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POPSGirls On Our Streets "Solutions are complicated and involve broader efforts to overcome urban poverty, including improving schools and attempting to shore up the family structure. But a first step is to stop treating these teenagers as criminals and focusing instead on arresting the pimps and the customers — and the corrupt cops. “The problem isn’t the girls in the streets; it’s the men in the pews,” notes Stephanie Davis, who has worked with Mayor Shirley Franklin to help coordinate a campaign to get teenage prostitutes off the streets."
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POPSProtect Children, Not Guns To validate the “for the children” gambit, there should especially be some link between gun prevalence and child murder. Examining the Centers for Disease Control fatal injury data reveals the truth. Looking at total fatal injuries, between 1994 and 2005, the overall fatal injury rate for ages 15+ (non-children) rose 4.6%, but it fell 26.6% for children (ages 0-14). Overall homicide rates (murdered by any means, e.g. firearms, strangulation, poison) for ages 15+ fell faster than for ages 0-14 (-35.6% to -28.2%), but firearms homicide rates fell faster for children: -53.0% to -38.0% for ages 15+. This variance shows that while non-children are relatively safer when looking at overall homicide, children became much safer from firearms homicide.
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POPSNo Problem With Gay Soldiers in British Military One of the most amazing pieces of info in this article, that you will read, if you take the time consume the entire piece online, is that the Brits are afraid to publicize its success with their acceptance of gays in the military for fear of upsetting the higher-ups in the U.S. government. This is appalling in my rarely to be humble opinion. Why should Britain or any other of the many countries who permit gays to serve openly in the military, keep their mouths shut about the success of their decision just to placate the homophobic bigots, such as Peter Pace, in the U.S.? Isn't the U.S. strong enough to withstand the fact that they might be wrong on a particular issue? I don't believe our country is so delicate that it cannot stand-up to the facts of the matter.
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POPSTorture & Enemies of the State
Of course we only might torture terrorists who are enemies of the state. After all, we're doing this to protect America, right? But the VERY important question is: who is an enemy of the state? How do you know you aren't one? In China, in the name of protecting the state, they are torturing and imprisoning environmental activists like Wu Lihong, and journalists and anyone else who doesn't jump on board the "Harmonious Society," "One World One Dream." Especially people who embarrass the government. And how do you know that won't happen to us? Let me illustrate the slippery slope in three steps: 1. We torture terrorists 2. Because of extreme groups like Earth First, "Eco-terrorism" becomes a major concern for Bush in his third term. ;) 3. Moderate environmental groups are conflated with the radical ones, meaning everyone who ever signed a Green Peace petition or wears a hemp "head covering" is a suspect terrorist. If you condone Guantanamo, remember this: you might be next.
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POPSCongress Objects to CIA Lies But Not Torture and Murder? So what do you call a country if not a "tyranny" when its top officials dispatch their henchmen around the world to murder their enemies? That’s how the Soviet Union’s Joe Stalin worked. "No man, no problem." Stalin was no believer in respecting the sovereignty of other countries or bothering with their courts. Just go in and kill the guy. Apparently, Cheney worked the same way. And like Stalin, he authorized torture. This totalitarian streak runs deep both in the White House and CIA. The U.S. had been involved in the assassination or attempted assassination of 37 world leaders and more than 50 U.S. foreign interventions, mostly by the CIA, ranging from blackmail to armed overthrow. Blum also cites evidence of CIA meddling in 30 foreign elections. The crimes of our presidents and the CIA today represent everything America’s Founders despised.
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POPS“Nobody Wants To Take On The White House . . . . " While our sacred Constitution grants him no such authority, Obama has had no trouble firing the head of General Motors, rewarding union “activists” with control of Chrysler, unilaterally forcing health care executives to forego $2 trillion (with a “T) in future revenue, implicitly telling Citigroup and Bank of America that they must fire their CEO’s, and blackmail, extort, or threaten the state of California that unless it restores wage cuts to a union, he will rescind billions in already granted stimulus money. Four months into his presidency and Obama has removed all doubt that he is the most “activist” president of our lifetimes. He is an activist president who demonstrates his leftist leanings with almost every action and non-action. One such non-action being his decision not to reject or correct America-bashing strongmen Hugo Chavez or Daniel Ortega at last month’s Summit of the Americas. Why?
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POPSHistory of How the Bushes Brought Bedlam to Iraq, permanently?!
