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POPSYour Babies Are Killing Our Planet!
Monday, October 26, 2009 Moonbattery in the U.K: "The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children" From the U.K. Guardian: Fewer British babies would mean a fairer planet. The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children. If they behave as the average person in the rich world does now, they will emit some 11 tonnes of CO every year of their lives. In their turn, they are likely to have more carbon-emitting children who will make an even bigger mess. If Britain is to meet the government's target of an 80% reduction in our emissions by 2050, we need to start reversing our rising rate of population growth immediately. And if that makes sense, why not start cutting population everywhere? Are condoms not the greenest technology of all? Actually, if you ask a true ghoul, it would be abortion, not condoms. In fact, scratch abortion, just cull all humans without discriminating based on anything other than productivity
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POPSFor Lexica In four months, Ryan will have traveled through 7 countries as he covers roughly 12,000km on bike. If you've ever been to South America, you probably know that there are flat parts...and there are not so flat parts, so Ryan definitely has his work cut out for him. Though, Ryan has done extensive bike touring around the world, and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process, so maybe he has "some" idea of what he is in for. This time he wants to up the ante and single-handedly raise $250,000USD to be given
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POPSIt shakes a village: What thousands of individual economic crises mean for an entire community
More: Through the Marin Housing Authority, Fatooh discovered three affordable housing complexes accepting applications -- then discovered a waiting list of three years. She phoned agency after agency, with no luck. Finally someone told her she'd have a better chance getting placed if she and the family spent three months living at a campsite. Meanwhile her repossessed house in Cazadero sits empty, she says. …The TV news reminds us every night: We're in a recession. But often the camera zooms in too tight: the single family facing eviction, the single worker laid off at the plant, the single patient unable to pay for cancer treatments. The panorama of such cases remains hazy: What does joblessness, foreclosure or lack of healthcare mean for entire communities? What happens to town after town of people like Kassy Fatooh? How does a multiplicity of stories like hers tear at the patchwork of agencies and services meant to hold our communities intact?
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POPS Something In The Water Camp kids have cancer, disorders Jerry Ensminger, a 24-year Marine Corps veteran, said his daughter, Jane, born in 1976 at Camp Lejeune, was diagnosed with leukemia at age 6 and died at age 9. Jeff Byron, a former Marine air traffic controller, moved with his family into base housing in 1982, three months after his first daughter Andrea was born and two years before his daughter Rachel was born. Rachel is developmentally disabled, has spina bifida and was born with a cleft palate, he said. Andrea has a rare bone marrow syndrome known as aplastic anemia, according to Byron's testimony. Dr. Michael Gros, a Navy obstetrician at Camp Lejeune in the early 1980s, was diagnosed with lymphoma after living in Camp Lejeune housing, he said. Gros said he has had to give up his medical practice and his treatment has cost more than $4.5 million. Thomas Sinks, deputy director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, . . .
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POPSHowl of the unhinged is scary voice of America's "culture war" More: The report provides troubling context for the outrageous behavior that has attended the election of our first African-American president. When you call them on that behavior, Barack Obama's detractors love to accuse you of equating dissent with racism. It is a specious argument. I disagree with the president's use of signing statements… but it would never occur to me to carry a sign vowing death to him, his wife and their "two stupid kids" as a protester in Maryland did, or to pray that Obama dies of brain cancer as a "minister" in Arizona does, or to heckle him during a joint session of Congress as Rep. Joe Wilson infamously did. That's not dissent. It is the howl of the unhinged and the entitled. The same folks who were complacent as President Bush spent surplus into deficit, wasted $600 billion dollars and 4,000 American lives on the wrong war, and watched a major American city drown are morally outraged because the new guy wants to reform health care?
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POPSBebe Moore Campbell | Maia Campbell Bebe Moore Campbell: died of brain cancer in 2006 at the young age of 56. What a devastating loss this was for the literaty world. I can't even fathom the pain and void Maia and her family must feel. Maia went from a television/film ... Bebe Moore Campbell, maia campbell, bebe moore campbell maia campbell, maia campbell arrested, maia campbell kids, maia campbell on drugs.
