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POPSObama In Knots Over Cheney ----a vote that could be viewed as endearing if he hadn't more recently flipped on it as well. And as the Hot Air link provided by the inestimable Jim Geraghty at Campaign Spot notes, Obama explained in a Las Vegas TV interview this week that his vote on that bill was motivated by the fact that "this was the largest investment in alternative energy in history." So which is it Senator? Is Obama's complaint about the NEPDG merely grousing about process (a process complaint that led to wasteful federal litigation in which the Vice President ultimately prevailed)? Or is Obama-wan Kenobi playing gutter political games, trying to tar McCain with guilt by association with Cheney? (An association that isn't particularly supported by the record and with which, by the way, I would be more than happy to be "tarred.") Either way, it doesn't jibe with his "the One" narrative.
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POPS From “Green Conservatism” To Black Gold In his book, sounding like Al Gore, Gingrich maintains that “global climate change” is one of several “worldwide challenges.” Unlike Gore, he seems to reject any involvement by “international bureaucrats” in such a scheme. So-called “green conservatism” also surfaced in former Bush speechwriter David Frum’s book. Incredibly, however, Frum advocates a carbon tax as a winning conservative idea. This kind of doubletalk helps explain why the Republican Party is in disarray. Rather than advocate the production of more energy of all kinds, they have an incoherent message that looks insincere and hypocritical because they want to appear to be as “green” as the Democrats, It’s good that Gingrich now seems to have jettisoned this approach. “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” He should go further and recall copies of his books. We need an American Vaclav Klaus to lead the way back to freedom.
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POPSIs The "Scientific Consensus" On Global Warming A Myth?
Their work is cited and acclaimed throughout the scientific community. No wonder Gore and his allies want to pretend they don't exist. This is the one book that PROVES the science is NOT settled. The scientists profiled are too eminent and their research too devastating to allow simplistic views of global warming--like Al Gore's--to survive. Al Gore says any scientist who disagrees with him on Global Warming is a kook, or a crook. Guess he never met these guys Dr. Edward Wegman demolishes the famous "hockey stick" graph that launched the global warming panic Prof. Hendrik Tennekes states "there exists no sound theoretical framework for climate predictability studies" used for global warming forecasts. Dr. Antonino Zichichi who discovered nuclear antimatter--calls global warming models "incoherent and invalid." Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu twice named one of the "1,000 Most Cited Scientists," says much "Arctic warming during the last half of the last century is due to natu
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POPSLadies and Gentlemen! Comrades! In the absence of classical Marxist preconditions for the Revolution - global crisis of capitalism combined with massive poverty and despair - Global Warming stands out as the most convenient, non-denominational replacement thereof. It provides both the means to manipulate the masses - and a moral justification for doing so. As such it replaces the previously promising but failed agitprop tools as "Overpopulation," "Ozone Holes," "Global Famine," and "Ice Age 2." Until the time when it gets replaced by another convenient agitprop tool, Global Warming must remain an unquestionable dogma in all political discussions (you shall be notified of changes, if any, by the NPR, the New York Times, and other progressive media organs.) The importance of Global Warming for the Revolution is too great to leave it in the hands of scientists. The masses must have faith in Global Warming whether it can be proven or not. http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1096
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POPSObama, History and Hate " In Philadelphia, Obama attempted to explain Wright's anger as typical of the civil rights generation, with its "memories of humiliation and doubt and fear." But Wright's problem is exactly the opposite: He ignored the message of Martin Luther King Jr. and introduced a new generation to the politics of hatred. King drew a different lesson from the oppression he experienced: "I've seen too much hate to want to hate myself; hate is too great a burden to bear. I've seen it on the faces of too many sheriffs of the South. ... Hate distorts the personality. ... The man who hates can't think straight; the man who hates can't reason right; the man who hates can't see right; the man who hates can't walk right." Barack Obama is not a man who hates -- but he chose to walk with a man who does."
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POPSUS Catholic have It. Right last 9 Elections!!!
