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POPSThe money illusion contrary to popular opinion there is no such animal as rational decision making when dealing with money..
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POPSThe Right Thinks It's Time to Euthanize Reid's Wife This seems to be some sick attempt at satire. I'm not laughing. This is the type of thing that makes me feel that the few decent Republicans that are left should run as far and as fast as they can from what the Republican Party has become. It's time to face reality. It's not Mom and Dad's political party anymore.
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POPSNow Hiring: People With Bad Credit Sorry, California — your governor "terminated" a proposed ban on credit checks. The biggest argument in favor of the ban is that, for most professions, how good you are with money has little bearing on your ability to perform your job. Though, I think, given how this whole financial mess started, we’d all agree that credit checks should still be in place for at least one profession: Banks. Actually, if you're applying for work at a bank, I'd also like to see your SAT score and any recent Sudoku puzzles you've done.
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POPSDems Are Stuck With A Mess Of Their Own Making Democrats had a 257-178 majority in the House after the 2008 election.... Democrats came out of the 2008 election with 58 senators, got a 59th when Arlen Specter switched parties in April 2009 and got the 60th when Al Franken was sworn in in July. A filibuster-proof majority at last! But just after Franken was sworn in, polls started showing pluralities or majorities against the Democrats' health care proposals. Town hall meetings in August showed that opponents were far more enthusiastic than supporters. Opinion has only grown more negative as Obama has made one speech after another in support of (usually unspecified) Democratic proposals. This made passing legislation very much harder. The decisions Democrats made on health care policy in early 2009 ruled out the possibility of significant Republican support. You can pass popular legislation on party-line votes, and you usually get some support from the other side, even if unsolicited.
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POPSCard Carrying SHEEPLE! Thank you Lindsay Graham, and Chuckie Schumer. Got nothing better to do than to mess with limiting more of our freedom & rights.........???? Just like our social security number, which was meant to ONLY access OUR SS accounts, it is used to identify us from birth to the grave......... what a coincidence! BIG BROTHER demands to know who we are and where we go............and we'll soon have to ask permission!!!!
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POPSCuomo Caused Mortgage Meltdown, Now He Wants To Be New York's Governor? 
'kickbacks' to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why." Re-reading the entire piece is a bracing reminder of the fact that decisions made today in government often have consequences that don't become fully evident until years later. By then, of course, it's too late to do anything but try to clean up the mess as best we can. After leaving HUD, Cuomo went on to become New York's attorney general and now, like his famous father before him, he is all but officially seeking to be the Empire State's governor. That job has in the past been a springboard to much bigger things, and Cuomo has until recently seemed a shoe-in to take this next big step. But people are beginning to focus now on Cuomo's record in a much more detailed way and what they are finding is not going to do him any good. As an example, CNBC's Maria Bartiromo interviewed Wall Street ...
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POPSRomneycare Model Is A Dud Average Massachusetts premiums are the highest in the nation and rising. We also spend 27 percent more on health care services, per capita, than the national average. It’s creating bizarre marketplace mutations: In Massachusetts, ObamaCare 1.0 is such a mess our governor is talking about imposing draconian price controls. He’s even suggested going to “capitation,” a system where doctors get a fixed amount of money per patient - and then that’s it. Which means it would become in your doctor’s financial interest never to see you again. The percentage of uninsured Bay State residents has gone from around 6 percent to around 3 percent. In other words, it’s a dud. And now Obama is preparing to drop the Big One on bipartisanship and turn Congress into a political hot zone for the remainder of his presidency, in order to pass a similar plan. Is it political suicide or just political stupidity? Or is it, as many Obamacare supporters hope, the beginning of a devastating assault
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POPSCan Psychiatry be a Science? The case of depression <<<There is suspicion that the pharmaceutical industry is cooking the studies that prove that antidepressant drugs are safe and effective, and that the industry’s direct-to-consumer advertising is encouraging people to demand pills to cure conditions that are not diseases (like shyness) or to get through ordinary life problems (like being laid off). The Food and Drug Administration has been accused of setting the bar too low for the approval of brand-name drugs. Critics claim that health-care organizations are corrupted by industry largesse, and that conflict-of-interest rules are lax or nonexistent.>>> (from article).
