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POPSDoes one abused woman = 100 abused puppies "Of course it is better to give to animal charities than not at all. Human suffering is more complicated, in every way, and helping people takes more commitment and patience. But if you choose animals over people because of a naive belief that a particular brand of human pain has not infiltrated your own community, you may want to reconsider." Thanks to einbar for the link.
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POPSUkranian PM Tymoshenko on political crisis I wanted, firstly, to separate clearly powers between the Government and President as the Constitution envisages and not to do so that there are three governments, six Premiers in the country and all govern and nobody exercises responsibility.
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POPSChauvinism as Nationalism 1. Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism. Note: To have a generous belief in the greatness of one's country is not chauvinism. It is the character of the latter quality to be wildly extravagant, to be fretful and childish and silly, to resent a doubt as an insult, and to offend by its very frankness. --Prof. H. Tuttle.
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POPSBirds do it, Bees do it, but humans don't! Of course, we should teach our teenage children good judgement, if that is at all possible when it comes to the powerful instinctual urges belonging to all life, the drive to BEGET. Try telling a teeny bobber about love and responsibility. They'll look at you, the same way you look at a dog chasing its tail, bewilderment of such a stupidity lag. But, for most parents, the teen "eye roll" just slides off their back, down to the floor where it can be easily stepped on. But all sarcasm aside, teaching this program alone is not just block-headed, its outrageously dangerous. By not equipping our young with knowledge on self preservation, we neglect the most basic fact of life, the instinctive teachings of fundamental survival techniques. Go and watch some wild life with their young and you will see such training. Birds do it, Bees do it, even Monkeys in the trees do it. Also on http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSClass Defensive Driving Florida Online Defensive driving class for defensive driving courses. We offer Defensive Driving School as well. Learn Defensive Driving at the lowest cost.
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POPSPassive-Aggression, Lies, Hypocrisy
In their very denials, they blatantly show their bias. Watching MSNBC, I think it is possible that often they really don't think it is showing. Panel members, after multiple exchanges where 5 or 6 (against 1) make snide references in their "analysis", show disdain contrasting wildly with the fawning speech reserved for the DNC & Obama, unashamedly lashing out at speakers they felt personally offended by,...they end up putting together a pair of collective presentations that, to a bipartisan observer, are like night and day. THEN have the balls (incldng. Rachel Maddow)to come off angrily defending their smear-style "journalism" dripping with partisan unevenness of tone, and nastiness, while framing the accusation as - (get this) - a tired Republican tactic. Oh my God! I think they may actually even believe it. How are humans so removed from their own behaviors, I wonder, whether in personal or private. Denial of this nature is to the level of a serious addiction or mental disorder. I
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POPSMediocre Leadership... Sam Harris points out the fact that we love our politicians... but we love them to be like the "average guy" -- pretty dumb.
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POPSIf People Paid More Attention This Wouldn't Be An Issue I can feel for the people in this story who were charged large fees for overdrafts of their accounts - but I can only feel so much. To me, this problem is mainly due to people trying to pass responsibility for themselves and their actions onto someone else. If you know you're close to being out of money in your account, you should be paying more attention to your balance - you should actually be doing this anyway. If you paid more attention, you'd know how much you had to spend, and wouldn't spend more than that. It's that simple people. Now I can understand the issue with banks forcing you into overdraft protection and not allowing you to opt out. It should be optional. But as for the fees themselves - it's an individual's responsibility to understand their accounts, know what they have available to them, and only spent what they have. Getting upset is just failing to take responsibility for your actions.
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POPSAnbar is Iraq's once again In a day when more people seem to be concerned with the pregnancy of Bristol Palin than with hurricane Gustav, this story has barely made a blip. I suspect that with much of our media it wouldn't have seemed important.
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POPSThe Dept. of Puritan Concerns: Duchovny Seeks treatment for Sex Addiction In 10 years practising sex therapy, Vancouver-based clinical sexologist Pega Ren said she's never encountered a case of sexual addiction -- a term she opposes. "People who are having lots of great sex with people that they love and feel close to aren't considered sex addicts, and they don't need therapy," Ren said. Some people who claim to suffer from sexual issues have "lots of sex, little feeling," she said. "It's poor impulse control layered onto desperately unhappy relationships."
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POPSElectronic Waste- Highly Toxic Most of Europe's and Americas e-waste is send off to far away first nations already under extreme strain, and as a result poison those who live and work around our phones and TV's etc. No mandatory recycling demanded by our western leaders. Take responsibility with all you buy and consume. Change politicians,get mad,act consequent.
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POPSQuotiki: social quotes I've been hoping to find a replacement for BigCite, a nicely designed social quotation site that vanished some time ago. This might be it. Collect, share, tag, and save quotations. Fully Web 2.0-compliant with widgets and all that.
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POPSGeorgia breaks ties with Russia Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said Moscow regretted Tbilisi's decision. "The possible end of diplomatic relations with Georgia is not the choice of Moscow, and Tbilisi will have to bear the entire responsibility," the state-controlled Tass news agency reported him as saying.
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POPSHarvard Dean focused on educational change In a CNN article on the lack of focus on education in the presidential campaign, Kathleen McCartney, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, calls on the public to drive the issues so that the candidates respond - and one of the key ways to do that is through effective early childhood education . . . before a child ever reaches school.
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