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Angels & Demons featuring Tom Hanks is releasing tomorrow in the U.S.
What better way to prepare for the movie than by reading the book by Dan Brown on which the movie is based.
So, like any cheap desi we checked for a coupon. Found one for 30% off at Border’s and Waldenbooks. The book was priced at $9.99 before discount. After our 30% discount, we got it for $6.99. Nice, na.
Angels & Demons is the prequel to the wildly successful The Da Vinci Code, which was Continue reading »
Folks, here we are for the quarter-century edition of Incredible India.
So all ye schmucks in ignoranceville think our President Barack Obama faces a threat only from the Al Queda or the right-wing extremists in the U.S.
Shows how little you know. You see, the Biharis are second to none when it comes to violence. Playing the goonda comes naturally to the denizens of Lallu-land.
Ranjan Kumar, a 30-ish resident of Darbhanga village in Aurangabad district, has been arrested for threatening to kill U.S. President Barack Obama.
No sir, we are not making it up. And no, it’s too early in the day for our scotch.
Apparently, Kumar doesn’t think highly of the security around Obama.
Thinking perhaps that in a fair fight he should give his opponent advance warning or maybe drunk on Bollywood movie dialogs (Haramzade, kuttay, kameenay. Main tumhe jaan se maar daloonga), Kumar called the U.S. Embassy in Delhi and Continue reading »
Barely a few weeks after the Obama administration promised to release the torture photos of detainees by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, the administration has now gone back on its word and is trying to cover up the torture by preventing release of the nasty photos.
On April 24, 2009, President Obama felt release of the photos would not harm the U.S. troops. Just 20 days later, President Obama feels release of the photos will harm American troops.
The U.S. Defense Department told a federal court on April 23 that it would release by May 28 a ‘substantial number’ of photos depicting the abuse of prisoners by U.S. personnel. And that is the promise that’s broken now.
The torture photos are from prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan at locations other than Abu Ghraib.
What’s Happening?
The U.S.military – the torturers – squeezed Obama’s cojones and this lily-livered poltroon caved in. That’s what happened.
Obama, what ever happened to all your feel-good promises of transparency in government?
Here’s the drivel that Obama’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters at a White House briefing on Wednesday:
The President believes that the existence of the photos themselves doesn’t actually add to the understanding that detainee abuse happened, was investigated, that actions were taken by those that did indeed or might have undertaken potential abuse of detainees, and that those cases were all dating back to finishing in 2004. The President doesn’t believe the release of photos surrounding that investigation does anything to illuminate the existence of that investigation, only to provide some portion of sensationalism.
Whoa. Since when did release of torture photos become sensationalism.
And this is what Obama himself told reporters today at the White House:
The publication of these photos would not add any additional benefit to our understanding of what was Continue reading »
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