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POPSOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!!!! This is why the taxpayers are fed up with the President and the congress! This English teacher (ESL) has phrased it very well. Tomatoes and Cheap Labor CHEAP TOMATOES? This should make everyone think…be you Democrat, Republican or Independent. From a California school teacher As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:
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POPSGaddafi Tent: Bedford Orders Work To Be Stopped On Libyan Dictator's Tent At Donald Trump Estate Muammar Gaddafi is making preparations to stay at the Bedford, New York, estate owned by Donald Trump during the Libyan leader's visit to the United States this week, a source with direct knowledge of the arrangement tells the Huffington Post. Officials in Bedford are being tight-lipped about the arrangement. A spokesperson for the Bedford Hills police department declined to comment on the matter. "I'm not going to confirm or deny anything," said Sgt. Tom Diebold, referring the Huffington Post to the Secret Service. Calls there were not immediately returned. The Libyan leader had tried to pitch his famous tent in Manhattan's Central Park, but city officials rejected his request. Earlier Gaddafi had tried to set up a temporary residence in Englewood, New Jersey, only to run into opposition from the local mayor and other officials.
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POPSCambridge Police Profiling A Grim Reality for Harvard Faculty A**hol** A female colleague from the English department recalled a recent incident along the Charles River jogging path during her regular morning run. A confused passer-by rudely interrupted her progress and requested directions, as if my colleague were some sort of lowly campus guide or untenured adjunct. "Where does this street go to?" she demanded. Naturally, my colleague took the opportunity to correct her, noting that "at Harvard we do not end our sentences in prepositions." "Okay, Where does this street go to, asshole?" barked the interloper. Needless to say, my colleague's daily morning runs have since been replaced with tear-filled visits to the Faculty Asshole Self Esteem Counseling Center.
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POPSAncient Fortress City Unearthed in Egypt First excavated in 1886 by the English Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, who recognized it as Psammetichus I's camp for Greek mercenaries, the desert site has since been flattened by wind erosion, which left the archaeological remains originally unearthed by Petrie barely visible. "The new fieldwork at the site by Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities is most valuable at this time, particularly in that it is rescuing one of the sites of the Delta endangered by development and environmental factors, " Jeffrey Spencer, Deputy Keeper at the British Museum's department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, told Discovery News ~~~~~ More at the site
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POPSEliminationism on parade: Coulter, Joe the Plumber, and military chaplains' leader wish for deaths As noted in the Newsweek story, last fall - as the presidential election was heating up, retired Colonel E.H. "Jim" Ammerman, in the official September 2008 newsletter of his Department of Defense approved chaplain endorsing agency, published a letter which suggested, per the advice of a fabricated Abraham Lincoln quote, that four US Senators should be be "arrested, quickly tried and hanged!!!"... The alleged crime ? - voting against a Senate bill that would have established English as the official language of the United States. Newsweek did not reveal the names of the four senators. But a May 20, 2009 Huffington Post story by Military Religious Freedom Foundation Senior Researcher Chris Rodda does: Democratic Party senators Dodd, Biden, Clinton, and Obama.
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POPSSpecial Interest or Public Interest? The doctrine has been carried into American common law via the Magna Carta and English Common Law. It has been argued that laws like the Endangered Species Act have extended the concept of the public trust to apply to the survival of animals and plant species. Politicians treat environmental organizations not as representatives of the public interest but as just another special interest whose power, influence – and campaign contributions – need to be considered and weighed against the power, influence – and campaign contributions – of corporate and other private interests. Water privatization and air pollution trading are two examples of environmental establishments being redefined as private. The drive to redefine water, air, wildlife and all things traditionally public as private is a radical development which conflicts with the bedrock values which prevailed during most of human history. The Public Trust Doctrine is slowly eroding away.
