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POPSTerrible Life Lessons From Your Favorite Christmas Movies Movie: A Christmas Carol (1951) Bad Lesson: People Will Like You Instantly If You Give Them Money Movie: Home Alone (1990) Bad Lesson: People in the Chicago Suburbs Never Call the Police for Any Reason Whatsoever Movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) Bad Lesson: Sometimes Chevy Chase Makes Good Movies Movie: Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) Bad Lesson: If People Were Mean to You as a Kid, That Excuses ANY Malicious Criminal Behavior You Might Commit When You’re an Adult Movie: It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Bad Lesson: If You’re in Need of a Moment of Clarity – Why Not Give Suicide a Try? Movie: Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Bad Lesson: If Enough People Say Something Is True, Eventually, It Becomes True Movie: A Christmas Story (1983) Bad Lesson: Toy Safety Warnings are Pointless and Should Be Disregarded Immediately.
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POPSKentucky Census Worker Committed Suicide Very sad, but better than thinking he was murdered by "anti- gov'ment" people. Shame on him for trying to get someone else blamed for his death, though. Innocent people could have gotten hurt.
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POPS Iowahawk Endorses thus, while his Congressional cohort was tripping on brown acid in the mud at Max Yasgur's farm, Mr. Hoffman was gearslamming down the quarter mile at Fulton Speedway. Yessirree bob, this photo tells me everything I need to know about Mr. Hoffman, and I enthusiastically give him my full support. As it turns out Mr. Hoffman still loves cars, and his family is still involved in the classic car restoration business. This, I have learned, is now the basis of attack ads from his Democrat and Republican foes in the race. Which tells me everything I need to know about them .
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POPSScientist spying for Israel busted by the FBI
An affidavit suggests why FBI agents posed as agents of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to conduct the sting operation. From 1998 to 2008, the complaint alleges, Nozette was a technical adviser for a consultant company that was wholly owned by the Israeli government. Nozette was paid about $225,000 over that period, the court papers say. Then, in January of this year, Nozette allegedly traveled to another foreign country with two computer thumb drives and apparently did not return with them. Prosecutors also quote an unnamed colleague of Nozette who said the scientist said that if the U.S. government ever tried to put him in jail for an unrelated criminal offense, he would go to Israel or another foreign country and "tell them everything" he knows. The complaint does not allege that the government of Israel or anyone acting on its behalf violated U.S. law. In Jerusalem, Israeli government officials had no immediate comment. The affidavit by FBI agent Leslie Martell s
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POPSWhy Not "Universal Food Coverage, Too"? who only want to insure against the possibility that they'll be hit by a truck. So politicians at both the state and federal level keep passing boatloads of insurance mandates requiring that all insurance plans cover a raft of non-emergency conditions that are expensive to treat -- but whose practitioners have high-priced lobbyists. Insurance plans that force everyone in the plan to pay for everyone else's Viagra and anti-anxiety pills are already completely unfair to people who rarely go to the doctor. It's like being forced to share gas bills with a long-haul trucker or a restaurant bill with Michael Moore. On the other hand, it's a great deal for any lonely hypochondriacs in the plan. Now the Democrats want to force us all into one gigantic national health insurance plan that will cover every real and mythical ailment that has a powerful lobby.
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POPSInvestigation Finds Leading Rental Car Co. Sold Vehicles Without Air Bags Enterprise defended their decision to opt out of the air bags, noting that the safety feature is not yet required by the federal government. According to the Star, the decision saved Enterprise $11.5 million on the roughly 66,000 vehicles. Enterprise also said they are not the only company to buy fleets of cars without side impact air bags. But according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, studies have shown that side air bags with head protection can reduce highway deaths by up to 45 percent. An estimated 8,000 people were killed in side-impact collisions in 2007 alone, the Star reported. And while Enterprise apologized and pledged to rectify the situation, the company stopped short of a mea culpa, instead blaming a software glitch for the false advertising. “In some circumstances a software glitch caused us to describe them incorrectly as having air bags . . . .
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POPSChevy Volt Gets 230 MPG? The media no longer sees itself as an arbiter of truth or a purveyor of information, but as a cheerleading booster of particular causes – typically the causes supported by the urban intelligentsia of the coasts. High on the list of fashionable political causes to be evangelized is the war against oil, which before an election always seems to become “foreign” oil. (After the election, petro-equality returns and domestic oil is bad-mouthed, too).
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POPSNew car: 230mpg - 100km/l (!) Wow! It's amazing to think such 10,000% increase in car efficiency is even possible. Hopefully, even better, this is just one example, a harbinger of things to come. If we put our collective minds, wills and spirit into it, humanity is capable of unthinkable great achievements and this is the best direction for us to travel. Unfortunately (to say the least), we kept getting fed war drums and saber rattling propaganda and led into false wars for false reasons. We don't need to travel down these hatefilled roads any longer. There are new ways, new possibilities.
