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POPSHalf of working age adults in this Illinois town unemployed What this politically correct piece doesn't say is the town is probably mostly black. So what does this tell you? Obama sprung from Illinois politics. Beyond any doubt, this town likely voted for Obama. How do you like that "hope and change" Pembroke citizens?? Welcome to Obama's Amerika.
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POPSWhat Type of Recession Is It? Good news...the recession is over? Obviously this makes no sense. I suppose the elections in Afghanistan, the tea-parties, town hall meetings, Obamacare, swine flu domestic militarism, missing Russian boats, the return of Star Wars, unrest in South America, typhoons, wildfires, and approaching hurricane news needed a little pick-me-up.
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POPSDemocrat White Guys’ Club Do you ever wonder if the reason liberals think everyone who opposes Obama must be a racist is because they are racists who never see anything about people other than their race?
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POPSToday’s Edition Of Senate Gone Wild: Armed Guards To Keep Burris Out 
I’m just an enterprising little blogger trying to make her way right here in Amerika! I don’t want to work in the potato fields! I NEED this material. So I IMPLORE you, Roland. Show up! Then we could do a nice analogy with what Saddam Hussein always did with people he didn’t want in the room. Come on guys! I need to catch a break here, mmmmmmmkay? I want to see the veins in Harry Reid’s neck pulsating. I want to see Blagojevich’s hair again. I want to hear Bobby Rush’s next speech after the only African American man in the room gets hauled out by the Democratic Party. “We’re not going to create a scene in Washington,” Burris said. “We hope it’s negotiated out prior to my going to Washington.” No no no! Prithee Roland, I beseech thee! Playing nice is not a part the congressional handbook, man! And it never provides good blogging material! Hey, by the way, did anybody notice that the Other Useless Party is awfully quiet these days?
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POPS Why I'm Voting For Barack Obama It’s time we all reached down deep, some maybe deeper than than others, to Save the Children. It’s Obama as the Sally Struthers of our national conscience. It’s more than that. He’s the guy on our big national speedboat with lots of babes in bikinis. What are you waiting for? He’s got the secret to attaining universal health care and wealth equity, you just have to buy his tape. America can have killer abs, without all that sweating and going to the gym and kicking down third-world mudhut doors. It is that easy. Return it in four years, no obligation, if not fully satisfied. And that’s why I’ve decided to announce that I’m voting for Obama.* * That’s what I’ll be telling pollsters, the national media and everyone I know, anyway. What I do in the polling booth is my own damn business. Look, the leadership of the free world and all that is really important, but the last thing I want is anyone to think I’m a racist. Or even worse, not cool.**
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POPSIsrael - der 51. Staat der USA? See also: Breaking the Taboo: Why We Took On the Israel Lobby (AlterNet) : John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt explain in this interview why they decided to speak out against the close relationship between the U.S. and Israel. Eric Chinski, the editor of John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s provocative new bestseller, asks the authors whether their book is good for the Jews and good for America.
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POPSNew rights for terror detainees as deeply split Supreme Court rules It isn't hard to figure out why the right wingers are all in an uproar over this--you see it gives rights to human beings that aren't Amerikans and that's unthinkable because if we actually see our "enemies" (anyone not Amerikan or kissing our leader's butt) as HUMAN BEINGS and not just some vile brown monkeys like we're supposed to. How sad is that? What has Amerika become? Are we so vile as to deny basic rights to everyone not born here? And when theyu are given the barest of rights--not freedom, juist a chance at Justice--The bile that comes from the Right wing, from Scalia to Giuliani to Limbaugh is so odious, I may gag.
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POPSWhat Would Reverend Jeremiah Wright Do? In an emotional testimony he tells the world how, as he was watching YouTube clips of the Reverend, a voice said "Follow this man." He then made his hajj to Chicago, joining Rev. Wright's congregation. Everyone is acepted under Jeremiah Wright's large tent as long as they accept a few simple dogmas and agree to repeat them five times a day during prayers: * Being White is immoral. Every White person is guilty of conspiring against the Blacks * Being rich is immoral. Every rich person is guilty of conspiring against the poor * America is the infamous product of conspiracy by rich White males to create the source of all evil. Later it turned even more evil under the rule of Zionist puppet masters. * Jesus was a homeless African-American male who fell victim to a conspiracy of the rich Whites against the poor Blacks that resulted in racial profiling, followed by torture and crucifiction * The 10 Commandments are optional.
