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POPS Veterans Day 2009: Thank you
They are casualties of war… and as far as I’m concerned, Sergeant Kimberly Munley, who took their cowardly attacker down, is a veteran today. The terrorist enemy doesn’t have a formal chain of command that can sign an armistice, they don’t muster on clearly defined battlefields, and they’re quite happy to benefit from the efforts of deranged fanboys. If we don’t stand behind our professional soldiers, and give them the tools to do their jobs now, we will all become soldiers before this enemy is defeated. Somewhere in the world tomorrow, an American soldier will ring in the eleventh hour of the eleventh day with gunfire. Another will arrive home after an honorable tour of duty, perhaps passing brothers and sisters in arms saying farewell to their families. A mother’s tears will fall on a letter from the far side of the world. Old veterans will spend a beautiful afternoon watching children play beneath the flag they raised at Anzio, Guadalcanal, Incheon, or Khe Sanh.
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POPSNidal Hasan Terrorist Threat 'Not That Big a Deal'....Matthew Yglesias I think a pretty good case can be made that this kind of situation actually is the main face of the terrorist threat. Not a big well-thought-out plot centrally directed from a “safe haven” in South Asia and undertaken by brilliant covert operatives, but the desperate violent act of a clearly disturbed individual. It’s going to be very hard to prevent this sort of thing. As long as the United States remains a country in which firearms are widely available"for the foreseeable future, in other words"we’re going to be unusually vulnerable to mentally ill spree killers of various kinds, including spree killers who nod in the direction of Islamist thinking. But the larger point is that while these incidents are serious crimes and major tragedies for the victims, they hardly rise to the level of a major macro-level social crisis. They’re certainly not a first-order national security threat. And even put in the lower-stakes context of violent crime in America
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POPSUgly Bug Competition I think that they all are beautiful, but I note that many of them never knew their mother and so did not experience the blindness of a mother's love.
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POPSAm I crazy or did I just see a clown? Of those listening to MP3 players or walking without any devices, more than 50 per cent noticed the clown; 70 per cent of those walking in pairs saw the clown, while only 25 per cent of people on phones noticed.
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POPSLaser Retinal Retinal laser surgery is performed as a way of treatment to retinal diseases or eye disorders. It is commonly performed in our office where you must feel comfortable.
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POPSGlaucoma Pressure Glaucoma is the inability of an individual to see peripheral things clearly and it is one of the major causes of blindness due to increased in eye pressure. In conventional medicine, most eye doctors would recommend surgeries and eye drops to relieve high ocular pressure in eye.
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POPSKuka näkisi metsän puilta tai kuka tästä todella uskaltaisi pitää ääntä. Pian on todellinen vanhuspommi ihmisillä edessään. Nuoruusvuodet ovat menneet ilotteluun ja lapset on torjuttu ottamasta vastaan. Sittenpä se kohta vanhuspommi onkin jo sylissä.
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POPSRemembering 9/11, Eight Years Later the ideological battlefield. As someone who was galvanized into a political awakening and eventual transformation by 9/11, it has been disheartening to see the country slide back into somnolence. Indeed, I have wondered at times whether we have entered a post-post-9/11 age. I believe the memory still lingers in our collective consciousness, but it has retreated to the farther reaches. When one looks at history, this depressing pattern emerges time and time again. One has to wonder if human beings generally don't learn from history, but rather, are doomed to make the same mistakes over and over again. Jolted out of slumber every so often by horrific events, we then sink back into oblivion once the threat no longer seems urgent. A few will always stand on the sidelines trying to bring attention to the looming threat of the day, but by and large, we only listen when forced. Nonetheless, the fight must go on, for the alternative is far too frightening.
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POPSEU Opposes Israel Settlement Expansion
The demand to end Israeli settlement expansion couldn't be any clearer. The USA also quite firm and clear on this. Other major nations also speaking out on their own. This dramatic reversal from 60 years of turning a blind eye to Israeli's ongoing aggression appear to have -- thankfully -- turned. When members of my immediate family fought against Germany and Japan (3 silver stars, bronze stars, purple hearts) it wasn't for the Jews -- it was against the mistreatment, abuse, ruthless aggression against Anyone. That included six (6) million Poles, the Chinese in Manchuria, etc. Of course, like all wars, there were lies and hype, there was a blindness to one's own or one's past actions but, you know, if someone blows up your fleet or knocks over your tallest buildings, killing thousands, you gotta fight back, right or wrong, and then try to sort it out. We're trying to sort it out. The apartheid, collective punishment, starvation blockades and ceaseless Israeli aggression mus
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POPS Eric Holder's Hidden Agenda Recall that the president chose to install former Yale Law School dean Harold Koh as his State Department's legal adviser. Koh is the country's leading proponent of transnationalism. He is now a major player in the administration's deliberations over international law and cooperation. Naturally, membership in the International Criminal Court, which the United States has resisted joining, is high on Koh's agenda. The ICC claims worldwide jurisdiction, even over nations that do not ratify its enabling treaty, notwithstanding that sovereign consent to jurisdiction is a bedrock principle of international law. As a result, there have always been serious concerns that the ICC could investigate and try to indict American political, military, and intelligence officials for actions taken in defense of our country. Here it's crucial to bear in mind that the United States (or at least the pre-Obama United States) has not seen eye-to-eye with Europe on significant . . .
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POPSObamaCare and me We are being lied to about the uninsured. They are getting care. I operate at least 2 illegal immigrants each month who pay me nothing, and the children's hospital at which I operate charges them nothing also.This is true not only on Atlanta, but of every community in America. The bottom line is that I urge all of you to contact your congresswomen and congressmen and senators to defeat this bill. I promise you that you will not like rationing of your own health. Furthermore, how can you trust a physician that works under these conditions knowing that he is controlled by the state. I certainly could not trust any doctor that would work under these draconian conditions.
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POPSBirther nutjob fantasy has a sold hold on the Republican Party Dear Republican Birther Nutjobs: SHUT YOU THE FUCK UP ALREADY ! Get a fucking grip, people. You have slid off the deep end and found yourself wallowing in a pool of racism and willful blindness to the evidence. Stay conservative, stick to your political principles. But come back to reality on the birth certificate. Just because you don't particularly like the idea of a ARTICULATE MIXED-RACE MAN AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES doesn't mean you get to engage in this sort of lunacy and be taken seriously. The descent of the Republicans into a rural, southern party continues.
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POPSBritains experience with a "Health Board" NICE limited several Alzheimer's drugs to use in patients whose disease had advanced from early to middle-stage. Even though doctors argued that starting treatment at the onset of dementia would be most effective in slowing the progression of the disease, NICE decided that patients would have to wait until they became sick enough for the treatments to meet the cost-effectiveness threshold. NICE blocked access to Glivec, a leukemia treatment. Ann Tittley, a 55-year-old patient, was being treated for breast cancer when she was diagnosed with leukemia. After realizing she would be denied access to Glivec even though her physician had recommended she start it immediately, Ms. Tittley wrote a letter to then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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POPSZionist Blindness More propaganda from a Zionist who doesn't see that the way his country is treating Palestinians is comparable to the Holocaust; an apartheid that punishes people with poverty, sickness, violence and death, just because they're Palestinians, and they want Israel to stop stealing land from them. Shame on you Israel; you, above anyone else, should know better than to treat people the way you're treating Palestinians. That's "getting it straight".
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