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POPSThe Motion of Vehicles in Water The Archimedes’ Principle states that an object, whether completely or partially immersed in a fluid (liquid or gas), is acted on by an upthrust which is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. The principle of floatation states that the weight of an object floating on the surface of a liquid is equal to the weight of the liquid displaced by the object.
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POPSApplications of Momentum in Every Day Life The following safety features are incorporated when designing vehicles: a) Collapsible steering column. The collapse of a steering column will swing it away from the driver’s chest during a collision. It also prolongs the impact of the passenger against the steering wheel and reduces the magnitude of the force that acts against the driver b) easily dented front and rear bumpers to decrease the rate of change of momentum during a collision.
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POPSPatent Applied For: Some Inventions That Were Never Heard Of Again The Principle that inspires many inventions is to find a solution to a problem. But in some instances the problem proves not to have been worth the solving, or the solution itself is so complicated or unreliable that is cannot be applied. And some inventions have not provided the breakthrough their creators envisioned.
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POPSIs it inconsistent for Muslim "holy warriors" to go to strip clubs?
who can be kept topless by their masters, and makes sex one of the highest paradisiacal rewards, this should come as no great surprise. However, to elaborate: First, the doctrine of taqiyya allows Muslims residing among infidels to deceive the latter by, among other things, behaving like infidels, e.g., frequenting strip bars: "Taqiyya , even if committed without duress, does not lead to a state of infidelity -- even if it leads to sin deserving of hellfire." In conjunction, the overarching Muslim principle that necessity makes that which is forbidden permissible goes a long way in helping Islamists validate their libidinous desires: "It is 'necessary' for me to be at this strip club so infidels come to believe that I'm just a regular bloke and not a soldier of Allah." Indeed, sometimes the mere gratification of sexual urges is deemed a "necessity" that makes the forbidden permissible in Islam, as in this historical anecdote:
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POPSRepublicans v secular America Together with Mitt, it would seem that the Republican Party is officially run by conservative religious types. (No doubt Muslims will be happy to hear that they fit with his plans.)
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POPSMoving Our Nation Back Toward Our Founding Principles! Based on first principles provides the framework for a consistent and meaningful policy agenda. * It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal. * It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life. * It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions. * It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom and opposing tyranny in the world and prudently considers what we can and should do to that end. * It informs conservatism’s firm defense of family, neighborhood, community, and faith.
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POPSHistoric Quote of the Day Ezra Klein: "Obviously, Democrats were similarly hypocritical at the time, arguing that reconciliation was a terrible abuse of power. And so it goes: People start from their preferred outcome and then make up principles that support it. But at all times, the most convincing argument is the one Gregg uses above: Elections generally work on the principle that if you have 51 percent of the vote, you win."
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POPSAn update on The Annotated Obama Restore American domestic and foreign policy to U.S. Constitutional ideals: Obama has adopted military commissions (to prosecute terrorism cases in which no legitimate convictions can be made). This is the highest possible violation our Constitutional ideal. Obama also flaunts the principle of habeas corpus, which he once called "the essence of who we are." Secret prisons continue to surface.
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POPSThe Economic Domino Principle This sums up Republican voters; they're conned into voting against their own interests with buzz words and false patriotism, and then end up not only screwing themselves over, but everyone else in America as well.
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POPSAmbassador to Islam? "Among its official observer states it lists the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," a "state" recognized only by Turkey. For America to have official relations with the OIC lends diplomatic cover to both these claims of statehood. The OIC describes itself as the "collective voice of the Muslim world" and has a department of Dawa, "Islamic propagation," which is devoted to the spread of Islam. This raises the question why the United States should send an envoy to an explicitly religious grouping"
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POPSThe Mount Vernon Statement Go to the site and sign it. "A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a threat to moral self-government, and national security conservatives that energetic but responsible government is the key to America’s safety and leadership role in the world. A Constitutional conservatism based on first principles provides the framework for a consistent and meaningful policy agenda. * It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal. * It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life. * It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions. * It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom and op
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POPSThe Mount Vernon Statement: Constitutional Conservatism A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a threat to moral self-government, and national security conservatives that energetic but responsible government is the key to America’s safety and leadership role in the world. A Constitutional conservatism based on first principles provides the framework for a consistent and meaningful policy agenda. * It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal. * It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life. * It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions. * It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom and opposing tyranny in the world
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POPSIs this world a hologram and God a laser beam? It seems hard to believe that you woke up, brushed your teeth and are reading this article because of something happening on the boundary of the universe. No one knows what it would mean for us if we really do live in a hologram, yet theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects of the holographic principle are true.
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POPSGood Advice From Thomas Jefferson "In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set... fiery zealots to rights either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act...it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal." So true, yet sometimes very hard to avoid these disputes! Most of the people I know are fairly decent and can respectfully disagree with one another, thankfully. Then there are those who I have to try very hard to bite my tongue and walk away from, so as not to sink to their level...
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POPSObama Hits the Wall!
