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POPSSee the inner nobility and beauty of all human beings I am currently reading psychologist, author and Buddhist meditation teacher Jack Kornfield’s The Wise Heart - A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology. I find below, one of the anecdote he shared, very moving. Complete at the source.
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POPSThree White People Who Won't Be Voting For Barak Obama People still keep talking about how racism among "working class whites" (that's media code for "po' white trash") will not vote for Obama because he is black. I'm getting seriously tired of this. Working class people in America aren't any more racist than the class of Americans who are too wealthy to work. Sure, there are some people who are racist and won't vote for him, and that shocks people so it gets a lot of attention. But seriously, look at these three guys: do you think they vote AT ALL? (remember, something like 60% of America doesn't!) Nobody is talking about all the working class whites who had trouble voting for John Kerry or Al Gore. If Obama loses, it will be because of the pathetic Democratic Party itself, not because he is black.
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POPSBill Cunningham: A-hole warrior in the class war
The list is long of people that proves this fool wrong: Jesus was poor, Mother Teresa was poor, the Dalai Lama is poor, can anyone argue against their integrity, ethics, values and/or morals? George Bush and Dick Cheney are rich, they committed countless atrocities against their own countrymen; Congress is full of rich people who pad their financial nest eggs with public money, thrive on countless perks, and give themselves annual pay raises; the most heinous scandals against the general public are perpetrated not by poor people but by the very rich; arms dealers and war profiteers are rich, their records speak for themselves; corporate lawyers are rich, they are paid to delay settlements to any victim of corporate malfeasance through legal loopholes; the list goes on. So, any trust fund kid who has never worked a day in their lives are considered more moral, ethical and have higher values than someone born to poor parents and cannot get a break to pull themselves out of it.
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POPSSchoolboys Punished With Detention For Refusing To Kneel In Class And Pray To Allah
"I haven't got a problem with them teaching my child other religions and a small amount of information doesn't do any harm. "But not only did they have to pray, the teacher had gone into the class and made them watch a short film and then said 'we are now going out to pray to Allah'. "Then two boys got detention and all the other children missed their refreshment break because of the teacher. "Not only was it forced upon them, my daughter was told off for not doing it right. "They'd never done it before and they were supposed to do it in another language." "My child has been forced to pray to Allah in a school lesson." The grandfather of one of the pupils in the class said: "It's absolutely disgusting, there's no other way of putting it. "My daughter and a lot of other mothers are furious about their children being made to kneel on the floor and pray to Islam. If they didn't do it they were given detention.
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POPSHuh? Biden is going to do what? Cut taxes, cut spending. BAM! Middle class is expanded. At least for a little while. Then the middle class folks will find themselves in the upper-middle class.
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POPSNick Begich: Cell phones & Wireless Technologies Lloyd’s of London, who, according to Dr. Nick Begich will underwrite virtually anything, will not cross over one particular line - eSmog. Because of the rapidly rising evidence of deteriorating health and brain tumors associated with cell phone use, the famed insurance company will not take on the risk on what they feel may become a barrage of class action law suits over the effects of radio frequencies and electric magnetic frequencies on human health. Nick says that your cell phone and wireless systems should be carefully reconsidered as to how they are used in your daily life. What lies ahead? - how about roving wire tapping through your cell phone. Or a future where electronic billboards identify you and speak to your desires as you walk by - just like in Minority Report.
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POPSReligion in schools to go God-free Basically any group with an accredited curriculum can go into schools and take time away from teaching by the employed teacher (who usually sits at the back of the room to control the class).
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POPSEdgar Degas: Focused on present a Realist,a Master A French pioneering master.Some say father of Impessionist movement in 19Centuary, he said their was "too much agony to be other than a realist, I,m not a mere impressionist".Broke Victorian taboo,s with nudes not in religious or classical settings and took years over his works,,skilled in painting,pastels exquisite sculpture.No stranger to controversy he depicted "Lions @ little rats" aristocricy in top hats preying on the ballerinas."The Flower of the gutter" a sculptor of a 14 year old ballerina.Reworked his paintings for years ."The Dance Class" his most famous about 1870ish.
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POPSOdd Comet Possibly from Another Star System The oddball could shed light on the formation and evolution of comets. These blobs of dust and frozen gases may be the oldest, most primitive bodies in the solar system. In fact, they hold the earliest record of material from the nebula that formed the sun and planets.
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POPS"Supercomputers could revolutionize science more profoundly than at any time since Galileo" Supercomputing has made huge advances over the last decade or so, gradually packing on the ability to handle more and more data points in increasingly complex ways. It has enabled scientists to test theories, design experiments and predict outcomes as never before. But now, the new class of petaflop-scale machines is poised to bring about major qualitative changes in the way science is done. "The new capability allows you to do fundamentally new physics and tackle new problems," said Thomas Zacharia, who heads up computer science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee"And it will accelerate the transition from basic research to applied technology
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POPSAnti-Intellectualism, Universities, and the Right To be sure, some subset of the conservative movement does seem to find policy arguments much more alluring when made with a regional accent, and there is no doubt that elite-bashing can be simple-minded and extreme, but the idea that conservative movement as a whole is turning its back on "book-learnin'" is just silly. We revere Churchill and Lincoln just as much as we ever did. The academy — and, consequently, our educated "elite" — do not. The problem is largely cultural, not political. The university system as a whole is culturally dominated by a system of thought that not only rejects conservatism (especially social conservatism), it considers it not even worth discussion. Conservatives can nominate attractive and urbane candidates all they want, but unless their ideas change, they will see increasing problems winning over an "educated" class that has spent year after year hearing only half the story.
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POPSBlocking Obama's health plan is key to the GOP's survival The Republicans preached "deregulation & free markets" like the good corporate shills they are. We let the corporations & the investor class dominate the economy, and they got rich, drove the fucking thing into the ground, set us up for the next great depression, then held out their hands for a taxpayer-funded bailout. I for one think that maybe letting the government dominate the economy for a while might not be all that bad. The government is us, the citizens. It's answerable to us. The corporations are answerable to their shareholders. Bring on the Socialized Medicine and lets put a spear through the heart of the GOP once & for all . ;-)
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