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POPSMark Morford: The Lethal Injection College Fund
More: Do you know what $30 million can buy these days? What your average cash-strapped urban playground could do with that kind of money, particularly during a recession? Here's my simple and semi-obvious idea: what if Washington D.C. had taken the same $30 million, and instead of killing a single remorseless criminal, created upwards of 600 full-ride college scholarships for lower-income or minority students, at 50 grand each. In other words, for every criminal a given state is seeking to execute -- like, for example, the Fort Hood killer, who they say might well be eligible for the death penalty -- we take the same tens of millions in taxpayer dollars and send hundreds of kids through college instead, kids who otherwise would never have been able to afford it and in fact might've ended up on the streets or in prison. We'll call it the Lethal Injection College Fund… From dark to light. From excrement, flowers. From our most violent nightmares, a hint of grace. What a th
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POPSVoight: Is Obama creating a civil war in America? ""Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods," he continues, citing a television campaign critical of the Republican Party and contentious town-hall meetings about health care reform. "The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them," Mr. Voight says. "So I ask again. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?""
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POPSMost Charities Supported by a Pop Star Much of the proceeds of his records and tours were donated to charities devoted to African relief, college scholarships and HIV/AIDS. In 1992, he founded the Heal the World Foundation to relieve the suffering of children around the world. His “Dangerous World Tour” that year gave him the opportunity, in his own words, to “visit children around the world, as well as spread the message of global love, in the hope that others will be moved to do their share to help heal the world.” In 2000, the Guinness Book of World Records cited Michael Jackson for holding the world record for the “Most Charities Supported by a Pop Star.”
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POPSMilitary Academies See Surge of Applications During Recession The Naval Academy has increased outreach efforts in parts of the country that are underrepresented at the school, particularly inner cities. Minorities will make up 35% of the class of 2013 -- the highest in academy history. (I find it interesting that they are focusing on inner city areas and minorities.) Becoming a military grunt for money. Of course, its nothing new, but to sell your soul for the government to put a rifle in your hands and money in your pocket when you wouldn’t do it yesterday just seems sadly hypocritical. People join the military because they believe in that way of life, at least they are honest about it. But please think about what you are really signing up for.
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POPSA list of the pork in the "stimulus plan" $448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters $600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids $450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”) $600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”) $1 billion for the Census Bureau $89 billion for Medicaid $30 billion for COBRA insurance extension $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits $20 billion for food stamps $4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $850 million for Amtrak $87 million for a polar icebreaking ship $1.7 billion for the National Park System $55 million for Historic Preservation Fund $7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs” $150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases $150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”
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POPSReligious Youth: Bridges or Bombs
Just remember, as people like Janet Penn make do on Scooby snacks, there is a religious extremist out there who is doubling his youth program. He is identifying likely kids for the work of religious bigotry and violence. His recruiters are talking to them right now. They are sending them to training camps where they are being brainwashed in religious hatred, preparing to be deployed to wreak havoc who knows where. And every time that religious extremist entrepreneur asks for money for his youth program, he gets it – to the tune of millions of dollars. There is an interfaith youth movement out there to be built – a movement that can compete for the imagination and energy of the emerging generation. But unless we invest in people like Janet Penn and in programs like Interfaith Action, we will continue to see our headlines dominated by young people killing each other to the soundtrack of prayer instead of young people pointing to a new world of peace and pluralism and leading us the
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POPSWhatever Tax You Pass, "You Will Have Nothing But My Profound Thanks" This video is exclusively available as a service from the Arkansas Journal, Arkansas's #1 Conservative Blog. Here's a little tidbit of info you should consider. For FY03 (2003) Arkansas state budget, expenditures were $12,943,812,838. That's nearly $13 BILLION, with a B! Huckabee was only trying to raise $100,000,000 for his spending need, meaning that he only had to cut .77 % of the state budget to meet that need. I've also seen that Huckabee supporters are claiming that Arkansas wanted him to increase taxes. That's simply not true. It highlights the fact that he LIED about the '99 tax increase that he's claiming that 80% of the people of Arkansas voted for. We didn' t vote on a tax. We voted on a BOND ISSUE. Huckabee signed the tax into law himself, which he has repeatedly lied about. Arkansas Journal Arkansas's Conservative Blog http://arkjournal.com/2007/10/exclusive-video-huckabee-whatever-tax.html
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POPSWhat's it Worth? Are we to say this is the cost of freedom? Really? There is a great documentary called Iraq for sale, in it we hear one of our troops tell us kbr gets $99 for a sack of laundry! Come on people, let's get real, ask for our money back! This is extortion at the American taxpayers' expense!
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POPS "Phony Soldiers" Signed By 41 Senators, Charity Auction 
I want to explain to you what the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation is. The Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation started actually pretty recently, in the nineties. I'm on the board. We've raised close to $30 million, and what this does is this establishes college scholarships for the children of Marines killed in action and, in certain instances, other federal law enforcement personnel such as the Oklahoma City bombing. Almost 100 percent of what they raise goes to scholarships. Over the last 20 years, I've been called a chicken hawk. I have been accused of being blindly supportive of the military. Now, all of a sudden, I hate the military! All of a sudden, I'm critical of soldiers who are critical of the war -- which I have never been. I don't want to go through it, but you all know it. Well, I have the letter, and we're going to auction it off on eBay. All the proceeds, every dollar raised, goes to Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.
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POPSCOST OF WAR Above is a live counter, you have to click on the source to see.
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POPSUgly? Stupid? A Jerk? Relax, Your Worries Are Over. (con't.) Ugly Offsets: Say, for the sake of argument, that you're a grotesque clod with the sexual appeal of a dump truck's undercarriage. I'm not saying you are, but I'm not saying you're not, either. Sure, you could get a better haircut or undergo painful, unconvincing plastic surgery, but why not just buy ugly offsets? Send us some cash and we'll spend it on beauty college scholarships and research into moisturizing creams -- after taking our cut, of course -- thereby making you, economically speaking, so damn sexy. Just explain to the hotties at the bar that you've completely offset your ugliness and they'll throw you into the sack with such speed and vigor that you won't get your breath back until you've had three orgasms.
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