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POPSPersonal Injury in the Wild (infographic) Every year, thousands of people across the world are seriously injured and even killed by the wild creatures of the animal kingdom. Check out these stats on personal injury in the wild and see which animal attacks are the most dangerous.
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POPSQueens Personal Injury Lawyer Personal injury attorneys at Brian D. Primes law firm are dedicated to protecting the rights of injured victims in Queens, Bronx New York.
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POPSG20 2009: Police Attack Students at University of Pittsburgh The campus was invaded by armored police officers. They threw actual tear gas into crowds of students. They SHOT students with rubber bullets. They beat slower-moving students with a baton. I saw a group of cyclists being herded down the sidewalk. A cop reached out and pushed a woman on a bike. She turned around and pushed her bike at the cop. Next thing we knew, he grabbed her by the face and slammed her down on the concrete.'
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POPSStories of Hope Every year, the graduating 8th grade class votes for superlatives. The teachers add up the votes. When 'Jordan A' was announced for Most Inspirational, teachers were in tears to see our entire class who never get along, give a standing ovation. He died in a fire in fourth grade and we still consider him part of our class.
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POPSFourSquare North! FourSquare Hits Vancouver BC Canada Yay, FourSquare is Coming to Vancouver on Sept 9, 2009. Go get the iPhone App now. Watch for free foursquare swag on the week of the 9th around Vancouver. Chris Breikss of 6S writes "Foursquare developers describe it as “50% friend finder, 30% social city guide, 20% nightlife game.” You allows you to “check-in” at various locations in your city using your GPS enabled mobile device. This could be at GM Place for a concert, Medina Cafe for breakfast, or the YVR airport on your way out of town."
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POPSFinger Bitten Off at Health Care Rally There have been reports of "scuffles," but this is the "first blood," - It seems the rabid dog Republican lost his finger when punching a MoveOn.org pro-health care advocate in the face. Of course, each side has a slight different emphasis of the details of events and this clip begins with dramatic overtures worth of "To Kill a Mockenbird," There were hundreds of MoveOn.org demonstrations that evening, with tens of thousands activist present but, of course, this is the one that makes the news. MoveOn.org, of course, condemns the violence.
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POPSWannabe-Look Good, All Show, No Go Green Colleges
If after the headline, the story said 650 universities and colleges to offer 50% of their classes online and limit their sports programs to competing with institutions within 50 miles from each other, I might believe they were serious and you would probably agree. But since colleges and universities are businesses first, their signing letters of good intention are just about as effective as business and governments doing the same. And I should add, most of us just sign on as well and do noting to change our I'll-use-all-the-energy-I-can-afford life style. Example: A local USEPA office built next to the University of Cincinnati has no sidewalk access directly into its property. I have to walk in the driveway in competition with vehicles. They assume everyone will drive there, then park and walk. Grin. And Kroger Foods, assumes you will drive in park,walk a little way then ride around in a cart that makes it look like they are being nice to disabled people.
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POPSIs It Now a Crime to Be Poor? "Maybe we can’t afford the measures that would begin to alleviate America’s growing poverty " affordable housing, good schools, reliable public transportation and so forth. I would argue otherwise, but for now I’d be content with a consensus that, if we can’t afford to truly help the poor, neither can we afford to go on tormenting them."
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POPSIs It Now a Crime to Be Poor? The City Council in Grand Junction, Colo., has been considering a ban on begging, and at the end of June, Tempe, Ariz., carried out a four-day crackdown on the indigent. How do you know when someone is indigent? As a Las Vegas statute puts it, “An indigent person is a person whom a reasonable ordinary person would believe to be entitled to apply for or receive” public assistance. By far the most reliable way to be criminalized by poverty is to have the wrong-color skin. There’s no minimum age for being sucked into what the Children’s Defense Fund calls “the cradle-to-prison pipeline.” Leonardo Vilchis of the Union de Vecinos, a community organization in Los Angeles, suspects that “poor people have become a source of revenue” for recession-starved cities, and that the police can always find a violation leading to a fine. The safety net, or what’s left of it, has been transformed into a dragnet.
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POPSBarbara Ehrenreich on the criminalization of poverty There are a lot of Kafkaesque stories in this piece, like that of wheelchair-bound 62-year-old homeless veteran Al Szekely, who was imprisoned after a nighttime raid on a homeless shelter. His crime? He had an outstanding court summons for criminal trespassing -- he'd gotten a ticket for sleeping on a sidewalk. In other words, " hey arrested a homeless man in a shelter for being homeless." The truancy discussion strikes me as the most vicious part, though.
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POPSObama Asks His Left-Wing Brownshirts to Report Any Counter-Revolutionary Behavior.....
A new level of insanity has been reached, Obama wants people who are bad-mouthing his legislation reported. Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-02/ff_stasi?currentPage=all Ulrike Poppe used to be one of the most surveilled women in East Germany. For 15 years, agents of the Stasi (short for Staatssicherheitsdienst, or State Security Service) followed her, bugged her phone and home, and harassed her unremittingly, right up until she and other dissidents helped bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989. One shelf, just to the left of her desk, is special. It holds a pair of 3-inch-thick black binders " copies of the most important documents in Poppe's secret police files. This is her Stasi shelf. Poppe learned to recognize many of the men assigned to tail her each day. They had crew cuts and never wore jeans or sneakers. Sometimes they took pictures of her on the sidewalk,
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POPSPhotos from ObamaCare Protest in Raleigh [Updated] NOTE: The crowd was large, diverse and very spread out. I think Wake County GOP did us all a disservice by encouraging protesters to go to the intersection of Sutton and Smallwood. There was nothing there, and many of us moved to the corner on St. Mary’s where all the action was. This isn’t about the GOP, the Republican Party hasn’t done us too many favors in recent years. Next time they try to direct Conservatives to a different protest location, I won’t listen. This was and always has been a grassroots effort… and today proved yet again that grassroots patriots are more in touch with our rights and the dangers we are protesting against. Yet Another Update (Why Not?) : This post has taken some heat by a few immature commenters elsewhere online. They specifically question my use of the word “diverse” when referring to our crowd. This sickens me and is yet another example of the racism being spread on the left. Diversity is more than complexion.
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POPSYou Cannot Save the World but Now You Know Omar Big numbers are sometimes a reason for avoiding doing anything about a problem you know is wrong. Guess what? That's a lousy excuse - sorry but it's true. As Peter Block says about leadership - everyone is in charge of themselves - you can act, you can say something, you can make a difference.
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POPSFree Speech Mostly used well, sometimes misused and sometimes not used at all.
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POPS Jackals in Dearborn When we came outside, we were asked some questions by two young men, who had been sent by security to entrap us. While we responded to them, festival security started assaulting us, as you will see in this video. The conclusion of this video is a mob of festival security attacking our cameras, pushing us back, kicking our legs, and lying to the police. We ask you, is it a coincidence that the city with the highest percentage of Muslims in the United States is the city where Christianity is not allowed to be represented (let alone preached) on a public sidewalk? Is it coincidence that in this city, people will say “No way!” when we say “This is the United States of America”? Is this what will happen when Islam takes over the United States? arab festival 2009: sharia in the u.s. youtube video (10:00)
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