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POPSAdvanced Style: fashion inspiration from the silver-haired set The blogger says We have started a blog of our own that documents street style and fashion of the mature and wizened. Our aim is to take photos of elders with a unique sense of personal style that has developed with age. We noticed so many amazingly dressed older people in New York and are having a great time getting to know them, hearing their stories and capturing a bit of their style to share with others. There are some great stories, too. What do you call a union between a Tasmanian man and a French woman? Devilishly chic , of course! :-)
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POPSSeeds of Current Propaganda found in Reagan Era 
Enduring Skills Beyond these individuals, the manipulative techniques that were refined in the 1980s — especially the skill of exaggerating foreign threats — have proved durable, bringing large segments of the American population into line behind the Iraq War in 2002-03. Only now — with more than 4,100 U.S. soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead — are many of these Americans realizing that were manipulated by clever propaganda, that their perceptions had been managed. For instance, the New York Times recently pried loose some 8,000 pages of Pentagon documents revealing how the Bush administration had manipulated the public debate on the Iraq War by planting friendly retired military officers on TV news shows. Retired Green Beret Robert S. Bevelacqua, a former analyst on Murdoch’s Fox News, said the Pentagon treated the retired military officers as puppets: “It was them saying, ‘we need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you.’” [NYT, April 20,
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POPSChe's Children seek respect not money A man who fought and died trying to overthrow capitalism and material excess should not be used to sell British vodka, French fizzy drinks and Swiss mobile phones, among other travesties, she said. "We don't want money, we demand respect." Aleida, 47, the eldest of Guevara's four children by his second wife, made the comments during an internet forum sponsored by Cuba's government ahead of what would have been her father's 80th birthday on June 14. The complaint came amid a surge of renewed interest in Guevara. The actor Benicio del Toro won best actor at the Cannes Film Festival this month for his portrayal in Steven Soderbergh's four and a half hour epic Che. Camilo Guevara, a son, who participated in the forum, said he welcomed the film as long as it was faithful to his father's memory.
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POPSGreen Beret Receives Distinguished Service Cross O’Connor, 47, said he doesn’t believe he is a hero. He said that police officers and firefighters are courageous every day and that he was only completing his mission. “I am being recognized for a moment of courage,” said O’Connor, whose wife and four children attended the ceremony. “I firmly believe other soldiers in my place would have done the same thing.”
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POPSColonel David Watson RM rtd. RIP It is sad that this thoroughly decent person should leave so prematurely. As a fellow Commando, I promise to uphold the traditions of the Commandos that Colonel Watson held so proud. No parades with pseudo green berets, no cadets with the hard earned green beige, no pongos with the green too similar to the commando beret to be an insult to those who endured to achieve. Until we parade again on that square in the sky
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POPS The Largest Loss Of Life In Navy SEAL History
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. The story is about four U.S. Navy SEALs whose June 2005 mission in northern Afghanistan was to capture or kill a al Qaeda leader known to be in a Taliban stronghold. In less than 24 hours, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive, Marcus Luttrell. This book is Luttrell's first-person account of that tragic day, the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. All thanks to asinine rules of engagement our military personnel are forced to fight under. I couldn't possibly explain this intolerable situation better or with more moral authority than Leading Petty Officer Marcus Luttrell himself For me, it began in Iraq, the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong; brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who put our lives on the line for our nation at the behest of our government should somehow be charged with murder for shooting our enemy
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POPS U.N. Tax Scheme:::Sen Inhofe Says “fuhgetaboutit” The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is warning of global taxes but notes that help is on the way in the form of Senator James Inhofe’s proposed anti-global taxes legislation. Headlined, U.N. globotaxes: Fuhgetaboutit, the May 30 editorial declared: Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., is on the verge of telling the United Nations, “Don’t even think about it.” Mr. Inhofe will be introducing a bill mandating the U.N. not advocate or promote global taxation — since the hopelessly dysfunctional polyglot of poppycock is musing about “new sources of development finance.” Or for those not fluent in bureaucratic Esperanto — taxing Americans.
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POPS"Ear-Ripping-Off Battles" against the devil Fascinating interview, prob. 2005, with Bob Welch, author of "You, the Warrior Leader." Welch, an evangelical Southern Baptist pastor and former Green Beret and wounded Vietnam vet, discusses the application of military thinking to "spiritual war."
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POPSRun To Cadence W/ The U.S. Army Rangers I came across this while looking for something to fill a current project. Now don't get me wrong. I am totally proud of my time as a US Army Airborne Ranger but I can't imagine who, other than a lifer, would buy something like this.
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POPSFormer Green Beret spent months embedded with U.S. troops This is worth the read. I just started to look at his blog. I like the fact he does not follow any party line (at least he says he doesn't). We need more people to report the truth - everywhere in the world and this country. Those without an agenda are the greatest assest to the people, but the greatest fear to the politicians and others in power. I give this guy a world of credit for trying to publish the truth. Granted it might be from one point of view - but from that one point he is trying to push out the truth as he sees it unfold. Better report then the media that has been bought and paid to print the politically correct views.
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