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POPSExploring “uncivilisation” - Rethinking assumptions Trend alert: Here is an example of an emerging trend - From EGO-CENTRED; To ECO-CENTRED. This new perspective of the Other goes well beyond traditional environmentalism and is about the whole of life, not just a lifestyle or a belief system.
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POPSWhat Lesson Did Brown Teach Obama/Democrats? Looks like the lesson they've learned is that they have to pass their bad policies faster before they really lose power in the November midterm elections. It seems that a certain self-righteous arrogance is what we are seeing from Democrats instead of an acknowledgment that the voters have chastised them in Virginia, New Jersey, and now blue, blue Massachusetts. Democrats have not learned that they'd better listen to the voters but instead have decided that they better move on their agenda even faster. It's hubris that they've assumed not a mien of humbleness. In yet another TV interview Obama told ABC's Diane Sawyer that he doesn't care if he pays a political price at the hands of an unhappy electorate. The president has previously admitted the convoluted process of cobbling together the huge bill had alarmed voters, but said today he will not back off of tackling large issues despite the political jeopardy involved.
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POPSBionic Legs, i-Limbs, and Other Super Human Prosheses You'll Envy at the end he says:""What is the obsession with looking human?" he says. "You think the only beauty is human? Bridges can be beautiful. Cars can be beautiful. Cell phones can be beautiful. They don't look biological. So why do you anticipate 30 years from now that amputees will give a shit about human beauty? They won't. Their limbs will be sculptures." I am fascinated by the idea of how we are almost imperceptibly changing our mind image of what is a human..
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POPSWOW! Purple Shirted SEIU Members Holding Signs at Standout Coakley: The Political Gift That Keeps on Giving Wait, what was that? Did Martha Coakley actually say that? Yes she did. Here is the quote for those who have not heard or read it, “You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.” She was saying that about devout Catholics on Boston’s WBSM to Kevin Pittman. But it is not where she said it, or to whom she said it. It is the words she chose to use. Where to start? The sheer arrogance is mind boggling. Is she so full of hubris that she thinks that everyone in Massachusetts from Uxbridge to Cambridge agrees with her? This is what she says off the top of her head in an interview? This sentiment is so close to the surface of her consciousness that it spills out under routine questioning? How does one pick from such a plethora of goodies that Martha has given us during this campaign. (more) biggovernment.com
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POPSGreed and Hubris Will Kill the Planet Every time you see someone pulling up to an intersection or turning right on red , with one hand on the wheel and the other holding a cell phone, each time someone puts off a repair to "save" money - think about the promises made about the safety of this well, or that gene modification, or the newest wonder drug, pesticide, synthetic whatever.
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POPSObama: I'm So Awesome, I'll Just Grade Myself. Hey Look, I Got A B+ ...Two states " Wyoming and California " had fewer than 50 percent of those eligible enrolled to receive food stamps. Many of the states that struggled were among the most populous, including New York, where 61 percent of eligible citizens participated; Florida, where 57 percent participated; and Texas, where 55 percent were enrolled... Stop ObamaCare! Sign the National Petition Opposing State-Run Healthcare http://bit.ly/7n60Qd
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POPSOne telling similarity between the the Wehrmacht and the US Military A very interesting insight into the how effective the US military is at doing the wrong thing, as Fabius Maximus says "From a larger perspective this article shows how the 21st century US military is locked into a historically common trap. No matter how good, it remains harnessed to US elites’ geopolitical thinking " poorly reasoned, emotional (ruled by hubris and fear). Our military apparatus consistently provides professional, smooth execution of bad strategy. We do the wrong thing, but brilliantly." Some clips below but follow the links for the full article.
