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POPSCultivating Your Idea Field for 2010 Have a fantastic New Year and I hope I will speak to you in 2010 brimming with new ideas Author: Steven Aitchison The owner of this blog. Proud father, doting husband, blogger, hire me as freelance writer, and addiction worker http://bit.ly/62lMop You can follow Steven Aitchison on Twitter: http://twitter.com/stevenaitchison
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POPSFlouride Action Network Fundraiser PROFESSIONALS' STATEMENT: 2,694 Medical, Scientific, and Environmental Professionals Calling for End to Fluoridation Worldwide December 22: U.S. signers (A-M - N-Z) and International signers include: • 393 Nurses (RN, MSN, BSN, ARNP, APRN, LNC, RGON) • 374 PhD's - includes DSc (Doctor of Science); EdD (Doctor of Education); DrPH (Doctor of Public Health) • 361 DC's (Doctor of Chiropractic, includes M Chiro) • 320 MD's (includes MBBS) • 261 Dentists (DDS, DMD, BDS) • 132 ND's (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine) • 68 Lawyers (JD, LLB, Avvocato)
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POPSAt 31,000 mph, Space Probe Gets Halfway to Pluto in Record Time; ETA: July 2015 Should make for good visuals... During that time, the probe will capture 4.5 gigabytes of data, which it will have to keep sending the four-and-a-half hours back home for months. With its main mission accomplished, the craft will keep moving away from the sun, following in the extrasolar footsteps of the earlier Pioneer and Voyager missions, drifting ever farther away from us.
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POPSRepublican Attorneys General in 13 States Threaten Lawsuit Over Health Care
The 60-39 vote marked the third time in as many days Democrats posted a supermajority needed to advance the legislation. The letter was signed by top prosecutors in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington state. All are Republicans, and McMaster and the attorneys general of Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania are running for governor in their respective states. Last week, McMaster said he was leading several other attorneys general in an inquiry into the constitutionality of the estimated $100 million deal he has dubbed the "Cornhusker Kickback." Republican U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint of South Carolina raised questions about the legislation, which they said was amended to win Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson's support. "Because this provision has serious implications for the country and the future of our nation's legislative process .....
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POPSFleetwood Member of the trough If you wonder why I have repeated this, it is because the young Royal Marine killed in action earlier this year, paid for his own food and lodgings whilst in barracks, and got but a pittance of these expenses whilst on active service in Afghanistan.
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POPSObamaCare Sparking 10th Amendment Action in Seven States Graham has been all over cable news today visibly angry about the vote-buying by Reid that secured the votes of Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, as well as possibly other senators as yet unknown. DeMint has also been active, especially on the issue of the Reid amendment's provision seeking to bar future congresses from changing even a single word of Section 3403 on the Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMAB). The IMAB will become the federal health care ground zero under Obamacare if it becomes law. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has a link to DeMint's floor speech on the issue and additional information, analyses, and links. Nelson's deal with Reid has attracted the most attention because it exempts Nebraska from paying its share of Medicaid expenses in perpetuity. Medicaid expenditures are among the most expensive federal mandates on state governments, and the Obamacare bill will significantly increase costs
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POPSBattle of the Legends Given the strengths of both legendary fighters we can be assured of a great MMA pound for pound action that will surely end in a very entertaining and striking. Don’t dare miss it, UFC 109, relentless.
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POPS Trial Lawyers Buy Democrats in Congress (98% of total "contributions"!) Since Jan. 3, 2009, 581 contributions worth $1,261,023 have been made by donors identifying themselves as employees of the 15 firms (contributions by employees who did not identify their employer are not reflected in this data). Democratic candidates and committees received $1,241,978, or 98 percent of the total. The most generous of these lucrative sources of Democratic campaign cash was the Dallas-based Baron & Budd, best known for the late Fred Baron, who was finance chairman for former Sen. John Edwards' 2008 presidential run. Thus far in 2009, Baron & Budd employees have contributed $212,958 to 21 Democrats, and not a cent to Republicans. Second on the list is the New York-based Grant Eisenhofer firm, with employees contributing $184,078 to seven Democrats and no Republicans. Of the 138 total recipients from employees of all 15 of the firms, 122 were Democrats and just 16 were Republicans. The Democrats received contributions averaging more than $4,700,
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POPSObama Pledges ACTION
Obama restated his mission to craft policy that will cut CO2 emissions in America by 80 percent before 2050 – an act that will completely devastate the economyand herald a new great depression as we have previously documented. He also said that $100 billion dollars would be mobilized for climate financing by 2020, the vast majority of which will come from a global tax on financial transactions and a GDP tax, as we have highlighted. Obama said the ability to “take collective action is in doubt right now,” admitting that the success of the conference “hangs in the balance.” Upset at the fact that the Copenhagen agenda is stalling, Obama is busily attempting to engineer an agreement via a series of behind closed doors meetings with world leaders. “President Barack Obama and world leaders are holding another impromptu meeting in search of a climate deal,” reports the Associated Press. “Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday that Obama was meeting behind closed doors with the
