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POPSA fancy and unduly expensive Neti pot Dr. K. Mehta I got to hand it to you born in India and now an American millionaire in just a few years, how easy all of this must seem to you. A Neti pot costs about $7.00 and can be bought in any health store is far more effective than your expensive product - Sinus Rinse. A Neti pot can be used forever if you don't break it . With 8 ounces of tap water heated until boiling then mixing in a 1/4 teaspoon of sea-salt then set aside to cool is much cheaper and more effective in contrast to your system which costs consumers far more money. And furthermore, Sinus Rinse is far more time consuming compared to the Neti pot.
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POPSCharity or Coercion One of the best things about Christianity is its bent toward charity, giving to the poor, needy and caring for those who are unable to care for themselves.
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POPSAsia News gives: 8 Reasons Why Obama Will Win.
It turns out the article concludes with their "8 Reasons Why Obama Will Lose. But reason r #8 way wrong-- Obam's campaign, without doubt, has been way more about Skill rather than Luck. And his endurance and follow through incredible. American politicians and political scientist will be studying this campaign like those who like military would always do some study of Napoleon. It's brilliant. It's historic. It has set not only new records and standards but done something that a lot of 'genius,' leaders have done: Obama's overall strategy defied contemporary wisdom, broke with tradition and then moved in real close for "the kill," blasting away with the standard 'weapons,' and parameters of victory. Like the overall strategy of North Vietnam General Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap at Dien Bien Phu against the French and at Khe Sanh against the Americans. Or Admiral Nelson at Trafalgar. General Patton at the Battle of the Bulge. Toussaint L'Ouverture Or USA Chess champion
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POPSChristian right intensifies attacks on Obama "Life As We Know It Will End If Obama is Elected." Strang said gay rights and abortion rights would be strengthened in an Obama administration, taxes would rise and "people who hate Christianity will be emboldened to attack our freedoms."
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POPSHistory of Mysterious Halloween Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31, usually by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting candy. It is celebrated in much of the Western world, though most commonly in the U
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POPSAmerican Christmas Celebration People all over the world celebrate Christmas in many different ways than one. In the United States where there is typical diversity in cultures and traditions, there seems to evolve an ‘ideal’ Christmas tradition which has been accepted by many as a perfect family holiday.
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POPSThe New York Times is a “Pro-Obama Advocacy Organization”
by an standard a journalistic organization. It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day attacks the McCain campaign, attacks Sen. McCain, attacks Gov. Palin, and excuses Sen. Obama. There is no level of public vetting with regard to Sen. Obama’s record, his background, his past statements. There is no level of outrage directed at his deceitful ads. This is an organization that is completely, totally, 150 percent in the tank for the Democratic candidate, which is their prerogative to be, but let’s not be dishonest and call it something other than what it is. Everything that is read in the New York Times that attacks this campaign should be evaluated by the American people from that perspective, that it is an organization that has made a decision to cast aside its journalistic integrity and tradition to advocate for the defeat of one candidate, in this case John McCain, and advocate for the election of the other candidate, Barack Obama.
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POPSDear Free Market Fundamentalists: SHUT THE FUCK UP! SHUT UP! YOU SUCK AND WERE WRONG AND IT'S GOING TO COST US MORE THAN WE CAN COMPREHEND! SO SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT HOW DEREGULATION IS NEXT TO GODLINESS AND FREE AND UNFETTERED MARKETS WILL SOLVE ALL OUT PROBLEMS, AND GOVERNMENT DOES NOTHING BUT CAUSE PROBLEMS! SHUT THE FUCK UP!
