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POPSAnother Reason For TERM LIMITS!!! The announcement from Ms. Pelosi came as Republicans seized on Mr. Rangel’s troubles in an attempt to portray him and his fellow Democrats as entrenched and corrupt. Mr. Rangel, 78, who was elected to the House in 1970, has already asked the ethics committee to examine his renting four rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem and his use of Congressional stationery to solicit donations for an academic center at the City College of New York that would be named for him. He declined to be interviewed on Friday, but through Mr. Davis issued a statement saying he would also ask the ethics committee early next week to investigate his failure to report the rental income from the villa. “Congressman Rangel is just learning about all of this now,” Mr. Davis said. “He didn’t know how the loan was being paid or whether it was supposed to be reported as income. And until yesterday he thought he had been paying 10.5 percent interest.”
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POPSThanks MSM or Olbermann does us a solid By the end of the week, after Palin's tour de force in St. Paul, the liberal media were so befuddled that they were reduced to complaining that conservatives aren't being narrow-minded enough. Thus, Hanna Rosin--who has covered religion and politics for the Washington Post, and has also written for the New Yorker, the New Republic, and the New York Times--lamented in a piece for Slate: "So cavalier are conservatives about Sarah Palin's wreck of a home life that they make the rest of us look stuffy and slow-witted by comparison." I suppose it was ungenerous of conservatives, in our broad-mindedness and tolerance of human frailty, to have let Ms. Rosin down, just when she was counting on us to bring out the tar and feathers. But she gives us too much credit when she suggests we make the liberal media look stuffy and slow-witted. They do that all by themselves.
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POPSEvery Alaskan gets $3200 from oil money - for nothing! $22,400 for a family of 7, like Palin's. When oil companies pay taxes to Alaska, they deduct it from their federal taxes, and we of the other 49 make up the difference. 85% of budget from oil companies; residents pay no income or sales taxes, and state is rolling in dough, while most states are laying off teachers. How ironic, when an Alaska Republican opposes a windfall profits tax, and favor reduced government services - when they live, in part, off of government handouts from revenue the oil industry pays them to get oil to us!
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POPSThe Ron Paul counter-convention Media pitched "fracture" that never materialized during the DNC; Now there's a counter - rally of 10,000 people led by a Republican candidate, featuring Republican big names, in the same city as the RNC, and it doesn't make the news!
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POPSron paul's alternate convention this week i bet the people at this are going to be way more excited than those at the official one. http://www.ronpaul.com/ Join us next week at the Target Center in Minneapolis for the political resistance event of the year: Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic. Together with thousands of fellow Ron Paul supporters from all over the country we will celebrate our achievements, analyze our options and prepare ourselves for the years ahead. Monday, September 1: Ron Paul Nation Celebration (FREE ADMISSION!) 6 PM - Intro: B.J. Lawson 6:10 - National Anthem: Eric Richards 6:15 - Rick Ellis 7:00 - Marc Scibilia 7:45 - Aimee Allen 8:50 - Rocky Lynne 10:00 - Ron Paul
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POPSWar is a Racket Wars are really a continuous stream of coordinated acts of terrorism, related to money and power instigated by the people who will benefit from the war and its expected end result. War is an instrument to expand economic power by destroying the national institutions and intelligent people of the victimized nation.
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POPSUnlike Hillary "Governor Palin also lives in a frontier state, a land about as far away from Washington as you can be and still hold political office in our republic. This is a theme that can resonate with voters. Delaware is right next to Washington: Biden commutes home after work. Chicago, the Daley Machine, does not seem to be much of an improvement. But Palin, and for that matter, McCain, come from another part of America completely. Alaska and Arizona are very distant from the capital whose machinations must be curbed. The image of two people from America's frontier cleaning up our nation's capital is potent."
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POPSEducation Not Oil As Empire For all the hard work of our good teachers, our system is failing to keep pace with the demands of a new century. Entrepreneurial charter schools such as KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Aspire, the Inner-City Education Foundation, the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools and Green Dot demonstrate what a single-minded focus on excellence can achieve with low-income students" Try investing in we the people. It's an investment that will pay off.
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POPSRussia's Bizarre & Horrifying Road Through Hell Yakutsk is the capital of the Yakutia Republic, part of the vast Russian region known as Siberia. The old joke is 'War is God's way of teaching us geography'. With that in mind, any kid who grew up playing the board game Risk remembers Yakutsk and neighboring Kamchatka as two territories with weird names located up at the top of Asia. As a kid, I had never heard of these places. Nor did it ever dawn on me people actually live there (if getting stuck in the mud is considered living... ) The road of mud isn't the only problem. It seems that people who live in Yakutsk were born to suffer. Yakutsk is considered the coldest city on earth, with January temperatures averaging -45 °F. The coldest temperatures ever recorded outside Antarctica occur in the basin of the Yana River just to the northeast. Yakutsk is the world's biggest city built on continuous permafrost. Most houses are built up on concrete piles to keep from sinking.
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POPSPutin: Bush Tricked Me Into Invading Georgia To Help McCain Beat Obama Does the US have close ties to Georgia? Yes. Has the US been instrumental in modernizing and backing Georgia’s military? Yes. But did the United States instruct Georgia to use such blunt force against separatists in the areas Russia now wants to be independent? Absolutely not. That was Georgia’s call as a sovereign nation, and Putin’s attempt to lay the blame with President Bush is simply a feint to cover his own country’s aggression in this matter. A feint that smells suspiciously Soviet. Remember when the Soviets would back rebels and invade countries all over the world and then claim they were just opposing American imperialism? Well we’re back to that again.
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POPSClashes erupt in Democratic Republic of Congo At the end of January a peace deal was signed in Goma between the government and the variety of groups. It was supposed to have seen the disarmament of groups and their integration into the army. Mr Abandi said the rebels were not being given enough time to disarm. "It's not true that we're breaking the ceasefire. They're trying to lie because they want war. When they're fighting us, how can we disarm?" he said. Lt-Col Dietrich said the UN believed that Mr Nkunda - a renegade general - was trying to expand the rebels' zone of influence. Reports earlier this month indicated that Gen Nkunda was touring his area, strengthening his defences and recruiting fresh forces. The UN has 17,000 peacekeepers in DR Congo.
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