That despite the strong warnings of his own Cabinet against such reckless policies, and a 1989 report by the CIA that Iraq had greatly accelerated its nuclear program, and was now the world's largest maker of chemical weapons. Bush also used the global criminal network of the Bank of Credit and BCCI to secretly funnel cash and weaponry to Saddam – then intervened to quash federal investigations of the scam. What was BCCI? Only "one of the largest criminal enterprises in history," according to the Senate. What did BCCI do? "It engaged in pandemic bribery of officials in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas," says journalist Christopher Bryon, who first exposed the operation. "It laundered money on a global scale, intimidated witnesses and law officers, engaged in extortion and blackmail. It supplied the financing for illegal arms trafficking and global terrorism. It financed and facilitated income tax evasion, smuggling and prostitution." An early version of the Bush Regim
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POPS Cybercrime Gang Suddenly Vanishes From Web A report from Symantec, the online security firm, alleges that the RBN has links with the criminal underground and government in Russia. However, in recent days huge numbers of RBN-hosted sites have disappeared from the Web, leading analysts to speculate that the group is revamping its business model. "RBN is reorganizing," said Raimund Genes, the chief technology officer of Trend Micro, a security group that has traced attacks by the RBN on corporate and government sites across Europe and US back to servers based in Panama. One reason is thought to be the recent threats by Russian authorities to impose tougher penalties on Internet criminals. Another was that large legitimate Internet service providers — which the RBN relies on to provide it with Internet access — have dropped it as a customer as its activities became more and more notorious
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POPSBush Guilty of Holoacuast Denial When anyone questions the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews during World War II they are rightfully scorned. But now, the same people who would join in such scorning are being blackmailed by the Turkish government into denying the first holocaust of Armenians that set the stage for the Jewish Holocaust. Why is is NOT ok to question or deny the genocide taken against Europe's Jews, but perfectly acceptable to deny the Armenian holocaust in which over 1 1/2 million innocent people died? We as a country should be ashamed, as should Britain and any other country that is going along with this political blackmail by the Turks.
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POPSThe New Soft Underbelly Of Europe if Iran is able to continue a very transparent nuclear policy to its logical conclusion. Looking at Germany, then, Iran sees a country with nothing to counter the pressure of merely an implied nuclear threat. Jihadists see the linchpin of Europe, easy of access and inadvertently hospitable to operations, that will hardly punish those who fall into its hands, and that can neither accomplish on its own a flexible expeditionary response against a hostile base or sponsor, nor reply in kind to a nuclear strike. Thus the German government should be especially nervous about cargos trucked overland from the east. For its own protection, and thus that of Europe, Germany could more closely integrate and where appropriate reintegrate itself into the expeditionary and nuclear retaliatory structures of the U.S., Britain, and France, without moving nuclear weapons forward to German soil; embrace limited missile defense against potentially nuclear-armed Iranian IRBMs
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POPSGas prices: The key to fuel economy There will be a market for these smaller cars, but how many families can fit theirs into one? They are going to be super dangerous on our highways; ie. collisions and in the long run cost people more. This is nothing but pure blackmail. All the while, those in power will continue to sport about in whatever, usually at taxpayers expense, and the really, really good plan for energy independence is going down the drain. Control us by increasing the price of gasoline so that we can't afford the vehicles we want, are appropriate for our households, offer a reasonable amount of physical security, etc... There is not enough space to say everything about why I hate this. We have become serfs to this Administration.
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POPSThe Would-Be President Intends To Blackmail Congress. . . . . . . . . Into Falling In Line With His Climate Agenda . What about those carbon off-sets? Will Obama give us a chance to discuss it, or will he simply propose blanket changes that will destroy our economy? From the Wall Street Journal: Obama's Carbon Ultimatum http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122445812003548473.html Wizbang has the best discussion of the plans. http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/11/02/audio-obamas-cap-and-trade-policy-so-aggressive-it-will-bankcrupt-coal-powered-plants.php Flopping Aces has information about what will happen to energy prices. http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/11/02/obama-told-paper-he-will-intentionally-bankrupt-the-coal-industry/ No Quarter has additional information about the idiocy The One is planning. http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/11/02/obama-send-some-price-signals-to-change-behavior/
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POPSOPEC strangling American economy I can't really agree with this. Our Congress has done more to "strangle" us than any foreign agency. IF we allow this to continue, we will be the object of our enemies manipulation and blackmail. Like every other *serious* issue, Congress has sat on it's hands for several decades...promoting band aid solutions instead of acting responsibly to make us energy independent. Lay the blame where it belongs; at the Halls of Congress.
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POPSIsraeli President Katsav to be indicted for raping two women? In an attempt to thwart the accusations made at him, President Katsav tried to seek charges of blackmail against the alleged victim, which appeared to backfire as the publicity unleashed many new allegations from other women: Altogether, there appears to be sufficient evidence to indict Katsav for sexual offenses involving five women. Additional complainants are expected to be summoned to testify against him at his trial to reinforce the argument that Katsav had a specific modus operandi in relation to women. And if that wasn't enough, Police have also found sufficient evidence to indict Katsav on charges of illegal wiretapping and Katsav is also suspected of obstructing justice and harassing a witness.
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POPSPoll: Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama I had heard about this new strategy but hadn't actually read anything someone had written. So...if you're a white Dem/Ind. and you don't vote for Obama then you're a racist/bigot. That just oozes manipulation and guilt projection. Or maybe a little psychological blackmail.
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