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POPSLame bing.com segments coming to Jimmy Fallon show I understand that money talks, but watching Jimmy Fallon ask people to search bing.com for answers to questions about travel, health and shopping makes me think of doing one thing - reaching for the remote and changing the channel.
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POPSCat Stevens?? Back?? i will def watch this on the tonight show...his greatest hits album is an alltime favorite of mine....father & son, moonshadow..oh very young...i really didn't follow the whole 'yusuf' thing, but in any case, happy he's playing a little bit..
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POPS Critics Got Donations From A.I.G.
Mr. Schumer has accepted $112,000 in donations from AIG's employees and its political action committee, making him the second-largest recipient among active lawmakers since 1990. "Virtually all the contributions were made over five years ago, and nothing has been contributed since taxpayers needed to step in to save this company from itself," said Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Sen. Schumer. "He hasn't accepted donations since, and will not." Among Republicans, former President George W. Bush has received the most -- $200,000 -- from AIG and its employees, followed by 2008 Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, with $99,000. Through the 1990s and the early part of this decade, AIG's donations were evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. But starting during the 2004 election, AIG employees and its PAC started favoring Democrats. Since then, Democrats have received 60% of the $2.6 million in political donations from the company and its employees.
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POPSMany in US Military: Bush & Cheney Out of Control CENTCOM Admiral William Fallon reportedly thwarted Cheney's wish to sent a third additional aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. One paper wrote that he "vowed privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM." The whole article is worth a read.
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POPS"Late Night" Successor Will Debut On The Web So many "viewers" of late night TV actually catch clips of the shows via youtube or other video services in the days following broadcast. So launching a new late night host this way makes a lot of sense.
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POPSUS Military and Gov't Resisting Iran Conflict "Red light": The military brass are resisting, even with Admiral Fallon out. The consequences would be huge, including on gas prices, military drain, and upheaval in the entire middle east if Iran was attacked by Israel with US support. Even Secretary of Defense Gates said : "There is a lot of signalling going on. But I think everybody recognises what the consequences of any kind of a conflict would be," Gates said. Problem: hard to contain Israel and the neoconservative administration, namely Cheney who is a rogue operative with Israel. ( Sources said that Cheney was behind the B-52 nuke displacement scandal, by-passing normal chain of command).
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POPSIran to Israel: "Go Ahead, Make My Day" Attack our facilities and war starts. US Admiral (a stand-in Liar who replaced the resisting and valiant Admiral Fallon, who called Gen Petreus a "chickensh*t" for kissing up to Bush) then lies saying Iran will attack Israel...while Iran has attacked no other country in over 200 years while Israel and the US have attacked many. Listen to this Democracy Now podcast with Seymour Hersh (NY Times) about how Israel cannot attack Iran without US involvement (i.e. American troops on the ground necessary for such operation, dying for Israeli aggression).
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POPSAttack Iran? Cheney's Already Tried After he become head of the Central Command (Centcom) in March 2007, Admiral William Fallon also made his opposition to such a massive attack on Iran known to the White House, according Middle East specialist Hillary Mann, who had developed close working relationships with Pentagon officials when she worked on the National Security Council staff. Soon after, Adm. Fallon was fired...gee I wonder why? At least there are a few semi-sane generals opposing Cheney.
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POPSState of Emergency: The US in the Final Six Months of the George W. Bush Administration Despite time constraints, there are clear signs that the president, the vice-president and their neocon collaborators are not finished. The constant saber-rattling toward Iran, with strong support from Israel, should send a chill down the spine of any peace-loving American. Military chiefs who oppose the president are “retired,” as observed most recently with the March dismissals of CENTCOM commander Admiral William Fallon and 6th Fleet commander Vice-Admiral John Stufflebeem. Public opinion counts for nothing. In a March 24 interview with ABC’s Martha Raddatz, vice president Dick Cheney responded to a question about the war weariness of Americans with a languid “So?”
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POPSPetraeus Promotion is just more Progress of Disaster
The move guarantees endlessly high troop levels in Iraq and gives Petraeus a better shot at inflaming tensions with Iran, a country that Petraeus has recently blamed for all the nasty bits going on in our Baghdad boondoggle. Kewl, huh? Petraeus' predecessor at Centcom, Admiral William Fallon, resigned abruptly last month after 41 years of service. Fallon wasn't keen on Bush's Iraq policy nor was he a big booster of the saber rattling directed in Iran's direction. He and Petraeus didn't exactly see eye to anus. So, Fallon was given the boot. One senior civilian official described the relationship between the two men to "The Washington Post:" "Bad relations? That's the understatement of the century. If you think Armageddon was a riot, that's one way of looking at it." Petraeus' replacement is Lt. General Raymond T. Odierno, a guy who, according to McClatchy Newspapers, "came to the post under a cloud of controversy after some charged that his strong-arm approach to warfare lacke
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POPSOne Brave Man vs One Dumb Bush "What's the best and most effective way to combat al Qaida?" he said during an interview in Cairo. "I come from the school of walk softly and carry a big stick." The article also quotes him as telling al Jazeera, the Arabic satellite television channel, that war with Iran was undesirable. "This constant drumbeat of conflict . . . is not helpful and not useful," he said. "I expect that there will be no war and that is what we ought to be working toward." Fallon had been a controversial figure in his post, questioning the surge of U.S. troops in Iraq and openly challenging suggestions that the military would be able to tackle a strike on Iran. But no one had suggested that Fallon might resign until the magazine hit newsstands in January. ..McClatchydc
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POPSFallon 'may lose job over Iran war' Fallon is one guy I have the highest respect and admiration. Unfortunately his boss(Bush) is a total dumb ass. So if the smart guy is fired, where does it leave the dumb ass if he still acts foolish to go to war with Iran? I will bet $10 this will be the Bush/Cheney tactic to remain in office.
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POPS15 Most amazing co-incidences There are 15, and 14 in the clip the rest can be found following the bottom link. I had a really weird co-incidence that took over 10 years to unfold. I was hit by a bike, while getting out of a bus in 1985. I never met the rider. In 1990 I was hit by a car while running across peak hour traffic. I was quite prepared to admit I was responsible I shouldn't have crossed the road, but I was waiting for a bus and wanted to get across the road and back before the bus came. The peak hour traffic was flowing at 45 mph. I never met the Driver. In around 1997, My Nan discovered (she liked to keep things like this in a diary) that one of her friends that she had met at the retirement village. was grandmother to both the rider, and the driver. While there may have been a co-incidence, I still can't help thinking the fact that I'm still alive is a miracle. (Maybe I've just got a reinforced skull)
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POPSAnother view of Musharraf's latest move Musharraf's proclamation of "emergency" rule indicates that he feels he has no real need to worry about U.S. posturing about "freedom and democracy" in the region. He knows Bush needs him and he intends to take full advantage.
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