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POPSFreedom House: Wie frei sind die USA wirklich? Beim Kampf für Demokratie und Menschenrechte vergessen die USA ihre Probleme im eigenen Land. Das meint die Demokratieorganisation Freedom House. Die Häftlingsrate ist zehnmal so hoch wie in Westeuropa und mehr als 2000 Kinder sitzen lebenslänglich im Gefängnis. Zu den Demokratiedefiziten gehört nach Ansicht von Freedom House auch die Todesstrafe, die in den meisten anderen Demokratien längst abgeschafft ist. In den Vereinigten Staaten sitzen 3000 Menschen in der Todeszelle. Aber trotz aller Defizite ist Freedom House überzeugt, dass die Vereinigten Staaten ein freies Land mit starken Selbstkorrekturmechanismen bleiben. Schließlich würden die meisten Skandale irgendwann von der Presse aufgedeckt, Fehlentscheidungen der Regierung von Gerichten oder vom Kongress korrigiert. "Freiheit ist in Amerika ein seit über 200 Jahren andauernder Prozess", sagt Stuart Eizenstat.
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POPS Former NSA Director: "By any measure the US has long used terrorism"
More Moreover, recently declassified documents show that in the 1960's, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. If you view no other links in this article, please read the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings (click link entitled "Joint Chiefs Guilty-Northwoods"). In addition, the FBI had penetrated the cell which carried out the 1993 world trade center bombing, but had -- at the last minute -- cancelled the plan to have its FBI infiltrator substitute fake power for real explosives, against the infiltrator's strong wishes (summary version is free; full version is pay-per-view).
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POPSAmericanism: The good, the bad and the ugly The famous go-to-war-for “American way of life,” underlines America’s persistent claims of a monopoly on morality. What is it, this American morality? This righteousness? Is it our religious roots in the fable of the Puritan settlers, those super religious people who in their hardships were bigots, perhaps also practitioners of incest and racists soon morphing into dogmatic chauvinists who early-on labeled their dissidents and different-thinkers witches and demons. The same Americanism initiated then which today fosters the rights of the rich to become richer, the strong to trample the weak . Meanwhile, out in the empire, as long as it is distant, the Puritan legacy instills blindness to the use of cluster bombs from the stratosphere and hidden torture in places with foreign names like Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib . . . and while our neighbors in Haiti eat dirt, literally.
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POPSINFRAGARD: FBI Deputizes Business for Martial Law Including "shoot to kill" during Martial Law. This is a direct copy of the KGB-citizen-business spy network, now in Amerika. Doing this increases both paranoia and super-patriot fantasy that is quick to mark people or groups as suspicious, especially dissenters of various sorts. Deputizing big business in particular means that "some are more equal than others" (Orwell, Animal Farm). "Membership has its privileges". "Protect the Homeland". Sieg Heil!
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POPSSchöne Bescherung im Biologieunterricht Intelligent Design mit Wissenschaft nichts zu tun, wie es uns die Neokreationisten und nun auch Ministerin Wolff und ihre publizistischen Mitstreiter weismachen wollen. Sie redet von »erstaunlichen Übereinstimmungen« zwischen Darwin und Bibel, von »Erklärungsmustern«, die der Schöpfungsgeschichte »nicht widersprechen«. Gott »formte aus dem Ackerboden alle Tiere des Feldes«? Das ist eine wunderbare Metapher, wie auch die Bibel wunderbare Literatur ist. Wir mögen das glauben, aber im Biologieunterricht hat dieses »Erklärungsmuster« nichts zu suchen. In diesem Ansinnen vereinen sich prämoderne, romantische Attacken gegen die »kalte Vernunft« und postmoderne Beliebigkeit – anything goes. Wenn Gott gewollt hätte, dass wir Glauben und Wissen miteinander vermischen, hätte er uns nicht vom Baum der Erkenntnis naschen lassen. So steht’s jedenfalls in der Bibel. (A.a.O.)
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POPSAmerika is a Police State Most people don't belive this but it might be even worse than we think. Europe is next. In my opinion the only solution is not to vote at all.Power in the hands of a few is always evil. As George Carlin says it so well: "you have to be asleep to believe the American Dream."
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POPSOn the origin of the Serenity Prayer - Zur Herkunft des Gelassenheitsgebets Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) war ein in den USA einflussreicher deutsch-amerikanischer Theologe, Philosoph und Politologe. Der in seinem Serenity Prayer ausgedrückte Grundgedanke ist antiken Ursprungs. Ich gehe derzeit Vermutungen nach, die sich auf den späteren Stoizismus (Seneca, Epiktet) als Quelle beziehen, und verweise für diesen Zusammenhang auf folgende Webseiten: Stoicism , Seneca , Epictet .
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POPS7 years later: I told you so! We're no longer hearing much about third parties in Amerika. What happened to them? Why don't we hear from them anymore? It's because they can no longer legally raise enough money to get their word out. The misnamed `campaign finance reform' actually outlawed the ability of all challengers to effectively raise funds for their campaigns. A better name for this heinous law would be `the Incumbent Protection Act', since that's precisely what it really does. And it does NOTHING to stop corruption in campaign financing. Rather, it has increased it, if anything. I warned about it years ago here: http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2002/022002/02152002/524933 So now that enough time has passed for everyone to see the results of this law, I can honestly say: I told you so!
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