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POPSTroy's Poision Pill Please read this entire article in Mother Jones. It explains how a Bush appointee made it next to impossible for a person to sue a drug or pharmaceutical company, or medical device manufacturer for injuries sustained from use of their product. The claim goes that if the FDA approves a drug or device, that that should be the end of the line. As long as the product meets FDA approval, not judge or jury should be able to determine that said product could be responsible for someones injury. This is another example of how the Bush administration has put big business over human lives. Is it any wonder he demands preemptive immunity for communications companies, when he already had the FDA preempt medical liability lawsuits? This just gets disgustinger and disgustinger.
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POPSUnNecessary Harm "Trying these men this way is sure to raise international hackles. Injecting the death penalty, which is unpopular internationally in the best of circumstances, will only increase the bad feeling. Alienating the world, as the Bush administration still does not seem to understand, is not simply loutish behavior. It has very real implications for national security. The United States relies on other nations to monitor terrorism suspects and track down leads, and to apply pressure to nations like Iran. It relies on the support, or at least the absence of inflamed hatred, of the citizens of countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to keep friendly governments in place. It is reckless to needlessly act in ways that outrage the rest of the world."
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POPS'Bush Is Too Horrendous to Be Forgotten' SPIEGEL talks to American author Philip Roth about growing old, why George W. Bush is the worst American president ever and why he never gives out his cell phone number. Philip Roth, who will be 75 in March, is one of America's most critically acclaimed living writers. His 1969 novel "Portnoy's Complaint" brought him fame, and he went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for 1997's "American Pastoral."
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POPS"Spin" by Brian Springer It was on - and then off - the Internet. Now it's back! Watch it while you can. Here's the deal... It's a film made about the 1992 presidential election and it explains just about everything that is going on now, 16 years later. The film shows: * viable candidates being eliminated by the news media * politicians being fed slick answers by spin doctors * hopelessly corrupt news reporters lying through their cosmetically perfect teeth The stars of the movie are Bush and Clinton. No, not junior and Hilary. The other Bush and Clinton show. Bill and Sr. Amazing film. If it fails to completely blow your mind I will be very surprised.
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POPSClinton, Obama Debate Focused On Issues Did anyone else watch the 2nd half of the LA debates in the Kodak theatre? I was so impressed with Hillary! And it really drove home how much I DO NOT like Wolf Blitzer. He is short (sorry short people, I'm being sarcastic), he seems to have a particular disdain for some women and he is overbearing and obnoxious. You were booed several times by the crowd and you deserved it Wolf!
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POPSWar And Taxes What was it that GW said about Ken Lay? He hoped he was saved? I have to give credit where credit is due. What a hypocrite. What a liar. What a law breaking asshole. What a disastrous, failed, lunatic of a policy maker who is laughing the whole way to the bank. And we all paid for the deposit slip baby.
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POPSLessons of 1992 "Any Democrat who makes it to the White House can expect the same treatment: an unending procession of wild charges and fake scandals, dutifully given credence by major media organizations that somehow can’t bring themselves to declare the accusations unequivocally false." I don't think Obama is going to be good for the country. I think we need a seasoned President who can lead us out of this cluster fuck Bush has created and I don't believe Obama can do it. Why Edwards has not gotten any further is beyond me, but my choice would have been Al Gore. I see McCain making mincemeat of Obama in the debates, and lying through his teeth to accomplish his goals. Of course, I could be wrong, (I was wrong once, hahahaha) but time will tell the tale.
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POPSREALITY CHECK! There is a frightening new global trend of denial... Europeans think that they don't need to limit fishing... Car companies don't think they need to improve fuel economy standards... Bush thinks he can increase spending and cut taxes at the same time... Jingoists think we are winning the war in Iraq... Democrats think Hillary Clinton has enough experience to win an election... Polluters think that Global Warming won't really happen... Evangelicals think Jesus is coming back soon... Fundamentalists think they can win the war against modernity... The truth is: we're stuck with this world. The rules DO apply. No free passes. You have to face the music sometime. We must choose realism over comfortable delusion. Unfortunately, for now, wistful thinking will rule the day until we let it all collapse around us. Then we'll stand there scratching our heads saying: How could this happen?
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POPSBlue Collar Jobs Disappear And Ohio carried Bush; you go figure! I will never understand how people who suffer the most thought they would benefit from the Bush administration. Regardless, it is all about corporations obligations to the workers to share some of the wealth with them, and to give back to the community that buys their products instead of profit greed and inflated CEO salaries. Don't tell me it can't be done without a sacrifice to the consumer in the cost the product because there are many examples, Costo being one of them.
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POPSConflict in Iran: Symbiosis between Bush and Ahmadinejad
I've stitched together three very interesting articles over the last week, which become much more interesting when you read them in sequence. Look carefully at what is happening. If there is anything that lays bare the role of the Bush Administration's jingoistic belligerence in the Middle East, it is the recent conflict in the Strait of Hormuz. With the international pressure off Ahmadinejad, he starts taking heat in Iran for the shortcomings of his leadership. Without fear, his belligerent and isolationist politics lose their appeal. In order to defend his world view, and preserve the source of his power, he needs America as an enemy... So some Iranian boats play around with one of our convoys, Bush comes out with some insane saber-rattling press conference, and, Ahmadinejad is back in business, courtesy of the Bush administration. If you desire war, you need an enemy. If you need an enemy, you desire war. Bush needs Ahmadinejad. Just like Ahmadinejad needs Bush.
