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POPSThe Years He Won’t Discuss May Explain The Ayers Tie He Denies by
merrie Yesterday 12:53 AM 
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transparent whitewashing of the Obama/Ayers tie, the paper claimed that the pair first met earlier in 1995, “at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper ” That storyline is preposterous too, but it is also a marked revision of the paper’s prior account (which, naturally, reporter Scott Shane fails to mention). Why the change? The tacit concession was forced by Stanley Kurtz and Steve Diamond — whom the Times chooses not to acknowledge but who hover over Shane’s sunny narrative like a dark cloud. Despite all manner of stonewalling by Obama, Ayers and their allies, these commentators have doggedly pursued information about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. That’s the $150+ million “education reform” piggy bank substantially controlled in the nineties by Ayers and Obama, who doled out tens of millions of dollars to Leftist radicals — radicals who, like their patrons, understood that control over our institutions, and especially our schools, . . . .
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POPSauction for taking off and landing? had no idea this happens! 3 airports at NY? i thought they had 2? the FAA proposed slot auctions at the three New York area airports. It figured that by forcing airlines to pay for taking off and landing at certain times, rather than just scheduling flights congestion could be moderately reduced
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POPSThe Physiology And Psychology Of Voting The researchers used a multiple regression analysis to compare the effects of change in skin conductance levels in response to threatening images, gender, age, education, and income on support for socially “protective” policies such as the ones listed above. The only two statistically significant effects were those of education (less education translated into more support for conservative policies) and skin conductance. That in itself means that -- within the confines of this study -- physiology trumps gender, age and income, traditionally considered highly relevant causal factors in politics by social scientists. Moreover, the regression coefficient associated with skin conductance was more than 56 times that of education! !!!
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POPSHow to Improve Your Self-Control Some people seem to find it easy to resist temptation while others can be relied on to always yield to self-gratification. To a certain extent we have to accept our starting point on the self-control sliding scale and do the best we can with it. 3. How to improve your self-control: Global processing. This means trying to focus on the wood rather than the trees. Abstract reasoning. This means trying to avoid considering the specific details of the situation at hand in favour of thinking about how actions fit into an overall framework - being philosophical. High-level categorisation. This means thinking about high-level concepts rather than specific instances. Any long-term project, whether in business, academia or elsewhere can easily get bogged down by focusing too much on the minutiae of everyday processes and forgetting the ultimate goal.
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POPSJeff Evans - Dominion Lending Centres Mortgage Broker Expert OwnThatHome.ca is the website for Jeff Evans, Mortgage Broker Expert with Dominion Lending Centres operating out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Jeff specializes in providing creative customized solutions to clients property financing needs. Please visit the website for more information.
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POPSInactivity is ACTIVELY HARMFUL to your health "We used to think that it is healthy to be physically active, but this study shows that it is dangerous to be inactive for just a couple of weeks," said Bente Klarlund Pedersen, co-author and lead investigator of the study and professor of internal medicine and director of Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism at the University of Copenhagen. "After 14 days of reduced stepping, subjects experienced accumulation of the dangerous abdominal fat, while also developing elevated blood-lipids, a sign of -pre-diabetes and cardiovascular disease. If you choose the passive mode of transport and abstain from exercise, than your risk of chronic disease is likely to increase markedly." "When the doctor says to go and exercise, they are not just telling patients to do that to improve their health; increasing daily stepping could actually reverse a cause of chronic disease," Booth said.
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POPSSaakashvili’s Days Numbered Okruashvili also said that after 2006 Georgia didn't have the possibility for success by military means. “The Russians had repositioned and improved their military infrastructure in the North Caucuses, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia. He also criticized the United States for unwavering support towards President Saakashvili’s administration. “ “Lack of criticism from the U.S. allowed him to go too far,” Okruashvili said.
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POPSThought Field Therapy and its Effectiveness Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is a new technique for the rapid relief of all kinds of emotional distress. It works rather like acupuncture by stimulating the body’s energy meridians to resolve problems with the body’s emotional control system.
