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POPSThere's Always the SCI-FI Channel or Judge Judy!
hey began by locking down major institutions like NASA and Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU). Then they got the media on board, the science magazines, the cable networks. They started churning out articles and documentaries supporting the global warming meme. Millions were spent selling the idea, because many of these groups knew that fear, like sex, sells. There are two main motivations that human beings have. The desire to have something and the fear of losing something. They used both to pitch the notion that we could create a “green utopia” by changing the way we did things, and in doing so we would prevent the end of the world. Who doesn’t want to be a hero? Who doesn’t love the environment? How can you argue with that? But two things happened last year that shot an arrow in the heart of the beast; one of the worst winters on record and Climategate. And the hits keep on coming. Now it turns out that NASA, who claimed for years that their data proves Global Warming is real,
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POPSVideo of Rep. Paul Ryan: CBO Score Uses Double-Counting, Funds “15,000 IRS agents” Paul Ryan: Double counting and spending in HCR bill will lead to massive debts and deficits Posted by therightscoop in Politics on Mar 19th, 2010 | View Comments The American people are being duped by the Democrats and the MSM. I mean, why wouldn’t the MSM cover this? I’m sure Paul Ryan would be glad to sit down with them and show them where these numbers come from. He even said most of this in the big meeting that Obama had with Republicans and Democrats a couple of weeks ago. But they don’t care because they want this bill! They are complicit in this government takeover! “15,000 IRS agents” http://bit.ly/c01Y6N
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POPSObamaCare's Worst TAX HIKE
Preliminary estimates from the Joint Committee on Taxation peg the revenue from these changes at $183.6 billion over 10 years. The Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution estimates that 86 percent of the revenue from the investment tax would come from people making more than $624,000, or about 1.2 million taxpayers. This has led many liberals to claim that it won't matter to investors or harm the economy. Yet these static analyses ignore the incentive effects forecast by the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, says the Journal: Stephen Entin and colleagues estimates that the investment tax would depress GDP by about 1.3 percent and reduce capital formation by 3.4 percent, and thus reduce the after-tax incomes of everyone not paying the tax directly in the neighborhood of 1.1 percent to 1.2 percent. Labor productivity and wages would fall across the board, while the lost government revenues from the more-sluggish economy woul
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POPSThe Longest Suicide Note In History "The democrats are deviously plotting a way, some way, ANY way to sneak ObamaCare through the US House without Democrats actually having to vote for it! They are scared “witless” of what they know is coming – a purge of the Congress."
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POPSShameless Health Care Scam In addition to “buying” support through deals like the Cornhusker Kickback and the Louisiana Purchase, Pelosi is trying to trick the American people — most of whom have no genuine understanding of the interworkings of government. In addition to admitting that we don’t even know what’s in the bill, Pelosi is pushing a method that will merely “deem” the bill passed without Members actually voting so the power is all in their hands. That just doesn’t seem right to me. “I like it because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill,” Pelosi said this week. How convenient. Though this tactic has been used many times before, it’s never been used to push through legislation as monumental and precedent setting as this. It’s happening all ready. Last week, Rep. Dan Maffei (D-NY) said the Senate bill “burns the village in order to save it.” Today Maffei has changed his mind and one has to wonder why he’s decided to “burn the village.”
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POPSWellington cleans up after freak storm The clean up has begun in the capital after a freak storm swept across the region causing widespread damage and chaos on Friday afternoon. Rooves were blown off buildings, trees uprooted and boats upturned. "It's the worst storm I have see, it came up really fast, went from 15 knots in the north to more than 50 knots from the south just like that," says boatie Matt Wood.
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POPSShould You Be An Entrepreneur? 20 Questions From Harvard Business Review The era of entrepreneurship has begun. Everyone is talking about it. Is it for you? This article from the Harvard Business Review offers 20 questions to help you decide. Here is the intro and the first two questions. Check out the full article for the other 18 questions. Shallie Bey Smarter Small Business Blog (http://businessrebirth.blogspot.com) Follow me on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/ShallieBey)
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POPSDaily Dose of Deification Iconography Asked to stop violating the laws and traditions of this country, he instead nationalizes businesses, grows the size of government and creates new entitlements and payoffs for his union backers. The Times -- and Obama -- are both anachronisms destined for the ash heaps of history. In the latter case, surpassing the detestable James Earl Carter for the title of worst president of all time. That much is already certain.
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POPSWASTE 102 more idiotic ways government is spending your tax dollars at source
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POPSHow the healthcare debate is making America sick Dr. Yehezkial Caine, director general of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem, is proud of what Israel has been able to contribute to world medicine: “Israel’s disproportionate exposure to terrorism has made us 'experts by necessity' in treating emergency injuries and psychological trauma. On a more positive note, as life expectancy in our country increases, we have also developed expertise in geriatric medicine generally and particularly in certain specialized neurological disorders associated with ageing.” Israelis are indeed living longer. In 1992 male life expectancy at birth was about 76 years in the US as well as in Israel. By 2006, it had risen to 77.8 years in the US and to 80.3 years in Israel. Much of this improvement can be attributed to Israel’s passage of a National Health Insurance Law in 1995.
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POPSThe Networks vs. Cable: The Oscar-Night Battle Sunday night's Oscar program almost didn't happen for millions of TV viewers in the New York City area, in the latest high-stakes battle between media giants over the cost of TV programming. Why are these battles happening now, and who will ultimately win? "Network programming is at the top ," said CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves at a conference in early March. "If we're spending millions of dollars on NFL or CSI, we should get paid as much as a cable network showing repeats." (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials of 2010.)
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POPSHow paedophile priest was allowed to evade justice Video wouldn't clip. In Britain, the Home Office said that because Carney's two convictions for indecent assault pre-date the 2003 Sex Offender's Act and took place in Ireland he would not be on the Sex Offenders Register and would pass unseen through the new stricter vetting procedures for child protection.
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POPSAustralians are worst at sledging: John Read Former New Zealand skipper John Reid feels some members of the current Australian cricket team are “idiots” who need to be reined in. The former match referee’s comments came after Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson head-butted Scott Styris to show of aggression during the first one-dayer in Napier last week.
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POPSRasmussen Poll: Worst Day Ever for Obama’s Presidential Approval Index Numbers
Could it be that dead horse of a horrible health care bill that Dear Leader keeps beating to cross some fictional finish line that is making his approval index among American voters drop more than it has ever dropped? Or is it his ineptitude on understanding how the free market works? Or is it his coddling of Islamic jihadists? Or is it the denial of AGW data corruption and compromised results on that despicable global warming sham (plus record snow and cold throughout most of the world)? Or is it his obsession with golfing and holding rallies at liberal colleges (love that applause!) and jetting around every week on Air Force One instead of actually leading? Rhetorical questions… Obama’s worst day ever on Rasmussen: From American Thinker: http://bit.ly/aO0iCg The relentless push for ObamaCare is driving down President Obama’s net disapproval rating to its worst performance ever. The Rasmussen Daily tracking poll, which is based on an automated telephone
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