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POPSBill Gate's syndrome With Internet delusion, patients typically incorporate the Internet into paranoid thoughts, including a fear that the Web is somehow monitoring or controlling their lives, or being used to transmit photographs or other personal information. The delusions are fueling a chicken-and-egg debate in psychiatry: Are these merely modern examples of classic paranoia fed by the current cultural landscape, or is there something about media like reality television and the Internet that can push people over the sanity line? “There is the old saying that just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there’s not somebody after you,” said Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman.
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POPSGreen Schools Maybe I'm just missing something that has been going on behind the scenes, but it seems to me that the Buffalo Board of Education has not been incorporating rigorous standards into the massive rehabilitation of the schools which started a couple of years ago- but I will have to check on this a bit more. I think that it would probably be beneficial to halt the plans in order to incorporate more green strategies rather than continueing on at this point and then having to make changes in a couple of years when the government requires such measures of public facilities.
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POPSNew GI Bill Close to Final Approval The package also includes a monthly living stipend, an annual book allowance, and money for tutorial assistance, along with many other features. At this point it gets complicated, however, in terms of how they're going to actually implement this thing. But for all of you affected by this, Maze explains: Benefits increases take effect as soon as the war funding bill is signed into law by President Bush, which will happen in the next few weeks. But veterans now in school will not get the higher amounts right away because lawmakers are giving the Veterans Affairs Department until Aug. 1, 2009, to calculate and pay amounts that will vary by state and by school. Retroactive payments will have to be made. Also, anyone who had not previously enrolled in the GI Bill will have to wait until Aug. 1, 2009, to collect any payments.
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POPSIntelligent Design and Evolution They are at it still, hell bend for dragging the science that permitted them to even evaluate into the toilet of eternal ignorance. Creationism and intelligent design are a strictly philosophical theory. Non-Science. Evolution may or may not be as complete in our journey of discovery, since many things are not found yet, but to pretend this is about intelligent design as a science would be going back, repeating history. Some of us are trying to move into the 21st century and beyond, not into the middle ages or 18th century. If they plan creationism and intelligent design as a serious science to be the centerpiece of USA's science, we will loose the competition with the rest of the world. Do they,the creationists, ever consider the consequences for real science, or are they just so in love with godliness, that they cannot be here for real? Be real, evolution has given you a chance to move forward, not back into the caves.
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POPSPaul Craig Roberts: Obama and the fall into tyranny Obama is too smart not to know that US foreign policy has been shanghaied by the Lobby, not in order to protect innocent Israel but to enable Israel’s territorial expansion. Obama has dispelled hope on the economic front as well. Obama has appointed two leading apologists for jobs offshoring as his economic advisors -- Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Rubin associate Jason Furman. These two are notorious for their justifications of policies that benefit Wall Street, CEOs, and large retailers at the expense of the economic well-being and careers of millions of Americans. As a result of offshoring, good jobs in America are disappearing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics job figures make it totally clear that the US economy has ceased creating net new middle class jobs in the private economy in the 21st century.
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POPS"Vetters" Search For Obama Veep Jones, a Vietnam vet born in Kansas City, MO (swing state alert!), was a career military officer rising to one of the highest posts possible. Being the least known potential veep, it shouldn't be surprising that the vetters have to spend more time on him in their various conversations on the Hill. But the fact that he's being, um, added to the very long short list, is an interesting development. Besides Jones, the other names on the list bandied about with congressional Dems include (and not in any order): Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, Evan Bayh, Kathleen Sebelius, Ted Strickland, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, Jim Webb, Bill Nelson, Jack Reed, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Tom Daschle, and Sam Nunn. You'll notice a few names NOT on this list (that's not my exclusion -- hint hint). Besides Jones, I'm told the two other names that invited extended discussion were Biden and Strickland. Take this chatter for what it is -- chatter.
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POPSGOP Senator, VA Secretary Disrespect Troops on Memorial Day What Stevens is really saying is that today's troops are unpatriotic--that they're only in it for the money and the college. And while Stevens' "mass exodus" theory has been thoroughly discredited by the Congressional Budget Office, the true irony of the situation lies in the fact that Stevens earned his own college degree after World War Two by using the same GI Bill he's aiming to prevent today's veterans from receiving. In today's military lingo, this makes Senator Stevens a "Blue Falcon" or a "Bravo Foxtrot." At the same convention, VA Secretary James Peake--who is already under fire for the cover-up of an extraordinary number of veteran suicides and for overseeing an organization that may not be taking PTSD seriously--showed a stunning lack of situational awareness by discounting recent media reports and think tank studies by suggesting that fewer returning vets actually had PTSD than is commonly thought.
