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POPSGulf War syndrome is real "I've had vets go to the VA and be turned away and told that this is something that doesn't exist," said John Schwertfager, vice president of the National Gulf War Resource Center, a veterans advocacy group.
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POPSHagan Drops Lawsuit Against Dole It's a pity this lawsuit was dropped. Had the suit been successful, it might have set a precedent that would have made outrageous campaign commercials prohibitive. The amount of outright libel and slander and mendacious innuendo that goes on in political campaigns needs to be made costly.
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POPSPaying for long-term care St. Martha wants to know if any property was gifted or sold in the last 5 years. That has me worried because if they can get my house through Zofia because she signed the deed to my house over in 2004 almost 4 years ago I'll keep her here until I don't have that to worry about.
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POPSBurma sentences blogger to 20 years Nay Phone Latt was sentenced for using the internet. There is an urgent need now for bloggers all over the world to demonstrate their solidarity with Nay Phone Latt by posting his photo on their blog and by writing to Burmese embassies worldwide to request his release. This website has a picture of Nay Phone Latt http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-nay-phone-latt-sentenced-to-twenty-years-and-six-months/ Type his name into a search engine to learn more about his case.
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POPSPepsi and Gay Rights Looks like I'm buying Pepsi! I got this in an email from a friend (we have different views) now I am for Gay Rights...all of them! It doesn't bother me that I got this email I mean this is a free country they can take action on whatever they want, I just wish that this much energy would be put into something better such as..oh I don't know making laws harsher for child molesters? That's just me.....
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POPSWomen finally allowed on Jerusalem Buses "When Black-Eyed Peas played in Jerusalem, the bus company photo-shopped Fergie out of the band posters. Boy, was Fergie fuming like an angry minx about this when she came out on stage. Clearly she likes to be on the bus, in the driver's seat. Time was running out for the youthful party, so they approached an advocacy group, the Israel Religious Action Center, whose lawyer Einat Hurvitz rushed the case to the high court on Nov. 8, three days before the vote. Next morning, the judge heard the case and scolded Egged's behavior as "shameful'. Wake Up, Jerusalemites rushed out and plastered their posters on as many buses as they could find, and a sympathetic Israeli press covered the event, giving them more P.R. then they could ever have dreamed of."
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POPSDarfur activists pitch tents in Washington Former U.S. Special Representative to Sudan Roger Winter said that he urged activists to widen their advocacy from Darfur to Sudan as a whole. Winter noted, “Sudan can get much worse. Note that I did not say Darfur can get much worse; I said Sudan can get much worse.”
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POPSLobbyist Reactions to Obama Victory Roll Call's Kate Ackley reports on reactions from Washington's advocacy industry. A notable: Dan Mica, a former congressman who now runs the National Credit Union Association. “They’re talking about having complete and total transparency in advocacy," he says, "That’s tremendous."
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POPSHow Long to Shed the Illusion? <"A creature of universities and churches and nonprofit institutions, the Illinois senator, with the blessing and acquiescence of his upscale supporters, has glided past these hard distinctions. On the face of it, it must be surmised that his affluent devotees are ready to foot the bill for the new order, or are convinced that after victory the old ways will endure, and that Mr. Obama will govern from the center. It was no accident that the white working class was the last segment of the population to sign up for the Obama journey. Their hesitancy was not about race. They were men and women of practicality; they distrusted oratory, they could see through the falseness of the solidarity offered by this campaign.">
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POPSArchitect of the Culture of Death: Peter Singer Singer writes, in Rethinking Life and Death: Human babies are not born self-aware or capable of grasping their lives over time. They are not persons. Hence their lives would seem to be no more worthy of protection that the life of a fetus.
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POPSThey can't be serious Mickey Mouse is registered, Cinderella is voting. ACORN is giving out cigarettes to homeless men to register and vote for THEIR candidate and somehow the GOP is to blame for voter suppression. I tell you what, produce Mickey Mouse and I will give you the benefit of the doubt.
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POPSAnd Now for Something Different - Good News - Sort of... WASHINGTON, Oct 17, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- New Children's Advocacy Organization to Provide Legal Assistance for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in U.S. Microsoft Corp., internationally acclaimed actress Angelina Jolie, and more than 25 law firms and corporate law departments announced today the formation of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a new national children's advocacy initiative with the mission of providing pro bono legal counsel to unaccompanied immigrant children in the United States so that they are treated fairly and compassionately in our immigration system.
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POPSAnother Freedom Lost during Obama Campaign Richmond Virginia Election officials wish to tell voters what clothing they can wear. We have seen the attempt by this congress to take away our right to bear arms. We have heard talk from this congress to silence opposing views to their socialistic policies by enacting a fairness doctrine to police the airwaves. We have seen the government takeover of private business with this so called bail out bill, and now we see the assault on freedom of speech being enacted against our citizenry. In fact I may even go as far to say it would appear that the only candidate we are allowed to vote for is Obama from all the news coverage he seems to get. And with his own organization attempting to flood the voter registrations with bogus registrants, it surely does make one think what the "h" is going on in this country?
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POPSBottled water has contaminants too, study finds Love the spokesperson. A contaminant is not a contaminant until it exceeds recommended levels. Does anyone have a lot of faith in a body that has consistently taken aboard test results that were not adequate. Same for the Federal Standards mob.
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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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POPSElderly gays forging new alliances There are over 2.5 million gay seniors in the U.S. All of them have lived through the days when being gay meant facing discrimination, job loss, familial animosity, alienation of friends etc. But times have changed, and gay seniors have new recognition as important members of society. Sage, is a new organization, supported by AARP that helps gay seniors live the kind of lives to which they are entitled. Finally, elders who happen to be gay, can join us younger gays in taking our place in the new freedoms, being granted us in the ever expanding acceptance and tolerance of society. Things are far from perfect, but we are definitely getting there.
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POPSWho is Left? "This touches directly on the question of what, beyond the platitudes of unity, hope, and change, Obama himself believes in. His voting record is one indication. Another is his intellectual evolution."
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POPSA Global Killer Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are giving back to the country where their 3-year-old daughter Zahara was born. The couple have donated $2 million to help fight HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia, said the Global Health Committee, which announced the donation by the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
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