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POPSEconomics, Politics, News (08/21/11) Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer’s patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn’t matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery. -- James Bovard
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POPSMitch McConnell Just Proposed the “Pontius Pilate Pass the Buck Act of 2011″
. . . McConnell proposes to go Pontius Pilate and wash his hands of spending, blaming Obama while doing nothing himself. In a nutshell, the President would get to raise the debt ceiling three times in the next year at several billion bucks a pop without making any spending cuts unless two-thirds of both houses of Congress disagree. In his press conference, McConnell says he would not give the President “unilateral authority to make spending cuts on his own,” but this plan would allow the President to raise the debt ceiling pretty much automatically. Yes, instead of putting the burden on the White House, McConnell would make it damn near impossible to block a debt ceiling increase. We’ve seen this before. The House once had the Gephardt rule that required the debt ceiling vote be attached to a more popular measure so members of Congress could escape a tough vote. Consequently, the debt ceiling has gone up to $14 trillion without Congress ever having to make . . .
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POPSLatest War Crimes Video Moderns times: Congressman tweet pics of their genitals, everybody's who's anybody got a public sex tape, and soldiers make cell phone videos of their massacre of civilians. This latest revelation comes from Sri Lanka. Besides the lies, murder, brutality and treachery (people were told to go to a 'safe zone,' then the 'safe zone' was bombed) -- but I noticed a somewhat more frequent phrase for modern times: "extrajudiciary killing." -- makes it sound like something you might order with soup and salad...an extra...a side dish. Very suitable for modern times when war ain't war, we didn't start it, we're not really involved. It's all just SOFA's or the will of the International community (whoever they are)...with sometimes a side dish of extrajudiciary killings.
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