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POPSBush and Blacks The message—both in words and action—is clear, consistent, and stirring . This year he joined forces with Washington D.C.’s black Democratic mayor, Anthony Williams, to win passage of the first federally funded voucher program, which will provide $7,500 each to poor minority children in the nation’s capital, giving them some of the same educational options that their wealthier neighbors enjoy. The Bush administration has also tried hard to help lift Africa out of its deepening misery. Last year, the president pledged $15 billion—a twenty-fold increase from Clinton-era funding levels—to help stem the AIDS pandemic sweeping the continent, and he has sent troops and diplomatic envoys to try to quell violence in Liberia and Sudan. African-relief activist Bob Geldof recently acknowledged, “The Bush administration is the most radical—in a positive sense—in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.”
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POPSHallelujah! Finally a ray of hope in the God forsaken science blasphemies. I'll pray that you stay on the earth.
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POPSPython Lovers Storm the Gates I'd have much more respect for the joker who wants to keep the ban on Python's film alive if he had actually seen it. Since that's not the case the wanker's simply bonkers.
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POPSReligion Out of Govt Our government is designed to operate without regard to religion. Unfortunately, many have not figured that out yet.
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POPSIs The Thrill Gone For Obama Supporters?
Obama Fades? I can't speak for anyone else but for me his glow has dimmed, since he started wearing that flag lapel pin. While living through years of the worst president the US has had at the helm, I could identify the enemy or the Bush supporters by their Bush/Neocon fraternity pins. And I could direct my anger even before the Bushy sycophants opened their bombastic collective rhetorical pie-holes and blather the some ole, same ole. So the flag label pin had become a symbol of pretentious superciliousness to me. Of course, with Obama pandering to the "R's" and the "I's" who voted for Dubya and helped ruin our country and make us a laughing stock all over the world (Remember the headline from the UK’s Daily Mirror: How Can 1,230,065 People Be So Dumb?) may have a little to do with the Obama Fade From Grace. But that PIN is all I see when this eloquent orator takes center stage and its glare has a blinding effect on the reflection of the man behind that "R" studded brooch. :-(
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POPSNational Race Tightens When will Democrats learn that decisions based on politics only work for Republicans? Still, it'd be nice if the media equal weight to McCain's reversals . But that'd require some sort of journalistic ethics -- they don't have any. That's why only Republicans get away with making decisions based on politics.
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POPS"A Bridge Too Far" For the past two weeks, Obama has moved quickly toward the center. He has reversed his previous positions for gun control, against using faith based institutions to deliver public services, against immunity for tele-communications companies that turn records over to the government in terror investigations, for raising Social Security taxes, for imposing the Fairness Doctrine on talk radio, and a host of other issues. In his effort to move to the center, Obama has distorted his own record, meager though it may be, and is taking credit for a program he strongly opposed. http://www.newsmax.com/morris/obama_ad_/2008/07/07/110599.html
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POPShealthy homes intiative grants to remediate mold Erie County Health Department adopted a primary prevention approach of correcting hazards in 600 one and two-family pre-1950 homes before residents moved into the unit. Low-cost interventions for allergens, carbon monoxide, radon, and unintentional injuries were performed.
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POPSObama's Faith-Based Plan "We should evaluate any policy efforts to maximize civil society and faith-based solutions by whether they move in the direction of reducing the size and scope of government and whether they help individuals escape dependence and achieve a life of independence."
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POPSWill their be a doctrinal test for faith based programs? It has been my experience with some faith based community resource groups that the substance of their involvement is one of honest help to those in need as opposed a proselytizing and submission to the doctrinal overlay. This kind of "test free" model has worked in the past. I refer you to the history of "settlement houses".
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POPSObama - Faith Based Initiative I've never been comphortable with Bush running this program and I'm not happy to see Obama embrace it. Even if he runs it better than Bush it leaves the door wide open for the next conservative government to expand and distort the program.
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POPSHere We Go Again This somewhat disappointing position by Obama may be simple politics or it may be a sign of increasing involvement by religious organizations in government. Already we've seen the problems this can cause, mainly in the realm of churches to discriminate according to religion. If the rumors are true, churches will be able to discriminate in hiring if "certain conditions are met". I can't help but wonder if this is a ploy to garner the "evangelical" vote. Of course this still doesn't make McCain any more disirrable as a candidate.
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POPSPagan Woman Accuses Shelter of Discrimination If they accept federal funds, they cannot discriminate. This is from an article about the opening of the center: "A grant from Access to Recovery-Idaho, a federally funded program that makes money available to traditional and faith-based recovery programs, is helping to pay the utilities at the house and for the administration."
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POPSWhich religion do your views best fit with? An interesting quiz which places you in the appropriate faith based on your answers. The questions are often ambiguous and maybe confusing but I was satisfied with my placing which was Bahai!
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POPSNiche or Die That was the advice CTO Chairman, Alan Chastanet, had for participants in the recently concluded CMEX conference.
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POPSArmy Suicides Up - Again I've been on this issue since last August and this problem's been around a lot longer than that. In August, I wrote : The problem has been ongoing since 2003, for chrissake, and since the problem was first identified, it's gotten much, much worse. Veterans and their families deserve better. Suicides, even when they're so clearly a result of war, are not honored by the military. They receive no hero's funeral. There's more than one type of collateral damage. President Bush is constantly asking us to pray for the troops -- this is what passes for some sort of solution. Call it faith-based suicide prevention. And all the husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, friends, and communities who wake up one day to a huge unpatchable hole in their lives, I guess we're supposed to pray for them too. That's the fix. Prayer is pretty much all the president has to offer. And all he seems
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POPSSpirituality and Academic Performance at a Catholic Law School: An Empirical Study Strong spirituality had a negative correlation with academic performance. Medium and low spirituality had no correlation. And among the third of the students who performed substantially under expectations, the negative correlation was more significant than the broader positive correlation of either the LSAT or the undergraduate grade point average. This study is especially interesting and powerful because the University of St. Thomas School of Law has a strong Catholic identity and affirmatively promotes its faith-based mission at all levels of operation. The author discusses possible explanations for his findings that high spirituality correlates negatively with expected academic performance.
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