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POPSUh oh Al, They're On To You With any luck this is the first in a long line of people standing up and saying that Al Gore is a phony and bad for business. He deserves to be called out in public. Bless you, Shelton Ehrlich, wherever you are. Well, hot damn! http://carolyntackettscloset.blogspot.com @http://potluckbloggers.wordpress.com/
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POPS Chili Chicken Nutritional Information open nutritional information Amount Per Serving Calories: 142 | Total Fat: 4.1g | Cholesterol: 62mg Custom Versions: Uh-oh, looks like no one has created a custom version of this recipe yet. Be the first to do it - make changes to this recipe now! I would use chicken thighs instead of drumsticks.
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POPSWhy Pluto is No Longer a Planet Astronomers from the association were given the opportunity to vote on the definition of planets. In the end, astronomers voted for the controversial decision of demoting Pluto (and Eris) down to the newly created classification of "dwarf planet". For an object to be a planet, it needs to meet these three requirements defined by the IAU: * It needs to be in orbit around the Sun – Yes, so maybe Pluto is a planet. * It needs to have enough gravity to pull itself into a spherical shape – Pluto…check * It needs to have "cleared the neighborhood" of its orbit – Uh oh. Here's the rule breaker. According to this, Pluto is not a planet.
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POPSMath And Protocol (Or rules, points and yardage) Only one problem. There still isn’t any actual plan, and it still needs to get through Congress. Does this give him the momentum he never really had? Sure, for about 15 minutes after last night’s speech. But you know what they say. It ain’t over till it’s over. They might even pass something remotely resembling whatever it is he’s been trying to put over.
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POPSMissing Cargo Ship, Nah, Red October Probably Uh Oh, It looks like Europe will have to do some stuff and get their hands dirty with possible hijackers. Joke>>These guys got spooked by an earlier boarding and decided to scuttle.....Article mentioned a "secret cargo" suspected--this from Mikhail Voitenko, editor of the Russian Maritime Bulletin Web site said he believed the vessel was carrying "some kind of secret cargo" which made it attractive to potential hijackers.
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POPSYou Will be Phased out of Private Healthcare Insurance!! From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington's coverage. The nonpartisan Lewin Group estimated in April that 120 million or more Americans could lose their group coverage at work and end up in such a program. That would leave private carriers with 50 million or fewer customers. This could cause the market to, as Lewin Vice President John Sheils put it, "fizzle out altogether." What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law.
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POPSIBD: Obamacare Runs Into An "uh-oh Moment"
"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law. So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised " with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers. I am not reading the bill (1000+ page .pdf, or 4 page summary) the same way. The relevant section on page 16 describes the treatment of currently operating plans that will be grandfathered under the new legislation (Key hint - the section is titled "Grandfathered Health Insurnce Coverage Defined). Rather than tear up all existing health insurance contracts, such grandfathered plans will generally be allowed to operate . . .
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POPSObamaCare: The Mask is Off When discussing his proposed government takeover of the US healthcare system, Pres. Obama always hastens to assure people that if you like your current coverage (as the overwhelming majority of people routinely tell pollsters they do), you will be able to keep it. However, if you lose your individual coverage, you will be unable to buy new insurance. And the mentality that outlaws new individual insurance may be inclined to do the same for employer-provided insurance in the future. Not that the Left will have to resort to that. If Obamacare passes, insurance will generally become a function of government. And any “public option” that passes will unfairly compete with private insurers " bypassing the laws that apply to private insurers, sticking taxpayers with hidden administrative costs, paying below-market Medicare rates (which in turn inflate private costs), and so on, until they have crowded competition out of the market.
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POPSData Roaming and the T-mobile G1 I’ve been testing a G1 phone from T-Mobile for the last few weeks. So far I have been very impressed and I believe Android is the phone operating system of the future
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POPS Pelosi's Tortured Press Performance by Mark Steyn One of the few U.S. commentators to pick up on the Afghan schoolgirls story* was Phyllis Chesler, who wrote about it under the headline "The High Cost Of Western Idealism." America and its few real allies fight under the most constrained and self-imposed rules of engagement ever devised, and against an enemy that rejects every basic element of the Geneva Conventions. Perhaps we are so rich, so smart, so advanced that we can fight with one arm and both legs tied behind out back and still win – eventually. Along the way many innocents will suffer. But better that than that a Gitmo detainee with a fear of insects should have a caterpillar put in his cell. Watching the Democrats champing at the bit last week, I thought perhaps we could cut to the chase and handcuff Cheney and Pelosi to a radiator in the basement of a CIA safe house somewhere. But on reflection this would be an unacceptable level of torture. It would be ungallant to say for whom. © MARK STEYN
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POPSchlorine resistant microbial pathogens uh-oh. guess chlorine isn't 100% effective. guess i answered my own question, too. one of the byproducts of the chlorine disinfecting of the wastewater must be DBP's. Is that just a cute pet name that the EPA came up with?
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POPS'Secret' CIA documents on WH Flickr feed Oh geeezz. Where are the grown-ups? Just look. They're all standing around yuckin' it up and being important. The person responsible for posting these on Flickr are the ones who need to be gone though. Small thing many would say; but these are just the ones WE see.
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POPSDem Congressman Admits: "Cap & Trade Is a Great Big Tax" THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. WASHINGTON (AP)—Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says a Democratic proposal to limit global warming pollution will "punish the American people" with higher energy costs and lost jobs. Gingrich appeared before a House subcommittee writing a broad energy and climate bill aimed at cutting greenhouse gases by 80 percent by mid-century. Gingrich, a leading Republican voice who has indicated he may seek the presidency in 2012, criticized the Democrats' cap-and-trade climate proposal. He called it "an energy tax" that will increase Americans' cost of living and kill jobs. Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California accused Gingrich of trying to scare people into opposing action on climate change. Waxman argued the bill is designed to contain energy cost increases. Liveleak Video(5:37)
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