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POPSFor What? "Kids who are sent off to war are forced to grow up too fast. They soon learn what real toughness is, and it has nothing to do with lousy bureaucrats and armchair warriors sacrificing the lives of the young for political considerations and hollow, flag-waving, risk-free expressions of patriotic fervor. McNamara, it turns out, had realized early on that Vietnam was a lost cause, but he kept that crucial information close to his chest, like a gambler trying to bluff his way through a bad hand, as America continued to send tens of thousands to their doom. How in God’s name did he ever look at himself in a mirror? Lessons learned from Vietnam? None."
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POPSNanny State Goes To War Anyway, some targeted warnings should probably be sufficient. Sort of like “Government Warning: Smoking in combat can be hazardous to your health.” Or … Government Warning: Tobacco is the other leading cause of chest wounds that suck. Government Warning: Dip sinks lips. Government Warning: Hey GI, cancer has you in its crosshairs. Government Warning: Good luck claiming your emphysema is service-related. Government Warning: First, second and third man on the match get their lungs removed! Government Warning: Cancer, the over-the-horizon killer. Government Warning: Smoking, the silent but deadly way of killing a man they didn’t teach you in basic training. Government Warning: Tobacco, when you absolutely, positively want to die horribly in 25 years. Hey, those aren’t bad, though the last one may sound like good odds in some circumstances. I didn’t exactly set out to do some Pentagon wonk’s work for him, but are there any grants out there for this kind of th
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POPSLive-Tweeting The Revolution: Day 12 continued Rajanews exhibited its insurmountable malice again claiming #Neda was murdered by MKO not Basij Mousavi calling for supporters to meet outside parliament at 4pm local, that's 3hrs from now. Big test for opp There is talk, unconfirmed, that Mousavi will speak There are protests planned for 4pm today in Baharestan Sq. in Tehran Wednesday 4pm Baharestan Sq, Tehran - Sea of Green MOUSAVi - on his wesite - Wed Sea of Green is 100% confirmed - no cancellation will be made #Iranelection RT RT RT Larijani pressing for Mousavi to be given airtime on IRIB to discuss elections Mousavi has stated 'If I am arrested or killed - strike until the Gov falls' Reports: Gunshot being heard at Baharestan Sq. All shops and Passages are closed at Baharestan SQ, Gunshot being heard from Jomhori St. Clashes at Baharestan SQ, Jomhori and Vanak SQ. Metro at Baharestan Sq is closed, Army Helicopters flying over,about 1000 ppl gathering at Vanak Sq. The streets
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POPSpoem: "Memorial Day" by Christopher Hatton
More: "Did you bear arms yourself, and fight and live To honor those who fought and died?" "Oh no," The old man said, "too young for that war, old For this; the wars have passed me by." "Then have You friends or kin who died?" the young man pressed, "A father, brother, son?" "My father's dead, My brother too, but never one in war," Came his reply. "Then why," the young one asked, "Do you, who've neither fought, nor comrades lost, Nor kin, nor friend, lay flowers here? Pray tell Me now; I listen." Then the old man stood And stared, through tear-filled eyes, upon the fair And unlined face of Youth itself before Him: strong the limbs, and deep the chest; clear skin; The shoulders broad. At length he said "One day You'll know; one day you'll see, or maybe if Some spirit blesses you, you never will." With that the old man turned, and leaning on His cane, walked off into the cold grey dawn. The young man watched him go, and smiling picked His rifle up, and vanished
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POPSUPDATE: Anti-Israel Doctor Fakes CPR On Palestinian Boy For Hamas Videographer The segment with Gilbert shows him and another doctor badly faking chest compressions and other life-saving measures on a live boy faking death in what can only be described as political theater. The video claims to be filmed by the brother of a Palestinian teen that claims the boy was one of two purposefully killed by a missile fired at them by an Israeli drone as they played.
