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POPSWhen We Fail to Learn Our Lesson A good history read about what's been going on while we have all been focusing on American Idol, Brittany Spears, Football, political sex scandals, etc.... People who ARE paying attention are wondering why it has taken so long to connect the dots? Especially when our current President called the recent hijacker an “an isolated extremist,”. Extremist, yes; Isolated, no.
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POPS“A History lesson….Cry for Me, Argentina” 12.9.2009
Among Irigoyen’s changes: mandatory pension insurance, mandatory health insurance, and support for low-income housing construction to stimulate the economy. Simply put, the state assumed economic control of a vast swath of the country’s operations and began assessing new payroll taxes to fund its efforts. With an increasing flow of funds into these entitlement programs, the government’s payouts soon became overly generous. Before long its outlays surpassed the value of the taxpayers’ contributions. Put simply, it quickly became under-funded, much like the United States Social Security and Medicare programs. The death knell for the Argentine economy, however,came with the election of Juan Perón. Perón had a fascist and corporatist upbringing ; he and his charismatic wife aimed their populist rhetoric at the nation’s rich. This targeted group “swiftly expanded to cover most of the propertied middle classes, who became an enemy to be defeated and humiliated.”
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POPSAccept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up The lesson is that not all data is created equal in our mind’s eye: When it comes to interpreting our experiments, we see what we want to see and disregard the rest. The physics students, for instance, didn’t watch the video and wonder whether Galileo might be wrong. Instead, they put their trust in theory, tuning out whatever it couldn’t explain. Belief, in other words, is a kind of blindness.
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POPSObamaCare's Rationed Death and The Death of Representative Republic ..... and the parties who are going to be assaulted first are the elderly who will be denied care in nursing homes, hospices and doctors visits and told to just go climb on an ice sheet and float to their death for the good of the village as the Inuit's did long ago. That is what awaits Americans as every American is going to need care sooner or later, and for those who think that the rich will get care, the patricians had better learn a lesson of fact, that when the system breaks down, as government is bankrupt, then places like the Mayo Clinic are not developing advanced treatments for the rich, and the rich people find out in 5 years that they too are being left to die. Americans will now be made criminals in not paying into this butcher system and this blogger will refuse to be a part of any system as this. Oddly if Keith Olbermann holds his moral ground, we will be in an Obama concentration camp charged with the same crimes of failure to hand over our money to a
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POPSTerrible Life Lessons From Your Favorite Christmas Movies Movie: A Christmas Carol (1951) Bad Lesson: People Will Like You Instantly If You Give Them Money Movie: Home Alone (1990) Bad Lesson: People in the Chicago Suburbs Never Call the Police for Any Reason Whatsoever Movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) Bad Lesson: Sometimes Chevy Chase Makes Good Movies Movie: Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) Bad Lesson: If People Were Mean to You as a Kid, That Excuses ANY Malicious Criminal Behavior You Might Commit When You’re an Adult Movie: It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Bad Lesson: If You’re in Need of a Moment of Clarity – Why Not Give Suicide a Try? Movie: Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Bad Lesson: If Enough People Say Something Is True, Eventually, It Becomes True Movie: A Christmas Story (1983) Bad Lesson: Toy Safety Warnings are Pointless and Should Be Disregarded Immediately.
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POPSBreast flasher hit by distracted driver She said "Don't be me, don't be stupid, don't get drunk and stand in the middle of the road and flash anyone because it hurts when you get hit." well normal people just would not do this BUT hey who is a normal person we have all done daft stuff haven't we?
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POPSWill gov't. health officials ground Santa Claus? Is this the way things will be if we ever get a government-run health care system? Santa can deliver millions of toys all around the world in a single night while it takes the Postal Service days to deliver a single letter. And Santa has been doing this for centuries! I think maybe these so-called "health officials" could take a lesson or two from ol' Mr. Claus!
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POPS When the Charm Rubs Off denigration of his predecessor, aka "the last eight years." (Blighted by "a triumphant sense about war.") When Attorney General Eric Holder announced that five accused terrorists would be tried in federal courts, he said: "After eight years of delay. ..." When the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force made the controversial recommendation that women should get fewer mammograms, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said: "This panel was appointed by the prior administration, by former President George Bush." In congressional testimony, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner almost deviated from the script. He said the Obama administration began after "almost a decade" -- slight pause -- "certainly eight years of basic neglect." Abroad, the fruits of the president's policy of "engagement" have been meager: Witness Iran continuing its nuclear program and China being difficult about carbon emissions. Here is a history lesson for an administration which .....
