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POPSWorld Vision Development Foundation in the Philippines When the country was hit by typhoon Agnes in 1984, it launched a relief project that supplied food, housing materials, tools, medicines and bibles to about 25,000 affected people. Families also received loans for seed, fishing nets and new boats, and provided a food-forwork program that offered wages and tools for carpenters to help rebuild coastal homes.
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POPSFuneral Parlor Discovers Nursing Home is Tattooing Residents Police officials suspect that nursing home employee Danny Martinez, whose brothers own the Northwest Body Art tattoo parlor, may be behind the incidents. In a raid on the Sunny Days complex, police also discovered the following tattooes: * "Not used in 50 years" on the penis of a 109 year old man. * "I left my heart in San Francisco" on the chest of an 86 year old transplant recipient * "Shit happens....regularly" on the bottom of a 79 year old woman. * "The Razorbacks Played Here" on the crotch of a 91 year old former university cheerleader. When asked why the allowed themselves to be tattooed, one resident said that "we were told that it was cool and that all the kids had body art. We thought it would make us look younger."
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POPS ObamaFood Speaker Pelosi would not call food stores, grocery stores, the shipping industry and farmers greedy. She would call them immoral! And to keep 'em all honest, to keep 'em all honest Obama then would create competition, real competition with a public option for you to buy food from. Food co-ops! Imagine if the government was in the business of distributing and getting to you food at an affordable price. And when the rational among us say, "It's impossible to do this. The idea we'll destroy the best food delivery system in the world," the people that say that then are criticized, mocked and vilified. There's nothing wrong with the American food delivery system. There's nothing wrong with the price. People get what they want. In fact, the food stamp program. Look at the obesity problem. And they would say, "The attacks on the ObamaFood program are racist," and so forth. So here we are. We have a totally flawed plan that's obviously a mess, still being treated as "reform."
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POPSUS food stamp list tops 34 million for first time Why work??? Food stamps and Obama's healthcare coming so what's the point? I am confident that there are very needy people who benefit from this program but I am convinced that it has gone to the dogs and is beyond abused. Several years I ago I stood behind a woman in the grocery line who had several little ones (and some young adult males) with her. She used her food stamps to purchase milk, bread, cereal, soups, etc... while with her money she purchased beer, ice cream, pastries, shrimp,etc... I was so disheartened and realized that the system was broken. No accountability, no oversight; they are robbing the *system* blind. 34 million Americans do NOT need food stamps; they need incentive and motivation.
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POPSStarve Them Out 10% of the nation freeloading--stop the socialism--let them eat dirt, say our compassionate conservatives
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POPSEating healthy on a shoestring budget HC: Were there also some benefits? Callebs: I think I lost weight. I wouldn't say noticeable. It's not like I came out of this 30 days later and people were like "Wow, what happened to you?" but all my clothes are looser. I don't have a scale, but I can tell you my pants are much looser.
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POPSWheels Coming Off $900 Billion Behemoth Bill? What Senate leaders cannot predict is which provisions will stay in and which will fall out. It also remains unclear whether Democrats are willing to tamper with measures that are considered high priorities for Obama, but that tackle longer-term challenges such as health-care reform and alternative energy development, rather than providing the quick jolt of expanded unemployment and food-stamp benefits and individual tax relief. The most ambitious effort to cut the bill is being led by Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), moderates in their parties who share a dislike of the current version. Collins is scheduled to visit Obama at the White House this afternoon. "I'm going to go to him with a list" of suggested deletions, she said.
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POPSFood Stamp Use Nears Record High Speaking of unemployment figures, there were 573,000 new unemployment claims last week. But, by all means, let's let the automakers fail. It'd be so much cheaper to pay out in food stamps, welfare, public health, aid to cities, etc. -- none of which we'll never get back -- than to give a loan to car companies.
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POPSAnd the worst taste in a campaign mailer award goes to... Here's the rest of the story: Local party officials immediately climbed out of the muck to repudiate the piece and apologize, right? Not exactly. In a news release, the party disavowed the Hitler comparison but acknowledged that it had sent the piece out, in its entirety, because it was interesting and "might incite conversation." However, the release went on, "This sort of inflammatory language is neither condoned nor encouraged by our party." Except, that is, when this sort of inflammatory language is, in fact, condoned, encouraged and even distributed by the party. And they're calling him dishonest.
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POPSJohn McCain: Proud of His Supporters Diane Fedele - a racist blaming Obama for the fact that she is a racist. :lol: KFC should sue her for associating their brand with her sick racism. From the Video: When you got a Negro running for President he's definitely a second stringer. Oh John, you must be proud.
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POPSWhy cheaper oil signals trouble Deflation will win over inflation. But the "good news" will go on until just after the USA election. Then reality will begin to intrude its ugly head, again.
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POPSFood Stamp Use Soars In MA & Elsewhere “I think low-income families are faced and will be faced this winter with the difficult choice of eating or heating a home,” said Patricia Baker, senior policy analyst for the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the poor. “We’re seeing prices escalating, and anything that a family can access to help them buy basic food for their families is critical.”
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POPSSupermarkets Throwing Away 2 Million Tons Of Food A Year We visited a dozen stores over several nights last week to check what was being thrown away and discovered hundreds of pounds worth of food dumped. At a Sainsbury’s superstore next to the Dome in Greenwich, South East London – the chain’s flagship “environmentally-friendly” shop with its own wind turbines – staff said it was standard practice to throw away food before its sell-by date. And they’re not even allowed to take it home. One said: “Someone just stands there and throws it into the skip. We wish we could buy it – but we’re not allowed.” Pointing to meat on the “reduced” shelf, he added: “Come midnight, anything that hasn’t been sold will get taken off the shelf... if it’s out of date it will be logged on the computer, put against our losses, then in the skip.” Four-pint bottles of milk with nine days still to run had been thrown out, along with nine cans of cola with a date stamp of April 2009.
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