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POPSThe Voices in Your Head – a Zen cartoon I'm a big fan (if that's an appropriate way to put it) of the work of Zen teacher Cheri Huber. Her books (in particular The Depression Book and (Regardless of What You Were Taught To Believe) There Is Nothing Wrong With You: Going Beyond Self-Hate ) and listening to the weekly Open Air Talk Radio podcast she hosts (archives available online going back to November 2002 btw) have helped me go from being suicidally depressed a few years ago to spending the majority of my time in the emotional range between "content" and "happy" these days, with occasional surges into "joyful". I highly recommend them to, well, pretty much anyone. "The Voices" is a cartoon series based on the ideas in her teaching. It's a light-hearted way of looking at the conditioned thought patterns that we usually don't notice but which keep us locked in suffering and self-hat
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POPSInternal Perceptions / External Perceptions Within a particular cultural system, you always have to entertain second opinions from interested parties. It is not a contraversial statement that Stalin was evil, internationally. However! In Russia there are still many invested in Stalin and Nationalism who will try to rationalize it. Similarly, internationally, it is not a controversial statement that Bush was a monstrous, hostile, and unjust President. But in America there will people that will argue and try to justify torture and persecution that Bush perpetrated. An apologist is an apologist. If we cannot take responsibility for our own moral lapses, how can we possibly find our moral compass? People who refuse to look beyond their narrow world view discredit themselves.
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POPSSelf-Referential Manufactured Outrage Alert see if you can find a post which even takes the Palestinian groups to task for their launching of rockets into Israel, suicide bombings, or any of the other atrocities the Religion of Peace likes to engage in, targeting civilians on purpose!
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POPSNo, Of Course Hamas Is Not "Holding Gaza Hostage" but because the Palestinians were fed up with Fatah corruption. That's not true of course. But even if it was - so what? The Palestinian public was distraught about stolen EU funds so they embraced pathological genocidal lunatics? The last rally that Hamas held before Operation Cast Lead - the quite literally barbaric one where they mocked Shalit - was attended by 10% of the Gaza population. So I'm thinking that maybe there's genuine support for Hamas in the area. And that there are real costs to pretending otherwise: Hamas Mocks Shalit At Gigantic Rally: "I miss my mom and dad." http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275202.html ity may be a natural emotional reaction, yet it is unethical and immoral. To pity the people of Gaza is to patronize them, in essence implying that they do not control their fate, the state of their government, or their own actions.
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POPSFreebase - a database about everything Part of what makes this open database unique is that it spans domains, but requires that a particular topic exist only once in Freebase -- even if it might normally be found in multiple databases. For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger would appear in a movie database as an actor, a political database as a governor, and in a bodybuilder database as a Mr. Universe. In Freebase, however, there is only one topic for Arnold Schwarzenegger that brings all these facets together. The unified topic is a single reconciled identity, which makes it easier to find and contribute information about the linked world we live in.
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POPSLibrophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries Everyone has some kind of place that makes them feel transported to a magical realm. For some people it’s castles with their noble history and crumbling towers. For others it’s abandoned factories, ivy choked, a sense of foreboding around every corner. For us here at Curious Expeditions, there has always been something about libraries. Row after row, shelf after shelf, there is nothing more magical than a beautiful old library.
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POPSShare The Twit! Ever wonder how people get those nice "Follow Me" buttons for Twitter? All you had to do was ask!
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POPSGram Parsons @ EmmyLou Harris--That,s All It Took Americana past images, collage ; Archives of the heart from country rockers Gram Parsons (RIP) and iconic song bird EmmyLou Harris that carried on in best traditions US country music baring her soul to her dedicated fans of which I,m one.
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POPSHmmm . . . Guess Which Party Always Brings Back the Draft . . . & Is Talking About it Now? . . . . . . . . . EXCLUSIVE: Did Next Commander-in-Chief Falsify Selective Service Registration? Never Actually Register? Obama's Draft Registration Raises Serious Questions http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/11/exclusive_did_n.html
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POPSVeterans Occupy Natioanl Archives, Again Members of Veterans for Peace (VFP) chose the Archives for their nonviolent protest because it is symbolic of their military oath to "defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." In September they occupied the Archives for 24 hours, and plan to stay longer this time. Semper fi. Good luck to you all.
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POPSSurvival in Suburbs very useful website filled with almost anything you could want to know about survival in or near the cities in difficult situation.
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POPS "Intellectuals" ~ by Thomas Sowell Similarly, no one ever thought of President Calvin Coolidge as an intellectual. Yet Coolidge also read the classics in the White House. He read both Latin and Greek, and read Dante in the original Italian, since he spoke several languages. It was said that the taciturn Coolidge could be silent in five different languages. During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model — all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food. More than half a century later, when the archives of the Soviet Union were finally opened up under Mikhail Gorbachev, it turned out that about six million people had died in that famine — about the same number as the people killed in Hitler’s Holocaust.
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POPSJust Effing Vote Already!!!! The video will not clip, but it's good. Go here: http://videogum.com/archives/late-night/wyatt-cenac-just-bleeping-vote_031321.html
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POPSObama To Combat “Joe The Plumber” With Average Americans Of His Own ... and Joe Biden starts to knock him around, carping that no real plumber makes $250K. Biden calls Joe the Plumber "the 250 guy," with the plumber now mum on his income. He just says he would like to make that much. The plumber was quoted in the hometown Toledo Blade thusly about Obama's "spread the wealth" cutoff of $250K: "That's a pretty socialist comment. Two-fifty ($250,000) is his number now. When is it going to be one fifty ($150,000), when it's going to be one hundred ($100,000) ?" He's far from the first one to apply the term, of course. Google "socialist" and Obama. You'll be awash in hits. Recently actor Jon Voight wrote this: If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way. http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/10/joe-the-plumber-2.html
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POPSChristians Sacrificed To ‘Clean Up’ Obama’s Past
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign as well as making the requisite pilgrimage to Barack Obama’s childhood school. According to our Indonesian sources, “officials” who accompanied Faleomavaega were interested in acquiring any and all documentation or photographs of a young Barry Soetoro for America’s “national archives” and they were offering cash, lots of it. In a show of faith, Barack Obama’s childhood school would be one of the very first beneficiaries of this outpouring receiving thousands of dollars to upgrade the school and for the purchase of computer equipment, thanks in part to the benevolence of this visiting junket. The challenge of course was securing Indonesian goverment records potentially damaging to Barack Obama’s candidacy for the US presidency as well as other records pertaining to a young Barry Soetoro and his family wouldn’t be so easy to acquire and secure, and for this, the visitors would need the assistance and cooperation of the Indonesian government.
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