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POPSObama executive overreach climate lie "Although details have not been made available, recent statements by Special Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern indicate that negotiators may be intending to commit the United States to a nationwide emission reduction program," Webb added. "As you well know from your time in the Senate, only specific legislation agreed upon in the Congress, or a treaty ratified by the Senate, could actually create such a commitment on behalf of our country."
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POPSU.S. Ranked 36th Freest Press in the World 
Who Controls the U.S. Media? For the most part, the media spreads a lot of misinformation and corporate propaganda. This is not at all surprising considering that Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, Viacom (formerly CBS) and General Electric's NBC are the top owners of the entire media industry, which includes everything you read and hear in newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies. In the last 15 years alone, your sources for news have shrunk drastically. Whereas in 1983, 50 corporations ruled the U.S. news media, by 2004 this number decreased to a minuscule six corporations! As you might imagine, with just six corporations deciding what’s worthy of news and what’s not, you end up with sensationalized tragedies, celebrity features, and anything else that will capture people’s attention. There is virtually no competition in the media market today whatsoever, and this s
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POPSCreating a yarn painting. My sister is a school teacher and was looking for a lesson plan for the kids to create their own Huichol yarn painting. I found this site that explains it pretty good at HuicholYarnPainting.com My sister and I tried it out over the holiday - - I kind of think her third graders just might look better than mine did - - FYI - if you are needing something like this....
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POPSBin Laden threatens to bomb Switzerland He attempted to persuade Swiss mountain cows coming off of the mountains, mentioning cows are, "holy creatures and guided by Allah and Hindu's" (what the f**k have Hindu's in common with Muslims?) and they could be used as suicide bombers, especially as no-one would search their cow-bells (perfect place to hide his bombs). Not such a brilliant idea so he's decided to clone his suicide-bombers into Roger Federer look-alikes (dark and swarthy our Roger!) infiltrate Switzerland, bomb the crap out of the place and teach the Swiss a lesson or two in Minaret building! Only place his Roger Federer clones are not allowed to bomb is the Swiss National Bank, Bin Laden has personal interests there, his multi-millions + that other interest!!!!
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POPSWhere is my mail? I didn’t know this two weeks ago, so when I put my name on the letterbox three days after moving in, the postie then informed me that she had seen mail from the electricity company and the phone company and something else that looked personal. Did she not see the moving boxes stacked inside the door? Had she not seen cars full of boxes being lugged inside just days earlier? Was she not aware that she hadn’t delivered mail to this particular house for more than a year, and that it had a new name anyway (there are no street names or numbers where I live: just house names)? Did she not put two and two together when she saw bills from utility companies arrive that would indicate services being activated for the new people who have just moved in? Did she not? No, she bloody didn’t.
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POPSLand of the Free, Home of the Brave Or, since I am referring to Honduras, "tierra de los libres, hogar de los valientes". Congratulations to the people of Honduras, who maintained their democratic process in the face of tremendous international pressure to abdicate it. It is now only a matter of time before other nations--including my beloved Brazil--will recognize the legitimate government. Look for Chavez' Venezuela to be a spitefully perpetual holdout.
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POPSWhose Fault Is It? But the show is rated for "Mature Audiences Only." Shows with such ratings may have content "unsuitable for children under 17. The annual kick-a-ginger event has brought angry criticism from people who feel the show's producers should have known better. A judge in Calgary, Canada, where 13 high school students swarmed a red-haired boy in a locker room, called the show "a vulgar, socially irreverent program that contributes nothing to society. When you show hateful adversarial behavior or even concepts, the effect may be most pronounced with those who have the least resilience against it."
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POPSGlobal Warming Fraud and the Future of Science It is this, and no less, that scientific fraud threatens. This is no trivial matter; it involves one of the basic elements of modern Western life. When scientific figures lie, they lie to all of us. If they foment serious distrust of the scientific endeavor -- as they are doing -- they are creating a schism in the heart of our culture, a wound that in the long run could prove even more deadly than the jihadi terrorists. The apparent success of the climate hustlers has infected all areas of research. Over the past decade, stem-cell studies have proven a hotbed of fraud. Recall Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, the South Korean biologist who claimed to have cloned various higher animals and isolated new stem cell lines to worldwide applause. Suk was discovered to have faked all his research, prompting the South Korean government to ban him from taking part in any further work.
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POPSFighting Over Shrinking Resources The photograph is of a Turkana woman in Northern Keyna sitting by a goat the dry spell has forced her to kill and sell. I think it's appropriate for us in the States to see these unpleasant images after our filling our bellies this Thanksgiving. The picture speaks a thousand words.
