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POPS Lucid Links 11.09.09 Only when you get to Obama’s page do you learn that Obama a) wasn’t president, and b) didn’t make any speech at the site of the Wall last year when he campaigned for the U.S. presidency in Europe. In remembrance on the 8th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on Washington and New York, our president …. sent Joe Biden to Ground Zero in New York City. Deliberate ignorance: The British press was out front (HT Hot Air) in telling the world that the perpetrator of the Fort Hood attack “worshiped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a ’spiritual adviser’ to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001.” That the attack was jihad-inspired is not open to real dispute. Meanwhile, the PC-addled American press does all it can to minimize the enormity (HT Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters) of what occurred at Fort Hood and makes excuses for the perpetrator, even to the point of claiming that he might (even though he never experienced
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POPSALL POLITICS IS LOCAL...or is it? the more sophisticated the populace the more likely national issues will be percieved as local as voters realize the local impact of national decisions
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POPSAmerica a Rude Nation? Debating Public Decency Experts point to a variety of reasons for the apparent fall in civil standards: 1) The recession has placed many under heavy stress 2) The rise of the internet has fostered confrontational and provocative communications in which people get used to saying things they may never once have dared to utter face-to-face. These may be conditions that allow rudeness to rear its ugly head, but they are not excuses for it. Rudeness is rooted in lack of civility. If you don’t respect other people’s ideas, opinions, equality as compared to yourself, or simply their right to exist, it will be easy for you to resort to rudeness towards that person and you will be considered uncivil. We have been losing our civility for a long time now and I believe it is due to a lack of respect for others and ourselves.
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POPSExcuses Wearing Thin for Obama, Media Pals 
Yet just a few months ago, the Obama camp was singing a little different tune. It was under criticism for the $787 billion stimulus package it bulldozed through Congress on grounds that massive spending was needed to keep the unemployment rate from breaching 8 percent. When joblessness hit 9.5 percent in June, Vice President Joe Biden said, "We misread how bad the economy was." They inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression, or the economy turned out to be worse than they thought. Which is it? It can't be both -- unless your brain is completely addled by the Obama charisma. That's the backdrop to the story of Rush Limbaugh getting booted from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams. He was smeared on CNN and MSNBC with false accusations of making two racist comments. He is an abrasive critic of Obama, so he must be racist.. . Recently an MSNBC personality accused the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of lobbying for policies that amount to being "treasonous . . .
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POPSExcuses wearing thin for Obama, media pals He lost me completely when his Administration declared we were in an economic crisis then he & the Congress proceeded to sink us even deeper with irresponsible spending. The spending is in such huge amounts that there is no accountability or oversight. It's going down a black hole and our Country is going with it.
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POPSU.S. Mercenaries Exempt from all laws
#1. These mercenaries employed by the U.S. are not subject to the laws of the host country; in this case, Iraq. #2. They are not subject to military laws #3. Now we also see, in this case, they put 'fine print,' in their contracts with employees that they falsely use to avoid accountability to U.S. laws. Over and over again the excuses and the manipulations, the seeking of exemptions and/or special privilages never ends. It's a full time job to keep up with such people and group and those that are suppose to do so often fail or are lax in their jobs (like we learned in the financial scams that keep happening). This clip talks about fixing this "loophole," next year. That's a joke. These people should be arrested and put on trail now. You can pretend to excuse murder, rape, stealing, etc. because you got the victim to sign a contract! Yet many people will do what they want and try to get away with anything. (Like also we see with USA health insurance companies getting esd
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POPSSo it's EXTORTION..no word about ADULTEROUS BEHAVIOR! Hmmm Hmmm Hmmm Well, it certainly could happen to a nicer guy. The increasingly irascible and decreasingly funny late night talk show host announced to his audience Tuesday night that he has been the victim of an extortion plot. It seems the sarcastic leftist has been a serial adulterer with members of his staff, reportedly all female ones. Looks like the caustic native Hoosier has been caught without his Worldwide Pants.
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POPSWhy We Protect Ourselves With Excuses How making excuses stop us from attaining happiness, health and peace of mind. This post teaches us that by stopping the excuses we make to ourselves and others, we can change our lives for the better and get rid of many bad habits.
