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POPSFBI mole among Katrina activists The ghost of J. Edgar Hoover. Or Richard Nixon, who had John Lennon shadowed. Guess you forfeit your privacy rights if you disagree with Republican presidents.
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POPSA History Lesson "Last month the Chicago Board of Education dropped plans to open the city's first public high school for gay and lesbian students after Mayor Richard M. Daley questioned whether it would isolate children. But Hannah Devane, 17, a student at Harvey Milk, said mainstream schools failed her. She felt alienated and became so depressed, Devane said, she didn't get out of bed in the mornings. She stopped attending classes. When Devane was 13, she heard about the Harvey Milk school in the news and decided to ask her counselor to help her transfer. "Coming here changed my life," she said. "Now, I'm an A student."
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POPS"World Orgasm Day" Orgy Cancelled Due to Threats The Raelians are known for their liberal attitudes towards sexuality. They believe that mankind was created by aliens who arrived here thousands of years ago in UFOs. Despite their opposition to Biblical attitudes towards sex they see the Bible as a book that bears witness to ancient alien visitors, and place particular emphasis on the Book of Ezekiel, which they see as an ancient account of a UFO visitation.
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POPSEvents By The Bay Great web site for planning Sweet and Simple weddings in Northern Michigan and parts of Florida. Great beach wedding site.
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POPSBlack Friday warning: video games waste energy and contribute to global warming Ecos and the NRDC offer some solutions, calling for video game console makers to develop more energy-efficient devices that use many of the same power-saving features found on PCs (such as the automatic powering down of a system if it is left idle for a certain period of time). After a period of one to three hours of inactivity, for example, the video game console could automatically save the status of the game to memory and initiate auto power-down. Or, the consoles could come with a "sleep" button that could be used to save power when the players are away from their games. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 have power-saving features, but they are turned off by default when the consoles are shipped and most people don't even know they exist.
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POPSIndian Army Tries to Clear Mumbai Hotel; Hostages Die (Update3) Rabbis Killed Two rabbis from New York were among the hostages and two attackers who died at the Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch Center in Mumbai when it was stormed by Indian commandos. Orthodox Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his wife, Rivka, 28, were confirmed dead Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, a Brooklyn native, was also killed, The attackers began planning their assaults six months ago, India’s NDTV reported, citing an account from a captured terrorist. A seized global positioning system showed some of the group left Karachi, Pakistan, as early as Nov. 12, NDTV said. A little-known Islamist group, the Deccan Mujahedeen, claimed responsibility Before the assault on the Jewish center, nine of the attackers had been killed and one, a Pakistani, was arrested, said R.R. Patil, deputy chief minister of the state of Maharashtra. They arrived in Mumbai by sea, Patil said yesterday.
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POPSThe Thanksgiving Terror Non-Alert; Mixed Messages Read further about the non-threat and how officials, while issuing this, are also playing it down to ensure a good shopping holiday. Read again the vagueness and double-talk in the first paragraph--"plausible but unsubstantiated". Questions: 1. why not raise the threat alert to save lives as a precaution? 2. is there a real threat or not? How do they know Al Qaeda talked of this? There either is or is not a threat. Answer per anonymous source: A federal law enforcement official said there's no indication that anyone involved in the planning is in the United States. That official also spoke on condition of anonymity .... 3. If they know Al Qaeda has discussed this then how did they find out? and why can't they find the ones they heard it from? 4. why are officials playing this down...how do they know it probably will not happen? Answer: they know there is no real credible threat, but they want the people to be concerned about terr
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POPS War's Over Indicator #52 Berlin-style walls put in place to keep Shias and Sunnis apart, have been gradually coming down. A 5-metre high barrier separating the Shia area of Abu Safeen and the Sunni zone of al-Fudal, was removed almost two months ago. Violence has yet to return. Baghdad’s civic planners seem intent on making connections. But the small steps they have taken so far pale next to the grand plan for a metro. A train line under Baghdad was first flagged under Saddam Hussein during the 1970s, but shelved owing to three decades of war, blockades and invasion. One of the new proposed subway lines would run 11 miles from Shia-dominated Sadr City in the east to Adhamiya in north Baghdad. The other would traverse 13 miles and link mixed central Baghdad to the primarily Sunni western suburbs. Both lines would have 20 stations each and run through a patchwork quilt of sectarian neighbourhoods, which largely remain divided, despite the security improvements.
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POPSWhere Sara Ruled Edwards said she believes, as does Palin, that creationism ought to be taught in schools along with evolution, and that Barack Obama must be stopped. And Edwards assured me that humans have nothing to do with climate change, a position her pal Sarah used to share but has backed away from in recent weeks, saying that "some of man's activities" are "potentially causing some of the changes in the climate right now." Munger, who writes the Progressive Alaska blog, told me Palin is not just a creationist, but a "young Earth" creationist who believes that man and dinosaurs once shared the planet, and that the world will end in her lifetime. Palin-tology, you might call it. Can anyone feel good about supporting a vice presidential candidate who ruled a town with worse municipal planning than we have in Los Angeles?"
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POPSChristopher Coan Update If you are reading this, it's because you actually care about missing children and persons, so PLEASE take a moment and visit Myspace for Chris Coan. Even if you don't have any tips, a simple "good luck with the search" OR "You're in my thoughs and prayers," could make a world of difference to family members searching for Chris.
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POPSMichigan Voter SUppression: Lose Your House, Lose Your Vote THIS is how Republicans steal elections. This sort of shit is part of how they stole 2000 & 2004. Trying to underhandedly disenfranchise Americans like this is unconscionable. Notice it's almost always the Republicans who are trying to get fewer people to vote with their policies, and the Democrats trying to get more people to vote. Besides, the Republicans buddies on Wall Street are the ones who caused the fucking housing crisis, and now they want to use that fact to rob Americans of the right to vote? Why do the Republicans hate America so much?
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POPSHiring Friends And Lashing Foes
"The new mayor also tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed a pastor to the town planning board. And she began to eye the library. For years, social conservatives had pressed the library director to remove books they considered immoral. “People would bring books back censored,” recalled former Mayor John Stein, Ms. Palin’s predecessor. “Pages would get marked up or torn out.” But in 1995, Ms. Palin, then a city councilwoman, told colleagues that she had noticed the book “Daddy’s Roommate” on the shelves and that it did not belong there, according to Ms. Chase and Mr. Stein. Ms. Chase read the book, which helps children understand homosexuality, and said it was inoffensive; she suggested that Ms. Palin read it. “Sarah said she didn’t need to read that stuff,” Ms. Chase said. “It was disturbing that someone would be willing to remove a book from the library and she didn’t even read it.” “I’m still proud of Sarah,” she added, “but she scares the bejeebers out of me
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