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POPSEconomists sound off on Obama's stimulus package
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, an associate professor of economics at San Jose State University. Megan McArdle, who writes about economics, business, and politics at The Atlantic. Deirdre McCloskey, a reason contributing editor who teaches economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Allan H. Meltzer, a professor of political economy and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Jeffrey A. Miron, a senior lecturer in economics at Harvard. Michael C. Munger, a professor of economics and chairman of the Department of Political Science at Duke. William A. Niskanen, a former member of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers and chairman emeritus of the Cato Institute. Johan Norberg, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute who is writing a book on the financial crisis. Mark J. Perry, a professor of economics and finance at the Flint campus of the University
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POPSHilarious Hillary Button Has Incorrect Translation, Not To Mention Improper Design This is written by a non-Republican who lost money thanks to that guy who said Wall Street can regulate itself. However, the Imperial Romans ruling Washington now are as bad or worse. Our secretary of state simultaneously insulted The Russian Federation while humiliating her own country with a kindergarten gadget that was ridiculous. Read this post and laugh, unless you are one of those liberal or progressive types who live to hate others. Oh, what about tolerance, peace and love, flower power? Whatever happened to freedom of speech?
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POPSBlackwater founder quits CEO post Still have trouble with the idea that Blackwater is doing the work of the troops. At a greater cost. Maybe the officials know what the troops are on and don't trust them.
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POPSYankee Goes Home. Rejected, disillusioned with the Zionist state. Over the summer yet another client treated me in typical Israeli fashion that would be considered grossly unprofessional in an advanced nation. I had to spend almost NIS 1,000 for a lawyer to get the "professional" to pay what he should have paid without question. Another client, with whom I had good working relations, couldn't get me paid. Even though we signed a net 30-day payment agreement, her accounts payable department consistently decided I should only be paid net 90 days and, as of this writing, I haven't been paid my final invoice in close to six months. That shouldn't have to happen. As Jerusalem Post articles have mentioned, Israel suffers from a brain drain. Educated Israelis are being frightened away from hi-tech. If you can't even keep people here, shouldn't you be that much happier when people freely chose to come? ... JPost
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POPSHow are Banks Spending Bailout $? Treasury Doesn't Care The piece tells us: Today, Neel Kashkari, the Treasury official supervising the TARP, testified before Congress. And as before , he rejected the idea of tracking the money. “Each financial institution’s circumstances are different, making comparisons challenging at best, and it is difficult to track where individual dollars flow through an organization,“ he explained in his opening statement . Let me go ahead and translate that from bullshit to English; "Keeping track of money's a lot of work. We can't expect banks -- whose business is dealing with money -- to do that." It begs the question; what does anyone actually do at the Treasury Dept.? Is it anything like work?
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POPSDead Famous: 18th Century Obituaries Sparked Modern Cult Of Celebrity The Gentleman’s Magazine in 1789 gave an account of the life of Isaac Tarrat, a man known to hire himself out to impersonate a doctor and tell fortunes in a fur cap, a large white beard and a worn damask night gown. Another subject, Peter Marsh of Dublin, was made famous by his convictions about his own death in 1740. After being hit by a mad horse which died soon after, Mr Marsh convinced himself that he would also go mad and die. The Gentleman’s Magazine reported that he duly died “of a conceit that he was mad”. Fascinating !!!
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POPSUniversity Research Labs Produces Too Much CO2 Hervé Philippe, a Université de Montréal professor of biochemistry, is a committed environmentalist who found that his own research produces 44 tonnes of CO2 per year. The average American citizen produces 20 tonnes. Hervé Philippe“I did my PhD on nucleotide sequencing in the hope of advancing our knowledge of biodiversity, but I never thought that the research itself could have a negative impact on biodiversity,” he said, during a recent biology department symposium. He doesn’t believe in one magical solution, but rather in transformations adapted to each area. For universities, he recommends having less frequent international conferences, increasing the use of videoconferences, avoiding research on well explored topics, reducing publications and evaluating the amount of CO2 produced by research projects. On the web: About the Université de Montréal: http://www.umontreal.ca/english/index.htm.