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POPSMorning Must Reads -- Chinese Won't Bow to Obama that Democrats haven’t reached a deal. The Senate is moving on to a year-end defense appropriations bill until Saturday as Majority Leader Harry Reid tries to whip his caucus into shape. We don’t know who is objecting behind closed doors, but Nebraska’s Ben Nelson, who opposes abortion and some tax increases, is the most public of the skeptics right now. Reid is trying to spur action by imposing a hideous, around-the-clock schedule on the Senate through Christmas, but few believe right now that Reid can make his year-end deadline. “With Mr. Nelson's vote in doubt, President Barack Obama met with Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, the lone Republican to show interest in supporting the package, to see if she would back the bill. Sen. Snowe is an abortion-rights supporter. ‘He'd prefer to get this moving,’ Sen. Snowe said. She added that she urged the president to postpone action and use ‘part of January’ to deal with her concerns, which include a proposal to establish a new long-term
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POPSFirst Look: ‘Iron Man 2′ Trailer Arrives First ‘Iron Man’ 2 movie trailer arrives online with fresh new action. Paramount Pictures has just released the first movie trailer (below) for “Iron Man 2.” It looks pretty damn good,delivering some fresh new action with Mickey Rourke as Iron Man’s alter ego nemesis, Whiplash. The movie stars: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Garry Shandling, John Slattery, Kate Mara, Clark Gregg, and Olivia Munn. In “Iron Man 2,” the world is now aware that billionaire inventor, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is the armored Super hero, “Iron Man.” He has started to become pressured by the government,the press, and the public to reveal his technology with the military. Tony doesn’t want to give up the secrets of the technology because he fears the information will get into the wrong hands. Tony will also forge new alliances,and confront new forces.
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POPSSanders: "As of this point, I'm not voting for the bill" Sanders Will Not Support Current Bill In an interview on Fox Business News, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he's not ready to vote for the current Senate health care reform bill. Said Sanders: "I'm struggling with this. As of this point, I'm not voting for the bill... I'm going to do my best to make this bill a better bill, a bill that I can vote for, but I've indicated both to the White House and the Democratic leadership that my vote is not secure at this point. And here is the reason. When the public option was withdrawn, because of Lieberman's action, what I worry about is how do you control escalating health care costs?" Here's the clip via Think Progress: http://bit.ly/7Up4zx
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POPSWas Democrats’ Health Care Strategy Written In Federal Prison? He also founded its predecessor, Illinois Public Action, in which Ms. Schakowsky served as Program Director. He runs a political consulting firm, the Strategic Consulting Group, which lists ACORN and the SEIU among its clients and which made $541,000 working for disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. Creamer resigned from Citizen Action/Illinois after the FBI began investigating him for bank fraud and tax evasion at Illinois Public Action. He was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to five months in federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, plus eleven months of house arrest. While in prison"or “forced sabbatical,” he called it"Creamer wrote a lengthy political manual, Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win (Seven Locks Press, 2007). The book was endorsed by leading Democrats and their allies, including SEIU boss Andy Stern"the most frequent visitor thus far to the Obama White House"and chief Obama strategist David Axelrod, who noted
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POPSwal-mart will pay $40 million to workers hmmmm...........not paying for overtime-expecting workers to work off the clock- gee- there oughta be a law-! oh......there is...........flip wal-mart am sure 734.00 on average per employee in this state where the law suit was filed- hardly addresses the problems incurred by many employees..........WTF is wrong- with corporate america? or maybe better yet..........what is wrong with america period
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POPSHuman Blood May Hold the Secret to Clean Coal "As cells pump CO2 produced during respiration into the blood, the enzyme carbonic anhydrase converts the gas into bicarbonate for easier transport to the lungs. There the same enzyme works in reverse, turning the molecules back into the CO2 gas you exhale. This action could play the critical role of selectively capturing CO2 from mixed gas emissions for later sequestration. "
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POPSAre you funding cluster bombs? Cluster bombs are large explosive weapons that scatter dozens or hundreds of smaller submunitions over a wide area. They cannot distinguish between military targets and civilians. Many submunitions fail to detonate on impact and, like landmines, continue to kill and maim people long after the conflict has ended. Find out more about Dtar's story by watching this short film. The good The global campaign to eradicate cluster bombs, spearheaded by the Cluster Munitions Coalition, reached a major breakthrough in 2008 when governments negotiated an international treaty to ban them. So far, 103 countries have joined the Convention on Cluster Munitions, including the UK. The bad Although the UK government has signed the ban and stopped production of cluster bombs, UK banks still invest in cluster bomb producers in countries that have not yet outlawed them. A ban simply can’t be effective if there is still funding for the production of these weapons.
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