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POPSThe Russians Have Always Favored Overkill Vladimir Putin had ordered the assassination of Russian journalists and capitalists before Litvinenko, of course. But the Litvinenko murder defined him for the world -- or at least the sane and sensible fraction of the world --- just as Don Corleone in the Godfather ordered the decapitated horse's head to be placed in Jack Woltz' bedroom. Like the bloody horse head, Polonium poisoning signaled a public but deniable threat to Putin's enemies: Defy me, and I can use the rarest poison in the world to kill you anywhere I choose. And I will get away with it, because everybody else is cowed. Which is exactly what happened. Putin never paid a price, and in the manner of bullies everywhere, he was emboldened when the Brits failed to respond to Litvinenko's assassination in the middle of London. That is why Putin's invasion of the small, free, and democratic Republic of Georgia was predictable. Today the Russian threat to the Ukraine is just as obvious.
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POPSLife in these United Police States! "This just isn't very surprising, is it? More and more often, honest, decent and law abiding citizens are finding that the police are at best adversarial, and more often than not, actually seem to take pleasure in agressive, bullying tactics. We are learning, like citizens of police states everywhere, to lie to cops even when we don't have anything to hide. Personally, I would never trust a cop to act decently, honestly or professionally. Punks, thugs and bullies are far too well represented in all branches of police, sheriffs and constable offices today in America." --Falon
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POPSFood allergies as a weapon for school bullies A very disturbing story -- some school bullies have been using peanut butter as a weapon to terrorize peanut-allergic kids. Consequences are potentially fatal. Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5Z2UxH0lU . Story also uses the word "consequating," new on me.
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POPSWherever We Go "We brought the welcome mat... We don't claim any know-how... God help us, we just love our job" Wherever we go, bluebirds sing And the flowers bloom And the grass gets green It's a curious thing But it's just our thing Wherever we go, the bees behave In the treetops, squirrels smile and wave It's a curious thing And it's humbling Where we go, little glow-worms glow Little roadrunners run ahead Gonna tell their friends Little mice, little men Get'em all excited All invited Chorus: Hands up Holler back here Let's throw this party in gear We brought the welcome mat Wherever we go, that's where the party's at Hands up Holler back now We don't claim any know-how We're giving God all that Wherever we go, that's where the party's at Wherever we go, the dumb get wise And the crime rates drop And the markets rise It's a curious thing But it's just our thing Bullies make nice, crooks repent And the ozone layer shows improvement It's a curious thin
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POPSWe are all prisoners now Remember this the next time you sing all the baloney about the land of the free and the home of the brave. In reality, It is a land of prison and the home of bullies and cowards.
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POPS“Bully guide” Bully facts” are that “bully victims” can be anyone young or old, male or female, rich or poor, it can also happen anywhere, at work, school, neighborhoods. I hope this blog will give you ”bully help” with a “bully strategy guide” and hopefully show you ”how to stop bully”.
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POPSBlackwater's Private CIA Who is gonna stop these powerful mercenaries? You, me or Obama? SOMEbody better stand up to these profiteering scum-bullies!
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POPSsmart kids vs popular kids
Partly because teenagers are still half children, and many children are just intrinsically cruel. Some torture nerds for the same reason they pull the legs off spiders. Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.Another reason kids persecute nerds is to make themselves feel better.But I think the main reason is that it's part of the mechanism of popularity. Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness. It's much more about alliances. To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy. It's important for nerds to realize that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.<< Interesting read.Written by someone who was considered to be a "nerd" at school.
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POPSThe Battle against "Real ID" takes new direction That lets the Bush administration claim credit for implementing Real ID, even though no states will begin offering Real ID-compliant licenses until at least 2010, well into someone else's term at the White House. And the states get to claim victory over the federal bullies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the workings of politics never ceases to amaze and disgust me.
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POPS"There are two kinds of Republicans: millionaires and suckers." I'd like to suggest a very simple strategy for American liberals: Get mean. Stop policing the language and start using it to hurt our enemies. American liberals are so busy purging their speech of any words that might offend anyone that they have no notion of using language to cause some salutary pain. Why, for example, not popularize slogans that mock the Bush loyalists as "suckers"? Something like, "There are two kinds of Republicans: millionaires and suckers." Put that on a few bumper stickers and I guarantee a lot of "South Park Republicans" will quit the GOP. They just smirk when you tsk-tsk at them for being disrespectful. They want to be disrespectful; every normal young male wants to be. ...Alternet
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POPSGood advice..... ....I really liked the "There are two kinds of Repugs; millionaires and suckers". I liked it so much I Word documented it all fancy and such then taped it inside my cars back window.
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POPSWork place bullying........... Imagine yourself sitting at a conference table and you offer something as a suggestion and someone looks at you and shakes their head every time,” said Joel H. Neuman, director of the center for applied management at the SUNY-New Paltz School of Business. “It can be damaging to be constantly dismissed in front of your peers,” Dr. Neuman said. “The thing that is upsetting about it is that people come to expect it and say, ‘Well, this is what it’s like around here.’ It shouldn’t be part of the culture, but often it is.
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POPSBullies Love Him "It remains unclear why Billy became a target at age 12; schoolyard anthropology can be so nuanced. Maybe because he was so tall, or wore glasses then, or has a learning disability that affects his reading comprehension. Or maybe some kids were just bored. Or angry." Whatever. The truth of the matter is that everyone has the right to enjoy their lives without being harassed either emotionally or physically. One can say that it's just kids being kids, but I've seen my share of those kids "grow up" into cyber bullies. I, for one, don't get any perverse pleasure from tormenting others and those who do? Well, my patience grows thin very easily with jerks. "In ninth grade, a couple of the same boys started a Facebook page called “Every One That Hates Billy Wolfe.” It featured a photograph of Billy’s face superimposed over a likeness of Peter Pan, and provided this description of its purpose:
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POPSA Boy the Bullies Love to Beat Up, Repeatedly It is time that education authorities should aim for educating the character of the child and not leave it up to the parents or religion alone. IQ is rated too high, especially when looking for a job. CQ (Character Quotient) should be given more importance than IQ. Perhaps Columbine High could have been avoided
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POPSMark Steyn Remembers William Buckley::Hilarious Gore Vidal Encounter The idea that William F Buckley represents a civilized conservatism lost to uncouth savages will no doubt become received wisdom in the same way that, upon his death, Ronald Reagan's success was universally ascribed by the media to an avuncular geniality wholly alien to the vengeful knuckledraggers of the Bush era. But Bill was lethal with opponents on the opposite team and on his own side, dispatching a liberal Republican like his own Senator, Lowell Weicker, to the trash can of history and purging conservatism of its crackpots so thoroughly that conspiracy theories, principally a hallmark of the right in the Fifties, were by the Sixties the more or less sole province of the left, where they've remained ever since.
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