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POPSCory Doctorow: Follow your weird More: Did you get into that blissed-out concentration state that great athletes and musicians and artists find themselves in? Did you go to a place where your mind was able to talk to itself without the endless chatter of the million billion grocery items and nagging doubts? If you got there, you’re winning the game of life. You’ve spent your time well. You might even end up changing the world.
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POPSWinter Driving, get a 'beater' I gave up driving several years ago as I used to hold the world title for the worst driver!!! Now am stress free and public transport :lol:
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POPSIs the Economy Recovering? The Curious Case of 1920 vs. 1929
The basic questions we need to ask here are: 1. Why do economies recover? 2. Are we recovering? Q. Why do economies recover? A. They recover because bad investments made during the bubble are liquidated, valuable capital is no longer being wasted on them, new capital is formed from savings, and profitable enterprises attract new capital to expand. Low real interest rates caused by increased savings encourage borrowing, manufacturers use the capital to make new machines, producers of consumer goods buy them, cash goes through the system, consumers see things are getting better, more consumer goods are produced, and consumers buy them. It has to happen this way or the recovery will fail. The difficult part of a recovery is ugly. Bankrupt firms need to fail so that valuable capital resources are not wasted on their continuing activities. This means that unemployment rises (10.2% now) and business bankruptcies are high. Trillions of dollars of asset values are wiped out.
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POPSUgly Bug Competition I think that they all are beautiful, but I note that many of them never knew their mother and so did not experience the blindness of a mother's love.
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POPS50 Ugliest Cars Of All Time According To Business Week Start talking about your favorite car or truck and chances are you will be get a visceral reaction out of many Americans. Where I grew up in the Midwest, for example, saying that Toyota made a better truck than, say, Ford or GM...well, them'z was fightin' words to some. In other parts of the country, the same might be said for debates such as, "Which sports car is the fastest of all time?" We do love our cars. But, then, there are those "ugly ducklings" that should never have made it off the assembly line, and which, sadly, never blossomed into swans. This week, Businessweek assembles a slide show of the 50, all-time ugliest ducklings on four wheels...If you are passionate about autos, or just want a few laughs before heading off to nighty-nighty land, then check out this slide show. Yeesh!
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POPSGrading Obama "After U.S. President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office, Foreign Policy asked a group of experts to grade him on everything from North Korea to nukes. On the anniversary of his historic election, we've reprised the experiment -- and found out that the White House isn't doing so well." - FP
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POPSAmerica a Rude Nation? Debating Public Decency Experts point to a variety of reasons for the apparent fall in civil standards: 1) The recession has placed many under heavy stress 2) The rise of the internet has fostered confrontational and provocative communications in which people get used to saying things they may never once have dared to utter face-to-face. These may be conditions that allow rudeness to rear its ugly head, but they are not excuses for it. Rudeness is rooted in lack of civility. If you don’t respect other people’s ideas, opinions, equality as compared to yourself, or simply their right to exist, it will be easy for you to resort to rudeness towards that person and you will be considered uncivil. We have been losing our civility for a long time now and I believe it is due to a lack of respect for others and ourselves.
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POPSDoes Poker Playing make you Short, Fat and Ugly? What a weird and almost derogatory question to ask especially if you are a poker player. Putting aside hurt feelings though it’s a valid question. Individuals that are playing poker on a consistent basis can run the risk of hurting their overall general health.
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POPSMajor Cineplex box office for October 15-18, 2009 Bangkok Traffic (Love) Story is the top film at Thailand's biggest multiplex chain. Studio GMM Tai Hub reported earnings of 15 million baht on opening day, 50 million baht for the first weekend and 100 million baht by the start of its second weekend.
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POPSStretchmarks This trilastin-sr is the best thing that happened to me. I am now sexyyyyyyyy!
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POPSNFL Power Rankings For Week 7 - NFL Football Picks Early-edition NFL Power Plays return for Week 7 with four side plays for bettors to consider. BetRepublic.com have had an excellent start to the season with three winning weeks in the past four and an overall mark of 10-4 ATS on the year.
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POPS Afghanistan Syndrome Asad and Tahir would be the first ones to die. As the months dragged on, I grew to detest our captors. I saw the Haqqanis as a criminal gang masquerading as a pious religious movement. They described themselves as the true followers of Islam but displayed an astounding capacity for dishonesty and greed. Whole thing. I hope Obama, Emanuel, Axelrod, Biden, Reid, Levin, Pelosi, etal, are paying attention. You know, between Filkins and Rohde, I’m starting to warm up to the Times a little. At least until the next al-Qaeda early warning system alert goes up. What’s going on … when even the AP’s Kabul bureau seems to be starting to get it? * Though maybe not as far from Stockholm, New York, your town as some people would like to think. Yes, we’re still having this conversation in 2009.
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POPSList of shows Obama has control of
America’s Funniest Home Videos…………Segment Brothers and Sisters…………………………Script, tag Castle……………………………………………Tag Cougar Town…………………………………..Tag Dancing With the Stars……………………..Segment, tag Desperate Housewives………………………Script, tag Eastwick………………………………………..Tag Extreme Makeover: Home Edition………..Story line, tag Grey’s Anatomy……………………………….Script, tag Hank……………………………………………..Tag Modern Family…………………………………Tag Private Practice………………………………..Script, tag Scrubs……………………………………………Tag The Forgotten…………………………………..Script, tag Ugly Betty……………………………………….Script, tag All My Children………………………………….Script, tag General Hospital………………………………..Script, tag One Life to Live…………………………………Script, tag The View………………………………………….Segment, tag Jimmy Kimmel Live!…………………………..Segment, tag NBC 30 Rock…………………………………………..Script, tag Access Hollywood………………………………Segment, tag Community………………………………………Script, tag Heroes…………………………………………….Script, tag Parks and Recreation………………………….Script, tag The Biggest Loser………
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POPSSharpton/Jackson Ask NFL To Block Limbaugh Bid The latest complaints came a day after executive director of the NFL Players Association, DeMaurice Smith, urged players to speak out against Limbaugh's bid. "I have asked our players to embrace their roles not only in the game of football but also as players and partners in the business of the NFL," Smith said in a statement Sunday. "They risk everything to play this game, they understand that risk and they live with that risk and its consequences for the rest of their life. "We also know that there is an ugly part of history and we will not risk going backwards, giving up giving in or lying down to it.
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