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POPSThis is NOT the WORLD I KNOW!!!! The 12-foot-long ads had a blue background and three-foot-high white letters that proclaimed, "You don't have to believe in god to be a moral or ethical person." Spokeswoman Jane Everhart said American society was increasingly accepting of atheists and says President Obama even mentioned "nonbelievers" in his inaugural speech.
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POPSBelieve it Lying about a blowjob is an impeachable offense -- lying about a war is no big deal, really. Investigating a shady land deal involving the First Lady is a matter of National Identity -- investigating the use of torture at the direction of the Executive Branch is a partisan witch hunt. Executing Japanese officers for waterboarding prisoners during WWII shows that we have the moral high-ground on human rights -- waterboarding prisoners of our shows that we have the moral high-ground on human rights. Sitting two rows in front of Jane Fonda in a 1970 anti-war rally is an OUTRAGE! Shaking Saddam's hand in 1983...meh, not so much. Anyone who questions the president during a time of war is giving aide and comfort to the enemy and should be deported...unless the president in question has a (D) next to their name in which case you should undermine them at every turn even if you have to routinely make shit up to do it. Socialism, Marxism, Communism and Fascism are all interchangea
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POPSLetter to Nancy Pelosi, from Dennis Guthrie, Attorney
...I find it interesting that you and your husband are multi-millionaires with much of your fortune being made as a result of your “public service”. You have controlled legislation that has enhanced your husband’s investments both on and off shore. At the same time you redistributed the wealth of others. Our system of a free market economy is being destroyed by the likes of you, Harry Reid, and now our President. You ride around in a Gulfstream airplane at the tax payer’s expense while criticizing the presidents of companies who produced something for the economy. You add nothing to the economy of the United States; you only subtract therefrom. I would like to suggest that you return to the city of fruitcakes and nuts and eat your husband’s canned tuna and pineapple produced by illegal immigrants and by workers who have been excluded from the protection that 90% of the legal workers in the United States have. I await your defeat in the next election with glee.
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POPSkeep the public option If we have no public option. They will do the same thing they did with the bank bail out. Take your money and give themselves a bonus. How many times does an American lose at the shell game. Before he decides he has been taken enough?
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POPSTwitter campaign to defend NHS against US attacks I just checked and it's not April Fools Day ... I'm amazed Americans are using false information in order to prevent them from receiving health care even after their medical 'insurance' refuses to pay for treatment or cancels their insurance and they are unable to purchase health insurance anywhere. The level of baseless fear -- fed by the American corporate medical system via millions of dollars in commercials and propaganda solely to protect their profit machine -- is well beyond my comprehension.
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POPSAn urgent request from Jane Burgermeister US EXERCISES
We are concerned about the intersection of these combined military exercises with what we feel is a spurious declaration by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) of a Level VI pandemic of H1N1 influenza. We have reason to believe this could lead to mandated genocide via lethal mass vaccination of the American people and other peoples of the world, resulting in unprecedented profit for the international bank-based criminal syndicate that presently controls the UN, its WHO, and their client national governments, including that of the United States, as evidenced by the recent federally-mandated bank bailout and unaccountable corporate welfare imposed against the will of the American people and endangering the general welfare of our country. Especially since members of the military, law enforcement and first responders are part of the population most at risk for such mandated vaccination programs, as well as being those most likely to have to enforce them, we would appreciate if y
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POPSDefeat of Graham-Lieberman and the ongoing war on transparency Whether there is value in disclosing these specific torture photographs is a secondary issue here, at most . A much more critical issue here is whether the President should have the power to conceal evidence about the Government's actions on the ground that what the Government did was so bad, so wrong, so inflammatory, so lawless, that to allow disclosure and transparency would reflect poorly on our country, thereby increase anti-American sentiment, and thus jeopardize The Troops. Once you accept that rationale -- the more extreme the Government's abuses are, the more compelling is the need for suppression -- then open government, one of the central planks of the Obama campaign and the linchpin of a healthy democracy, becomes an il
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POPSIsn't Pelosi Guilty Even On Her Own Account? by Andy McCarthy Unless a victim is killed by torture such that the death penalty comes into play (which is not alleged here), American law regards conspiracy to commit torture as something exactly as serious, punished exactly as severely, as actual torture. As it happens, I don't think waterboarding as administered by the CIA was torture. But Pelosi says she does. If that's where you're coming from, how do you get off the hook by saying you only knew about a plan to torture but not actual torture? To establish torture conspiracy, a prosecutor wouldn't even have to prove an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. You just need to show that two or more people agreed to commit the prohibited act. Here, though, by her own account (or at least one of her own accounts), Pelosi knew the CIA was planning to use waterboarding and later learned it was actually being done.
