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POPSShould Kids Recite Flag Code Along With The Pledge Of Allegiance The first Flag Code came during a time of similar national upheaval. In 1942, Congress passed the first resolution to endorse flag etiquette, including the proper way to fold, display and dispose of the flag. Massachusetts entered the debate in 1970, when Leominister teenager Valerie Goguen was sentenced to six months in jail for using an American flag patch on a pair of jeans. The Supreme Court overturned his conviction in the 1974 case Smith v. Goguen. Goguen still lives in Leominster, and is still adamant that the case is about love for the flag.
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POPSBeer Etiquette A report on beer etiquette in Europe: What's the tradition on buying each other rounds, who pays, who drinks the most, etc... Click through to the pdf report, it contains pretty graphs & more detailed stats. http://www.scribd.com/doc/2505479/Beer-Etiquette-Report
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POPS"No Free Lunch" With The President at WH “I’m sure they have their political reasons for doing that, but I think it’s not what quote, hospitality, unquote is all about,” said Letitia Baldrige, who headed Jacqueline Kennedy’s White House staff in the early 1960s. “We’ve got to relax about this. To have people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable.” http://www.politico.com/singletitlevideo.html?bcpid=1155201977&bctid=31267189001
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POPSCarla Bruni Performs at Nelson Mandela Birthday Concert
" named after his prisoner number on Robben Island. Mr Mandela’s brother died of Aids. Although it was perhaps unprecedented for a First Lady of a great power to sing at a pop concert, France appears to have developed etiquette for the event. Bruni did not hug " much less kiss " Stewart, either before or after their set, and barely swayed as she performed her songs. Her husband, sitting half way back in the glorious golden clam-shell that is Radio City Music Hall, clapped but did not budge from his seat when others rose. As soon as she finished her performance, the couple left to catch a plane for France " drawing several previously unidentified secret service agents out of surrounding seats. Her early departure meant that she missed the grand finale, when all the artists danced rapturously together as Stevie Wonder sang Happy Birthday to Mr Mandela. Stewart, who has been writing unpublished songs to Bruni’s French lyrics in recent years . . .
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POPSRespect For The Flag It's all spelled out in Title 4, United States Code, Chapter 1 (see http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode04/usc_sup_01_4_10_1.html).. (By the way, that's former President Bush desecrating a flag in that photo). This morning, in the neighborhood park where there was a fireworks display last night, dozens of rumpled flags were everywhere - on the ground, in trash cans, along with flag-imprinted paper plates, napkins and other such stuff. Take a look at one photographer's view of how the flag is respected at http://www.sethbutler.com/tattered/. Fortunately for the armchair patriots and chickenhawk generals, there are no criminal penalties associated with Title 4 USC1. If congress were to enact some stiff fines for violations, the federal defecit would disappear overnight. The full statute, also known as the Flag Code, can be found at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode04/usc_sup_01_4_10_1.html.
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POPSPropaganda Design & Etiquette: Vintage GDR Sports Posters Propaganda is a type of message aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of people. Instead of impartially providing information, propaganda is often deliberately misleading, using logical fallacies, that, while sometimes convincing, are not necessarily valid.
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POPSSex Etiquette: 10 Sexual Lessons to be Learned While sex with your man or women doesn’t have to be polite and demure, there are a few rules, lessons that you should follow for better sex etiquette. Here are some helpful rules for better manners before, during and after sex:
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POPSFreedom without order... Some interesting thoughts... that I tend to agree with. Republicanism seems to rejoice in the abstract: they value "ideas" above their practical implication. While idealism is fine: it must be leavened with pragmatism.
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POPSEtiquette lessons for gay & transgender monks continues: Thailand has a very large and visible population of transgender men, and Phra Vajiramedhi acknowledged that it was difficult to exclude them from the monkhood but he hoped his course could at least persuade them to curb their more extrovert habits.
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POPSWhen That Hope'nChange Fee-Vah Strikes *Here’s the songlist. Believe it or not, Jake Tapper’s eating crap from the left for blogging this story even though, had Bush pulled something like this, (a) it would be in constant rotation on MSNBC and likely have been the top story on “Countdown,” and (b) the same nutroots morons who are hassling JT would have wet themselves with glee over the hay they could make from it. Exit question: How’d Team Barry forget to pre-load that ass-covering speech on race he gave last year — which, I believe, was the last time he dared to utter a syllable on the subject? Isn’t that supposed to be the greatest work of American literature since “Huckleberry Finn” or something? Way to cheap out on the Queen! http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/01/confirmed-queens-ipod-includes-obamas-speeches/ * Obama's iPod gift includes 40 Broadway show tunes http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_en_mu/eu_obama_queen_s_song_list HT: suitably flip
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POPSIs It Wrong to Correct Someone's Grammar? My kids and grands get so angry at me when I correct them ... but like the article says, "As standards decline, civilization declines." Maybe this makes me a stickler, or a prude ... but this is the way I operate. I can speak slang and I keep up with the meanings of all the new youth and tech lingo. That doesn't mean I have to say (this on top of my list of phrases that make me cringe), "I'm done!"
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POPSread and search books online google has an online book search that allows you to read books online. scroll through your choices or do a search for your fav book
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POPSEtiquette for online discussion groups After having participated in Second Life-based discussion groups for several months, I have a few suggestions for others so that the group experience is positive for everyone.
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