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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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POPSThreats to Yemen Prove America Hasn't Learned the Lesson of History It used to be that it was considered unwise to open conflict on two fronts at once. It won't be long before the terrorists figure out that it is much easier and more effective to explode their bombs in airports before going through "security". Rule number one when dealing with hornets is not to stir them up. (Thanks to Liam Fox for the link.)
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POPSWhen We Fail to Learn Our Lesson A good history read about what's been going on while we have all been focusing on American Idol, Brittany Spears, Football, political sex scandals, etc.... People who ARE paying attention are wondering why it has taken so long to connect the dots? Especially when our current President called the recent hijacker an “an isolated extremist,”. Extremist, yes; Isolated, no.
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POPS“A History lesson….Cry for Me, Argentina” 12.9.2009
Among Irigoyen’s changes: mandatory pension insurance, mandatory health insurance, and support for low-income housing construction to stimulate the economy. Simply put, the state assumed economic control of a vast swath of the country’s operations and began assessing new payroll taxes to fund its efforts. With an increasing flow of funds into these entitlement programs, the government’s payouts soon became overly generous. Before long its outlays surpassed the value of the taxpayers’ contributions. Put simply, it quickly became under-funded, much like the United States Social Security and Medicare programs. The death knell for the Argentine economy, however,came with the election of Juan Perón. Perón had a fascist and corporatist upbringing ; he and his charismatic wife aimed their populist rhetoric at the nation’s rich. This targeted group “swiftly expanded to cover most of the propertied middle classes, who became an enemy to be defeated and humiliated.”
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POPSAccept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up The lesson is that not all data is created equal in our mind’s eye: When it comes to interpreting our experiments, we see what we want to see and disregard the rest. The physics students, for instance, didn’t watch the video and wonder whether Galileo might be wrong. Instead, they put their trust in theory, tuning out whatever it couldn’t explain. Belief, in other words, is a kind of blindness.
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POPSObamaCare's Rationed Death and The Death of Representative Republic ..... and the parties who are going to be assaulted first are the elderly who will be denied care in nursing homes, hospices and doctors visits and told to just go climb on an ice sheet and float to their death for the good of the village as the Inuit's did long ago. That is what awaits Americans as every American is going to need care sooner or later, and for those who think that the rich will get care, the patricians had better learn a lesson of fact, that when the system breaks down, as government is bankrupt, then places like the Mayo Clinic are not developing advanced treatments for the rich, and the rich people find out in 5 years that they too are being left to die. Americans will now be made criminals in not paying into this butcher system and this blogger will refuse to be a part of any system as this. Oddly if Keith Olbermann holds his moral ground, we will be in an Obama concentration camp charged with the same crimes of failure to hand over our money to a
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POPSTerrible Life Lessons From Your Favorite Christmas Movies Movie: A Christmas Carol (1951) Bad Lesson: People Will Like You Instantly If You Give Them Money Movie: Home Alone (1990) Bad Lesson: People in the Chicago Suburbs Never Call the Police for Any Reason Whatsoever Movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) Bad Lesson: Sometimes Chevy Chase Makes Good Movies Movie: Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) Bad Lesson: If People Were Mean to You as a Kid, That Excuses ANY Malicious Criminal Behavior You Might Commit When You’re an Adult Movie: It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Bad Lesson: If You’re in Need of a Moment of Clarity – Why Not Give Suicide a Try? Movie: Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Bad Lesson: If Enough People Say Something Is True, Eventually, It Becomes True Movie: A Christmas Story (1983) Bad Lesson: Toy Safety Warnings are Pointless and Should Be Disregarded Immediately.
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POPSBreast flasher hit by distracted driver She said "Don't be me, don't be stupid, don't get drunk and stand in the middle of the road and flash anyone because it hurts when you get hit." well normal people just would not do this BUT hey who is a normal person we have all done daft stuff haven't we?
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POPSWill gov't. health officials ground Santa Claus? Is this the way things will be if we ever get a government-run health care system? Santa can deliver millions of toys all around the world in a single night while it takes the Postal Service days to deliver a single letter. And Santa has been doing this for centuries! I think maybe these so-called "health officials" could take a lesson or two from ol' Mr. Claus!
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POPS When the Charm Rubs Off denigration of his predecessor, aka "the last eight years." (Blighted by "a triumphant sense about war.") When Attorney General Eric Holder announced that five accused terrorists would be tried in federal courts, he said: "After eight years of delay. ..." When the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force made the controversial recommendation that women should get fewer mammograms, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said: "This panel was appointed by the prior administration, by former President George Bush." In congressional testimony, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner almost deviated from the script. He said the Obama administration began after "almost a decade" -- slight pause -- "certainly eight years of basic neglect." Abroad, the fruits of the president's policy of "engagement" have been meager: Witness Iran continuing its nuclear program and China being difficult about carbon emissions. Here is a history lesson for an administration which .....
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POPSObama executive overreach climate lie "Although details have not been made available, recent statements by Special Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern indicate that negotiators may be intending to commit the United States to a nationwide emission reduction program," Webb added. "As you well know from your time in the Senate, only specific legislation agreed upon in the Congress, or a treaty ratified by the Senate, could actually create such a commitment on behalf of our country."
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POPSfree bible study Study the bible: the best way to study the bible is in a group with others. It will be easily accessible to all group members and they'll always access the most current information whether it is prayer requests, Bible study lessons, lesson plans or Christian NIV Bible readings.
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POPSCreating a yarn painting. My sister is a school teacher and was looking for a lesson plan for the kids to create their own Huichol yarn painting. I found this site that explains it pretty good at HuicholYarnPainting.com My sister and I tried it out over the holiday - - I kind of think her third graders just might look better than mine did - - FYI - if you are needing something like this....
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POPSBin Laden threatens to bomb Switzerland He attempted to persuade Swiss mountain cows coming off of the mountains, mentioning cows are, "holy creatures and guided by Allah and Hindu's" (what the f**k have Hindu's in common with Muslims?) and they could be used as suicide bombers, especially as no-one would search their cow-bells (perfect place to hide his bombs). Not such a brilliant idea so he's decided to clone his suicide-bombers into Roger Federer look-alikes (dark and swarthy our Roger!) infiltrate Switzerland, bomb the crap out of the place and teach the Swiss a lesson or two in Minaret building! Only place his Roger Federer clones are not allowed to bomb is the Swiss National Bank, Bin Laden has personal interests there, his multi-millions + that other interest!!!!
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