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POPSMethodists Following Presbyterians in Gay marriage issue Another denomination is biting the forbidden fruit of fornication. It would appear that Gay marriage is becoming the new standard by which the church is going to be judged. No wonder there is a downward spiral in the moral climate of the country. Not even those who PROFESS CHRIST are able to stand for anything anymore. GOD HELP US ALL!
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POPSObama’s No-Brainer on Education The stakes couldn't be higher. The United States now ranks 25th among 30 industrialized countries in math. "If I told you your basketball team finished in 25th place, you'd be outraged," says former West Virginia governor Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education. When the landmark "A Nation at Risk" report was issued 25 years ago, the education system was ailing, but the United States was still No. 1 in college-graduation rates. Now we are No. 21. "We simply have not progressed," says former Colorado governor Roy Romer, who heads a commission that recently updated the report. "The rest of the world has." For example, the average European nation has 13 more school days than we do.
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POPSWait Until Convention It's doubtful this will happen, but the possibility of Obama waiting to announce his running mate until the convention brings visions of a very intriguing night of TV. One major problem, of course, will be the selection leaking out before it's announced, all but sucking the wind right out of the big decision
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POPSJapan plans more whaling kills Japan is a disgrace and the insipid posturing of World delegates was such that Japan achieved an ability to carry on whaling. We are being led by whimps!
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POPSIroquois Blueprint for the U.S. Our constitution has many Iroquois features. Iroquois lawmakers didn't go to war. Civilian and military rule was separate. The Iroquois had no royalty -- no hereditary rule. Their nations could naturalize new citizens. The League didn't just conquer other nations. It could also admit them to membership. We didn't adopt the Iroquois unicameral system. They had only one council. Franklin fought for that. Because he lost, we have both the senate and the house. Franklin also wanted to let soldiers elect their own officers. That's what the Iroquois did. He lost on that one, too. Still, our constitution is a fine piece of engineering design. We looked at the European kingdoms we'd left behind. And we looked at these people who'd governed themselves so well for so long. In the end Canassatego and the Iroquois tipped the scales in shaping our way of life. And we can be very glad they did.
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POPSIt's All About Obama Americans overwhelmingly find it a hopeful, optimistic sign that the country could elect an African-American president. But they rightly want to know what kind of leader he might be. They may well reject as cynical any maneuver to discourage close examination of him by suggesting any criticism is racially motivated. The candidate's self-centeredness has been on display before. Having effectively sewed up the Democratic nomination, he could have agreed to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations (states Hillary Clinton had carried). While reducing his lead by 50 to 55 delegates, it would not have altered the outcome. But Mr. Obama supported cutting these battleground-state delegations in half. At a time when magnanimity was called for, the candidate decided he'd strut. In a contest over who is willing to put principle above personal ambition and self-interest, John McCain, a war hero and a former POW, wins hands down.
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POPSRon Paul Launches "Campaign For Liberty" In "The Libertarian Voter," David Boaz, Cato executive vice president and author of The Politics of Freedom, writes: "Recent polls suggest that 10 to 20 percent of Americans hold 'fiscally conservative, socially liberal' or libertarian views. Indeed, libertarians are a bigger share of the electorate than the much-discussed 'soccer moms,' and they are increasingly a swing vote.
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POPS Al Gore Endorses Al Franken!!! Franken's old Playboy article concerns Democrats Rep. Betty McCollum, who supported the comedian's rival Mike Ciresi until he dropped out of the race for the party's nomination for the Senate, complained Thursday that she and other Minnesota Democrats will be on the same November ballot as a candidate "who has pornographic writings that are indefensible." http://www.wtopnews.com/?sid=1412373&nid=213 Franken Asian Sterotype Shock Video For a person who wants to represent Minnesota in the United States Senate, this video clip will most certainly call into question the credibility of someone who apparently doesn't realize that Minnesotan has one of the largest Hmong population in the country. A culture that has succeeded in this nation by having to fight against racism, inequality and cultural stereotyping. http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2008/03/14/franken-asian-stereotype-shock-video/
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POPSFranken sweeps to endorsement Now I know the Democratic Party is a circus. They're not looking for leadership; they're looking for celebrities/symbols/entertainers/jokers. This is beyond sad. It's a sideshow. (is anyone else having trouble clipping without the orange box checked?)
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POPS 'Uncommitted' Votes Rankle Clintonistas "Count Every Half Vote!" To prevent this nomination theft, Democrats decided to count only every half vote. This means Mr. Obama needs to win a few more superdelegates to gain a majority, and it isn't sitting well with the Clinton camp. Senator Clinton is now saber-rattling about challenging the Michigan ruling at the Denver convention. Her feminist supporters are also suggesting that their heroine is the victim of "sexism." Meanwhile, if the superdelegates do give the nomination to Mrs. Clinton, many of Mr. Obama's supporters will cry "racism." The identity politics that Democrats love to use against Republicans has now come back to haunt them.
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POPSThe Big Question: Does the Deal Include Clinton's Delegates IMMEDIATELY After maligning him, saying he is less qualified to be President than John McCain, making Obama's skin tone a campaign issue, and generally hurting his chances to win this Fall, any deal to help this $100 millionaire plus pay off her debt ought to include the immediate release and encouragment of Clinton's delegates to vote for Obama. Otherwise, I'd tell her to suck wind and watch how she gets voted down in flames at the convention. She also should QUIT, not suspend, her election bid. Why pay off the debt of someone who just might suddenly unsuspend her candidacy for some bogus reason?
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POPSDemocrate Party Time Friends of New Orleans, a charity formed to help that city recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, is paying for the party,
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POPSHillary Clinton to End Her Candidacy, Support Obama Yesterday tells me more than ever that she would have been the worse candidate. Everyone else in history has publicly congradulated the nominee, and conceded same-day. She needed 24 hours to come to terms, and is still resisting the "concede" until 4 days later. If she can't pull it together on this level, how could she possibly pull it together in a national crisis?
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