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POPSSix Black American Presidents? I'm gonna give you a choice of TWO clip songs, depending on whether you're black or white: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_c-Rrty9sA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_uOB3UVfTY Gotcha! .;) .:lol:
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POPSEdmund Burke Quotes Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Our patience will achieve more than our force. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. To innovate is not to reform. Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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POPSDont vote before reading this,born in USA eligibles I,m going to try and influence your vote!Some people might find this repugnant advice coming from an Australian ;my ancestors settled there for freedoms call,Virgina Dare was first Anglophile born in the Americas.I have long argued US better than alternative super-powers potentially improving!!
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POPS'Why did Neanderthals have such big noses?"
continues The traditional answer has been that Neanderthals have a big nose because they have a big mouth and a wide jaw, useful for ripping apart tough food, says Nathan Holton, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Iowa. "People have tried to explain the Neanderthal face as designed to produce high levels of bite force and trying to explain the rest of a wide nasal breath as part of a larger tend," he says. To put this theory to the test, he and University of Iowa colleague Robert Franciscus, measured facial dimensions in dozens of Neanderthals and humans, ancient and modern. By correlating changes in the size of nose width, the distance between canine teeth, and other features, the researchers could determine whether or not big mouths went with big noses. Holton and Franciscus found a slight link between nose and mouth, but not enough to explain Neanderthal noses. However, another measurement – the degree to which the face juts forward – seemed a better match for n
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POPSRepublican email links Obama to 2nd Holocaust
A Republican campaign strategist sent this out to 75,000 Jewish voters in Pennsylvania. He's been fired. The Party leaders "disavow," it. A related item is Amazon.com has an Obama mask for sale. They tagged - they listed it on their "terrorist costume," page. (See: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/10/obama-terrorist.html Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden was on a Sunday Talk Show and he was read a quote from Karl Marx's and asked if this was "the Obama economic plan." "Are you serious," Joe asked back. (See this video interview, at: http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20081026_biden_to_florida_reporter_are_you_joking/?ln A leading USA zionist neocon, Bill Kristol has said if Obama elected Bush will start war with Iran. (See video, at: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/22/kristol-bush-iran/ ) Get the message? Obama will cause start of war in Iran, cause a 2nd Holocaust, is an Amazon.com terrorist, and a Karl Marx's communist. These sick vampire Rep
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POPSSynesthetes - people who hear colors, see flavors ... "For people of a poetic bent, this is quite useful: You get to tell your date that her eyes glow like the moon, hair ripples like the ocean and skin is smoother than a friendly corporate takeover. (Fine, I'm not a poet.) But life wasn't always so romantic. The arts are a latter-day human characteristic, one that requires a certain amount of security and stability to flourish. So how did it develop? To help our ancestors climb trees, said Ramachandran. Doing so requires a vision-informed mental map of the branches before us, as well as a touch-informed mental map of our limbs' positions. Somehow these have to correlate. Which is quite a trick, when you think about it."
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POPSI Didn't Vote for Obama Sure, I filled in the circle next to the name Obama, but it wasn't him I was voting for -- it was every single one of us, and those I love most of all. Who else is there to vote for?
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POPSJohn McCain's Black Relatives Sen. John McCain’s great, great grandfather, William Alexander McCain (1812-1863), fought for the Confederacy and owned a 2,000-acre plantation named Waverly in Teoc. The family dealt in the slave trade, and, according to official records, held at least 52 slaves on the family’s plantation. The enslaved Africans were likely used as servants, for labor, and for breeding more slaves. William McCain’s son, and Sen. John McCain’s great grandfather, John Sidney McCain (1851-1934), eventually assumed the duty of running the family’s plantation. W.A. “Bill” McCain IV, a white McCain cousin, and his wife Edwina, are the current owners of the land. Both told the South Florida Times that they attend the reunions. They also said the McCain campaign had asked them not to speak to the media about the reunions, or about why the senator has never acknowledged the family gatherings.
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POPSFear Factor: How Herd Mentality Drives Us
"Whether it's the fear of being the odd person out, whether it's the fear of uncertainty or the fear of losing your shirt in the market, the fear starts to compel you to do something, because a million years ago, that fear meant you probably had to run or fight," Berns said. But reactions that saved our ancestors from saber-toothed tigers don't make as much sense on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Financial historian Jeff Madrick says that's how we got into trouble in the first place - by developing the notion that the stock is highly rational. "That encouraged this herd behavior," he said. "People would say, 'The stock market is right. Let's get in here.' That was the mythology that fed the herd behavior." So the group think that helped build the bubble is now leading the charge to pop it. "I think there's probably a panic now," Madrick said. Berns agreed: "You could call it panic; I would." But the Bronx Zoo's Pat Thomas says, "It's definitely a survival mechanism."
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POPSNever Say Die: Why We Can't Imagine Death The common view of death as a great mystery usually is brushed aside as an emotionally fueled desire to believe that death isn’t the end of the road. And indeed, a prominent school of research in social psychology called terror management theory contends that afterlife beliefs, as well as less obvious beliefs, behaviors and attitudes, exist to assuage what would otherwise be crippling anxiety about the ego’s inexistence. Yet a small number of researchers, including me, are increasingly arguing that the evolution of self-consciousness has posed a different kind of problem altogether. This position holds that our ancestors suffered the unshakable illusion that their minds were immortal, and it’s this hiccup of gross irrationality that we have unmistakably inherited from them. Individual human beings, by virtue of their evolved cognitive architecture, had trouble conceptualizing their own psychological inexistence from the start.
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POPSFalse Apology Syndrome "False Apology Syndrome — which is not yet found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association or the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases, tenth edition — is a therefore rich but poisonous mixture of self-importance, libertinism, condescension, bad faith, loose thinking, and indifference to the effects it has on those who are apologized to. I am, of course, sorry if you disagree."
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POPS Why We Can't Imagine Death? "This position holds that our ancestors suffered the unshakable illusion that their minds were immortal, and it’s this hiccup of gross irrationality that we have unmistakably inherited from them. Individual human beings, by virtue of their evolved cognitive architecture, had trouble conceptualizing their own psychological inexistence from the start."
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POPSMaking meals in a rice cooker We have a Zojirushi fuzzy-logic rice cooker that we love. It was pricy when we bought it -- $140 or so -- but we use it all the time. If we calculated it as a per-use cost, it'd be down to pennies per meal. The cheapo $20 or $30 rice cookers we'd had before we never used. This was $140 well spent.
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