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POPSMandate? Stop it. There is no "mandate" Moreover.... if a white democrat candidate had run with Obama's qualifications and experience, there was no way he would have been elected. Racisim put Dear Leader in the White House.
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POPS Voter Turnout Didn't Set Record
Democrats' passion wasn't matched by GOP When the official counts are in, Gans said, the final tally may approach 129 million, which would be almost 62 percent of eligible voters, up from 60.6 percent four years ago but below the 1964 turnout rate of 64 percent of eligible voters under Gans's formula. In counts posted as of late yesterday, Obama led McCain 67 million votes to 58.5 million, with 1.7 million votes cast for minor party candidates and write-ins. That is a popular-vote margin of about 6.7 percentage points. Other factors, including down-ballot contests for congressional seats, state offices, and statewide ballot questions also might have affected turnout in some states. While some states trumpeted high turnout figures based on the number of registered voters, neither Gans nor McDonald use voter registration figures as the basis for determining eligible voters because the quality and maintenance of current voter lists varies greatly from state to state.
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POPSLieberman a 'Reagan Democrat'? It's funny, when he led the state Senate in the 1970s, he seemed like a liberal -- even in those liberal days. I recall the early Saturday morning when the Willimantic Chronicle, where I worked at the time, got a call that the AG was coming out to investigate a storage facility. I had pulled the Sat a.m. shift that week, and dutifully went with a photographer to see what was up. Not a whole lot, as it turned out -- but it was clear at that moment that the man was going to run for the US. Senate.
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POPS5 Psychological Experiments That Expose Humanity's Dark Side #2. The Stanford Prison Experiment (1971) The Setup: Psychologist Philip Zimbardo wanted to find out how captivity affects authorities and inmates in prison. Sounds innocent enough. Seriously, what could go wrong? #1. The Milgram Experiment (1961) The Setup: When the prosecution of the Nazis got underway at the Nuremberg Trials, many of the defendants' excuse seemed to revolve around the ideas of, "I'm not really a prick" and, "Hey man, I was just following orders." Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to test willingness of subjects to obey an authority figure. Maybe he could just, you know, ask people? Oh, hell no. That would not be nearly horrifying enough.
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POPSTake a Bow, America It can be easy in such a moment of triumph to lose sight of the agony wrought by the unrelieved evil of racism and to forget how crucial a role anti-black racism played in shaping American life since the first slaves were dumped ashore 400 years ago. Blacks have been holding fast to the promise of America for all that time. Not without anger. Not without rage. But with a fidelity that in the darkest moments — those moments when the flow of blood seemed like it would never stop, when enslaved families were wrenched apart, when entire communities were put to the torch, when the breeze put the stiffened bodies of lynched victims in motion, when even small children were murdered and Dr. King was taken from us — even in those dire moments, African-Americans held fast to the promise of America with a fidelity that defied logic.
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POPSPresidential First Dogs The last dog is of course, little Barney. I personally liked the First Cat Socks best, but I'm a cat person. I wonder what the new First Dog will be named? "Bark Obama", I heard. .:) Harry S. Truman & Feller The 33rd President once famously said, "You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog." Evidently he didn't care much for friends, as he regifted a cocker spaniel, given to him as an unsolicited Christmas present in 1947, to the White House physician. Dog lovers around the country assailed the President for surrendering Feller, who came to be known as The Unwanted Dog.
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POPSMy Beautiful Blue Indiana! I am so pleased that the majority of voters in my home state of Indiana chose Obama over McCain! It has been an exciting election for us Hoosiers, who normally get little attention due to the assumption that Indiana is a dyed-in-the-wool red state. Well, not any more! Woo hoo! I was one of the Hoosiers who cast an absentee ballot this year. :)
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POPSObama Wins: Bangkok Post - Bangkok, Thailand A full 62 per cent of voters ranked the economy as the key issue of this election, compared to 10 per cent invoking the war in Iraq and 9 per cent rating terrorism or health care highest. Millions already voted in recent weeks in early or absentee voting allowed in 31 states, including key battlegrounds Florida, North Carolina, Colorado and Nevada. Voters waited patiently in serpentine queues early Tuesday to cast ballots. Many had started lining up before dawn, and some braved pouring rain to cast their ballots. It was a bittersweet end to the 21-month campaign for Obama, whose grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, 86, passed away overnight Sunday after a battle with cancer, the Illinois senator revealed Monday.
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POPSAll Over But the Concession Speech If McCain needed a miracle after Ohio, he needs two now. This is it, it's over. Virginia and Ohio make it impossible for McCain, unless literally hundreds of polls are wrong. This is Obama's night. He is President-Elect. McCain probably won't concede for a while yet, so as not to hurt the down ticket races in the yet to close polls. But he will concede. Make sure to save some champagne for the victory speech. Congrats America, you earned this one.
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POPSLong lines to vote are a modern poll tax
In January 1964, the 24th Amendment to the Constitution abolished the poll tax. A poll tax was a fee you had to pay at the time of voting. No money, no vote. So, rich people voted, poor people didn't. 44 years later, we have a sort of poll tax: long lines. Long lines. How many hours did it "cost" you to vote? 2? 4? 6? How much income did you lose? So, you need the money, or if you can't take the long wait, guess what? You don't vote. You want to vote, but you can't afford to. Nonvoters in Ohio, 2004, cost John Kerry the Presidency...Obama voters, no matter what, no matter how long, please, please don't go home. Wait as long as you have to. But do NOT go home without casting your vote...Vote, then go home. VOTE. VOTE... It is time for CHANGE. We, the People have the POWER to make that CHANGE. The Ballot. Vote Bush and his Republican pals out of office. America can't have 4 MORE years, the SAME as the last 4 with the failed Bush-McCain failed policies...VOTE THE BUMS OUT!
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POPSMONAS HIEROGLYPHICA by Dr. JOHN DEE Antwerp, 1564. Translated by J.W. Hamilton-Jones, 1947. A better translation, which includes an excellent introduction was published by C. H. Josten in the journal AMBIX, XII (1964), 84-221.
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POPSNews about Waterloo C.I.'s 50th Reunion Please enter your name on our Alumni list and get updates about your reunion in 2010. Registration will come later. You can keep your email private or open to friends finding you. We appreciate your help in finding anyone that you DON'T see on the list. We can call or you can ask them to register at <www.wcialumni.com>. Also let us know if any of your former WCI friends have passed away. We will be honouring them too. We Greatly appreciate your help. Cheers from Marion Sue (Voelker) Mansell '65
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POPSUS like developing nations in income inequality USA more like Sri Lanka, Mali, and Russia in income inequality than it is like Sweden, Switzerland, or the UK. We're turning into a developing nation with huge differences between the very rich and the rest of us.
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POPSThe Hangman's Diary Harry Allen's diary as well as his tools of trade are being auctioned on November 11. He was the last hangman of Britain and wrote many detils down of each execution.
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POPSKakorama Find out some things that happened on the day you were born.
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