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POPSFormer half-ton man endures hard times
Patrick acknowledges willpower is not his forte. To the chagrin of Edie and Harris, Patrick still smokes a pack and a half of cigarettes a day. He also has a weakness for chips and salsa. “I notice that stress eating is something I do well,” Patrick said. The Deuels moved to an apartment in Alliance a little more than a year ago so Edie could take a job as a school counselor. Her contract wasn’t renewed at the end of the school year, and she remains out of work. Patrick also is unemployed. He said he’s been going through vocational rehabilitation to determine the type of work that would best suit him. The former restaurant manager said he definitely won’t work in food service again. There’s too much temptation, he said. The couple’s only income is Patrick’s monthly Social Security check of less than $600. Patrick also has had to deal with the recent deaths of his grandmother, with whom he was very close, and of a longtime family friend. He said he talks to a psycholog
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POPS Official: 4 Dead After Twister Tears Through Scout camp Bauwens, the Red Cross nurse, said many of the injuries happened when a brick fireplace in one shelter was ripped apart by the storm. The shelter was one of four where scouts had run for cover. The National Weather Service was referring to the event as a tornado by late Wednesday. It said it received a report of a touchdown at 6:35 p.m. Officials at Burgess Memorial Hospital, about 20 miles from the ranch, said they had treated several patients injured by the storm Wednesday night and that injuries ranged from minor to serious. A spokesman for Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City said two children had arrived at the hospital by helicopter. "These are traumatic injuries," said spokesman Mike Krysl, who said the regional trauma center is "in disaster mode." Heavy downpours hit the region over the weekend, with more thunderstorms predicted for Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
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POPSer, uh, I mean, well...it is like this Soaring rhetoric, indeed. Finally, channeling Bill Clinton’s “is-is” parsing, Obama attempted to argue that his dubious veep selection committee members don’t really “work” for him: “They’re performing that job well. It’s a volunteer, unpaid position. And they’re giving me information, and I will then exercise judgment in terms of who I want to select as a vice presidential candidate. So these aren’t folks who are working for me, they’re not people I have assigned to a particular job in a future administration.” There are only so many gaffes, missteps, mistakes, flubs, and self-delusional statements one can make before serial naivete becomes endemic stupidity. Obama has reached the point of no return.
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POPSClinton Seeks To Go After Obama Superdelegates
to travel with her to South Dakota where she planned to campaign Monday. Rodriguez had initially supported Clinton, switched to Obama, and recently returned to her camp. Clinton, meanwhile, said she was still contemplating whether to challenge the decision by the Democratic Party's rules committee to split the Michigan delegates 69-59 in her favor. Each delegate would have a half vote. The agreement granted Obama 55 uncommitted Michigan delegates and four who would have been assigned to Clinton based on the state's results. McAuliffe Sunday night called the panel's judgment "outrageous." "People are angry," he said. "This does not unify our party, this crazy, cockamamie thing they came up with in Michigan." Here in South Dakota, Clinton pressed on against the odds. In a campaign trail reunion usually reserved for election nights, she was to join former President Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, at her last Monday event in Sioux Falls, S.D.
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POPSLove the Soil For me there is nothing more pleasing, then to be with nature, to lay under a tree, feel the earth, moss under me and the sun on my face, to relax and enjoy life this way. Cougar
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POPSHillary campaign fails to pay bills.
More: She owed Iowa’s Sioux City Art Center Board of Trustees $3,500 for catering and venue costs, New Hampshire’s Winnacunnet Cooperative School District $4,400 in event costs, Qwest $24,000 for phone service, various branches of the Iowa-based supermarket chain Hy-Vee $15,000 for food, beverages and catering, and $7,700 to Ohio and Massachusetts branches of the theatrical stage employees’ union, for equipment costs. In fact, about a third of the nearly 700 individual debts Clinton reported at the end of February were for various types of “event expenses,” including $319,000 for catering and venue costs, $420,000 for equipment, $11,000 for photography and $9,000 for security And word is getting around that Clinton’s campaign does not promptly pay those who labor to make her events look good, “I feel insulted by the way that the campaign treated this company and treated us personally,” said the employee It's 3 AM and the bill collectors are calling....
