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POPSOnce Again...This is Not Capitalism “I think that we’ve got to keep people in their homes,” McCain declared in an interview aired Sunday on the CBS news program “Face the Nation.” He continued: “There’s got to be restructuring, there’s got to be reorganization, and there’s got to be some confidence that we’ve stopped this downward spiral.” Obama proclaimed that the takeover should not be used to “protect investors and speculators who relied on the government to reap massive profits,” while McCain denounced “executives were making hundreds of—some billion dollars a year while things were going downhill.” The Republican candidate acknowledged, “This is the kind of cronyism, corruption, that’s made people so justifiably angry.” All of this is empty demagogy. The speculation, cronyism and corruption that pervaded the operations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are emblematic of the parasitism and criminality of the America’s ruling financial elite as a whole.
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POPSTax -payer picks up the tab Bail-out for Greed and Rampant Speculation thru loop holes create by lobbies executed by spineless politicians, enough I say, enough
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POPSCT Scans Overprescribed?
"The result is cancer. The increased risk varies with age but, at most, adds about a tenth of a percent to a person's 42% lifetime chance of getting cancer. Still, even the small amount of radiation from a CT can compound over time as the number of scans adds up. Medical tests are now the biggest source of radiation exposure, recently surpassing background radiation, according to the National Council on Radiation Protection & Measurements. Of particular concern is the rising use of CT scans for children and pregnant women. Children -- who account for 11% of CT scans -- face significantly higher risks than adults because they are more sensitive to radiation and have more years ahead for a cancer to develop. For example, an abdominal scan in a 5-year-old carries a 0.10% risk of triggering a fatal cancer, nearly 10 times the risk in adults older than 35, according to the New England Journal study. Risks this small are not well understood, and there is a vigorous debate o
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POPSBush does not deserve credit for our security continued from source.... by ANY government and has severely weakened the US dollar... leading to catastrophically high oil and commodity prices. US presence in the world has been diminished by the struggle in Iraq. Russia and Iran both see the US as a toothless tiger, and Russia basically proved it recently in Georgia.. Putin basically said (without saying it) , the US can't touch me.. they're in debt, their military is stretched thin, and I'm running the biggest oil producing country on the planet.. they wouldn't dare.. and he was right.. and Iran knows pretty much the same thing.. and this is a DIRECT result of the fiasco in Iraq. The Bush years have weakened the US while strengthening our most dangerous enemies.
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POPSHOT LAPTOPS CAUSING HOT LAPS again ! Batteries to hot for the laptop and to hot for your lap as well. I've said it before you can only download so much porn onto those before it burst into flames and if it's gay porn the flames will be much higher and brighter.
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POPSThe Broad- science free trade zone “My rough estimate is that a scientific paper emerges about once every three days from collaborations that have come out of this institute,” Dr. Lander said. (Eric S. Lander, the founding director of the institute and a leader of the Human Genome Project, which sequenced the human genome.) Collaboration is possible...
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POPS50 Billion Suns! -The Biggest Single Object in the Universe Based on this self-regulating maximum rate, scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Massachusetts, and the European Southern Observatory, Chile, have calculated an upper limit for these mega-mammoth masses. Fifty billion suns, that's 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 kg, otherwise known as "ridiculously stupidly big" and triple the size of the largest observed black hole, OJ 287.
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POPSMexican regional varieties of tamales
Also Chiapas (countless varieties using different herbs, beans, chicharrón (crispy, fried pork rind) and even flower buds), Tabasco (one of Mexico's biggest cattle producers and grows sugar cane, cacao, coffee, corn, rice, peppers, bananas, coconuts, pineapple, watermelon and a variety of exotic fruit. All these, in addition to Maya herbs and spices more often associated with the Yucatán, flavor Tabasco's tamales, which are usually filled with pork, pejelagarto (large freshwater gar), chicken or even iguana), Veracruz (most famous for its fantastically large zacahuil tamale, which can be made up to 12 feet long for festive occasions and contain whole chickens, fish, turkeys, roasts or game, along with chiles, garlic and tomatoes, all wrapped in banana leaves and slow-roasted in a mud-brick and earth pit), and Yucatán (pork and chicken fillings marinated in achiote (with orange and lemon juices) are wrapped with tomato, peppers, onion and toasted garlic in banana leaves, and cooked in a
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POPSGod Ditches the GOP I could barely clip enough of this excellent, humourous and right-on column for our forum. I hope y'all will take the time to read the entire piece. It is well worth the effort.
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POPSDestruction of Kenya Forest is National Emergency The problem of Kenya typifies a global problem of destroying the eco systems of the world and its far reaching effects. The Sons of David Foundation in Panama with its paulownia reforestation project is trying to reduce that problem there. You can read more about it at www.paulownianow.org or on their blog www. paulownianow.blogspot.com
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POPSWhy You Won't See Michael Phelps on the Wheaties Box A clip from an AdAge article that outlines why Michael Phelps will be gracing the boxes of Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes—breaking the tradition on the biggest Olympic winners appearing on a Wheaties' box. The real reason? Kellogg's spends 96x more on marketing Frosted Flakes alone than General Mills spends on Wheaties ($11mm in 2007 vs $114 annually). Gold translates to gold. But it does raise the question as to why sugar-coated cereal garners more marketing might/muscle than a breakfast cereal that is perceived as healthy. Is it because "They're Great !" or because kids will clamor for them in the supermarket aisle and around the breakfast table?
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