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POPSA Masterpiece Of Charlatanry For The Naive By Thomas Sowell
should ask themselves where he is going to conjure up the additional doctors, nurses and hospitals needed to take care of millions more patients. If he can't pull off that miracle, then government-run medical care in the United States can be expected to produce what government-run medical care in Canada, Britain and other countries has produced " delays of weeks or months to get many treatments, not to mention arbitrary rationing decisions by bureaucrats. Obama can deny it in words, but what matter are deeds " and no one's words have been more repeatedly the direct opposite of his deeds " whether talking about how his election campaign would be financed, how he would not rush legislation through Congress, or how his administration was not going to go after CIA agents for their past efforts to extract information from captured terrorists. President Obama has also declared emphatically that he will not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations "
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POPSFailure Accompli loyal Democrats a distant third. And it will prove that the Democratic Party is institutionally incapable of delivering on its most significant promises. You have to assume that on some level Congress understands this " which is why you also have to assume that some kind of legislation will eventually pass. If it doesn’t, President Obama will have been defeated. But it’s the party, not the president, that will have failed. OK, I get the point. He’s damning Obama with the faint praise due a cipher while mocking the Dems’ inability to govern. As he says, health care is their signature issue. And as we’ve observed previously, they have trouble advancing anything they feel deeply about that doesn’t involve a lot of pork. But cipher or not, Obama is also the president of a one-party government, and if his party can’t govern, he doesn’t get off that easy. He still gets to be a failure and is the one who will ultimately wear it.
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POPSEasy to be Hard - In Russia and China's UN Stall As long as China and Russia back up the Burmese Generals by stopping concerted international action against Generals eating their own people, it's easy for them to do as their horrific hubris urges them on to new heights of inhumanity toward their own people.
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POPSGod is not your Knave or bitch
a river of cosmic energy to be supped from like liquid light, while you still take complete responsibility for your own life and choices. Nor is God simply the idea of universal love and compassion, coursing through all things at all times everywhere. How silly to think. No, God is, apparently, actually far more like some sort of heavyset, hectoring grandmother who reads your email and pokes through your underwear drawer and hates your girlfriend and is, for the most part, very, very disappointed in you. Great! Really, it almost does not matter in which God you believe, what sect or major denomination. Nearly all are of the same idea, offer up the same unquestionable truth: Of course God cares what you do, who you screw, upon which sliver of dust-choked holy land you live, how high you raise your flag and which statue you kneel before. This is the greatest wonder of all: In the impossible vastness of time and space, God cares most desperately, most fanatically about this particul
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POPSDark Clouds Over The Economy, Courtesy of Smug, Harvard-"Educated" Liberals! Political Correctness : For years, Harvard depended on an aggressively managed investment fund guided by brilliant people. But then, the University assisted by the mainstream press went all PC on them, accusing them of the heinous crimes of being too successful and making too much money. By 2005, Jack Meyer had had enough. After 15 years at Harvard Management Company, frustrated by the circular fights about compensation, and sick of justifying himself to Summers and Rubin, he walked out and started his own giant hedge fund. Shamelessly, he took many of Harvard Management Company’s best people with him, about 30 portfolio managers and traders, along with the chief risk officer, chief operating officer, and chief technology officer. How well did the strategy of punishing the successful work? Not so well, it turned out. First, a directionless, caretaker regime lost half a billion dollars in a trendy hedge fund.
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POPSThrough the Climate Change Looking Glass In Britain, it is startlingly clear that we have finally passed Through the Looking Glass with Alice. The Red Queen, like our naked emperor, is berating us to believe “six impossible things before breakfast”. But I am firmly with Alice: “There’s no use trying,” she said. “One can’t believe impossible things.”
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POPSFree Market Capitalism, in a nutshell And people still have the utter gall to say Socialism is evil. Kicking people out of their homes, and leaving the homes empty is the ultimate in hubris; all because money, and people with it, have more rights than the average citizen. This NeoFeudal society that Free Market Capitalism has created has to be stopped, or before you know it, America will be making slavery legal again. They're only a small step away from that point now.
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POPSWhy Blackpool South MP must go.
It has been twelve years since the Labour brigade slipped this professional politician under the toilet door and into Blackpool. The electorate knew nothing of this researcher from Brighton, but the demographic and the complete emancipation of the Blackpool South electorate ought to have given some hint. Conservatism in Blackpool was a shambles and has not progressed an inch – centimetre to the Poles – in the intervening years. With the changing demographics, the public apathy, the frustration of generation after generation of political figurehead achieving absolutely nothing for a declining super town, it was with little wonder that the surge in immigrants with their socialist heritage brought with it this fresh faced figure to suit all needs (sic). In those heady days of New Labour the voters were lured into the fantasy of a new political era under that gleaming new god, Tony Blair and the hubris of an untested deity. History is a great teacher and we now all know what a connivi
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