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POPSPhenomena for the Year The world people are faced with a totally inexplicable, and often absurd events, it is on such speech, and will go further.
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POPSMilitary Looks To Drugs For Battle Readiness
This article is from 2002 and concerns primarily pilots. However, I have it on good authority that all branches and levels of military personnel are given access to amphetamines, tranquilizers, "cognitive enhancing" drugs, etc. More from the article below: "In April, four Canadian soldiers were killed and another eight injured when an American F-16 pilot on a long-range mission, thinking he was under attack, dropped a 500-pound laser-guided bomb on an allied military exercise. "The initial version of the Canadian incident portrayed the pilot as behaving with inexplicable aggression tinged with paranoia, and my first thought was that the poor guy had been eating too much speed," says Mr. Pike of GlobalSecurity.org. Officials are still investigating that accident, and the pilot has been questioned, among other things, about the possibility of drug use. More recently, concerns have been raised about aggression and violence among soldiers returning from Afghanistan. In three of four
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POPSBoycott Scotch Whiskey What are your thoughts? Is this an over-reaction that will only hurt scotch whiskey sellers? Would a boycott actually change anything?
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POPS13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time [BOOK]
In the past, similar "anomalies" have revolutionized our world, like in the sixteenth century, when a set of celestial anomalies led Copernicus to realize that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse, and in the 1770s, when two chemists discovered oxygen because of experimental results that defied all the theories of the day. And so, if history is any precedent, we should look to today’s inexplicable results to forecast the future of science. In 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense , Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to meet thirteen modern-day anomalies and discover tomorrow’s breakthroughs. The chapter on free will (and why it probably doesn't exist) is fascinating, with MASSIVE social implications for an entire justice system built on the premise of personal responsibility for our actions. A highly interesting book that will make you think. "Science starts to get interesting when things don’t make sense. "
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POPSCommission on Civil Rights Demands Answers on Voter Intimidation Case Dismissal Though it had basically won the case and could have submitted a motion for default judgment against the Party and its members for failing to respond to the Division’s complaint, the Division took the unusual move of voluntarily dismissing the charges against all but the defendant who waived the nightstick. Yet even as to that remaining defendant, the only relief the Division requested was weak - an injunction prohibiting him from displaying the weapon within 100 feet of any polling place in Philadelphia. It has since been revealed that one of the defendants had been carrying credentials as a member of, and poll watcher for, the local Democratic committee. The Commissioners write that the previously announced efforts by the Justice Department to play an aggressive role in enforcing voting rights “ring hollow if they are not accompanied by swift, decisive action to prosecute obvious violators.”
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POPSThe Father of Guantanamo The symbol of Guantanamo—an offshore penal colony where hundreds of men have been incarcerated without charge, without access to any court and initially without access to lawyers—became such a blight on America’s reputation that during last year’s presidential campaign both Obama and Republican John McCain vowed to close it. Days after taking office, Obama ordered that Guantanamo be shut down within a year, and his administration began a case-by-case review to determine how to handle the detainees who remain there. But closing Guantanamo was a political promise, while Bagram went unnoticed during the long campaign. And just a month after the president—with some fanfare—ordered the Guantanamo closing, his administration embraced the Bush administration’s position that the Bagram detainees should properly be held in what is effectively a legal no man’s land, barred from having a court hear their cases.
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POPSThe Slow Awakening Of Britain's Leftist Jews Writing in the Feb. 18 edition of The Independent, Howard Jacobson portrays the very air of Merry Old England as being suffused with hatred: " he hatred of Israel expressed in our streets, on our campuses, in our newspapers, on our radios and televisions, and now in our theatres. A discriminatory, over-and-above hatred, inexplicable in its hysteria and virulence whatever justification is adduced for it; an unreasoning, deranged and as far as I can see irreversible revulsion that is poisoning everything we are supposed to believe in here - the free exchange of opinions, the clear-headedness of thinkers and teachers, the fine tracery of social interdependence we call community relations, modernity of outlook, tolerance, truth. You can taste the toxins on your tongue.
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POPSNarccissism - Diagnosis by an Expert Narcissists are highly self-sufficient and consider themselves peerless. Their "friends", companions, and acolytes provide them with an obsequious, unthreatening audience- with the kind of unconditional and unthinking obedience that confirms to him his omnipotence. They are sufficiently vacuous to make the narcissist look sharp and omniscient – but not so much as to be easily discernible as the sycophants that they are. They form the perfect backdrop, never likely to attain centre stage and overshadow their master... i.e. Robert Gibbs.
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POPSProtest over BBC Gaza appeal veto "The BBC should be ashamed for its coverage of the Israeli aggression which failed to address the catastrophic suffering on the Palestinian side, and now it's concerned about its impartiality. Never was the BBC impartial throughout this crisis". The news on the ABC was also heavily biased. Send a message to these b!*x*s and let them know what we think of their so called impartiality.
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POPS"Our World May Be A Giant Hologram" continues (full at source): For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.
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POPSFrank Releases Proposal For Rescue Fund Restrictions (Update4) Frank said he is working with Obama’s team on changes House Democrats are seeking in exchange for agreeing to release the money. He plans hold a hearing on the legislation Jan. 13 and move it to the House floor by Jan. 15. Congress must be notified before Treasury gets access to the remaining money and lawmakers have 15 days after notification to block the funds. The funds haven’t been requested, Frank said. Representative Spencer Bachus, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, said there’s a consensus building among the panel’s Republicans to oppose any new request because additional funds are unnecessary. Frank’s proposal also requires Treasury to develop a program outside of TARP to spur home buying, including by making more affordable mortgage rates available to qualified buyers.
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POPSHow About Just One? "For the past 10,000 years or so, wherever humans have gathered, there has been alcohol. Some never touch the stuff. But most do. It is used celebrate, commiserate, mourn, remember and, often to forget. It is different things to different people: libation, anesthetic, emotional crutch, social lubricant, addictive substance, sacred potion, killer or commodity. In "Proof," contributors consider the charms, powers and dangers of drink, and the role it plays in their lives."
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POPSMcCain campaign: Stop calling us liars! Another ho ho: Calls conference to complain about being called liars, presses media to examine Obama's record. Then gets almost every single fact wrong about the Obama issues it wants the press to cover. See link for list. Are we lying or just stupid?
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POPSChurch Gives Sanctuary to Gay Man and His Family Even down south.......waaaay down south, one can find bastions of welcome and support in Christian congregations. It both warmed my heart, and angered me, to read of the struggles this family had to endure, and yet showed the motivation, love, fortified and determination, to bring their children up in the religion they both cherished along with teaching them about understanding, compassion and the sanctity of true love.
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