The hardest piece of legislation to pass in this country was Obama’s first point of attack. One hidden factor: millions of invisible Americans want to take care of themselves through alternative methods. Not thousands, millions. These people are, by and large, independent voters. They don’t stick to Demo or Repub paths. So the president lost those folks in the blink of an eye. Cap and trade and tax and the worldwide decimation of industrial economies—the supposed answer to manmade global warming—was stacked up against science that was shaky, at best. In fact, on closer examination, it wasn’t real science at all. It was a political power play with a greedy goofball posing as Jesus Christ at the head of the parade: Al Gore When thousands of emails were leaked out of the CRU at East Anglia University, the game was up. The venomous crazies were exposed. Key scientists were illegally stonewalling FOIA requests for vital data, scheming to cut dissident viewpoints out of the debate, and
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POPSOperation Moshtared Underway Must see video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBy0y2jAHpI&feature=player_embedded of the Assault Breacher. Nobody doubts that we will take over Marjah, not even the Taliban, many of whose commanders have already escaped. But nobody is so sanguine on what comes next: establishing the government of Afghanistan and reconstruction. I wouldn't doubt our success their either but for one fact: the area's economy is based on opium production. The drug war could end up poisoning the entire operation. It's one thing to replace the Taliban with rulers who are not our enemies. It's another, more difficult, thing to attack people's livelihoods. The only way out is for us to buy their opium crops, all of it. The government could sell it to someone who can make narcotics for hospitals. Or just throw it in the ocean. Whatever. It's a small price to pay for stabilizing a nation with Afghanistan's history.
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POPSRed Cross: How to help – not hinder – Haiti
More: Storage space is scarce in every post-disaster setting. A huge influx of goods needs to be housed somewhere. In Banda Aceh after the Tsunami, health centres had to sacrifice patient’s rooms to store inappropriate drugs. The irony is that the medicines sent in to help people instead reduced the number of sick people who could access treatment… Drugs that are not required, those that have expired or have no expiry date have to be destroyed. Incineration is preferred as this prevents the hazard of land filled medicines contaminating water supplies or drugs being collected and sold on the black market. In Eritrea after the war of independence, seven truckloads of expired aspirin took six months to burn. The real tragedy is the cost of this process. In the Venezuela floods in 2000, seventy percent of donated pharmaceuticals had to be destroyed. To be able to cover this cost, a support line to provide psychological support to the survivors had to be shut down.
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POPSThe Art of Productive Laziness "It is assumed that you are not stupid so you are already on the right hand side of the diagram, what you now need to do is hone your lazy skills in order to rise to the top right hand side of the diagram".
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POPSNo Moses, no Joshua, no (so-called) monotheism "In the text you have the story of the Israelites coming from outside, and then besieging the Canaanite cities, destroying them and then becoming a nation in the land of Canaan. Whereas archaeology tells us something which is the opposite. According to archaeology, the rise of early Israel is an outcome of the collapse of Canaanite society, not the reason for that collapse." * The principle of monotheism (the worship of a single deity), established first by the Jews and later to form the foundation for both Christianity and Islam, took much longer to take root than most people assume. In fact, the archaeological discovery of troves of household idols in ancient Canaanite towns and cities proves that the Israelites practiced polytheism long after they had been thought to have discarded the practice.
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POPSShariah Finance, Criminal Wrongdoing in the AIG Takeover
First, the Shariah authorities themselves tell us that Shariah is a holistic and indivisible whole and that you cannot carve out “business law Shariah” from any other of its constituent parts, like the law of jihad. And, you can see this in that part of Shariah called civil law or fiqh al-muamalat. According to Shariah, AIG cannot invest its takaful funds in a business that might rent space to a church, because that would violate the principle of not supporting any religion other than Allah’s. Further, AIG may invest its funds in a military armament factory for Muslim armies but not US or infidel armies. In other words, these laws which seemingly have nothing to do with business concerns or ethics but rather everything to do with theo-political concerns apply as forcefully to Shariah-compliant finance as the laws on interest. And, of course the reason for this we know because the Shariah authorities tell us: Shariah makes no distinction between religion, law, politics
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POPSZombie like Obamacare just won't die - Secret Deal will make it happen
Reid will provide to Pelosi a letter signed by 52 Democratic senators indicating they will pass the major changes, or “fixes,” the House Democrats are demanding. Reid also has agreed to bypass Senate cloture and filibuster rules and claim that these modifications fall under “reconciliation” and don’t require 60 Senate votes. To pass the fixes, he won’t need one Republican; he won’t even need Joe Lieberman or wavering Democrats such as Jim Webb of Virginia. His 52 pledged senators give him a simple majority to pass any changes they want, which will later be rubberstamped by Pelosi’s House and signed by Obama. This plan, of course, is a total subversion of the legislative process. Among the key “fixes” House liberals are demanding the Senate pass in reconciliation at some later date include a “carve out” for unions from the “Cadillac policy” insurance tax. The Senate plan funds their healthcare plan by heavy taxes on so-called “Cadillac” insurance plans. How you can stop
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POPSRoberts Court Commits Itself to Justice and the Constitution EXCEPTS: "While Roberts conceded that “departures from precedent are inappropriate in the absence of a ‘special justification,’” he quickly added that “At the same time, stare decisis is neither an ‘inexorable command’… nor ‘a mechanical formula of adherence to the latest decision’ … especially in constitutional cases" "instead, under the “stare decisis” judicial doctrine of respecting past rulings, “When considering whether to re-examine a prior erroneous holding, we must balance the importance of having constitutional questions decided against the importance of having them decided right.”
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POPS SUPREME COURT ....LOST IT'S MIND......! Link that set of numbers to the fact that it costs more and more to run for public office in this country. It was a shocker that the candidates in the last presidential election were working with war chests of upward of half a billion dollars. In fact, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Obama raised and spent roughly $730 million, while John McCain raised and spent about half that amount. Obama avowed that he did not take lobbyists money, but that budget did not grow on small trees, even though it was only $2.50 for every man, woman, and child in the country. The point is that leading candidates were able to raise that kind of money while the decades old constraints were in place on corporate America. In fact, with Thursday’s decision the Court overturned its own 1990 ruling that barred corporations from using funds from their general treasuries to buy political advertising. Now the cat is truly out of the bag. In principle, corporations can now spend as much of the t
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