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POPSWhat does it mean to be an American? This 10-year-old boy gets it More: After asking his parents whether it was against the law not to stand for the pledge, Will decided to do something. On Monday, Oct. 5, when the other kids in his class stood up to recite the pledge of allegiance, he remained sitting down…Each day, the substitute got a little more cross with him. On Thursday, it finally came to a head… Will was sent to the office… At the end of our interview, I ask young Will a question that might be a civics test nightmare for your average 10-year-old. Will's answer, though, is good enough — simple enough, true enough — to give me a little rush of goose pimples. What does being an American mean? “Freedom of speech,” Will says, without even stopping to think. “The freedom to disagree. That's what I think pretty much being an American represents.” Somewhere, Thomas Jefferson smiles.
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POPSBefore Dreams," There Was Roots The fraud that was "Roots". How Haley's work was derived from " The African" by Courlander and a subsequent genealogy research confirmed the falseness of the book.
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POPSObama Has Won The 100 Metres at The 2012 London Olympics
Thus, with President Wilson alone, the Nobel Peace Prize death toll is over 50 million and counting. Occasionally the peace prize has gone to actual peace negotiators but usually, per Teddy Roosevelt, when there was nothing left to negotiate. Carlos Saavedra Lamas got his in 1936 for mediating between Bolivia and Paraguay in the Chaco War (1932-35). Both nations were exhausted, 100,000 soldiers were dead, and the Chaco was--as it had been and remains--a vast, useless weed patch. Likewise, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan (1976) and John Hume and David Trimble (1998)--the four of them were standing around when, after 500 years, the fool residents of my ancestral homeland ran out of ammo and beer. Of course, if you go around giving prizes left and right (mostly left) for more than a century, you're bound to give some to worthy people once in a while. With the Nobel committee this usually involves the Red Cross (1901, 1917, 1944, 1963). But the Red Cross doesn't bring peace . . .
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POPSStomach Pain, Digestive Trouble If you are in pain after eating or suffer from any of a host of digestive and stomach problems then this site is for you... Learn the solution for stomach/digestive trouble.
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POPSTyranny in a Sentence - Don Boudreaux I just have to wonder how much of this we will put up with. I know the majority are wise enough to recognize the patterns of history. Why does it seem the world is asleep to the echos of the past resounding louder as each approaching step toward a truly fascist society is created? We sloughed this off before in the last lurch toward fascism in the era of T. Roosevelt, Wilson, Harding, and FDR. It seems we have moved in the last 3 years, since I started noticing this trend, farther left than we went from Teddy Roosevelt to Wilson. FDR was the hammer to head. The wake up call. Thank goodness Democrats of that day were not Progressive and quickly set term limits on the Presidency. The thing is, though, there are so many parallels. People would be served well to study closely the era of these four Presidents, their speeches, the true ideas of progressivism these men preached. Like it or not, Fascism has been making a comeback.
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POPSActor James Whitmore dies Wonderful Actor. He played U.S. Navy Adm. William F. Halsey in the World War II epic "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and was an imperious ape in the 1968 classic "Planet of the Apes." Whitmore looked natural in cowboy boots and hat, appearing in such TV series as "Bonanza," "The Virginian" and "Gunsmoke." He also did commercials for Miracle-Gro plant foods. According to IMDb.com, Whitmore was born in 1921 in White Plains, New York. He was married four times: twice to Nancy Mygatt, for four years in the '70s to actress Audra Lindley, and since 2001 to actress Noreen Nash. He was the father of three children, including actor-director James Whitmore Jr.
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POPSGlenn Beck's Still an Idiot I've pointed out before that "Glenn Beck Idiot" and "Glenn Beck Asshole" are two of the top search queries driving traffic to my blogs. This is why -- stuff like this clearly establishes Beck as an idiot and an asshole. Who needs facts when you can just make crap up?
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POPSOpen Mouth, Insert Bill Either Americans will come out of this election with a greater distaste for McCain (most certainly Republicans) or just everyone on Capitol Hill. The dust could be settled Thursday with another vote.
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POPSThe Failed Bailout's Fallout for McCain "I went to Washington last week to make sure that the taxpayers of Ohio and across this great country were not left footing the bill for mistakes made on Wall Street and in Washington," McCain said at a campaign rally in the swing state of Ohio. McCain shows up in DC, has a few conversations with Congressional leaders, is seen walking through a lobby in the congressional building and tries to create the illusion that he brokered an economy-saving deal. It was all smoke and mirrors. Worse, there was no deal. McCain had no sway with the House Republicans. He failed to deliver what he promised. That failure is fair game.
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POPSMcCain rushes to Washington, never shows up After bragging "not my style to simply phone it in" McCain never appears on Capitol Hill Fri or Sat after rushing back from debate. Why? Aide Mark Salter: he "can... do what he needs to do by phone."
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POPS"John McCain's Journey from Maverick to Liar" "For 18 months, Obama has wagered all his chips on the (quaint? idealistic? brilliant?) idea that the American people are tired of the same old sleazy and divisive politics. McCain has now chosen to bet against him."
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POPSJohn McCain, Friend of Monopolies I think there are two reasons McCain invokes Teddy Roosevelt. 1. Roosevelt wasn't a Republican in the modern sense, but a Republican in the original sense -- i.e., a progressive. McCain hopes to signal some that his "maverick" label actually means something. 2. Teddy Roosevelt is the one face on Mt. Rushmore that Americans know the least about. In the end, I'd say it's more 2 than 1.
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POPSWe Like Ike? Not At Denver's Brown Palace Hotel and Spa Eisenhower Presidential Suite Dumped Renamed Barack Obama Suite Shannon Dexheimer, public relations manager for The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, recently explained that the reason for renaming the suite, was that the hotel, “wanted to do it to symbolize honoring him as the candidate for the Democrats, and honoring the fact that we played such a huge role 100 years ago when this convention (Democrat) was here last." The hotel has four named suites, three presidential suites, the Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Teddy Roosevelt, and a suite named for the Beatles in honor of their one night stay in the hotel in August, 1966. There are also several unnamed suites on the eighth and ninth floors of the hotel. Why take a chance at angering half the voting public, by making the switch? Only the management at the Brown Palace can answer that, but the smart thing would have been to temporarily turn one of several other unnamed suites into the Obama Suite.
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POPSHillary an O'Reilly--Courtin the Repug vote?
Said O'Reilly: "You're going to raise taxes on the wealthy. That's income redistribution. You know what that is. And income redistribution is why some conservatives don't like you. It's because it takes from the wealthy and you give the less afluent - that's socialism - that has a socialist component ..." "No it isn't" said Hillary who recoiled from the S word like a vampire confronted with a cross. "Was Teddy Roosevelt a socialist?" she asked. When O'Reilly said "somewhat," she added that, "Teddy Roosevelt was a great American. Our country works better when we're all in it together.” On her $110 billion-a-year health care plan, O'Reilly, citing California's $8 billion health care deficit and New York's $5 billion health care deficit, asked "Are you going to tell me President Hillary Clinton is going to A) run this efficiently and B) not bankrupt the country when California and New York are already bankrupt?" In reply, Mrs. Clinton simply side-stepped defending the ruinous fis
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POPSRonnie Raygun on Mt. Rushmore? We used to call him Ol' Slash and Cut when I worked in the State hospital system when he was Cal Governor. He did a lot of damage internally and put mentally ill people on the streets with no backup...and they called him a "fiscal genius". Riiight....and I'm really Frank Zappa (who I'd rather see on Rushmore...that would be cool)
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