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POPSFOUND: Bush White House NEA (leaks R us) Conference Call Transcript MS. CZARNOSKI: Speaking as an artist, I would first like to say, what’s my cut? MR. SMIRNOV: Is very good question. Is very much sliding scale depending how much service yous do for Mr. Bush. I mean America community. Mister Bush he sees many places where is good for Art. Here is to explain Mr. good buddy vice president Dick Cheney. MR. CHENEY: Hello everyone and thank you Yakov. I would like to say… MR. SMIRNOV: Please not to shoots me, Mr. Vice Presidents! MR. SMIRNOV: hhenng heh… heee… uh… Yakov make bad joke. Please Cheney buddy, Yakov sorry. MR. CHENEY: As I was saying, the President and I believe the Hillbilly Arts and Entertainment community can play a crucial role in moving our country, and the political debate forward. Whether your home base is Branson or Myrtle Beach or Laughlin, whether your art is wind chimes or plywood ducks, all of you can leverage your talents to address the plight the GOP community.
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POPSTop 10 Questions ABC's Infomercial 'Forgot' to Ask [Mister R.] 
Our resident health care guru, an industry insider who uses the handle "Mister R.", hasn't forgotten about us. Ironically, he's been battling his own health issue but stopped by long enough to relay the following observations regarding ABC's health care infomercial. Obama is pushing the "competition", like the battle for market share will be on an even playing field. However, Obama is trying to stack the field to be so tilted that the private insurers will start their inning with two outs and no men on base, while Obama starts with no outs and the bases loaded. This is just for starters. I see Obama is considering taxing health care benefits and everyone who makes over $100,000 to fund the plan. That is pretty ironic: the left pushes health care as a right, but if you have a private insurance plan, the government wants to tax your "right". Nothing surprises me anymore. As for ABC -- the All-Barack Channel -- I predict a ratings slide into oblivion.
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POPSFred Rogers: a truly good human being The snarkmeisters at rotten.com did their darndest to dig up the dirt on Mr. Rogers... and couldn't find a thing. He really was that good, that loving, that true. The world is a better place for having had Fred Rogers in it.
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POPSA Sampling Of These Fast Growing Tech Companies # Growth Matters: Dailymotion moves you with video # Growth Matters: Dash Navigation helps you get there faster # Growth Matters: Doodle gets your schedule right # Growth Matters: Evernote makes you smarter # Growth Matters: Evite's an invitation to print money # Growth Matters: Ford SYNCs your car with the world # Growth Matters: Gameloft is French for mobile fun # Growth Matters: GeckoGo takes you places you've never been # Growth Matters: Jagex is Europe's PC fun maker # Growth Matters: Kayak.com travels with $200 million in capital # Growth Matters: King.com dominates games of skill online # Growth Matters: Last.fm learns your music and gives you more # Growth Matters: Mister Wong is Europe's social bookmarker # Growth Matters: MocoSpace makes mobile fun and games # Growth Matters: Netlog is Europe's social networking leader # Growth Matters: Netvibes makes Europe more social # Growth Matters: Otto Group is world's second biggest e-commerce company more @ site:
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POPSCan you say... hero? Tom Junod's profile of Mr. Rogers, from Esquire Magazine
"Fred Rogers has been doing the same small good thing for a very long time." This is a wonderful profile of Fred Rogers, written by Tom Junod and published in 1998 by Esquire Magazine. It makes me cry every time I read it. More: …the moment Mister Rogers got out of the car, people wouldn't stay away from him, they respected him so much. Oh, Margy Whitmer tried to keep people away from him, tried to tell people that if they gave her their names and addresses, Mister Rogers would send them an autographed picture, but every time she turned around, there was Mister Rogers putting his arms around someone, or wiping the tears off someone's cheek, or passing around the picture of someone's child, or getting on his knees to talk to a child. Margy couldn't stop them, and she couldn't stop him. "Oh, Mister Rogers, thank you for my childhood." "Oh, Mister Rogers, you're the father I never had." "Oh, Mister Rogers, would you please just hug me?"
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POPSRound Cars
The VW ball is in a private collection. Mr. Fisk, who was born in Vermont in 1970, has made other balls with auto themes: a school bus, a green John Deere tractor, a drab brown U.P.S. truck and a white Mister Softee ice cream truck, complete with lights. “A U.P.S. guy saw the U.P.S. ball and stopped by the house of the owner,” Mr. Fisk said. “He thought it was a package ready for shipping.” His spheres come with windows and steering wheels. He does all the work using metal and glass fabrication skills he taught himself. He has also sculptured a street ball, a sphere of asphalt marked with painted dotted lines. Mr. Fisk’s barn ball, with wood painted red and a window, was used for the cover of the Phish album “Round Room.” He has moved beyond the balls into new modes of sculpture. “The new theme for some reason seems to be garbage,” he said. Among his latest pieces, shown at the Taxter & Spengemann Gallery in Manhattan, is a sculpture of a garbage can and another of a garbage b
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POPSMark Steyn: Our Permanent State Of Routine Emergency Likewise, when everything's an emergency, nothing is: We live in a permanent state of routine emergency. The Obama administration doesn't have to do anything terribly transformative – It could just sit there, and America would still drift remorselessly, incrementally left, inch by inch. Eventually, you reach a tipping point: At some point in the next four years, we will reach a situation where the majority of Americans pay no federal income tax but are able to vote themselves more goodies from those who do. The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it. We're now told that the problem with the last New Deal is that it was too small, so Obama's new New Deal has to be even bigger. That's like telling New Orleans that the problem is they're not far enough below sea level so they need to dig deeper. To facilitate the stimulus, I urge him to declare every American his own individual federal disaster area.
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6. He was genuinely curious about others. Mister Rogers was known as one of the toughest interviews because he'd often befriend reporters, asking them tons of questions, taking pictures of them, compiling an album for them at the end of their time together, and calling them after to check in on them and hear about their families. He wasn't concerned with himself, and genuinely loved hearing the life stories of others. And it wasn't just with reporters. Once, on a fancy trip up to a PBS exec's house, he heard the limo driver was going to wait outside for 2 hours, so he insisted the driver come in and join them (which flustered the host). On the way back, Rogers sat up front, and when he learned that they were passing the driver's home on the way, he asked if they could stop in to meet his family. According to the driver, it was one of the best nights of his life the house supposedly lit up when Rogers arrived, and he played jazz piano and bantered with them late into the night.
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