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POPSSurreal Bridges ‘Melting’ On Google Earth Google's initiative to add elevation to Google Earth is having some weird and beautiful results. Go here for more http://www.pcworld.com/article/222679/15_surreal_bridges_melting_on_google_earth.html
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POPSArmey Invades Pennsylvania "Much of this is due to a cultural shift. There was a time when Catholics felt duty bound to send their children to church schools – even if their neighborhood public schools were well regarded. Those days are long gone. Many Catholic parents today are happy to rely on public schools. Facing dwindling enrollments, church schools are going under. Should it be up to you and other taxpayers to bail them out? Armey seems to think so, but I find this a curious stand for a limited-government guy to take. It looks like parents are voting with their feet. If market forces are closing these private schools, who are we to try to shake off the old Invisible Hand? Armey and his Tea Party pals don’t believe in the concept of public education. In fact, they’d like to abolish it. The voucher plan is the first step toward that goal. "
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POPSNew Brand of Terrorism: Spitting on Walmart Shoppers Alas, her primitive liquid weaponry missed its mark. But Walmart workers called the cops. When police arrived, she told them that "Americans are pushing us around." This wasn't the first time Nuha had spit on someone. She also tried to hock a loogie on one of her professors at Florida Tech. The school has already begun preparations to send her ass back to Saudi Arabia, where she can be pushed around by much nicer Wahhabi nutbags who think women are incapable of anything but breeding and cooking. But since she admitted to gobbing on the two people because they're Americans, police also jacked her battery charge with a hate crimes pinch.
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POPSImmigrants See Charter Schools as a Haven Well, thank God they don't have to integrate into American society! Right? :P Charter schools, which are PUBLICLY FINANCED but independently run, were conceived as a way to improve academic performance. But for immigrant families, they have also become havens where their children are shielded from the American youth culture that pervades large district schools. Some critics argue that these kinds of charter schools are contributing to a growing re-segregation of public education, and that they run counter to the long-held idea of public schools as the primary institution of the so-called “melting pot,” the engine that forges a common American identity among immigrants from many countries. “One of the primary reasons that American society supports public schools is to give everyone a solid civic education,” said Diane Ravitch, an education historian, “the sort of education that comes from learning together with others from different backgrounds.”
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POPSWikileaks Exposes Lack of Oversight in Charter Schools See here also: http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/main/FrontPage/tabid/36/Default.aspx Italy’s Wall Street Journal—reported that the Gulen movement’s 120 charter schools and education consulting companies are now under investigation by the FBI and the US Department of Education for “illegal use of these education funds, a criminal conspiracy, extortion, and violation of immigration laws.” The Gulen scheme is designed to launder money back to the Gulen movement in Turkey through fat juicy “consulting” contracts with Gulen front companies and salary kickbacks paid back to the Gulen movement by Gulen teachers brought in on H1-B visas from Turkey. Just three weeks after Hawai’i Free Press exposed the Mokapu scam, the Gulenists switched front groups. They convinced twelve Hawaii State Representatives to introduce HR30 and the nearly identical HCR37... more at source.
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POPSOhio’s for-profit charter schools make great businesses, crappy educators
Ohio Virtual Academy is currently the 28th largest school district in Ohio. It is larger than Springfield and Youngstown school districts and it has grown 243% over the last five years, from 3,161 to 7,687 students. That growth is intentional. In the business world, growth = profits. Even OHVA’s 7-member board is composed almost entirely of business and marketing professionals, and has only one individual with an education background. Three of the members have degrees in marketing and two have business degrees. And one is a beauty pageant coach with a degree in musical theater. The problem here is not that OHVA has created a successfully operating business – which they absolutely have. The problem is that they have created this business when they were SUPPOSED to be creating a school. This isn’t private sector money funding a private sector operation. It’s public money. 100% public money. Money that was supposed to be spent “in the classroom” on educating students.
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POPSRevisionist History Gets a "D" From Conservative Think Tank See also: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-4-2011/david-barton-pt--1 and you might want to read : http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/3/24/12519/6564 and this too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Barton_%28author%29 also check this out: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/9/235354/4825
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POPSMy Chemical Romance Scares Beck Beck warned his audience of the unstoppable force already upon us with the grim resignation of the doomed men of the Alamo. "I don't know if you've ever seen the TV show Glee, but this show stands out and stands against almost every value that I have. I've seen this show twice and this year and I've watched it in stunned horror combined with a sense of admiring awe. It is a brilliant, brilliant show. Very well done. But it is a horror show. ... I watched this scene the last time I saw it, must have been maybe two months ago and I said to my wife, play a little bit of this. It goes on and it is brilliant, brilliant. I looked at my wife and I said, 'There is no way to beat this. There is no way to beat this." Yes, Glee is a clear signifier of the end of times.
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POPSThe Cure~Charlotte Sometimes (Songs Inspired by Books) Wow, had a really hard time clipping the original video for this song, it seems that it in "unavailable in my country" on youtube and several other places on the net that I tried. I have no idea why...I own a vhs tape with this video on it and always liked it...fascinating that it's from a children's book though isn't it?
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POPSPeggy Lee~ Is That All There Is? (Songs Inspired by Books) The lyrics of this existentialist song are written from the point of view of a person who is disillusioned with events in life that are supposedly unique experiences. The singer tells of seeing her family's house on fire when she was a little girl, when she saw the circus and when she fell in love for the first time. After each recital she expresses her disappointment in the experience. She suggests that we "break out the booze and have a ball — if that's all — there is", instead of worrying about life. She also explains that she'll never kill herself either because she knows that death will be a disappointment as well. This song was written by the mighty songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. However, it was not originally intended for Peggy Lee; first they tried English singer-actress Georgia Brown, then they offered it to Marlene Dietrich, who turned it down. Randy Newman conducted and orchestrated the chorus.
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POPSMuse ~ The Resistance (Songs Inspired by Books) Muse's Matt Bellamy (continued) : "The act of love can be a political act in those kind of scenarios, as the one place where the state can't invade your privacy. That love story touched me more than the overall political meaning of the book. So I'd say that was one of the cornerstones of the album, really, the love story in that book."
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POPSMcCain: Torture did Not lead to bin Laden CIA Director Leon Panetta told the Arizona senator that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times, did NOT provide the information that eventually led to bin Laden. "The first mention of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti — the nickname of the al-Qaeda courier who ultimately led us to bin Laden — as well as a description of him as an important member of al-Qaeda, came from a detainee held in another country, who we believe was not tortured. None of the three detainees who were waterboarded provided Abu Ahmed’s real name, his whereabouts or an accurate description of his role in al-Qaeda," McCain wrote.
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