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POPSBumps In The Road? I am somehow imagining a road-sign posted by an artificial G-spot clinic: "Beware of Over-Sensitive Zone" :lol:
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POPSWhere The Preaching Goes Too Far There is no war on evangelical Christians here and they are not being thrown to the lions. As this article states, they are childishly chafing against societal shifts. They don't want to see civil rights for us all because they believe God discriminates and it's their view of religion/politics or the highway. They will always find "token" gays to mimic their views because those poor souls think loving their oppressors will win them approval. But spreading these views to parts of the world with less freedom is downright dangerous and unconscionable.
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POPSThe Globlization Of Gay Bashing "This destitute nation is the kind of place that you may have seen in late night infomercials where flies buzz around the lips of starving children. Yet, the good citizens of Burundi have time to chant and hold signs demanding the imprisonment of homosexuals. n Nigeria, lawmakers are debating a bill that would imprison gay people who live together and jail anyone who doesn’t rat out the gay couples. What we are seeing in front of our eyes is the globalization of gay bashing. The United States has exported marketing techniques and church structures to culturally homophobic countries. The sexual minorities caught in these nations do not have the same freedoms that we enjoy in the west, so they can’t fight back. They are essentially voiceless and fearful – allowing insidious myths and stereotypes to go unchallenged. With gay people effectively demonized and hatred promoted by civic and religious leaders, hysteria on gay issues ensues. "
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POPSThe degrading effects of terrorism fears Demands that genuinely inept government officials be held accountable are necessary and wise, but demands that political leaders ensure that we can live in womb-like Absolute Safety are delusional and destructive. Yet this is what the citizenry screams out every time something threatening happens: please, take more of our privacy away; monitor more of our communications; ban more of us from flying; engage in rituals to create the illusion of Strength; imprison more people without charges; take more and more control and power so you can Keep Us Safe.
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POPSMaking A Comeback Now if we could only get the richest man in America to realize the importance of producing our own goods. So I salute you Mr. Buffet for at least recognizing the importance of rail and how it could jump start our economy. Now--have the guts to give your rail workers that would earn your profits a fair share of that profit--and invest back in quality American goods that don't exploit the poor by paying some of your profits back to the workers with a fair wage, and create some American jobs :) Then--you can prove to me that the rich want what is really best for our economy.
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POPSHow I make a difference. If you're looking for a career that is incredibly rewarding and satisfying, why not train as an intervenor? The best job in the world! http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/546339DE-5ACA-462D-9D79-78F2C21D65B0/
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POPSAmericans Buying Less Quite frankly, why does it surprise everyone that this pyramid scheme finally fell? People simply did not have the money to buy all these goods and the banks gave credit to those who were not credit worthy. When people maxed out on their personal credit cards, banks gave easy lines of home equity loans. It had to all fall because people didn't have the money to buy these goods and now they have to live within their means. It's a good lesson for consumers--sadly one that is probably cyclic in nature.
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POPSLiving On Nothing But Food Stamps "The main cash welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, has scarcely expanded during the recession; the rolls are still down about 75 percent from their 1990s peak. A different program, unemployment insurance, has rapidly grown, but still omits nearly half the unemployed. Food stamps, easier to get, have become the safety net of last resort."
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POPSBig Bang Theory Refuted Finally! The universe is not tiny bits of matter going away from each other from a starting point at the beginning of time. The "electric universe" is an entity connected by electro-magnetic plasmas that has been around forever. A really convincing argument. I always suspected the Einstein and the cosmologists he spawned were 'barking', but I could never prove it. Now I can. And if the universe works in a sea of electro magnetic plasma energy, then so must we. Part of a larger trend: From Objects to Relationship.
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POPSA remarkably bitter take on the "top ten stories of the last decade" -- in short, we're hosed The last paragraph is worth quoting in full: "The meaninglessness of elections: This is the most embittering revelation of all. Despite the greatest electoral majority since Johnson crushed Goldwater in '64, Obama has betrayed everything he ran on. In every case where he had the opportunity to confront power " in financial bailouts, financial regulation, health care, wars and military spending, utilities and global warming, national surveillance " Obama has sided with the rich and powerful against the interests of the American people. He has probably engendered more cynicism, more disaffection with government than any president since Richard Nixon. It will deal a staggering blow to the hopes of mobilizing masses of people again for a real takeback of government. And he's not even one year into it."
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POPSHarvard: Swine Flu Pandemic Oversold; Fear Mongering Gov't To Blame? A little speculation here as to motives. Mine leans more to promoting the need for the universal health care system that was/is being forced upon us. As the article says, this is not to minimize the deaths of those who died from this strand of flu. All of us need to be vigilant and careful; but not for one minute did I believe this was going to be a global disaster. I'm not the brightest bulb in the box but discernment and common sense need to abound.
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POPSThe Joke's on Us Steyn has such a way with words. His sarcasm is dripping and it would, indeed, be funny if it weren't so typical of our government now.
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POPSScientists say Dolphins Should be Treated as 'Non-Human Persons' Marino and Reiss will present their findings at a conference in San Diego, California, next month, concluding that the new evidence about dolphin intelligence makes it morally repugnant to mistreat them. “The scientific research . . . suggests that dolphins are ‘non-human persons’ who qualify for moral standing as individuals,” he said.
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