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POPSNew Obama Indoctrination Song For School Children: THE OBAMA SONG 
We began to write the song after watching the Inauguration. Our school day is packed bell to bell with academics, but were usually able to spend the last five minutes of singing songs as short ELD (English Language Development) activities. Day by day we used this tiny window of time to brainstorm lyrics. As the song took shape, the children became more and more proud of their accomplishment. It soon morphed into a tribute to MLK and others honored for their work towards social justice. By February the song was done. We got requests to come and perform from adjacent classrooms that heard it coming from our room at the end of the day. Their egos boomed. I decided to make it something they'd never forget by producing the video. Nobody forced the children to participate--in fact a few sat it out. When it was finished, they were hoping the President himself would see it and wanted to be able to show it to friends and relatives.
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POPSObama Rejects Afghanistan-Vietnam Comparison Obama does not believe that comparisons between Afghanistan and Vietnam are accurate, for his sake, I hope he is right. Meanwhile the recent move to increase tariffs of Chinese tire imports may lead to tit-for-tat from either side. Though finally Obama believes that there is no need for any further economic stimulus packages, the worst is over.
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POPSAndreu Balent recalls their history SAINT-LAURENT-DE-CERDANS ~ election of Joseph Nivet The historian André Balent came to inaugurate a cycle of four conferences programmed this summer by the municipality on topics touching with the life, the history or the culture laurentine. In the room of the syndicated Workers which was one of the high places of antagonism between the two districts of the borough, el Moli and el Castell, André Balent provided the enthralling ones and clear historical explanations. It avoided any over-simplification and any caricature, on the genesis and the development, between 1815 and 1945, of this complex competition, more or less violent according to times', intersected with periods of unanimity when the good of the village community required it, and of the sometimes paradoxical or ambiguous characteristics, based on economic and social criteria, one and the other of the rival camps.
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POPSObama: More Political Capital Than Reagan? When people talk about this "historical election" what most people hear is "First African-American President" but there is a great deal more than just that about this election which was historical.
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POPSThe "New-Deal" Mistake It Failed Before and It Will Fail Again Five years into the New Deal, in the winter of 1937-1938, two in 10 were again unemployed. President-elect Obama has said that "the one thing I can say with certainty is that we are going to need a stimulus package passed either before or after my inauguration." The idea, presumably, is that handing consumers a check - pre-Christmas bonus, perhaps - will encourage them to spend. Businesses will in turn benefit and then spend themselves. THE historical model that the Democrats are choosing to hold up as they ponder our financial crisis isn't Harry Truman's Fair Deal or Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. It is Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. At least three economic reforms under discussion now were also central in the New Deal package. Trouble is, these reforms didn't necessarily work well when they were first tried - and some failed outright.
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POPSA 2008 post-election promise More: No presidential candidate in my lifetime has inspired me as much as has our new President-Elect, Barack Obama. On election night, in the spirit of unity and conciliation, he asked us to “resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics”. He asked us to remember the values we all share, and he promised that he would be the leader of all Americans, not just the ones whose support he already has. In this same spirit, I wish to refrain, at this historical moment, from pointing out that your first major prediction for the post-Obama world — that angry coloreds would riot in the streets — has utterly failed to come true. Now is not the time for blame. Now is the time to put one another at ease, not to put one another on edge.
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POPSLet's take a breath and acknowledge this moment in our country! Whomever we voted for or whatever we think about our new President we cant deny this historical moment. No more will I listen to a child say they cant. I wont want to hear it. This moment in time is one of the reason I love our country. Anything is possible. Its time to put the negative talk aside and unite our country and move forward with President Elect Barack Obama. Who would have thought we would ever be saying that. What a moment!
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POPSBarack Would also like to commend Sen. McCain for being so gracious in defeat.
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POPSWhy we stand in line to vote - a historical photo essay Over the last few days when looking at the photographs of people standing in line at early voting sites across the country, I've been reminded of so many pictures I've seen of election lines before - lines of voters from throughout the world, voters who have had to fight for the fundamental right to vote, voters for whom standing in line is perhaps the easiest part of everything they've had to do to bring about change. … So when I think about whether we'll have to wait in long lines on Tuesday, I'm not intimidated. I know that we won't be standing in those lines alone, we'll be accompanied by the history of millions of people a whole lot braver and tougher than we'll ever need to be to stay in line for a few hours.
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POPSFirst Votes Counted in U.S. Historical Elections: Obama Wins. Election Day has begun. Obama ahead by 7 votes. Only about 145,000,000 million registered remaining. A record turnout expected. The amusing occurrence of a town, ski resort, way up in a national forest near the Canadian border, Dixville, NH has happened again, with it's fifteen minutes of fame. New Hampshire law allows allows towns to close their polls once all registered and eligible voters have cast ballots and to declare the results. All 29 registered voters showed up to vote at one minute after midnight - a town tradition for almost 50 years. (the town has 115 residents). Obama got 17 votes, McCain 10, and Ron Paul two write in votes.
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POPSIt's Not Who Votes That Counts... Historical note: Stalin never called himself Josef Stalin; he was known only as "Comrade Stalin". It was a common thing for Slavic political activists to adopt one-word pseudonyms. Similarly, there was no Vladimir Lenin or Josip Tito. Vladimir Ulyanov was First Comrade Lenin (his party card number was #1) and Josip Broz was Marshal Tito.
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POPSMcCain's Tough Campaign Road The environment is not conducive to a McCain victory. His supporters will say that he is showing remarkable strength, given that fact. His detractors will say that is why he is using every dirty negative trick in the book to try and slime out a victory.
