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POPS" I am Joe Six-Pack. I am not who they think that they are talking to. Are you?" More: Joe is the guy I worked with who served in Vietnam, worked construction, had four kids, thought Portland micro-brews were for hippies and weirdos -- and told me one day about having to change churches, because "our pastor spends all his time talking about how bad the gays are, and I go to church for God, and I really don't think God cares who you sleep with or who you marry." Oh, and he went back to school at 45 to get a degree in architecture, so I guess he won't be Joe Six-Pack soon. His income will put him into that Better Class of People y'all think you're part of. Joe is a writer or an actor or an artist who waits tables, pumps gas, shelves books, does landscaping, delivers pizza, scrubs toilets, and otherwise works his or her ass off all day or night to pay the mortgage so they can continue to write or act or make art.
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POPSWhat the Non-Elite Wear You know, I think I'm wearing about fifty bucks worth of clothes right now. We liberal elitists shop at trendy little boutiques like Farm & Fleet. Real salt of the earth types wear thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and designer clothing, because they don't hate America. I'm so ashamed...
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POPSInternation News Reviews:VP candidate Palin speaks: 
Moscow was bewildered to hear McCain claim that Palin living in Alaska gave her foreign policy understanding and experience with Russia, at: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1010/42/370604.htm Al_Jazeera mentioned: anti-abortion, pro-gun, at: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/09/20089421032852646.html A must read is a UK presentation of the US election as a Hollywood movie, at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/chris_ayres/article4656307.ece A somewhat dry German political analyses got it 90% right, at: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3607679,00.html (got Hilary connection wrong, IMO) An Israeli newspaper suggested she was a Nazi-sympathizer (!!?), at: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3590992,00.html Others realized her appeal as Christian conservative, pro-oil and Obama attacker. & ? More personal "scandals"? Good USA quotes, at: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/livecoverage/2008/09/gop_convention_awaits_g
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POPSThe Wellsian not-so-new idea "When analyzing the ideas and philosophies of liberalism today, if in comparison we look back at Wells’s concept of liberal fascism, we have a very close match. Yes, Wells’s liberal fascism is still alive, but that is not what it is called - It is called “progressive.” "Wells would become more of an activist concentrating his efforts on affecting global change by offering a collection of essays, books, and novels, which often began with the world rushing to catastrophe, until people realize a better way of living. It is not surprising then to know that it was Wells who penned the slogan “The war to end all war” and that he was a member of the Research Committee for the League of Nations believing it was a beginning step to fulfillment of this vision."
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POPSWhy are we as a people so dumb? Seriously you consume sound bites and think it is truth. You consume advertising and opinion shaping and think you are having an original thought. Do you honestly think ANYONE running for office has ANY thing in common with you, a person in the working middle class? “She’s a working mom,” the article says....yeah a multi-millionaire, lying ass elitist that has nothing but contempt for you.... Just so you don't make the mistake thinking I'm biased or a partisan I think the same thing about Obama, McCain, bush and the entire lot of them.... Other than base biological imperatives and basic human mechanical functioning, they have no commonality with the "people" This kind of crap infuriates me, let me say it again. whether you realize it or not...You are a Sharecropper on the corporate plantation. Be awake, look around at the reality of the struggling poor and disappearing middle class and know, your apathy is part of the damn problem.
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POPSStroke the Rich
The IRS has become a subsidy system for super-wealthy Americans IRS winks at rich deadbeats. Because the news media focus on what politicians say about the tax system, rather than how it actually operates, few Americans realize that: -- Corporate income tax laws reward companies that move jobs offshore, allowing them to earn untaxed profits as long as the money stays offshore. -- Widespread cuts in health insurance and pensions for the rank-and- file are driven by a special law that lets top executives defer paying taxes for years, in a way that adds 35 percent to the cost of their bloated pay. -- The 2001 Bush tax cuts included a stealth tax increase on the middle class and upper-middle class that will cost them a half trillion dollars in the first 10 years and, for 35 million families, wiping out part or all of their Bush tax cuts. -- The stealth tax boost on people making $30,000 to $500,000 was explicitly used to make sure that the super rich would get their entire Bush tax
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POPSThrough the bums OUT! GAO Report on Government Credit Card Abuse: we the people need to take a serious look around, stop listening to the pundit-of-the-minute or the latest rabid talking head and TAKE AMERICA BACK! I don't know what has to happen in this country for people to wake the hell up and realize that these people, our elected officials, don't necessarily have our best interests at heart. /to the contrary. what i see is a bunch of self serving elitists that think we are a part and parcel l of their personal fiefdom. TAKE AMERICA BACK, THROW THE BUMS OUT!
