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POPSThe American War on Pot Rolls On In this guest essay, journalist Sherwood Ross examines this excessive use of government power against citizens engaging in personal behavior that many doctors say isn’t as dangerous as drinking alcohol and far less risky than smoking cigarettes:
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POPSCope with Stress: Ten Stress Management Self-help Tips Managing stress is about taking charge: taking charge of your thoughts, your emotions, your schedule, your environment, and the way you deal with problems. of ourselves during stressful times, we will get sick. Getting sick can be as simple as getting a cold. Stress is linked to heart attacks, cancer, arthritis, chronic fatigue and many more dis-eases. The final goal is a balanced life, with time for work, relationships, relaxation, and fun – plus the resilience to hold up under pressure and meet challenges head on.
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POPSBullies don't typically get the last laugh (via @masbury) Found this article after reading a different clip from it (see http://bit.ly/3QrMZP). Really good article for those interested in understand bullies and how to confront them. One thing i hope to impart on my kids is the ability to have a longer term perspective than kids usually possess. If possible, i think it will alleviate some of the pressure that comes with adolescence. This clip speaks directly to what i'm talking about...
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POPS"I'm Not A Doctor, I Just Play One On TV" Like cheeseburgers and cigarettes and alcohol and cars that drive faster than 25 miles per hour? 3. Economics 101 FAIL "Having a public plan out there that also shows that maybe if you take some of the profit motive out, maybe if you are reducing some of the administrative costs, that you can get an even better deal, that's going to incentivize the private sector to do even better." 2. I Don't Know Anything, But I Know the Police Acted Stupidly On the professor arrested following a confrontation with a police officer after he broke into his own house: "Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here. I don't know all the facts. ... "Now, I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly." 1. Doctors Want to Take Your Kids' Tonsils For Profit
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POPSI have a right to die how i want to...lol Really makes me mad when government turns into dictatorship and tries to control my life. Yeah i knows it's bad for you. I know it will eventually kill me. BUT... I don't do drugs, never have, i don't drink, and since doctor told me to either give up cigarettes or sex....well there went the wife...lol I don't bother other people with my 2nd hand smoke because i do respect their wishes not to inhale my smoke. So leave me alone with the smoking ! Have them taxed so much now it costs a fortune. But not alcohol or other things bureaucrats enjoy....why is that. Won't be long before there will be another Tea Party. This time not in Boston but nation wide.
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POPSYou could be a terrorist if...
If you are a puppet-on-a-string assiduously following every law to the letter, enthusiastically nodding in agreement to everything the government tells you, patriotically turning in your neighbors for every infraction of the law (both written and social), then you have nothing to worry about. Many Americans, Republican and Democrat, have grown tired of the direction in which this country is headed. The once occasional lapse in ethics has become common place, greed and irresponsibility by our financial institutions are being rewarded in the form of ‘bailout’ tax dollars, citizens have to watch what we say and do and how we do it, self-interest has supplanted “doing what is right for this country”, special interest groups are favored over national security and welfare, food safety has been jeopardized in favor of profit. Civil unrest is brewing and FEMA detention centers are sprouting up across the nation. http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/FEMA-Concentration-Camps3sep04.htm
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POPSOrwellian U.K. Angers People With Tree Cameras, Snooping Kids East Hampshire, in south England, applied the law to catch vandals defacing tombstones. Derby, in northern England, invoked it to send children with recording gear into shops to see if they'd unlawfully be sold cigarettes and alcohol. "It's unreal,'' said Dean Price, 24, a graphic designer in London. ``We've been sleep-walking into this. Everyone talks about Orwell and 1984 but no one ever does anything about it.'' "It's ironic that a nation that was once a bastion of privacy, one in which `an Englishman's home is his castle' and that did away with National ID Cards in 1952, is now one of the most surveilled in the world,'' said Toby Stevens, founder of London's Enterprise Privacy Group. Brian Clements, a 79-year-old retired teacher from Clacton- on-Sea, south England, said the measures are ``like using a sledge hammer to crack a nut.'' "Wouldn't the Gestapo have loved all those little cameras,'' he said.
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