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POPSGOP Sen.: Electoral Rout McCain's Fault Am I the only one who sees that freedom and "religious-based values" are often contradictory? After all, the Taliban has "religious-based values." DeMint in his own words: McCain, who is proponent of campaign finance reform that weakened party organizations and basically put George Soros in the driver's seat. His proposal for amnesty for illegals. His support of global warming, cap-and-trade programs that will put another burden on our economy. And of course, his embrace of the bailout right before the election was probably the nail in our coffin this last election. And he has been an opponent of drilling in ANWR, at a time when energy is so important. It really didn't fit the label, but he was our package. I totally called this . DeMint -- and a lot of GOPers -- believe they lost because they weren't crazy enough. Good news for Democrats in future elections.
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POPSrecommendations for the frugal tippler I'm not generally big on vodka (I subscribe to the white paint theory), but I can vouch for the Luksusowa (Polish for "luxury"), which is a potato vodka and wonderfully smooth. Bulleit Bourbon is quite tasty. And my grandpa drank Old Overholt (which he called "Old Overshoes"), so I have a fondness for that, too.
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POPS GOP Draws Internal Battle Lines Around Sarah Palin CONT'D: "If I read this right, the GOP is set splinter into a trio of factions: the Palin-philes, the Romney remainders, and those excommunicated from the movement for daring to make a lick of sense at one point. Fitting isn't it, that a McCain loss might precipitate his party coming to resemble the factionalism of the Iraqi misadventure they all cooked up in the first place."
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POPSRepublicans and Conservatives Endorsing Barack Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations at Boston University David Friedman, Economist and son of Milton and Rose Friedman Christopher Buckley, Son of National Review founder William F. Buckley & former NR columnist Andrew Sullivan, Columnist for the Atlantic Monthly Wick Alison, Former publisher of the National Review Michael Smerconish, Columnist for the Philadelphia Enquirer
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POPS Drill Baby, Drill --- Chapter One "This is a major victory for Americans who are suffering at the pump,now that Democrats' ridiculous opposition has run out of gas," said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). "Now it's time to ensure drilling is expedited and prevent liberals from tying energy production up in endless litigation." UPDATE: On the day Democrats made their decision official, the Institute for Energy Research, an industry-funded research group, released polling that shows the majority made a popular decision; sixty-five percent of the respondents in the group's bipartisan poll favored repealing the drilling ban, as compared with the 30 percent who would like to keep it in place.
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POPSLeaving it for the next President They will leave all the debt from the takeover of Fannie and Freddie off the budget this year, effectively hiding it's impact for now and hoping for some miracle???? Meantime, we, the taxpayers are losing our home, or watching the value of our home fall, AND are liable to huge future taxes to cover the bad debt. Whoever wins this election is taking on a house of cards.
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POPSMostly African American Children are Assaulted Legally in Schools
Just as slavery, Jim Crow laws and the subjugation of women in the USA are looked upon as primitive and embarrassing practices, I believe that corporal punishment in schools will someday be looked upon as a strange and inexplicably cruel practice. It will also be looked upon as another vehicle of racism as this study indicates. What will the conservative critics say in response? That African American children misbehave more in schools and, therefore, deserve the punishment? But isn't that what they say about higher incarceration rates for African Americans? So what is the picture that emerges from those who rationalize these institutional racist practices? In my view, it tells us that (their denials notwithstanding) conservatives believe that from childhood to adulthood African Americans are naturally more disposed to violate cultural norms, to act out in an anti-social manner. It's a racist orientation masquerading as a pro law and order stance. Corporal punish
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POPSKer-Thump Another One Under The Bus The list of "bumper clinging" supporters, including Bernadine Dorhn and Bill Ayers, the two domestic terrorists that helped jump-start Barack Obama's political career. * Marilyn Katz (former SDS radical, Obama campaign PR professional) * Carl Davidson (former SDS radical, Fidel Castro Fan, webmaster of Progressives for Obama) * half-brother Abongo Obama, a militant Muslim * "Uncle Frank" Frank Marshall Davis, role model/mentor and member of the Communist Party USA, poet who authored "Smash-on, victory-eating Red Army" * Bill Ayers, domestic terrorist and long-time friend * Bernadine Dorhn, Ayer's wife, fellow domestic terrorist, and Manson Family admirer.
