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POPSSecret Spying Court Stays Secret ACLU: "The Bush administration says that the new law is necessary to protect the country against terrorism, but there's nothing in the law that prevents the government from monitoring the communications of innocent Americans," Jaffer said in a written statement. "The intelligence court should not be deciding important constitutional issues in secret judicial opinions issued after secret hearings at which only the government is permitted to appear."
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POPSWhy I Love Clipmarks So, i didn't write this, I read it. It was posted by Clipmarks user onlinedesign in the "Why I Use Clipmarks" section of her profile. You can click the source link to visit her page. I wanted to clip this because it really moved me. It is exactly what i hope Clipmarks can provide for people. Knowing that we have accomplished this for some people gives me great pride and satisfaction. I could never adequately convey how impressed, inspired and grateful i am for the collective contributions of the people who share the content, thoughts, opinion, passion and perspective that gets mixed together here on clipmarks.com. I think it's truly remarkable.
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POPSUS election diary: American voters A test for the self esteem of some clippers. Some will think they don't fit into this category because they go to church or something, and there should be some who question who they should vote for at each election.
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POPSBlack-White Differences in Attitudes Toward Homosexuality and Gay Rights This article uses responses from almost seven thousand blacks and forty-three thousand whites in 31 surveys conducted since 1973 to give more definitive answers on black-white attitudinal differences and their demographic roots. Despite their greater disapproval of homosexuality, blacks' opinions on sodomy laws, gay civil liberties, and employment discrimination are quite similar to whites' opinions, and African Americans are more likely to support laws prohibiting antigay discrimination. Once religious and educational differences are controlled, blacks remain more disapproving of homosexuality but are moderately more supportive of gay civil liberties and markedly more opposed to antigay employment discrimination than are whites. Yet religion, education, gender, and age all have weaker impacts on black than on white attitudes, suggesting that black and white attitudes have different roots.
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POPS4 Senate Dems urge EPA chief to resign I've watched this foot-dragging, Bush's-ass-kissing hack testify on C-SPAN and he is one of the most frustratingly not-so-subtle stonewallers ever to grace a Congressional hearing.
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POPSSpying On America- Police Survailance 60ties Style Not since Richard Nixon and the Anti War Movement were Americans spied on like this. Actually, it has gotten more sophisticated, widespread and more incriminating for the current government. Decent and critical opinions, have once more become synonymous with Anti-Patriotism, drugs and now: Terrorism. This must be the revenge for the sixties from those who were stopped then and now are lashing out with a vengeance.
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POPSThe FEC is Ready for Action (hopefully McCain action!)
The new commissioners joining sitting commissioner Ellen Weintraub, a Democrat, are: * Democrat Cynthia L. Bauerly of Minnesota * Republican Caroline C. Hunter of Florida * Republican Donald F. McGahn of D.C. * Republican Matthew S. Petersen of Utah Also, recess appointee Steven T. Walther, a Democrat, was confirmed to a full term, completing the six-member panel. These appointments come after six months during which the FEC could not take official action because it did not have the required minimum of four commissioners, making it impossible to issue advisory opinions or dole out public funding. As we've written about several times, the impasse began when President Bush sent a controversial nominee to the Senate for confirmation. As for the McCain debacle, "Knowingly violating the spending limit is a criminal offense that could put McCain at risk of stiff fines and up to five years in prison." http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/02/democratic_part_8.php
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POPSSurvey shows Obama 51 percent More than six in 10 African Americans now rate race relations as "not so good" or "poor," while 53 percent of whites hold more positive views. Opinions are also divided along racial lines, though less so, on whether blacks face discrimination. There is more similarity on feelings of personal racial prejudice: Thirty percent of whites and 34 percent of blacks admit such sentiments. At the same time, there is an overwhelming public openness to the idea of electing an African American to the presidency. In a Post-ABC News poll last month, nearly nine in 10 whites said they would be comfortable with a black president. While fewer whites, about two-thirds, said they would be "entirely comfortable" with it, that was more than double the percentage of all adults who said they would be so at ease with someone entering office for the first time at age 72, which McCain (R-Ariz.) would do should he prevail in November.
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POPSWolves, Whales and Warming in Alaska Whales Beluga Whale, U.S. Navy Conserving Cook Inlet Belugas You can help conservation efforts! Defenders will soon be launching a Cook Inlet Beluga Citizen Scientist program to monitor beluga sightings in and around Anchorage. Email Karla Dutton at KDutton@Defenders.org if you’re interested in helping out! We’re also fighting to make sure belugas are protected against the construction of the Knik Arm Bridge, one of the famous pork-barrel Bridges to Nowhere.
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POPS"Repelled" Opens Soon While this "documentary" has been widely panned by many people it will have to be the misinformed and scientifically ignorant that save it. Considering the gullibility of the American public and their abysmal understanding of science and evolution I wouldn't be too surprised if this hatchet job did better than expected. Though, I would be extremely disappointed in the level of intelligence and lack of judgment in the movie going public.
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POPSBlogging boosts your social life To blog or not to blog. Perhaps blogging is less intimidating that face to face contact, and there is the opportunity to put more thought into what is written, rather than having to have an instant, perhaps reflex reply when 'live' People have the chance to be more introspective and so are able to see themselves more clearly, while knowing that what they write is put on 'public' view. So improving confidence and communication skills. It also helps improve memory, to be able to stop a 'conversation', and pick up where you left off an hour, a day, or even a week later. Of course the text is there but the context must be remembered and it can be seen how attitudes and personal opinions both change and develop. People are becoming interested in the person underneath, rather than having personal appearances get between them Just reminded me of a book/movie "A Patch of Blue" but that's another story.
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POPSUnworthy Nominees This is how Bush began his failed presidency, and, I guess, this is how he plans on ending it. What a goof!
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POPSReefer vomiting in swiss police car
In fact, he was drunk and smoked only a little bit of marijuhana. Alcohol is the big problem. But the deciders do not want their own hard drug out of business. And all those restaurants and bars that would no longer survive as legal (alcohol-)drug-dealers. Marijuhana is in the hand of mafia-kids. They just ask their older mafia-mates, when there is a problem. Honest, adult, hemp-smokers are punished hard, so that this soft drug stays in the hands of mafia. The swiss peope allowed by vote the use of hemp for medical ends, but they just, won't give it out. They're all mafias,with the money, the hookers, the jobs to bribe, to spinn-doctoring politicians opinions. In this point of view, switzerland is one of the worst country in europe: they sell minibags of marijuhana for double price at Platzspitz, the former public selling-place of HARD drugs... There should be a legat limit of concentration of THC in the blood of hemp-smokers. Those smoking Hash or Marijuhana should n
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POPSThe 1000 Journals Project Those who find the journals add something to them. A story, drawing, photograph, anything really. Then they pass the journal along, to a friend or stranger, and the adventure continues.
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POPSLocal School Board Not Keen on Saggers My first reaction upon seeing a "sagger" on the street is to laugh. But the underlying genesis of this odd clothing preference being rooted in the prison culture is disturbing. Surely, we, as a culture, can provide better role models than gangsters and convicts to our youth.
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