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POPSWhat's with all the zombies?
Call me a zombie pundit, but I agree with "World War Z" author Max Brooks' suggestion that the concurrent rise of zombie pop and political cultures is no coincidence. "Zombies are an apocalyptic threat, we are living in times of apocalyptic anxiety (and) we need a vessel in which to coalesce those anxieties," he says. In fact, I'll go out on a severed limb and take it further: If zombies specifically represent the apocalyptic downsides of immortalized mindlessness, then today’s zombie zeitgeist is not merely a result of scary quandaries created by stupidity. It is a reaction to both those problems and the sense that they can never be thwarted. Here we are, a year after a financial implosion that should have driven a stake in the heart of free market fundamentalism. Here we are, a year after an election that was supposed to pour holy water on Wall Street vampires, exorcise the economy's demons and challenge the ancient mummies of neoconservative foreign policy. Yet here we are,
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POPSInside The GOP Lie Machine: The Hangman and Health Care Reform
"The insurance industry is up to the same dirty tricks, using the same devious PR practices it has used for many years, to kill reform," says Wendell Potter, who stepped down last year as chief of corporate communications for health insurance giant CIGNA. "I'm certain that people showing up at these town halls feel that they're there on their own — but they don't realize they're being incited, ultimately, by the insurance industry and the other special interests." Armey, however, unabashedly compares FreedomWorks to a lynch mob. "We used to use the old saying in the West, that you got outta town just one step ahead of the hangman," he says, explaining why George Bush's budget-busting policies didn't inspire the same outrage among his 400,000 followers. "That's pretty much what happened with Bush. And poor old President Obama walked into town, y'know, just at high noon." more @ source related http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/0E8658BD-956E-47FE-AD32-CB3C9175F
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POPSTed Kennedy’s America In 1992, Bill Clinton introduced the phrase “the politics of personal destruction” to the lexicon. Clinton used it preemptively to delegitimize scrutiny of his private life. But it didn’t work. His private life spilled out for public viewing, steaming in the cold air. The Florida recount saw Republicans feeling justified to do whatever it took " even fight like Democrats " to win. The recount, in turn, laid the foundation of bitterness and bile that fuels the omnivorous banshees of the “netroots,” who proudly proclaim they care only about winning and being as ruthless as they imagine the Republicans are. But at this point you know the story. In Ted Kennedy’s America, it’s blow for blow and eye for eye now, and everyone is blind to how we got here.
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POPSFired up, Meet Wee-Wee’d up Now I'm PO'ed “There's something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-wee'd up.” -- President Obama, adding to the political lexicon. Say what? What happened to the bright, articulate (and clean!) guy promised to us by Vice-President Joe Biden. Obama's pursuit of authenticity is troubling - if he really hopes to bond with the lefty bloggers he will need to drop an F-bomb or two. Per sentence. Posted by Tom Maguire Wee-Weed up Debate: “Obama’s approval rating for handling health care has fallen steadily from 57 percent in April to 46 percent today, led by a steep a 17-point slide among independents. And expectations he can successfully accomplish reform have dropped further " from 68 percent shortly before he took office to 49 percent now.” http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/08/weeweed-up-health-care-debate-slips-further-from-white-house-control.html
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POPSlapsiviisaus Infant, infantiili..inferior saattaa olla tapaohittaa lapsien nerous, lapsiviisaus.
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POPSGermany’s War of Words in Afghanistan It’s war taking place along the Hindu Kush, he explained to the minister. There are good and not-so-good reasons for the German government to shy away from using the word “war” in connection with the killing and dying German soldiers are doing in Afghanistan. It certainly can’t just be the accepted definition of war that is causing the government to so stubbornly reject the term. After all, war can " but doesn’t have to be " a conflict between countries. History tells us that there were innumerable other conflicts that have been referred to as wars. And the Americans have used the word for their operations in Afghanistan for some time. Shouldn’t the deciding factor be how the German soldiers define what they are experiencing? “If we were to talk about war, we would just be focusing on the military dimension,” says Jung to explain his linguistic choice. Apparently, the idea is to not encourage a military escalation with a verbal escalation.
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POPSNapolitano Strikes Gold: Extremist Lexicon Update: One commenter thinks “violent religious sects” covers the Muslims without naming them. Not exactly: (U) violent religious sects: (U//FOUO) Religious extremist groups predisposed toward violence. These groups often stockpile weapons, conduct paramilitary training, and share a paranoid interpretation of current world events, which they often associate with the end of the world. They perceive outsiders as enemies or evil influences; display intense xenophobia and strong distrust of the government; and exercise extreme physical or psychological control over group members, sometimes isolating them from society or subjecting them to physical or sexual abuse and harsh initiation practices.
