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POPSFrom Across the Pond - Step forward George Bush From Blog: And who will be joining in the call: leading voices in the worlds of the arts and politics, including the novelist Iain Banks, the artist David Gentleman and the human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger, have now joined forces to call for Mr Bush to face a war crimes trial in the Hague. Wonder how the Brits will handle the security and where they will force their citizens to assemble. Labour Against the War Anti-war protest planned for Bush visit to London Stop the War Coalition (STWC) described Bush as a "war criminal" and said the protest will be held outside the British parliament on June 15. And a Happy Fathers Day jr. bush, by the way, why isn't your new son-in-law in a military uniform!
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POPSVirginity in Egypt - Double Standards and Hypocrisy Operations to restore a woman's virginity are prohibited in Egypt, but are often performed all the same. They reflect a rejection of old concepts of morality which equate virtue with an intact hymen. If a young woman's hymen is intact, no one is allowed to imply that she is not behaving according to the moral values of society. Often this assessment is incorrect, asthese values force girls to undergo operations which restore the torn hymen. They feel obligated to protect the women in their family and to restrict their freedom. Often this means that girls are circumcised as soon as they reach puberty in an attempt to nip the emergence of sexual desire in the bud. stresses the importance of a public discussion of what constitutes the values "honor" and "virginity".
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POPSA Gift for Giving I love this concept and will investigate more. Seems a very workable way to go about supporting various causes with little effort!
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POPSHow al Qaeda Will Perish
Al-Sahab, media arm of al Qaeda urgent call for recruits. "We call on the fathers and mothers not to become a barrier between their children and paradise." No less significant is that the rejection of al Qaeda is not a liberal phenomenon, in the sense that it represents a more tolerant mindset or a better opinion of the U.S. On the contrary, this is a revolt of the elders, whether among the tribal chiefs of Anbar province or Islamist godfathers like Sayyed Imam. They have seen through (or punctured) the al Qaeda mythology of standing for an older, supposedly truer form of Islam. Rather, they have come to know al Qaeda as fundamentally a radical movement -- the antithesis of the traditional social order represented by the local sovereign, the religious establishment, the head of the clan and, not least, the father who expects to know the whereabouts of his children. It would be a delightful irony if militant Islam were ultimately undone by a conservative style reaction.
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POPSSchool Board to Pay in Jesus Prayer Suit I live in a small town in North Florida, and I can't believe the "holding hands", and prayer meetings that are conducted on public school grounds and in public meetings. I think it is an infringement on the rights of people of other faiths to have to endure this kind of over-the-line challenge to the Founding Fathers insistance on the separation of church and state. My God!, ....what is more important than for a kid to be able to go to school without feeling like he is not a part of the community because he is of a different faith! Or, maybe even, ...heaven forbid.....not of any faith at all! It's time for a change!,....and a return to the faith of our Fathers in our inherent God given right to be who we are! I'm fed up with it all!
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POPSYesterday’s Baggage By “investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations.” The path for blacks, Obama insists, requires “binding our particular grievances — for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs — to the larger aspirations of all Americans — the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man who’s been laid off, the immigrant trying to feed his family.” There’s not much that is actually new here. This was largely a restatement of Jeremiah Wright’s indictment of America, delivered in University of Chicago parlance instead of South Side Chicago diatribe. The old baggage has been replaced with shinier suitcases, but the contents are the same as ever. Black America’s problems can be solved by spending more money on the same old Great Society programs
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POPSFred Thompson in Glimpses
Olbermann embarrasses the news business with his complete un-professionalism. "MessNBC" with their intentional audio inclusion of the unseen production crew, saw it acceptable to loudly razz an inspiring speech by Fred Thompson from So.Carolina early Saturday evening. K.O.along with Chris Matthews, come off like a pair of drop-outs sharing a 40 oz.'er and a joint - guys like Joe Scarborough have to be completely embarrassed having to appear with "The Most Disgusting News Fraud IN THE W-O-R-L-D! ! !" Matthews, having been relegated to sidekick to squinty-eyed Keith, asks the most absurd questions of each analyst and reporter that they don't even try to answer, wondering if he's actually even serious or not. There's nothing more disgusting than taking personalities like those two, making them feel self-important, and fueling that with alcohol. They are clearly drunk, resulting in a vulgar display of adolescent political analysis and childish disrespect for those that are the adult
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POPSChanging abortion's pronoun
I've often felt that the needs and rights of men are overlooked when it comes to abortion. And that the whole "my body, my choice" justification by women is lame and selfish. However, I'm still pro-choice. I have my own non-selfish justifications for abortion. That being said... If these men feel some sense of comfort from coming together and acknowledging their pain, then that's what they should do. But recognizing men as "victims" to abortion? And asking them to think of themselves as fathers and name the children their partners aborted... and ask them for forgiveness? That's going to far. Doesn't sound healthy to me. I know a woman who runs a post-abortion group for women that employs that same method of "recovery". I think it likely contributes more to the need of recovery than helps anyone. And this new men's movement is already being politicized -- encouraging men to tell their stories of post-abortion trauma in hopes of tugging at the heart strings of American vot
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POPSMore from the Dark Side "This is not U.S. law, it is a Bush Administration hallucination as to U.S. law... The sort of nightmare which refuses to recognize the sovereignty of foreign states or the solemn commitments of U.S. governments over the last two centuries in treaties and conventions. The sort of nightmare that refuses to recognize the 'law of nations' referred to by the Founding Fathers and incorporated into the Constitution."
