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POPSWealthy Fox pundit Stuart Varney reminds poor people just how much better off they are nowadays In fact, according to his guest -- Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, who has assembled his damned lies and statistics in a single report at their site, America's poor people have a better standard of living than your average European. Right -- if appliances were any accurate measure of your standard of living. This is just one of those pleasant reminders from our corporate masters that you're never as bad off as you think you are. Why, Varney and Rector seem dismayed that today's poor in America don't live off dirt floors. If you keep pushing for taxes on the rich, that may be what you'll get!
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POPSDamned Lies The next time someone tries to tell you Planned Parenthood does much more than abortions and is vital to women’s “health”, send them this video. Damned Lies: Planned Parenthood Doesn’t Provide Mammograms Posted by Megan Fox http://www.intolerantfox.com
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POPSAre you kidding me with this? "Conservatives Own This Tragedy...?" For those of you out there blaming conservatives for the actions of this idiot murderer, you need to think long and hard about yourself. I'll be damned in you're gonna blame this idiot on the right. Chestnut, you are are dumb as a brick and as boring as the wall I'm staring out right now. I have a good mind to track you down at work and knock the corndog out of your hand, you nasty witch.
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POPS16 of the Dumbest Things Americans Believe
The Right Wing is transforming — or arguably has already transformed America into a "mendocracy"; a rule by lies. Right-Wing Talking Heads are feeding blatant and unabashed lies to their mindless followers, and the media is falling down on their responsibility of calling those manipulators on their lies. The conservative members of congress coming into power this month are among the most deluded, most ignorant lawmakers that America has ever seen, and they are going to try to change America, based on the misinformation their leaders and their "prophets" (Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, etc) have spoon-fed them for years. This is going to be a very hard 2 years, and oppression and delusional fantasy is going to be the status quo in Washington. The incoming Republicans have already proven themselves to be liars — they made campaign promises of lowering the unemployment rate, and cutting spending, but as soon as they were voted in, they instantly changed their tune to saying that they...
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POPSThe year in trumped-up pseudo-scandals According to Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak, the White House offered him a job in exchange for not running against Arlen Specter. (Actually, Bill Clinton mentioned some sort of unpaid role doing something terribly uninteresting. But the truth doesn't matter.) While the White House said this never happened, the right-wing press decided that this was a terrible bribe and a violation of various laws. Rep. Darrell Issa got particularly excited, asking for a special prosecutor to be appointed. Then Sestak lost and no one cared anymore.
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POPSShift Happens This video asks: what are we doing to help our children be successful in the 21st century?
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POPSLIES, DAMNED LIES...OBAMACARE 6 MONTHS LATER Remember when the president said, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”? Not true. In Texas alone a record number of doctors are leaving the Medicare system because of the cuts in reimbursements forced on them by Obamacare! The president of the Texas Medical Association, Dr. Susan Bailey, warns that “the Medicare system is beginning to implode.” Remember the Obama administration’s promise that Obamacare would cut a typical family’s premium “by up to $2500 a year”? Not true. In fact, fueled by reports that insurers expect premiums to rise by as much as 25 percent as a result of Obamacare, Senate Democrats are contemplating the introduction of price controls.
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POPSThe shame of right-wing "journalism" It turns out that Shirley Sherrod was actually telling the story to show how the issue of race often obscures the issue of class, and the fact that poor black farmers and poor white farmers had a lot in common (eventually, she helped and became close to the white farmer and his family) — but Breitbart left all of that out of the video (just as he selectively and unfairly edited his cartoonish ACORN tapes).
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POPSEven more lies, damned lies and stimulus jobs So we've now seen reports of goosing stimulus job stats in Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin, California, New Hampshire, Florida, Ohio, New Jersey, Virginia and Texas. (Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has more thoughts on the California story, as well as a round-up of some of the other state reports on stimulus chicanery.) At first the White House was owning up to "persisting errors" in the stimulus jobs data -- but when all the supposed errors seem to create the illusion of more jobs and are widespread from coast to coast, it sure looks like a deliberate ruse to hide the stimulus' clear failings. The White House needs to explain how this is happening before it turns into a full-fledged scandal.
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POPSFox News isn't even pretending anymore The boldest innovator, however, has been Fox News. Since President Obama’s election, the cable news channel has dropped all but the barest pretense of objectivity. Billing itself as “fair and balanced,” Fox has turned itself into what White House communications director Anita Dunn recently called “the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.” Actually, that’s an extremely polite way of putting it. It’s closer to Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth.” Fox openly promotes “Tea Parties” and other political demonstrations; it portrays every perceived White House defeat, such as Chicago’s failure to secure the 2016 Olympic Games, as a victory for something called “Fox Nation.” “Doublethink,” Orwell called it: the ability to “hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them.” So it is with “Fox Nation” and “fair and balanced.”
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POPSWhy doing nothing may sometimes be the best action of all
By taking action — even if it’s neither rational nor likely to be successful — they can at least be seen to have done something.If they stand and wait until the ball is kicked and then fail to stop it, they feel worse because of their inaction; and others are far more likely to criticize them for not appearing even to try. It’s better to try a poor action than try a better — but seemingly passive — response if both fail; even though the “inactive” response is more rational and based on a better likelihood of success. In today’s business world, action is preferred over the alternatives and is more likely to result in forgiveness when a mistake is made. You can always say that you tried. The person who does nothing is doubly damned: once for the mistake and again for not “doing something.”This urge to action — to get things done — is more emotional than rational. “Wait and see” risks your credibility and reputation, even where it can be shown to be the optimal course.
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