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POPSThe Secrets Of Talk Radio Former News Director of one of America's largest and most successful news/talk stations spills the beans of how they spin their conservative success. Much more worthwhile reading at the clipped source.
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POPSBush presidency 'battered', 'incompetent', 'unlucky' Who are these people kidding? They are being far too kind with him. The word I would use to describe him is “criminal”. He set a precedent for spying on American citizens, lied to start a war in order to line his corporate buddies pockets with cash, stomped on the Constitution to give his office more power, run roughshod over habeas corpus, approved the use of torture, appointed incompetent cronies to leadership positions, abused executive privilege to protect criminal activities, is responsible for creating more terrorist than al Qaeda, smothered Americans with a security bureaucracy that has only fostered fear and anger, and run our economy into the ground. The word “Incompetent” doesn’t begin to cover what this administration will be known for.
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POPSHead in the stars; feet in blood The cathedrals and the auto-da-fe, universalism and slavery, the marvels of Baroque art and the Inquisition, Scientific reason and the witch trials, progress and total war, democracy and bureaucracy, the dream of brotherhood and the gulags, Beethoven and Auschwitz, Beethoven in Auschwitz. That's Europe: its head in the stars; its feet in blood. Elie Barnavi
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POPSDrug use is a Health Issue, not a Law Enforcement issue We waste a lot of money fighting the drug trade in the U.S. What do we have to show for it? Over-crowded jails, bloated law enforcement budgets devoted to fighting drug use instead of helping the user fight the habit, a criminal underworld that is profitting from drug traffic and an ever increasing crime rate surrounding drug trafficking. This issue needs to be seriously addressed and changes need to be made, because what we are doing is NOT WORKING. For what other health issues do we use police, prosecutors, and prisons as the primary means of 'helping' a sick person? Isn't that just as silly as using a baseball bat to cure someone of clinical depression? (Smile and get happy or I'll whack you again)
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POPSSocialism In Action You can get a glimpse of what Obama's win might bring to the USA. Read the whole article and thank God you don't live there (for those that don't... for those that do - my deepest sympathies).
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POPSWeapons of mass destruction. to make them appear higher in protein I don't want my food "appear high" in anything! I want it tasty and I don't want feel myself like shit after consuming it. May be I want too much, but that is it. I asking food experts: Do you know what is a chronic poisoning, when you have virtually no chance to avoid your chunk of targeted "magic bullet" from food producers, manufacturers, packagers and repackagers? How laboratory analyzes become main sign of food quality?
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POPSWade Rathke, Member Of ACORN, AFL-CIO, SEIU & Weathermen/SDS Strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue an African American man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty” in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called “crisis strategy” or “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect.
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POPSAre the Bushies trying to retain control after January 20th? More: "Noting that Bill Clinton also ordered up a transition council on Nov. 27, 2000, Light called his "similar but without all the bells and whistles." Among other things, the Bush executive order could keep agencies busy preparing briefing materials and a Transition Directory to include "federal publications and other materials that provide information on each executive department and agency." Cynics might wonder if the Bush team wants to keep its hands in before the order expires on Feb. 20, 2009, one month after the new president takes office. Whatever the motives, said Light, one of the presidential candidates will need the help more than the other. "McCain has done almost nothing about the transition," he said, except to criticize Obama for saying in mid-summer that he was appointing a team to begin contingency planning."
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POPSThe Cloward-Piven Strategy "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one.
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POPSObama Takes Careful Aim at Contractors Government Executive story covers a recent Obama speech on his approach to government contracting. Further down in the story, there's cautious approval from trade groups representing government contractors. "It's certainly not a harsh assault on the public-private relationship," said one. Welcome words, no doubt, to many companies on our Forbes Beltway Index http://www.forbes.com/fdc/beltway/fbi.html.
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POPSThe Wrong Stuff....New Bureaucracies and Government Spending Banks shouldn’t foreclose on delinquent home buyers. Obviously, he hasn’t heard of how bad loans drained Japan’s economy of its vitality for a decade. • Third, Obama seeks “new oversight and regulations of our financial institutions.” That means forcing new bureaucracies and regulations into the private sector, the very phenomenon that has made navigating our health care industry such a delight. • Fourth, Obama seeks to empower unelected foreign entities to the same “globally coordinated (rescue) effort.” But Bernanke and Paulson have already done the heavy lifting, as the rest of “the world” has done next to nothing. One more global bureaucracy won’t make America’s financial system any healthier. Obama makes a final point by blasting the failure of “common-sense regulation and oversight,” to the financial system.
