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POPSTyranny of the Majority The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
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POPSFor our elections and leaders prayer is simple, costs nothing but a few minutes and can help the praying person, as well as the world he/she lives in to change in a good way.
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POPSNatural Care for Hyperthyroid - Grave's People with hyperthyroid or Grave's may benefit from eating cabbage which is said to have a thyroid suppressing effect. Of course doing an Allergy Relief clearing for goitrogen might also be a good idea.
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POPSDid Obama"Out-Warn"on the Mortgage Crisis? No! March'07,his warnings only came when the end-user was at risk.He was at the roots of promoting, demanding,and inspiring the drive to swell home"ownership" numbers and promote unnatural preferences for non-creditworthy borrowers - by ANY methods or means. Head of the line taking Fannie $, and being fully aware that the policies being implemented could NOT POSSIBLY be resulting in the "desired" numbers if they were ethical and business-wise, Obama was SILENT. He only spoke up when it was unavoidable that HIS policies would be coming to a REAL BAD END. And since he had no other choice but to speak up, being a candidate.
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POPSStudy: Terror Alerts Would Hurt McCain-Palin You can only exploit people's fears for so long before they wise up and realize you're not actually doing anything about the thing you're afraid of. Just as the "values voters" have come to realize that Republicans aren't really addressing their issues, so "security voters" are too.
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POPSWhat makes these millionaires worthy of a bailout? More from the article: "I've been hearing from Republicans all my life about the virtue of capitalism and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps -- but it turns out the bootstraps have to come from the government and the government also does the pulling up? How is that capitalism?" I want to know why the government turned its back while the American auto industry was loosing its shirt to foreign automakers? And why didn't the government step in to stop our industries from moving overseas and leaving nothing but minimum wage jobs behind? These corporate welfare recipients who took advantage of a federal government that allowed an unregulated wholesale ripoff of their fellow Americans deserve to loose everything they own. American ingenuity will get us through this, but it will be a lot easier to do so without Bush and his gang digging the hole deeper while we are digging our way out.
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POPSObama Campaign Text Msg: Watch The Debate On CNN First, can you imagine the heartbreak at MSNBC? I mean, the Olbermann network has been trying so hard to be the Obama Network, and then to get this punch in the gut! :( Second, can you imagine what would have been the reaction if John McCain had texted his supporters, saying, "Watch Fox"? Well, the roof would have caved in, media-criticism-wise. :eek: Looks like the campaign figured out how to speak SMS short-hand and thus free up enough characters to type out "any of the major networks or cable" vs. "CNN." :)
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POPSDateline October 26, 2006: Henry Paul and this Well-Planned 'Economic Crisis' Quote from an investment newsletter I subscribe to: most of the time, they were aware of the dangers. They knew your future was in grave jeopardy. They saw it in their own government data and talked about it behind closed doors. They even made not-so-secret preparations for this day. They didn't suddenly discover these threats yesterday.
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POPSYeah But Who's Right? McCain Or Obama? It remains to be seen who made the best move Wednesday. Was McCain smart in abandoning his campaign for a chance at making a difference in Capitol Hill? Was Obama wise to stand fast and await the debates? In a few hours, maybe it won't matter.
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POPSUS Asks Germany To Join in Bailout 
Nein, say the wise Germans. Still, the financial crisis has already reached German shores, and banks here have had to announce write-downs of nearly €40 billion ($58.5 billion). "German banks are already sufficiently involved in the calamity," says Stefan Kooths of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. Either way, experts estimate that half of America's bad loans were sold abroad -- and a large part of that was assumed by Germans. And now the money is gone. "There's no reason why Germany should have to bear even more burdens," says Kooths. Experts have also criticized the American rescue package for a number of other reasons. Diemo Dietrich from the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) doesn't think the plan is well-balanced: "The government is only buying bad risks and, in doing so, nationalizing the losses." Dietrich adds that taxpayers won't share in any of the profits that the government hopes the stabilized market will bring about in the long ru
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