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POPSGeorge Washington Takes The Oath of Office (Inauguration) "I, George Washington, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." Commander in Chief. Fourth of July 4th of July patriotic Independence Day This clip is from the HBO tv series "John Adams." George Washington takes the first Oath of Office for President of the United States of America. I took the liberty of adding the tune "Hail to the Chief" in the video.
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POPS Colonialism Much is made in the east about the dreadful history of European colonialism, the bitter legacies of humiliation and dysfunction that empires leave when they withdraw Paul Fregosi in his book Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries calls Islamic Jihad “the most unrecorded and disregarded major event of history. It has, in fact, been largely ignored,” although it has been a fact of life in Europe, Asia and Africa for almost 1400 years. As Fregosi says, “Western colonization of nearby Muslim lands lasted 130 years, from the 1830s to the 1960s. Muslim colonization of nearby European lands lasted 1300 years, from the 600s to the mid-1960s. Yet, strangely, it is the Muslims…who are the most bitter about colonialism and the humiliations to which they have been subjected; and it is the Europeans who harbor the shame and the guilt. It should be the other way around.” Well, yes. But that’s different. via julescrittenden
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POPS How Islam Has Changed Over The Centuries against all the rest of mankind. The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust; to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human nature. “Between these two religions, thus contrasted in the characters, a war of more than twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extincture of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute are encouraged to furnish motives to human action, there never can be peace on earth and good will toward men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.” — John Quincy Adams, 1830
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POPSUK's Longest Imprisoned Innocent Man Serving 27 Years!!! Hodgson's lawyer, Julian Young, said it was hoped his client would be freed next Wednesday. "He is obviously pleased the matter is going forward. "He is anxious because he is going to be facing the outside world for the first time in a large number of years. "He will have to make a life and reorganise his life for the future." ... BBC
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POPSGreat Quotes Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different. Author Unknown
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POPSGlenn Beck's Still an Idiot I've pointed out before that "Glenn Beck Idiot" and "Glenn Beck Asshole" are two of the top search queries driving traffic to my blogs. This is why -- stuff like this clearly establishes Beck as an idiot and an asshole. Who needs facts when you can just make crap up?
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POPS66th Golden Globe Award : And The Winner Is It was a clean sweep for "Slumdog Millionaire", Kate Winslet, HBO and its "John Adams" mini-series and NBC's comedy steamroller, "30 Rock". Check out all the winners at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards here.
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POPSBloggers up in arms about Howard bumping Obama Give the pair of them heaps. Maybe piles. They are both pictured in the dictionary under "arrogant" and also "ignorant". Bush is like a little kid with his non cooperation tactics. Seen better from 8 year olds.
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POPSJeb Bush Positions for President: Bush/Palin 2012? 'Jeb' (John Ellis) Bush is a member of the neocon think tank Project for New American Century , and he is more popular and well spoken than his (former cheerleader) Yale 'Skull & Bones' brother whose was not known for his academic skills . Williams Kristol (PNAC founder, son of Irving Kristol, father of neoconservatism) publicly conceded during the primaries that the only negative for Jeb Bush (republican Gov of Florida, with a large electoral base) was that America was tired of Bush's in office now. Would Cheney (PNAC member) be his VP, again, too? Or would it be Gov. Sarah Palin whom Kristol and the neocon gang are now grooming? (Yes, this will be the ticket, inauguration 2013--how unlucky). Obama received Kristol's blessing too.
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POPSBurris Contacts Reid This is no surprise and really exactly what you'd expect from Team Burris. The only real news here is in the Certificate of Appointment (page 4 of the PDF ), which is signed by Governor Blagojevich, but not by Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White. White has refused to sign off on the appointment, which may give Reid some legal leverage when it comes to rejecting Burris.
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POPSJeff Buckley: The singer with the real X Factor Today, Buckley boasts a cult following. His album, Grace, is considered one of the greatest records in pop history. Rolling Stone recently put him at 39th, one spot below Elton John, in its list of the "100 greatest singers of all time".
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POPSPresidential Portraits And Their Personal Profiles Know your presidents? Take the Trivia-Quiz Follow the URL to take the entire trivia-quiz. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-president-quiz,0,3188595.triviaquiz Presidential portraits Know your presidents? Brush up in this gallery of portraits http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/blotter/chi-presidents-photogallery,0,6466822.photogallery
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POPSSimpsons porn.... Illegal????? I'm not condoning this type of thing but the fact that someone could be convicted of a crime because of it is utterly ridiculous. People make drawings of all kinds of crazy stuff, does this mean that the next time an animator kills someone in a cartoon that they should be tried for murder?!?! Because if as the article says "Justice Michael Adams ruled a fictional cartoon character was a "person" " then there are a LOT of people out there in a LOT of trouble. If they had found genuine child pornography on this guys computer then I would say this was all well and fine, but characters such as the Simpsons don't exactly closely resemble real people. It may point to something deeper with this person or it may not, but the law is not supposed to convict on speculation.
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