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POPSOakland man turns 111, insists it's no big deal
More: Yes, Hatch is a cool dude. Just the nicest, sharpest, spunkiest, friendliest, most capable man you'd ever want to know. Age really has nothing to do with all that, other than to provide him with a vast array of stories to pepper any conversation. Like when he used to go hunting for jack rabbits in the "country" of Castro Valley and Hayward, back before all the freeways and houses and BART. He even hunted bear in Alaska until the time he saw another hunter kill a mama bear with cubs and it broke his heart, so he hung up his shotgun. "That got me right here," he said, touching his chest. He traveled for years as a merchant marine, working on cargo ships all over the world. He taught himself Spanish when he was in Mexico City. He survived an apartment fire in 1971 in West Oakland, though he lost a couple of fingers dangling from a burning window. He worked as a blacksmith, an auto mechanic and a taxi driver, and even drove Jimmy Carter to the Oakland airport one time.
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POPSBeware! The nasty secret of the Craigslist free section More: And voila, the underhanded Craigslister has eliminated anyone else from responding by pulling the ad, giving him or her the best chance of getting your deal. These pieces of software are most often used by people looking to make a profit be reselling cheap or free items.… So if you do frequent Craigslist, especially as someone who regularly gives products away in the free section, please monitor your post and don’t just give the product away to the first person who responds. It could be that Auto Flagging Software was involved and someone who genuinely needed the product was shut out be someone else just looking to make a quick profit from your generosity.
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POPSUN Backed Shariah Desperately Seeking Obsequiousness
The draft also calls "on states to develop, and where appropriate to incorporate, permissible limitations on the exercise of the right to freedom of expression into national legislation." Yes, you read that right. The transparent purpose is to criminalize all criticism of Islam, a.k.a. "Islamophobia." There is also a not-so-sly effort to extract reparations for the long-banned trans-Atlantic slave trade: States that "have not yet condemned, apologized and paid reparations" for the trade are urged "to do so at the earliest." The Obama Administration knows all of this. In its press release, the State Department stressed that its intent in sending a delegation to Geneva is "to try to change the direction in which the Review Conference is heading." State also adds that its involvement "does not indicate -- and should not be misconstrued to indicate -- that the United States will participate" in the formal conference. Wall Street Journal H/T soccerdad.baltiblogs.com
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POPSWhere's The Equivelant Outrage? 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan in a war that is still just as much about Caspian oil pipelines today if it ever was before. RIGHT??? There will be more contractors running around the country as it picks up. Also, there is NO GREEN ZONE there and little other general "cover." Jeez, you compare Bushie and Barky and, when it comes down to it, which one really would have more personal caring for troops. The questionable GW? Or the guy who is definitely culturally removed from most of the guys and gals who are probably there due to "lower intelligence", lack of skills", or not as fucking cool to be like him? You tell me! !
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POPSSolar Car Year old news and still yet to be news. But, as batteries and other energy storage devices evolve, Solar will come into its own.
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POPSNew, improved bartenders can be quite old-fashioned: 8 bartending philosophies They give a couple of shouts-out to the Bay Area: Daniel Hyatt at the Alembic Bar in San Francisco…The movement is at its fullest flower on the West Coast, with its 12-month growing season… At Cyrus in Healdsburg, Calif., Scott Beattie’s Meyer Beautiful incorporates Charbay Meyer lemon vodka.… Martin Cate’s Forbidden Island in Alameda, Calif., offers a Don the Beachcomber formula called the Nui Nui, with fresh citrus, pimento liqueur, cinnamon and vanilla syrups, and aged Barbados rum. I live less than four miles from Forbidden Island – less than three, as the crow flies (or goose swims). How is it that I've never tried a Nui Nui? It sounds tasty!
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POPS17 month old baby dies despite court monitoring Wow! You supposedly monitor a child via a court order and you still allow him to get injured? Either this child's parents are very sly or some documents have been doctored to appear as if he was being monitored. Very sad.
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POPSTracking the Origin of the Cat Cats probably started living close to humans when people evolved from nomadic herding to raising livestock and crops and started storing food, which attracted mice and other rodents. Cats found good hunting there, and humans surely appreciated the sly little predators' help protecting their stocks."There was a mutual benefit," Lyons said. From there, domesticated cats started to radiate out to different parts of the world, often following humans on their migrations. Today cats can be divided genetically into four broad groups: those from Europe, the Mediterranean, East Africa and Asia. But Lyons and her colleagues also made surprising discoveries about individual breeds. The Japanese bobtail, for example, does not seem genetically similar to cats from Japan, indicating the breed may have originated elsewhere. Despite its name, the Persian, the oldest recognized breed, looks as though it actually arose in Western Europe and not Persia, which today is Iran.
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