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POPSAP: Food industry bitten by its lobbying success I guess this is what is meant by less government is good government. This administration has been on the side of big business every step of the way, and this is only one of the paybacks that we the citizens have had to endure. I wonder how many more "slaps in the face" we have been unknowingly receiving through the fact that our President and the present administration, and now including the Supreme Court are on the side of BIG BUSINESS! I kinda think that the 28% interest rate on credit card loans, or the inability to declare bankruptcy, or the lack of adequate health care...etc. etc. etc., might just be a result of the successful lobbying of Big Business to help them with the only thing they are really concerned with.....and that my friends is their BOTTOM LINE! Deregulation has bitten us upon the ass on many fronts....this is just one of them!
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POPSFear and Loathing in Middle America
More: Lucky for us, Bageant didn't hop on the next plane back west, and didn't chalk it all up to a terrible, misconstrued nostalgia. Instead, he stuck to his guns -- literally -- and tried to understand why people in his part of the country, people he genuinely loves despite his utter detestation of their politics, are so dyed-in-the-wool conservative that it'd take the Apocalypse to prize them away from supporting George W. Bush. "In the days before the spine of the labor movement was crushed, back when you could be a gun owner and a liberal without any conflict, members of the political left supported these workers, stood on the lines taking beatings at the plant gates alongside them," he argues. "Now there is practically no labor movement, and large numbers on the left are comfortably ensconced in the true middle class... From that vantage point, liberals currently view working whites as angry, warmongering bigots, happy pawns of the American empire -- which begs the questions
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POPSWait, There Actually Is a Bridge in Brooklyn You Can Sell Me? The common good is flying out the window in this new world of privatization. We will all feel the effects of corporate creed in the course of our daily life. (Government = Bad Corporations = Good} Private Enterprise is the answer to everything. God Bless America! Also, God Help America!
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POPSThe Road Home This is a lengthy NYTimes editorial......finally tells it like it is. Too bad tens of thousands of people have had to die for this fiasco.
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POPSUnchecked and Unbalanced From the book review: "George W. Bush "commuted" Scooter Libby's conviction to keep himself and Cheney from being impeached and possibly imprisoned. If Congress continues to avoid holding authoritarian, law-breaking, monarchal Republicans accountable, our Constitution and existence as a democracy may pass the point of no return. It may have passed that point already."
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POPSHow Did We Get Here? Enlighting article.....rings of truth! Does anyone out there remember GE Theater and Uncle Ronald....He was such a comforting figure.....so soft spoken, etc.
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POPSDick Cheney.....The Decider in Chief! If you go to the link from which this was clipped, you will find one of a series of Washington Post articles explaining Dick Cheney's role as Vice President of the United States......Fascinating Stuff!
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POPSDr. Death' served us all with time in prison We should have a choice. I think of many people who have money and seem to be able to time their death with family and friends all gathered around. I suspect that this is not just a coincidence. One example was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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POPSFalwell may be gone, but "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~ John Adams October 11, 1798 "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purposes." ~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G Spafford March 17, 1814
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POPSA truly global solidarity against extremism and terrorism. The War on Terror could have been much more effective without using 9/11 as a political pawn, and with an intelligent approach to a very complicated problem......."bring-em-on", was not very intelligent.....although it may have been "politically expedient" in winning an election or two.... Shame on you Bush!
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POPSThe Myth Of Voter Fraud Here's the kicker about the fraud in the idea of "voter fraud", and more laws established that disenfranchise more U.S. citizens. The following paragraph from this article say it all! "Those investigating the U.S. attorney firings should ask what orders went out to other prosecutors in the run-up to the 2006 election. Prosecutors are not hired-gun lawyers on a party payroll. They have a special duty to exercise their power responsibly, particularly in the context of a heated election. Pressure on prosecutors to join a witch hunt for individual voter fraud is a scandal, not just for the Justice Department but for voters seeking to exercise their most basic right.
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POPSI Report, You Decide! H0pefully, this link will take you to the documentary "Outfoxed". All you fox news patriotic worshipers can check it out and let me know what you think. Remember......I report, you decide!
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POPSThe Lessons of Iraq I especially like the part about treating the terrorists like "organized crime".....not like a standing army that can be defeated militarily, and at the end have a surrender. That is and has been just nonsense!
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POPSReplace a U.S. Attorney Killed by Terrorism?....... I didn't have room to post this next paragraph...but here it is in all it's gory! Disgusting! ======================================================== In firing the prosecutors and replacing them without Senate approval, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales took advantage of a little-noticed provision that the administration and its Republican enablers in Congress had slipped into the 2006 expansion of the Patriot Act. The ostensible purpose was to allow the swift interim replacement of a United States attorney who was, for instance, killed by terrorism. But these firings had nothing to do with national security — or officials’ claims that the attorneys were fired for poor performance. This looks like a political purge, pure and simple, and President Bush and his White House are in the thick of it.
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