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POPSEven more lies, damned lies and stimulus jobs So we've now seen reports of goosing stimulus job stats in Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin, California, New Hampshire, Florida, Ohio, New Jersey, Virginia and Texas. (Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has more thoughts on the California story, as well as a round-up of some of the other state reports on stimulus chicanery.) At first the White House was owning up to "persisting errors" in the stimulus jobs data -- but when all the supposed errors seem to create the illusion of more jobs and are widespread from coast to coast, it sure looks like a deliberate ruse to hide the stimulus' clear failings. The White House needs to explain how this is happening before it turns into a full-fledged scandal.
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POPSFox News isn't even pretending anymore The boldest innovator, however, has been Fox News. Since President Obama’s election, the cable news channel has dropped all but the barest pretense of objectivity. Billing itself as “fair and balanced,” Fox has turned itself into what White House communications director Anita Dunn recently called “the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.” Actually, that’s an extremely polite way of putting it. It’s closer to Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth.” Fox openly promotes “Tea Parties” and other political demonstrations; it portrays every perceived White House defeat, such as Chicago’s failure to secure the 2016 Olympic Games, as a victory for something called “Fox Nation.” “Doublethink,” Orwell called it: the ability to “hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them.” So it is with “Fox Nation” and “fair and balanced.”
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POPSWhy doing nothing may sometimes be the best action of all
By taking action — even if it’s neither rational nor likely to be successful — they can at least be seen to have done something.If they stand and wait until the ball is kicked and then fail to stop it, they feel worse because of their inaction; and others are far more likely to criticize them for not appearing even to try. It’s better to try a poor action than try a better — but seemingly passive — response if both fail; even though the “inactive” response is more rational and based on a better likelihood of success. In today’s business world, action is preferred over the alternatives and is more likely to result in forgiveness when a mistake is made. You can always say that you tried. The person who does nothing is doubly damned: once for the mistake and again for not “doing something.”This urge to action — to get things done — is more emotional than rational. “Wait and see” risks your credibility and reputation, even where it can be shown to be the optimal course.
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POPSCIA man defends 'water-boarding' torture. Sounds just like every other torturer through history, I did not realise I was doing wrong at the time. "At the time, I felt water-boarding was something we needed to do," he told ABC News. "And as time has passed, and as September 11th has, you know, has moved farther and farther back into history, I think I've changed my mind." The interview is said by ABC News to be first public comment by any CIA officer involved in handling top al-Qaeda suspects. The administration of US President George W Bush has always maintained it does not allow the use of torture.
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POPSDon't believe the surge hype "As the most astute journalists have observed, there are few sources, if any, for reliable data about Iraqi civilian deaths, whether at the hands of sectarian killers or ordinary criminals (or the police/militia forces that the United States has armed and trained). It requires truly extraordinary gullibility on the part of mainstream reporters to accept any such statistics from the Pentagon, whose leaders have misled us so badly about Iraq from the beginning. Where civilian casualties are concerned, it is worth recalling that the Pentagon and the Bush administration initially did not bother to count them -- or at least refused to release whatever counts they had compiled. Estimating the number of civilian dead and wounded was left to nongovernmental sources such as Iraq Body Count and the Lancet, the renowned British medical journal."
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POPSLittle progress on halting Iraq's decay On reading the full article it is clear, that the blame game is in full swing. It is the Insurgents, it is corruption, when the reality is that gross incompetence is at play here. You invade a country, you take responsibility. We shall save the Iraqi's from Saddam. That was the reason , to save the Iraqi people from an evil tyrant. Now these people are in a far worse condition than under Saddam. No one is safe and the country is falling to pieces. Building on a foundation of lies leads to eventual collapse. The U.S. should get out of Iraq now and let a UN force in to rebuild the country. The incompetence of your administration is staggering and it is re-enforcing the stereotype of Gung-ho, dumb ass America. Who is going to save Iraq from Bush the Bumbler ?
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POPSWe still are letting our troops down. These troops have had enough lies, too long in the Hell zone. And they have given everything. Now we are driving them to insanity, where the only relief is death. This Nation can only be damned to hell for what it has done.
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