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POPSThe real Americans It seems her #1 job is to continue the illusion that the ultimate elitist party, the party of CEO and wall street fat cats is really the party of average America disparagingly cast as Joe and Jane six pack, too ignorant and uneducated to notice the phoniness. Ignore the 100000000 bank account, 10 homes and 13 cars, McCain represents the working American. What a crock of sh**!!
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POPS Why We Can't Imagine Death? "This position holds that our ancestors suffered the unshakable illusion that their minds were immortal, and it’s this hiccup of gross irrationality that we have unmistakably inherited from them. Individual human beings, by virtue of their evolved cognitive architecture, had trouble conceptualizing their own psychological inexistence from the start."
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POPS$700 Billion Bailout Helps Treasury Secretary & His CEO Friends, Hurts Taxpayers In this $700 billion bailout, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has cooked up a fishy plan that has taxpayers overpaying for near-worthless paper assets, while giving banks an excuse to falsely mark up the value of that paper to make bad paper look like gold. Any capital actually gained by the banks would be illusory at best. Timing is everything. This plan does not fix anything--it simply delays the crash until AFTER the election, and it creates "the illusion of stronger financial institutions, not strengthening them." Paulson is "helping his friends" (including "Morgan Stanley Chief Executive John Mack.") It took 150 years to make Confederate money worth a dime... Apparently alchemist Henry Paulson has found a way to do it overnight.
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POPSPresidential Candidate AGAINST the $700 Billion Bailout I understand people need money to live, but they need real money not more paper money made out of thin air. American's need leaders that can help them understand our Constitution and what real money is and how it can turn our country around. Baldwin was endorsed by Ron Paul on Sept 22. Although Baldwin is a pastor, he has consistently and rightfully spoken out against Bush and Congress. Check the party platform. Watch the video. Then decide.
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POPSThe Failed Bailout's Fallout for McCain "I went to Washington last week to make sure that the taxpayers of Ohio and across this great country were not left footing the bill for mistakes made on Wall Street and in Washington," McCain said at a campaign rally in the swing state of Ohio. McCain shows up in DC, has a few conversations with Congressional leaders, is seen walking through a lobby in the congressional building and tries to create the illusion that he brokered an economy-saving deal. It was all smoke and mirrors. Worse, there was no deal. McCain had no sway with the House Republicans. He failed to deliver what he promised. That failure is fair game.
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POPSGovernment still not listening on Injured Servicemen
There is an illusion amongst civilians that Service Men get decent medical treatment. It is a myth that should be rammed down the throats of every politician and apologists for MP's. Treatment on wards can be first class. Aftercare is and always has been, none existent. When a patient is released from hospital care, treatment invariably ends. Old SBA's now openly brag abut the pain hey inflicted on out-patients. That could be funny but for the fact that many illnesses were never diagnosed properly. I know a man who contacted hepatitis in 1966, a condition that destroyed his health, which went undiagnosed until 1999, when he suffered a massive heart attack. In those day a patient was returned to Unit the instant he could walk. No after care, no constant surveillance, no real concern for a patient's well-being. If you were ill you were a malingerer, a shot of penicillin in the backside and back to duty for you Me Boy. So when you read the reply from Downing Street, just take it
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POPSThink we’re tough? Think again
the war is illegal. Therefore, regardless the “provocation,” every person in Iraq who has been killed by a U.S. soldier, or died as a result of the occupation/invasion, has been murdered -- with the blood squarely traceable to America’s hands. So now, we just spill guts. Nonetheless, I’m sure if you look really, really hard, you may find some folks who consider those troops, and tons more like ‘em, to be real Americans, cut from the same cloth as the super-patriot archetype so frequently portrayed and firmly established decades ago by John Wayne. I wonder, though, how many of them would know Wayne never served in the military, receiving not one but two deferments during World War II. In other words, his persona was an illusion. And so, apparently, is the one we Americans have collectively assigned ourselves since childhood, that of liberty’s uncompromising defender who, upon sensing the slightest hint of mortal danger to the Constitution, would, along with a nation full of eq
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POPSAbout body image, fashion and then some science... one more: "However, Thompson's study of optical illusions casts doubt on another piece of popular wisdom. He believes that the standard advice from estate agents to show off your house with clear, uncluttered rooms is wrong. Filling up rooms with furniture should make them appear slightly bigger than they actually are, he said. Patterned wallpaper has the same effect."
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POPSSleight Of Hand And Sense Of Self says Dr Moseley. 'That is exactly what we saw.' 'Our sense of our physical self comes from what we're born with and the constant messages the brain receives from all parts of our bodies. We've now shown that this is a two-way street. The mind can also influence the body's tissues. We have demonstrated that the mind can control a specific body part.'
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POPSMoving Optical Illusion If you check carefully you will see all the things are being sucked inwards also on the edges you can feel that's it's revolving.
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POPSStreet Art (II) not only walls and murals, many examples and tips how to humanize cold urban environment
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POPSEastern Europe Can Defend Itself
The small number of interceptors are designed to shoot down an equally small number of Iranian missiles -- not the overwhelming numbers that Russia deploys. Poland and other states should be under no illusion they can count on the U.S. in a crisis. In the past we left Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the lurch. More recently we haven't done much to help Georgia. We have already seen how the tiny Georgian armed forces -- with fewer than 30,000 men -- were routed by the Russian invaders. According to the CIA's World Factbook, Georgia has over 900,000 men between the ages of 16 and 49. It could easily create a larger military force than it has, but that would require spending more on defense. By the CIA's estimate, its defense budget was just 0.59% of GDP in 2005. According to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, one country in Eastern Europe spends more than 2% of GDP on defense. Bulgaria at 2.2%. Romania is in second place at 1.9%, followed by Poland at 1.8%.
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