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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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POPSBradshaw College Consulting Mr. Bradshaw is also a freelance writer and is available for speaking events. Gerald Bradshaw is a dynamic speaker who lectures, coaches and publicly speaks at special events across the country, to thousands of parents, students and educators. Gerald’s goal is to ensure that his audience understands that "the college of choice is a realistic option" for everyone. Gerald has earned a reputation as the coach a student looks for when seeking advice on college admissions.
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POPS14 Liberal Lies About National Healthcare Another great trigger idea: We get to pull Keith Olbermann's hair to see if it's a toupee -- but only when triggered by his laughably claiming to have gone to an Ivy League university, rather than the bovine management school he actually attended.
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POPS Van Jones: A (mis)Leader ’Til The End But let’s look at his parting shot and, as they say in the streets of middle America, break it down. 1. opponents of reform There’s a loaded phrase, eh? Because the key word here is reform. By that can we assume he meant the changing of the “whole system” from the ground up? “We gonna change the whole thang.” By reform is he talking about changing our existing American system of government to bypass elected officials almost entirely by appointing czars surreptitiously, for the very purpose of avoiding any usual vetting process? Is he referring to the dismantling of our Capitalistic society in order to “give” jobs to the “chronically unemployed?” Are black people currently prevented from going to school? Prevented from applying for jobs? Doing the work of building this hallowed new system of gleaming clean energy? 2. vicious smear campaign Here he is most likely referring to Glenn Beck and Fox News, for having the journalistic sensibility to
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POPS"First Queen of Hip-Hop" gets her Ph.D. – on Warner Brothers' dime
Congratulations, Dr. Shante! More: She eventually cashed in, earning a Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell to the tune of $217,000 - all covered by the label. But getting Warner Music to cough up the dough was a battle. "They kept stumbling over their words, and they didn't have an exact reason why they were telling me no," Shante said. She figured Warner considered the clause a throwaway, never believing a teen mom in public housing would attend college… Shante found an arm-twisting ally in Marguerita Grecco, the dean at Marymount Manhattan College. Shante showed her the contract, and the dean let her attend classes for free while pursuing the money. "I told Dean Grecco that either I'm going to go here or go to the streets, so I need your help," Shante recalls. "She said, 'We're going to make them pay for this.'" Grecco submitted and resubmitted the bills to the label, which finally agreed to honor the contract when Shante threatened to go public with the story.
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POPSYou Scare Me..!!! Rest of the open letter to Omama Here... http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp
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POPSWannabe-Look Good, All Show, No Go Green Colleges
If after the headline, the story said 650 universities and colleges to offer 50% of their classes online and limit their sports programs to competing with institutions within 50 miles from each other, I might believe they were serious and you would probably agree. But since colleges and universities are businesses first, their signing letters of good intention are just about as effective as business and governments doing the same. And I should add, most of us just sign on as well and do noting to change our I'll-use-all-the-energy-I-can-afford life style. Example: A local USEPA office built next to the University of Cincinnati has no sidewalk access directly into its property. I have to walk in the driveway in competition with vehicles. They assume everyone will drive there, then park and walk. Grin. And Kroger Foods, assumes you will drive in park,walk a little way then ride around in a cart that makes it look like they are being nice to disabled people.
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POPSCharles Bronson got your tongue? A review of "District 9" More: The movie does end on a note of incompletion: characters still at large, maybe the second half of the story yet to come. I craved that, and walked out of the theatre speculating on what more the story could have given me: a virus that turns every human into an alien; an interspecies romance; how the black intern's role could have been bigger. What would protest marches and interspecies activist alliances have looked like, among the aliens? If they landed in 1982, what would the anti-apartheid Sun City campaign that started not much later have looked like? And if they were in South Africa that whole time, why haven't the world intelligentsia anointed some of them for speaking tours? I would totally love to see "Christopher Johnson" in an ascot at some Ivy League colloquium, deep in debate over the roots and meaning of alien poverty. So. There was potential there, but the movie couldn't do it…the ambition was there, but not the follow-through.
