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POPS In Search of Self-Governance
He details the concept of self-governance, how we live it every day through the choices we make at home and in our communities, and how we exhibit it through volunteerism and other things outside the world of politics. There are also differences between men and women, rich and poor, young and old, whites and non-whites, investors and non-investors, liberals and conservatives, government employees and entrepreneurs. The more you divide America into subgroups, the more we seem divided. Despite these differences, I am far more interested in what unites us. And, the good news is that there is lots of common ground that unites the American people today. Like most Americans, I consider myself very fortunate to live in the United States. I’m proud to be an American and proud of our great national heritage"a heritage built upon freedom, liberty, and the belief that the people should rule their rulers. I am grateful for those who have given their lives defending our ....
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POPSCountdown Begins on "Countdown" Worst, Olbermann's network president, Phil Griffin, is publicly praising him, always an ominous sign in television. While referring to his host almost in the past tense. "Keith has been our tentpole," Griffin says, adding later, "I'm pleased with where we are." Where they are, as Jeff Bercovici points out over at Daily Finance, is way behind the big boys over at Fox News, Bill O'Reilly and gang. In fact, Keith is so far behind Bill, he can't even make out the state of the license plate, let alone the numbers. Bercovici thinks Americans may be outgrowing Olbermann's schtick. via http://bigjournalism.com Countdown to the End of ‘Countdown’ — Is This the End of the ‘Worst Person in the World?’ - Big Journalism http://bit.ly/a1FaNY
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POPSFutures Thinking: Mapping the Possibilities (Part 1) Amplify is currently a "scanning the world" function. Classification and structured tagging would provide the "data points" for information flow analysis which is the next step in adding value to a clip base. Then it becomes possible to derive trends and scenarios from Amplifiers' metadata. If only we could get Eric to see this, Amplify could become a 'next generation' self-signifying information resource of immense financial value to be split among the Amplifiers after Amplify takes it cut.
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POPSObama Debated by Comedy Central on Fox News
Comedy has become news. And news covers comedy. News show satirist, John Stewart was interview on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News show. It was quoted on regular TV news this morning. (See clip). Suppose to be a comedian, many times Stewart's questions and comments get more to the core of news and the issues than most shows that think they're 'serious.' -- although all our news these days is mainly spin rather than an honest look at things. Stewart's recent comedy criticisms of President Barack Obama have even drawn Wall St. Journal opinion articles wondering if this meant the downfall of Obama's "stoned slacker supporters." (one of their routine insults). Far from it. Obama getting a fair slice of criticism is cool and what Stewart's show is all about. The difference is that Fox News is an example of critics who want to tear down the President everyday and will find any excuse to do so. So...comedy has become news. And news covers comedy. Thank God someone can be honest.
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POPSThis Presupposition of Passivity Perhaps, people should take responsibility for the consequences of their have-your-cake-and-eat-it attitude, but he whole force of the commercial propaganda media is deployed against them thinking for themselves. Social media could, in this sense, be a potent weapon against the hypocrisy of conventional wisdom.
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POPS30,000 Troops and ONE missing word: "WIN" But anyway, liberals tried to argue that Iraq was just distracting us from the real war in Afghanistan so as to appear hawkish as even they know from McGovern that you have to at least appear a little hawkish to get elected. So now their bluff has been called and of course they don’t really want to fight there either. All the Taliban did was house terrorists who killed thousands of Americans on our own soil; that’s hardly worth a serious effort against them. Plus, their sole understanding of military conflicts can be summed up thusly: “Vietnam was bad. This war bad, so this war Vietnam.” This is why if we were a more serious people, we would put liberals in crates, chain the crates closed, and throw the crates into the sea so the liberals could air their grievances to the U.N. which we also threw into the sea.
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POPSFighting In The Streets - Life In Obama's America We conservatives have long talked about our willingness to fight for freedom. In a sense, that's generally been metaphorical, especially when talking about domestic rather than foreign enemies. With the far left now on the march, however, it isn't metaphorical any more. It's just one more sign of the Age of Obama--fighting in the streets, as the extreme Left has been empowered as never before.
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POPSAnother Landlord Worry: Is the Elevator Kosher? The rabbis wrote that this new technology, which was explained to them by elevator technicians and engineers in “a written and oral technical opinion,” made them aware for the first time that using Shabbos elevators may be a “desecration of the Sabbath.” At the very least, said a man in a long black coat, pushing a stroller on New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn, with three other small children in tow, “it’s not another water situation.” He referred to the commotion in 2004 when some Orthodox rabbis in Brooklyn ordered people not to drink New York City tap water after learning it contained tiny harmless organisms called copepods, which are crustaceans, not considered kosher. Yeshivas, kosher restaurants and thousands of people bought water filters.
