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POPSGreek statuary showing reconstructed pigmentation Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann has reconstructed the original painting scheme that colored many classical sculptures. The effect is startling. See the NYTimes, http://snipr.com/1sesr. This is the best collection of photos I could find, but it's short on information; plus, it's in Danish.
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POPSNYTimes: McCain plan "cannot balance the budget" "Mr. McCain and his advisers must know that his numbers do not add up. But adding up is not their point. Their point is to perpetuate the fantasy that Americans can have ever bigger tax cuts and a balanced federal budget. They cannot. "
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POPSAmurikan Gulag--it's HUGE! The so-called war on drugs is responsible for a lot of this, and of course the ever-present nature of poverty (which is real, not an urban myth) oin the "richest nation". Friggin' insane!
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POPSGonzales is telling the thruth! HA HA .... fooled you!..... click on the link for the entire "clarification" by the NYTimes of the debacle at our number one law enforcement agency! What a joke! The joke is on us! This President, and his buddy Gonzales could care less about the rule of law, and hence about this country! It is disgusting how they continue to get away with this stuff.
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POPS"Big Talk, Little Will" - Thomas Friedman (NY Times) August 16, 2006. Friedman asking the right questions again. Here we are in the biggest struggle of our lives and we are funding both sides — the U.S. military with our tax dollars and the radical Islamists and the governments and charities that support them with our gasoline purchases
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POPSWho's Planning to Vote for Whom Fifty percent of independent voters, a closely watched segment of the electorate in such polarized times, said they intended to vote for the Democratic candidate, versus 23 who said they would vote for a Republican.
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POPSNew Census Map of Foreign-Born Populations in US From today's story on the 2005 American Community Survey: The number of immigrants living in American households rose 16 percent over the last five years, fueled largely by recent arrivals from Mexico, according to fresh data released by the Census Bureau. And increasingly, immigrants are bypassing the traditional gateway states like California and New York and settling directly in parts of the country that until recently saw little immigrant activity — regions like the Upper Midwest, New England and the Rocky Mountain States. EDIT: Hmm...my clipped version looks a little fuzzier than the source...what's up with that? :)
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POPSThe New York Times' terror freak-out http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/if-you-were-a-terrorist-how-would-you-attack/ But while the critics say Levitt is shaking things up at the Grey Lady, it looks more like he is fitting in perfectly. After all, it was NYT fear mongering over Iraqi nukes and other weapons that helped get us into the war (recall Judith Miller's abominable "reporting")... The Times is again using fear to sell papers and, perhaps, someone else's agenda, as it has for years.
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POPSHow to Outsmart Spammers Use a Disposable E-mail Service Services such as Emailias (www.emailias.com) allow you to create a different forwarding address for each site with which you register. Each of these randomly generated addresses is set to forward to your primary address, but with a to: field that allows you to identify where the message came from. If you see that a particular alias has gotten into the hands of spammers, you can turn it off without changing your primary e-mail address
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POPSBob Herbert Owes John McCain An Apology On August 2nd, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert accused the McCain campaign of waging a racist attack on Barack Obama for comparing him to Paris Hilton. foul, poisonous and emanated from the upper reaches of the Republican Party. (What a surprise.) designed to exploit the hostility, anxiety and resentment of the many white Americans who are still freakishly hung up on the idea of black men rising above their station and becoming sexually involved with white women.
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POPSDo you know where that crucifix comes from? Via http://snipr.com/1u90g. The Association for Christian Retail (over $4 billion in business annually), following in Wal-Mart's footsteps, uses Chinese sweatshop labor to make crucifixes and sells them with the label "Made in Italy."
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POPSThe Road Home This is a lengthy NYTimes editorial......finally tells it like it is. Too bad tens of thousands of people have had to die for this fiasco.
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POPSOutsourced Wombs We live in tricky times.......no easy answers in these moral minefields. http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/outsourced-wombs/?8ty&emc=ty
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POPSNYTimes Skewers "The Love Guru" Wow - this is one of the most damning reviews of a popular movie I've ever read. Everything I've seen of "The Love Guru" looks like complete dreck, and I'm a pretty big Mike Meyers fan, dating back to the "So I Married and Ax Murderer" days. The Times really gives it to him here - I'm surprised to see them go so far in panning it, it must be even worse than I expected.
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POPSNYTimes Guilty of Worst Journalistic Sin of All!!! Hoyt's column yesterday identifies a series of articles about Iraq, many written or co-written by Gordon, which "slipped into a routine of quoting the president and the military uncritically about Al Qaeda's role in Iraq," and further criticized the articles because "in using the language of the administration," these articles presented a misleading picture of Iraq.
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