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POPSObama In Knots Over Cheney ----a vote that could be viewed as endearing if he hadn't more recently flipped on it as well. And as the Hot Air link provided by the inestimable Jim Geraghty at Campaign Spot notes, Obama explained in a Las Vegas TV interview this week that his vote on that bill was motivated by the fact that "this was the largest investment in alternative energy in history." So which is it Senator? Is Obama's complaint about the NEPDG merely grousing about process (a process complaint that led to wasteful federal litigation in which the Vice President ultimately prevailed)? Or is Obama-wan Kenobi playing gutter political games, trying to tar McCain with guilt by association with Cheney? (An association that isn't particularly supported by the record and with which, by the way, I would be more than happy to be "tarred.") Either way, it doesn't jibe with his "the One" narrative.
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POPSBeer for My Horses: Toby Keith's Ode to Lyching During the days when Toby Keith's "Grandpappy" stalked the Jim Crow South, lynching was an institutional method of terror employed against blacks to maintain white supremacy. According to the Tuskegee Institute, between the years 1882 and 1951, 3,437 African-Americans were lynched in the United States, mostly in the heart of Dixie. Felonious assault and rape (read: corrupting "the flower of white womanhood") were the two most frequent justifications for lynch mob actions.
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POPSSen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) Indicted For Being Sleazy And the “Congressional White Caucus” won’t jump to defend Sen. Stevens the way the Congressional Black Caucus did for William Jefferson. Why? Because Sen. Stevens’ actions — just like those of Sen. Jefferson — are indefensible. Oh, and the fact that there isn’t anything as absurdly segregationist and just plain absurd as a Congressional White Caucus. ________ With the possible exception of Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Sen. Jim Demint (R-SC), and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CN) — I think we should expel every other member of Congress and start over with people of honest and integrity…but more than that, people who don’t think my money is their money. Leaders committed to truly small and limited government. Sadly, our country is headed in exactly the opposite direction.
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POPSWe Are What We Eat part 2 Carlo Petrini, a charismatic Italian who writes about food and wine, started Slow Food with friends who shared his notion that leftist politics and gastronomic pleasure could be happily married. The international organization has grown to 86,000 members and become an industry in Petrini's hometown, Bra, Italy. There are Slow Food restaurants, a university and a hotel. You can buy a cashmere truffle-hunting vest embroidered with the Slow Food snail logo at the main office in Bra. The group's budget is about $39 million, and subsidized by the Italian government. Much of the organization's work involves identifying traditional foods, like Ethiopian white honey or Amalfi sfusato lemons, and designing ways to help the people who produce them. Its philosophy — that food is about much more than cooking and eating — is often hammered home by Petrini on his frequent trips around the world.
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POPSDemocrat House "Apologizes" for Slavery This is but another stupid liberal attempt to pander to blacks for their vote this November. The trouble is, the United States Government had nothing to do with "forcing Africans into slavery". In fact it was Arab slave traders who did that. And it was the United States government who went to war to abolish slavery. This government doesn't owe negros an apology. It is the negros who owe gratitude to the United States for the bounty and opportunity afforded them. Another proof that liberals are unfit to run our magnificent country.
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POPSHouse Poised to Apologize for Slavery, Jim Crow By passing the resolution, the House would also acknowledge the "injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow." The resolution does not address the controversial issue of reparations.