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POPSAthlete Insults National Anthem Big Surprise! How many times have we witnessed, not only athletes but fans in the stands of sporting events, talking and shuffling around while the National Anthem is being played? Where is the respect? Whatever anyone's personal believes and attitudes are towards what this country symbolizes, we all owe a great debt to those individuals who have died fghting for our right to be Americans. There once was a time when every person actually took off their hats, put their hands over their hearts, stood in silence, and actually gave thought to what it means to be an American while the National Anthem was being played. If you think that tradition is overplayed, if you think it is too 'old fashined' to show respect to our nation's symbol, if you have no respect for your status as an American citizen, then get the hell out of my country and don't disrespect my right to contemplate what has gone into the making of this nation.
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POPSWomen Buried Alive THE WOMEN OF THE ARABS A non-fiction book, written by Rev. HENRY HARRIS JESSUP, D.D., Seventeen years American Missionary in Syri Beirut, Syria, _July, 1873 This article is recent...2008 and the women are still being buried alive. --_Mt. Lebanon Proverb "The threshold weeps forty days when a girl is born."
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POPSHackers + Authoritarians This explains part of why I think Civil Liberties are important even to those who do not value them for their own sake.
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POPSChurches suffering from "spiritual Alzheimers" Is it just the interesting expression that makes me want to blog about this? It's certainly not the first time the phrase "spiritual Alzheimer's" has been used, but it remains a vivid expression nonetheless.
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POPSBanned(in US) WW1Socialist anti-draft pamphlet This is a portion of an anti-draft pamphlet that was put out by the Socail Democratic (Socialist) Party during World War 1. This led to a Supreme Court ruling (US vs Schenk) http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/schenk.html While we do not have a draft now, I find the portions clipped to be quite relevant to today.
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POPSHaving the ‘Best Military’ Is Not Always a Good Thing
So consider this a modest proposal from a retired citizen-airman: A small but meaningful act against the creeping militarism of the Bush years would be to collectively repudiate our “world’s best warfighter” rhetoric and re-embrace instead a tradition of reluctant but resolute citizen-soldiers. Becoming Warfighters I first noticed the term “warfighter” in 2002. Like many a field-grade staff officer, I spent a lot of time crafting PowerPoint briefings, trying to sell senior officers and the Pentagon on my particular unit’s importance to the President’s new Global War on Terrorism. The more briefings I saw, the more often I came across references to “serving the warfighter.” It was, I suppose, an obvious selling point, once we were at war in Afghanistan and gearing up for “regime-change” in Iraq. And I was probably typical in that I, too, grabbed the term for my briefings. After all, who wants to be left behind when it comes to supporting the troops “at the pointy end of the spear”
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POPSObama's missteps Obama's unnecessary promise deviates from nearly six decades of U.S. foreign policy that held Jerusalem to be occupied territory under international law. This long tradition was first broken in 2004 when President Bush acknowledged Israel's demands to keep its illegal West Bank settlements in a final peace agreement, including those around Jerusalem. Thus Obama, a Harvard-trained lawyer, would both scorn the international legal system's foundational principle -- the inadmissibility of territorial acquisition by war -- and echo President Bush, whose failed Middle East policies he has rightly deplored. If Sen. Obama's Philadelphia speech on race was a model of courage and nuance, his AIPAC talk was brimming with the pro-Israel orthodoxy that typifies this year's presidential campaign. Like presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, Obama also backed Israel's so-called right to exist as a Jewish state.
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POPSU.S Supreme Court v. Guantánamo It's great to see one of the most fundamental principles of the US Constitution (& Anglo-American law) is declared and will be restored: The right of an accused person to have a trial, to have "their day in court." For six years now 300 people (more - or less, at time) have been held without trial or even without specific charges of what crimes they did. It feels good that this one of the Bush's administration's evils is undone but feels bad that it was able to be done at all. Even in victory the law is often cruel. The men still sit in jail. Even though ordered to have trials for the prisoners delays and more delays can be expected. Who knows? Maybe some will even be found guilty? Although I've heard that several were really "set-ups," just so some warlord could collect a bounty and others just bodyguards or chauffeurs -- yet the military was able to use them for it's propaganda to keep the country in fear. But the court confirms indefinite detentions are what we should
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