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POPSWhite House Issues Clarification-- Admits Joe Wilson Was Right Today, for the first time as far as we know, the administration is backing a provision that would require proof of citizenship before someone could enroll in a plan selected on the exchange. Here, the administration also concedes that hospitals would be compensated with public funds for the care of undocumented immigrants. More... Illegal immigrant health care costs the state of California at least $1 billion annually.
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POPSThe latest on Rifqa Bary, from the Orlando Sentinel (Sept. 4, 2009) It appears that the legal issues surrounding Rifqa Bary's situation are getting more and more complicated. The judge has so far been dealing only with procedural questions. For the time being, most of the relevant documents are sealed, the attorneys are under a gag order, and the seventeen-year-old Bary, who is insisting on staying in Florida (her parents want her to return home to Ohio), remains in foster care under the guardianship of the state of Florida. In my opinion, the child's lawyers have been making some very unscrupulous and inflammatory public statements, such as the claim that the parents' Columbus mosque is a "haven for Islamic terrorists" (law enforcement officials say there is no evidence for this). From the perspective of the parents, this is a matter of family law; for their opponents, it's about Christianity versus Islam.
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POPSBill O'Rielly and Fox (News?) Screwing You? You Bet!
This dialog came from this site: http://letters.mobile.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/29/family_values/view/index.html It says it all concerning conservative wingnuts such as Fox (You Call That News?)! Q: How many conservative wingnuts does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: There will be no screwing ...unless their name is Craig, Vitter, Sanford, Foley or Ensign:eek: ...Perhaps (right) wingnuts should try being human... That's the core issue here, conservative policies are INHUMANE, war, plundered economy and constitutional rights, laws that let corp. scam artists run amok... (pro-choice hate mongering) If the question was asked ... what kind of policy do Americans support without context to politics, the majority of people's answers would be "liberal" and "moderate" on issues such as job security, regulations of financial institutions, universal health coverage, education and social security. F**k (Right) wingnuts...and I don't mean screw or sex.:mad:
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POPSCorrect, ignore the lies ‘News judgment’ is what has been sorely missing. There used to be a wider gap between media publications that are derisively referred to as ‘supermarket rags’ and legitimate media. The danger in the “he said, she said” formula of reporting is that lies get undeserved media attention. When a lie gets printed it takes on a sort of legitimacy that manipulators have learned to use to their advantage. Journalists have a hefty responsibility to the general public to not allow lies to gain legitimacy and also to their profession to maintain a high ethical standard in presenting honest, truthful news. Readers must share equally the responsibility of debunking lies. Critical, informed thinking is the only way this nation is going to move forward in debating issues that matter most to us. Reality can sometimes be ugly and distasteful, but we need to see it with clarity if we are to turn it into something positive.
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POPSNEA: We Didn't Send Pro-ObamaCare Conf. Call Email Invites ...Documentation Shows They Did In the article I argued that it was not the role of the National Endowment for the Arts to use the arts to address specific issues, especially those of “health care” and “energy and environment” that are being vehemently debated nationally. I also clearly indicated that I was invited by the NEA and questioned their involvement in a meeting of this nature. Kerry Picket reported in the article that she “asked the NEA for a copy of the invitation to the conference call, but Communications Director for the NEA Yosi Sergant told us that they were not the ones who sent out the invitations for the conference call.” Picket continues, “Mr. Sergant directed us to the Corporation for National and Community Service as the body that sent out the invitations.” Which leads me to my opening question: What does it mean when a government official evades the truth? Well, it typically means that the official, or the organization that they represent, has done something that may be considered
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POPSCIA director issues a warning to Congress Torture, assassination and arbitrary detention are violations of both US and international law for which no one responsible has paid any price. The argument made by Panetta boils down to the defense made infamous during the Nuremberg war crimes trials at the close of World War II: “We were only following orders.
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POPSTop 10 Questions ABC's Infomercial 'Forgot' to Ask [Mister R.] Our resident health care guru, an industry insider who uses the handle "Mister R.", hasn't forgotten about us. Ironically, he's been battling his own health issue but stopped by long enough to relay the following observations regarding ABC's health care infomercial. Obama is pushing the "competition", like the battle for market share will be on an even playing field. However, Obama is trying to stack the field to be so tilted that the private insurers will start their inning with two outs and no men on base, while Obama starts with no outs and the bases loaded. This is just for starters. I see Obama is considering taxing health care benefits and everyone who makes over $100,000 to fund the plan. That is pretty ironic: the left pushes health care as a right, but if you have a private insurance plan, the government wants to tax your "right". Nothing surprises me anymore. As for ABC -- the All-Barack Channel -- I predict a ratings slide into oblivion.
