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POPSObama doesn't understand It is obvious Obama doesn't understand our system of government. Providing Health care for our nation is not the proper role of government.
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POPSObama to health care critics: end `phony claims' And we are supposed to believe this lying POS? Come dumbass - you are the one who keeps lying to everyone and now like before - when you do not get your way - you blame it on others. I would not normally speak of a president in this manner, however this jerk is no president - he holds the title but he's no president! He lies his ass off and is incapable of telling the truth.
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POPSCapping Our Economy & Trading Our Jobs To China&Co. 219-212 HOUSE PASSES 'GLOBAL WARMING' LEGISLATION... 'BILL OF THE CENTURY' VOTED ON UNREAD... Boehner Tried 'Filibuster'... 300 PAGE DUMP AT 3AM-- REPUBLICANS CRY FOUL... One of the biggest compromises involved the near total elimination of an administration plan to sell pollution permits and raise more than $600 billion over a decade " money to finance continuation of a middle class tax cut. About 85 percent of the permits are to be given away rather than sold in a ceoncession to energy companies and their allies in the House " and even that is uncertain to survive in the Senate. The final bill also contained concessions to satisfy farm-state lawmakers, ethanol producers, hydroelectric advocates, the nuclear industry and others, some of them so late that they were not made public until 3 a.m. on Friday. Supporters and opponents agreed the result would be higher energy costs but disagreed vigorously on the impact on consumers.
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POPS"Clean energy forever" continues (more at source): Staff at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in central California are confident that some time in 2010, they will create a fusion reaction by focusing 192 intense ultra-violet lasers on to a tiny golden pellet, recreating the energy of the sun for a fraction of a second, thereby paving the way to a carbon-neutral future without global warming or nuclear waste. If all goes to plan, the implications would fairly reflect California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent description of the project as "monumental". Fusion, we're told, could be mankind's salvation – but what are the chances of translating theory into practice?
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POPSRage Against the Art Gene On the other hand: Stephen Jay Gould. Until his death in 2002, he stood as one of the great champions and evangelists of science, as well as one of the most exacting critics of its tendency to overreach. According to Gould, life's history needs to be understood not just as the result of natural forces explicable by science, but also of contingency: strange, unplanned events that change the course of everything that follows. The arts, likewise, may be one of the many adaptively useless byproducts of a complex brain that evolved to perform other tasks. something rings false in the overriding impression created by evolutionary esthetics: that a mental trait is ennobled when we supply it with Darwinian roots. Gould, the self-described "naturalist by profession, and a humanist at heart," knew the opposite to be true. An interesting debate, one that surely is only beginning as we enter this era of progress...
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POPSSave Them or Leave Them Be? I hate to see any animal suffer & my family has tried to save it's share of wild, and not so wild, animals over the years, but I tend to agree with the scientists on this one. I certainly disagree with one lady in the story - they're not like children. I say do what you can, e.g. make sure they have food, then let nature take it's course.
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POPSNew York Senate may not take up gay marriage issue next session Looks like there is a leadership fight that may derail the prommiss made to the gay community that if they gained a majority the Democrats in the Senate would hold a vote on the issue. I'm ready to have this vote in my home state of Washington. Lets get it out there and see who supports and who opposes this legislation. Then if we win in the legislature we can work on defending the probable referendum that would be filed against the bill. I think the gay community is ready to go out there and orginize, to speak to their neighbors and firends, to do what it takes to pass this now not next year. the loss on Prop.8 has started an engagement with the process and now is the time, now is the time.
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POPSOctober 23: National Day (Hungary) Public discussion about this revolution was suppressed in Hungary for over 30 years, but since the thaw of the 1980s it has been a subject of intense study and debate. At the inauguration of the Third Hungarian Republic in 1989, 23 October was declared a national holiday. Full details of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
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POPSForget Memory Laws "The historian's equivalent of a natural scientist's experiment is to test the evidence against all possible hypotheses, however extreme, and then submit his most convincing interpretation for criticism by professional colleagues and for public debate. This is how we get as near as one ever can to truth about the past. How, for example, do you refute the absurd conspiracy theory, which apparently still has some currency in parts of the Arab world, that "the Jews" were behind 9/11? By forbidding anyone from saying that, on pain of imprisonment? No. You refute it by refuting it. By mustering all the available evidence, in free and open debate. This is not just the best way to get at the facts; ultimately, it's the best way to combat racism and xenophobia too."
