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POPSPalin's Blown Opportunity on Energy Independence "According to Senator Ron Wyden, the Alaskan gas slated for Asia between 2009 and 2011 could meet the annual consumption of 1.4 million American families. The Oregon Democrat has accused Palin of a "major contradiction" between her support for gas exports and campaign emphasis on more drilling to slake US energy needs. "It's pretty outrageous to scare Americans about energy shortages while she has been approving export of billions of cubic feet of natural gas that could be providing energy to homes in Alaska and the lower 48 states," he said. "
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POPSHow low can we go? The mavericks using low road Rove tactics to divide country at the worst possible time. I'm sure Bin Ladin is saying "mission accomplished."
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POPSIs McCain Auditioning? A careful reading of the slime McCain is slinging around these days sounds mighty familiar. I suspect he's trying out for a pundits job at Fox Noise. "You Decide".
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POPSFox News Upset Over Un-Retouched Palin Photo "It's a clear slap in the face!! We're talking unwanted facial hair, pores, wrinkles... this is a gross slap in the face to Sarah Palin!" "Any woman who sees this cover would be shocked and horrified! " Yeah, I'm totally shocked and horrified!! *LOOOL* The childish antics of the American voting show, never ceases to amaze me. Hahaha!¨Go to the site and watch the video. :lol: *chuckle* Clip Song
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POPSPalin revives McCarthyism "Today, with Fox News, talk radio and a right-wing blogsphere, there is an atmosphere and core of support for this type of thing. Sarah Palin seems like the missing link"
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POPSMcCain brags up Palin's non-existent pipeline Tells Hannity "she knows more about energy than probably anyone else" and "was responsible for ... a $40 billion pipeline bringing natural gas from Alaska to the lower 48." Only problem: It doesn't exist, and may never be built.
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POPSDon't Ignore the Violence Against Women's Act As an example, Kathleen Savio, Drew Peterson's third wife, demanded justice. She wrote letters to the Will County State's Attorney's Office regarding her dangerous and life threatning situation. She contacted police. Her letters and pleas fell on deaf ears. After the death of Kathleen Savio, the family continued to demand answers. The door of the legal system was slammed in their face. It would take Stacy Peterson to vanish before relatives of Kathleen's such as who shared documents with Fox News and Greta that an outside medial exaimner was hired to determine the cause of death.
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POPSSAVING OUR ECONOMY, What's Next? Get your VCRs cranked up to record this show. It's one of the BEST explainations of how we got into this BAILOUT mess. Record it and share it with others...
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POPSCitizen Journalism And Steve Jobbs It is simply silly to decry "citizen journalism" because one "citizen journalist" got the story wrong, intentionally or otherwise. Actually, the term "citizen journalism" is silly. It is a way for big media to differentiate themselves from the "citizens". People say things on the street. People say things in their home, at work, on the train, and in email, Twitter and on their blogs. This is all information. The fact that it continues to be necessary to think about what you hear and run it through filters is no different for any information source. I certainly would never take a CNN, or Fox or MSNBC news story as gospel. Would you?
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POPSBank Loans Have Not 'Dried Up' Such alarming comments never mention any facts. Why not? As Neil Cavuto recently noted on Fox Business News, the Fed reports bank loans every week. Contrary to many comments, consumer and industrial loans actually increased in the latest week. Troubled giant banks have cut back on lending, but smaller banks have picked up the slack. Consumer and real estate loans dipped insignificantly through Sept. 17, remaining much higher than they were a year earlier. If all the recent hysterical chatter about lending being "frozen" or "shut down" refers to anything real, it is not about banks loans (through Sept. 17) but about such arcane financial markets as asset-backed commercial paper or loans between banks. But this too is mainly about financial firms, not Main Street. Non-financial commercial paper increased from $156 billion at the start of the year to more than $204 billion from Sept. 3 to Sept. 17, dipping only modestly since then.
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POPSBig Difference in Post-Debate Spin Does Ifill Have a Conflict of Interest? The internet has been buzzing with charges that tonight's debate moderator, Gwen Ifill, has a conflict of interest because she is writing a book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, that is due to be released on inauguration day in 2009. If nothing else, it creates the appearance of a conflict of interest, much as would a journalist's participation in a political rally or partisan political activity. This is the view taken by the Columbia Journalism Review: Gwen Ifill has done solid, important journalism. She’ll likely be a good, tough, and neutral moderator to the vice-presidential debate. Let’s set that aside, for now. Conflict of interest is often about appearances. There appears, to us, to be a conflict in Ifill moderating tomorrow night’s vice presidential debate. http://volokh.com/posts/chain_1222978481.shtml
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POPSConservatives Should Neither Be Seen Nor Heard I know I would be severely annoyed if I traveled to hear someone speak only to have them drowned out by protesters, but it should work both ways. Freedom of speech, but conducted in an orderly fashion. However, the "Fairness Doctrine" really bugs me.
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POPSSteve Fossett's Belongings Possibly Found in California Forest Morrow then brought the items back home to his wife, a local fire captain, Mammoth Lakes Police Chief Randy Schienle told FOX News, correcting earlier reports that she found the cards and bills.He then turned the items over to local police Wednesday after unsuccessful attempts to contact Fossett's family.
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POPSTroubles Right here in Media City - With a Capital P and we're Alin because its Palin
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POPS Thoughts on the Bailout Defeat "A number of Republican House members and staff, along with others who are plugged in, are telling me that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats will come back with a new bill that includes all the left-wing stuff that was scrubbed from the bill that was defeated today in the House. As this scenario goes, the House Democrats need 218 votes, and they have to pick up a number of black and Hispanic House members who jumped ship because the Wall Street provisions, in their view, were too benign. So things like the bankruptcy judges setting mortgage terms and rates, the ACORN slush-fund spending, the union proxy for corporate boards, stricter limits on executive compensation, and much larger equity ownership of selling banks through warrants will all find itself back in the new bill. Of course, this scenario will lose more Republican votes. But insiders tell me President Bush will take Secretary Paulson’s advice and sign that kind of legislation."