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POPSWhat's Behind Birthers' Obama Belief "Research done by Harvard's Mahzarin Banaji and San Diego State's Thierry Devos into what's called "implicit social cognition" reveals that white Americans inherently regard white Europeans as somehow more "American" than Asian- or African-Americans, which may help explain why so many people find it easy to believe that President Obama is not really a citizen."
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POPSForty-Eight Years Of Indoctrination "Probably the last thing I ever expected to hear my daughter say was "I'm a lesbian." Marcie is tall, slim, very feminine-looking, with long, wavy blond hair. Makeup and clothes are important to her; she's had boyfriends since the day she was in third grade when she came home and announced that she was in love. She is anything but what I thought of as a "dyke." They had a right to their own lifestyle--just don't make me a witness to it. Maybe they weren't all "weirdos"--but just keep them out of my face. After a lifetime of learning that homosexuality was "perverted," "weird," "unnatural," "sick," against all that God or anyone else prescribed, was I too set in my beliefs, too brainwashed to ever--honestly, sincerely, to the core of my being--accept the concept? At 48 years of age, I was about to find out."
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POPSYou're Never Too Old For Sex...or STDs! 
"However, Dr. Hutcherson says that's a fallacy. Patients often are too shy to ask their doctors difficult sexual questions -- so doctors need to ask them directly, she says. "I say, 'How's your sex life?' and then wait for the answer. And that normalizes and makes it much easier for an older woman to say, 'Well, there are some issues that I want to talk to you about.'" Author of "What Your Mother Never Told You About S-e-x" and a columnist who writes for Essence and Glamour magazines, Dr. Hutcherson is blunt about asking her patients if they're practicing safe sex. It could save their lives. Statistics show that although the highest number of new HIV cases is in people in their thirties and forties, there are now more patients being diagnosed in their fifties than in their twenties. 'Sex Is Life-Long' So, once they're practicing safe sex, Dr. Hutcherson says it's time to make sure they're having enjoyable sex. "Sex is life-long," she says. "You should never give up on somethin
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POPS. . . The Prosecution Rests . . . . zzzzzzzz The news is still sinking in throughout the community, including the city council, where members say he's good at his job. But Jeffersonville City Council President Connie Sellers says "it is very embarrassing when you say you find the city attorney in a garbage can. I can't set my morals to his - I mean he is an excellent attorney - what he does in his personal life ... it's his personal life." "Sometimes smart people do things you wouldn't expect them to do," said City of Jeffersonville Spokesperson Larry Thomas."You've got a smart guy who made a bad decision." We called Wilder to get his side of the story, but he didn't call us back before this story ran. Police tell us no charges are expected to be filed although Sellers says the City Council could meet to discuss this issue shortly. http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=10558830
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POPSGore & Ban Ki-Moon Push CEOs to Back Climate Change Deal 
"During negotiations, developed countries always hope that a future China may do much better and greater efforts on addressing climate change issues," he said. Rajendra K. Pachauri, head of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Gore, said already "we are perhaps at the upper range" of predicted higher temperatures this century. "We have a very short window of opportunity," he said. "If we want to limit temperature increase to about 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), then emissions globally must peak by 2015." Connie Hedegaard, Denmark's climate minister, told The Associated Press the best solution is global limits on pollution blamed for global warming instead of a tax on carbon dioxide and other warming gases. "I would hope that they would sort of agree that some kind of cap and trade will be the most efficient tool to achieve what science tells us what we must achieve," she said.
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POPSFirst Face Transplant Recipient Shows Off Her New Face Culp's husband, Thomas, shot her in 2004, then turned the gun on himself. He went to prison for seven years. His wife was left clinging to life. The blast shattered her nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye. Hundreds of fragments of shotgun pellet and bone splinters were embedded in her face. She needed a tube into her windpipe to breathe. Only her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin were left.
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POPSOrganic or Conventional food- the big debate i feel so conflicted about the whole 'organic' food movement- i find that my produce rot so much quicker than when i go to the regular market-- i try to do a healthy mix of everything, which i suppose is what this article is saying to do anyway.
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POPSSlain Teen Girls' Brother Begs Suspect Father To Turn Himself In The victims' brother made a statement at the vigil that the deaths have nothing to do with religion. Loved ones gathered Thursday night for a vigil to remember the sisters. The girls' mother, who has been in hiding since the shootings, attended. Yaser Abdel Said, 50, of Lewisville, Texas, was having a very hard time when his daughters, Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18, started dating. Connie Moggio, the girls' aunt, said there had been turbulence in the Said household for a while. She said her sister married Yaser Abdel Said at the age of 15 and was pregnant shortly after, adding she had tried to leave her husband many times over the years, most recently, on Christmas Eve. "A few days before she called me at my job and told me she was leaving because he had threatened the girls because they were dating," Moggio told MyFOXDFW.com.
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POPSWas There An Electronic Run On The Banks? $224 billion in 7 days is a huge sum of money, but it’s nowhere near the $550 billion in an hour reported by Rep. Kanjorski. RealClearMarkets further reports the size of the total money market investment market: Assets of institutional money-market funds dropped by $173 billion to nearly $2.2 trillion over the seven days ended Wednesday, while assets in retail money-market funds grew by nearly $4.3 billion in the same period to $1.2 trillion, according to the Investment Company Institute. According to this report, the total of money market investments, including both retail (personal banking) and institutional (banking by pension funds and investment banks) markets, comes to $3.4 trillion — less than the $5½ trillion Kanjorski claims the Fed estimated was going to be lost. RealClearMarkets’ numbers are confirmed by the New York Times report from Sept 19, the Friday after the Thursday events Kanjorski describes.
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POPSCorporate control over water supplies A 2003 investigative report from the CBC on "water as business opportunity": in the last 10 years, three corporate giants have attained control over much of the developing world's water resources and are beginning to do the same in the developed world. Consequences aren't good for normal folks. I don't know why the image looks so weird. Apparently the whole program is not available for free download, like (sadly) so many of the CBC's superlative documentaries. But there is a lot of information here.
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POPSMSNBC's Network Chief Down Plays The Personal Bickering The sudden death this summer of NBC News Washington bureau chief Tim Russert, who made frequent appearances on MSNBC, removed a political and temperamental rudder for the network. Mr. Griffin has tried to fill the power vacuum since, struggling to shepherd the network's big personalities through a period of transition. The network drew 2.15 million viewers on its first night of convention coverage, 88% more than tuned in for the first night of the 2004 Democratic convention, according to Nielsen Media Research. MSNBC also beat Fox News among younger viewers that night. Fox News is owned by News Corp., which also owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.network's chief played down the
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POPSSometimes Being Green Is Easy - Grin Not so easy in winter but an easy thing to do to save money and a bit of the planet! And the smell and feel of sun dried stuff - smile! Line dry, rack dry, and in Singapore pole dry out the window. Even guys can do it! Really!
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