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POPSjust loved this...wanted to share with you... How did you do? The point is, none of us remembers the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They're the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.
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POPSNo Homo's In Iran "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like you do in your country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon."
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POPSThe moral collapse of the Republican Party "For Republicans, there is no longer any moral taboo whatsoever against lying outright... So what of it, if offshore drilling will not reduce gas prices. It's fine to say it anyway...So what of it, if Sarah Palin says crooked things with a straight face? Name me one Republican who will object....you would be hard pressed to find even a single, lone Republican in Washington willing to buck the moral collapse of their own party... To hell with facts, there is another election to be won
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POPSWhen giving gifts, the price is wrong In three different investigations of gift exchanges among adults, the researchers consistently found that givers wrongly assumed that money spent on gifts buys recipients’ appreciation. “I suspect we’d see different results if we studied gift appreciation among children,” Flynn predicts. Kids, more than adults, focus primarily on the nature of a gift rather than its source. Gift givers reported that relatively expensive purchases best conveyed their thoughtfulness and consideration, the Stanford researchers say. Givers apparently spent more on gifts to impress recipients with the givers’ caring, not their cash, the researchers suggest. Yet recipients preferred gifts that they really needed or that had special personal meaning, regardless of price.
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POPSEat Crow, liberal Iraqi war skeptics If Democrats had won the White House in 2004, the jihadists might have succeeded. The idiotic liberals are still for retreat in the face of victory. The US decision to "stay the course" in the Iraq war, which was also widely mocked and criticized, served to thoroughly demoralize the jihadist movement. Another example of why liberals are unfit to run this country, unless you want to run it into the ground.
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POPSThe Bushies Pre-emptively attack Michael Moore
Once again the Bushies have decided to preemptively attack Michael Moore over his new documentary, SICKO. This is a film about the lack of adequate health care in the richest country in the world; the United States of America. Understand, that there are certain things Michael Moore does and says that do not meet with my applause, but when he is right he is right. The U.S. should be embarrassed by its lack of health care for every citizen of the country, no matter what their financial situation. Health care is not a privilege, it is a right. This is especially true in a country as vastly wealthy as the U.S. It is criminal for tens of millions of people to be out of the loop for proper medical care. The Bushies and the conservative Republicans will say or do anything to scare the citizenry away from national health care. But just ask the people of Canada what they think of their system, even with the problems it faces. It is not perfect. But no one is left uncared for.
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POPSNYC man saves stranger's life in subway fall That's the New York I used to know (and love). People act like they don't give a shit, but they look out for one another in a real emergency. This is the train I used to take to work every day; it happened about a dozen blocks uptown from where i used to live.
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POPSAn inconvenient truth Al Gore left out of his movie According to this writer, Gore never really comes clean in his film about precisely how much sacrifice will be required of residents of industrialized countries if we are to stop global warming. Estimates suggest we'd have to cut CO2 emissions by 90%. Something tells me that's not going to happen.
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POPSInteresting turn of events at climate talks There are way too many facts and statistics that i'm too ignorant to understand, so i really can't weigh in on what specifically should happen here. But i do hope and believe that the world is getting much smarter about the energy we consume and it's affects on the environment. I definitely believe that the first third of the 21st century will be the energy revolution. New sources of power that are renewable, clean and more efficient. And new means to distribute that power via a brand new, state of the art, power grid. What was done for telecommunications at the end of the 20th century now needs to be done for the power industry.
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POPSPennsylvania Gov. Rendell: Obama Coverage Was "Embarrassing" At that point, PBS's Judy Woodruff, who was moderating the moderators event, said: "Why don’t we let Governor Rendell sit down." That was met with applause from the crowd of big-time media figures, which included Arianna Huffington, Gwen Ifill, Al Hunt, and Chuck Todd. Woodruff allowed Brokaw to respond, and in defending the network, he said that Matthews and Keith Olbermann are "not the only voices" on MSNBC.
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POPSAnti-intellectual Presidency book review
One might also question whether public engagement with policy issues was, in truth, significantly higher when presidential speeches were pitched higher. How many ordinary Americans could wax eloquent about the pros and cons of the gold standard in the 1890s, despite the fact that orators of the level of William Jennings Bryan were making the rounds? The electorate that listened to Wilson went on to elect Harding, partly because he was handsome and partly because he made speeches high on pathos. Moreover, his “return to normalcy” mantra used a word many considered not even to exist. Nevertheless, amid the impressionistic plaints so common against the dumbing down of American culture, The Anti-Intellectual Presidency is a useful empirical demonstration of one facet of a larger cultural transformation. In our come- as-you-are America, Dick Cheney’s response to an interviewer’s observation about widespread public opposition to the war in Iraq with “So?” is business as usual. We might di
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POPSNew Hampshire Goes Gay Hooray! New Hampshire legalizes gay civil-unions. No, it ain't marriage, but we're getting there. 5 years ago who would have thought civil-unions would start making such major inroads in the states. In a few very short years, same-sex marriage will become the law of the land, just as it is in our close neighbour and largest trading partner, Canada.
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POPSMiddle school Girls Gone Wild As a mom of two young daughters I'm fully aware of at how young an age our children are influenced by the popular culture. I only hope that I can impress upon them that it is their minds that are important and valued and not their bodies. When my7 year old joins me to do Yoga or Pilates I always stress that we are doing that to be healthy and have strong bodies not to improve our bodies for the benefit of others. It is my hope that I can give them both strength of character enough to not feel that dancing suggestively at a school talent show with a minimal amount of clothing is something to be proud of.
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POPSHomophobia Is Not Christian "Adds Smith: "The moment reminded me of a conversation I had recently with a senior figure in the national gay rights movement, who noted that Obama's deference to some black Christian discomfort with homosexuality — his refusal to dump the "ex-gay" gospel singer Donnie McClurkin from a tour — angered some gays and lesbians; but conversely, that his ability to sell gay rights in the black church is unique and appealing."
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POPSTavis Smiley: Blacks too 'emotional' to obey rules The black culture in America should be proud of their ancestry as any race should be and mostly is... I really wonder sometimes what their forefathers would would say or if they would be embarresed to know that their relatives are now labeled to emotional to follow rules and have to be given special all kinds of special treatment.
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POPSThank the Lord (and luck) for people like this "The pilots do not wish to be in the public spotlight and went out for a quiet curry last night. They do not wish or seek hero status’, he said, adding that they are "embarrassed that their aircraft is all over the front page". Jim McAuslan, Balpa general secretary. (Times Online)
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POPSCan't fund the war if we give kids insurance The audience of carefully handpicked Republicans, HMO representatives and others making billions in health care rose to their feet and cheered wildly as the Marine band p layed America the Beautiful. The President acknowledged the applause, and called Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach and Merck CEO Richard Clark to the podium where the ceremony concluded with Clark presenting von Eschenbach the keys to a new Cadillac Accolaide in appreciation of the FDA's approval of the new Merck pill to cure death
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