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POPSThe Coward's Creed Thorough, informative, well written and insightful piece illuminating how "in addition to being evil, torture utterly fails to extract useful information." VERY much worth the read. Please do.
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POPSCongress’s Torture Bubble "JUST four members of Congress were notified in 2002 when the Central Intelligence Agency’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” program was first approved and carried out, according to documents released by the agency last week." (snip) "Each was briefed orally and it was understood that they were not to speak about the program with anyone, including their colleagues on the committees." (snip) "as a practical matter, there was very little, if anything, the Gang of Four could have done to affect the Bush administration’s decision on the enhanced interrogation techniques program. To stop it, they needed the whole Congress."
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POPSTax Cuts Sources: 1. "A socialist? Obama calls back to insist no," The International Herald Tribune, March 8, 2009 http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/08/america/barack.php 2. "Tax Cuts," The New York Times, February 26, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/washington/27web-tax.html 3. "Soaking the Rich (Redux)," The Washington Monthly, March 8, 2009 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51234&id=15734-1194155-wjSWJNx&t=2 This is a message sent to me from MoveOn.org
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POPSBogus "Voter Fraud Charges" Aim to Camouflage Voter Suppression
4. This has nothing to do with “voter fraud” – nothing at all to do with anyone trying to cast an extra vote. There has never been a single reported instance in which bogus registration forms have led to anyone voting improperly. To do that, they would have to show up at the polls, prove their identity as all first-time registrants must, and risk jail. The people who turned in these forms did so not because they wanted an extra vote, but because they didn’t care enough to make sure eligible people got to vote at all. 5. When a department store calls the police to report a shoplifting employee, no one says the department store is guilty of consumer fraud. But for some reason, when ACORN turns voter registration workers over to the authorities for filling out bogus forms, it gets accused of “voter fraud.” This is a classic case of blaming the victim; indeed, these charges are outrageous, libelous, and often politically motivated.
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POPSAcorn Voter Fraud Claim is a Hoax ! Please momentarily ignore the partisan bias in this article and just pull from it the the facts it contains. Please share those facts. "...it's served to distract from very real concerns about tens of thousands of voters who have been illegally purged from the voting rolls in dozens of states, as the New York Times reported in a remarkable front page investigative story. That story followed a report the week before from CBS News detailing still more wholesale purges of voting rolls in some 20 states." URLs for those 2 articles (or look for the Clips!): http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/us/politics/09voting.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6453
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POPSWho You Callin’ a Maverick? Great little morsel on the origin of the word! Never knew how it came about, and so glad to have come across this!! I find it so very .... poetically, beautifully ironic (?) - poetically beautiful and ironic (?) !!!! ...that it tickles me so! (thats just the best way I could put that at this moment, as terrible a description as it may be)
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POPSThe crisis explained (quickly & w/ humour!!) "....Hank Paulson and his golfing buddies go to the track and lose the rent money playing the ponies, we should pay up?" Corrente - "UPDATE If you call Speaker Pelosi’s office at (202) 225-0100, a human answers! That’s what I just did at 11:17 PM EDT. So, if you want to share your views on the bailout, be polite!"
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POPSThe Twelve Lies Of Sarah Palin the rest of the list: (go to site for the proof links) She has lied about pressure on Alaska's public safety commissioner to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She has lied about when she asked her daughters for their permission for her to run for vice-president She has lied about her alleged tolerance of homosexuality She has lied about the use or non-use of a TelePrompter at the St Paul convention She has lied about what Alaska's state scientists concluded about the health of the polar bear population in Alaska
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POPSBush accomplishes mission for Osama Bin Laden '...In testimony to Congress a month ago, the co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security put it this way: " I would like to impress upon this Committee that $144 a barrel oil will be perceived as a victory for the Jihadist movement and a reaffirmation that the economic warfare component of its campaign against the West is a resounding success." Or, to put it in far blunter terms, Osama bin Laden can now say “Mission Accomplished”...'
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POPSNothing says ‘drill safely’ like the smell of diesel in the French Quarter "Nobody was injured, but more than 419,000 gallons of heavy, almost tar-like fuel oil spilled from the barge, forming a slick 12 miles long, said Lt. Cdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau, a Coast Guard spokeswoman." The collision occurred about 1:30 a.m. CDT just upriver from the Crescent City Connection, a pair of bridges between New Orleans’ east and west banks. ~and I repeat~ "Nothing says “drill safely now” like an oil spill that closes 29 miles of the Mississippi River near New Orleans."
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POPSMcCain: “Oil executives” tell me my energy plan is awesome the full text of the last position is: The latest: During today’s town hall meeting in New Hampshire, McCain says “oil executives” told him we “could see results” from offshore drilling “within a couple of years.” McCain was in New Hampshire this afternoon where he unveiled the latest excuse for coastal drilling. Oil executives tell McCain that “within a couple of years we could be seeing results from it.” There’s no doubt that oil companies will profit handsomely from McCain’s coastal drilling plan. It’s helpful that McCain would relay that to an audience of voters.
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POPSWhat Every American Should Know About the Middle East a VERY brief and oversimplified primer on the Middle East that is well informed, well written, and really worth the read ! worth highlighting : "What’s depressing is the fact that this only took me 30 minutes to write, and you 2 minutes to read. Yet most people in the United States, including those in the media, the house of representatives, and probably even the Pentagon, lack even this cursory level of knowledge about the region."
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