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POPS Seven Wonders Of The World The list of manmade wonders was first compiled by a Hellenistic traveler in the second century B.C Of these, only the pyramids at El Gizeh remain. In ancient times, the pyramids of Egypt; the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; Phidias's statue of Zeus at Olympia; the temple of Artemis at Ephesus; the tomb, or mausoleum, of King Mausolus at Halicarnassus; the Colossus of Rhodes; and either the Pharos, or lighthouse, at Alexandria or the walls of Babylon. http://www.answers.com/topic/seven-wonders-of-the-world
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POPSDump this blowhard This toon would be funny, except the empty suit Obama would not have the courage to strap on a jet aircraft. And Clark the war hero who criticizes McCain? This blowhard was a '66 grad of West Point. In the middle of a war, does he get out to the front as do his classmates? Hell no. He trots over to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar for two years while his classmates are fighting and dying. He finally makes it over to 'Nam in '70 where he is a general's aide for 6 months, and finally commands a company for less than 1 month in combat where he is shot four times by a VC and evacuated to the U.S. where, after he recuperates from minor flesh wounds, takes up a teaching post back at West Point. And he criticizes John McCain! Birds of a feather fly together... and so do empty suits.
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POPSJohn Cecil Rhodes: Worse than Hitler Yet this is the man highly revered by Western society ... which shows its true colors. John Cecil Rhodes racism and accompanying genocide, slavery and theft would have made Hitler blush.
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POPSNetiquette at work Leave it to MSNBC to be able to combine our founding father's attempts at forming a country and modern use of technology and our word usage.
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POPSTough grasses may be key to new carbon sink Grasses like this may be part of a solution, where it will be need to be part of a new approach to agriculture, which will involve a combination of measures, that will allow us to be more compatible with the environment. Things like putting back into the soil what is taken out, with fewer chemicals like pesticides, and herbicides, which nature cannot digest, being left behind. If we try and compete with nature, we lose, we need to learn to work with nature, and the resources it has available - how nature and mankind should be on the same team, but we spend too much time banging our heads against the immovable object that is nature. We often seem to be trying to replace what is natural with our own ideas, but the time that we can run a show as well as nature, is a long way off. It's about time we tried to learn.
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POPSHeadline May 4, 1970 This reporter, who was with the group of students, did not see any indication of sniper fire, nor was the sound of any gunfire audible before the Guard volley. Students, conceding that rocks had been thrown, heatedly denied that there was any sniper. Gov. James A. Rhodes called on J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to aid in looking into the campus violence. A Justice Department spokesman said no decision had been made to investigate. At 2:10 this afternoon, after the shootings, the university president, Robert I. White, ordered the university closed for an indefinite time, and officials were making plans to evacuate the dormitories and bus out-of-state students to nearby cities.
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POPSFresno Mayor Admits City’s Homeless Plan is a Failure This article and video are worthy of reading and watching. You can stream it at the source. This is the first Mayor I have ever heard speak this way about the issue of homelessness. Good Work by Mike Rhodes who has been fighting for the rights of the poor in Fresno with great success for a long time. want to here a politician speak different, check this out.
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POPSHow McCain Can Win the Base Mr. Jindal, who was elected to Rep. David Vitter's seat when Mr. Vitter ran for U.S. Senate in 2004, was re-elected for a second term with 88% of the vote. That's not enough experience? It's as much experience in Congress as Barack Obama has to show for his three years. Oh, and by the way, Mr. Jindal, in his last term, had an American Conservative Union rating of 100, with 96 for both terms. In addition he has consistently taken the No New Taxes pledge proposed by Americans for Tax Reform. In 1991 he was a young Hill staffer working for Rep. Jim McCrery. One day Mr. McCrery asked him to look over some Medicare plans being proposed in committee. A couple of days later, he brought back to the boss a totally revised system that was so impressive that Mr. McCrery remembered him and in 1995 introduced him to Gov.-elect Murphy J. Foster Jr. Mr. Jindal, at the age of 24, was appointed secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.
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POPSSenator Bill Bradley - Strong Words about Hillary Clinton More: Clinton was the star guest at the Democratic party’s annual dinner in Canton, Mississippi, but the hall was barely half-full. Clinton went on to pledge in a contrived southern drawl that no matter who won Mississippi, “I’ll be there for you”. Obama said he was not going to be “drawn into a knife fight” and used humour to defuse the impact of the “red phone” ad. “What do people think I’m going to do? I’m going to answer the phone,” Obama said to laughter. “I’m going to find out what’s going on.” But he also charged that Clinton’s style of leadership was “to beat the other side into submission”.
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POPSPolitical Worshippers Of The New Messiah
You Say You Want a Revolution_ Mark Steyn A few days ago, a local news team went to shoot some film at the Houston campaign headquarters for Obama. Behind the desks were posters of Che Guevara and Cuban flags. Needless to say, the news reporters were either indifferent to this curious veneration or too sensitive to mention it, and it was left to the right-wing extremist Roy Rogers fascists of the blogosphere to point it out. Do Obama’s volunteers even know who Che is? Apart from being a really cool guy on posters and T-shirts, like James Dean or Bart Simpson, I doubt it. They’re pseudo revolutionaries. But even so, to be born a U.S. citizen is, as Cecil Rhodes once said of England, to win first prize in the lottery of life. Not even Obama supporters want real revolution: your cities get torched, the economy collapses. Ask the many peoples around the world for whom revolution means not a lame-o Sixties poster above your desk but the carnage and horror of the day before yesterday.
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POPSBill Clinton - The Big Inspiration Its hard to criticize such an organisation that is involved with good charity works such as running hospitals homeless shelters and various other foundation. To paraphrase pike, they're just a porch. I bet this was not common knowledge when he was running for US president. Oh and he was a rhodes (a british lord) scholar to "cap" it all off. Wow, what a coincidence ;)!
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