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POPSIt aint over til its over The fat lady has not sung. The bell has not rung. Any complacency on the part of the Obama camp is foolish. Think USC v. Oregon State. Think Truman v Dewey
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POPSBill Gate's syndrome With Internet delusion, patients typically incorporate the Internet into paranoid thoughts, including a fear that the Web is somehow monitoring or controlling their lives, or being used to transmit photographs or other personal information. The delusions are fueling a chicken-and-egg debate in psychiatry: Are these merely modern examples of classic paranoia fed by the current cultural landscape, or is there something about media like reality television and the Internet that can push people over the sanity line? “There is the old saying that just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there’s not somebody after you,” said Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman.
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POPSPaulson Was Against Cumbersome Regulations
Now he's trying to defuse the crisis deregulation has caused... (excerpt) Today, (Paulson's) Goldman stands alone as the only bank that has yet to take huge write-downs in the credit crisis. However, IT was an INTEGRAL PART OF A MONEY-HUNGRY WALL ST. CULTURE that helped build, oil and maintain the securitization and SPIN-OFFS, underlying the current mortgage-fueled problems. The financial crisis has swirled around the White House in more violent waves. But each sign of economic trouble brought assurances from regulators, Mr. Paulson and others in the Bush adm. that the housing sector was experiencing a “CORRECTION” or a “REPRICING OF RISK” (ROVE-NEWSPEAK) that would work its way through the system without throwing the economy into a steep downturn. Each assurance soon ran aground as more bad economic news poured in. (MOTHER OF ALL SELF-RIGHTEOUS QUOTES) "the real problem facing Wall Street was a welter of cumbersome regulations" - Henry Paulson (Yew recon HE LEARNED SOMEthang)
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POPSMore Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water The current study is the most recent addition to a growing body of evidence for a new theory about the structure of liquid water. In 2004, Nilsson and colleagues sparked controversy with a paper published in Science that suggested the tetrahedral model of water was incorrect. Nilsson agrees that the debate is far from settled and that much work remains before a clear picture of liquid water emerges. "Over the last decade or so we have discovered that materials once considered homogeneous exhibit complex nanoscale order," said Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory director Jo Stöhr. "In my view, the work on water is yet another example of the actual complexity of matter, this time within a simple liquid. Modern X-ray work appears to be triggering a new understanding of liquids and we may have only seen the beginning of a paradigm shift in our understanding."
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POPSUN Bows to Muslims So, the UN has determined that without "religious scholars" present they are FORBIDDEN to discuss matters of faith. How strange that the concept of free speech stops at religion's door. Will non-Muslims next be held accountable to Muslim law. So, religion is off limits to criticism. How long before we resurrect blasphemy laws? Get your stones ready.
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POPSSezWho for Drupal: Real Disqus Alternative? What I like at SezWho is the approach to leave your site comments untouched and search engine friendly. I recently played around with Disqus and Intense Debate and I like the whole idea. http://www.intensedebate.com/users/57981 http://disqus.com/people/Infopirat/ Other things that are maybe similiar but decentral: http://www.cocomment.com/ and last but not least this here, which is the "Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Initative": http://sioc-project.org/
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POPSAncients and modern evolutionists still pondering the same questions. It would appear that for over 1500 years the debate has raged over the origin of life. Natural Theology, published in 1802 by William Paley, discussed the evidence for design using the "inferred watchmaker" analogy. The majority of scientists at that time professed belief in a Creator, in one way or another. This was reflected in their studies. To some extent, design was assumed. Evolution lacked a reasonable engine to drive biological change. When Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species" in 1859, those who preferred evolution had a seemingly plausible mechanism to explain it - natural selection. Almost 150 years later, the scientific community at large speaks of the "facts" of evolution. Those who propose non-natural causes for biologic effects are soon branded as "ignorant," "superstitious," or "closed-minded." Some things never change...
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POPSTurn your site into a place for conversation I absolutely love this idea, all via a neat plugin for wordpress or other blog services.... A great way to add new functionality and usability to your website.... and no, I am not getting paid for this, I just happen to find it very useful and better than any of the other comment plugins out there.
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POPSNew York's new poverty formula This sounds like a mixed bag to me. It is more accurate to factor in changes in things like housing costs (especially during real-estate booms). On the other hand, counting government aid as income could distort the picture. Including it is a better reflection of how much money a family has now; but if you're not making enough money to live on your own, are you really "not poor"?
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