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POPSAmericans Dumb: And Proud of It. Although I suppose if this author can quote a writer from the 19th century and use words like 'jeremiads' that not Everyone has drunk the kool-aid of anti-intellectualism; or at least not completely. Personally, continuing to be modest as usual I never vaunted intelligence as a scorecard for superiority but recently realized, not that I was smart, but that lots of other folks were dumb as dirt. They haven't a clue (nor concern) about valid history and a recent poll indicated that most Yanks can not name the four books of the Christian Bible. Can not name the four books of the Bible? Think that the American Civil War was fighting against the Germans? Etc. I guess this is why our dumb President has to explain the war as "fighting against the bad guys." Duh! P.S. > Lots of folks are far more smartie then me be, two, BTW.
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POPSDemocratic Party turns on Kucinich He threw Pelosi out of his office. I love to see that. It breaks my heart to know there is one honest politician out there who would make the necessary changes, and the rich elitists doing all they can to get him out of Congress.
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POPS Estulin: Elitists Consider Assassinating Ron Paul The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR. Hath Nature given you the power of feeling? Are you showing it? What do you know that you haven't learned from the tube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI
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POPSYou Call That Compassion? 6 BILLION dollars sent to Mexico from "guest workers" here (yes, and yearly) That "giant sucking sound" Ross Perot spoke of years back was the balloon of our economy deflating." Not only that but Mexico's former President Fox was trying to TAX that $$ at 35% by amending their constitution, I don't know if he did it, probably though. Even better, did anyone wonder why the banks started giving accounts and credit cards to illegal immigrants? They wanted a piece of the action, why else! Some charge between $80 to $100 dollars per $300 transferred or wired. You understand that Corporate America and their elitist politican enablers don't care about who works for slave wages, right? Why do think we have a department of immigration with a few rules in the first place? No matter how many hours you might try to work, $3-$5 an hour is not going to put food on the table for their families! And this is what some so-called compassionate people are defending! SLAVERY AS SOCIALISM!
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POPSSoros Hidden Funding of Climatists & Illegal Aliens The leftist agenda is entirely driven by media elitists and hidden big money contributors. The very foundations of our democracy are threatened by the people who control and fund the distorted reality that these enemies of traditional American values broadcast.
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POPSMichael Moore is wrong on healthcare People seem to have a hard time connecting what he promotes with socialism, but it seems very obvious to me...and socialism is a failure and produces nations of poor starving people with rich elitists at the helm. Is that really what we want for our country?
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POPSNeoLiberals Stiched Up Wealth of Nations. 
Their purpose was to develop the ideas and the language which would mask the real intent of the programme - the restoration of the power of the elite - and package it as a proposal for the betterment of humankind. Their project was assisted by ideas which arose in a very different quarter. The revolutionary movements of 1968 also sought greater individual liberties, and many of the soixante-huitards saw the state as their oppressor. As Harvey shows, the neoliberals coopted their language and ideas. Some of the anarchists I know still voice notions almost identical to those of the neoliberals: the intent is different, but the consequences very similar. An early experiment took place in New York, which was hit by budgetary disaster in 1975. Its bankers demanded that the city follow their prescriptions - huge cuts in public services, smashing of the unions, public subsidies for business. The neoliberals and their backers would use bribery or force. The Democrats were neutered by
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POPSHonor The entire article, written by a Democrat, is outstanding.
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POPSYour "Planned Slavery" An indepth article going back as far as the Rockefeller Administration that explains in great detail how we are, not so slowly, being turned into slaves for Corporate America and global dominance.
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POPSRichard Dreyfuss calls for Bush Impeachment ... Another celebrity coming out against Bush. Why does this seem to never do any good? It just seems that, no matter who it is, so long as they are in the film/entertainment industry, they will be written off as "leftist" members Hollywood and elitists. But I think when enough of anybody says something, there must be some truth in it.
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POPS"Evolution is dead!!!" read the link to this article. The exclamation marks convinced me it was true
"Wow!" I said, out-loud, reading the second of the excerpted reviews in this clip. It sure felt like a cheer for my team. But... As always, I see glimmers of sense on both sides of this issue, despite my tendency to "pick a team". And as always, it astounds me that people continue to "pick teams", and choose one or another extreme (as if that's required of effective, assertive logic), and only then examine things, selectively, to support their foredrawn conclusions. Way to be wrong. (Smug's fun, but lonely.) About "Intellligent Design": I find it difficult to believe that undirected coincidence can result in a complexly organized system such as that of a living organism, with its built-in capacity to withstand (some) unforeseen changes in conditions (much as a well-crafted computer program anticipates the end-user's experience, providing alternatives, error traps, and advisories). But to say that that complexity is therefore proof of any particular alternative, namely
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