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POPSThe Victims of Fort Hood
According to an officer who served with him at Walter Reed Hospital, Hasan spoke approvingly of the shooting of Army recruiters this past summer by a Muslim convert in Little Rock, Arkansas. Authorities also investigated Hasan as long as six months ago for internet postings discussing suicide bombings and other attacks, though they have not yet determined definitively if he was the author of those posts. One of those posts was a blog entry that deified suicide bombers as being similar to soldiers who throw themselves on hand grenades in order to save the lives of their fellow soldiers. A cousin, Nader Hasan, builds a picture of the shooter as a bullied Muslim who was a good person who did not even like weapons, was conflicted about his military service, and was against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But postings that are thought to be Major Hasan’s don’t match the portrait of a soldier who was conflicted. They present us with a picture of someone who housed beliefs that
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POPSThe Reassurance of Magic A very straightforward polemic to chew over between the cornflakes and the coffee. (Certainly, almost anything is better than pop science).
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POPSKangaroos Shot To Make Way for Car Race!! It seems that our wildlife is held in lower regard than 4 wheels attached to a heap of metal. Shame on our government for allowing National Parks & Wildlife to kill our native animals.
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POPSKnoledge is Power, Except in Sex Ed "There's a chance that, in the U.S., UNESCO's recommendations will be drowned out by the knee-jerk outrage of conservative pundits.But at least the guidelines can undergo sober and thoughtful examination in more open-minded places ... like Ethiopia"
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POPSIs Obama Really Like the Joker? Why so capitalist? "The Joker seemed chaotic but was very careful in his planning, while the chaos from the Obama administration seems much more explainable by pure incompetence."
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POPSUnkindness and Kindness on the Internet # What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being by Richard Kraut. 304 pages. Harvard. $35.00. # On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor. 128 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $20.00 If you wonder why people are silenced and disappear, it is an old story. Perhaps, though, it is some sort of refraction of the real world where you have to work hard to find the good and the true, the kind and the wholesome.
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POPSMinnPost Columnist Proffers Knee-Jerk, False Reaction Brauer's shooting from the hips and his inane response remind me of that T-shirt that says: "You Know What Your Problem Is? You're Stupid!" Such platitudinous commentary is not becoming of an "experienced" journalist. Experience does not guarantee ethical, reasoned, and/or accurate commentary. Brauer is proof-positive.
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POPSi am not against religion,i am against religious hypocrisy they went on" I tend to be critical when so-called Christian right-wing extremists try to impose their views on the rest of us-especially when their agenda can hardly be called "Christian"- like "Christians" trying to justify torture-or use religion to justify a war of aggression. Or when closted homosexual "Christians" fight against gay right- - see Ted Haggard and Larry Craig. True Christians recognize that Jesus was all about love and kindness, tolerance and forgiveness- not war, hate, torturee, or knee-jerk sanctimony. More at source- they have a good point....
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POPSN97 Videos - Review of the Nokia N97 Nokia N97 is possibly the best phone of all time, coming to Vodafone in the UK some time in July! The N97 isn't a device that will trigger knee-jerk hysteria, but instead it should breed cool-headed excitement at the prospect of a new era of mobile experience. You can now watch the videos of the Nokia N97 at n97videos.com
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POPSWising-up about pirates: Why force will fail Look around and you see them off the coast of Somalia, in Hamas, in Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, in Palestine, Afghanistan, Africa, Pakistan, India, in Mexican drug cartels, in gangs on the streets of LA, and in jails across the United States.
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POPSemail connections to be stored Personally, I think there is a relatively simple solution to this. Email youself as many times a day as possible. Each record will have to be stored, and the Government has apparently said it will recompense ISPs for the extra storage. As they are willing to bail out failed bankers, I see no reason why they shouldn't be *ahem* encouraged to support ISPs. Once it has cost enough, the rule will be revoked, and the ISPs will have a glut of disk storage they can lease out at low prices to the users. Cunning eh?
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POPSDon't Weather the Storm - Ride the Wave Man this is some great advice. It's a shame business owners can be so hard-headed when it comes to actually (vs. thinking about) trying new things when times get tough. Really, what's there to lose?
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POPSTime to Rethink Our Position? I'm not advocating a shift away from our close ties to Israel but a more pragmatic examination of the actions of Israel might be called for. Recent developments in Gaza have been condemned by the world community yet the US has been unusually quiet.
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POPSconcise opinion re: Israel's recent actions... I think I agree with a lot of what is said here, though I will never claim to fully understand this issue. Please read the entire short article by Robert Scheer--I took everything out of context. --Taken from my 'Truthdig' newsletter, which I highly recommend subscribing to!
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POPS French 'Humanitarianism' Following a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday, President Shimon Peres spoke to the press. “Nobody in this world understands what are Hamas’s goals and why it continues to fire missiles,” Peres said. “This shooting has no point, no logic and no chance.” I hesitate to say that I understand something about the Middle East that Peres doesn’t, but Hamas’s goals seem clear to me. The first is the destruction of the Jewish state. The second is to make it seem right. Here’s Alan Dershowitz at the Christian Science Monitor: There have been three types of international response to the Israeli military actions against the Hamas rockets. Not surprisingly, Iran, Hamas, and other knee-jerk Israeli-bashers have argued that the Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli civilians are entirely legitimate and that the Israeli counterattacks are war crimes.
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POPS The Romney Plan We've got an inbound administration whose rhetoric in the face of economic turmoil is equal parts Roosevelt, Hoover, and Carter; and the public by and large is signing on as if we hadn't been to this rodeo before. Spoiler alert: it ends poorly.
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POPSThis Must Have Disappointed the Obama Haters Remember all the fear mongering from Obama haters about how Obama was anxious to get chummy with Iranian President Ahmadinejad? This cautionary approach must have come as a rude awakening to them:
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POPSWhen All Truth Is Relative "Although this gambit may pay short-term political dividends, in the long run it only serves to further divide Americans into their ideological enclaves -- with conservatives getting their news from X and liberals from Y. More important, by undermining the very idea of truth, it also undermines the idea that, as a nation, we can collectively and honestly describe and find solutions to the problems we all face."
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