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POPSSmoking Marijuana? Better check your judgement...
...Waking up can appears not so pleasant and even catastrophic. Prosecutors say Brancato and accomplice Steven Armento broke into a basement apartment to steal prescription drugs after a night of drinking at a strip club. Brancato rose to fame in the 1993 movie "A Bronx Tale," playing a young kid from the neighborhood who is torn between two worlds and two men: a local mobster played by Chazz Palminteri and his straight-and-narrow bus-driver father, played by Robert De Niro. Other roles followed, most notably a stint on the second season of "The Sopranos," where he played a bumbling aspiring mobster. His character carried out a series of low-level crimes for the New Jersey mob before being gunned down by Tony Soprano and his sidekick as he tearfully begged for his life. The pills were part of a drug problem that he said began when he was "introduced to marijuana" on the set of "A Bronx Tale." He later became hooked on crack and heroin, he said. He told the jury that
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POPSGovernment Report Details Failures of Rebuilding Iraq
This also is part of Bush’s legacy. Pentagon officials should also be held to account for mismanagement and the inflated numbers (lies) it gave the public and the administration. Our leaders are more concerned with covering their own asses when things go wrong than admitting mistakes and working to improve them. These are supposed to be educated, professional people. Money for construction projects are divided up by a spoils system controlled by neighborhood politicians and tribal chiefs. "Our district council chairman has become the Tony Soprano of Rasheed, in terms of controlling resources," said a U.S. Embassy official working in a dangerous Baghdad neighborhood, referring to the popular TV mob boss. "'You will use my contractor or the work will not get done."' The reconstruction effort has failed because no single agency in the U.S. government has responsibility for the job. This can also be said for the collapsing economy we Americans are being forced to endure.
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POPS"Creeping Totalitarianism"- How free are we?
From Article: "Yet we long ago transitioned from making just laws to just making laws, which is why I look forward with a sense of foreboding. Every year our nation enacts more and more laws but hardly ever rescinds any, which means every year we become progressively less free. I call this “creeping totalitarianism.” "Currently it’s fashionable to bemoan the Patriot Act and wax apoplectic about how the sky is falling, as if it’s 1789 and we’re confronted with our very first extra-constitutional measure. Oh, I’m not saying good people shouldn’t debate these matters; no one stresses strict adherence to the Constitution more than I do. But the danger is that when we stare intently at and stand too close to one piece of the puzzle, it appears bigger and seems like the whole world. And if we fail to take a step back and gain perspective, we won’t see that there is a big picture, one formed by countless prohibitionary pieces." The truth is that unconstitutional and excessive la
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POPSHas the Screen Killed American Novel? Very interesting article. It goes into more depth at the site than I could clip. I don't thin it is as bad as all this though. I see plenty of people reading. Public transportation is filled with people reading books and bookstores and sites like Amazon still do a great business in books. What I notice is this study only seems to include fiction prose, not poetry or non-fiction. If those were added in, the numbers would probably be higher. That's not to say that tv hasn't become the dominant form of education in most American households. Television's hold on people is quite powerful. But teh book isn't dead yet.
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POPSSoprano's -- THIS SUNDAY Just making sure everyone has the heads up... Soprano's season premier.. this Sunday HBO...initial reviews seem excellent
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POPSHigh-performance Social Networking Christian Mayaud describes how your current social network is related to your past and future one and what the characteristics are of each of the 8 basic networking styles as he sees them.
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