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POPSAnd On And On And On… • Challenge the lies about a nuclear buildup in Iran • Investigate official misconduct by Alberto Gonzalez • Investigate the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame • Charge those who allowed the torture of Iraqis • Close Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay Prisons • Challenge the abuse of signing statements by George Bush • Investigate the administration’s spying on Americans before 9/11 • Challenge the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act • Challenge directives giving George Bush dictatorial powers • Demand accountability for billions misspent and ‘lost’ in Iraq • Demand accountability for billions paid to private contractors • Expose the influence of PNAC members on US foreign policy • Challenge the lies to minimize the dangers of global warming • Restore the constitutional division of church and state • Protect a woman’s right to privacy • Restore habeas corpus and the Fourth Amendment …and on and on and on…
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POPSRepublicans: Crazy, Or Nuts?
Who in their right mind would argue with the observations in this article? More: "The Republican Party has become an aggregation of people who prefer to live in a world of fantasy -- and their first fantasy, the Ur-myth on which the entire conceit rests, is (classically) "we are the realists." "It degrades, into farce and Newspeak, from there. The perpetrators and defenders of the outing of a CIA agent are "patriots." Tom DeLay is a "leader" and Newt Gingrich is a "visionary." The President plays guitar while New Orleans drowns, causes a hundred thousand Americans and Iraqis to be killed or injured, and outsources torture, and it's the Democrats who, per the repellent Ramesh Ponnuru, are the "party of death." "It has gotten so that you have to muster all the compassion and understanding of which you are capable just to think of the Republicans as a party of greedy corporatists manipulating the credulous, the provincial, and the bigoted. That's the nice way of putting it.”
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POPSAmerican's Don't Need More Denial "When Mr. Bush says the economy is strong, he is generally referring to rising wages, low unemployment and what he calls healthy economic growth. But wages have either fallen or failed to outpace inflation during most of his tenure. Job creation is now slowing from a pace that has long been subpar. Economic growth is also braking, if not contracting. In any event, growth during the Bush years has not been healthy; rather, it has been abnormally lopsided. Corporate profits have soared (until recently) and the rich have become richer, while most Americans have treaded water or lost ground, their troubling circumstances masked by an unprecedented borrowing binge, now exacting its toll." The other presumed economic bright spots — business investment and exports — are less bright upon closer inspection. According to a new government report, orders for big-ticket commercial goods rose a spare 0.1 percent in November.
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POPSThe Bhutto Murder is Being Exploited by Bush....Surprise! "President" Bush is once again trying to blame to good vs evil forces in the name of Islamic and Muslim terrorists for the murder of Benazir Bhutto. He is so simplistic in his accusations in the hope that thinking people will not look beyond the rhetoric and investigate the situation within the Pakistani government and its leader Pervez Musharraf. I urge you to read this entire piece, it is not long, and see how Robert Fisk looks at the situation.
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POPSNotes On Terror "For more than two years, the Republican chairman of the committee, Senator Pat Roberts, made sure that a report would never be finished. It has now been in the hands of his replacement, Democrat Jay Rockefeller, for nearly a year, and there is still no report. That means Americans still don’t know whether Mr. Bush deliberately hyped and distorted the intelligence on Iraq or was also misinformed."
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POPSDid George W. Bush Have Sex With That Man? "Does anyone really believe that Republicans don't have their own dalliances? We don't really give a hoot who anybody sleeps with in their private lives. But when one party puts on such a show of being straight, upright Christians just to fool the masses into voting for them, their hypocrisy should be exposed - at every turn of the button." Having said all of that, did GW have sex with that man? The article is an old one and Mr. Guckert now has his own web site. We will never know whether the question is an absurd one or not, but it's a fascinating question.
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POPSAND THE WINNER IS... IRAQ WAR!! 
Mark Morford, one of the best satirical journalists weighs in on the BEST OF 07, naming IRAQ, winner of BEST WAR OF 2007. The relentless passing of time, has no effects on this war, each year it enters History's Hall of Shame, without end as long as Bush/Cheney are at the helm. It's so agonizingly painful that Morford's column this time in '08 will read again, Iraq named "War of the Year"! Bloody nation cheers 5th straight title. Bush will be speechlost and VP Dick Cheney, will utter "On behalf of myself and my boss who will both go down in history as two of the most insipid and deleterious world leaders you will ever have the displeasure of miserably recalling all your sad and pathetic days," The many years of this calamitous, tragic war have been augural, each year’s outcome predictable, no crystal ball needed. And no matter how WE THE PEOPLE bang our heads against the wall to end it, all we come up with, is a collective BUMP on our anguished heads. http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com/
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