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POPSEmma Watson, star of Harry Potter films, is related to 16th century witch Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist from Ancestry.co.uk, who researched Watson's heritage, said: "It is not every day we are able to trace the branches of a family tree back to the 16th century witch trials. "It shows researching your family's past can have just as many twists and turns as a film blockbuster. "As we researched Emma's family, we learned that her great great great grandmother was named Frances Playle - a very uncommon surname. "The Playles have been in a small area of Essex since the early 1500s." Watson grew up in Oxfordshire, roughly 100 miles from the area. The actress, who achieved straight A grades at A level in English literature, geography and art at Headington School in Oxford, is reportedly set to attend Ivy League Brown University, in Rhode Island, USA, in September.
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POPSArmy Gives Money To Harvard The minister who gave the invocation could barely disguise his disgust for the military, while the president of a university that declines to be involved in the cadets’ military education felt compelled to condescendingly hand out copies of “Just And Unjust War,” as if they might not be familiar with the concept. Having Gen. Petraeus on hand seemed to be a draw, though. Big crowd that cheered and clapped a lot. Here’s Harvard student handbook warning to students: Current federal policy of excluding known lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals from admission to ROTC or of discharging them from service is inconsistent with Harvard’s values as stated in its policy on discrimination. (See Harvard’s policy on discrimination on page 292.) Although the University respects the right of undergraduates to choose to participate in ROTC, the University does not provide any financial or other direct support for the ROTC program at MIT.
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POPSWatch The Informant! Online Free Watch The Informant Movie Online. Watch The Informant Online for Free. Download The Informant Rapidshare Megavideo. Watch The Informant Free Online. “The Informant” is a true story that parallels a mixture of “A Beautiful Mind” and “The Insider” — where real life Ph.D.s had done something extraordinary. Based on Kurt Eichenwald’s 2000 book, “The Informant” is the tale of Mark Whitacre (played by Matt Damon), an Ivy League Ph.D. who was a rising star at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s. The bipolar hero wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price fixing tactics and became the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistleblower in US history.
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POPSHeterosexual Ivy League Professor Kills Wife Since people are entertaining the idea that we should ban gay adoption because an allegedly gay man is accused of molesting his adopted son, I think it is only fair that we ask, in light of this incident, if we should ban marriages involving straight men, economists, or Ivy League professors.
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POPSStill Second Class Citizens “There’s a perception in Washington that you can throw little bits of partial equality to gay people and that gay people will be satisfied with that. Gay Americans aren’t just another political special interest group. They are Americans who are actively discriminated against by federal laws. If the president is to properly honor the memory of Stonewall, he should get up to speed on what happened there 40 years ago, when courageous kids who had nothing, not even a public acknowledgment of their existence, stood up to make history happen in the least likely of places."
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POPSAn Open Letter You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing. Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
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POPSOur Historically Challenged President FTA: "With all due respect to our president, this assertion is again not fully accurate. The only thing that ended slavery in the United States was the Civil War, which saw some 600,000 Americans — the vast majority of them white — lost in a violent struggle to ensure that nearly half the country would not remain a slave-owning society. Also, the massive urban riots of the 1960s and 1970s were certainly violent." Selective historical interpretation. Probably learned it at those Ivy League colleges and from Rev. Wright.
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POPS 'Open Letter To Obama' From Former VP @Proctor & Gamble
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.. You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others. You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail. You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad. You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector. You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one. You scare me because you prefer 'windmills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves. You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations. more at link
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POPSdotNET, ASPNET, SQLSERVER, VBNET, & CSharp Video Tutorial Instructors http://myqol.com - When looking for an instructor, it is good to seek out the very best. The video presenters listed here represent the "ivy league" for dotNET technology. These instructors know their material backwards and forwards and can present it in a streamlined manner. We need to know the material backwards and forwards too. We need to be able to "think in code" in the same way that most people "think in words." These videos present over 50 very interesting people to get to know. Please click on the links to view their bios, blogs, and photos.
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POPSJoker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood . . . . . . And while you’re at it, they’re told, try winning over the hearts and minds of the populace, too. Vague visions of military glory vaporize on Joker One’s first forays into Ramadi’s hardscrabble neighborhoods, where everyone lives within walled compounds and even the smiling kids who take the Marines’ candy quickly turn around and pelt them with stones. Campbell, a deft writer who must be an obsessive diarist, recounts his unit’s 7 ½ -month tour in powerful, exacting detail, from a U.S. major’s babbling incoherency after an attack to the way a rocket-propelled grenade skipped down the street before finally hitting something solid enough to detonate it. He tells it all with lyrical grace.
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