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POPSHow to recession-proof your family EXACTLY! 'Why does Suze Orman say people first, then money, then things?'" she says. "It means if we cared about people more than we cared about money, we would not be having what happened today, because the people who run the corporations, if they had cared about all of you, they wouldn't have created loans that you couldn't afford."
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POPSFew Options for Next President Am I alone in thinking that the *best* vice-presidential candidate pick for either candidate would have been somebody who genuinely understands, can talk reassuringly, confidently, and clearly, about economics? Am I alone in thinking the campaigns need to start talking *now* about who their Treasury Secretary would be, and start having him or her clued in on these meetings?
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POPSObama Compares United States Unfavorably to China and Russia
RUSH: This is breathtakingly politically stupid. I don't care how hateful you are of America, there are just certain things that you're not going to be able to pass off to people. China, a better place to live than the United States of America? Well, maybe if you don't mind pollution controls that don't exist. Maybe if you don't care that people are employed at slave-labor wages -- and maybe, if you don't care that construction standards in the countryside are so slipshod and shallow that they allow of collapse of thousands of buildings, including schools, so that when an earthquake hits it killing tens of thousands of people -- if that stuff just doesn't bother you, then I guess maybe China does look pretty good to you. This next Obama sound bite's outrageous. OBAMA: We've got to send a clear message to Russia and unify our allies that they can't charge into other countries with impunity. Of course, it helps if we are leading by example on that front.
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POPSBeijing Olympics-- Opening Ceremony ...Update: Iraqis Given Rousing Ovation The beautiful woman in the Iraqi delegation is sprinter Dana Abdul-Razzaq. President Bush and Laura Bush joined in the ovation. http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/07/olympic-panel-lifts-ban-on-iraq-allows.html Final thoughts on the Opening Ceremony-- Amazing! China put on a wonderful show. UPDATE: I posted the Iraqi version video after the NBC clip was yanked.
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POPSSurviving disasters - be prepared to help yourself & your neighbors I live in California, where we have a 99% chance of having an earthquake measuring 6.7 or higher some time in the next 30 years. The chance of a quake 7.5 or greater in the next 30 years is 46%. As we saw after the Loma Prieta quake, the government and emergency responders will not be able to help everybody, and each of us will need to help ourselves and the people around us.