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POPSObama names 500 WH visitors Wwwhhhaatt??? "...do not refer to the most famous people to carry those names." I don't know how in the world Gary Bauer got in there.
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POPSTop Percenters - Raise our Taxes Now We would see a minimal tax increase -- from 35% to 39.6%, a rate still far lower than the one under President Reagan -- but the increased revenue would raise an estimated $43 billion per year. The group’s founders include Chuck Collins, who inherited some of the Oscar Mayer meat fortune and who has long been involved in agitating on income-inequality issues. He may be best known for co-authoring the 2003 book "Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes" with Bill Gates Sr. The book made the case for retaining the federal estate tax. Wealth for the Common Good on Tuesday sent its request to President Obama and to House and Senate leaders, including a petition with more than 1,000 signatures.
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POPSBill and Melinda Gates pledge 120 million to boost African, Indian farmers Oh noez. Corporate America, Bill Gates, is dropping 120 million to help Africa and India. So liberals, this must horrify you right? Because corporations are "evil" in your nightmares or did you confuse it with an episode of "Fringe". Moan for me libs. Moan about America and whine because Americans, Bill and Melinda Gates, just blew your mind. Where's that fatty Michael Moore-on anyway? Probably sitting in Krispy Kreme or Dominoes Pizza stuffing his fat face. I know this news isn't as important as the Christians eating fried chicken at the Baptist Church, but who could compete with a horror show like that. Waaaaahhhhhh corporations......waaaaahhhhhh Christians........wahhhhhhh Rush Limbaugh.......waaaaaahhhhhhhhhh. Boohoo. Cry me a river.
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POPSMutating vaccine causes polio outbreak in Nigeria The agency discussed the first 16 cases it knew of at meetings early this year and posted information on its Web site in April, "but only in places where lab people would look," he said. Outbreaks of vaccine-derived polio are unusual but not unheard of. Individual cases have been known for years. For example, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia was partly paralyzed in 1973, apparently after changing the diapers of his son, who had received an oral vaccine. The first spreading outbreak of a vaccine-derived strain, in which 22 children were paralyzed, was detected in 2001 in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Experts now believe that another took place in Egypt in the late 1980s but went unnoticed amid the much larger numbers of wild-type infections. There have been others in the Philippines, Madagascar, China and Indonesia.
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POPSNone Dare Call it Art When 40 months seem a heavy load And every day makes your head explode Read Ott and Steyn and Iowahawk And Life won't feel like such a crock. David Hussein Burge! Mmmm -- mmmm -- mmmm Thanks, DB, I'm proud as hell, Of America -- just like Michelle! We're finally rising from the pits Cuz we elected YOU the King of Wits! David Hussein Burge! Mmmm -- mmmmm -- mmmm! Is This for real? A contest? Panderhawk Oh, Iowahawk! Who leaps into action when all the other blogsters just talk? Iowahawk! Who rushes in where angels fear to walk? Iowahawk! Who packs more irony than any other kid on the block? Iowahawk! Who causes the targets of his incisive satire, whether high or low, left or right, real or imaginary, to throw up their figuratively blood-stained hands and squawk? Iowahawk! Oh, Iowahawk, Your intelligence compares favorably to sixties Star Trek character Spock! Your masculine beauty is without any flaw or pock!
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POPSWhite Voters, Easy Marks For Controversy Stokers
proposed healthcare overhaul, in which some conservatives accused him of socialism. Obama’s ratings seem likely to rise again if he wins passage of healthcare legislation this fall. One such episode came to a head Sunday when Van Jones, Obama’s green jobs czar, resigned after a week of criticism over past inflammatory statements and for signing onto conspiracy theories questioning whether the U.S. government played a role in the Sept. 11 attacks. In another episode, some conservatives have criticized a White House dinner invitation issued to the lead lawyer in the American Civil Liberties Union lawsuits that have forced the government to disclose Bush-era interrogation techniques. The lawyer was invited to an event for the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. And Obama’s plan to address the nation’s schoolchildren Tuesday has prompted an outcry among some conservative parents and GOP officials. Some of them have accused the White House of trying to infuse “socialism”
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POPSHow Barack Obama Played the Race Card and Blamed Hillary Clinton February 27, 2008 The Obama mass mailings also attempt to appeal to Ohio's labor vote by claiming that Clinton believed that the North American Free Trade Agreement, signed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, was a "'boon' to our economy." More falsehood: In fact, Clinton had not said that; Newsday originally applied the word "boon" and has now noted the Obama campaign's distortion. In this campaign, Clinton has called for a moratorium on all trade agreements until they are made consistent with labor and environmental standards-- Ignoring all that, the Obama flyer features an alarming photograph of closed plant gates, having no connection to any action of Senator Clinton's, as well as the dubious quotation about her from Newsday in 2006. Newsday has criticized "Obama's use of the quotation" as "misleading ... an example of the kind of slim reeds campaigns use to try and win an office." As insidious as these tactics are, though, the Obama campaign's most effective . . . . .
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POPSTotal Victory The fact that it has garnered so much attention I think is a testimony to the fact that these are issues that are still very sensitive here in America. So to the extent that my choice of words didn’t illuminate, but rather contributed to more media frenzy, I think that was unfortunate. Yeah, well, stupid is as stupid does, as Forrest Gump put it. Anyway, I’m not sure “total victory” is the correct choice of words to describe what Sgt. James Crowley has accomplished. That ground looks more like scorched earth. I almost feel bad for Harvard Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. It’s gotta suck. Sitting there in Oak Bluffs on Martha Vineyard, with his 24-gear handmade German tricycle with the ice cream truck bell (no cruel jokes about what a grown man wants an ice cream truck bell on his tricycle for, please). Trying to figure out where it all went wrong. Trying to figure out how to make it right. Anti-racism crusader, done in by his own racism.
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POPSSenate stops funding for F-22 It's time we start spending our tax money on things that we really need like health care and not some fighter that we don't need and is too expensive.
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POPSKey F-22 booster Rep. Gingrey owns Boeing stock Georgia Republican Congressman Phil Gingrey will make money if the aircraft the Pentagon doesn't want is built. He's stuck it back in the bill from which it had been removed. Smaller government, Rep Gingrey?
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POPSObama’s First Veto Threat Framed as Message on Spending The SAP also says Obama would veto the measure if $603 million is allotted for development of an alternative engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program, money the administration views as wasted spending that would result in a delay in the program. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Friday reaffirmed the veto threat. “ Secretary Gates has outlined a very robust plan to change our defense procurement and investment in weapons systems and manpower to what makes the most sense for the future,” Gibbs said. “He and others have determined that” added spending on F-22s “is not part of the program.”
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POPSMedical bills prompt more than 60% of U.S. bankruptcies So . . . what good is health insurance? Everyone I know who can actually afford it (only those lucky enough to be full time employed at the right place) get regular check-ups, rush to emergency for things most of us without insurance would not, and still complain about the high cost. Insurance companies are all set up to make money off of your fears, not to pay out when you need it. Corporate lawyers, well-written contracts, and fear are insurance companies best friends. This study was conducted one year before the current financial situation, which means the numbers are likely worse. Frankly, I have no faith that health care reform is going to change anything for the better.
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POPSBillionaires Agree On Plan To Rid Earth Of A Billion People At a conference in Long Beach, California, last February, he had made similar points. “Official projections say the world’s population will peak at 9.3 billion but with charitable initiatives, such as better reproductive healthcare, we think we can cap that at 8.3 billion,” Gates said then.
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