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POPSA Win For the Good Guys The SPLC was victorious in their civil trial against the IKA. Good news in light of all the negativity with the economy, racial threats after the election and the stripping of rights in California. Where there are people of conscience there is hope.
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POPSAfghanistan: The Promise and the Reality
I have now spent several days in Afghanistan as an unembedded journalist, travelling around freely without an armed or military escort. Yes, it’s risky and at times nerve-wracking but if I want to find out what is really happening on the ground I’m not going to get it hiding in some hotel compound or army barracks being briefed by an army spokesman who knows even less than me. So far I’ve spoken to men and women from all backgrounds, cultures and Islamic ideologies and without exception they’re hacked off with the American presence. All the goodwill I saw after the fall of the Taliban has been squandered by the military presence of the US as well as the British (no one really distinguishes between the two) and it is crystal clear they have overstayed their welcome. The Taliban are in control of large swathes of the country and are now bordering on Kabul having already carried out several raids on the capital where Afghan leader Hamid Karzai is under virtual siege. Sinc
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POPSA Writer in a Living Novel 
Ms. Chute, 61, a wry, direct and earthy woman who favors bandannas, peasant skirts and stout hiking boots, works in their home, which is guarded by a sign that reads: “Woa. Visitors Turn Back.” Neither building is heated, except by wood stove, or has hot water. The compound’s sole toilet is a tin-roofed outhouse. The Chute home does have an industrial-size copying machine, however, and nearby she keeps her AK-47 rifle, which she likes because it has a gas piston that dampens recoil. “It’s very gentle, very soft,” she said. Ms. Chute, whose fourth novel, “The School on Heart’s Content Road,” comes out on Friday, had a surprise hit in the mid-’80s with her first book, “The Beans of Egypt, Maine,” about a hard-luck, occasionally incestuous clan that some critics compared to Faulkner’s Snopeses. “If it runs, a Bean will shoot it,” she wrote. “If it falls, a Bean will eat it.” The book’s empathy and precise observation derived, it turned out, from personal experience. Ms. Chute, who g
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POPSMantis "Mantis ( Mantises are exclusively predatory and their diet usually consists of living insects
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POPSBulls, Bears, Donkeys and Elephants These graphs compare the growth of a hypothetical investments under Republican vs Democratic administration since 1928. The Republicans have always promoted themselves as the party of economic expansion, but the graphs tell a different story.
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POPSDNC=FRAUD/OBAMA=FRAUD/MEDIA=FRAUD THIS MUST BE ADDRESSED FORTHWITH! ALL OTHER ISSUES ARE A PRETENSE AND COMPOUND THE DECEPTION...ALL OF YOU ARE IN THE DOCKET BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND YOU MUST ANSWER
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POPSChina is Corrupt So what? Liu Zhihua did what China's leaders are doing in Xanadu. he may have been punished for NOT sharing the spoils.
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POPSOrlando Vacation Rentals A villa was originally a Roman upper-class rural home. After the fall of the Roman Empire, it came to mean a small, fortified farming compound.The more usual plan for a villa extended wings of rooms all opening onto a linking portico, even to enclose a courtyard.
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POPSPlastic-Producing Bacteria San Diego-based Genomatica has developed a microorganism that could replace the need for petroleum in the process to make some plastics. They genetically engineered E.Coli bacteria to consumer sugar and produce plastic without the use of oil or natural gas. The process takes place under normal pressure and temperatures, which drastically cuts it energy use.
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