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POPSon torture- and jane harman i am so sick of hearing about- "but what if you could get usful information? and keep your country safer?" to this I say "What if you gained a pair? and stood for Something-(values) instead of falling for anything?" the what if is b.s. as far as I am concerned- And the powers that be should not change laws to suit their lack of moral conscience.....or just whatever the reason they did this is.....the part I just don't understand?
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POPSDemocracy at Gunpoint Guarantees U.S. Defeat
The implication of what the Taliban says is simple and convincing: that it will be impossible for the U.S. and NATO to win a war in Afghanistan in which the enemy is based on the other side of what is for them an easily permeable frontier between Afghanistan and the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, but which is for American and NATO forces politically impregnable. This is classical guerrilla warfare against regular forces. The guerrillas operate with (in this case) almost perfect intelligence concerning NATO troops. They are highly mobile and reactive, and possess a refuge where they are vulnerable only to attack by rocket-firing drone (unmanned) aircraft, since the main, ground-based NATO/U.S. forces cannot reach them. The Pakistan government and army forbid American and NATO intrusion into their country. The United States in the past has scarcely been a scrupulous observer of foreign sovereignties, and the Bush administration declared its policy commitment to aggressive and
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POPSJane Harman: Angry, partisan, civil liberties extremist So if I understand this correctly -- and I'm pretty sure I do -- when the U.S. Government eavesdropped for years on American citizens with no warrants and in violation of the law, that was "both legal and necessary" as well as "essential to U.S. national security," and it was the "despicable" whistle-blowers (such as Thomas Tamm) who disclosed that crime and the newspapers which reported it who should have been criminally investigated, but not the lawbreaking government officials.
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POPSCleanliness is next to dry, flaky scalp. I know this is true. I quit washing my hair every day when I had my daughter (don't ask, she was not an easy newborn, or one year old). Anyway, I noticed a wonderful side effect, no more dandruff which had plagued me since childhood. Now, I only use shampoo a couple times a week and will rinse it and then condition it only. Glad to see I am not alone in the world.
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POPS An Unlooked-For Solace In April 1782, the British merchant/philanthropist John Thornton, a cherished Christian friend of Cowper’s, sent a gift to Benjamin Franklin—then in France as part of the American diplomatic delegation. The gift was a copy of Poems by William Cowper of the Inner Temple. Thornton’s gift to Franklin was accompanied with a letter, which read in part: “Permit me to request your acceptance of some poems of a friend of mine who has been many years excluded from the World, as not being in his right Mind & considers himself as a Non Entity & reads nothing beyond a News paper, & yet he wrote the most of these poems last Year.” Just over one month later, in May 1782, Franklin wrote a remarkable letter in reply. I received the letter you did me the honour of writing to me, and am much obliged by your kind present of a book. The relish for reading poetry had long since left me; . . . .
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POPSsocial worker But, it’s the average worker who is the one who actually produces America’s goods, who actually helps other Americans. If life was fair, and people were paid what they were worth, there would be only a very small pay gap between bosses and workers. Here’s some news I think should be published in the new year—but probably won’t be.
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