This sort of social thinking and preoccupation with social solidarity and a "preferential option for the poor" are woven into the fabric of even casual parish life. It's this background that has tended to make Catholics swing voters: uncomfortable with the sort of litmus-test left that once kept Pennsylvania's pro-life Democratic governor, Bob Casey, from speaking at a national convention, as well as the talk-show right that assumes opposition to abortion means approving the war in Iraq. There's also an increasing awareness among the Catholic hierarchy that America's political right has consciously used the abortion issue to cut the church off from most of the positions it traditionally holds in American society. That may be one reason that, in its last statement on the political obligations of Catholic voters, the Vatican warned: "The Christian faith is an integral unity, and thus it is incoherent to isolate some particular element to the detriment of the whole of Catholic doctrine
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POPSWe Feel Like The Ghost, Not The Machine
" But it's time to bring experience back. Neuroscience has effectively investigated the sound waves, but it has missed the music. Although reductionism has its uses -- it is, for instance, absolutely crucial for helping us develop new pharmaceutical treatments for mental illnesses -- its limitations are too significant to allow us to answer our biggest questions. As the novelist Richard Powers wrote, "If we knew the world only through synapses, how could we know the synapse? Virginia Woolf, for example, famously declared that the task of the novelist is to "examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day ... the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness." In other words, she wanted to describe the mind from the inside, to distill the details of our psychological experience into prose. That's why her novels have endured: because they feel true. And they feel true because they capture a l
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POPSthought for the day... before I go to lunch.... the other night I had a complete freak out session. I was lying in bed and thought 'so, do I believe in an afterlife? what if I don't' believe in an afterlife? Does that mean there's just nothing? Forever? But forever is.... forever. It's never, ever again. Can I accept that once I die, that's it, there's never again, for ever. What is dead forever? Is that just blackness and nothing.....' Incoherent thoughts but once I started really thinking about what nothing and forever was, I got really freaked. As I read the below, I was calmed. I'm sure if I sit and think about what it says, I'm going to get all freaked out again. Or maybe it'll convince me that Buddhism with their belief in reincarnation & nirvana is the way to go....
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POPSTerror not. The Police look for one year now told no charges to be laid Terror laws act. just guns.
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POPSClinton Speaks If the quote is accurate, it's the first time I've heard a politician be honest and call the "pro-life" agenda what it really is -- "anti-choice". Strip away the PC rhetoric and the truth emerges.
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POPSJames Madison: Selected Quotes The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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POPSElderly woman survives 2 weeks lost in woods Ok, look. Reading this article you see the suggestion over and over that the woman survived only by the grace of god and by the sustained prayer of her family and friends. But REALLY read it. "For being out in the mountains for a couple of weeks she was in pretty good shape, amazingly good shape" -- but the very next paragraph describes the woman as "extremely dehydrated, cold, and incoherent". That does NOT sound like "great shape". Her hip was also injured. The woman is also described as being on a bow hunting trip which suggests at least a basic understanding of forestry skills. We know that she was probably drinking water from a nearby stream. And of course she is also described as being in good shape from "a healthy lifestyle". Wouldn't a miracle have been them NOT getting stuck in the first place? Or is the hardship so an insecure god can say "Look, I did something for you"? Some miracle.
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POPS6 US Sergeants: Ain't No Surge This situation is made more complex by the questionable loyalties and Janus-faced role of the Iraqi police and Iraqi Army, which have been trained and armed at United States taxpayers’ expense. Reports that a majority of Iraqi Army commanders are now reliable partners can be considered only misleading rhetoric. The truth is that battalion commanders, even if well meaning, have little to no influence over the thousands of obstinate men under them, in an incoherent chain of command, who are really loyal only to their militias. Sunnis, who have been underrepresented in the new Iraqi armed forces, now find themselves forming militias, sometimes with our tacit support. We arm them to aid in our fight against Al Qaeda. However, while creating proxies is essential in winning a counterinsurgency, it requires that the proxies are loyal to the center that we claim to support. The Iraqi government finds itself working at cross purposes with us on this issue because it is justifiably fe
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POPSFDR: American Fascist "I think it is overreaching a bit to say that there is no question of the greatness of the man who gave the world the atomic bomb, made war on civilian populations, befriended Stalin’s Soviet Union, lied flagrantly to the public, vandalized the Constitution, centralized power, illegally put innocent American citizens into concentration camps, debased the currency ... you get the drift."
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POPSI bought votes on Digg His blog finally did bet buried, but what if it had been something that wasn't intentionally made to be as boring as possible?
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POPSMcCain Flip Flops in Only 47 Seconds Mr. McCain just can't make up his mind. He is so virulent in his support for Bush's escalation of the war that it seems he is even willing to contradict himself in order to stay in line. I guess he really has come to believe he needs that conservative, right-wing base to get the nomination. Too bad he is losing so many centrist supporters like me in this effort. We are the voters who gave him so much credibility in the 2000 election and had hoped he would run again. Now, a lot of people like me are hoping he gets trampled in the primaries.
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POPSJohn Batchelor Show - Let's get it back on the air! Best unbiased information radio program. Guests with live,regular reports on location. Supposedly set to return to the air but let them know if you want something other than the pablum from the MSM or the countless blowhard talk-show hosts.
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POPSNotes on Gore's Incoherent Truth Commenting on these, and many other significant errors, Prof. Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia gives the following assessment: "Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that he and his film are commanding public attention." Keep in mind the words of H. L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."
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