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POPSSwiss Decide On Minarets The two largest Jewish groups said the referendum infringed religious freedom, a concept enshrined in the Swiss constitution. Part of the Swiss People's Party's argument against minarets is that they are a symbol of political power - more than they are about religion.
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POPSShare The Sacrifice Act of 2010 “Regardless of whether one favors the war or not, if it is to be fought, it ought to be paid for,” the lawmakers, all prominent Democratic allies of Obama, said in a joint statement on the “Share The Sacrifice Act of 2010.” The proposal, a heavily symbolic measure seen as having next to no chance of becoming law, would impose a war surtax on income beginning in 2011 — though it would allow the president to delay implementation by one year upon deciding the US economy is too weak to sustain such a tax shift. “The only people who've paid any price for our military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan are our military families,” the lawmakers said. “We believe that if this war is to be fought, it's only fair that everyone share the burden.”
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POPSNew kind of Art ? Crochet and Knit Graffiti Magda Sayeg, founder of the original knit graffiti crew Knitta Please, works to redefine a craft that has been relegated to the stuffy attic of people's brains and dismissed by a limited vision for knitting's purpose, its function, its practitioners. Sayeg's work repositions this granny pastime in public spaces, streets formerly dominated by a hard, masculine public art culture. The fuzzy tags invoke entirely different connotations, antagonizing expectations and initiating dialogue about community-driven art and intersections between art and craft.
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POPSThe Story of the Red Poppy So the Americans arranged for artificial poppies to be made by women in war-ravaged northern France. The funds raised from selling the poppies were for children who had suffered because of the war. In Britain, the weary soldiers came back from the grimness of war to find that life was hard at home too, though in a different way. Many of the men were wounded or disabled or suffering the effects of gas and shell-shock. Many were physically or mentally unable to work; many others found that there were no jobs anyway. The provision made for them by the state was less than adequate. They certainly didn't get the heroes' homecoming that they had been led to expect. So ex-servicemen's societies united in 1921 to form the British Legion. Its purpose was to provide support to ex-servicemen, especially the disabled, and their families, and it was to become one of the most successful British charities ever.
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POPSWhy They WANT Obama To Fail Who in the FUCK would make a clip title like "A Failed Presidency Is Now Unavoidable"? Just because you keep trying to ram it down our throats that you hate America and want to see it fail doesn't mean the rest of us buy your rhetoric.
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POPSAmerican Drug War The Last White Hope...FULL MOVIE- 8 parts Video on site. This is probably the best documentary I have EVER seen on this "War on Drugs" I have learned invaluable information, a lot of which I had faint and distant knowledge of BUT never fully understood the depth of darkness and deception, that has been unleashed on US, ARE we EVER going to learn?????
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POPSWhy War is Inevitable – John Kaminski
But the media, owned by the same people who were making the weapons, convinced us, apparently, by suddenly and savagely telling hair-raising false stories about the Germans. This is the great fact Americans continue to ignore. Instead of understanding that bankers create the wars, we prefer to believe the prejudicial hate speak that emanates from American media that our enemies are “krauts,” “gooks,” and “ragheads,” without remembering, as the great suppressed writers have told us, that the folks who control the money also control everything else. Slowly, we are learning that our real enemies are really the misanthropes making those statements, the bigwigs who control the flow of real wealth with imaginary rules that are nothing but blatant crime schemes. We are learning that these anti-human billionaires — whose income is derived entirely from legalized crime — are the true enemies of all civilized people. And worse, we are learning that our leaders are owned by these people,
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POPSInternet Under Siege Government intrusion in the private lives of citizens is already a reality, particularly in the so-called Western Democracies that have the necessary technology and tech-savvy manpower to tap phones and invade computers.
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POPSThe Jazz Baroness the love story of Nica Rothschild and Thelonious Monk Among the most compelling segments is the story of how Nica and Monk met. Then married, Nica was introduced by a friend to Monk?s “?Round Midnight,” which would become one of the most recorded jazz standards of all time. “I couldn't believe my ears,” she recalled. “I'd never heard anything remotely like it.” Nica set out to find Monk, finally meeting him two years later. Interestingly, for all the mutual love and devotion that developed between them, some speculate that their relationship was essentially platonic. Monk remained married to his wife, Nellie, who seemed to embrace the unusual love triangle.
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POPS'Unfriend': dictionary's word of the year To spite the naysayers, there is at least one case in which men (and women) of letters will be happy. According to the Scrabble website, "unfriend" is an acceptable word, worth 12 points when played on blank spaces.
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POPSBecoming Evil: Accomodating Hatred And Violence
*Graphic Photos Warning* Although this article is 2 years old, it succinctly sums up the situation as stated in the title. Excellent reading. Commentary on Ann Coulter-isms follow: "And on March 3rd, they got to hear Ann Coulter, one of the headliners say: "Those few abortionists were shot, or, depending on your point of view, had a procedure with a rifle performed on them. I'm not justifying it, but I do understand how it happened.... The number of deaths attributed to Roe v. Wade about 40 million aborted babies and seven abortion clinic workers; 40 million to seven is also a pretty good measure of how the political debate is going." Coulter says that she isn't justifying violence -- but she is. She implies that seven deaths as against forty million means that the murders of doctors not only somehow rights the balance -- but are not nearly enough for anyone to make a fuss about. Her meaning is clear, even as her practiced rhetoric leaves her room for denial."
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POPSBad sex award shortlist pits Philip Roth against stiff competition Sex is exciting stuff - it can be very dirty and smelly, but you've just got to get stuck in :lol: Bad Sex in Fiction excerpts The shortlist Paul Theroux for A Dead Hand Nick Cave for The Death of Bunny Munro Philip Roth for The Humbling Jonathan Littell for The Kindly Ones Amos Oz for Rhyming Life and Death John Banville for The Infinities Anthony Quinn for The Rescue Man Simon Van Booy for Love Begins in Winter Sanjida O'Connell for The Naked Name of Love Richard Milward for Ten Storey Love Song
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POPSThe Story of the White poppy By the end of the war the guildswomen had learned first hand the extent to which war could profoundly affect and harm their lives. Many of them were the wives, mothers and sisters of men who had been killed. They embarked on an active campaign for peace. By 1933 they were searching for a symbol which could be worn by guildswomen who wanted to show publicly that they were against war and for nonviolence. Someone came up with the idea of a white poppy. Workers from the Co-operative Wholesale Society began making the poppies almost at once. Money from selling them, after the production costs had been paid for, was sent to help war-resisters and conscientious objectors in Europe. The wearing of a white poppy on Armistice Day became a focus for the peace movement, and the Peace Pledge Union took it up in 1936 as 'a definite pledge to peace that war must not happen again'.
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