For more web based internetaintment check out www.hulu.com whose structure way of presenting video content especially television episodes and movies make it a favourite over www.youtube.com .For the really heavy duty movie watcher , there is www.netflix.com too.
the catch – its only for US based audiences. Their IP geo tag helps them filter you out . 😦
(after the Saturday attacks on 14 September that killed some 20 people in my city Delhi)
after the Nov 27 attacks that killed 101 people in Bombay, Mumbai
O Terrorists, So near and yet So far.
Distracting us with explosions that jar.
Are you a man, or Are you a su-ar.
Sending emails before the bombs go,
Do you think this is some movie show.
Your bombs kill Muslims and Hindus today,
Unlike you, they dont stray.
Whats our fault, that we went to the park that day,
to rest for a while, our children to play.
Our government sucks, we couldnt agree more,
But have you tried some other method before.
We would have joined you, Saying
This government is a clown.
Tell me, brother terrorist,
Why so serious , Why the frown.
Dont bomb this website,
Its bombed thrice enough,
Thanks to servers,
Which cant keep up.
Try and think, you
were once a boy.
Loved ones you had,
I am sorry if they went away.
Its not our fault,
Try to hate the government
with out hating each other.
Else we are just pawns on eaither side
My terrorist brother.
As Gandhi said, he was an old man
Long Ago.
An eye for an eye will leave
A world of blind for sure.
Terrorist brother ,time to wake up
Smell the Coffee.
It may smell like victory today,
but no lunches are free.
As the Book said,and it is true
Those who live by the sword.
Will die by it too.
Death will reach you,
Reach your door.
No matter how high you be,
No matter how brave you were before.
In those last dying moments,
Terrorist brother, you may dream of the Angel to come.
there are no hoories in hell,
and no glories in a death dumb.
Still on the mind numbing trip for shopping – I am thinking can governments give  a deadline for transitioning out offline shopping.
Offline shopping should be banned as compared to online shopping because-
1) It leads to lots of needless inventory so that huge stores do not look empty. The excess inventory benefits the manufacturers ( mostly Chinese) and hurts the retailer ( mostly local).
2) Demand prediction is obviously worse so it will lead to spare inventory anyways.Â
3) It encourages excess debt consumption.
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Now people might want to sit up and say that both 1) consumption and 2) retail sector jobs are good for the economy.I agree transitionally this will lead to job cuts .But customers would be better off and retailers would save huge costs ( no more land for huge malls)
This is an ideal solution for Asian countries like India that can simply leapfrog from Mom and Pop stores to internet marketing malls than go in for the epensive intermediates of big offline malls. Though the Chinese may not be so happy it ultimately could lead to huge benefits to the West as well it would create huge jobs in the online space.
And yes bars and resteraunts would still be offline. You can not make dining out as an online experience —
Dragged to yet another shopping trip by the better half I could not help but thinking- What if all plastic bags were banned. Then people would have to carry bags from home .
Thats doable – right ? And a small price for saving the environment – right ?
So how about banning plastic bags.
Ps- Also it makes shopping/retail sales lesser atractive  ……………………………but thats true anyways.
Image from-
http://www.sustainableisgood.com/blog/2007/03/plastic_shoppin.html
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In the middle of a million parties,
television pundits who tell the story,
in a fine hour, after too many dark ones have passed,
Rose a single man to claim his destiny and glory.
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His young shoulders narrowed ,
Aware of the profoundness of this time,
He tentatively summons his God-gifted oratory,
As a million people wait and chime.
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Yes We Can,
We are glad to know,
Yes We always did,
countless times before.
Thanks again,
they want to shout.
To the solitary man, who
alone on top is crouched.
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We almost lost hope,�
times become so bad.
Till you reminded us,
of the power we had.
The man pauses , in
the middle of the speech,
Looks around ,all about,
The people he reached.
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A million times , he may�have
achieved now the dream ,
Of parents, natural and ethereal,
Its �the start , he says,of rebuilding as a team.
Yes We can,�Yes We Will.
Together we broke it,
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Note- This is a continuous article since Feb 2008 ,collecting all data points on plots against Mr Barack Obama. The Media sources are authentic, the scenario and what if analysis is fictional, and readers are expected to use OBJECTIVITY rather than passion to draw their conclusions.
