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POPSPeople’s Choice Awards Honor Sandra Bullock, Johnny Depp, “Twilight”
And much as Speakeasy loves “Glee,” we can’t help but point out how the cast was bogged down with the tackiest tie-in of the evening: when Lea Michele & Co. walked up on stage to accept their award, they announced that they were providing pizza for the audience and a stream of DiGiorno reps immediately walked down the aisle with pies. Naturally, the display immediately launched into a TV ad for… DiGiorno. In music, Keith Urban and Taylor Swift were voted favorite male and female stars, Carrie Underwood was favorite country artist and Lady Gaga was favorite breakout music artist. Mariah Carey won favorite R&B star, and wore a gown with such a long train, she had to have husband Nick Canon walk her up the stage stairs when accepting her award. (”This dress is a drama,” she said.) Rounding out the awards, Ashton Kutcher won favorite web celeb. He immediately tweeted: “The peoples choice award really goes to you all! Thanks for the props! Thnk for making it happen!"
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POPSIreland: Harshest Winter Weather in over 30 years My poor brother is stuck at Dublin Airport as I type, his first flight was cancelled, (along with everyone else's in Dublin this afternoon) and he has to wait until about 3 am to see if he can somehow make another connection. Oh man how I pity the hundreds of folks stuck up there!
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POPSSam Harris vs Karen 'I love Islam' Armstrong " And how could we have been so foolish as to connect the apparently inexhaustible supply of martyrs in the Muslim world to the Islamic doctrine of martyrdom? In my own defense, let me say that I do get spooked whenever Western Muslims advocate the murder of apostates (as 36 percent of Muslim young adults do in Britain). But I now know that these freedom-loving people just "want to see God reflected more clearly in public life." I will call my friend Ayaan Hirsi Ali at once and encourage her to come out of hiding: Come on out, dear. Karen says the coast is clear. As it turns out, those people who have been calling for your murder don't understand Islam any better than we do. "
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POPSFather Knows Best "Yes, we need to fix our intelligence. Yes, we absolutely must live up to our own ideals, as President Obama is trying to do in banning torture and closing Guantánamo Bay. We can’t let this “war on terrorism” consume us. We can’t let our country become just The United States of Fighting Terrorism and nothing more. We are the people of July 4th — not Sept. 11th. Every faith has its violent extreme. The West is not immune. It’s all about how the center deals with it. Does it tolerate it, isolate it or shame it? The jihadists are a security problem for our system. But they are a political and moral problem for the Arab-Muslim system. If they won’t address this problem for us, I truly hope they will do it for themselves."
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POPSHellas Basin Mars may have been so cold that the lake was covered with ice. But it's possible that life gained a foothold beneath the ice. So Hellas Basin preserves not only a record of our solar system's violent past -- but also signs that, billions of years ago, the Red Planet was a friendlier place for life.
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POPSA Little Something To Write The DOJ About
Concerned about bringing Blackwater to justice and pehaps, open up a few cans-o-worms for public scrutiny and entertainment while setting a legal precedent for both corporate and government adherence to rule of law? Write the DOJ and let them know you're watching. More from the article below: "Judge Ricardo Urbina of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed charges against the guards on Dec. 31, saying prosecutors had misused protected statements the guards gave during an internal review of the September 2007 shooting in Iraq. Urbina’s decision followed more than three weeks of closed-door court hearings. National Security Division trial attorneys Joseph Kaster and Michael Dittoe said in the Jan. 5 filing that the Justice Department is not opposed to releasing redacted versions of post-hearing memos. “Such a procedure would properly balance the First Amendment concerns with the rights of the parties and victims to a fair trial,” they said in court papers."
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POPSEvangelist Brit Hume? For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. Romans 1:16 (NKJV) Brit Hume took a great deal of flack for his gospel message to Tiger Woods. I heard Brit give his advice and to me it sounded genuine. I mean it sounded like sound advice from someone who may have been where Tiger now is. I am so glad to hear someone actually speak the gospel message and not be ashamed of it. Christians we ought to be taking lessons from Brit and applaud him for his stance. He did not back down even when under pressure from other media talking heads. Tiger you would do well to listen to your elder. And to the rest of America, take heed unto yourself so that you too do not fall into the same snare as Tiger Woods.
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POPSSaturn's Day Whatever the precise length of the day is, Saturn's high-speed rotation has some important effects. It squashes the planet so that it's much bigger through the equator than through the poles. And it stretches the clouds in Saturn's atmosphere into bands that go all the way around the giant planet.
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POPSClimategate: You should be steamed Third, and most important, skeptics believe that climate models are grossly overpredicting future warming from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide. We are being told that numerical models that cannot make accurate 5- to 10-day forecasts can be simplified and run forward for 100 years with results so reliable you can impose an economic disaster on the U.S. and the world. The revelation of ClimateÂgate occurs at a time when the accuracy of the climate models is being seriously questioned. Over the last decade Earth's temperature has not warmed, yet every model (there are many) predicted a significant increase in global temperatures for that time period. If the climate models cannot get it right for the past 10 years, why should we trust them for the next century?
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POPSOur Second Civil War The very concept of principled negotiations within the framework of a great goodness -- America -- is rejected by a Marxist left who pretended that the Berlin Wall never fell and the manifest failure of Marxism was (again) simply a failure of tactics and not of strategy. The Marxist left continues our Second Civil War because it exists in a smothering cocoon of relative truth, invented values, and faith in a purely material existence. This group, perhaps eight percent of the population, has influence far out of proportion to its numbers in America. It cannot be ignored, no matter how silly it seems. This Civil War for the soul of America must be won.
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POPSThe Siren Song of Marxismby
dl211 Today 12:24 AM 
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We are your only salvation; we are the champions of the poor and the working man, they proclaim, yet all the while they rob the so-called rich (read: middle class) of their rightful riches and keep the working class destitute, enslaving them to the State and oppressing them by keeping them under the twin Stalinist jackboots of unadulterated thuggery and sheer terror.
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POPSEmperor Obama and the Mob Enter the mob. A Rassmussen poll now says 58% of those interviewed want Abdulmutallab waterboarded. Only 30% of respondents opposed waterboarding, and 12% can't make up their minds. Fully 71% of respondents want Abdulmutallab's case handled by the military as a terrorist act, not by civilian authorities. Hey, Obama might be entitled to ask, did everybody just forget about Khalid Sheik Mohammed? He actually killed nearly three thousand Americans! This poor isolated Nigerian burned a Dutchman's hand. What's a king -- I mean God -- to do?
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POPSTaco Bell's weight loss spin... Imagine if everyone just stopped eating crappy fast food. That would probably do more for the collective health of our society, and therefore bring down health insurance costs, than anything i've heard proposed.
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POPSNo greater evilby
dl211 Yesterday 11:25 PM 3
As of now, they are operating in the open; all that remains, truly, is for them to lay claim to the brand "communist." Whether the individual far-left zealot in America is stupid, deluded or evil, the end game shall play out in the same manner: It will result in a society in which an unproductive, mediocre, larcenous few squeeze everyone else for their profit and pleasure. Our current president is one of those few. This is indeed sad, for, in addition to the groundbreaking nature of his presidency, Barack Obama is obviously a gifted man. He could have actually accomplished something meaningful with his life; instead, he has dedicated that life – from early on, mind you – to destroying the greatest nation, and people, that has ever come along. Can you think of a greater evil?
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