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POPSThey Do Things Differently in Mindinao Dirty politics doesn't mean breaking into a rival party headquarters, it involves killing everyone (including a dozen journalists) in a motorcade. About 7,100 of the 7,107 islands are mostly inhabited by kind, civil people. The other places are known for kidnappings of foreigners and continual civil war. There is another characteristic of that minority that is mentioned in the article. Bet you can't guess what it is...
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POPSLearn to Rescue Yourselves I'd liked to have seen FEMA issue a release like this before hurricane season. We still want to believe a magical white stallion will rescue us no matter how little we do to help ourselves. FTA: "“Within 72 to 98 hours from the time of impact of a disaster, you only have each other to depend on for help,” Cruz told The STAR in an interview. “People are so reliant on (hotlines like) 911, thinking it’s (rescue) going to happen (soon). The fact is it’s not,” he added.
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POPSAnger in France and Poland after Polanski arrest At least Reuters puts the blame on the "political elite". A U.S. arrest warrant has existed since 1978 for Mr. Polanski. It's no secret that he's wanted. He travels to Switzerland, which has an extradition treaty with the U.S. and gets arrested. The elites have a major panty wad. I guess that whole "rule of law" thing doesn't apply when an artist is involved. He played the system for 31 years and got a bit too arrogant for even the Europeans.
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POPSHysteria, not H1N1, taxing healthcare An outbreak of hovering parents nationwide causes the truly ill to wait for care. There are fees for unnecessarily setting off burglar alarms and fire alarms, how about private MD's charging more for Helicopter Hannah bringing in her child during an epidemic of a viral disease which has no cure when the child is merely in discomfort. What passes as "education" by the MSM is often just scaremongering to lift ratings. Maybe a set of guidelines for when to actually seek medical help in a report warning of deaths of toddlers would be responsible.
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POPSMD's Intentionally End Lives in 1 in 6 UK Deaths The last paragraph is really shocking. Before the whole debate over state healthcare started in the US, 16.5% all deaths were physician assisted. And that's only mentioned in passing, not as the lead in the article.
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POPSWhen the "option" to die becomes a duty Of course the law was proposed as giving a choice to die with dignity, but appears to be on the road to becoming a case of "We will not treat you, so it's your choice to die in pain or commit suicide - which we'll foot the bill for." The spokesman for the State health plan called the letter " a public relations blunder and something the state is 'working on"'. Apologising for the manner in which the actions are communicated is NOT the same as apologizing for the action. Still, that's all the State has done.
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POPSDark Days Taken from the blog of an Iranian programmer, not a politicial operative. The original post is a firsthand account of election day.
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POPSObama: It's OK to borrow to pay for health care Government will be pay as you go, except for this huge budget busting mashup of Frankenstein and the DMV. Is the President just rubbing our noses in it with two faced stuff like this, or do we subjects even matter?
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POPSCalifornia contemplates ultimate reform - no welfare To scare folks on the right, they threatened to cut prison funding and schools before the vote. Now they're threatening (?) to cut the welfare program to anger the folks on the left. Get the idea we're all being played no matter what side of the fence we're on?
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POPSMLK Children Abusing IP Law (Again) To Try To Squeeze Money Out Of Anyone Who Honors Him From Techdirt:: " Of course, this also highlights a fun point for those who pitch the idea that copyright should last forever and descend to the heirs of the content creator. As the ownership gets spread out among younger generations, getting them to agree on anything will be quite unlikely. In any case, it's a sad "legacy" the MLK estate is leaving here, concerning the overly aggressive "protection" of copyrights against those who clearly wish to honor the man's own legacy. "
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POPSSoda Tax Weighed to Pay for Health Care This is from the breathless group that warned about the dangers of movie popcorn and fettucine alfredo. They used to be humorous, but now they are helping to find more things to tax.
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