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POPSReference Guide for HERBS Someone asked for this... Ho Shou Wu Root Hyssop Leaf Jujube Date Juniper Berry Kola Nut Korean Ginseng Root Lady Slipper Root Licorice Root Lycium Berry Motherwort Leaf Muira Puama Root Mullein Leaf Oregon Grape Root Panax Ginseng Parsley Root Passion Flowers Pau D'Arco Bark Paullina Seed Prickly Ash Bark Red Beet Root Red Clover Tops Red Peony Root Red Sage Root Rosemary Rose Hips Berry Saw Palmetto Berry Schizandra Berry Sok-Day Root St. John's Wort Stinging Nettle Leaf Turmeric Rhizomes Uva Ursi Root Valerian Root White Willow Bark Wild Yam Root Wood Betony Leaf Wu Chi Root Yarrow Leaf Yellow Dock Root Yerba Mate Leaf Those are also linked
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POPSRush Limbaugh Lies: McCain Says He Provided Intell While Being Torture (Not True)
Elsewhere in his memoir, McCain recalled providing false information to his captors on multiple occasions in order to “suspend the abuse.” Further, McCain explained in a 2005 Newsweek column that he believed torture would yield little actionable intelligence. “In my experience, abuse of prisoners often produces bad intelligence because under torture a person will say anything he thinks his captors want to hear — whether it is true or false — if he believes it will relieve his suffering,” McCain wrote. McCain was right. As the Washington Post reported last month, the torture of Abu Zubaida — who was once thought to be a high-level AQI operative — did not foil “a single significant plot” and provided the CIA with a number of “false leads.” “We spent millions of dollars chasing false alarms,” one former intelligence official told the Post. Further, “most of the useful information from Abu Zubaida — chiefly names of al-Qaeda members and associates — was obtained before waterboarding was
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POPSAmerica’s Rivers from Above At 2,330 km (1,450 miles), the Colorado River is the longest of the rivers portrayed here. It originates high in the Rocky Mountains, just west of the Continental Divide and ends in the Gulf of California.
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POPSOMG! Who's Going To Save Us From Global Warming Now?
. . . . . really owes the White House an apology. This airbrushing was worthy of Stalin. Other NRO commenters at the link admire the assist the Politburo has gotten from the state-controlled media. The Moderate Voice : A case of poor vetting … Funny, that’s how I feel about the Obama administration, too. Aww, this is cute. Fellow-traveling Think Progress , wielding an airbrushlet: Racist right-wing conspiracy/hate campaign drives out smiling, well-intentioned, plucky environmental advocate. It’s an interesting presentation that makes no mention of you know what. Andrew Sullivan, to his credit, notices why Van was hounded out, but finds the gleefulness unseemly. Gutless wonder of a conspiracy theorist quits gutless wonder of a White House in the wee hours of Sunday morning, Labor Day weekend. Good work, Rahm. It’ll be out of the papers by Tuesday. Given that the Van Jones Truther scandal was barely covered in the first place, it’s like it never happened
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POPS Sarah and the Earth--Incompatible Her deplorable environmental record was such common knowledge that John McCain couldn't have missed it, even if he napped through his vetting committee's report. So if the McCain/Palin ticket is elected, you should know what to expect. Although John McCain may once have openly refused to subscribe to the beliefs of the Republican Party's religious right, famously describing them as "agents of intolerance," his selection of Sarah Palin is a message (and not just to the party's fundamentalist right): If you thought that he understands the need to kick our fossil-fuel addiction and address global warming, if you believed his promises to build a green economy, forget about it. A McCain/Palin administration, just like the one before it, will continue -- and this is the best-case scenario -- to fiddle while the planet burns.
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POPSHas Another GOP Closet Been Forced Open? Another week, another GOP political figure accused of wrong-doing with either a male minor, or some other homosexual activity of a highly questionable nature. Is it possible that because of the repression of all things sexual in the Republican party, especially where it concerns homosexuality, that these guys are simply forced into these anti-social behaviours? I do not pretend to have the answers, but there certainly does seem to be an epidemic of these kinds of situations in a party that is always screaming about "family values."
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POPSMcCain gaffes pile up; critics pile on McCain's mistakes raise a serious, if uncomfortable question: Are the gaffes the result of his age? And what could that mean in the Oval Office? Voters, thinking about their own relatives, can be expected to scrutinize McCain’s debate performances for signs of slippage
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POPS America’s Rivers from Above I don't think i saw one of Washington's (the state) rivers in this collection,.It's too bad,some of them are fantastic,particularly the Columbia, but then i could just be partial :D more info at the site as is per usual.
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POPSOakland is 4th greenest city in US (San Fran is #2, Berkeley #7) More: Since there is as yet no official criteria set by the Environmental Protection Agency for determining a city's "greeness", Mother Nature Network considered several key areas to measure the effectiveness of a municipality's efforts at carbon footprint reduction. These included air and water quality, efficient recycling and management of waste, percentage of LEED certified buildings, acres of land devoted to green space, use of renewable energy, and easy access to green products and services.