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POPSLawsuit Against Torture Moves Forward The lawsuit is against the lawyer in the Bush White House who wrote legal opinions justifying torture. The lawsuit is filed by a victim of torture, a U.S. native-born citizen who was held in prison, in indefinite detention for three years and tortured during that time. This is how the "system," is suppose to work. Torture is a crime. It's supposed to be handled in courts. This is very good to see - although I'd add a caution against utopian idealism. People have been hurt here. Core principles of our justice systems betrayed and broken. Hundreds of thousands killed by a war started with deliberately fabricated lies; it's not like they're is a cure-all, instant 'happy ending.' It's like if you're caught in an avalanche. People die in avalanches. Or bones get broken and lives crippled. Homes get destroyed, etc. Later a team will probably arrive to clear the road, clean things up, provide aid for the wounded...but they don't buy you a new home, don't replace your wife or
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POPSObama Fails to Challenge Muslim World on Treatment of Gays and Lesbians Pretty damning, if you ask me. But as we all know, Democrats ignore their core constituencies (blacks, labor, gays etc) except during an election year. So how come Dick Cheney gets no love for his tolerance and views on gay marriage? Why did President Obama completely ignore the persecution of gays where Islamic law is the rule of the land? It is happening in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and even Egypt. (The list goes on and on actually….) Gays living under strict Islamic law (whether in a nation or a region) are subject to death. Women (as a group) actually have better lives in the Muslim faith than do gays and lesbians. Although gay men seem to be particular targets of the horrific state/mosque-sanctioned atrocities. Has Obama not seen the photos of young gay men being hanged in Iran? I am really beginning to wonder why the American gay and lesbian activists were so hot for Obama to begin with.
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POPSThe Real Culture War Is Over Capitalism 
, small business owners who don't want corporate welfare and bankers who kept their heads during the frenzy and don't need bailouts. They were the people who were doing the important things right -- and who are nowwatching elected politicians reward those who did the important things wrong. Voices in the media, academia, and the government will dismiss this ethical populism as a fringe movement -- maybe even dangerous extremism. In truth, free markets, limited government, and entrepreneurship are still a majoritarian taste. In March 2009, the Pew Research Center asked people if we are better off "in a free market economy even though there may be severe ups and downs from time to time." Fully 70% agreed, versus 20% who disagreed. The government has been abetting this trend for years by exempting an increasing number of Americans from federal taxation. My colleague Adam Lerrick showed in these pages last year that the percentage of American adults who have no federal income-tax liabi
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POPSGOP and Gay Marrage. Times Change Steve Schmidt, who was the senior strategist to Senator John McCain of Arizona during his presidential campaign, said in a speech and an interview that Republicans were in danger of losing these younger voters unless the party comes to appreciate how issues like gay marriage resonate, or do not resonate, with them. “Republicans should re-examine the extent to which we are being defined by positions on issues that I don’t believe are among our core values, and that put us at odds with what I expect will become, over time, if not a consensus view, then the view of a substantial majority of voters,” he said in a speech.
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POPSIsrael Puts Iran Issue Ahead of Palestinians Or....take care of Iran and then we'll talk. Good job, Bibi. However, Obama will not do squat about Iran and it's arming, financing of Hezbollah & Hamas or it's nuclear program. So, stalemate continues.
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POPSMcCain Strategist Warns GOP Risks Becoming 'Religious Party' As McCain's 'top adviser' this may explain one of the reasons McCain lost and Palin was so popular among GOP conservatives. If the GOP is like the Democrat Party, what's the diff? Americans need to have a clear choice between candidates and their values/agendas...not blended ones.
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POPSWhatever... The Grand Obstruction Party truly is bereft of new ideas. Reading most any comment by a Republican these days makes one wonder if they all were abducted by aliens in 2000 and just returned to earth yesterday. Why would anyone take anything they say seriously? Let me make this clear - their Reagan Trickle Down plan does not work. We know this. Non-regulation does not work. We know this. Yet like mad men, they continue to tout the same actions to events and expect different results. We often here people say, "Americans aren't stupid". There is merit in that statement. Unfortunately, the same can't be said of some Republicans who rely on proven bad policy simply because it's the Conservative Way.
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