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POPSThe mess left behind " They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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POPSSpain: Honduran Coup. Turmoil At the UN today the PM of Spain said the recent coup in Honduras was not acceptable. Recent Background: The deposed President secretly returned to the country but they quickly had to seek asylum in the Brazilian embassy, which then became a focal point for street protest and a police siege. While invading and occupying countries over ten thousand kilometers from home the Americas have been heating up. Shootings on the border yesterday by federal agents and that never use to happen. Plans for U.S. troops to move into military bases in Columbia was also complained about at the UN. Under the guise of fighting terrorism and/or fighting the Drug War these invasions take place, but many times this is just excuses and lies. At least we should, imo, return to our Constitutional procedures for declaring war...it is clearly wrong to be starting all these wars and not obeying our own laws on how to do this properly, but almost pointless to tell this to the hypocrite flag-waving wa
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POPSItaly PM: Exit Afghanistan Soon. Statements by Berlusconi and other's in his administration appear contradictory. But on Italian TV he said: "We are all convinced it's best for everybody to get out soon." While it makes a lot of sense to want to capture and/or kill Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda leadership, George Bush twisted that into War in Iraq and this War in Afghanistan...and it seems the guys we're looking for aren't in either of those places. So Western Pakistan is also being ripped up. Of course the war in Iraq we know was built on deliberately fabricated lies....the beating of war drums to start a War in Iran is built on propaganda and lies (Iran has no WMD's)...and much of this appears to be excuses for old-fashioned imperialism. Old-fashioned imperialism sucks, imo. And recent months have revealed the dark hearts and vile hatred of USA Republican right_wing nut jobsm their motives are not good will or good faith but full of smear and insults. They should move to Afghanistan if they like i
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POPSWrong Way Wilson Gets Bad Mark This article is full of the excuses and made-up criticisms typical of Republican rants these days. But near the end it mentions the mild action in the House....Wilson got an "F," for failure to obey the rules. The thing that makes him a real JERK, imo, is that he got his fact wrong or was just trash talking without any facts: the health care reforms have no "Death Panels," - the health care reform specifically mentioned it doesn't apply to Every Person in the World (just citizens), so you're a real jerk to be a liar yourself and trying to smear someone else. As the House said, "reprehensible conduct." - Congress can't function if idiots scream and yell insults at each other all day, thus, there are rules of behavior. You wanna call the President a liar, do it on your own time, not while he's speaking to a Joint session of Congress. Like you don't win at sports by insulting the refs... But lies, fear, smear, no fact, bullies, this is all the Republicans have to offer t
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POPSLinkedin Power Users - Be one! I am always looking for new ways to leverage and brand myself in the area of social media. So much is yet to be discovered - can you tell it is exciting to me? Here are some ideas for using linkedin in your small business. If you are a mental health professional, just us on linkedin at http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronhuxley or http://thirstyfish.info/swim
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POPSU.S. Says Again: No More Settlement Expansion This week the new Obama Administration repeated it's positon --- a position in all Middle East peace talks for the last decades - that there should be no more expansion of Israeli settlements. No nothing. No exceptions. No more. They couldn't make it any clearer. Of course, Israeli and pro-zionist news sources thus talk as if the negotations for "renewed peace talks," have failed when, in fact, they haven't even started. The Zionist idea of someone's else's failure appears to mean they don't agree with the Israeli position, or any of it's policies of collective punishment, apartheid and the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (i.e. Zionism). There is a lot of political backlash on this, for sure. Warmongers, racist, neo-cons and zionist extremist now are the President's worst critics and want to drag him down the most. Of course, These forces also continue to look for excuses or weasel words to keep on with their plans for final conquest of all of Jerusalem and
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POPSStupid School Excuses (from parents) Please excuse Tommy for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea, and his boots leak. Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust. Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault. I kept Billie home because she had to go Christmas shopping because don't know what size she wear. Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday we forgot to get the Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it Monday we thought it was Sunday. My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent a weekend with the marines. Please excuse Jason for being absent yesterday. He had a cold and could not breed well. Please excuse Mary for being absent yesterday. She was in bed with gramps. Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover.
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POPSFailure Accompli loyal Democrats a distant third. And it will prove that the Democratic Party is institutionally incapable of delivering on its most significant promises. You have to assume that on some level Congress understands this " which is why you also have to assume that some kind of legislation will eventually pass. If it doesn’t, President Obama will have been defeated. But it’s the party, not the president, that will have failed. OK, I get the point. He’s damning Obama with the faint praise due a cipher while mocking the Dems’ inability to govern. As he says, health care is their signature issue. And as we’ve observed previously, they have trouble advancing anything they feel deeply about that doesn’t involve a lot of pork. But cipher or not, Obama is also the president of a one-party government, and if his party can’t govern, he doesn’t get off that easy. He still gets to be a failure and is the one who will ultimately wear it.
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