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POPSMiss Universe Says Guantanamo Bay Is 'Fun,' 'Calm,' and 'Relaxing'
Toward that purpose, Camp 4 offers a number of diversions, courtesy of American taxpayers. There is an outdoor basketball court, and a 6,000-book library, from which detainees can check out everything from hobby magazines like Bird Watcher's Digest, to commentaries on Islam, to Agatha Christie thrillers. The latter come complete with white stickers blocking the author's photo, lest the detainees deem the grande dame of the mystery novel too much of a seductress. Detainees can also check out DVDs--nature documentaries and international soccer matches are particularly popular--and a flat-screen television is available at the camp for viewing. And, just as American troops stationed on the base can take academic and vocational courses, Camp 4 has a special classroom where detainees can learn English, Arabic, or Pashtu. But damn those American psychos - how dare they not provide each and every murderer with a chef, yoga classes, and self-esteem training.
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POPS"Media Malpractice" How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted Maybe it’s something closer to an Agatha Christie mystery where everyone’s the murderer. The victim, of course, is American journalism. Even for those of us who obsessively followed every twist and turn of the 2008 presidential election, watching Ziegler’s autopsy of the grisly affair, starting with the primaries and ending with the days immediately following Barack Obama’s securing of the Presidency, is to experience in a comprehensive way the breadth and scope of American media corruption. Watching election coverage in real time last year was often frustrating to the point of outrage, and for the first half-hour of “Media Malpractice” the old outrage returns. But what Ziegler does is summarize his case like a prosecutor delivering a closing argument, bringing the disparate pieces together into something much more important than a narrative.
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POPSNeo-Gothic Châteaux Near Yalta Something inherently romantic speaks to our hearts when we see a castle looking out to the sea, from a high cliff among imposing coastal mountains. If you remove the hustle of a resort town around it, the place becomes infused with fantasy and magic, especially in the glow of a setting sun. (The Swallow's Nest, read Wiki's article) is located close to Yalta and has been closed to general public after surviving a large earthquake in 1927 (the cliff has developed a crack beneath it). However in recent years it's been fully restored and now houses an Italian Restaurant. Swallow's Nest was also featured in several Soviet films. It was used as the setting of Desyat Negrityat, the Soviet screen version of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Swallow's Nest is closer in style to German architectural follies, such as Neuschwanstein, Babelsberg, and Stolzenfels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow%27s_Nest_(Crimea)
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POPSAgatha Christie Peril at End House Game The biggest selling novelist in history is back with another spine tingling adventure for Hercule Poirot and his faithful companion Hastings. Nick Buckley is the last in a long line of Buckleys inhabiting End House, an insolated estate on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo. There has always been an air of evil at End House and with three attempts on Nicks life in as many days, it is up to the famous Poirot to unravel the mystery before its too late. Mon Dieu! Hercule Poirot is at it again in another Seek and Find mystery of murderous proportions!
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POPSLinks to Biographies under the category Literature at BrainJuice This clipmark is for Links to Biographies under the category Literature at found at www.brain-juice.com Other categories include Art, Film/theater, music, & history. The actual bibliographies are copy written at this site. Please make a point to give appropriate site credit and reference for any quotes used for entries found at this site. This clipmark submitted by 123clipmarks
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