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POPSOklahoma Republican wants to replace U.S. made military rifle with German made gun. More: More than $300 million has been spent on 221,000 of the carbines over the past two years alone. And the Defense Department is asking Congress to provide another $230 million for 136,000 more. Lord, if republicans are going to deliver us BS wars couldn't they at least spend our taxpayer dollars on U.S. pork. Here's somemore brilliance from Oklahoma, Tom Coburn's senatorial twin Jim Inhofe, For example my area of expertise is the English language. -- Sen. James Mountain Inhofe (R - OK)
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POPSSaddam and Qaeda Some interesting reading from the cache of info confiscated by the military. And they are just scratching the surface.
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POPSThe Clintons Ethical Imbroglios Burson-Marsteller ultimately bought Penn & Schoen and Penn became its head honcho. Penn demonstrated his blatant lack of sensitivity to conflict of interest issues during the last Clinton administration. The number of Burson-Marsteller clients — both corporations and foreign governments — that will likely try to influence the next administration is staggering. In plain English, a number of foreign governments, seeking to persuade the President of the United States to adopt legislation in their economic interest, paid the president’s trusted adviser to make their case in the White House. In October 1998, while Penn was the White House chief political strategist, he registered his polling firm, Penn & Schoen, as an agent for the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, operated, and controlled by Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua with Mexico, Taiwan, Argentina, and Colombia as additional shareholders.
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POPSAdvice to College Students: Don't major in English "Progressive" education now means English majors no longer study Shakespeare or consider the great thinkers and writers of the past. What a shame....what a shame that people think they're actually getting an "education"; what they're really getting is 'indoctrination' to a worldview that is radically opposed to American thought and values.
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POPSNot So Fast, Christian Soldiers - War or Crusade? Have you ever noticed that almost all religious wars involve monotheistic religions? I have looked and cannot come up with an instance when one polytheistic culture waged religious war against another polytheistic culture. There's always a monotheist involvement - maybe that's because with only one god, the monos think they have more to lose. Read the clip source and the original article
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POPSFanatical religous right The packages were put together by a fundamentalist Christian ministry called Operation Straight Up, or OSU. Headed by former kickboxer Jonathan Spinks, OSU is an official member of the Defense Department's "America Supports You" program. The group has staged a number of Christian-themed shows at military bases, featuring athletes, strongmen and actor-turned-evangelist Stephen Baldwin. But thanks in part to the support of the Pentagon, Operation Straight Up has now begun focusing on Iraq, where, according to its website (on pages taken down last week), it planned an entertainment tour called the "Military Crusade." Apparently the wonks at the Pentagon forgot that Muslims tend to bristle at the word "crusade" and thought that what the Iraq war lacked was a dose of end-times theology.
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POPS77 Highlights of Bush's first year in Office 9. Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws. 10. OK'd Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting. 11. Appointed John Negroponte - an un-indicted high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations Ambassador. 12. Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain forest conservation. The rest are at the site
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POPSUndocumented Workers This brings up many interesting points. Are these employers the same ones that previously were demanding "illegals" should learn English, that passed housing occupancy laws that singled out immigrants, that refused to pay a living wage? It seems the arguments shift when a companies profits are lessened. I, for one, would be willing to pay more for a tomato if the worker who picked the tomato earned a living wage, if they had health insurance, if they were encouraged to become citizens. Yes, the answers aren't simple but the ethics and morality of economic slave labor demand solutions.
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POPSPhyllis Schlafly: English Dept. to blame for Virginia Tech massacre Phyllis Schlafly does one of those scans through the English department website at Virginia Tech, lists the weirdest stuff she can find, and then asks why we permit this kind of newfangled nonsense to be taught in our schools. Pretty standard stuff, but especially poisonous in the wake of the shootings, which, incredibly, she seems to want to blame on the professors and the readings. Via Right Wing Watch (http://snurl.com/1k9s7)
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