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POPSJust When I Thought I'd Heard It All...
SWEAT LODGE appears on my computer screen. WTF? People paying money to be herded into a makeshift room that's hotter than any imaginative HELL? After reading a 3rd person had died in this sweat ceremony, my curiosity piqued and I had to find out more about those who seek enlightenment, by sweating. Huh? I can't believe a charlatan like this guru, Ray can so easily flimflam people into paying him lots of cash so they can suffer greatly (even die) in some sweaty, crowded, hot cubbyhole. If only I could have talked to these poor souls before they handed over their health and wampum to some Nut. Maybe I could have saved them by telling them go live and blend in to a Third World slum where there's plenty of misery and sweat, trying to survive, to see if that will bring about the financial glorification they seek? Maybe if they would have helped someone living in these REAL, not conjured up conditions, fulfillment may have followed. Never underestimate the power of GIVING!
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POPSUPDATE: Whole Foods "Buycott" One of Several Nationwide His column prompted a backlash among unions and liberal shoppers. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union and CtW Investment Group, an arm of several unions including the Service Employees International Union, are part of a boycott effort and say Mackey should be ousted as CEO. They also are pushing for the Bravo cable network, owned by NBC Universal-General Electric, to drop Whole Foods as the sponsor of its popular “Top Chef” show. “This is a very highly emotional issue, and we have heard both sides,” said Kate Klotz, regional spokeswoman for Whole Foods. “We appreciate the support of anyone who walks into the stores.” The grocery store chain instructed the “buycott” organizers to stick to shopping and refrain from passing out fliers, she said. “Mackey is being unfairly targeted for attack by unions and far left radical organizations because he offered a free-market solution to the health-care problems in America,” he said.
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POPSPro-& Anti-Obamacare Protesters Openly Carrying Weapons LEGALLY Other people have been visibly carrying firearms near Obama's events recently. During a health care town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., last week, a man stood outside with a pistol strapped to his leg. Phoenix police say the people with guns, including the man with the rifle, don't need permits. No crimes were committed, and no one was arrested. The man with the rifle told The Arizona Republic he was carrying the weapon because he could, adding that he still has some freedoms in Arizona.
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POPSReform Supporters Outnumber Critics At Town Halls And when Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) held a forum on health care reform he drew an overflow crowd, with a majority on the Democratic lawmaker's side. "A large majority of those present at the first discussion applauded Lujan when he stressed several times that he was in favor of a public option and when Lujan and other panelists criticized insurance companies."
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POPSMan carrying assault weapon attends Obama protest "Last week, during Obama's health care town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., a man carrying a sign reading "It is time to water the tree of liberty" stood outside with a pistol strapped to his leg.' It's not hard to see why the US murder rate (per capita) is four times higher than either Australia or the UK.
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POPSWatch Online Twilight Movie, Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn't expect much of anything to change
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POPSUS Health Care Deadly for Uninsured Immigrants That creates a burden. “It’s a killer,” said Brian Conway, spokesman for the Greater New York Hospital Association. But it also establishes the potential for neglectful and unethical if not illegal behavior by hospitals.
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POPSPhoenix Town,a wonderful place in China A small town located in the west of Hunan province,China.If you come to china,this's a place which is really worthy of travelling. And there's a very famous bar which named The Magic of Phoenix in the town.People sharing their poems and love stories here,write down on papers and tacked on the wall.(as the last photo shows)