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POPSUnion on Union Violence Note this is a dispute between two unions, which is mentioned in the fourth paragraph. Where is the brotherhood and solidarity? The leader of the Longshoremen's Union, Richard Trumka, is a special guest at President Obama's speech tonight.
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POPSOn Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs
This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep. I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin's egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell. Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful.? For now, though, they need warriors to protect them from the predators. "Then there are the wolves," the old war veteran said, "and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy." Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.
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POPSBristol won't give sex talk at Wash. U. Dr. Piven calls for armed insurrection and when attention is brought to her, the messenger is ridiculed. But when a young lady offers her experience as a single mother, that is too controversial for public speech. We hear that Liberals are kind and tolerant, but folks who shut this public forum are just control freaks. And they don't even have to cry "Racist Sexist Homophobe" anymore. Mere controversy is now the standard for shutting down debate.
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POPSDirt Pollution Down on the Farm Tilling dirt makes dust. So let's call it pollution and demonize the people that feed our country. And tax them for daring to make dust. This makes perverted sense in that the same agency already deemed CO2 to be a pollutant, why not dirt?
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POPSCalling in a Fatwa on Themselves. Here's a bit more ammo for the radical Islamists. Full face pictures of Prophet Mohammad. Not cartoons, but reverent paintings drawn by fellow Muslims. Inconvenient?
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POPSThey Do Things Differently in Mindinao Dirty politics doesn't mean breaking into a rival party headquarters, it involves killing everyone (including a dozen journalists) in a motorcade. About 7,100 of the 7,107 islands are mostly inhabited by kind, civil people. The other places are known for kidnappings of foreigners and continual civil war. There is another characteristic of that minority that is mentioned in the article. Bet you can't guess what it is...
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POPSLearn to Rescue Yourselves I'd liked to have seen FEMA issue a release like this before hurricane season. We still want to believe a magical white stallion will rescue us no matter how little we do to help ourselves. FTA: "“Within 72 to 98 hours from the time of impact of a disaster, you only have each other to depend on for help,” Cruz told The STAR in an interview. “People are so reliant on (hotlines like) 911, thinking it’s (rescue) going to happen (soon). The fact is it’s not,” he added.
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POPSAnger in France and Poland after Polanski arrest At least Reuters puts the blame on the "political elite". A U.S. arrest warrant has existed since 1978 for Mr. Polanski. It's no secret that he's wanted. He travels to Switzerland, which has an extradition treaty with the U.S. and gets arrested. The elites have a major panty wad. I guess that whole "rule of law" thing doesn't apply when an artist is involved. He played the system for 31 years and got a bit too arrogant for even the Europeans.
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POPSHysteria, not H1N1, taxing healthcare An outbreak of hovering parents nationwide causes the truly ill to wait for care. There are fees for unnecessarily setting off burglar alarms and fire alarms, how about private MD's charging more for Helicopter Hannah bringing in her child during an epidemic of a viral disease which has no cure when the child is merely in discomfort. What passes as "education" by the MSM is often just scaremongering to lift ratings. Maybe a set of guidelines for when to actually seek medical help in a report warning of deaths of toddlers would be responsible.
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POPSMD's Intentionally End Lives in 1 in 6 UK Deaths The last paragraph is really shocking. Before the whole debate over state healthcare started in the US, 16.5% all deaths were physician assisted. And that's only mentioned in passing, not as the lead in the article.
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POPSWhen the "option" to die becomes a duty Of course the law was proposed as giving a choice to die with dignity, but appears to be on the road to becoming a case of "We will not treat you, so it's your choice to die in pain or commit suicide - which we'll foot the bill for." The spokesman for the State health plan called the letter " a public relations blunder and something the state is 'working on"'. Apologising for the manner in which the actions are communicated is NOT the same as apologizing for the action. Still, that's all the State has done.
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POPSDark Days Taken from the blog of an Iranian programmer, not a politicial operative. The original post is a firsthand account of election day.
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POPSObama: It's OK to borrow to pay for health care Government will be pay as you go, except for this huge budget busting mashup of Frankenstein and the DMV. Is the President just rubbing our noses in it with two faced stuff like this, or do we subjects even matter?
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POPSCalifornia contemplates ultimate reform - no welfare To scare folks on the right, they threatened to cut prison funding and schools before the vote. Now they're threatening (?) to cut the welfare program to anger the folks on the left. Get the idea we're all being played no matter what side of the fence we're on?
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POPSMLK Children Abusing IP Law (Again) To Try To Squeeze Money Out Of Anyone Who Honors Him From Techdirt:: " Of course, this also highlights a fun point for those who pitch the idea that copyright should last forever and descend to the heirs of the content creator. As the ownership gets spread out among younger generations, getting them to agree on anything will be quite unlikely. In any case, it's a sad "legacy" the MLK estate is leaving here, concerning the overly aggressive "protection" of copyrights against those who clearly wish to honor the man's own legacy. "
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POPSSoda Tax Weighed to Pay for Health Care This is from the breathless group that warned about the dangers of movie popcorn and fettucine alfredo. They used to be humorous, but now they are helping to find more things to tax.
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