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POPSHow About We Bomb Mecca? The mainstream media is falling all over itself today in an attempt to somehow paint this domestic Islamic terrorist as the victim rather than the perpetrator.
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POPS And Tonight’s Winner of the Sputtering Idiotic Partisan Hyperbole Award Is… The Republicans and FOX News are not the enemies of health care. They are opposed to a massive government expansion that can only be brought about through prohibitive costs maintained by a confiscatory tax scheme, and that by its very nature will restrict individual liberties, and restrict freedom of choice in ways that the government simply has no authority to assert. The Republicans and FOX News are not the enemies of education. They simply realize that despite the fact that the federal government has over time usurped power over the field of education that rightly belongs to the states and their subject governments, there is no Constitutional authority for the federal government to continually interfere in education and foist a politically correct agenda onto the American Peoples’ children, nor is there any legal justification to supplant the parents’ rightful opinions for their own. H/T Nice Deb
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POPSUS Marines facing reality
They ought to read this blog, they and their inept and idiotic political masters. I had a US former Marine Sgt work for me in Namibia. He could not understand that his two year enlistment did nowhere equate to that of a 15 year regular soldier. Very few of the lessons in soldiering can be gained from the library of military literature. They are gained in the field, from those who have experienced all that service has to offer. The British made an enormous mistake when, after the Falklands, the major slice of experienced senior nco's were forcibly retired. That single instrument allowed second class senior officers to kowtow to their political masters, with disastrous procurement of everything essential from personal weapons to food, through footwear to transport. When General Jackson and his cronies were feathering their pension pots, the skills and loyalty of the squaddie were evaporating on a maelstrom of political correctness and Health & Safety. I heard not a beep out of th
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POPSTown Hall protesters are nativists, not racists More: Just consider how utterly stupid and idiotic conservatives seem to serious Democrats when they smugly tell each other that progressives and Democrats are all really “fascists” because they support a variety of mild social-democratic polices. Within their closed ideological bubble the conservatives feel quite certain that they have achieved a deep psychological insight by recognizing that latent Adolph Hitlers lie just beneath the surface of everyone from Teddy Kennedy to Robert Redford and Jane Goodall. They actually sit around and pat themselves on the back for their penetrating aptitude at psychological analysis. This is exactly how stupid progressives and Democrats appear to culturally conservative Americans when they label as “racism” beliefs that these Americans know are in reality vastly different and more complex.
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POPSOlbermanic Stuck In The Jaws of Coulter The Bush campaign commercial about Dukakis' furlough program never showed a picture of Horton. In fact, the actors playing "criminals" passing through a revolving door in the ad were all white. -- Voters considered it relevant that a candidate for president was so beholden to the ACLU that he backed an idiotic furlough program that released first-degree murderers. And yet in Keith Olbermann's discussion of Bush's allegedly vile, racist use of Willie Horton, he used a phony version of the ad, doctored to include a photo of Horton. in fairness to Keith, he's never been a "content guy." He was a communications major. (The agriculture school Keith attended offered a degree in this field.) He lifts the material for his show from liberal blogs, overwrites it, and throws in his trademark smirking and snorts. But that's all he does because, again, he was a communications major.
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POPSIt's gone! So where are the scores fallen ill or even (Oh, God!) dead? What was all this hype about? It's gone! Gone! ;) And no even traces left. Last week, Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of immunization at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, “Most states do have quite a lot of disease right now, and that’s unusual for this time of year.” “To say, Oh, all of us in New York are immune, we won’t have any more disease and we don’t need to take vaccine, is a dangerous conclusion to draw,” Dr. Cetron said. If some bureaucrats want to keep themselves busy, it's up to them. Only, please, not at our expense. Not at expense public well being and not at expense of our pockets. We have something else to do rather than than run in mortal panic with no possibility of hide from aggressive science-like manipulative psychological attacks.
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POPSConfusing and Odd Emergency Exit Signs Not only did these signs make it past the drawing board, most of them are still there. Some of them can cause major confusion and be dangerous in an emergency situation. Isn't there someone out there watching for this kind of thing?
