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POPSCity Bans “Being Annoying in Public” This ordinance obviously violates the free speech clause and also to a lesser extent the free association clause. " Michigan finds itself in such financial distress that its Congressional contingent has successfully harangued the White House into multi-billion-dollar loans to private enterprise. I find that extremely annoying. Do we get to issue citations to the entire state of Michigan now? Considering the economic mess the state government has created in that state, what they need is more annoying speech, not less, especially if it annoys the current power structure." If my understanding of human nature is correct then this ordinance will actually incite normally un-annoying individuals to become annoying in public as a means of protesting this absurd infringements on the rights of man.
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POPSTorturing Democracy PART ONE From 9/11 to waterboarding PART TWO From the CIA to Guantanamo Copying harsh Communist interrogation methods PART THREE While hundreds of men remain imprisoned in Guantanamo, Congress grants immunity to U.S. officials who may have ordered torture http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torturingdemocracy/program/
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POPSAbortion the un-choice 65% report symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder they attribute to their abortions.1 "We were maiming at least one woman a month." – Carol Everett, former abortion clinic operator9 Citations (on website)
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POPSCitation Machine Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.
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POPSEndNote Web I just updated to EndNote X2.0.1 build 3514 and was invited to create a free EndNote Web account. Free, or trial? I'll find out. I've been testing it and it's fantastic! I also installed the Firefox extension that lets you send references directly to EndNote Web with a click. Firefox 3 required a forced install. I'll do some testing after I restart.
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POPS"Pizza" Parliament Looks like Canada will have another "pizza", minority parliament after the November 14th, 2008 election. Harper won 144 seats, short of the 150+ required for a majority. $350 million spent just to get back to where we were the day before the election.
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POPSOld Blighty, the birthplace of English "Collins' editors know that old words die hard — and that some people will vilipend (regard with contempt) any execution without a fair trial. So they've offered the chance of a reprieve. They have made public 24 words that face deletion because editors could find no example of their use in their database of English-language books, newspapers, broadcasts and other media. If, by February 2009, a word reappears in that database with at least six "high quality" citations, it could be spared from the semantic dustbin. "We're looking to see if dropping a little stone in the pond of language actually does generate ripples," says Brookes."
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POPSMore Than 40 Arrested At RNC Were Press Seems to me we used to have some sort of First Amendment or something. "Media representatives in town to cover the events, from both big and small presses, were slapped with citations and pending charges ranging in severity, including unlawful assembly, obstructing the legal process, misdemeanor interference with a peace officer and felony to riot plus other riot pretenses," Pratt writes. "Many others who weren't arrested or detained endured pepper spray and other arms used for crowd control."
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POPSBibMe Welcome to BibMe! The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page. And it's free.
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POPSaddiction to cocaine Also classified as an opioid, Demerol is prescribed for the relief of moderate to severe pain. It is sold in syrup and tablet form and effects can be felt 10-15 minutes after ingestion, spanning anywhere from 2-14 hours. Those who become addicted may experience brief states of euphoria along with side effects such as: nausea and vomiting, circulatory and respiratory depression, weakness, headache, depression, and dizziness.
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POPSShould Conyers Impeach or Write Another Book About Bush's Crimes? Three years ago, Conyers' staffers on the Judiciary Committee produced a book about Bush and Cheney's impeachable offenses. Some of us helped them do it. After all, they were in the minority and couldn't do much more than write books. But now? In the majority? Now, should they be accepting that Congress no longer has subpoena power? Now, should they be accepting that Congress no longer has the power to legislate? Now, should they be accepting that Congress has no power of the purse? Now, should they be devoting tax dollars to the pointless vanity of doing what anyone else can do: writing yet another book on Bush and Cheney's latest impeachable offenses
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POPSCat parasite in humans makes them like cat urine
Parasite "Brainwashes" Rats Into Craving Cat Urine, Study FindsBen Harder for National Geographic News April 3, 2007 The parasite Toxoplasma gondii uses a remarkable trick to spread from rodents to cats: It alters the brains of infected rats and mice so that they become attracted to—rather than repelled by—the scent of their predators. A new study reveals that rodents infected with the parasitic protozoa are drawn to the smell of cat urine, apparently having lost their otherwise natural aversion to the scent. The parasite can only sexually reproduce in the feline gut, so it's advantageous for it to get from a rodent into a cat—if necessary, by helping the latter eat the former. In rodents, "brain circuits for many behaviors overlap with the brain circuits responsible for fear," said Ajai Vyas of Stanford University, who led the new study. "One would thus assume that if something messes up fear of cat pee, it will also mess up a variety of related behaviors." Bu
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POPSThe Torture Memos Written solely by John Woo, it is adamant in it's embrace of unfettered Presidential power.
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