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POPSIs Labour buying silence? After politicising the Civil Service, this corrupt government is now financially rewarding betrayal. Betrayal of an ethos that meant the British CS was the least corrupt in the World. Who can say that this is earned when there are over 3million pensioners still not receiving their rightful benefits, when English men are being suborned into third class citizens in their own country with threats of insidious new laws that prohibit love of ones own country, where these same civil servants act as judge and jury into claims for disability from injured war heroes, these same people who have denied access to personal records that prevent thousands of former soldiers getting a real pensions. Also these same people acquiesce with corrupt political regimes in the hiding of expenses abuses.
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POPSAdobe InDesign Basic Principles I'd still recommend purchasing David Blatner and Olaf Kvern's Real World Adobe InDesign CS3, but this 4 page tute gives you a fantastic introduction to InDesign. I wish I'd found this a fortnight ago...
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POPSUniversity Research Labs Produces Too Much CO2 Hervé Philippe, a Université de Montréal professor of biochemistry, is a committed environmentalist who found that his own research produces 44 tonnes of CO2 per year. The average American citizen produces 20 tonnes. Hervé Philippe“I did my PhD on nucleotide sequencing in the hope of advancing our knowledge of biodiversity, but I never thought that the research itself could have a negative impact on biodiversity,” he said, during a recent biology department symposium. He doesn’t believe in one magical solution, but rather in transformations adapted to each area. For universities, he recommends having less frequent international conferences, increasing the use of videoconferences, avoiding research on well explored topics, reducing publications and evaluating the amount of CO2 produced by research projects. On the web: About the Université de Montréal: http://www.umontreal.ca/english/index.htm.
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POPSOklahoma Republican wants to replace U.S. made military rifle with German made gun. More: More than $300 million has been spent on 221,000 of the carbines over the past two years alone. And the Defense Department is asking Congress to provide another $230 million for 136,000 more. Lord, if republicans are going to deliver us BS wars couldn't they at least spend our taxpayer dollars on U.S. pork. Here's somemore brilliance from Oklahoma, Tom Coburn's senatorial twin Jim Inhofe, For example my area of expertise is the English language. -- Sen. James Mountain Inhofe (R - OK)
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POPSSaddam and Qaeda Some interesting reading from the cache of info confiscated by the military. And they are just scratching the surface.
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POPSFactoids (c), part 1 I remember the old "3-2-1 Contact" magazines had a department dedicated to quick facts like these called "Factoids". I love these little pieces of "useless" knowldege. Hope you enjoy them too.
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POPSThe Clintons Ethical Imbroglios Burson-Marsteller ultimately bought Penn & Schoen and Penn became its head honcho. Penn demonstrated his blatant lack of sensitivity to conflict of interest issues during the last Clinton administration. The number of Burson-Marsteller clients — both corporations and foreign governments — that will likely try to influence the next administration is staggering. In plain English, a number of foreign governments, seeking to persuade the President of the United States to adopt legislation in their economic interest, paid the president’s trusted adviser to make their case in the White House. In October 1998, while Penn was the White House chief political strategist, he registered his polling firm, Penn & Schoen, as an agent for the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, operated, and controlled by Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua with Mexico, Taiwan, Argentina, and Colombia as additional shareholders.
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POPSAdvice to College Students: Don't major in English "Progressive" education now means English majors no longer study Shakespeare or consider the great thinkers and writers of the past. What a shame....what a shame that people think they're actually getting an "education"; what they're really getting is 'indoctrination' to a worldview that is radically opposed to American thought and values.
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POPSFanatical religous right The packages were put together by a fundamentalist Christian ministry called Operation Straight Up, or OSU. Headed by former kickboxer Jonathan Spinks, OSU is an official member of the Defense Department's "America Supports You" program. The group has staged a number of Christian-themed shows at military bases, featuring athletes, strongmen and actor-turned-evangelist Stephen Baldwin. But thanks in part to the support of the Pentagon, Operation Straight Up has now begun focusing on Iraq, where, according to its website (on pages taken down last week), it planned an entertainment tour called the "Military Crusade." Apparently the wonks at the Pentagon forgot that Muslims tend to bristle at the word "crusade" and thought that what the Iraq war lacked was a dose of end-times theology.
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POPS77 Highlights of Bush's first year in Office 9. Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws. 10. OK'd Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting. 11. Appointed John Negroponte - an un-indicted high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations Ambassador. 12. Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain forest conservation. The rest are at the site
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POPSNot So Fast, Christian Soldiers - War or Crusade? Have you ever noticed that almost all religious wars involve monotheistic religions? I have looked and cannot come up with an instance when one polytheistic culture waged religious war against another polytheistic culture. There's always a monotheist involvement - maybe that's because with only one god, the monos think they have more to lose. Read the clip source and the original article
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POPSUndocumented Workers This brings up many interesting points. Are these employers the same ones that previously were demanding "illegals" should learn English, that passed housing occupancy laws that singled out immigrants, that refused to pay a living wage? It seems the arguments shift when a companies profits are lessened. I, for one, would be willing to pay more for a tomato if the worker who picked the tomato earned a living wage, if they had health insurance, if they were encouraged to become citizens. Yes, the answers aren't simple but the ethics and morality of economic slave labor demand solutions.
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POPSPhyllis Schlafly: English Dept. to blame for Virginia Tech massacre Phyllis Schlafly does one of those scans through the English department website at Virginia Tech, lists the weirdest stuff she can find, and then asks why we permit this kind of newfangled nonsense to be taught in our schools. Pretty standard stuff, but especially poisonous in the wake of the shootings, which, incredibly, she seems to want to blame on the professors and the readings. Via Right Wing Watch (http://snurl.com/1k9s7)
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