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POPSU.S. Drive For Middle East Peace Gathers Pace 
"That is our objective, and it is to that which we have committed ourselves fully." Mitchell earlier was in Damascus, where he took another step toward bringing Syria in from the cold. Speaking after talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Mitchell said restarting peace talks between Syria and Israel is a "near-term goal." In Washington, a White House spokesman said the Obama administration is moving to relieve the pressure of U.S. economic sanctions on Syria. Pressure On Iran Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Robert Gates had talks with Jordan's King Abdullah about the perceived threat of Iran's alleged nuclear-arms program. Iran is emerging as one of the biggest obstacles to a Mideast settlement, in that Israel says there is no point reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians until the question of a nuclear Iran is resolved. After talks with the king, Gates warned Iran that Washington would seek tough new sanctions unless Tehran responded to its invitation to a dialog
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POPSWoTManiacs: 2 Ways to Be IN The Final CHapter I know I've been following Wheel of Time for at least 16 years now. With the death of Robert Jordan last year, we WoTmaniacs have been waiting -impatiently- for his chosen ghost writer, Brandon Sanderson to complete his final installment of this landmark series. The good part? He's working on it. The better part....we can BE IN IT>..yeah. GO get the goods. ...May you always find shade & water....
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POPSObama Fires Off Zingers At His Right-Hand-Man At Elite "Roast" Powerhouse insider Vernon Jordan was scripted to enter the room in a stovepipe hat and be announced as the club's annual fake nominee for president of the United States. Jordan was to offer the hat to Obama as a gift, and to note that "the difference between me wearing this hat and you wearing this hat is that I don't have to pull a rabbit out of it." The Alfalfans have been doing this since 1913, gathering each year on the anniversary of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's birthday for an evening of lobster -- always lobster -- and heavy drinking. The official leaking of their remarks is a time-honored tradition for many of the speakers. Before the dinner, former Florida governor Jeb Bush -- the son and brother of presidents -- caught a club official handing a sheaf of papers to a reporter. "Whatcha doing?" Bush asked. "Leaking?"
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POPSWalking speed in different cities 32) Blantyre (Malawi); 31.60 A new study by quirky psychologist Richard Wiseman has revealed that people's average walking speed in cities has increased by 10% in the last decade. People from 32 countries were timed walking over an 18 metre (60 foot) stretch of un-crowded pavement, and the results were compared to findings from a similar study conducted in the 1990s (by Robert V Levine at California State University).
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POPSDownload scrubs episodes online season 1 Season 1 was premiered on 10-2-2001 and the opening episode of the season was ‘My First Day’. Season starts with Dr. JD Dorian’s first day as an intern at Sacred Heart Hospital along with Dr. Chris.
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POPSThe Problem With Bush's "Unconscionable Historical And Moral Lapse" Robert Spencer, one of the nation’s leading critics on Islam, says President Bush experienced "an unconscionable historical and moral lapse" when he recently called for an end to what he called the "occupation" of Arab land by the Israeli military. The Islam critic says it is interesting there were no calls for a Palestinian state when the same territory was occupied by Egypt and Jordan prior to 1967. http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-91061/Camp-David-Accords
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POPSSubcontracting Torture to the Terrorists You know, something occurs to me when looking at these three lovely destinations: it really does look like we are hiring the terrorists to interrogate potential terrorists. This is like Milo Minderbinder bombing his own base for the Germans!
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POPSWheel of Time Author Chosen “I’m both extremely excited and daunted by this opportunity. There is only one man who could have done this book the way it deserved to be written, and we lost him in September. However, I promise to do my very best to remain true to Mr. Jordan’s vision and produce the book we have all been waiting to read.”