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POPSSome of our foods are poisons!
This subject will always be actual. It's our life, after all. Modifying old sentence, we are eating to live, not to suffer from what we eat. And drink. So, better check what you eat and especially how you feed your kids; not force them to pay for our mistakes and our inaction toward crooks, making living on our health. There are many bizarre theories in food and medical science to be revised and as soon as we start to do that as better. How many troubles can be prevented! First of all it is the notion that we can safely eat artificial food, practically plastic. We are not! We cannot be healthier neither with synthetic food, nor with chemical medicines. Even naturally occurred remedies have to be applied carefully. Chemical "revolution" of past century in relation to our life and health is over. One more remark. Please note, that not all toxins are poisons and most dangerous stuff in our food not toxins, which are produced by some microbes, but man made poisons, added there by stu
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POPSChildren deficient in sunshine vitamin And they are fat too. Could their be any correlation with the fact kids no longer play outside? Even in smalltown USA? Crazy. Do your kids bodies and minds a favor, kick their a*ses outside everyday. It was good enough for my parents, and it's good enough for my kids too. There is also strong evidence that cancer patients are more likely, than not, grossly deficient in Vit D. Maybe instead of spending thousands on health care and gym memberships, we should just go outside in the sunshine, sans sunscreen and take a walk.
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POPSsoccerjerseysguide Robson was already battling cancer when he left St James’ Park and his life has been a struggle with various forms of the disease ever since.
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POPSweed helps a boy with autism This little boy is getting help by smoking pot - less aggression, more thoughtful interactions with others, more peaceful expressions. Maybe if the big drug companies could make bajillions off of pot it would become legal!
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POPSHeartbreaking: Father Loses Son AND Wife to Cancer Ryan battled cancer for five years. According to his obituary, he was a student at Bethlehem Elementary School and a member of the Barracuda Swim Team. He also played soccer with Barrow County Parks & Rec. Missy was a speech pathologist at Bethlehem Elementary School. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 1984 and earned her Master's the following year at Georgia State. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and was past president of both the Bethlehem Elementary School PTO and the Barracuda Swim Team. Missy is survived by her husband, Ryan's father, Les Morgan and two children, Will and Heidi, who have also lost their brother.
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POPSMost Charities Supported by a Pop Star Much of the proceeds of his records and tours were donated to charities devoted to African relief, college scholarships and HIV/AIDS. In 1992, he founded the Heal the World Foundation to relieve the suffering of children around the world. His “Dangerous World Tour” that year gave him the opportunity, in his own words, to “visit children around the world, as well as spread the message of global love, in the hope that others will be moved to do their share to help heal the world.” In 2000, the Guinness Book of World Records cited Michael Jackson for holding the world record for the “Most Charities Supported by a Pop Star.”
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POPSThe Great Designer Baby Controversy of ’09 This will probably become in the coming yrs one of the most heated controversaries we will come across as a species. we do not yet have the philosophy (and by implication ethics) to go with such technological advancements. having said that, the motion is inexorable and we need prepare our arguments.
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POPSAnother Potentially Religion Inspired Death Each time I come across a story like this it saddens me greatly. The victim here is a 13 year old child who happens to have the misfortune of being born into a family with limited reasoning power. I personally feel that if this child dies the parents should be held accountable.
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POPSService dog's generous nature inspires young owner to help others For nearly two years Adam's been growing his hair, down to his shoulders now — even though it gets tangled in his wheelchair head pads and he's unable to reach up and disentangle it, even though he's often mistaken for a girl — to help another kid, a kid he's never met, a kid gone bald. Later this week, he's getting his long hair cut to donate to Locks of Love, which makes wigs for children who have lost their hair from cancer treatments, trauma, burns or other conditions
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POPSCancer causing bath products for our kids??! Is anything 'just safe'? I don't know what to make of these lists anymore- part of me feels like cancer causing products are now everywhere- but obviously the responsible parent in me is a nervous wreck every time i see/hear about one of these lists. So, as a parent, looking out for the kids of the world, i sorta feel it's my responsibility to pass this link along- no judging- do what you want with it..
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