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POPSObama's First Year: By the Numbers "Nothing special," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs when asked what President Obama is doing today to mark the end of his 1st year in office and the start of his 2nd. (at right, President Obama takes the oath of office, Jan. 20, 2009.) "It's an anniversary of types, but I don't see that a lot of people are ultimately focused on marking the first year," said Gibbs at yesterday's daily press briefing. He said the White House already had its fill of calendar anniversaries: the first 100 days; 200 days, six months; a year after the election. Posted by Mark Knoller http://www.cbsnews.com
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POPSRep. John Murtha Dead at 77 His service to America in Vietnam, earning a Bronze Star and Two Purple Hearts, outweigh whatever human failings which may be attributed to him. Rest in Peace, Marine.
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POPSMarvels of Science: Probing The Depths On September 1, 1985, 400 miles southeast of Newfoundland, video screens on board the U.S Navy research vessel Knorr picked up a large metal object. It was clearly a boiler of a large steamship-but no ordinary ship. Scientists on the Knorr had found the wreck of the ill-fated Titanic, 73 years after it had collided with an iceberg and sunk, with the loss of 1, 500 lives.
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POPSAmerica Rising Of course, every economist and statistician I have talked to on air says the stats don’t exist and this statement in most part is a fabrication. The Congressional Budget office said there were only 600,000-1.6 million of potentially created jobs. It said it was impossible to determine how many of those jobs could have existed without the stimulus package. Another lie Obama smoothly threw out was about the White House and Congress doing their work openly as the people deserve. What a bunch of bull rot! Obama promised if you remember that the health care negotiations for health care legislation would be aired openly on C-SPAN, so the folks could see what was going on and how it affected them. WRONG. Instead, most has been done behind closed doors. Obama declared in his speech that he and his staff excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions. However, once again this was a proven lie. http://bit.ly/UJs5y http://teaparty.org
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POPS Lost leviathans: Hunting the world's missing whales fascinating article.... A large number of whales escaped the hunters to die later from harpoon injuries. WHEN settlers arrived in the New World in the 17th century, they found waters so thick with whales it was said you could walk across the bay of Cape Cod on their backs. Such stories have been dismissed as fantasy. Nevertheless, it appears that the whale population was once vastly bigger than we thought, and that our slaughter of them was more thorough than history records (see "Ghosts of whales past"). This matters because commercial whaling may be allowed to resume once populations reach 54 per cent of their "historic" levels. This is generally assumed to be the population of the mid-19th century, before the explosive harpoon was invented. But if this historic benchmark is too low, the whaling moratorium must continue. Ironically, the vast slaughter of whales past may yet help to secure their future.
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POPSPatriotic USA Military Photo Blankets Honor our proud servicemen and servicewomen in the United States Armies, AirForce, Coast Guard, Navy, Marines, and firefighting with a personalized designer throw. Each template has the branch logo and can be personalized with names, quotations or text close to your heart. This full color photo realistic blanket is made in a generous 54" x 70", 100% cotton. This item will be treasured and respected for a lifetime. The picture shall be laid out within the designer border of your choice.
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POPSIsland residents sue U.S., saying military made them sick The U.S. government's response to their lawsuit is to invoke sovereign immunity, arguing that residents have no right to sue it. The government also disputes that the Navy's activities on Vieques made islanders ill, citing a 2003 study by scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found no link.
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POPSNavy supervisor doctored whistle-blower's (PTSD) records Continued But Salon has obtained internal Navy documents and correspondence that suggest officials at Camp Lejeune altered Manion’s favorable personnel records after he went public with his concerns, adding new, derogatory remarks similar to some of the information in Mabus’ letter to Jones. O'Byrne, head of mental health at the Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital, of "immediate concerns of physical safety" due to mistreated Marines teetering on the edge of violence. “There was -- and continues to be -- no means of discussion of high-intensity/dangerous cases,” he wrote. Later that month, Manion quoted to O’Byrne some Marine superiors who were calling troubled Marines “worthless pieces of shit” if they sought help.
