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POPSThe sleazy advocacy of a leading "liberal hawk" What Galbraith kept completely concealed all these years was that a company he formed in 2004 came to acquire a large stake in a Kurdish oil field whereby, as the NYT put it, he "stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars." In other words, he had a direct -- and vast -- financial stake in the very policies which he was publicly advocating in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and countless other American media outlets, where he was presented as an independent expert on the region. As Cobban wrote: Galbraith has never expressed any such regrets, and last November, he was openly scornful of Bush's late-term agreement to withdraw from Iraq completely. The revelation that for many years Galbraith had a quite undisclosed financial interest in the political breakup of Iraq may now further reduce the clout, and the ranks, of the remaining liberal hawks.
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POPSSEIU Needs Socialized Medicine To Stoke Its Underfunded Pensions 
and union employees at the expense of the rank-and-file. To regain some semblance of fiscal stability, the SEIU has wagered heavily on forcing other employees to help fund its drying pension reserves. That was the motivation behind the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) ("Card Check"), a major Democrat initiative for 2009, and one on which the SEIU spent tens of millions of its members' money. Since Card Check is in serious trouble with lawmakers, state-run health care would be a suitable alternative. • The public option could force hospital and other health care workers into underfunded pensions, putting their retirements at risk • The average union pension has resources to cover only 62% of what is owed to participants • Less than one in every 160 union-represented workers is covered by a union pension with required assets • The PBGC already supports upwards of 30,000 pension plans • Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), the governmental pension insurer,
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POPSCretins on the March I'll never forget the first time I saw a Ray Comfort video. He was using a banana to debunk evolution! This tool for the religious right goes far beyond parody and falls more into the area of pity. Along with his cohort, Kirk Cameron, they are pulling out all the stops on the stupid express. If you're a Creationist I'd suggest you try to wrangle a free copy. Just ignore the BS that Comfort added and read the rest. Maybe you'll learn something? Such basic ignorance of simple science is wide spread in the US. I don't recall the actual statistics but a much too large portion of the US believes this Creationist/ID drivel. Very sad indeed.
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POPSCULTURE OF CORRUPTION This anchorman i.e., "talking head" comes to work UNPREPARED......No clue about an organization that deals in tax fraud, child prostitution..........Retire NOW
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POPSCULTURE OF CORRUPTION "Talkin head" comes to work unprepared......with not a clue about an organization that delas in tax fraud, child prositution.................. Reitre NOW Gibson.............You are worthless.
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POPSCharlie Gibson on ACORN Scandal: ‘I don’t even know about it.’ Roma: Well I think that this is a huge issue because there’s so much funding that goes into this organization and it’s a multi… Charlie Gibson: Well, I know we’ve done some stories about ACORN before but uh, uh this one I don’t know about. Roma: Jake Tapper did some blogging on it. I know he’s at least blogged once on this scandal. Charlie Gibson: You guys, you guys are really up on the uh on the website. ~~ Footage of the San Bernardino investigation was not available at the time of the interview. Thank you to WLS AM Chicago for providing the audio. http://www.wlsam.com/sectional.asp?id=17450
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POPSMainstream Media Abuse in Wake of ACORN Of course, the democrats are in favor of a media bailout. Why wouldn't they, the mainstream media is the strongest arm of the Democrat party. This is a serious abuse of the public trust.
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POPS"First Queen of Hip-Hop" gets her Ph.D. – on Warner Brothers' dime
Congratulations, Dr. Shante! More: She eventually cashed in, earning a Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell to the tune of $217,000 - all covered by the label. But getting Warner Music to cough up the dough was a battle. "They kept stumbling over their words, and they didn't have an exact reason why they were telling me no," Shante said. She figured Warner considered the clause a throwaway, never believing a teen mom in public housing would attend college… Shante found an arm-twisting ally in Marguerita Grecco, the dean at Marymount Manhattan College. Shante showed her the contract, and the dean let her attend classes for free while pursuing the money. "I told Dean Grecco that either I'm going to go here or go to the streets, so I need your help," Shante recalls. "She said, 'We're going to make them pay for this.'" Grecco submitted and resubmitted the bills to the label, which finally agreed to honor the contract when Shante threatened to go public with the story.
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POPSBeware those holding sleazy jobs Under our current system, less people perish, while under the future system, funeral home directors across the country will be heard saying, 'Ask Mr. Lee if we can stack some of these bodies in the back of his dry cleaner because we're running out of room,' and that's a positive step for America, economically speaking."
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POPSAfraid of Socialism? Well, you already got it! And no one has come up with convincing argument that there's anything wrong with socialism. All the other G20 nations are Social Democracies, and we're all much freer, much better cared for, and better recovering from the recession than the US (mainly since our banks and markets were all regulated so sleazy dealers couldn't do what they did in America). Socialism benefits everyone, except the ultra rich, and who cares about them? They have their money to cry into.
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POPSHere we go again! The sleazy conservatives are running attack ads against the Liberal leader, even though we aren't even in an election. Once a scumbag, always a scumbag.
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POPS Bernie Madoff: What His Secretary Saw a few thousand. You get comfortable with that, and before you know it, it snowballs into something big.” Bernie’s personality • The way Madoff handled stress was “by saying something nasty: You look terrible. You’re gaining weight. You’re stupid. I never took anything he said to me personally, because I knew it wasn’t about me, it was about him.” • Madoff’s behavior changed drastically in the weeks before his arrest. “He seems to be in a coma,” Squillari told people who walked by his office and saw him staring off into space. He began taking his blood-pressure every 15 minutes, refused to look at his mail, and was constantly meeting with the heads of his feeder funds and Frank DiPascali, “the go-to guy for the investment-advisory business” (the vehicle for Madoff’s Ponzi scheme).
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POPSFeline Fataal "Several pedestrians yelled at the police to do something about the cat!"
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POPSLame Duck: Canadian Style
Stephen Harper managed to avoid having his government disbanded and replaced with a coalition government only by playing politics, meaning that people suffering from the recession are going to be screwed for another 2 months of Parliament doing nothing because brainiac Harper had it prorogued. Harper, when everything points to your government being about to fall, it means that you've lost your mandate. You won the October election based on lies and slander, and now that people see the real truth about you and the Tories, they want nothing to do with you. Enough of this "flouting democracy" bullshit — you want to know what democracy is? 62% if Canadians voted against , for the left-wing opposition parties. That is where the true majority government lies. All you've managed to do is screw up the government so bad that all the opposition is now completely in lockstep against you. This sleazy trick of yours isn't going to work; you're just making Canadians hate you more
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POPSDNA Testing The Australian manages to make this sound both sleazy and abusive...
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POPSAmerica's Last Will and Testament It astounds me that Democrats continue to paint Republicans as plutocrats when kazillionaires like Kennedy, Boxer, Feinstein, Schumer, Kerry, Clinton and even a guy named Rockefeller, sit in the Senate, and people like George Soros, Barbra Streisand, George Clooney, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey, fill their coffers. I used to wonder why Soros, a bottom-feeder who made his fortune in the sleazy business of currency trading, would align himself with the far left wing of the Democratic party. Then, one day, it occurred to me that I used to describe John Howard Lawson, a hack screenwriter who once ran the Communist party in Hollywood, as a man who was born to run a gulag. I now believe that Soros sees himself as a major honcho in a new Soviet United States, a man in charge of the men who would run the gulags.
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POPSSteven Tyler, Aerosmith in the late ’80s, Aerosmith pulled off one of the most remarkable comebacks in rock history, returning to the top of the charts with a group of albums that equalled, if not surpassed, the popularity of their ’70s albums.
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