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POPSMSNBC's Schuster Calls Critics Racists.
Now where will be the call for boycotts of advertisers? The calls of racism come fast and furious now, leveled at ANYONE who exposes this administration's radical, thuggish, sneaky agenda. It is the most disgusting trend and it seems to be clearing the bar as far as general acceptance goes. I don't think there can be mounted an intelligent, nuanced enough defense against this tactic. Nearly every argument the right tries to make misses the real mark - sometimes badly. To the point of ridiculously idiotic at times, leaving themselves wide open to counterattack by the left. Like the death panels. Good God! It isn't that they are going to LITERALLY, in this decade or generation, going to decide who lives and dies, by making that fundamental clear choice, one way or the other. If you are going to make that argument you have to describe the long-term subtlety, the slippery-slope, and use examples of what they put in place 50 yrs. ago has led to things today that would have sounded outlandis
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POPSThe far right says Obama is bad for our kids
Wrong. I never imagined the outbreak of right-wing crazy that Obama's gesture would provoke, and this time it's hard not to see racism behind the hysteria. The message is "Obama's coming for our children!" the standard cry against scary boogeymen in every culture. I mean, really, what besides Obama's race could make him so scary to these people? That he's a Marxist socialist fascist Nazi? I'd argue that the only reason those extreme epithets have taken hold goes back to reason No. 1: Our first black president is provoking some outsize and irrational reactions. Especially since, as has now been well-documented, President George H.W. Bush addressed American students in 1991, and Ronald Reagan did so via C-SPAN in 1988. (Bush talked mainly about the importance of education, while Reagan hailed the benefits of low taxes and the line-item veto.) President George W. Bush appealed to "the children of the country" to back the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, to no public crit
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POPSI Left the Boutique Warmongery Unlocked, Show Yourself In, “Cry ‘Havoc,’ and Leaf Through the Books of War”
Starts with the French Revolution … one of history’s great, bloody, idiotic and cautionary trainwrecks, sometimes falsely depicted as a milestone of freedom, more accurately as Harvey reports a precursor to the worst authoritarian horrors of the 20th, and incidentally yet another reason to be grateful my Huguenot line got the boot and became Englishmen a couple of centuries earlier … and just keeps going for 26 horrific rollercoaster years of death, destruction, triumph and disaster. Don’t worry, it has a happy ending. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War Nathaniel Philbrick. Been meaning to read this one for a while. It all plays out around my house. Now out in paperback, the real-time classic that ranks among the best war memoirs of all time, Dexter Filkins’ The Forever War. If you haven’t read it, start now. He’s the reason why the New York Times deserves to live. Dexter, an indirect sort of acquaintance currently wandering around Bleakistan . . .
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POPSStupid, Brainless, Dazed! Keith Obermann Comments on why the republicans and bluedog democrats don't want changes to the health care status-quo. They stand to lose billions and that is sickening. If the Democrats don't get health care reform passed this time around then I will tell you IT WILL NEVER GET PASSED and we will continue to suffer the following statistics: VIEW BELOW :mad: You can view the video here: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5696494 or Here http://www.thethinkingblue.com/stupidamericans.html
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POPSDon't need leaders who just can't be bothered to read.. We have elected to represent us the lowest form of Americans. At least Conyers said flat-out what we all believed anyway. These entitled elitists are foisting on us (as LAW) things they don't even know about and frankly, isn't important because (as the article says) it won't apply to them. They spend their days at 'luncheons', traveling, making idiotic speeches that are as empty and superficial as their own sense of leadership and accomplishments. Americans....please don't let the likes of this man continue with his arrogant, lazy, pompous crafting of policies that will effect our future and every detail of our daily lives.