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POPSChurch condemns lesbian IVF use There really is no one-size fits all solution here. A child needs a loving, healthy atmosphere to grow up in. I know enough people who grew up in spite of their fathers presence, equally those who grew up in spite of their mothers. Either way, I don't believe banning people from raising children because of their sexuality is right.
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POPSHow plan to Force Vaccination, gave birth to the National ID Mercury... Autism, leave no child behind... wonder why its becomming commonplace? ...forced toxic cocktails... connecting dots... The spanish flu was caused by injections in military.. that is origin of that epidemic. there are other cases... in africa... and elsewhere. Those who traverse the rabbit hole are cognizant of these seemingly separate incidences. Orwell and the founding fathers must be spinning in their graves right now. And do not get me started on that so called 'cancer preventing' shot they are trying to get all young girls to take. And the rubbish new dis-eases they manufacture such as 'restless leg syndrome' Yeah right. Greedy Pharma Industry Psychopaths!
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POPSQuotes of the Founding Fathers "Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as are life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolable. On the contrary, no human legislation has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture." - William Blackstone" The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legislative authority." - Alexander Hamilton "The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent . - Thomas Jefferson
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POPS28 Fundemental Beliefs of the American Founding Fathers Principle 11 - The majority of the people may alter or abolish a government which has become tyrannical. Principle 12 - The United States of America shall be a republic. Principle 13 - A Constitution should protect the people from the frailties of their rulers. Principle 14 - Life and liberty are secure only so long as the rights of property are secure . Principle 15 - The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations. Principle 16 - The government should be separated into three branches . Principle 17 - A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power by the different branches of government. Principle 18 - The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved if the principles of government are set forth in a written Constitution.
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POPSChristian Nation??? This canard is regularly heard when talking with Fundamentalists. They seem to be impervious to facts. It's as though they view history in the same way they view the bible. They pick and choose what they need to bolster their ungrounded speculations.
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POPSPartial List: The Iraq Turning Points That Weren’t - the deaths that were Bush is a white trash sewer rat. With each "turning point," the death of American soldiers rises; Bush prays to his god Satan that people won't notice. Bush thinks he can, singlehandedly, bring "democracy" to countries at the point of a gun. Since he has said it's a "waste of time" to study history, he doesn't know the Founding Fathers rejected democracy and founded a representative Republic. "Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." It's much more fun being King. And for you religious rightists who still worship Bush? Don't forget that twice he said God called him to be president. To spread the Gospel? No, to spread democracy, no matter how many Americans or innocent civilians had to die.
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POPSIdaho Representative needs lesson on the Constitution No religious test is required to serve in the U.S. Government. This *is* in the original Constitution. Also, the Constitution is a living document that should and has been adjusted to the changing needs of an evolving country. The founding fathers didn't grant suffrage rights to women, does Congressman Sali want to repeal that too? I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that.
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POPSSudan: African Celebrities Appeal to Heads of State on Darfur "It would be a defining moment for the African Union to act first without waiting for the United Nations or Western governments." "The Darfur tragedy is the perfect opportunity for African leaders to show the kind of leadership they demonstrated when they stood firm and made huge sacrifices to fight the apartheid regime of South Africa. They have the backing of all individuals, institutions and governments that are committed to the sanctity of human rights and human life." signed by: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, South Africa Baba Maal, Musician, Senegal Angelique Kidjo, Musician, Benin Emmanual Jal, Rap Artist, Sudan Chimande Adichie, Writer, Nigeria Tegla Loroupe, Athlete, Kenya Rachid Taha, Musician, Algeria Mohamed Mounir, Musician, Egypt
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POPSDefend the Constitution - Remove Gonzales Dick Viguerie says it best. I can't remember the last time I agreed with him, but this demonstrates how bad Gonzales is and also how bad it is for both sides to go down the paths that George and his cronies have taken us. It is a recognition of the slippery slope that "adjusting" the constitution for partisan politics can take you down. The Constitution and defense of it should rise above partisanship and we should fight for the defense constitutional rights and the Constitution itself no matter who it benefits at the moment.
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