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POPSTornados (picture set) Having spent the first 20 years of my life in Oklahoma City, enormous wall clouds (such as the ones pictured) and tornados were common to see, especially during peak season. I can think of several times mom would throw me in the bathtub or closet on the weatherman's cue (sometimes the bathtub is the only thing left when a tornado finishes wrecking your home). The most horrendous tornado occurrences were rare. Most often, they were quick and would cause some property damage, but they go as fast as they come. I do remember a couple of scary moments (close encounters) and later going outside to find rooftops missing from houses, and baseball sized hail on the ground. Rare, but it happens.
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POPSOne Million Ways to Die Driving off the road... as in being IED'ed? Falling... as in falling in battle in an illegal war? Accidental poisoning... as in D.U. munitions? Dying from work... as in US Military? (Or more like David Kelly?) Walking down the street... as in being "disappeared"? Accidental drowning... as in waterboarding? Hmm... well thank heavens at least the billions of $$$ spent have made us safe from "terrorists".:)
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POPSAmazing Up-Close Footage of Oklahoma Tornado I've been fascinated by tornadoes ever since I saw one form above me in person when I was a kid at the state fair in New Mexico. We were watching the funnel descend from the sky when they forced us into a concrete shelter nearby. My 10-year-old self was disappointed...I wanted to see what happened! This video has been getting played everywhere today. It's ridiculous how much danger these tornado chasers put themselves into!
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POPSWorld's weirdest experiments Funny to read :-) You can try a variation on the 'white bear' experiment: Just put down the paper and don't think about CLIPMARKS for a while. But don't say you weren't warned. CLIPMARKS, once not invited in, can be devilishly hard to get rid of.
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POPSGolden Retriever Adopts Abandoned Tiger Cubs At Kansas Zoo It currently has seven white tigers and two orange tigers. Because white tigers are inbred from the first specimen found more than a half-century ago, they are not as genetically stable as orange tigers. The zoo's previous litter of white tiger cubs was born April 23, although one of the three has since gone to a private zoo near Oklahoma City.
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POPSOklahoma Republican admits, "Iraq Probably a Mistake" More: Coburn at one point in the campaign reportedly said the war in Iraq was "absolutely not" a mistake. Vice President Dick Cheney, a vocal defender of the war, came to Tulsa to cam paign and raise money for Coburn. During that visit, Cheney criticized Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry for flip-flopping on the war by voting in the Senate to go to war but voting against adequate funding for the troops. Still, his comments at the town hall meeting may be the first time he has ever suggested the war was a mistake. Coburn's comment came less than a week after he returned from his second trip to Iraq since entering the Senate.
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POPSAre photographers really a threat? Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don't seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer? Because it's a movie-plot threat. This is worth fighting. Search "photographer rights" on Google and download one of the several wallet documents that can help you if you get harassed; I found one for the UK, US, and Australia. Don't cede your right to photograph in public. Don't propagate the terrorist photographer story. Remind them that prohibiting photography was something we used to ridicule about the USSR. Eventually sanity will be restored, but it may take a while.
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POPSgay rights activists arrested trying to go to college chapel
cont: “Our plan was to walk silently with our Bibles to the morning chapel service and attend the service quietly before leaving campus,” Genth said. The group walked down a public street that runs through the campus. When they approached the chapel, the administration greeted them with armed police officers and handcuffs, according to Genth. “Each rider was read a statement stating that we were not welcome on campus and that setting one more foot toward chapel would subject us to arrest,” he said. The first five group members who were read the statement stepped toward the chapel and were arrested. The rest of the group stayed outside the chapel, singing and reading Scripture. “Later in the day a student named Heather came to us for dialogue and brought us some sunshine of hope by telling us that the current generation of students understand more about homosexuality and that in the future, as leaders, they would not display the inhospitality that we encountered today,” G
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POPSScience Ignorance Blessed in Oklahoma Although this legislation has not made it through to law the very idea that it was put forth at all is surprising. I feel sorry for rational Oklahomans who must endure this humiliation.
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POPSDoes A Rapist Deserve A Military Burial? "We tell ourselves that the moral ambiguities demonstrated by soldiers who have gone to battle on our behalf cannot be understood by, or be subject to the laws that govern, the rest of us. But the policies our military establishes to respond to violence against women are not merely abstractions. They are expressions of the military's values, and our own."
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POPSThe terror threat at home, often overlooked
More But outside Tyler, Texas The case is almost unknown. In the past nine months, there have been two government press releases and a handful of local stories, but no press conference and no coverage in the national newspapers. Experts say the case highlights the increased cooperation and quicker response by US agencies since Sept. 11. But others say it points up just how political the terror war is. "There is no value for the Bush administration to highlighting domestic terrorism right now," says Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas in Austin. "But there are significant political benefits to highlighting foreign terrorists, especially when trying to whip up support for war. Mr. Levitas "The government has a severe case of tunnel vision when it comes to domestic terrorism. I have no doubt whatsoever that had Krar and his compatriots been Arab-Americans or linked to some violent Islamic fundamentalist group, we would have heard from John Ashcroft himself.
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POPSMay 2 hail storm Just a few shots from the May 2 early morning hail storm that I threw up on the internet. They really devastated my wife's flowers and left some small dings in the hood of my truck. The wind was blowing so hard that they were hitting the glass door and windows on the west side of the house.
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POPSThe Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA
all of the things that George Bush is doing and all of the things that conservatives in Congress have been supporting him on are things that conservatives like me fought against. That's why we became conservatives because we thought it was people like Tony who were gonna do stuff like that. You know, it turns out, you know, it's our people who are doing it. He is not the head of government. He is head of one branch. He is not the head of the branch of government that has the power to declare war. He is not the head of the branch of government that has the power to take care of even decisions about what to do with prisoners of war. That in the constitution belongs to the Congress. You know, the Congress makes the laws. And-- and what we have here is a presidency, you know, that is seeking to change the entire system of government we have in order to accrue more power into the hands of the few individuals and say, you know, it's none of your business.
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