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POPSBlackpool Veteran Major speaks -but never for me. What is Houldsworth a veteran of? Choir services? Bad singing? Idiotic parades? Ignoring the real vets? Self promotion? As a former Gunner, a veteran and a professional soldier, the further the likes of Bell and Houldsworth are away from any organisation for me and my fellow former injured regulars, the better. If you think my ire is not well founded, then perhaps you ought to read the letter sent by Houldsworth to Bell that had a former regular Royal Marine disciplined for telling the truth about Houldsworth and the inept Ex-Services Liaison Committee of Blackpool. Both Bell and Houldsworth should stick to their choirs and leave soldiering to soldiers.
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POPSIdiocy Reigns, Be Honest About It
"maybe there's such a thing as learned stupidity. How else can so many people be so idiotic? Our national IQ has dropped to about 75: Several standard deviations below normal. " "Well, we have now voted in a President for the lowbrows. Yes, Obama himself is smart enough; even smart enough to say a few years ago that he didn't feel ready for the presidency. Well, now we can see why he said that. But legions of idiots voted for a man who was plainly unqualified, even by his own estimation, and surrounded by a bunch of malignant sociopaths like Wright and Ayers and all the rest. How could he possibly win? Well, Obama cynically appealed to the idiots -- the young, the stupid, the naive, the silly, the rock idol worshippers, and probably the drug-addled masses, all the lowbrows in the land. That includes the idiot savants of academia. Academics have a very narrow band of intelligence, something that satirists since Aristophanes have noticed and poked fun at. Obama's 22 White House c
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POPSHate speaks again Leader of hate and apparently another "God hates f#$%" church. Nice diagnosis, Masbury. The true test of character is not in the failure of human being, but the human being's response to it. For that he is on course to recover personally. Compare to Edwards, Clinton, Obama, etc..Another test is his supporters reaction. "He should step down". "He should be impeanched". "He should resign". Only someone possessed of outright hatred would suggest that those who believe life in the womb is life that should not be killed are practicing suppression. Absolutely hateful and idiotic! Hey , dumbass, most libertarians oppose the war on drugs! Or, is this just more idiotic political spin that you admit to on occasion? "You see it in abstinence education"? You see what in abstinence education? "It doesn't work in our hearts and it doesn't work in our nation." OHH, so you and your ignorant, fascist ilk are gonna force people to live the way YOU want? Instead of having the liberty to c
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POPSRepublican Rep. Pete Hoekstra mercilessly heckled by Twitter users.
Hoekstra compared the mass uprising of Iranians – utilizing Twitter as an organizing tool -- to the GOP's attempt to express dissatisfaction over Nancy Pelosi's decision to adjourn Congress before an energy vote last August. More Twitter responses: Rode a packed metro into work this morning. Now know what it's like to be in a concentration camp. I burned my finger this morning on a hot plate, now I know how Joan of Arc felt. I spilled some lukewarm coffee on myself just now, which is somewhat analogous to being boiled in oil. I splashed my face with cold water this morning after shaving, which is similar to having been waterboarded. I got a splinter in my hand today. Felt just like Jesus getting nailed to the cross. Someone walked in on me while I was in the bathroom. Reminded me of Pearl Harbor. Had to move all my stuff to a new office w/o a corner view. Now I know what the Trail of Tears was like. Ate leftover for lunch today. Just like the Donner par
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POPSJezebel refutes Slate's idiotic essay criticizing Etsy Much too long to clip, but well worth reading. More: But what I feel is most problematic is the idea inherent in the work that women should, in some sense, face the reality that their dreams of successful entrepreneurship will never be realized. In truth, most small businesses fail. Many people — men and women — engage in the marketplace with a unique product, idea or service and fail to amass enough profit to stay afloat. The difference between men and women is that men are more often encouraged to do so then women, and encouraged to try again. Mosle's piece attempts to convince women not to take a relatively risk-free wade into the entrepreneurial waters of the American marketplace because they'll "fail," as though economic failure is something with which women cannot or should not be expected to cope.
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POPSputting lipstick on our strung out pig this began-Great news, patriots! The Obama administration's new drugs czar says he wants to banish the War on Drugs! Pack your bong! Hug a crackhead! Tell Central America to come out of hiding! ther is much more at source- all I have to say bout this is.....LEAP-(law enforcement against prohibition)
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