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POPSIraqi terrorists murder a TV reality show crew Their names are Musa'ab Mahmoud Al-Azawi - the network's manager in Mosul, -- Ehab Maad, Ahmed Salim, Qaidar Sleiman. Their bodies were found in the deserted house, each shot in the chest or head or both. On Sunday, Abdul-Sattar said five suspects were in custody. Two of them were found in possession of a pistol; it was not clear if it had been recently fired, and forensics tests will take three days, he said. Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki, the United States Embassy and the Islamic Party of Iraq issued statements condemning the killings.
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POPSMasturbational INSANITY The mind too is attacked. The thrall to self-pollution “can no longer look people squarely and frankly in the face, but seeks to avoid meeting people, pulls down his cap to hide his eyes and goes about with a shy and guilty bearing. His memory fails him. His mind begins to lack grasp and grip. He slowly but surely ceases to be positive and self-reliant. Imbecility and insanity may, and often do come as the inevitable result.” When a boy injures his reproductive powers so that when a man his sexual secretion shall be of inferior quality, his offspring will show it in their physical, mental and moral natures, shaping the history and destiny of the nation.
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POPSGeneral Barry McCaffrey (ret) Says More Troops Aren't The Answer In Afghanistan
More ominously, the general says, we can expect a Taliban drive to erase Afghanistan's border with Pakistan in the wild frontier provinces of Pakistan that have provided sanctuary for Taliban and al Qaida leaders and fighters since Osama bin Laden escaped there in 2001. Military means, he writes, won't be enough to counter terror created by resurgent Taliban forces; we can't win with a war of attrition; and the economic and political support from the international community is inadequate. The battle will only be won, McCaffrey says, when there's a real Afghan police presence in all of the country's 34 provinces and 398 districts; when the Afghan National Army is expanded from 80,000 troops today to 200,000 troops; when we deploy five U.S. combat engineer battalions with a brigade of Army Stryker forces for security to begin a five-year road building program that also trains Afghan Army engineer units and employs Afghan contractors and workers.
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POPSMcCain's Hero Status is Phony
McCain's war hero image is fair game and needs to be challenged as well, especially since the Senator beats his chest as the self-appointed arbiter of national military honor and homeland security. The history has been well documented that John McCain received special treatment when he was prisoner of war in Hanoi, in exchange for making over 30 propaganda commercials for the North Vietnamese. In fact, fellow POW's have testified that McCain was considered the best candidate for these films by the North Vietnamese, because he was willing to do anything to avoid torture. They note that the communists even called him "THE SONGBIRD". Ted Sampley, founder of 'Swiftboat Veterans for Truth' and now one of the founders of 'Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain', has stated on their website that even after McCain came home from his captivity he went so far as to deny that MIA's might even still be in Vietnam alive. McCain had the audacity to criticize and ignore the very same people who
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POPSHeroism, Heartbreak, Frustrating Bureaucracy, and a Happy Ending This disabled Vietnam veteran paratrooper with three Purple Hearts is no longer a man without a country. Wednesday, 40 years after limping home from Vietnam, Rudy Thomas, 64, a Trinidadian immigrant, took the Oath of Citizenship in the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse. Now he is an official American hero. 'For the last 40 years I thought of myself as a proud American,' Thomas was saying yesterday, waiting in the large courtroom on the 2nd floor with 250 new citizenship applicants from 40 countries to be sworn in by Federal Judge Nina Gershon. 'I came home. My discharge papers said I was an American citizen. For the past 30 years I worked as a counselor at the State Department of Veteran's Affairs. My first American-born son, Rudy Jr., became a New York City police officer. He was shot dead on the Fourth of July in 1993...'
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POPSMargaret Corbin - Soldier for Liberty Life was difficult because of her injury, and in 1779 she received aid from the government...the first woman in the United States to receive pension from Congress. After Congress’s decision, Margaret was included on military rolls until the end of the war. After being discharged, Margaret remained near West Point, known to officials and acquaintances as “Captain Molly”. In 1926, the Daughters of the American Revolution had Margaret’s remains reburied in the West Point military cemetery, becoming the only Revolutionary War soldier to be buried there.
