masbury

Real Name: Monte Asbury
Location: Washington, Iowa USA
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POPSGerman military leader resigns over Afghanistan airstrike
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by masbury  Yesterday 9:54 PM    5
 Truth and war are mutually exclusive.
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POPSHow farm subsidies aggravate world hunger
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by masbury  11-25-2009    3
 Subsidized grain gets sold or given away to poor countries, driving local farmers there out of business. Then, when food prices rise worldwide, poor people cannot afford imported food and no farms are left to grow it locally.
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POPSYour Senator is probably a millionaire
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by masbury  11-25-2009    2
 These people have too much money to be representative of Americans generally, and they make too much of their money by investments regulated (or not) by laws of their own making.
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POPSFamily didn't sue after parade accident, and still wouldn't
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by masbury  11-25-2009   
 Ordinary people sometimes still do the right thing. Cheers for these good folks!
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POPSFoxNews Chicago: 193% of Republicans support Palin, Huckabee, Romney
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by masbury  11-23-2009    1
 Seriously, now, is this a quality operation or what?
2
POPSPublic Option is not taxpayer funded, despite FoxNews pitch to the contrary
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by masbury  11-23-2009   
 Fair and balanced pitches error once again.
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POPSDomestic Violence Linked to Football Upsets
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by masbury  11-23-2009   
 Local-team upsets match to an 8% upswing in abuse
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POPSGOP demands six weeks to debate health bill they've already decided to oppose
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by masbury  11-22-2009    3
 Why do Senate Republicans need six weeks to debate and consider the legislation if they're already determined to vote against it?
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POPSAid, Not Troops, in Afghanistan
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by masbury  11-21-2009   
 I added my name to this letter to the President from over a dozen Christian leaders. Perhaps you'd like to do the same. Click thru to read the entire letter and then to sign it, if you wish.
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POPSArlen Specter: We Should Not Send More Troops To Afghanistan
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by masbury  11-19-2009   
 What good would it do?
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POPSFox News displays old campaign footage to claim Palin is getting ‘huge crowds’ at her book signings
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by masbury  11-19-2009    2
 FCC complaint filed.
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POPSADL: Beck is top hate monger
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by masbury  11-18-2009    8
 Anti-Defamation League labels Glenn Beck the most toxic media hate monger operating in the USA today. And that's saying quite a lot!
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POPSShirt's mesage: Pray for Obama's death
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by masbury  11-18-2009    7
 I cannot think of a message that more stridently pisses on the example and teaching of Jesus Christ.
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POPSUn-insured twice as likely to die during ER care
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by masbury  11-18-2009   
 No Remarks
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POPSProminent conservatives urge GOP to stop "scaremongering"
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by masbury  11-17-2009    2
 David Keene, Bob Barr, Grover Norquist urge Gitmo trials and detention move to USA
3
POPSBachman rally may have violated ethics rules
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by masbury  11-17-2009    1
 But what's a small thing like ethics to a zealot for righteousness?
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POPSSave $110 Billion or Spend $6.3 Trillion?
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by masbury  11-16-2009    2
 Many say we can't afford the House's health care bill, which the CBO says will result in a net budget effect over 10 years of MINUS $110 Billion - a terrific return on our money. Yet we swallow the Pentagon's budget with scarcely a murmer, blithely spending $6.3 TRILLION over the same time, and ponder sending more troops abroad. It's absurd!
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POPS'The wisest reflection I've seen on Ft. Hood so far ...'
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by masbury  11-14-2009    7
 Brilliant insight on the white privilege of dissociation.
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POPSA Soldier is a Terrible Thing to Waste
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by masbury  11-14-2009    1
 Maybe Veterans Day is exactly the right time to engage in some truth-telling.
8
POPSArea Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines the Constitution To Be
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by masbury  11-14-2009    2
 Outstanding satire, well earned.
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POPSGood things agreed upon in the healthcare bills so farare
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by masbury  11-12-2009    1
 These are significant improvements, and will probably be included in the final form of any bill that passes.