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POPSSpecies of the Day 30th January 2010 - Halophila-baillonii Sea Clover (IUNS Red List): http://www.iucnredlist.org/sotdfiles/halophila-baillonii.pdf This is a species of sea grass (vascular flowering plants that live submerged in the world's oceans). It's distribution is severely fragmented in the Caribbean Sea and there have been recent disappearances from Brazil and the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Sea clover is an important food source for the West Indian manatee (that also happens to be endangered) as well as the Green Sea Turtle. It is very sensitive to poor water quality & is threatened by coastal development. Runoff from aquaculture & agriculture are also major threats. In Belize the largest known meadow of sea clover is rapidly declining due to unregulated tourist development. There are currently no specific conservation measures for sea clover, although sometimes it does occur in protected marine areas.
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POPSExplore Endangered Species using Google Earth An award-winning site,ARKive provides free multimedia fact-files – drawing content from leading academic institutions, conservation organisations, individual filmmakers, and photographers – for over 16,000 animals, plants and fungi currently threatened with extinction. Also, using a Google Earth plug-in provided on the site, you can dive beneath the oceans and explore threatened marine species!
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POPSRegulators Shut Down Banks in 5 States: Totaling 15 Bank Failures In 2010 and American Marine Bank of Bainbridge Island, Wash., with $373.2 million in assets and $308.5 million in deposits. First Regional Bank's collapse followed the shutdown of several large California banks in the last months of 2009. California was one of the states hardest hit by the real estate market meltdown, and many banks there have suffered under the weight of soured mortgage loans. Last year saw the failure of 17 banks in the state. First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co., based in Raleigh, N.C., agreed to buy the deposits and $2.17 billion of the assets of First Regional Bank. The FDIC retained the remaining assets for later sale. In addition, the FDIC and First-Citizens agreed to share losses on $2 billion of the failed bank's loans and other assets. Community & Southern Bank, also based in Carrollton, Ga., agreed to assume the deposits and assets of First National Bank of Georgia.
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POPSCan you Believe they "RE-ISSUED IT?" REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of Pan Am Flight 103! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military Barracks in Saudi Arabia ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE! REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on 9/11/2001 ! REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks!
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POPSIPCC AR4 riddled with non peer reviewed WWF papers Similarly, the only reason the IPCC can declare that "Changes in climate are affecting many mountain glaciers, with rapid glacier retreat documented in the Himalayas, Greenland, the European Alps, the Andes Cordillera and East Africa" is because a WWF report makes this claim. In a section on coral reefs and mangroves, a WWF report is the IPCC's sole reason for believing that, in "the Mesoamerican reef there are up to 25 times more fish of some species on reefs close to mangrove areas than in areas where mangroves have been destroyed." When the IPCC advises world leaders that "climate change is very likely to produce significant impacts on selected marine fish and shellfish (Baker, 2005)" it doesn't call attention to the fact that the sole authority on which this statement rests is a WWF workshop project report (see the "Baker" document below).
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POPSU.S. Marine Howls Over The Supremes' Decision
I swear, this is the last one (until the next one...). More from the article below: "For years we complained about AIPAC, the Sierra Club, the NRA, trial lawyers, trade unions, NAM (National Association of Manufacturers) and the churches that got involved in politics. Behind all of these were people, American citizens, and, on some occasions, Americans who fought for their country, raised kids here and were invested in the survival of America although they didn’t always act that way. This was an American problem. Now we aren’t even sure we have an America anymore. Anyone who believes that a massive flood of corporate money into politics won’t throw control of both houses of Congress into the hands of the wealthy nations that are also our primary strategic enemies, you know the ones, the ones loaded with oil cash, the ones with 10 cent an hour labor and legal systems that shoot first and ask questions later. They can now make our laws, raise our taxes, decide on our civil righ
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