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POPSOrigin of State Names GEORGIA. Named after King George II of England, who charted the colony in 1732. HAWAII. An English adaptation of the native word owhyhee, which means "homeland." IDAHO. Possibly taken from the Kiowa Apache word for the Comanche Indians. ILLINOIS. The French bastardization of the Algonquin word illini, which means "men." INDIANA. Named by English-speaking settlers because the territory was full of Indians. IOWA. The Sioux word for "beautiful land," or "one who puts to sleep." KANSAS. Taken from the Sioux word for "south wind people," their name for anyone who lived south of Sioux territory. KENTUCKY. Possibly derived from the Indian word kan-tuk-kee, meaning "dark and bloody ground." Or kan-tuc-kec, "land of green reeds", or ken-take, meaning "meadowland." LOUISIANA. Named after French King Louis XIV. MAINE. The Old French word for "province." MARYLAND. Named after Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of English King George I.
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POPSVan Driver [Illegal Alien] Arrested For Role In School Bus Crash 4 students killed, 14 injured in SW Minnesota school bus crash Officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement are checking to see where she came from and how long she's been in Minnesota. FOX 9 has also learned that the name she gave to police, Alainiss Morales, is an alias. Van Driver Arrested for Role in Minnesota School Bus Crash DRIVERS INVOLVED IN CRASH * The driver of the school bus was Dennis A. Deveraux, 52, Cottonwood. * The driver of the van was Alianiss N. Morales, 23, Minneota, who is currently in stable condition. * The driver of the pickup truck was James M. Hancock, 45, Marshall, who is currently in fair condition. MEMORIAL FUND Memorial Fund for Families of Bus Crash Victims United Southwest Bank P.O. Box 288 Cottonwood, MN 56229
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POPSBright Days and Dark Days The Great Spirit created the world in which all mankind lived in peace and harmony at one time, the polititions of Canada and the United States do not believe in the Great Spirit, oh they say these believe in God, but look at what they do, can anyone who does the things they do in the name of the people they are supposed to represent or do the evil they inflict upon the people of the earth, the indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island, believe in God. Can anyone take their word on anything, they act like they are the minions of Satan, instead of followers of Christianity. Cougar
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POPSTonto and 9/11 Shouldn't there be a difference between Christian and American? . Stanley Hauerwas in Sojonet about response to 9/11.
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POPSLakota Sioux declare sovereign nation status Members of the American Indian Movement occupied parts of Pine Ridge in protest of the brutal killing of two of their own, the disgustingly mild prosecutions for those murders, and the beating of the mother of one of those two when she attempted to seek justice from the U.S. government. The AIM were seeking their rights under U.S. law and for the U.S. government to honor treaties with the American Indian that had been ignored for more than a century. It was a lawful - and a peaceful until attacked - protest. In response, the FBI fired almost 200,000 rounds at the protesters in an illegal show of force. The siege at Wounded Knee lasted 71 days. This was largely ignored by the U.S. population, due to media indifference
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POPSIts About Time_Lakota Withdraw Americans were once free and sovereign. Native Americans were once free and sovereign. The Lakota do what all should do, but they will not. God bless the Lakota, wish I was with them.
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POPSLakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status Its good to see this happening. I suggest people e-mail The Department of interior. They have been referred to them. See -- http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Lakota_activists_declare_secession_from_US ) People should write, call, and e-mail. They DESERVE our support. Mailing Address: Department of the Interior 1849 C Street, N.W. Washington DC 20240 Phone: 202-208-3100
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POPSLakota Nation Seced From US This story has been under reported but is of great importance to Federalists and activists. Having spent six years living in Lakota country, the weight of this story is immense. It's my hope that that Lakota are successful and they have all the support of Creepy Sleepy.
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POPSBlack Elk (Hehaka Sapa) Oglala Sioux Creator, help me find peace. "Peace...comes within the souls of man when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its power, and when they realize that the center of the Universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us." Cougar
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POPSPhil Lane, Sr. Yankton Sioux It only takes a little thing to change our whole perspective on our lives. It will take all of mankind to know this and then, just maybe, mankind might survive. Cougar
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POPSFloyd Westerman, Sioux The Natives of this world have always respected the earth and what it has provided for them, The white man on the other hand have always taken and destroyed the Earth, they still do and still do not understand the earth. Cougar
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