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POPS-Zeptoseconds, Yoctoseconds, and Chronons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZsusLw0XgM&feature=related Still, physicists keep coming back to the nicking of time. In the 1990s, they inducted two new temporal units into the official lexicon, which are worth knowing for their appellations alone: the zeptosecond, or 10 to the -21 power seconds, and the yoctosecond, or 10 to the -24 power seconds. The briskest time span recognized to date is the chronon, or Planck time, and it lasts about 5 x 10 to the -44 power seconds. This is the time it takes light to travel what could be the shortest possible slice of space, the Planck length, the size of one of the hypothetical 'strings' that some physicists say lie at the base of all matter and force in the universe. "
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POPS'Oldest English Words' Identified The researchers used the university's IBM supercomputer to track the known relations between words, in order to develop estimates of how long ago a given ancestral word diverged in two different languages. They have integrated that into an algorithm that will produce a list of words relevant to a given date. "You type in a date in the past or in the future and it will give you a list of words that would have changed going back in time or will change going into the future," Professor Pagel told BBC News. "From that list you can derive a phrasebook of words you could use if you tried to show up and talk to, for example, William the Conqueror." That is, the model provides a list of words that are unlikely to have changed from their common ancestral root by the time of William the Conqueror.
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POPSBAILOUTS MAKING MONKEYS? AND IT GETS WORSE!
A friend sent a clever forward about the bailout package set forth by the Bush Admin.. I thought, GOOD ANALYSES, , THE WALL STREET GANGBANGERS MADE MONKEYS OUT OF US AL.L - bailouts make no sense at all... Especially the bonus part... (giving billions and billions of bonuses to top executives for failure... YIKES!) Goes to show you... only the very rich can expect government help... THE POOR? Well the hell with the poor... Reagan started bashing the poor when he coined the phrase WELFARE QUEENS... The term entered the American lexicon during Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential campaign when he described a "welfare queen" from Chicago's So. Side. Since then, it has become a stigmatizing label placed on recidivist poor mothers, with studies showing that it often carries gendered and racial connotations. Although American women can no longer stay on welfare indefinitely, the term continues to shape American dialogue on poverty. http://www.thethinkingblue.com/fun/bailoutmakingmonkeys.html
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POPSBAILOUTS MAKING MONKIES OUT OF US ALL I received a clever forward about the bailout package set forth by the Bush Admin.. I thought, GOOD ANALYSES, THE WALL STREET GANGBANGERS MADE MONKEYS OUT OF US ALL... The bailouts make no sense at all... Especially the bonus part... (giving billions and billions of bonuses to top executives for failure... YIKES!) Only the very rich can expect government help... THE POOR? Well the hell with the poor... Reagan started bashing the poor when he coined the phrase WELFARE QUEENS... (The term entered the American lexicon during Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential campaign when he described a "welfare queen" from Chicago's South Side. Since then, it has become a stigmatizing label placed on recidivist poor mothers, with studies showing that it often carries gendered and racial connotations. Although american women can no longer stay on welfare indefinitely, the term continues to shape American dialogue on poverty. ) http://www.thethinkingblue.com/fun/bailoutmakingmonkeys.html
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POPSWill the GOP ever learn? "Barack the Magic Negro" represents the remnants of the Cro-Magnon wing of the GOP, still clueless about why voters left them in droves.
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POPSSongs From The Sea: Deciphering Dolphin Language With Picture Words Dr. Horace Dobbs, a leading authority on dolphin-assisted therapy, has joined the team as consultant. "I have long held the belief that the dolphin brain, comparable in size with our own, has specialized in processing auditory data in much the same way that the human brain has specialized in processing visual data. Nature tends not to evolve brain mass without a need, so we must ask ourselves what dolphins do with all that brain capacity. The answer appears to lie in the development of brain systems that require huge auditory processing power. There is growing evidence that dolphins can take a sonic 'snap shot' of an object and send it to other dolphins, using sound as the transmission medium. We an therefore hypothesize that the dolphin's primary method of communication is picture based. Thus, the picture-based imaging method, employed by Reid and Kassewitz, seems entirely plausible."
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POPSI want my demogrant Taking mone from the most productive and giving it to the least productive. Well, jeesh! That should by him a few votes.
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