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POPS Is Barack a Team(ster) Player? (continued) should be relaxed or withdrawn. But sadly, Obama understands, like Bill Clinton intimately understood, that judicial affairs can be affected by the political branches, such as through sympathetic appointments to the Justice Department and the courts. So it is no small matter that a presidential candidate would consider intervening, albeit indirectly, in a judicial question, especially one involving potential corruption. Who can say at this point whether Obama has nefarious intentions concerning this? But it is difficult to understand what benign motives would lead him to take a position against the advice of the sitting review board that corruption and elections require continued supervision, especially in light of the union's endorsement. We'll see if the "watchdog" MSM pursue this story.
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POPSNo Freedom of Speech on NET in US? The Wikileaks case is part of a larger cat-and-mouse game being played between file-sharing sites and dissidents on the one hand, and corporations and governments on the other. As Napster has shown, lawsuits have their effect, but "I don't know that the end result was any different," says Ben Gross, an expert at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Essentially things are redesigned in reaction to censorship," he says.
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POPSMuslim airport worker wins uniform compromise "I always liked my first position, because I feel more comfortable. I had been working there for six years, but I don't mind if they find me another place. I just want to go back to my job. I need to work," she said in an interview. Under the agreement, Muse will stay in the administrative position until the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) can evaluate its policies, which required Muse to choose between a shorter skirt or pants, neither of which she deemed modest enough. Garda of Canada said it had to follow CATSA's guidelines. On Monday, the Teamsters and the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations said they had filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission on Muse's behalf. The complaint said Muse had been discriminated against on the basis of her religion by CATSA and Garda of Canada. (Reporting by Irene Kuan; Editing by Frank McGurty)
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POPSOld School Transportation I found this amazing video and just had to share it. It is a compilation of remarkable uses of basic transportation ranging from bicycles to hand carriage. Looking at this, it is easy to see why the US Air Force never successful at shutting down the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War, and how such amazing sites as the Great Wall of China got built. Somehow I suspect none of these folks belongs to the Teamsters!
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POPSWhere I live - ;) thought I'd shed some light on where I live. LOL This is occuring in a very close neighboring city but glad it's not my backyard. ;)
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