Barack Obama’s Assasination would pave the way for either McCain or Hillary Clinton to the White House. Neither of them are expected to seriously damage corporate interests , they wont be clamping down on outsourcing American Jobs, they are less likely to cut rebates for wealthy, and less likely to avoid lobbyists from the gun and health pharma lobby. They are less likely to expedite the end of Iraq war, and the tens of billions spent every month that go from tax payers to major corporations is less likely to be threatened by Obama out of the way. So a few people would definitely make serious money if Barack Hussein Obama goes back to his Kenyan family graveyard.
COUNTERPOINT– Also if Obama gets elected , gets in a cowboyish Missile crisis
,loses a bay of Pigs due to morals ,appoints a brother as an attorney general , who is not charged or questioned before an actress died, but assumes a high moral ground (rather than political ambition) and goes out to investigate Mafia men who may be critical allies in a new cold war,he may end up in a Harvey Dent state funeral with people self justifying the extreme use of force.The last famous political dynasty (which won a very close election, and had a non mainstream religion called Catholism were the Kennedys.
All three Kennedy brothers had close escapes with death in the 1960’s , Ted had two (one in a plane crash which gave him a back injury) and the car crash on the bridge.The Other two brothers didnt quite make it.
THINK….What would likely happen if someone killed Obama.
The question is – is there a credible plot to kill Obama?
As per Feb’s NY times –
From the NYT Story DALLAS — There is a hushed worry on the minds of many supporters of Senator Barack Obama, echoing in conversations from state to state, rally to rally: Will he be safe?
Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, raised concerns in a letter in January to officials who oversee the Secret Service. While Mr. Obama was already receiving protection, Mr. Thompson said that the intense interest in the election prompted him to make sure that Mr. Obama and the other candidates were offered adequate security.
This means that there is a security threat perceived already.
As per Huffington Post- a recent Obama rally at Dallas had police complain about a security breach, when in order to speed up the queues forming they waved metal detection and frisking for people. And this at a Texas rally , where concealed weapons laws are the most liberal.http://www.star-telegram.com/667/story/486413.html
This means that hectic electioneering and Obama’s popularity , his strengths could be his fatal illness.
Obama seeks to take JFK’s legacy. We hope the corporate interests and interests controlling today’s Washington allow him the chance to do so. Except for the end of course.
Hopefully 2008 wont be like 1968
Update – July 3 2008- An officer guarding Obama’s Motorcade was injured in a collision when a van struck him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/03/officer-injured-guarding_n_110696.html
On a fast ride Wednesday from the U.S. Air Force Academy to a luxury hotel where Obama was staying and holding a fundraiser, Orvin suffered minor injuries after a van crashed into his motorcycle, which was blocking traffic for the entourage.
Colorado Springs police Sgt. Scott Wisler said the driver of a van was cited for rear-ending the officer.
Updated –
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/obamas-plane-diverted/
The investigation was triggered after police in the Denver suburb of Aurora stopped a truck that was swerving erratically early Sunday. Police say they found two high-powered rifles, two wigs, camouflage clothing, a bulletproof vest and two walkie-talkies in the truck. They say they also found three IDs in other people’s names and what they believe to be methamphetamine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/us/politics/28plot.html
Latest NYTimes article
WASHINGTON — Two young men who are believers in “white power” have been arrested and charged in Tennessee in what federal officials described as a plan to assassinate Senator Barack Obama and kill black children at a school.
Daniel Cowart of Bells, Tenn., was one of two men charged in what officials called a white supremacist assassination plot.
Federal officials said that both of the men who were arrested — Paul Schlesselman, 18, of West Helena, Ark., and Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn. — told interrogators that they had talked of assassinating Mr. Obama. Lawyers for the men could not be reached.
The two men “planned to drive their vehicle as fast as they could toward Obama shooting at him from the windows,” according to an affidavit filed in federal court in Jackson, Tenn., by an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Mr. Obama has no plans to be in Tennessee, and the affidavit does not make clear whether the men had picked a place for an attack.
The assassination was to be the culmination of a “killing spree” that would also single out children at an unnamed, predominately black school, federal officials said. The men talked of “killing 88 people and beheading 14 African-Americans,” according to the affidavit.
The two men each had “very strong views” about Aryan white power and “skinhead” ideology, the federal officials said, and the numbers 88 and 14 have special significance in the white power movement. The number 88 is shorthand for “Heil, Hitler” — H is the eighth letter in the alphabet —and 14 signifies a 14-word mantra among white supremacists: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
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