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POPSJim Hightower on Pot -- Sharing His Thoughts on Pot, That Is
Myth: Allowing the medical use of marijuana will send the wrong message to children and lead to more youths using the drug. Reality: In the 10 medical marijuana states that have before-and-after data, studies have unanimously shown that not only has youth use of marijuana not gone up overall, it actually has declined since medical marijuana became legal. Myth: Marijuana is a gateway drug to harder substances, and therefore medical marijuana use will lead to dangerous drug use. Reality: In science, the distinction between cause and correlation is a crucial one. A White House-commissioned study by the Institute of Medicine found that marijuana "does not appear to be a gateway drug to the extent that it is the cause or even that it is the most significant predictor of serious drug abuse; that is, care must be taken not to attribute cause to association." Moreover, claims about marijuana being a gateway make no sense in the context of medical marijuana: Patients often use marijuan
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POPSFind Your True Purpose The most important step you will take in your quest for an extraordinary life; including greater wealth, greater contribution, greater happiness and the freedom to live life on your terms is finding your true purpose. Learn more and get involved. Visit Consciousone.com/blog Visit for more: http://www.consciousone.com/blog/?p=86
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POPSCheney Motivated by Iraq Oil Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan appeared on CBC Radio One's The Current{/i], where he told the host that Vice President Cheney wanted to invade Iraq for oil and personal gain.
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POPSWhite House accuses Senate Democrats of slacking off Given the role the White House and Senate Republicans have played in slowing legislation, Manley said, “it takes a lot of chutzpah” for Fratto to accuse the Democrats of inaction. It's more than chutzpah...it's insanity and lies--both are so cosmically incompetent and the posturing is disgusting!
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POPS'The Cube', by Jim Henson (rare colored version) This '69 version by Jim Henson is more mysterious, psychological & philosophical and lacks the violence of the later sci-fi/horror films: The Cube, Cube 2: Hypercube and Cube Zero. It's supposed to be in better quality than the original black/white version, but I doubt that since it's in .flv. I included some links to wikipedia & imdb should you be curious for more.
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POPSEgalitarian Orthodoxy: “Noble Fiction”—Or Noxious Poison? A number of studies have shown Jewish people have a higher average IQ than non-Jewish whites (109-115 average for Jewish folks, versus 100-103 for non-Jewish whites). The Hitlerites falsely claimed Aryans were just as smart, or, bizarrely, smarter than Jews, and the reason there were a disproportionate number of Jewish lawyers, physicians, journalists, etc., was because of Jews banding together and discriminating against non-Jews, rather than outcomes entirely deserved. Inversion of the truth on IQ differences helped cause hatred and the most monstrous violence the world has ever seen. Today, similar lies are again stoking hatred against Jewish and other whites, and against north Asians as well.
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POPSCongress Holds Troops Hostage, Budget Director Says AND when the President vetoes this bill, who will get blamed for not supporting the troops? Congress, again, shows their utter contempt for the American process, it's military, our tax dollars, the intelligence of it's citizens. Blackmail, pure and simple. If Congress does not want America troops in Iraq then take the stand, vote, and deal with the consequences. But they won't because they KNOW it is not in our national interests to do so; but they will play politics with every ounce of treachery they can muster against this Administration, our military personnel, and the responsible use of OUR money.
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POPS McCain And The G.I. Bill As this helpful Boston Globe piece explains, the original bill was curtailed during the relative peace of the 1980s, capping benefits at just under $10,000 per year. The new bill, which Webb introduced with Chuck Hagel and Frank Lautenberg and which John Warner has cosponsored, would raise the cap on the benefit to match the cost of the most expensive public university or college in any given state.
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POPSSo Much for the Overpopulation Problem Over-population be damned. They are prompted by their fanatical religion. Can anyone imagine the condescension and loathing if some Arabic, hispanic or black person showed up with 18 children in America. Even worse if they invoked Islam. Not to be outdone, another white father - the Jeffers pedophile in Arizona probably has hundreds of little fundamentalist offspring running around.
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