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POPSSubterranean Fortress # The perfect home theatre room. # A music studio # Artist /craft space # Kids space/noise proof space # Day Care Center # The Best Halloween Haunted House Ever # Huge wine cellar # Party/Rec. room/pool table/wetbar # Dark room # Meditation spaces # Fitness area # Unique home business space # Do tours to cover expenses # Meeting room/conference room # Build fireman’s pole down Man Hole for quick entrance into the “Big Room” # Actually use it as a “Bomb Shelter”, can hold up to 300 people for 1-2 weeks, or one-two families for a few years. # Office Space with full working phone/internet capabilities. # Would make great Hollywood house for filming movies in.
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POPSWho is Kevin Warsh - he is in control of the bailout $ When I first heard about this guy I was impressed that at 35 he was pulled into all this. Now learning that he pretty much was handed the whole thing via his connection through his marriage. Unless of course I mis-understand his background - maybe he married into wealth after making great accomplishments? If you have ALOT of $$ then anything is possible - your pick of education, your pick of career position, etc. The ones who I am impressed with are those that started with nothing or very little and built it into something incredible and then turn around and find ways to give back or help others.
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POPSConflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink Cont.... Joel Brenner and Vito Potenza, the two men wilting under Addington's wrath, had driven 26 miles from Fort Meade, the NSA's eavesdropping headquarters in Maryland. They were conducting a review of their agency's two-year-old special surveillance operation. They already knew the really secret stuff : The NSA and other services had been unleashed to turn their machinery inward, collecting signals intelligence inside the United States. What the two men didn't know was why the Bush administration believed the program was legal.
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POPS How do you make the object of your affections fall in love with you? A person's smell provides clues about their genetic make-up. We are programmed to sniff out those whose genes are different to our own. This apparently helps ensure any children born will have broad immunity against disease. Those looking to impress should also keep conversation to a minimum and concentrate on their appearance. Research shows that 55 per cent of first impressions are based on how we look rather than what we say. Getting off the sofa and out and about is also important. 'Meeting a lot of people is key,' Mr Robinson said. 'Sitting there moping and eating chocolate is not going to get you anywhere.
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POPSUnited Nations' Secretary General's 'Energy-Saving' Double-Talk BAN: Because of this particular situation in this room the temperature may be a little bit warmer than normal, but conference will be set at 77 degrees. Moving on, we thought we might get some answers at the daily U.N. briefing. There a spokeswoman explained that the conference room temperature was actually not at 77 degrees but at…80! Which forced us once again to ask the same question: So why’s it so cold in there? The answer: U.N. headquarters is a very old building, and rooms can experience drastically different temperatures. Even, it seems, when they’re set to 80, it feels 20 degrees cooler. “There is no special setup for the secretary-general’s office,” we were told. Apparently not.
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POPSLet em eat cake!!! So the world tour consists of photo ops with dignitaries, stage set speeches in front of 200K socialists and pretend listening sessions with generals. As for those who he wants to follow him as either commander in chief or as citizens he will represent... nada, zip, crickets chirping.... as Marie Antoinette famously said, "Let them eat cake." If they could only afford the flour with which to make it in Obamaland....
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POPSA USAF Captain’s Observation Of Obama’s Visit To Afghanistan So really he was just here to make a showing for the Americans back home that he is their candidate for President. I think that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are providing for you. I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be the President of the United States . I just don’t understand how anyone would want him to be our Commander-in-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be around those that provide the freedom for him and our great country. If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry but I wanted you all to know what kind of caliber of person he really is. What you see in the news is all fake. In service, CPT J Bagram, Afghanistan
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POPSVienna 2008 from a meeting of advocates for drug reform and the US prohibitionist faction.This was taken from the '08 conference after two days of hard bargaining.This was a UN sanctioned event.