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POPSYep again! So true...so very damn true! You wonder why our military is stretched too thin...why we need Asia and the Middle East to bail out our banks...why we haven't embraced alternatives to oil like Asia and Europe have...why we haven't caught Bin Laden... Maybe it's because we keep electing people that seem cool to hang out with but aren't capable of leading the world's most powerful nation. How about George Bush and Sarah Palin start a tv show called "politicians that seem fun to hang out with" and we start electing more boring but gifted people as President.
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POPSsabato Sorry for the shortness but can only clip 1000. I don't know how or if I can change this.
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POPSA New Low In The High Life "Taken together, though, the plight of working women and Spelling's let-them-eat-cake, $47-million extravagance point to the fact that, all but unnoticed, America has slipped into a new Gilded Age, with all the inequalities that historical appellation implies. What do you suppose the chances are of getting either John McCain or Barack Obama to hit this issue head on? They're probably about the same as the odds that the Widow Spelling will end up sleeping in her car."
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POPSLittle Chance for McCain; If any. “McCain shouldn’t win it,” said presidential historian Joan Hoff, a professor at Montana State University and former president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency. She compared McCain’s prospects to those of Hubert Humphrey, whose 1968 loss to Richard Nixon resulted in large part from the unpopularity of sitting Democratic president Lyndon Johnson.
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POPSGOP Leaders Warn of Election Disaster More: And in a closed-door session at the Capitol, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told members that the NRCC doesn’t have enough cash to “save them” in November if they don’t raise enough money or run strong campaigns themselves. Although a top House Republican brushed aside Gingrich’s broadside as “hype from a has-been who desperately wants to be a player but can’t anymore,” the harsh words from Cole were harder to ignore. National republican Campaign Committee run by an Oklahoman? No wonder they are getting they are getting their b***s kicked. I can think of only one or two states more out of touch with the rest of the country.
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POPSFour Wrong Reasons For Pessimism On the Economy Continued.:It is also less than 1% of the market capitalization of U.S. stocks. In any typically volatile trading day U.S. stocks gain or lose $150 billion every hour. How often does one hear that? "Surely that $150 billion will grow," you say. No doubt. Let's say the amount of bad paper doubles or triples. Would that finally bring the U.S. economy to its knees? I don't think so. The nearest historical comparison we have is the savings-and-loan crisis of 1986--95. On a constant dollar basis--so we can compare apples with apples--the S&L crisis saw $700 billion in bad loans. Nearly five times as much as we've seen in the subprime mess so far. The S&L crisis caused some damage, to be sure. But during the 1986--95 period the U.S. economy grew and stocks went up. We survived stock shocks in 1987 and 1989 and a mild recession in 1990. The country did not collapse into a 1930s-like depression.
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POPSThe Whole World's Watching To See How San Francisco Treats Its Home-less Residents
Today, we've posted a world map showing where our Blog Visitors are coming from. Ireland, Thailand, Europe, Canada & more. Also, comments on how Crosswalk Lights in San Francisco no longer allow enough time for disabled and elderly to make it across the street before the llight turns 'green' for angry commuters come racing down the road, honking their horns... Could this be a factor in our City's Pedestrian Accident Rates. And finally, a little historical perspective on how California and Baja California have been subject to political, economic & energy resource related 'attacks' by the Bush Crime Family, Enron, J.P. Morgan, Lennar Corporation and DBT Technologies (aka ChoicePoint - the ones involved in illegally banning valid voters in US Elections and were instrumental in widespread election fraud by the PAN Party, in Mexico's Elections). And a little bit about how Our SF Election Poll Workers may have been told to NOT TELL undeclared party Voters they may use Party B
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POPSRudd changed Australia: Can Obama change USA?
"There is a new mood in the country, a sense of rebirth and regeneration. After living through 11 years of conservative rule under Mr Rudd's predecessor, John Howard, many people say that Australia feels like a fundamentally different place. Some say that Mr Howard's policies made them ashamed of their nationality. Now, for the first time in years, they feel proud to be Australian." "A week later, the new government scrapped another of Mr Howard's ideological cornerstones: the ominously named "Pacific Solution", under which hundreds of asylum-seekers were intercepted at sea, before they reached Australian waters, and shipped to remote Pacific nations to be processed. The policy was supposed to deter "illegal immigrants", and it helped Mr Howard to win an election. Then last week, as soon as parliament resumed after the summer break, Mr Rudd apologised to the "Stolen Generations" – Aboriginal people forcibly separated from their families as children."
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POPSHillary Admits Fox News Is Fair
No adults,however, anchoring MessNBC. Election coverage is an abomination in terms of professionalism. K.O. is pre-occupied fantasizing himself to be one of journalism's historical figures (gag me) and now sidekick Matthews flounders with no guidance or structure, as Williams, Russert, and Brokaw - each capable in their own right - are alternately amused, to uninspired, to disgruntled. MessNBC has always been a mess but rather than finding solutions and seeking professional levels and standards, the ideology remains the priority as it drifts further left. As it falls completely off the leftist edge, it manifests in new ways. As disrespect for authority and disdain for responsible behavior become more the order of the day on the set one sees the inevitable lack of respect they have for each other, dripping mostly from Olbermann's rude sideways glances to belittle his peers. This is the inside glimpse of classic leftist/liberal mindset as it is evident in common scenarios beyond strict
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POPSA Bush rally "Bush's approval numbers may not change much over the next year. It may be that his administration will end up winning a war, keeping the country safe, and presiding over decent economic growth--and people will still disapprove of Bush." Yes, many will; but because they have been propagandized since 2000 to believe that he stole the election. Everything has stemmed from there. Too bad. History will put his presidency in it's historical context while many of our citizens and the MSM will not.
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