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POPSAlaska Women Reject Palin Rally It's great to see Alaskans speaking out and with such creativity - I love the signs! McCain / Palin = Unstable / Unable God's will is not a foreign policy!! THINK - It's not illegal yet Ask me why I'm Palinoid McBush / Palin Viagra = yes, Birth Control = no The Alaska Disasta' Uppity Women Unite!!
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POPSlevitated.net/daily: awesome interactive art This site is filled to the brim with interesting flash experiments by Jared Tarbell. The code for each game is also downloadable, which is a good thing for anyone learning Flash MX! My personal favourite would have to be orbiting networks, where you create a stylised solar system. Other tests involve the movement of underwater creature, stylised lines, one very groovy keyboard and some colourful bugs (hey, kids: it's just like Spore, minus the evil DRM!). Check it out at www.levitated.net/daily
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POPSHappeez clips & notepads stick to stainless steel, glass, plastic, ect. Clip a reminder to the bathroom mirror, a shopping list to your stainless steel fridge, or a to-do list to the patio door with stylish and versatile Happeez Clippers. Featuring a revolutionary material that sticks without being sticky, Happeez Clippers work on smooth surfaces like stainless steel, glass, and mirrors. They can be repositioned or removed in seconds with no scraping and no gooey residue. CEO Holly Bohn thought this was too good to be true, but tried them for a month on her stainless steel fridge. They work great. "Although I enjoyed the clean look of my fridge, there is something comforting about having kids artwork once again covering the exterior."
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POPS“Junk DNA” May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes in Human Thumb and Foot A rapidly evolving sequence from the human genome drives gene activity in the developing thumb, wrist and ankle of mouse embryos, suggesting the sequence may have contributed to key evolutionary changes in the human limbs that allowed us to walk upright and use tools. An indication of their biological importance, many of these non-coding sequences have remained similar, or “conserved,” even across distantly related vertebrate species such as chickens and humans. Recent functional studies suggest some of these “conserved non-coding sequences” control the genes that direct human development.
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POPSMusashi's Mind Control Tricks Miyamoto Musashi was not only a swordsman but a master mind manipulator. Here are a couple of the tricks that he used to defeat Sasaki Kojiro at the Battle of Sekigahara.
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POPSObama: Nothing More Than a Shrewd and Opportunistic Partisan
He could have joined the bipartisan “Gang of 14” that negotiated a halt to divisive judicial nominations, but didn't. He could have been a leader for bipartisan compromises on immigration, terrorist surveillance and energy, but wasn't. According to a Washington Post database, Obama votes with his party 96 percent of the time, which makes him tied for the eleventh most partisan member of the Senate. At 96.6 percent, his running mate Joe Biden is the eighth most partisan senator. In his next political act, he dispensed with centrism and the great middle ground of American politics and espoused the politics of “change” — change in pastors, change in churches and calculated changes in his positions on NAFTA, gun control and much else. But all those convention antics pale in comparison to the change in the man who, four years ago, briefly fired the imaginations of Americans tired of the extremes of partisan politics. That Obama has left and gone away, if he ever really existed.
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POPSMeasles Are Back- Worldwide The debate will be inflamed again. Measles vaccines and autism- again there is no correlation. More outbreaks are on the rise and kids are getting very sick. What will the answer be?
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POPSWomen Power- Educated Women and Babies It has been proven for a long time that women who are educated and in control of their lives will not have as many children as their un-educated counterparts. Give women control of their economics and the effect is startling.
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POPSACLU trying to control public prayer I thought the ACLU sought to protect people from the overreaching government and discrimination against religion, race, or creed. I guess I was mistaken. The mission statement of the ACLU states: The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees: Your First Amendment rights - freedom of speech, association and assembly; freedom of the press, and freedom of religion. I wonder what changed?
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POPSUnderstanding the "Predator State" Full of thought-provoking analysis of how corporate America gained control of government. Lots to think about here. Looks like a must-blog piece. The clip is only intro to the good stuff.
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