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POPSAll Medications Have Risks Health care providers have known for a long time that one of the safest medications available still had its risks. Liver damage. The liver is the detoxification plant of the body. Without it, you can't live. People in general disregard the liver - who thinks about sewage treatment plants on a regular basis? Until it doesn't work, it's out of sight, out of mind. A huge consequence of this 'safe' medication is teenagers who 'attempt' suicide by overdose with acetaminophen. They don't realize the damage caused to the liver is a life long result of a short-sighted action. Personally, I and many other health professionals hope that stronger warnings will bring these risks to the general public and maybe save some people severe, life-long (or life-short) pain and suffering.
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POPSReplace Western Capitalism With Islamic Economic System?
This is so because, at its core, Shariah is sedition: It explicitly espouses the violent overthrow of all secular governments and constitutions – including those of the United States – in favor of a global Islamic theocracy. The Yerushalmi memo makes clear that Shariah advisors – who play a central role in this industry as it falls to them to determine whether transactions are Shariah-compliant or not – and/or the companies that employ them appear to be involved in one or more of the following: racketeering, anti-trust violations, consumer and securities fraud or material support for terror. Senator Jon Kyl, the Senate's number two Republican and senior member of Finance Committee found the conclusions of the Yerushalmi memo to be sufficiently alarming that in August he sought official reactions to its findings from Bob Kimmitt's boss, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, SEC Chairman Chris Cox, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
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POPS The Real McCain Record Mark Levin NRO His supporters point to essentially one policy strength, McCain’s early support for a surge and counterinsurgency. It has now evolved into McCain taking credit for forcing the president to adopt General David Petreaus’s strategy. Where’s the evidence to support such a claim? McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons — despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population. While McCain proudly and repeatedly points to his battles with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who had to rebuild the U.S. military and fight a complex war, where was McCain in the lead-up to the war — when the military was being dangerously downsized by the Clinton administration. Where was McCain when the CIA was in desperate need of attention? McCain was apparently in the dark about al-Qaeda like most of Washington, despite a decade of warnings.
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POPSPimp My Taser It seems like the company is trying to appeal to women with a "fashionable" design and make Tasers seem somehow sexy. This kind of marketing is disturbing.
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POPSSleeping Pills for Kids! and Other Bad Products Awards I had seen these commercials, but I hadn't really looked at them. I think it is dangerous for drug companies to market prescription medicines over the public media without clearly telling the potential for injury or other associated risks.
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POPSFinance Turmoil: Warnings Were There This is one of many voices unheard in February and before. The late J.K. Galbraith's "Innocent Raud" is still a salutary read for those who want to understand the risk casino that is global finance.
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POPSAbuses in Social Networking sites
I really think it's going to be difficult to monitor what happens and where. I am not sure why the world expects social networking sites to babysit the people that register for these sites. As a parent, I think ultimately, we are the only ones that should be monitoring, watching and teaching our children. Govt and web owners have been trying to come up with solutions for a number of years now and there hasn't actually been anything that they can write in stone that will work or has worked to the fullest extent yet, that will make everyone happy. What about assigning some type of ID to users under the age of 18. For example, in order for someone under the age of 18 to use the internet, they would require something like an "internet pass" that is obtained by some agency (similar to a DMV (dept of motor vehicles)), and would have to be approved by parents. The internet pass would enable the "under 18" crowd access to the web but only one level of it. continued...
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POPSIs nothing sacred? My god, next they'll be telling us that smoking tobacco is bad for us! But to speak cereally, I've been vaguely aware of this for years and have just started looking more closely. Not a big consumer of soy products, mostly soy milk for my cereal but I'm switching to rice milk. Actually I think its too late anyway, that the "body burden" as its called, the chemical burden we all carry now and will continue to carry in increasing amounts (all over the world, all peoples) will dovetail with the upcoming general social/economic upheaval(s). Are we doomed? Not as long there's cable TV.
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POPSSOCA: Blair's new "crime squad" A new squad in UK for "fighting crime"? Some of the staff provided by MI5 and MI6? Hmmm... Just remembered Chomsky's warnings of the new trend: Oppressive States. Keep an eye on England.
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