Political Pundits and their BS

Sarah Palin huh...

The gun trotting, bible thumping, Pro-life extreme Right wing Hockey mom (what is hockey mom anyway...)

She sounds like second coming of W. And the abc interview shows her understanding of today's issues..which is zero. Now the conservative Political Consultants wants to Project her as able leader who might not be sharp but ABLE. Just like they projected W in 2000 and '04.

So I was watching Real time with Bill Maher on youtube. Bill asked John Fund (conservative reporter of WSJ) whether Sarah Palin would know anything about Sarabanes Oxley. His answer, "are we here for a trivia contest ?".

John, listen up dude. Since when, SOX became trivia in corporate America ? Corporations are spending Billions of dollars for the compliance of these regulations. (This SOX in reality is just a pay check for auditing firms). And is it too much to ask for a VP candidate's view on SOX.

There's no end in sight for this Right wing Spin.

Peace.

What is India waiting for ?

Another bomb blast in India. This time it's in Capital city. Same Modus operandi. Send a mail to news outlet and trigger the blasts.

I feel so sad and shameful on how these muslims/terrorists are killing innocent people. What can be done to prevent this and what's government doing about these.

Police didn't make any significant progress in last year's Hyderabad Blasts. Jaipur, Ahmadabad, Banglore, Delhi...Terrorists are changing locations and here we're living with fear everyday and just waiting for blasts to happen in some other city.

Is there any intelligence team in India which is actually doing it's job. Or Terrorists too smart. Government, is that in a position to guarantee the safety of civilians lives. I didn't read any outrage about this blasts this time. Civilains and govt, are they considering this as part of their life.

And for the love the God, would at least one politician come forward and ask all these muslims to go F themselves. Life in India is all about fucking political Correctness. In the movies, if the Villain happens to be muslim, then honest cop also needs to be a Muslim.

This whole post is just an anger outburst. My anger is deep rooted and started right from college days when I heard that muslims in Hyderabad celebrate Pakistan's victory against India in cricket. I'm just looking for a civilian movement to start. Or a vigilante.

God Bless India,
Jai Hind

Ashta chemma - Movie review

Just got back from Ashta chemma. The promos looked very promising and though the movie might not be a great hit, it sure is a very good entertainer. Simple story, simple narration and a short(by indian standards) movie. The run time is close to 130 mins. All the artists/actors gave good performances. No big twists, the music is good, the songs could have been better. Both the heroes did good. Its hard to believe its their debut movie. Nani(Rambabu) and Srinivas(Anand) both were good, but Nani imitated Rajiv kanakala in many scenes, especially in his intro and the following scenes his dialogue delivery, modulation and action resembles Rajeev Kanakala. Swathi is cute. Bhargavi is okay (adequate hehe)

Overall, Ashta chemma is a time pass flick. A simple story with some good laughs.

Indian Hockey at Olympics

I was reading about Indian hockey the other day. I knew we were a good team once upon a time. I was really amazed at our olympics record. It is unfortunate that we did not qualify for Beijing. Here is a list of past olympic results -

1928 Gold Amsterdam
1932 Gold Los Angeles
1936 Gold Berlin
1940 Games not held
1944 Games not held
1948 Gold London
1952 Gold Helsinki
1956 Gold Melbourne
1960 Silver Rome
1964 Gold Tokyo
1968 Bronze Mexico City
1972 Bronze Munich
1976 Seventh Montreal
1980 Gold Moscow
1984 Fifth Los Angeles
1988 Sixth Seoul
1992 Seventh Barcelona
1996 Eighth Atlanta
2000 Seventh Sydney
2004 Seventh Athens
2008 Failed to qualify Beijing

courtesy:
yahoo! sports
worldhockey.org/olympics

India at olympics

Congratulations to Abhinav Bindra, India finally gets an olympic gold medal. It is a great achievement by Bindra. While the celebrations are understandable all over India, one gold medal does not justify the 1 billion population. While we blame cricket for everything since it overshadows all the other games and sports, the main culprit is the politics involved at every level. The olympics offer a perfect stage for all sports. A victory here can capture the public’s attention and bring more young talent and more funds into the sport. It brings identity to the sport. I hope we have more leagues and competitions in all sports just like we have IPL/ICL for cricket. But with the media and the networks in india crazy with cricket, it might take a long time before the public can get to watch the other sports.

In another news, India is thrashed by Sri Lanka in the ongoing one day series.