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POPSNazi-Democrat Analogies Leaves Jewish Groups Alarmed But the vast majority of instances, as a review of recent of recent news clips shows, have been offered by Republican or conservative figures targeting the president or Democrats. Take, for instance, former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson, who warned that Obama - like Hitler - "killed the weak, the sick, the old, and babies and races/religions he didn't like. Hitler also controlled the media." Then there is radio host Rush Limbaugh, who insisted that, "Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate," and RedState.com's Erick Erickson, who insisted that the president's health care adviser, Linda Douglass, "really is the Joseph Goebbels of the White House Health Care shop."
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POPSRubbish Problem Worsens in Cairo More at clip source. Today, we've not had any water in the neighborhood where I live. This has never happened in the two years I've lived here. The authorities are fixing the water main: I doubt we'll have water by tomorrow morning. Bottled water is unhealthy, but I am happy to have it today. About the rubbish pile up: In the affluent and powerful areas like where I live rubbish is not piling up in the streets. And I doubt this is a problem in New Cairo or 6th October. My friends in Giza do not enjoy the same privilege. If the government really cared about public hygiene they would have cleaned up this city long ago. Egyptians deserve better.
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POPSForget Terrorism The underlying message of the news, the implication hammered deeper home with every replay of the towers collapsing, was that whatever we little people did, world history, and therefore real life, was out of our hands. The trivial little games activists and communities had been playing were irrelevant; no one would pay attention any longer, let alone join in. This was not necessarily true, of course. But it was news because it was on the news, and because it was news it made itself true
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POPSVictoria Cross Old Guard Salute New Hero Mark Donaldson
One of the last to leave, Trooper Donaldson, spotted the Afghan interpreter lying wounded in open ground more than 80m away. “His movement, once identified by the enemy, drew intense and accurate machine gun fire from entrenched positions,” the citation says. “Upon reaching the wounded coalition force interpreter, Trooper Donaldson picked him up and carried him back to the relative safety of the vehicles and then provided immediate first aid before returning to the fight.” Some Australian VC history via The Australian. Old Digger Keith Payne, who earned his in Vietnam remarked: “I’m absolutely delighted we have a live one … At a party like his, the chances of coming out alive are pretty negative - and he never got hit, and that’s amazing.” Here’s Donaldson and the wife: After official photographs flanked with senior army brass, Australia’s latest VC winner, accompanied by his wife, Emma, and two-year-old daughter, Kaylee, spoke briefly to the media.
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POPSThe Superstitious Right Fights Good Science on Global Warming We could go on and on detailing the ludicrous inanities of American politics in the age of Bush (himself Exhibit A), but really my favorite has to be the case of global warming. In a society devoted like no other to the politics of fear, we have somehow managed to forget the one thing we should probably fear most.
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POPSFirst US Mayor, HUD Deputy Director and Federal Judge 'Get' Social Justice for Suffering Residents
This is a historical moment in U.S & World History demonstrating that every person with or without money, home or wealth are entitled to be protected equally under our Federal and State Constitutions. In Fresno, California in 2008, we have a duly elected Mayor Autry and a US District Court Judge Wanger who saw fit to right a series of wrongdoings by City Workers involving the raids and taking of property where people with nowhere safe to go were attempting to just live, be and to be left alone. All people regardless of if they have a job or money or last week or last month or last year had one or the other have the inalienable right to life. To live safely somewhere even if they have no money or great material wealth. To any person, agency or groups to be told or actually do mistreat any other person, home-less or not, or take their personal property without due process is guilty of great moral and legal offenses which demand justice, compensation & remedy to protect us
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POPSLittle takes on Large To walk out in front of 40,000 singing 'You'll Never Walk Alone' - any player in the world who hears that has the hairs on the back of their neck standing on end." - Jamie Collins
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POPShomepage of the original BORAT? (funny stuff) This page caused an internet sensation with all the hits this guy got back in the day. I actually remember seeing it when I was younger, but now he just reminds me of Borat!!!! Think Sasha Baron Cohen saw this page?
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POPS How Sharks Work Sharks mate only rarely and have a relatively small number of babies at a time. Consequently, they can't replenish their population quickly. Sharks also have fairly long lifespans -- on average, sharks live 25 to 30 years, and some sharks live 100 years or more. If left alone, a female will mate many times in its life. With this reproductive pattern, the death of every single shark obviously has a significant effect on the shark population. Sharks have persevered for hundreds of millions of years, while thousands of other animals have come and gone. When you consider this incredible history, and the unique physiological characteristics found in sharks, it's clear that it would be a great tragedy to lose any shark species. They are among the most remarkable animals on earth, and there is still so much we don't know about them. Many shark species are now threatened with extinction due to human activity in the ocean. The main threats to sharks are over-fishing and accidental bycatch.
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POPSThe Internet Is Still Growing I always find surveys and studies like this interesting as they try to put the size and or growth of the internet as a whole into relatively simple numbers.
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POPS"Long Live Linnaeus": a powerful & colorful force in the history of science The Linneaeus Museum and Garden sound magnificent. I would love to see them and the Swedish countryside. More from the source: “When Linnaeus started, natural history was a mess, and people needed guidelines,” said Thierry Hoquet, an associate professor in the philosophy of science at the University of Paris X-Nanterre. “Do you know in Greek myth the story of how Ariadne fell in love with Theseus, and gave him a ball of string to help him find his way out of the Minotaur's Labyrinth? Linnaeus gave us the thread.”
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POPSAre you trapped in the soulless exurbs? "The creation of an American oligarchy.....a steady Weimarization of the American working class. The top one percent of American households have more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined." This is an interesting tribute to our "Growing Economy" that King George will be talking about in tomorrows State of the Union Address.
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