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POPSThings To Make You Go Hmmm? If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be? Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead? Why do people without a watch look at their wrist when you ask them what time it is? Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have? Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors? What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious? I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the self-help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose. Isn't it scary that doctors call what they do "practice?" How is it possible to have a civil war?
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POPSBush Environmental Rape Plans Cancelled
Pretty cool. There have been so many real changes like this, one after the other -- and so many more happening -- it's almost hard to believe. In the past this would be a four month debate and Republican smear campaign and now, like with the snap of a finger, decency is restored. With forest logging, too, it's not like it has to be a battle: both can be done: cut trees, do business and yet still preserve a forest...mainly through the simple policy of replanting trees and from now on that should just have to be factored in the cost of doing business and Yet Still Make a Fine Profit. Bush tried to rape the environment with his proposal...just like he destroyed our justice system...just like he turned our intelligence agencies against it's own people...just like he started wars with deliberately fabricated lies. The eight years of nighmare doing down a fascist road are over and day by day a little more sunshine, justice and freedom come back. More to do. But a lot getting d
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POPSLawmaker Joins Push To Up Cost Of Drilling Mr. Rahall's plan fits neatly into the broader efforts of the Obama administration and congressional Democrats to make a "dramatic shift" in energy production toward green sources, said Sharon Buccino, director of land and wildlife programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Continue reading http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/01/powerful-lawmaker-joins-push-to-up-cost-of-drillin/?source=newsletter_must-read-stories-today_headlines
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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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POPS Torture Police in Uniform Join In as Victim Is Whipped, Beaten, Electrocuted, Run Over by SUV The Minister of the Interior is also one of Sheikh Issa's brother. The government statement said its review found "all rules, policies and procedures were followed correctly by the Police Department." WARNING: May not be suitable viewing for minor children video on abcnews website: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7402099&page=1
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POPSUS NAVY Northwest Training Range Expansion The Navy hasn't done a very good job of cleaning up the other toxic superfund sites they have left behind, and now they want more? http://www.theislandofalameda.com/2009/03/cleanup-crews-find-surprises-at-point/ http://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r9sfdocw.nsf/ViewByEPAID/CA2890012584?OpenDocument Estimated Number of Potentially Contaminated Sites: Department of Defense = 21,400, Department of the Interior= 26,000 , Department of Energy also has at least 10,000 sites with hazardous and radioactive wastes. Guess who foots the bill to clean up? Doesn't tally the amount of lives that have been affected/lost by exposure. http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/docum ents/puzzle.htm
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POPSDrug Cartels & Traffickers Prompt 500 More Federal Agents @ The Border Phoenix is clearly seeing the worst of the spillover. Investigators here suspect some of the kidnappings have led to killings in which bound and bullet-riddled bodies have been dumped in the desert. In the kidnapping of the motorist earlier this month, the victim managed to escape from the house before any ransom was paid. Investigators suspect he was mixed up in drug- or immigrant-smuggling because his captors believed he could get his hands on $30,000 in cash. David Denlinger, chief of criminal investigations for the Arizona Department of Public Safety, likened the cartels to the tire business. "You don't have a manufacturer of a tire that's the one putting it on your car at the end," Denlinger said. "So what you see up here in the interior is not your formal cartel. That's pretty much ended once they passed it through the United States."
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POPSKing Oil: Democrat Congressman Calls For Civil War Since then, the Bureau of Land Management has allowed bidding on leases for oil exploration. But some Democratic members of congress have indicated they would like to see the ban restored. But Walden, whose state is also on the Pacific coast, told CNSNews.com that offshore oil drilling should contribute an important part of the country’s energy supply while greener technologies are being developed. “We have to have natural gas,” he said. “We have to have U.S. oil production. There may be as much as 75 percent of our proven reserves that are on federal lands or in the ocean combined. It’s a huge opportunity for this country to become energy independent.” Walden added that he thinks the process of offshore oil drilling could also provide an excellent stimulus to the U.S. economy. “This is the timeline, when the economy is down, that we should be doing exploration,” said Walden. “Now is the time we should invest.
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POPSHow Many Former Bush Administration Officials Sentenced To Jail Time? Eight And Counting
FTA: *For obstructing the Senate investigation into Abramoff and for tax evasion, Italia Federici, a political aide to then Secretary of the Interior, Gail Norton, received a two month sentence in a halfway house. *Fedrici's boyfriend, Steven Griles, who was the number two official at the Interior Department, also received 10 months in jail for his part in the Abramoff scandal. *Bob Stein, the comptroller of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, received the longest sentence of any Bush official (as of yet) - nine years in prison for money laundering, conspiracy and bribery. *Brian Doyle, a deputy press secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, was sentenced to five years in jail for attempting to use a computer to seduce a child. That] brings the total number of Bush administration officials who have gone to jail already to at least eight," Maddow said. "That is not counting all the other convictions that didn‘t result in jail time, all the other investigatio
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POPS Obama Rewards Palin Muckraker Sarah is still America’s top rated woman politician, and even The One would not be forgiven for being a modern day Nixon in this case.
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POPSDon't Like Obama? Burn Down a Church Pictured is Jacques, who looks like a real freakin' Einstein. You always want to ask dumbasses like this when it was, exactly, that any of this seemed like a good idea. Then again, I guess racists don't have good ideas. It's just not the sort of thing that happens to them. If convicted, this particular bad idea could cost them 10 years of their lives. It's an expensive lesson that I somehow doubt they'll learn.
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POPSBush appointee changed scientific findings on endangered species Just as they did with issues of global warming and contraception, Bush appointees have played fast and loose with scientific data that doesn’t support their preconceived agendas. When science is ‘corrected’ to support political agendas, everyone loses. As everyone knows, extinct is forever... and bending the Endangered Species Act for short-term private profit is outrageous and should be criminal.
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POPSBush's Interior Department Interfered With Scientific Work To Limit Endangered Species Protections Devaney said "MacDonald's zeal to advance her agenda has caused considerable harm to the integrity of the ESA program and to the morale and reputation" of the Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as potential harm to animals under the Endangered Species Act. "Her heavy-handedness has cast doubt on nearly every ESA decision issued during her tenure," from 2002 until 2007, the report said. MacDonald was deputy assistant secretary from 2004 to 2007 and a senior adviser in the department for two years before that. MacDonald, a civil engineer with no formal training in natural sciences, resigned in May 2007. Department employees reported that they used her name as a verb _ encountering political interference from senior managers was called "getting MacDonalded."
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