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POPSMichigan-8 year "recession" This is what happens when your reward non-production, ignore your current workers & taxpayers and favor unions, bigger government and liberal feel good legislation. And it is coming soon to the rest of the country, the national plan seems to be at least partially based on Michigan's failed course. As the confiscation of the wealthy's assets and businesses continue, those that have anything left, will LEAVE. Many other countries would be HAPPY to take a much smaller share of the pie. Which is what is happening in Michigan. 100% of nothing is nothing, and that is what we get when we tax jobs out of existence.
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"Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such people in government-- people who reject American values, resent Americans in general and successful Americans in particular, as well as resenting America's influence in the world." "Any miscalculation on his part would be in not thinking that others would discover what these stealth appointees were like. Had it not been for the Fox News Channel, these stealth appointees might have remained unexposed for what they are. Fox News is now high on the administration's enemies list. Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year-- each bill more than a thousand pages long-- too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by pie
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POPSA taste of Norman Rockwell By 1925 Rockwell was a national name, and by the end of the Depression was an institution. Very few people saw his original work, only in the form of reproductions, but this is often the case today when famous works of art are readily available in art books or on computer screens. Hughes dismisses Rockwell as “homelier than apple pie, more American than the flag, and more affirmative than Dad.”
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POPSPrison Nation The goal here to keep nation in suppressed condition, in mortal fear of punishment for disobedience. The same with capital punishment. Clear sign of obscurant society, where fear and panic are handy tools to conduct business.
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POPSA cocktail bar with no drink menu: Drink (Boston, MA) More: As the cocktail authority Dale DeGroff has noted, the cocktail is “as American as jazz, apple pie, and baseball.” Classic cocktail bars are to the toper what the new crop of “classic” baseball stadiums are to the sports fan—places where we can cheer a return to our roots.… I admire what Drink is doing in eliminating the cocktail menu: asking you to put yourself in the hands of a knowledgeable guide who can edge you beyond your comfort zone into a new experience. Still, I hope it eventually prints one up. Sometimes the bartender will be too harried to take a full patient history, and perusing a list of drinks and their ingredients is a great education. I also hope Drink might embrace another new trend, that of listing obscure classic cocktails interpreted by and credited to talented bartenders working today in other cities. Such a list is like a blog with links to other worthwhile blogs, except that the links are potable.
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POPSAs American as Apple Pie Did Obama's trip to Turkey help Muslims here at home? It depends on how you view my headscarf. By Hadia Mubarak | NEWSWEEK
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POPS"Hemp Is Not Pot: It's the Economic Stimulus . . We Need" continues: With 25,000 known applications from paper, clothing and food products — which, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal this January, is the fastest growing new food category in North America — to construction and automotive materials, hemp could be just the crop to jump-start America's green economy.
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POPSThe Day The Music . .Died. Recently was the anniversary of Buddy Holly, Big Bopper and Richie Valens deaths. Shame on me for I had forgot. Please forgive my bad.
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POPSObama's First 100 Minutes In Office: Tums, Excedrin & Cigarettes Bizarrely calling Arabic the “language of science and of modernity,” Sarkozy suggested that “If we all learn Arabic now, we will fare better under the coming Muslim majority.” Gore to Ask Congress to Abolish Climate Change now, with a Democratic president and Democratic majorities in both houses, the forces are aligned to abolish climate change once and for all—assuring Americans of this and future generations that normal weather will be allowed to reassert itself once humankind’s interference is eliminated.” “Carbon-based methods for producing energy must be eliminated,” Gore insisted. “Whether we do this via punitive taxes or regulation is not as important as that it be done. Due to heavy demand for speaking appearances and the accompanying busy travel schedule, Gore is expected to fly into Washington on a private jet to testify on behalf of his proposed legislation.
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POPSSarah Palin and elitism Great article. The only thing I would have to point out is where the author states: "The point is that she comes to us, seeking the second most important job in the world, without any intellectual training relevant to the challenges and responsibilities that await her." I mean - hell Bush had no intellectual training either (not to mention no intellect) and things have gone so well over the last 8 years, right?
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POPSThe seven burgers of the apocalypse Vegans, you might want to turn your heads, as well as health conscious people. I may have eat stuff like this as a teen, but my poor tummy can't handle this stuff anymore! Oy!
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