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POPSThe folks on the right, are not too bright... Deep in the Heart of Texas you know all those mountains of text - letters, published opinions, books, obscure documents like the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution - written by our country's founders that decry the establishment of a state religion, and take great measures to ensure churches and states did not mix? Yeah, that stuff won't be in Texas (and many national) textbooks. Who's teaching your kids again? (stop by the link and add your voice)
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POPSabout that "warming" in DC... I won't try to explain the science, where climate change produces bigger storms, with greater precipitation, and that precipitation in February, when it's still cold enough for water to freeze, produces snow. Nor will I point out that we had a week of 60 degree weather in January, one of the warmest in 2,000 years. Not to people who can see this happening and willfully disbelieve something is wrong.
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POPSBeaten Census though technically (barely) legal, it's intentionally deceptive. What's your opinion of intentionally deceptive fund raisers? Would you give them money, even if you agree in principle, when you know they're disingenuous? What's your opinion of the people who are intentionally deceptive to get your money? Are they likely to be deceitful in other areas?
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POPSsobering staggering numbers, presented through a clear, rational lens
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POPSit's time to move out we're considered perhaps disaffected teen-agers. Why do we want privacy? Do we have something to hide? Better read our diaries and e-mails. What are we buying? What are we reading? Who are our friends? Tag the car with a GPS so we can be monitored. Just in case we're thinking of doing something that might embarrass them. We need to be watched. For our own protection, of course.
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POPSYou bailed out my mistake, I deserve a bonus for that we (you, I, us, the taxpayers) gave the "too big to fail" banks our money so they wouldn't collapse, collapse under their own weight from their own mistakes created by their own greed, and now that they're solvent again, they're rewarding themselves for the fuck up, instead of paying us back
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POPSdo who I say, not what I do in closing: "I've long thought that the solution to the cheap, cost-free moralizing that leads very upstanding people like Karl Rove to want to ban same-sex marriages (which they don't want to enter into themselves, and thus cost them nothing) is to have those same "principles" apply consistently to all marriage laws. If Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and their friends and followers actually were required by law to stay married to their wives -- the way that "traditional marriage" was generally supposed to work -- the movement to have our secular laws conform to "traditional marriage" principles would almost certainly die a quick, quiet and well-deserved death." http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/pages/2010-California-Protection-of-Marriage-Act/
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POPSWhat would Jesus buy? Does Black Friday mean more to you than Good Friday? Why are we upset that a retailer doesn't evangelize?
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POPSwho says we need reform? Wife's premiums went up 55%, co-pays doubled, have 10% "co-insurance", deductible doubled. Now paying $6k/yr for $8k max payout
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POPSWar, on Christmas "No less was Nicholas known for his zeal for the truth. He was present at the First Ecumenical Council of the 318 Fathers at Nicaea in 325; upon hearing the blasphemies that Arius brazenly uttered against the Son of God, Saint Nicholas struck him on the face. Since the canons of the Church forbid the clergy to strike any man at all, his fellow bishops were in perplexity what disciplinary action was to be taken against this hierarch whom all revered. In the night our Lord Jesus Christ and our Lady Theotokos appeared to certain of the bishops, informing them that no action was to be taken against him, since he had acted not out of passion, but extreme love and piety."
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POPSThis? You're going to cover this? so, let me get this straight - no single payer, "public" might not be an option, but one of your solutions to the problems we have with health care in this country is PAYING PEOPLE TO PRAY FOR YOU?!?
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POPSthe Bad Sleep Well (loss "mitigation") the title of an old Japanese movie, in case you were wondering how anyone at Bank of America could sleep at night. Thousands of loans where both the lender and the borrower could have been helped by modification end up in foreclosure anyway. Ever wonder why?
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POPSAll Holidays! All the time! I'm going caroling at the pool, dressing up and going trick-or-treating for Labor Day and baking pumpkin pie in April. From the people who bring you Back to School sales in June - this is worse.
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POPSBugs in new iPhone OS 3 Landscape keyboard! Cut & paste! More new APIs than you can shake a developer at! Everybody's all hot and bothered over the iPhone OS 3.0 release - but what about the numerous bugs?.
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POPSWhy I like Woot There’s only one gadget column on the web with the unique perspective that comes from being transported through time to discover that you can no longer control your bowels.
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