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POPSEconomy is Dying, Thanks to Marxist-Democrat Policies -- existing-home sales are down two months in a row to a seven-month low; -- first-time claims for unemployment benefits have risen in six of this year's first eight weeks; -- and new orders excluding transportation fell 0.6%; orders for capital goods fell 2.5%, while capital spending itself was down a thumping 3.5%. ...the magnitude of the declines noted above suggests a message that should not be ignored... Are there any solutions to this mess? ...In my view, the best solution is a cost-free one: remove the uncertainties facing business such as regulations, costs for health care, energy and the environment, not to mention what their own tax rates will be. You'd be surprised what this will do for hiring and thus for the economy... Hey, Irwin: news flash -- everyone knows this. Everyone. Including the President and his sycophants in Congress. They don't care. They're committed, hard left ideologues trying to reshape our country and destroy the few remaining firewalls
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POPS DOJ Eric Holder's Nameless Abettors The NSD, parts of which had previously resided inside the Criminal Division, also houses an Office of Intelligence Policy and Review. "When some of these political appointees came into the Administration, I think it was safe to say that there was keen interest on their part to influence policy here," says the source. "At the highest level, people want to know how big a mess this really is. Were there emails or memos shared among the political appointees or the NSD staff that could create problems for us, for example." Grassley has for months been requesting the names and positions of all Obama Department of Justice attorneys -- almost all of them political appointees -- who prior to joining the administration worked directly or indirectly for suspected terrorists or enemy combatants. On February 19, Grassley received a five-page letter from Attorney General Eric Holder's office claiming that at least nine lawyers at the department either represented ....
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POPSThe Wisdom of Senator Blutarsky Enlightment comes from knowing it is OK to be dumb. The evening news is where they begin with "good evening", and then proceed to tell you why it isn't. Some people are wise, some are otherwise. Where theres a will, theres a way. They say garbage can be made into fuel. Why not? It's already made into books, movies and TV shows. We can't do everything at once, but we can do something at once. A smile is something we all own, but very few share it with others. Common sense is that collection of prejudice acquired by the age of eighteen. I used to be conceited, but now I'm absolutely perfect. Go where there’s no path and leave a trail. Progress is like a wheelbarrow, if you stop pushing the wheelbarrow it stops. Beware of the fury of a patient man. You never make a smart mistake, but you can always learn from your mistake. To err is human, but to really mess things up you need a computer. The difference between genius and stupidy, is that genius
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POPSSave Ireland from Itself Well,one great idea might have been for President McAleese to NOT RAM a pathetic and anti-freedom 'Blasphemy Law' down the throats of Irish people, all the while denying a public referendum on the ridiculous legislation. However, that moment has passed. Oh, the 'brains' behind this current project just happens to be the good President's husband, lol. What are his qualifications exactly?An accountant and dentist. Yeah. Anyhoo, get those creative juices flowing---perhaps a maximum security 'Blasphemer's Prison' could really kickstart the ailing economy? ahhh, the wonder of it all......
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POPSLooting Social Security Paul Craig Roberts, who authored this, was an editor of the Wall Street Journal and an Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under Ronald Reagan. Wall Street has got away with its raid on the public treasury. Now, pockets full, it wants to pay for the heist by curtailing Social Security and Medicare. Having deprived the working population of homes, jobs, and health care, Wall Street is now after the elderly’s old age security. Social Security, formerly an untouchable “third rail of politics,” is now “unsustainable,” while the real unsustainables--a pre-1929 unregulated financial system and open-ended multi-trillion dollar Global War Against Terror--are the new untouchables. This transformation signals the complete capture of American democracy by an oligarchy of special interests.
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POPSObama and Health Insurance Politicians are not going to mess with the fees on the health insurance industry. They did it with the mortgage industry, and it turned into a disaster. Leave the health insurance industry alone.
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POPSThinkTank: Finding meaning in high volume of responses I'm not clipping this because it is apparently a new and cool idea (another hype is going to be generating off of this depending on where you look). But I'm clipping this because I think it is a straightforward and old fashioned way of aggregating and searching values in the data (remember the relational database?). The blogosphere/Twitter has naturally generated value in the Commenting streams and commenting stream is where there is value. The first ones to harness and dissect the value out of user-commenting (which is currently a mess) is going to be the winner in the near future. Twitter projects a good aggregate view of comments because they get the volume but it is still far removed for details. The rest of the blogging community is nowhere near getting any value out of commenting streams.
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