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POPSChicago Had Another Great One Chicago ... long before it was fascinated by Barak Obama it had the good fortune to be enchanted by another coloured man who was most insulted and adored and respected too by everyone that had an ear for music, the greatest entertainer of his times, the inimitable ugly and lovely Sammy Davis Jr. You can easily find him in You Tube, Google and nuTsie.com. You will discover a new world ... the world of our times ... am 72.
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POPSGermany’s Green Party Elects First Ethnic Turk as Leader With a conservative party’s choice of Angela Merkel to run as chancellor in 2005 — a successful gambit — and now an ethnic Turk at the helm of an influential party, it appears that German society is slowly breaking with the past, when women were inconspicuous and immigrants’ voices were seldom heard.
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POPSTrock (Timelord Rock) continues: The band also has a new song called "Exterminate Regenerate" - it's got a synth flair and is actually quite a bit better than "Blink." You can hear it on the band's MySpace page. What can we expect next from Trock? Hopefully a huge upswelling of tragic tales of love and betrayal featuring the Master, along with some angry breakup songs from Sarah Jane. I am prepared to fully back this awesome new trend, as long as nobody spins it off into Twock - you know, Torchwood rock. I am not ready to face that quite yet. Thanks, Ria! For Further Listening: Chameleon Circuit MySpace Page
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POPSNovelist-Screenwriter Michael Crichton, Dies At 66 Crichton would visit that theme again with his triumphant Jurassic Park -- the story of a billionaire entrepreneur who tries to thwart nature and evolution by creating a theme park of genetically engineered dinosaurs. Again, the villain was of our own creation and just doing what nature dictated. In addition to being a prolific novelist, Crichton was an accomplished screenwriter (Extreme Close-Up, Twister) and director (Coma) -- the latter also a scientific cautionary tale by a British MD turned writer, Robin Cooke. He believed that there was a phenomenon he called "consensus science" that invented or exaggerated the existence or effects of such things as global warming and second-hand smoke. No less a believer than Al Gore dismissed Crichton, and presumably his 2004 novel State of Fear, by telling a U.S. House committee: "The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor....
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POPSNovember Surprises In a desperate bid to close the gap, Christopher Hitchens says the McCain camp—whoops, unnamed sources!—are leaking some of their most lurid smears yet. MORE DETAILS AT SOURCE
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POPSCasino of History Whatever this Monday's headlines and soundbites are thrown to the pack for rabid hysteria, always worth stepping back for a cooler look and remembering that the longer view, aka history, matters more than ever.
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POPSSarah Palin speaks on the First Amendment "If convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."
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POPSDoes Sarah Palin Even Understand the 1st Amendment This is what happens in a country where an icon of wisdom can "credibly" be a Forrest Gump...a nation in which intelligence is ridiculed and suspected as subversive and high social achievement is to be counted among the good ol' boys. Sarah Palin doesn't even understand what can be learned in an elementary civics or US history class. Yet she is running to be Vice President of the USA. She is WAY out of her depth and yet some conservatives see her as the GOP's standard bearer for 2012. That's pathetic.
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POPSWho Broke Health Care? More generally, we all need to ask why politicians assert that American health care is broken, and what agenda does it serve.
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POPSTired of Divisive Whining - Not John Do these guys have anything to say? Even republicans I know who are voting for them think this is divisive and bad for the country. What really disturbs me is the continued mantra - "the full extent of the relationship with Senator Obama is not known." In his mind no explanation will be good enough. It is the most despicable, divisive and detestable kind of attempted smear. Forget that Obama, the campaign, FactCheck.org, and many media outlets have said that the relationship consisted of participation on the charitable
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POPSPowell Backs Obama and Criticizes McCain Tactics Mr. Powell told Tom Brokaw, the host of “Meet the Press,” that he had been disturbed in recent weeks by the negative tone of Mr. McCain’s campaign, particularly its focus on Mr. Obama’s passing relationship with William Ayers, a 1960s radical and founder of the Weather Underground. The McCain campaign has sought to promote the idea that Mr. Obama is “palling around with terrorists,” in the words of Mr. McCain’s running mate, Governor Sarah Palin, because of Mr. Obama’s weak links to Mr. Ayers. “Mr. McCain says that he’s a washed-out terrorist,” Mr. Powell said. “Well, then, why do we keep talking about him?” After the program’s taping, Mr. Powell told reporters that the thought of attacking Mr. Obama for Mr. Ayers was “over the top.”
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POPSPalin and George Wallace Palin courts racism by using Wallace's rhetoric. Makes a good point that counterculture of 60's bears no resemblance to Islamic jihadists.
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POPSThe right answer on Acorn Forget the partisan bull. If ACORN is paying people based on either quotas or the number of registrations submitted, that is wrong, stupid and bad policy. And if they are on Obama's side, they aren't doing him any favors. Stop whining about partisan politics and being defensive, tell us how you operate and what you do.
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POPSJustice is Blind? SEIU & ACORN Pull the Wool Over Supreme Court's Eyes... Greta Van Susteran has found interesting parallels between SEIU and ACORN. SEIU filed a brief in the Supreme Court case that decided to let Ohio's Secretary of State off the hook on the voter-fraud issue. As it turns out, Wade Rathke (of SDS, 1960s) started both groups, SEIU and ACORN. Small world, ain't it? Greta would like some help in researching this further...
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