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POPSIn The Crystal Ball Some predictions are vaguly on target. Most respond through the lens of 1900 and offner no new insights. I suspect our predictions will seem as naive in 2100.
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POPS Valkyrie For War Czar
that in the event of blood actually being shed, all operations should be immediately terminated and forces extricated in the most humiliating way possible, with strategy to be determined by regular polling. However, that was the 1990s, and we also know that in the post-9/11 era, Clinton briefly grew a set and strongly favored invading the heck out of belligerents who had made her husband look like an ineffective skirt-chaser. It was only the prospect of being president herself that made Hillary turn into a peacenik, but we know from the Democratic primary that Hillary does not give up. She will gouge the eyeballs out of anyone who stands in her way. News reports indicate we are being increasingly quagmirized by a bunch of 19th-century dishcloth-wearing savages in the rocky passes of the Hindu Kush, with al-Qaeda thumbing its aquiline nose from across the border in Waziristan, and the mullahs of Iran insisting on becoming a world-class nuisance, not to mention the Putinistas
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POPSCA Air Pollution Deadlier Than Traffic Accidents The study found that the California Highway Patrol recorded 2,521 vehicular deaths in the San Joaquin Valley and South Coast Air Basin in 2006, compared to 3,812 deaths attributed to respiratory illness caused by particulate pollution. "It may be tempting to think California can't afford to clean up, but in fact dirty air is like a $28 billion lead balloon on our economy," Hall said.
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POPSJapan's Ultra-Nationalists Live On The world, it seems, cannot yet rid itself of neo-nazies, ultra-nationalists in Japan and Russia, or various fundamentalist crazies. Let's hope that election of Senator Obama to US Presidency begins to point toward a new direction for the global society.
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POPSLast Post plays every single day This unique homage to the 250,000 British and Commonwealth warriors who fell in the Ypres salient has been paid, without fail, for 80 years at 8pm. Tonight will be the 27,566th time . And for 54 years Verschoot, 83, has stood beneath the memorial to those with no known grave. 'Still now, with each note, I feel pain for them, for those who fought for freedom,' he said, his breath fogging in the night air. 'They are not buried or have no known resting place. It is such a small thing that I can do.'
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POPSForts Crumble Into Trenches Period photographs of Sumter show what appears to be total destruction. Yet it was in fact an impenetrable redoubt. And we're left with a remarkable example of how technology informs us. Masonry was no protection against the new rifled cannons, but pulverized walls were. Southern ingenuity was alert to that lesson. By war's end the South had reinvented defensive fortifications. The old masonry forts lingered another half century, but they never again played any important role in war.
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POPSInsubordination Examples There have been a number of famous and infamous people who have committed insubordination or publicly objected to an organizational practice. * Douglas MacArthur - US General who was relieved of command by President Harry S. Truman during the Korean Conflict. * Jackie Robinson - US baseball player was accused of insubordination while in the military but was exonerated at a court martial. * Howard Zinn - historian who was fired for insubordination * Albert Pike - charged by the Confederate Army with insubordination * George Grosz - soldier in German Army, World War I, and artist * Eugene Debs - labor organizer and member of Socialist Party * Jeffrey Wigand - VP of Brown & Williamson who revealed tobacco industry practices * Billy Mitchell - famous aviator, United States Army Air Corp commander during World War I and proponent of air power during the interwar years * Hunter S. Thompson - famous writer fired from Time Magazine
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POPSPoem: 69th Regiment (The Irish) The author Joyce Kilmer served with the 69th Regiment (165th Infantry) during World War I. He held the rank of Sergeant. He was killed in action on July 30th 1918, while gathering intelligence for the Regiment during the battle of the Ourcq. He wrote many poems about the Regiment including "Memorial Day," "Rouge Bouquet". His most famous poem was "Trees".
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POPSGood Evening Commish'ner With Obama polls showing high, the FCC is doing a little campaigning of its own. Its customers and some of their contractors (the status quo) might have some 'splainin 'ta do after the Holidays. Complete article: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29263
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POPSMilitary Recruitment Center Vandalized
Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker" and "Old Gimlet Eye", was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. In his 1935 book, War Is a Racket, Butler presented an exposé and trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare. His views on the subject are well summarized in the following passage from a 1935 issue of "the non-Marxist, socialist" magazine, Common Sense – one of Butler's most widely quoted statements: "I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the r
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POPSU.S. Invades Syria: Kills 1 "Terrorist", 8 Civilians, 3 children
1. invading a foreign country, 2. kill ratio 1:8, as usual, more civilians than alleged "terrorist", 3 of which were innocent children! Is this an acceptable kill ratio to be consider moral and just? Was this: a) "Collateral damage", entirely justified b) gross negligence and murder c) unjust attack and invasion, violating all rules of just warfare and "rules of engagement" (unarmed civilians) d) b and c Consider that this was done with soldiers, not a spy drone, which had to have sited the children in their gun sights for at least a moment, and were firing with gross negligence at anything that moved. Can they tell the difference between children and men? Can they tell the difference between unarmed men (civilians) and combatants? Or is it "just kill them all" because we are afraid, even though we are armed to the teeth? THIS WAS A SLAUGHTER. This was murder and invasion, and done without permission or notice to Syria, which the neocons want war with.
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POPSUS third parties fight to be heard I'd heard of Nader and what he represents, not Baldwin. They are right about being frozen out. No money for ads is a good enough reason to cut coverage, it seems. It is important that minority parties exist. Where they don't exist, people feel disenfranchised and resort to violence.
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POPSSenator Obama's Lack Of Accomplishments Democrats want America to support at once the most radical and least qualified candidate for President in at least a century. They have tried to conceal this with the complicity of a pom-pom-waving national media that has shown much more interest in the political background of a plumber from Ohio than in a major-party candidate for President. America deserves better than that. Voters deserve the truth from the press, not vague cheers of “hope” and “change” while willfully ignoring or air-brushing Obama’s record. We hope to set that record straight with our essay.
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POPSU.S. pilot was ordered to shoot down UFO An American fighter pilot flying from an English air base at the height of the Cold War was ordered to open fire on a massive UFO that lit up his radar, according to an account published by Britain’s National Archives on Monday.
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