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POPS A Reform Ticket Bear in mind that Mr. Murkowski had already served as junior U.S. Senator from Alaska for 22 years. Mr. Murkowski was junior senator for so long because Senator Ted Stevens (who was recently indicted for corruption) had lifetime tenure in the senior post. Shortly after joining the oil and gas commission, Mrs. Palin commenced an ethics probe of the state's Republican party chairman, Randy Ruedrich, involving conflicts of interest with oil companies. The probe resulted in a $12,000 fine for the party chair. She crossed party lines in 2004 to join a Democratic representative's ethics complaint over an international trade deal against the Republican Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who had ties to the Murkowski machine. Mr. Renkes resigned. In late 2005, Mrs. Palin announced her run for Governor before then-Governor Murkowski had announced his intention to stand for re-election. In a three-way primary, Mrs. Palin got 51% to Mr. Murkowski's 19%.
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POPSViolence Against Women - or Fatherhood and Men? Since the inception of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994, the domestic violence industry has had over ten years to solve, or improve, the problem of domestic violence in our society. Billions and billions of dollars have been spent to create a fat, bloated bureaucracy that appears at times to have done as much to harm to the lives of women as it has done to help, and soon that bureaucracy will be asking for more money. Please see eluris.typepad.com/best_interests or contact ajt@web20mates.com for more information.
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POPSDoes the U.S. Need a CTO? Last fall, Kapor was called upon to help Senator Barack Obama define his technology positions. Kapor suggested that Obama, if elected president, should install a federal chief technology officer. Conservatives grumbled at the idea of another layer of bureaucracy, but Kapor and others in Silicon Valley say the government needs cohesive technology practices and policies.
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POPSUK: Safe in our cages? "As surely as night follows day, the new surveillance society will do more harm than good." Says it all, I guess
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POPSNot your father's democrats Thus the task before Obama and Biden this week is threefold. They must feign toughness on foreign policy and moderation on values. At the same time they must present their enthusiasm for bureaucracy as sympathy for the economic challenges of the middle class. They must persuade the country that they are not what they are: the most left-wing ticket their party has run in 36 years. You can’t fool all of the people all of the time; 51 percent may be more feasible.
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POPSBloggers Pushing Wes Clark Back to the Forefront What Clark said - that McCain has no experience in national security decision-making - is absolutely true, and it's a point that needs emphasis repeatedly and effectively by someone who can deliver it. Clark has a 34 year service record, has won a war, commanded troops all over the world, and nearly died of his injuries in Vietnam. He has run for President and been a surrogate for hundreds of Democrats all over the country, including Ned Lamont. He was against the war in Iraq, and knows the military bureaucracy inside and out. This is someone who would make an insanely good Vice President, and someone who has deep connections to the newly formed progressive communities that emerged from 2002-2006. Senator Obama would do well to choose Clark as his running mate.
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POPSHeroism, Heartbreak, Frustrating Bureaucracy, and a Happy Ending This disabled Vietnam veteran paratrooper with three Purple Hearts is no longer a man without a country. Wednesday, 40 years after limping home from Vietnam, Rudy Thomas, 64, a Trinidadian immigrant, took the Oath of Citizenship in the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse. Now he is an official American hero. 'For the last 40 years I thought of myself as a proud American,' Thomas was saying yesterday, waiting in the large courtroom on the 2nd floor with 250 new citizenship applicants from 40 countries to be sworn in by Federal Judge Nina Gershon. 'I came home. My discharge papers said I was an American citizen. For the past 30 years I worked as a counselor at the State Department of Veteran's Affairs. My first American-born son, Rudy Jr., became a New York City police officer. He was shot dead on the Fourth of July in 1993...'
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POPS Buried Loot a Mystery for Authorities The money is always the same - decaying $100 bills from the 1970s and 1980s. It's the story that keeps changing: _It was an inheritance. _Somebody dug up a tree and there it was. _It was found in a suitcase buried in an alfalfa field. _A relative found a treasure map. (AP) Eric Walsh examines water damaged U.S. currency at the Mutilated Currency Division of the Treasury... Full Image No matter where it came from or who found it, that buried treasure stands to make someone rich. It could also send someone to jail. Felhaber is a customs broker, a middleman. His company, F.C. Felhaber & Co., is just minutes away from the bridge between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Tens of billions of dollars of Mexican goods cross that bridge each year, aided by people such as Felhaber who navigate the customs bureaucracy. Customs brokers don't own the stuff that comes into the United States. They just make sure it gets here.
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