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POPS230 MPG? Are you kidding? How they will get 230 MPG later next year if now they cannot reach a figure 10 times less? They must have smtin in their sleeve...:cool: If it's true and not next in a long row BS, who would choose to pay $50 per tank if he can pay 10 and no strings attached?
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POPSChevy Volt to get 230 mpg rating PRETTY TRICKY HOW THEY CAN ESTIMATE THE FUEL MILEAGE OF THIS CAR.......FIGURES! But, if the driver continues on to 80 miles, total fuel economy would drop to about 100 mpg. And if the driver goes 300 miles, the fuel economy would be a just 62.5 mpg.
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POPSAnguish Across the Globe as Obama Rolls Back Am. Influence FTA: "President Obama's administration has tacitly energized radically anti-American and tyrannical regimes to do their worst. We are watching the rollback of thirty years of American influence across the world -- and millions around the world are worse off for it." Add to this the current climate against the missile defense system in Eastern Europe to placate Russia and the undermining of our traditional support of Israel.
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POPSRebuilding the Republican Party And what about moderates? I know this won’t make me popular with the Republican base, but we have to make every effort we can to get as many moderates into the Republican Party as possible. Let’s bend on any issue necessary and soften our rhetoric to get every squish behind us. Let’s even invite Arlen Specter back; we can tell him we were wrong and trillions in wasteful spending is a great idea right now. We need all the moderates we can get to join us, because when everything goes to hell, they’ll be a great source of cheap labor and — in a worse case scenario — food. So for the future survival of the party, moderates are very important.
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POPSThe Future of the Republican Party In the post-apocalyptic wasteland, resources will be scarce and the strong will crush the weak — and frankly, those are conditions in which Republicans should thrive. The Republican Party will need to cement its rule through force, destroy the weak, and take their resources. Back to basics for the party, really. I know this won’t make me popular with the Republican base, but we have to make every effort we can to get as many moderates into the Republican Party as possible. Let’s bend on any issue necessary and soften our rhetoric to get every squish behind us. Let’s even invite Arlen Specter back; we can tell him we were wrong and trillions in wasteful spending is a great idea right now. We need all the moderates we can get to join us, because when everything goes to hell, they’ll be a great source of cheap labor and — in a worse case scenario — food. So for the future survival of the party, moderates are very important.
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POPSSettlers of Catan :Redefining Board Games
Most impressive of all, though, Settlers is actually inducting board-game-averse Americans into the cult of German-style gaming. Last year, Settlers doubled its sales on this side of the Atlantic, moving 200,000 copies in the US and Canada—almost unheard-of performance for a new strategy game with nothing but word-of-mouth marketing. It has become the first German-style title to make the leap from game-geek specialty stores to major retailers like Barnes & Noble and Toys "R" Us. Settlers is now poised to become the biggest hit in the US since Risk. Along the way, it's teaching Americans that board games don't have to be either predictable fluff aimed at kids or competitive, hyperintellectual pastimes for eggheads. Through the complex, artful dance of algorithms and probabilities lurking at its core, Settlers manages to be effortlessly fun, intuitively enjoyable, and still intellectually rewarding, a potent combination that's changing the American idea of what a board game can
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POPSObama's Jan. 13th Neocon Dinner with William Kristol, founder of the Project for a New American Century and son of Irving Kristol, the "father of neoconservatism" (who also first coined the term for them) and Charles Krauthammer (PNAC member) and two other conservatives. The self-labeled neoconservatives were the authors of the Iraq War which Obama insists he opposed. Actually, Obama should feel very comfortable supping with the Neocons since they are originally from the Left , not the Right. That's right, just like leaders of US world wars to "make the world safe for democracy", like Presidents Wilson and FDR (both Dems). They are RINOs. "Setting the table", so to speak, for Obama no doubt. Really now, why would Obama dine with them? Actually, the host, George Will is more of a libertarian conservative and supported Ron Paul for President, so it is good that he was there, but in bad company.
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POPSGM Is A "Vast Retirement Home With A Small Money-Losing Subsidiary" An unnerving image - the day our bridge was destroyed (Sydney Morning Herald): "In The Day The Earth Stood Still... alien invaders arrive on Earth to purge the planet of the one thing that is killing all life - mankind. is a retelling of a 1951 science-fiction film which originally had Klaatu arriving to warn the people of Earth of the dangers of the escalating nuclear arms race. This time around, the story has been tweaked to reflect current global ecological and weather concerns. When he arrives, Reeves's alien warns humanity our reckless abuse of the Earth has left his watching species with no choice but to intervene before we destroy the planet and its rare ability to sustain life."
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POPSSUVs at altar, Detroit church prays for a bailout "At one point, Ellis summoned up hundreds of auto workers and retirees in the congregation to come forward toward the vehicles on the altar to be anointed with oil." Irony -- being anointed with oil while praying to an SUV.
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