Senior U.S. officials are quietly pressuring India to sign the nuclear deal that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has put on the backburner because of domestic political compulsions. After all, at stake for the American companies like GE and Westinghouse are multi-billion dollar contracts. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the Chief Spokesman for big American businesses, […]
Remember FEMA, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency clowns who botched up the Katrina relief operations? Well, the FEMA buffoons are at it again, doing what they do best – Making an ass of themselves. In the latest incident, the FEMA bozos organized a fake press conference the other day to discuss the California wildfires where their […]
Update: Neera Tanden is now Domestic Policy Director for the Obama Campaign now that Hillary Clinton’s White House dreams have turned to dust. ————————- Neera who, you might say. But if Hillary Clinton were to win the Presidency, you can bet on hearing a lot more about Neera Tanden in the coming years. An Indian-American, […]
Struggling with its Internet misadventures in the face of the relentless Google onslaught, a desperate Microsoft is investing $240 million in social networking web site Facebook Inc. Google, which was also keen on a deal with Facebook, has a social networking web site Orkut that’s popular in India and Brazil but has yet to catch on in the […]
We think Bobby Jindal is a disgrace and brings much shame to the Indian-American community. And shame to Louisiana as well, the unfortunate U.S. state of which Bobby will soon be its next Governor. Of course, many Desis in the U.S. will disagree. They are pleased as punch that Bobby will become the first Indian-American […]
As the American middle and lower classes continue their inexorable downward spiral into destitution and bankruptcy, Americans have caught the gambling bug big time. In the latest American gambling news, MGM Mirage is investing $5 billion in a new mega casino project in Atlantic City, which already has 11 casinos. MGM Mirage’s proposed multi-billion dollar […]