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POPSUsing Your Limited Power Effectively "In fact, it isn’t up to you to save this nation. It is up to us all. And you need to convince me, your friends, your family, your co-workers, etc. every single day that if we aren’t acting or paying attention, we are letting the powers that be hold their prized power over us for one more day."
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POPSThe Meaning Of America I've watched it happen over the years since hate radio and its multimillionaire mavens first gave voice and increasing political clout to resentment, intolerance, bitterness, anger, frustration over broken dreams, and unfulfilled entitlement. We've turned mean. We've been encouraged to go onto knee-jerk, scorched-earth attack mode by politicians, activists, and media brokers who gained influence and financial reaffirmation. The loudest and most dominant voices don't urge us to find root causes of problems and their solutions, or to reach for true understanding. All we are told, and all we know anymore, is hitting, and hitting harder, and hurting deeper, killing, demonizing, punishing, mocking, name-calling, eviscerating, marginalizing, threatening, intimidating, bullying, bombing, and war-making.
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POPSSaddam Hussein Offered to Exile Before Invasion This article is from September, but is very important because it shows that the Bush administration was intent on going to war with Iraq from the beginning. Saddam offered to go into exile, and the whole war could have been prevented for $1 Billion, and 0 lives lost, but look where we are now...
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POPSFascist America, in 10 Easy Steps This was a really good article, but a scary read and impossible to clip, so go read the whole thing. All this sort of talk really freaks me out, but we can't stick our heads in the sand. We have to keep demanding accountability and openness. It scares me, that more and more there seems to be warnings against this implied scenario. Are they all wrong and paranoid and silly and delusional? I think it's good to be a bit suspicious of everything the world's politicians are up to these days. I personally don't like the signs... Guantanamo and all that? The list is endless. Things are just not right IMO.
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POPSWhen letting go is the only way to live... When we have let go of our fear and doubt; when we have left behind the idea of perfection; when have come into the knowledge that we are powerful and given up our weakness, then and only then can we create the beauty we see....
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POPS"Real ID" is REAL NIGHTMARE! This article scared me badly! I am glad to say that I am from one of the states (WY) that is fighting this already. The rest of you better be writing your legislators on this issue!
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POPSGeorge Washington's Rules of Civility
Insightful precepts of civil social behavior; as applicable now as ever. As a young schoolboy in Virginia, George Washington took his first steps toward greatness by copying out by hand a list of 110 ' Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation .' Based on a 16th-century set of precepts compiled for young gentlemen by Jesuit instructors, the Rules of Civility were one of the earliest and most powerful forces to shape America's first president.... Most of the rules are concerned with details of etiquette, offering pointers on such issues as how to dress, walk, eat in public and address one's superiors. But in the introduction to the newly published Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace , Brookhiser warns against dismissing the maxims as "mere" etiquette. "The rules address moral issues, but they address them indirectly," writes. "They seek to form the inner man (or boy) by shaping the outer."