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POPSPatience, Young Grasshopper... "As quickly as you can...snatch the pebble from my hand." "When you can take the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave." I recently heard this grasshopper phrase used yet again and sometimes it takes me forever to bother googling stuff like this, but I finally got my arse together and looked it up. I am SURE, that knowing this most important bit of information, will now make me sleep better at night and I'll surely live happily ever after. (Just kidding) .:p http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/funny-pictures-cat-teaches-dog-patience.jpg
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POPSThai Airways Charges $2000 excess baggage I doubt that he will ever see that money again. If you go to Thailand don't have anything valuable sent through the post office, not even a nice backpack 'cause you'll never receive it and bribes bring no guarantee. If there's a lesson here, it's this: If an airline is going to hit you with an overweight-bag fee, ask to see its policy in writing and make sure airline representatives measure and weigh your bags in front of you. Oh, and if you're traveling to Thailand, pack light.
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POPSTelemarketing nightmare of one man! I clipped this as I recently had to change my phone number for my own nightmare! These people do NOT give up! DO NOT EVER put your phone number on the net!!! Thats how they got my number, I learnt my lesson the hard way!
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POPSA History Lesson "Last month the Chicago Board of Education dropped plans to open the city's first public high school for gay and lesbian students after Mayor Richard M. Daley questioned whether it would isolate children. But Hannah Devane, 17, a student at Harvey Milk, said mainstream schools failed her. She felt alienated and became so depressed, Devane said, she didn't get out of bed in the mornings. She stopped attending classes. When Devane was 13, she heard about the Harvey Milk school in the news and decided to ask her counselor to help her transfer. "Coming here changed my life," she said. "Now, I'm an A student."
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POPSReagan's Moral Clarity In 1982, when the United States was mired in its worst recession since World War II, President Reagan defied the pessimism of the day and predicted that “the march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.” Roughly a year later, he called the Soviet Union what it so obviously was: an “evil empire.” The “evil empire” speech drew criticism from many of Reagan’s domestic political opponents, and it greatly angered the Kremlin. But it also galvanized Soviet dissidents, who were encouraged that a U.S. president had been bold enough to denounce the moral bankruptcy of communism.
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POPSBlinded Prison Guard: Don't House Terror Suspects in NYC Billingsley said she could not discuss whether security measures have changed since Pepe was nearly killed in 2000, nor could she discuss whether any new steps would be taken if more Al Qaeda suspects are sent to the MCC. But those reassurances were little consolation for Pepe and his sister, who said the government was quick to forget the terrible lesson of his attack. "We're such a lax country — we don't learn from our mistakes," Trotta told FoxNews.com. "We have to protect our own, and at this point we're not doing it.
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POPSSlaughterman executed mother with bolt gun in front of her daughters
He shut down the house lights before charging up the stairs and burst in just as she turned on the bedroom lamp. McFarlane dragged Miss Griffiths from the room, where she had been sleeping with her ten-year-old daughter, before beating and trying to strangle her. The mother screamed for help as she was attacked and managed to get outside where her 13-year-old girl shouted 'don't do it, stop it,' as McFarlane shot her. A neighbour described what he saw as 'clinical, deliberate, and like an execution' and how he also knocked the teenager to the ground with the weapon. The killer later texted a friend to say he had done it to teach her a lesson - before slashing his arms in an apparent suicide attempt. The Independent Police Complaints Commission launched an inquiry into how police dealt with Miss Griffiths' initial plea for help after her death but has yet to make a ruling. McFarlane pleaded guilty to murder at Ipswich Crown Court last week and was sentenced today at th
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POPSObama and The Democrats Want You to Know They Had a Good Week During his campaign, in effect, Mr Obama promised to be the constraint: to oversee Congress and guide it with a moderating hand. That was the difference he promised to make. There were always going to be limits to what he could do, but his failure so far even to try has been total. He has let nearly every agenda be set by the Democrats’ left-leaning congressional leadership. This comes in a country in which 40 per cent of voters call themselves conservatives, 36 per cent moderates and 20 per cent liberals. Voters are confused and concerned about the policies coming forward " above all by their mounting cost " but he has made little effort to explain or reassure, let alone influence. He has chosen to act as cheerleader for whatever congressional Democrats cook up. On healthcare, Mr Obama stood aside during months of chaotic haggling in Congress. By the summer, unsurprisingly, voters opposed to reform outnumbered voters in favour " again, above all, expressing worries . . .
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