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POPSLack of health insurance kills 2,000 vets each year
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by masbury  11-11-2009    2
 Four times as many as die in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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POPSOnly tiny fraction of House plan is "government-run health care"
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by masbury  11-9-2009    1
 Too bad, I say. But Republicans are crowing about nothing.
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POPSAmerican Muslims at Ft. Hood condemn shootings
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by masbury  11-7-2009    3
 “The Islamic community strongly condemns this cowardly attack, which was particularly heinous in that it was directed at the all-volunteer army that protects our nation,”
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POPSItaly Convicts CIA Agents of Kidnapping
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by masbury  11-4-2009    1
 Direct challenge to extraordinary rendition.
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POPSElection: Democrats gain two in House
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by masbury  11-4-2009    5
 Was 256, will be 258. Both will support public option.
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POPSIsraeli settlers forcibly evict E. Jerusalem homeowners, seize home
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by masbury  11-4-2009    1
 No nation but Israel recognizes Israel's claim to East Jerusalem, yet settlers, backed by the Supreme Court of Israel, continue to put non-Jewish families on the street and move into their homes.
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POPSMilitary suicides fuel worry that military personnel too strained for Afghanistan surgern
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by masbury  11-3-2009    5
 Wonder what it takes for this to matter enough to foreign policy leaders.
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POPSAfghanistan policy may lead to civil war unless Afghans brought to the table
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by masbury  11-3-2009   
 We have a military policy designed for conquering nations, but Afghanistan's problems are civilian ones that will only be solved by getting the Afghan people into the process.
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POPSCDC: Paid sick leave needed to slow spread of H1N1
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by masbury  11-3-2009    4
 But tens of millions must work even when contagious because their companies require it or they cannot afford to miss a day's wages. Do sick people have to work in EU nations, or is the USA unique in this?
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POPSClinton: Israel must make greater efforts toward peace
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by masbury  11-2-2009    2
 No Remarks
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POPSPresident salutes fallen soldiers at Dover
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by masbury  10-29-2009    18
 As I recall, we weren't even permitted to see footage of their caskets being unloaded not too long ago.
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POPSFoxNews pounds ACORN story - oh wait - there is no ACORN story
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by masbury  10-29-2009    8
 No new developments on ACORN for two weeks, but it came up 22 times Thursday morning. Meanwhile, FN makes only 2 mentions of the 3.5% growth in GDP that broke at 8:30AM - the first growth since the beginning of the worst recession in 70 years.
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POPSUS Diplomat Resigns Over US' Afghanistan Policy
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by masbury  10-27-2009    1
 "Like the Soviets, we continue to ... bolster a failing state ... encouraging a ... system of government unknown and unwanted by its people"
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POPS8 Soloist Secrets to Getting Your Work Done
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by masbury  10-27-2009   
 "The Soloist isn't a loner but instead is that adventuresome, creative spirit that tends to get crushed by too many meetings, interruptions and annoying co-workers."
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POPSFoxNews' War on the White House
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by masbury  10-25-2009    1
 This is not news.
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POPSFoxNews: A 24/7 Political Operation
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by masbury  10-25-2009    1
 Media Matters shows news hosts and opinion hosts pushing the same right-wing spin. Bravo to Obama for dumping them.
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POPSBiden on Cheney attacks: "Who cares?"
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by masbury  10-23-2009    2
 "So I think that is sort of irrelevant. Not sort of - I think it’s irrelevant."
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POPSUS military data-mines America's kids for war recruiting
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by masbury  10-22-2009    1
 Using data mining, stealth websites, career tests, and sophisticated marketing software ... an Army recruiter ... may know more about the kid's habits than do his own parents
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POPSPromise made, promise kept to vets on medical care
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by masbury  10-22-2009   
 President signs bill today that prevents VA medical funding from being interrupted by Congressional delay in passing a budget bill. While in the Senate, he co-sponsored the bill.
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