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POPSWhy George Orwell wrote 1984 Orwell served in Burma as a member of The Indian Imperial police, saw poverty and failure, but the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Hitler, and the NAZIs, gave him a political direction, and his work after 1936, was to warn against the establishment of a totalitarian state. There is more at the site, with more background. Orwell died Seven months after 1984 was published, due to the effects of tuberculosis, and an allergic reaction to a new medication. While he was in Hospital, writing 1984 they took away his typewriter, but he continued to write longhand with a ballpoint pen, despite his failing health
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POPSHow Creepy Do You Want It? I love stories like this. :) ...because, well, that's where the action is. That's where we get to touch the void, dance on the edge of perception, realize how little we truly know of anything.
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POPSThe incredible airbrush paintings of Dru Blair My nephew (who paints motorcycles for a living) just went to this guys class. To say he is a Jedi master is an understatement. The pics I have clipped here are REAL pictures of his paintings. DO your self a favor and goto his site to appreciate the true TALENT that this guys has, and teaches to others. Words alone cannot describe his gift.
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POPS13 Doctors Demand Inquest Into Dr David Kelly's Death Mr Halpin said that he lost more than 6,000 pieces of correspondence - many relating to Dr Kelly - during his investigation, explaining that the mystery began when the 'firewall' on his computer, which all similar machines are fitted with as a security measure, became inactive without warning. His emails started disappearing as though they were being sifted remotely. 'I believe this will have been done by a state-sponsored agency and not by an amateur acting singly,' he said. Dr Kelly's death may have been linked to the secret world of germ warfare research. Until his death Dr Kelly was privy to some of the state's most sensitive information and worked closely with the intelligence services of all the major industrialised countries.
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POPS10 most historically inaccurate movies more: Braveheart, 1995 Not only was the Scottish hero William Wallace gruesomely executed in 1305, having been captured by the English at Falkirk, but seven centuries later his memory was exhumed, smeared with blue face paint and mutilated by Mel Gibson. Wallace was not the poor villager the film depicts, but a landowner and minor knight. The litany of fibs extends from Wallace’s love interest (Queen Isabella would have been about two-years-old at the time) to his kilt – a garment not developed for another three centuries. The historian Sharon L. Krossa likens it to “a film about Colonial America showing the colonial men wearing 20th century business suits.”
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POPSF*** Politics! Why the f*** did I clip this? I like the word friggin' much better. .:) Anyway! I saw someone wearing a t-shirt that said "F*** the President" and wondered if it was legal? (With letters and not asterisks though.) The f-word does seem to be becoming more and more acceptable as common language nowadays. Do I like it? Naaa, I guess I must be friggin' old-fashioned, but I loved the t-shirt though. *LOL* In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the mere public display of fuck is protected under the First and Fourteenth Amendments and cannot be made a criminal offense.
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POPSWell, I ain't taking my clothes off!
The writer Quentin Crisp spent the war years as an artist’s model at Derby School of Art. He described the job as “like being a civil servant, except that you are naked”. Cherie Blair sat for the painter Euan Uglow while she was a trainee barrister. When she and her husband moved into public life, Uglow judiciously decided to avoid exhibiting Striding Nude, Blue Dress. It reappeared in 2006, six years after his death. Her profile is distinguishable but the painting remains unfinished. Kate Moss was depicted reclining naked on a bed in Lucien Freud’s Naked Portrait 2002 while she was pregnant. The sitting was arranged after the model revealed in an interview that posing for Freud was one of her few remaining ambitions. A retired art teacher was shocked in 2003 when she found a sketch she had made decades earlier and realised it was Sean Connery, aged 22 and in a loincloth. “When he modelled there were always lots of girls in the classes,” she said. Source: Times database (ed
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POPSWhat's Behind Birthers' Obama Belief "Research done by Harvard's Mahzarin Banaji and San Diego State's Thierry Devos into what's called "implicit social cognition" reveals that white Americans inherently regard white Europeans as somehow more "American" than Asian- or African-Americans, which may help explain why so many people find it easy to believe that President Obama is not really a citizen."
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POPSBlair has risked the anger of Israel by suggesting its time to talk to HAMAS I distrust Blair's conversions. There was his conversion to become Bush's lap-dog and we had the illegal Iraqi Invasion. There was his conversion to Catholicism when I believes that a non-Christian faith was where he was at! Clearly this conversion is not taken seriously by many!? Search and you will find that ONLY the three sources quoted here carried his conversion. It never happened folks in it's not in the Zionist media!!! Obviously Blair then is totally offside in this. Clearly he is now prepared to mouth off if the money is right. This time it was The Times of London's money. When you brown nose for as long now as he has in the Bush trough, then truth and reality become very distant! Yesterday's man.
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POPSBlair Quits as Prime Minister The Labour Party's longest-serving prime minister has finally confirmed his resignation. The latter part of his term was dominated by his support for America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Blair's successor is all but certain to be Treasury Chief Gordon Brown, Blair's partner in reforming the party as ''New Labour'' but an impatient rival in government.
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POPSBlair cover up Blair lied about WMD - we all suspected it but the fig leaf of the Official Secrets Act has kept this hidden. It is good there are some out there with the courage to tell the truth about this unfortunate episode.
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POPSBeautiful gesture :) the last story like this I read about involved another Texan who bought a woman's house at auction and then immediately gave it back to her. Stories like these really make yer day!
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POPSPresident Blair?!? :eek: .Oh... my... Lord...I can't believe what I am reading. I must be in the middle of some horrible, horrible nightmare.. Please vote no to the Lisbon treaty, Ireland. Please!
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POPSThe Silence of the Bilderbergs For a long time, people who spoke of the Bilderbergs or the New World Order, were considered "conspiracy theorists". Here in DK, the whole can of worms has gone very public. Our mainstream media, bloggers, politicians etc are all finally starting to wonder, what the heck is going on. Our PM is facing some tough questions, questions he refuses to answer. Follow each of the links clipped from, to get a general idea of what's going on. Today, in my opinion, the ones we should be laughing at, are the "coincidence theorists". ------ Explanations: The "Folketing" is our Parliament. Jyllands Posten is one of the country's largest print newpapers. * The missing "minutes" is a wrong translation. The word referat means report, or summary.
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POPSRevealed: W knew Saddam was Willing to Bargain for Exile W is suppose to be our first MBA President but he can not even conduct a cost benefit analysis. Cost: Whatever minuscule amount compared to what we have spent that Saddam would settle for; and any bogus information his generals had convinced him existed. Benefits: 28,000 soldiers not wounded; 3800 soldiers not killed; 600,000 to 1,000,000 Iraqis not killed; $600 Billion to $1 Trillion dollars not wasted; standing and trust within the world community preserved. Ultimate cost to Bush: not looking tough; not having Iraqi oil under the control of US oil producers.
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POPSHow to Photograph a Ghost More tips at the source. After a few beers this could be a fun party game. Oooh, imagine telling ghost stories around a campfire and then going on a ghost photo hunt afterwards. Fun, fun! (Don't anybody mention the Blair Witch Project or I might get to scared to try this.). :lol:
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