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POPSNYT: Bush 'Lavish With Other People's Sacrifices' NYT editorial board takes Bush to the woodshed over his promised veto of the 21st Century GI Bill. Bush will hide behind the troops, equating his own stupid and brutal policies with "supporting the troops," but when it comes to actually doing something for vets, Bush can't run away fast enough. This is shameful behavior from a US president and every paper in the nation should run similar editorials.
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POPS McCain And The G.I. Bill As this helpful Boston Globe piece explains, the original bill was curtailed during the relative peace of the 1980s, capping benefits at just under $10,000 per year. The new bill, which Webb introduced with Chuck Hagel and Frank Lautenberg and which John Warner has cosponsored, would raise the cap on the benefit to match the cost of the most expensive public university or college in any given state.
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POPSBill O'Reilly vs Godwins Law [Video] Godwins Law: As a discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. The counter to this is that by default, anyone invoking Godwin's Law "loses."
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POPSBill Gates wants Creative Capitalism See here for the webcast called "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". There's a whole bunch of the Davos 2008 (World Economic Forum) webcasts available here
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POPSExecution as human sacrifice A very interesting interview with historian Thomas Cahill where he argues that execution, which shows no deterrent qualities, is not punishment but is likely a deeply held, ancient behavioral need to kill that was acted out in ancient societies as human sacrifices.
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POPSWaco, Tx. - Bronze Age City This is incredible. I'm always amazed when people exhibit such a profound degree of ignorance. It's hard to believe this is the 21st Century. And this ignorant woman has three children. And so the stupidity is passed on.
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POPSProtecting Children on the Net through More Censorship Rather than allowing for individual responsibility the government wants to police the internet. Throwing the baby out with the proverbial bath water. Ted Stevens, who was born in 1923, is the same guy who used the 'internet as a tube analogy' earlier this year. Isn't it great that the clueless people are making decisions about technology they can't even begin to understand?
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POPSMega-Microwave Environmental, Mind & Body Threats This is the HAARP of the 21st Century's Sirens. The idea is to beam up more microwaves than can be found concentrated in vast magnitudes beyond anything found in nature, just to see what'll happen (duh) and to see if it can be used to fight missiles, zap the earth for oil and maybe even modify the mental, emotional states of masses of people. In the video documentary, be sure to check out the dumb-ass expressions on the lead scientist's face when he's asked about the threats in this clip's title. A project brought to you by the US Air Force, HAARP is sited in Alaska, so they can be as close as possible to the lowest points in the earth's atmosphere, as evidenced by the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). Part of the project involves try to lower that part of the atmosphere even more.
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POPSCitizen legislators and term limits Had to chop it up due to size restraints, but it is a very good article worth the read if you are against the corruption in our system due to career politicians being in control.
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POPSBill Clinton on Iraq "If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program." Bill Clinton, 1998
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POPSSoon to be released NRA graphic novel. Every right-wing fear over the past century beautifully illustrated--international Jewish finance, hairy-legged hippie women, minorities, immigrants. Plus some new fears for the 21st century--owls with dynamite and attack lobsters.
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POPS How modern evangelicals are ignoring their own history Today's Christian conservatives often note that Jefferson's famous line declaring that the first amendment had created “a wall separating church and state” was not in the Constitution but in a private letter. But in that letter, Jefferson was responding to one sent to him by a group of Baptists in Danbury, Conn. We usually read Jefferson's side of that exchange. It's worth re-reading what the Danbury Baptists had to say because it reminds us that for the 18th-century evangelicals, the separation of church and state was not only required by the practicalities of their minority status, but was also demanded by God. “Religions is at all times and places a matter between God and individuals,” the Baptists wrote, warning that government “dare not assume the prerogatives of Jehova and make Laws to govern the Kingdom of Christ.” Government had no business meddling in the affairs of the soul, where there is only one Ruler.
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POPSWhat's to Be Done About Darfur?Plenty I highly recommend reading this most thoughtful and IMPORTANT editorial written by Nicholas D.Kristof of the N.Y.Times.It offers excellent ways our govrement as well as we can begin to end the attrocities in Darfur.
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