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POPSFDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate Whose idea was it to give Democrats a bunch of our money to spend? I’m guessing FDR. If I ever ran into him, he’d be extra crippled. I guess I should also put Woodrow Wilson’s head through drywall to be fair. This clip has been on clipmarks before, but politicians need to keep their hands off of our money. They should be able to send out the military to destroy other countries — things we don’t care about — but they need to keep their hands off our money. And the first porkulus was such as miserable failure, logically , we should repeat the fail to try to fix the damage the first one did.....? WTF?
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POPSPlease ask Berlusconi to keep his promise and help Africa fight hunger
On Wednesday, Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi is hosting the G8 and other world leaders in l'Aquila, Italy. Although some countries are showing leadership, the G8 as a whole are behind on their promises, and Mr. Berlusconi is easily the worst of the group. He has no credibility to lead this meeting. To date, has delivered only 3% of his 2005 promise to Africa. While other countries are making aid increases in an effort to keep their word, he has cut aid. To some of us this is just par for the course, but to some it could mean the difference between life or death. With this summit, he has a last chance to earn back some of his credibility. Prime Minister Berlusconi must act decisively in the next three days to start turning his miserable failure on development into something we can take seriously. He must restore the aid cut, find additional money for agriculture as he has promised, and budget for a serious plan to get back on track for delivering the commitment he made at the
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POPSHaaretz: "utter failure for Israel", Hamas stronger!!!
We have not weakened Hamas. The vast majority of its combatants were not harmed and popular support for the organization has in fact increased. Their war has intensified the ethos of resistance and determined endurance. A country which has nursed an entire generation on the ethos of a few versus should know to appreciate that by now. There was no doubt as to who was David and who was Goliath in this war. The fourth objective, which remained undeclared, was not met either. The IDF has not restored its capability. It couldn't have, not in a quasi-war against a miserable and poorly-equipped organization relying on makeshift weapons, whose combatants barely put up a fight. If anyone was weakened because of this war, it was Fatah, whose fleeing from Gaza and its abandonment have now been given special significance. The succession of failures in this war needs to includ the failure of the siege policy. For a while, we have already come to realize that is ineffective.
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POPSMedical Student Burnout and the Challenge to Patient Care 
Even surgical residency, despite the relentlessly long hours, seemed so much closer to what I wanted to do. Some of my professors tried to “humanize” the process. They invited us to dinner in their homes, supported our extracurricular efforts to set up health screening clinics in low-income neighborhoods, and tried to make our basic science courses more relevant to working with patients. But sitting where I am now, as someone who teaches medical students and who loves helping others as a doctor, I can understand the challenge they faced. Given the fire hose of information medical students must learn in just four years, how does one ever gently take a sip? Despite my teachers’ efforts, I was about as miserable in medical school as I had ever been. I felt alone. Neither I nor my classmates could admit to failure, and the last thing I wanted to do was to let anyone but my closest friends know just how unhappy I was. Success in medical school was the first step to a future of helping
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POPSMcCain Team Strikes Back John McCain advisors James Woolsey, Kori Schake, John Lehman, and Randy Scheunemann held a conference call regarding Barack Obama’s comments, praising the 1993 world trade center bombing trial as a model for fighting terrorists. Bottom line: The McCain camp clearly sees this as an opening to argue that Obama is out of touch and dangerously naive about how to deal with terrorists. And if Obama really intends to make the 1993 trial the model for handling terror detainees he should be prepared for some tough questioning about the consequences of that option. The attackers only look incompetent when the attacks fail to do what the plotters had intended. It is not a good strategy to hope that attacks will fail. It is a dangerous tendency to minimize the potential of failed attacks and to write off the plotters as bumblers. http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/06/more_obama_confusion_on_terror.asp
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POPSHow Progressivism Killed Detroit "Public-sector unions protect the dismal status quo. Detroit high schools graduate just a third of their students, according to an estimate by Michigan State University. But when a philanthropist offered to spend $200 million to create 15 new charter high schools, teachers staged a walk-out. Mayor Kilpatrick spurned the offer. These failing schools throw kids with no skills into a struggling economy in an environment characterized by social breakdown."
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POPSBritish Floods Expose Useless British Goverment First I heard about them was on The Daily Show, and they jokingly talked about Katrina and how England took care of business. Well, now it's definitely a joke, because the floods have been going on since June, and The Daily Show report was in late July. Yes, I know The Daily Show is a faux news show, so don't give me that. What I don't care for is the expectation that anyone else can handle things better than the U.S. now. It's a generally accepted self-loathing malaise, and I find it repugnant.
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POPSBeing labeled as 'Gifted' Undermine Personal Growth? I was quite a timid and shy boy,and later on for that I got called 'gifted' just because of the fact that I was concentrating on homework when other kids were doing what a 'normal' kid should do,that is playing outside.Now several years later just a few days ago I found myself still being called 'gifted' by my high school philosophy teacher,which could have possibly--according to this theory--resulted in my miserable failure today at the monthly tests,and I would say that the praise did do something to my ego which just arrogantly let the classes and real learning slip through. We made fun though,of me,saying things like I failed 'cause I was too talented by the dumb test standard,or 'being illogical is a sign of superb genius' etc. I gotta change my attitude,huh?
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POPS Blood and oil Golly I bet no one saw this coming, Duh! I am still having a hard time believing that we live in a world where human beings and the social, political and economic institutions that they have (or have not) brought about are capable of allowing such things to happen. What a massive and miserable failure of humanity..
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POPSWho needs Science.... This is sickining. We need to lead the way in science. This is what america used to stand for. This is how we stay ahead of the world. But we have outsourced so much now we might as well outsource the scientific research. S/N I only hope the democratic congress steps it up.
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POPSTrump to Sue Rosie O'donnell video at source. Trump says: " As unattractive as she is on the outside, she is even more unattractive on the inside " and " she's a miserable failure".
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