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POPSThe Keyboard Commandos want Obama to be tough
To Brooks, the big question is whether Obama possesses "the trait that is more important than intellectual sophistication and, in fact, stands in tension with it." That is, whether the president is "a very manly, virile, manful person, and a firm believer in strict discipline, corporal punishment, and nude apartment wrestling." Oops, never mind. That last bit was Captain Ned. But it does get old hearing this cohort of Ivy League toughs -- most of whom one suspects haven't had even a fistfight since third grade -- describe every U.S. foreign policy issue as a testosterone test. One suspects it may not be Obama's virility they're worried about. Next came Cheney's devoted daughter. After President Obama paid a 4 a.m. visit to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to salute the flag-draped caskets of 18 American servicemen arriving home from Afghanistan, and to console their families, Liz Cheney appeared on -- where else? -- Fox News radio to suggest a cheap political stunt.
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POPSYou Are A Wimp (So Am I) "Any Neanderthal woman could have beaten former bodybuilder and current California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm wrestling match"
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POPSThe Worst Nicknames In MMA These are funny....dudes need better PR reps.... Imes is an interesting dude. He played pro football in the Arena League and was a combatant on the 2nd season of “The Ultimate Fighter”. But his agent or whoever came up with the nickname must have thought he was trying out for the country-music version of American Idol or WWE-type wrestling. Seriously–The Hillbilly Heartthrob? Who does he think he is? Billy Ray Cyrus? Wouldn't surprise me if there are fans that want him to lose solely because of his nickname.
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POPS President Interdum Fidelis Let's include the stated reason for the review: Obama is shocked - shocked! - to learn that there is corruption in Karzai's government: But the Afghan presidential elections, widely marred by allegations of fraud, undermined the administration’s confidence that it had a reliable partner in President Hamid Karzai. Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden already had raised doubts about Mr. Karzai, which were only exacerbated by the fear that even if he emerges from a runoff election, he will have little credibility with his own people. “A counterinsurgency strategy can only work if you have a credible and legitimate Afghan partner. That’s in doubt now,” said Bruce O. Riedel, who led the administration’s strategy review of Afghanistan and Pakistan earlier this year. “Part of the reason you are seeing a hesitancy to jump deeper into the pool is that they are looking to see if they can make lemonade out of the lemons we got from the Afghan election.”
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POPSHouse raider smashed on head '100 times' with bat
"I got the bat and just started swinging; I focused on the skull because I just wanted him to go unconscious, but you Irish people have thick skulls because he would not go unconscious," she told the Sunday Tribune from her US home. "I honestly think I must have hit him about 100 times. I think he will probably suffer from headaches for the rest of his life." The violent robbery in July last year resulted in Miskelly receiving serious head wounds during a fight that left the Angevine's bedroom covered in blood. But they say they bear no ill will toward the opportunist raider, instead blaming another man for masterminding the whole event. "My husband and I didn't feel like we were victims because there was only about one and a half minutes when we didn't feel like we were in control," she said. Miskelly entered the house at around 1.15am and his movements woke the sleeping couple. "I said there's someone in here and at that point Christopher began shouting, 'Get up, ge
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POPSWorld's weirdest festivals Photos. All for a party ...the world's full of quirky, downright strange & bizarre events. More info @ source for anyone interested in attending or participating.
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POPSThe 10th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos (Woot, woot!) Insane Clown Posse's summer festival. OMFEG, but that Sugar Slam chick is an ABYSMAL tv presenter. And I hope DJ Clay is better on the turntables than the teleprompter. Wrestling on glass and thumbtacks, hardcore clown-rap & -metal... and a waterslide. Plus all the Faygo cola you can bathe in. That spells summer party to these folks. Lexi & I want the sunscreen concession stand. ;-)
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POPSBad movie nude scenes "...many a nude scene has been made that intentionally or not, lands so far on the opposite end of the spectrum from sexy that our offended eyes never want to see another naked body again."
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POPSKhamenei Warns Protesters to Stay Off Streets "Arm wrestling in the street must stop," he said. "I want everyone to put an end to this. If they don't stop this … they will be held accountable for all of this." "This is not a competition between outside and inside the establishment as Zionists, media in the UK, in the US, have been trying to say," he said. In an apparent attempt to acknowledge the concerns of Mousavi's supporters he admitted that Iran was not "without corruption," and said it needed to be tackled. He also acknowledged differences between Ahmadinejad and the former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has supported Mousavi and been portrayed as a potential kingmaker, but at the same time played down the differences. Ali Larijani, the parliament speaker, Mahmoud Shahroudi, the judiciary speaker, and the mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf were present at the university, as were senior military officers from the revolutionary guards.
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POPS(Yet) Another New Tax From Which The Bottom 95% Should Probably Divert Their Eyes While it'd be a whopper, a national sales tax seems unlikely (despite the pesky mathematical consequences of the government spending gazillions of dollars it doesn't have). Republicans hate it because it's an enormous new tax. And Democrats don't love it as lasciviously as they do other taxes because it's less "progressive" (i.e. it doesn't disproportionately soak the higher income brackets as elegantly as, say, a steeply graduated income tax or a supplemental hundred-thousandaires' tax). Happily, there's a much simpler way to pay for Obama's newest trillion-dollar adventure: scrub it. Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look -- Levy Viewed as Way to Reduce Deficits, Fund Health Reform http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/26/AR2009052602909.html?wprss=rss_politics
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POPS Welfare for Freed Gitmo Detainees? Does this mean that the Obama administration is planning on giving some freed Guantanamo detainees a stipend? It sure appears that way. So, not only is the Obama administration planning on freeing some detainees on U.S. soil, it is also going to pay them to live here. Amazing. Who would have thought that we would see the day when detainees who were once labeled enemy combatants would be receiving welfare? The Uighur detainees are cited, over and over again, as the types of detainees who can be safely released into the U.S. This conclusion has been reached through a combination of specious reasoning and ignorance. Even if you don’t think that we should lock them up and throw away the key, do we really want to pay them to live on U.S. soil?
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