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POPSThey did not give up R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York City caught on. When Bell telephone was struggling to get started, its owners offered all their rights to Western Union for $100,000. The offer was disdainfully rejected with the pronouncement, "What use could this company make of an electrical toy." Rocket scientist Robert Goddard found his ideas bitterly rejected by his scientific peers on the grounds that rocket propulsion would not work An expert said of Vince Lombardi: "He possesses minimal football knowledge and lacks motivation." Michael Jordan and Bob Cousy were each cut from their high school basketball teams. Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, read, "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little." When Lucille Ball began studying to be actress, she was to"Try any other profes
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POPSPolitican Cartoons "The United States, some years back, found its new bogeyman "Islam" to replace its former imaginary enemy "Communism." And now the European press appears to have finally (?) found a replacement for the Jewish people that they used to malign and attack. Anti-Islam/Muslimism appears to now have officially replaced anti-Jewish sentiments in Europe. The roots of these attacks are the same: an inability to acknowledge and respect a diversity of people that might result in a Europe that is non-White and/or non-Christian. The anti-Muslim/Islam cartoons of today are little different than the anti-Jewish cartoons that were published by the Nazis during WW II."
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POPSAuthor of Long Running Series The Wheel Of Time Dies I really liked this series despite its length and complexity. He is one of the few modern authors to capture the world of Tolkien with The Wheel of Time series. He is also the author of the Conan the Barbarian series, made popular by the actor (and governor) Arnold Schwarzenegger. I really hope that A Memory of Light is released despite his death. My sympathies go out to his family in their time of grief.
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POPSNow the Saudis tool up for war The White House line that Iraq’s extremists are all backed by Iran is a myth, writes Robert Fox. What the American authorities are reluctant to admit, however, is that there are signs that the Sunnis of Saudi Arabia and their allies - including Jordan - have been equipping and training Sunni extremists in Iraq for some time now. Critically, not all the weaponry and munitions have been used against the militants' Shia and Kurdish Iraqi enemies. Some of them - including lethal roadside bombs - have been aimed at US forces. Read the Full article. Interesting insights to the future of the region. "The growth of the official and unofficial Saudi and Jordanian support for the militants is one of the most worrying developments," a senior British officer has told me privately after a visit to Iraq.
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POPSWar of The Servers 1h and 20 minutes of very good movie made in the Half-Life 2 modification called Garry's Mod. Great music! My rating: 10/10. Free download links included. Enjoy! "Robert Stoneman is Steinmann, a player who enjoys G-mod server life, building, creating, and having fun with other player's. Being a part of the PHW community, he has met alot of friends online playing in Gmod servers from role play to LUA gamed servers. But on one late day on MJ's serious builders only server, the server begins to lag, he finds out it's not just the server he is in... Its everywhere... and the lag spikes are coming from the new players; GMod 9.0.4 Servers... Moments later during the game, Steinmann and the other players notice a mess of contraptions in the middle of the map, when strangely fog appears. Players gather around this mess and what is seen and what arises from that mess...will change the servers forever. Before anyone can react, it removes everything in sight."
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POPSRobert Jordan's official blog. He gives frequent updates on his health since he was diagnosed with Amyloidosis. HIs entries since he was diagnosed start here, you can follow his progress up till the present. He is doing better, but unfortunately it is not in remission. http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?m=200603
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POPSInsider trading allegations against President Bush
The SEC investigation ended in 1992 with a memo stating "it appears that Bush did not engage in illegal insider trading," but noted it "must in no way be construed as indicating that the party has been exonerated or that no action may ultimately result." Critics contended the SEC's makeup may have influenced the conclusions, although no evidence of impropriety has been found. The chairman at the time was Richard Breeden, a friend of the Bush family who had been nominated to the SEC by George H. W. Bush & had been a lawyer in James Baker's firm, Baker Botts. The SEC's general counsel at the time was James Doty, who would represent George W. Bush 9 months after he sought to buy into the Texas Rangers. Bush's own lawyer was Robert Jordan, who had been "partners with both Doty & Breeden at Baker Botts & who later became George W. Bush's ambassador to Saudi Arabia." As President, Bush has refused to authorize the SEC to release its full report on the Harken investigation.
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POPSRobert Jordan's illness Fans of the Wheel of Time series have known about this for a while, but this is the first mention I've seen in the major media. Most of me feels a great deal of sympathy for someone stricken by such a horrible disease, but part of me also wants to say, "Don't you wish you hadn't dragged this series out now, Bob?"
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