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POPSObama And Alinskyism The Los Angeles Times, persuaded a Democrat-appointed judge in California to open the sealed divorce records of Obama's Republican opponent to a press fishing expedition. The resulting sex scandal cleared... With a $10 million campaign war chest from contributors, and with no Republican opponent who could garner much support, Obama had an open road to become the next U.S. Senator from Illinois. In April 2007, Obama addressed the National Action Network, a civil rights group founded by Al Sharpton. In 2007, then-presidential candidate Obama named Robert Malley, the Middle East and North Africa Program Director for the International Crisis Group, as a foreign policy advisor to his (Obama's) campaign. In March 2008, Al Sharpton, a strong supporter of Obama's presidential candidacy, stated that he spoke to Obama on a regular basis -- "two or three times a week." Sharpton also said that he had told Obama four months earlier, "I won't either endorse you or not endorse you.
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POPSdevout christians.....1620 june 29, 1620... war on drugs , possibly the longest war on this planet.... i love to find one that makes all the priest go up ^^ in a fuff of smoke...A priestless planet... uhm ,,wouldn"t that be nice !!!
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POPSTolstoy & Gandhi: Two Giants Bound By Pacifism
Enlightening account of the relationship between Tolstoy & Gandhi "In South Africa, Tolstoy's writings landed on the desk of a young Indian dissident, Mahatma Gandhi. He was overwhelmed, declaring that after reading Tolstoy his "lack of faith in non-violence vanished." He hung a picture of Tolstoy on his office wall and named the camp where he trained activists in peaceful resistance Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi wrote five letters to Leo Tolstoy and received four in return, all glowing with praise and intellectual exchange. In his last letter, written in September 1910 only weeks before his death, Tolstoy told Gandhi that his activity was "the most central and important of all the work now being done in the world." Years later, Gandhi repaid the compliment, writing that he knew of no one "in India or anywhere else who has had as profound an understanding of nonviolence as Tolstoy had." Tolstoy had inspired Gandhi's legendary instruction to "be the change you want to see in the worl
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POPSWant to Live Forever? Sirtris Pharmaceuticals is testing a fountain-of-youth pill in humans. SRT501 impacts a family of genes in humans and other organisms called "sirtuins," which seem to control a cornucopia of desirable functions in cells that lead to improvements in diseases ranging from obesity and diabetes to Alzheimer's and cancer. Sirtris also is assembling what amounts to a small but burgeoning anti-aging empire as they snap up intellectual property and amass a war chest of cash that includes a $62 million initial share offering last May, added to $103 million raised in private rounds since the company was founded in 2004.
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POPSEnd Of An Error "Indeed, it remains to be seen whether America's experience with the almost stridently anti-intellectual Bush, will have led it to discover that choosing a president based on how well a candidate registers on the "who would I rather have a beer with" scale, is a dangerously low standard indeed."
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POPSNOBEL HYPOCRICY ALFRED NOBEL REMADE HIS IMAGE, NOW HIS AWARD IS USED TO POLISH THE IMAGE OF MANY OTHER HYPOCRITS. POLITICS IS A RACKET. WAR IS A RACKET. THE UN DOES NOTHING TO BRING GLOBAL PEACE. EVERY ALPHABET AGENCY IS A FRONT & THEIR REAL PURPOSE IS THE OPPOSITE THAT THEY PUBLICALLY PROCLAIM. AND SO IT GO'S... Reminds me so much of the recent 'cultural diversity award' given to tyrant in Kazakstan. And what was his 'achievement'??? Boiling a human beings to death. The photo of the body i saw still haunts me. Burned up to his chest. Psyhopaths give each other awards. Pat each other on the back. Bush tells Brownie he's doing a great job in Katrina. What are their awards and accolades... but just more lies. Only the blind could not see through the lies and hypocricy. Least we could do is hold the mirror up to the hypocrits faces, and make certain they know we are not buying the cheap illusions. True nobility or virtue rarely takes place in elite circles. Power corrupts absolutely.
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