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POPSThe Holiday Gift This Country Needs "We also need to invest in our infrastructure, and not just the obvious physical things like our old bridges and trains but more importantly our human infrastructure. We must continue to push for "Medicare Part E - Everybody" - so we can rebuild the social safety net to encourage entrepreneurialism - and along those lines let's fix the bankruptcy bill, and strengthen social security. Finally, we need to think of work differently. Lincoln once said that labor is superior to capital because it precedes it. Nobody gets rich until somebody makes something. We once had an economy that valued laborers - the true producers of wealth - and the middle class. You know. almost everything on this gift list was, in their day, enthusiastically endorsed by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. And Barry Goldwater. And Richard Nixon. Somehow this country went insane in 1981 when Reagan took power and declared that "greed was good" and America was to be reinvented."
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POPSFALSE FLAGS What foreign threat did they envisage as the United States’ most deadly enemy? Actually, the founding fathers believed one of our biggest enemies would rise from within: apathetic ignorance. Thomas Jefferson wrote, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” One hundred and forty-five years later, President Eisenhower echoed Jefferson’s fear when he left office in 1961: In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and
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POPSJohn Birch Society Sponsoring CPAC From fictional death panels to communist infiltration and of course birtherism, it is time again for the conspiracy right to exert their control. Conservatives reach backwards ...
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POPSSo, how low will this President go?
These bows are not according to protocol, they are excessive and unbecoming to our nation's leader. When he engages in such inappropriate behavior, he embarasses himself and his nation. However, don’t take my word for it, listen to the analysis of diplomatic etiquette expert Lyudmila Bloch: “When President Obama recently greeted Japanese Emperor Akihito with a deep bow (at almost 90 degrees), and a handshake at the same time, those gestures were over the top and spoke loudly of diplomatic inexperience and poor briefing by his aides.” “Two individuals of equal rank greet each other in the same way. Did you see the Emperor bowing from his waist down and stretching to reach Obama’s hand? No. The keywords are appropriate and subtle. The bow must demonstrate a delicate balance between respect, proper protocol, and appreciation for the Japanese tradition concerning age and rank.” “Submissive, excessive, emotional, or dramatic gestures like President Obama’s may be interpreted as naïve,
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POPSBen's Chili Bowl I ate a halfsmoke at Ben's last week.....and yes Bill Cosby was right, yummmm yummm. You lucky bucks can order some of their food right online! See site for fun pics and more detailed stories, etc. The founder himself only died last month :(, but his wife was there and gave us a very warm welcome.
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POPS400 Richest Americans Lined Their Pockets with $30 Billion Taxes were high back in the 1950s because people understood that constraining wild extremes of wealth would make our country stronger and prevent another depression. (Well, what did those old fogies know?) Had we kept those high progressive taxes in place, instead of removing them, especially during the Reagan era, the Forbes 400 might each be worth "only" $100 million instead of $3.9 billion each. So let's imagine that the rest of their wealth, about $1.53 trillion, were available for the public good. What does $1.53 trillion buy? It's more than enough to insure the uninsured for the next twenty years or more.
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POPS10 False Flags that Changed the World
When the Constitutional Convention closed in 1787, a lady asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy?”Franklin replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.” Why did our forefathers think the Republic would be so hard to keep? What foreign threat did they envisage as the United States’ most deadly enemy? Actually, the founding fathers believed one of our biggest enemies would rise from within: apathetic ignorance. Thomas Jefferson wrote, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” One hundred and forty-five years later, President Eisenhower echoed Jefferson’s fear when he left office in 1961: In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weig
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POPSUSS Dwight D. Eisenhower homecoming (12 images) NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A cheering and flag waving crowd greeted the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower as the aircraft carrier returned to Norfolk after a five-month deployment in the Middle East. The Eisenhower docked Thursday. Most of its air wing, Carrier Air Wing Seven, returned Wednesday. The Eisenhower strike group has nearly 6,000 sailors.
