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POPSVatican forgives John Lennon for Jesus quip continues: "The fact remains that 38 years after breaking up, the songs of the Lennon-McCartney brand have shown an extraordinary resistance to the passage of time, becoming a source of inspiration for more than one generation of pop musicians," it said. Lennon was murdered in New York in 1980.
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POPSTuning out the Braindead Megaphone Post election blah-blah tells us America is (as everyone reasonable surely knows) a center-right nation. But Obama won by twice the margin of GWB when they said Bush had a conservative mandate, and interviews suggest Americans knew exactly what they were after.
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POPSLove and sorrow All copies of that newspaper were sold out on the day these pictures were published
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POPSIran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel: Guardian Jews are free to practise their religion and have their own schools, although they are forced to open on Saturdays, the Jewish Sabbath. Despite the absence of diplomatic ties with Israel, Iranian Jews frequently go there to visit relatives. Iran's sole Jewish MP, Morris Motamed, said the offers were insulting and put the country's Jews under pressure to prove their loyalty. "It suggests the Iranian Jew can be encouraged to emigrate by money," he said. "Iran's Jews have always been free to emigrate and three-quarters of them did so after the revolution but 70% of those went to America, not Israel."
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POPSiPhone baffled by British accents
A video demonstration of the Google Mobile App on the online giant's website shows an American engineer successfully asking for pictures of the Golden Gate as well as cinema timetables and temperature conversions. The website also includes a link to a video showing people with Irish, British and Chinese accents asking for relatively complicated searches, with apparent success. But British iPhone owners had less luck when speaking the word "iPhone" into the application - a Scottish user was offered a porn website after it mistook his search for "sex," the Telegraph reported. A user from Surrey, south of London, had his request mistaken for "Myspace" and "Einstein" was another option offered for "iPhone" spoken with a Kent accent, it said. The only British accent which correctly understood the request was for a user from Yorkshire, northern England, although he was also offered "bonfire." A Welsh accent gave the suggestions "gorillas" and "kitchen sink." "I've got a tra
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POPSWas the FDA Report on 'Bisphenol A' Ghostwritten? Buried deep in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article is a very interesting factoid: "Bisphenol A was developed in 1891 as a synthetic estrogen. It came into widespread use in the 1950s when scientists realized it could be used to make polycarbonate plastic and some epoxy resins to line food and beverage cans." About 5-10 million people were exposed to the synthetic estrogen DES between 1938-1971, and the health of so-called "DES Daughters" is still being followed due to their increased risk for vaginal and cervical cancer, reproductive tract structural differences, pregnancy complications, and infertility.
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POPS7 New Deadly sins Interesting that they would include these, and not others. I am not Catholic, and therefore do not view sins in this way. The basic Christian view is that one sin can keep you out of heaven- ie Hell is not a punishment but the result of separation from God for all eternity.
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POPSFiction has, once again, foreshadowed reality Certainly some of the parallels are coincidental. It is unlikely, for example, that the writers knew Mr. Obama had an affection for Bob Dylan when they made Santos a Dylan fan. But it is the unintentional similarities that make the DVDs of the sixth and seventh seasons, which at the time received mixed reviews, so rewarding to watch now. In both “The West Wing” and in real life, for example, the Phillies played in the World Series during the election campaign. :) more similarities inside...
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POPSWill Obama blink? Ok, Barack here is your missle crisis. What will you do? Ask yourself this...why would Russia be concerned about a DEFENSIVE missile system?
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POPSWhere Wings Take Dream "It's a myth to think I don't know what's going on" "I mean, I read the newspaper, I mean, I read the headlines" "I think we agree, the past is over" "It'll take time to restore chaos and order" "Wow! Brazil is big!" "I'm glad my Vice President is not running for President Not that he would make a great President" "It's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe" "I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure" "I think the president has to be smart" I just picked some 'favourites'. Go to the source for the whole long speech, written entirely with Bushisms. . .:)
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POPSHunt on for Tassie bogans The term "Boonie" is used with reverence on the mainland. It refers to a great cricketer, who just happens to be short and squat (at the least), has a legendary moustache and possibly still holds the beer drinking record on a flight from Sydney to London.
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POPSBut They Are Not The First To Fake The New York Times Other headlines declared that the "Maximum Wage Law Succeeds," "Nationalised Oil to Fund Climate Change Efforts" and "Nation Sets Its Sights On Building Sane Economy." There is also a full page fake advertisement on page three from the world's largest publicly traded oil company Exxon Mobil saying the company applauded the end of the Iraq war and that peace is "an idea the world can profit from". In a pamphlet handed out to volunteers when they picked up copies of the newspaper to distribute there was a "Frequently Asked Questions" section. In response to "who made this?" it said: "Who knows? Rumors are it's a group of writers from several mainstream dailies - including The New York Times." The Yes Men, who were the subject of a book and documentary in 2004, have pulled off pranks including posing as Exxon Mobil and National Petroleum Council representatives to deliver a speech at a Canadian oil conference.
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POPSReported Obama-Hamas Contacts Bode Ill Another clash between Obama’s public statements and his team's behind-the-scenes activities. According to Yousuf, Hamas' contact with Obama's advisors was ongoing, adding that he personally had friendly relations with a few of Obama's advisers whom he had met when he lived in the US. "Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh will draft a congratulatory letter to Obama for his victory in the elections," added Yousef. "The policy Obama will instate in the Middle East will differ from that of his predecessor George W. Bush, although it is clear that the region and the Palestinian issue will not be at the top of his agenda," Yousef told Al-Hayat, "(Obama) will focus more on the economic crisis, Iraq and Afghanistan." © 2008 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)
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