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POPSHAVE YOU BEEN HORNSWOGGLED?
I first learned of the separate, civil flag when I was reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850. The introduction, titled "The Custom House," includes this description: From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a half hours of each forenoon, floats or droops, in breeze or calm, the banner of the republic; but with the thirteen stripes turned vertically, instead of horizontally, and thus indicating that a civil, and not a military post of Uncle Sam's government, is here established. It took me two years of digging before I found a picture that matched what he was describing: my second clue was an original Illuminated History of North America (1860). If this runs against your beliefs, look up those two references. History book publishers contribute to the public's miseducation by always picturing the flag in military settings, creating the impression that the one with horizontal stripes is the only one there is. They don't actua
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POPSMilitary Ends Contract With Rendon Group, Firm That Profiled Reporters Media accounts were very different, however. The latest installment of the contract was awarded to Rendon in January, but the company has done work in Afghanistan before. Stars and Stripes, a newspaper funded partly by the Defense Department, said the profiles had been used as recently as last year to keep reporters whose prior coverage had been negative from traveling with U.S. troops in Afghanistan. With public doubts about the war in Afghanistan growing, the implication was that the military was trying to reverse the trend by giving plum embed spots to reporters who have written favorably about the war.
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POPSStar Factory Shows Off Three Kinds of Nebulae The Trifid’s third kind of nebula can be seen in the dark stripes that criss-cross the rest of the image. Called dark nebulae because of their light-obscuring properties, these clouds of gas and dust contain the remnants of previous star births. As higher pressure and temperatures build up inside the streaks of gas, nuclear fusion will lead to the formation of yet more stars
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POPSRichard Reeves - Moron We are becoming a different America, not your father's America. The last best hope is less white, less Christian, less predictable, but still just as majestic as the ocean or the stars and stripes. Get used to it. - Well idiot! I doubt the majority of the people would agree with your rant as being anything but far-left lunacy - now go take your meds you are in dire need of them.
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POPSProducer Phil Spector Guilty Of Murder FTA:The six-man, six-woman jury had begun deliberating on March 26 after a five-month court case which followed his first trial in 2007 that ended deadlocked with jurors unable to agree a unanimous verdict. Prosecutors said Spector had shot dead former B-movie actress Lana Clarkson at his home in the early hours of February 3, 2003 after meeting her only a few hours before at the Hollywood nightclub where she worked. Defense lawyers said that 40-year-old Clarkson, best-known for her role in Roger Corman's 1985 cult classic "The Barbarian Queen" but whose career had stalled at the time of her death, killed herself
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POPSConcerts on Demand: Handel's Messiah More: Pastoral Symphony - There were shepherds - And lo the angel - And the angel - And suddenly - Rejoice greatly • Then shall the eyes - He shall feed - His yoke is easy • Behold the Lamb of God • He was despised • Surely he hath borne - And with his stripes - And we like sheep • All they that see - He trusted in God - Thy rebuke - Behold, and see - He was cut off - But thou didst not leave • Lift up your heads, O ye gates • How beautiful are the feet • Why do the nations - Let us break their bonds - He that dwelleth - Thou shall break them • Hallelujah Chorus • I know that my Redeemer liveth • Since by man came death - Behold, I tell you a mystery - The trumpet shall sound • Worthy is the Lamb - Amen
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POPS"Takin My Country Back" by Honky Tonkers for Truth Lyrics: Country music's got mammas and daddys, they got bar rooms and old heartbreak songs, but I'm here today to stand up and say how I feel about my home sweet home, what's left, what's right and what's wrong. 'N I'm takin' my country back. Son, you ain't been doin' her right. Oh, I been watchin' you and I don't like how you been treatin' my stars and stripes. You took out our jobs and sent 'em over-seas; now we owe billions to the red Chinese. You blew the budget and you bounced Iraq. So I'm takin' my country back. We had a bundle in the treasury drawer, more than there had ever been before, but every day we're down and deeper in debt. Maybe four years should be all you get.
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POPSThe real terrorist... If Obama is "a terrorist" because he was on the board of a community project with Ayers (who committed crimes 40 years ago - when Obmama was 8)... How much more so is Palin who SPOKE at (and who's HUSBAND was a recent member of) the AK Secessionist Party? Read about their platform ... in their own words!
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POPSActivism Update: TV News Blackout on Pentagon Pundits
Lie, stonewall and bury--the first thing the Pentagon does when caught doing the nasty things they do to us. "The media organizations most implicated in facilitating the Pentagon's propaganda program have been far less responsive. The networks and cable outlets refused a request to address the issue on PBS; as the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff stated (4/24/08), "We invited Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and NBC to participate, but they declined our offer or did not respond." The cable and broadcast networks have yet to respond to FAIR's request that they change their practices to ensure that their audience will never again get official talking points passed off as independent analysis. Only NPR (NPR.org, 4/28/08) has publicly stated that they have new policies in place to ensure more careful vetting of analysts. Fox has continued to feature the commentary of retired Gen. Robert H. Scales (Special Report With Brit Hume, 4/21/08, 4/23/08), whom the New York Times documented to be a par
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POPSU.S. Embassy in Belgrade attacked In other protests, several hundred Serb army veterans at a border post between Kosovo and Serbia stoned Kosovo riot police who, backed by Czech troops in riot gear, stood their ground until the protesters dispersed. No one was hurt.
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POPSThe Serapis Flag Serapis is a name given to an unconventional, early United States ensign flown from the captured British frigate 'Serapis'.
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POPSSaddam's flag no more The Parliament voted 110 to 50 to change the flag at the request of Iraq’s Kurdish minority, who said that it served as a reminder of the cruelty of his regime. (TimesOnline)
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