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POPSThe Health Insurance Racket Is Manufacturing Entertainment Value of Snuffing Out Grandma Answer: Because Wall Street gets a big piece of the action. And nobody messes with the Wall Street Mob (as the bailout extortion money proved). Better (and worse) presidents have tried. Some made a genuine effort to push it through Congress. Others expressed the desire publicly, but after getting privately muscled by the health care industry, decided to back off from the idea. For instance: * Franklin Roosevelt wanted universal health care. * Harry Truman wanted universal health care. * Dwight Eisenhower wanted universal health care. * Richard Nixon wanted universal health care. * Lyndon Johnson wanted universal health care. * Bill Clinton wanted -- well we can't definitely say because he made sure that if the issue blew up on him, which it did, Hillary would be left holding the turd. Is it any wonder that woman gets so snappy at the slightest provocation? First, getting left to hold the bag on health care, then the spots on that blue dress. So why di
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POPSThe Policy of Endless War I'm pleased to have discovered this article, a rather extensive and "brainy," look at the trend of endless war that we're now experiencing. The "military-industrial complex," that former WW 2 leading general and former President Eisenhower warned about appears to have hit it's groove. Endless war. Half the troops mercenaries. "Acceptable" official casuality levels. The military negotiates it's own treaties with other nations - no Congressional approval or debate requred.(we now have SOFA's - military negotiated Status of Forces Agreements - in 151 countries) So...500 soldiers get killed a year (which could just have been one bad day in WW2). No draft. Weapons makers get to sell their product and get money for research. General get to do their thing, have some experience. What's not to like?
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POPSKnow your facts... Hmm... think Obama is another JFK, you might just be alone in your assessment. Look at the following graphs and tell me which one looks more like Obama's numbers have in his first few months in office. Understand that the George W numbers are pre-9/11 and Reagan's economy in 1981 had a double digit inflation and an unemployment rate comparable to today's.
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POPSAssorted Quotes from a blog sidebar... MORE: “Never believe in a meritocracy in which no one is funny-looking.” (Teresa Nielsen Hayden) “True religion invites us to become better people. False religion tells us that this has already occurred.” (Abdal-Hakim Murad) “To live is to war against the trolls.” (Henrik Ibsen) “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” (Samuel Beckett)
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POPSMen of the 101st Airborne Division Make the Jump of their Lives
On May 27, 1944, the paratroopers of 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne waited at the railway station in Hungerford, England, for the trains that would take them to their D-Day marshaling area. The weather was unusually hot for May, and the men sweated as they waited in their steel helmets and jumpsuits. “Everyone was trying to figure out exactly where we were going,” remembers Amos “Buck” Taylor, a sergeant in the 506th at the time. “We knew it was probably going to be Normandy, but exactly where nobody knew.” Though the location of the invasion had not yet been revealed, the men had some idea of what Gen. Bill Lee, former commander of the 101st, had called “the responsibility ahead of us.” The past nine months had been a blur of grueling training exercises that had tested the mettle even of these men, elite volunteers trained to jump directly into the turbulence of combat. Their training had culminated in Exercise Tiger . . .
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POPS D-Day, June 6th ~ Sixty-Five Years Ago Rod Stewart Helps D-Day Veterans Despite years of rumors that he is very...ugh...frugal, and despite the fact that his own son called him "very cheap," rocker Rod Stewart has offered up £7,500 (a little over $11,000 USA dollars) to send veterans to the 65th commemoration of D-Day in France. The Daily Mail: Rod Stewart led a roll call of politicians, celebrities and generous members of the public backing the Daily Mail's campaign to send the D-Day veterans to Normandy. The 64-year-old singer said he was 'outraged' the Government had no plans to send an official delegation and offered £7,500 to send 15 Essex veterans to France in June. He said: 'These men sacrificed everything and we owe them this. My only condition is I'd like to meet them and talk to them as I'd be fascinated to hear about how they landed on their beaches.' Stewart's grandfather was decorated in the First World War, and his father and two brothers also served.
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