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POPSLive Blogging Using Google Docs Google Docs has been criticized lately regarding downtime- a legitimate concern for corporate customers. Since I'm not a corporate account and it's been there (mostly) whenever I need it, I still think Google Docs is a great alternative to expensive software packages. One of the best things about Google Docs is the large user community, and I'm constantly hearing about new and innovative uses for Google Docs. Like the article below that steps you through blogging a live event using Google Docs.
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POPSPalestine: The State History Forgot Is it a joke of history that before there was the states of Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Syria, etc there was Palestine? Now they all exist and Palestine doesn't yet. You will read that there never was a Palestine from a certain quarter and how can you miss what you never had. How you know they are lying! They'll say that as they are all Arabs that there's enough room for them all. It's like saying that the Scots Welsh and Irish are all Celts and one state would do them all! Yes, there was a time when such thinking was regarded as valid. If we had the Age of Imperialism back then the Brits might validly have a claim on the USA and most of the rest of the world. In the present imperialism, if the existent holder of the gunboat diplomacy role, the USA, decided to sort out Palestine's present difficulties it could in a breath. Hopefully in a more honourable fashion that the last gunboat holder did.
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POPS3,800 Piece LEGO Star Wars Death Star
Theis includes 25 heroes, villains, droids & creatures, 6 of which are new and exclusive to this set (Luke Skywalker in Stormtrooper outfit, Han Solo in Stormtrooper outfit, Assassin Droid, Interrogation Droid, Death Star Droid and 2 Death Star Troopers). It also includes Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, Luke Skywalker in Jedi Knight garbs, Darth Vader, Grand Moff Tarkin, Emperor Palpatine, 2 Stormtroopers, 2 Emperor’s Royal Guards, R2-Q5, and a mouse droid! It features Movie-authentic Death Star environments which includes the Superlaser control room and target monitor, Imperial conference chamber, TIE Advanced hangar bay with moving launch rack, Emperor’s throne room, droid maintenance room, detention block, trash compactor, and much more. You can rescue Leia from the detention block cell, escape through a secret hatch to the trash compactor below or re-enact the final duel between Luke and Vader in the Emperor’s Throne Room.
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POPSNew Program Aids Homeless Vets, But Not Nearly Enough The shelter that housed the two homeless Vets, called "Soldier On", was mentioned in an article from the Boston Herald today. Veterans in the Boston area and across the nation are getting some much needed assistance in securing their own rental homes, thanks to a new federal program. Last week, housing authorities from Boston to Northampton began issuing 245 rental assistance vouchers to chronically homeless veterans. In the Boston area, 1,950 former service members are considered homeless. "With the new number of homeless vets that we are creating because of Iraq and Afghanistan, this is focusing on their needs," said U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Somerville), who will make a formal announcement Tuesday
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POPSWant to Enhance Your Brain Power? Give Your Neurons an Electrical Jolt Very little is known about how TDCS works. Scientists theorize that the mild current primes the neurons for action but does not trigger the voltage spikes that neurons use to communicate. "Presumably, it is polarizing neurons and making them more or less likely to respond to inputs," Cognitive enhancement with drugs such as Ritalin, prescribed for attention deficit disorder, is already widespread, of course. A survey published online at Nature in April found that one in five respondents, most of whom were academics and scientists, reported using such drugs for nonmedical use. Electrical stimulation may prove even easier to access. "Half the people in this room could build this type of device with parts from RadioShack," Wassermann told a crowd at a neurotechnology conference in Cleveland last week.
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POPSStory of my life Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early. Politician : One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after. Doctor : A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by the bills. Classic: Books, which people praise, but do not read. Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight. Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life. Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth. Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do. Committee : Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together. Experience: The name men give to their mistakes. Atom Bomb : An invention to end all inventions. Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.
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POPSTop-Ranking Officer Reminds Military To Stay Out Of Politics "I am not suggesting that military professionals abandon all personal opinions about modern social or political issues," Mullen wrote. "What I am suggesting - indeed, what the nation expects - is that military personnel will, in the execution of the mission assigned to them, put aside their partisan leanings. Political opinions have no place in cockpit or camp or conference room."
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