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POPSlincoln quote "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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POPSStep Right Up and Buy...The Holy Grail! FTA: My favorite two items are: An original TIE fighter model (with battle damage) from Star Wars (IV: A New Hope), and, even though it doesn't fit at all with anything else I've mentioned, a signed photograph of Abraham Lincoln. Anyone got $325,000 they're not doing anything with?
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POPSGOP Convention Lacks Enthusiasm I wonder if they'll realize that forced enthusiasm looks even worse than no enthusiasm? The piece also tells us that while Obama can expect good coverage during bona fide swing state Colorado's DNC, McCain's down double-digits in Minnesota -- happy photo ops aren't nearly as likely as big protests.
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POPS$10,000.00 Bill I want one. Yes - that’s a real $10,000 banknote - the largest denomination Federal Reserve Notes ever printed. They were printed up to 1945 and were issued until 1969. They are still legal tender today, however, these notes are mostly in the hands of private collectors. 4 more go 2 site.
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POPSClips from The Law of Attraction Esther & Jerry Hicks I came across the Law of Attraction in October 2007 after attending and volunteering at the First Annual Abilene Wholistic Rodeo. It's hard to start at the beginning, because in reality there is not a beginning. Every time I try to pinpoint at which time an event started in my life I realize it always started long before I ever give it credit. Supposedly Esther met Abraham in 1985 and that year I became close friends with Patri whom I met again in July 2007. She in turn brought me to a luncheon in October 2007 where I met Egan Sanders, founder of Abilene Holistic Network, who introduced met to a guide who helped me access my Akashic records.
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POPSNewsweek - television minus electricity Read the whole piece by Scott McLemee. The Newsweek article declared Lincoln the winner, by the way. (full disclosure: I am a "Facebook friend" of McLemee's, which is to say, I'm not really a friend of his at all) CLARIFICATION: He friended me after I signed up as a fan of his blog. Other than that we have had no personal contact at all.
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POPSKucinich Uses July 4 to Call for 'Rule of Law' Good on him. CNN put out a poll today showing that 69% think "the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be disappointed by the way the nation has turned out overall." Seems to me there's a way to fix that.
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POPSArmy Slams Iraq Occupation Plan Of course, Franks wasn't the only one who insisted the "major fighting was over." The President himself gave a big speech from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, where he said almost those same words exactly ; "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." Tommy Franks wasn't the only one with a terribly simplistic view of the occupation of Iraq. Of course, he'll take the flack for it. Everyone's busy pretending GWB doesn't exist now.
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POPSHarlingen Police Officer "Ambushed" Upgraded From Critical To Fair Osborne and Rubio described the shooting as an "ambush." Osborne did not say how many gunshot wounds Diaz suffered, but said he was shot multiple times in the right shoulder and forearm. One bullet grazed Diaz's head. Diaz's condition was upgraded from critical to fair early Thursday. Harlingen Assistant Police Chief Luciano Rubio confirmed that Mexican authorities helped capture Mar on Thursday in Mexico and then transferred him to U.S. custody. The FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Harlingen and Brownsville police departments assisted in retrieving him from Mexico, Rubio said. Mar was being held at the Brownsville Police Department Thursday, Rubio said. Authorities planned to keep him there overnight and hold his arraignment this morning either in Harlingen or Brownsville. Police obtained a warrant for Mar on a charge of attempted capital murder.
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POPSUnabashadly Unprincipled "Normally, flip-flopping presidential candidates have to worry about the press. Not Obama. After all, this is a press corps that heard his grandiloquent Philadelphia speech — designed to rationalize why “I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother” — then wiped away a tear and hailed him as the second coming of Abraham Lincoln. Three months later, with Wright disowned, grandma embraced and the great “race speech” now inoperative, not a word of reconsideration is heard from his media acolytes." "Remember his pledge to stick to public financing? Now flush with cash, he is the first general-election candidate since Watergate to opt out." "When it’s time to throw campaign finance reform, telecom accountability, NAFTA renegotiation or Jeremiah Wright overboard, Obama is not sentimental. He does not hesitate. He tosses lustily." Why, the man even tossed his own grandmother overboard
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POPSAfter the Primaries - Politics as Usual
Normally, flip-flopping presidential candidates have to worry about the press. Not Obama. After all, this is a press corps that heard his grandiloquent Philadelphia speech -- designed to rationalize why "I can no more disown Jeremiah Wright than I can disown my white grandmother" - then wiped away a tear and hailed him as the second coming of Abraham Lincoln. 3 months later, with Wright disowned, grandma embraced and the great "race speech" now inoperative, not a word of reconsideration is heard from his media acolytes. Worry about the press? His FISA flip-flop elicited a few grumbles, but hardly a murmur from the mainstream press. Remember his pledge to stick to public financing? Now flush with cash, he is the first general-election candidate since Watergate to opt out. Some goo-goo clean-government types chided him, but the mainstream editorialists who for years had been railing against private financing as hopelessly corrupt and corrupting evinced only the mildest disappointment.
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POPSGeorge Carlin Is Dead George Carlin died on Sunday, 24 of June 2008., aged 71. I'll miss him and his humor for years to come. There so few good comedians in this world and he was the best.
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POPSRembrandt's two renderings of the Binding of Isaac The first one is the one Rembrandt did late in his life, and it's arguably a much superior piece of art. In the early one, the image is violent and dynamic, in the later one, it's much quieter -- characterized by a sense of mourning and consolation.
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POPSTop Ten Communist Jokes Competition 
10) A KGB officer is walking in the park and he sees and old Jewish man reading a book. The KGB says "What are you reading old man?" The old man says "I am trying to teach myself Hebrew." 7) A man saves up his ruples and is finally able to buy a car in Soviet Russia. After he pays his money the he is told he will have his car in three years. "Three years!" he asks "What month?" "August" "August? What day in August?" He asks "The Second of August" is the reply "Morning or Afternoon?" "Afternoon. Why do you need to know?" "The plumber is coming in the morning." KGB says "Why are you trying to learn Hebrew? It takes years to get a visa for Israel. You would die before the paperwork got done." "I am learning Hebrew so that when I die and go to Heaven I will be able to speak to Abraham and Moses. Hebrew is the language they speak in Heaven." the old man replies. "But what if when you die you go to Hell?" asks KGB. And the old man replies, "Russian, I already know."
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POPSGeorge Carlin irreverent comedian dies Now he's probably working on a new routine with Richard Pryor, and Lenny Bruce. He was Honest, and hit some nerves that needed hitting. Sometimes the truth hurts, until you work out it's generally the same for everyone else. We're all in this together warts and all. Too many people wont talk about the Elephant in the living room. (but they're all worried that the elephant might want to use the bathroom.) George liked to tickle the elephant
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