Russia and China blame capitalists

Not a big fan of Capitalism, no surprises there, and not too hot about Communism either. Nothing in excess is ever beneficial in the long run.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/29/europe/29davos.php

A slap on Indian government and media's face

Alex Jones tells it how it is.

Obama's Middle East Challenge

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/theobamapresidency/2009/01/200912694223241504.html

If you're trying to mediate peace between parties A and B, you wont be very succesful if you:

1. Continuously supply party A with $3 BN worth of arms every year
2. Hold talks with yourself and party A, while totally ignoring party B, and then expecting party B to listen and quiet down.
3. Turn a blind eye to reality

That is the American way. And that is Obama's challenge. Can he open America's eyes to reality?

Israeli strike on school filmed

Yes, lets kill those terrorist five and seven year olds. Defend Israel at any cost!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7841406.stm

Mobile phone footage from Gaza shows the moment on 17 January when a UN school in Beit Lahiya was hit by shellfire on the last day of Israel's three-week offensive.

The burning lumps are consistent with the incendiary device white phosphorus (WP) - which is banned from use within areas of civilian concentration under international weapons agreements.

The UN says at least two artillery rounds emitting phosphorus landed inside the school where 1,600 Palestinians were seeking refuge from the bombardment. A high explosive shell also hit one of the school buildings, killing two boys, aged five and seven.

Dinner is served!

UN investigator sees evidence of war crimes in Gaza

NO SHIT! :-o

http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSLM736083._CH_.2400

Richard Falk by the way is jewish himself and was expelled from Israel a few weeks before the launch of Israel's bloody campaign. He was interviewed by the terrorist news network Al Jazeera by the equally terror striking Ghida Fakhry.

No more than 600 died in Gaza

For all those of you who were reporting over 1000 killed in Gaza, take your sources and shove em. Jerusalem post has concluded that Israel only killed 600 and that conclusively proves that Israel is not the aggressor anymore because 600 murdered is a much more humane number than 1000 murdered.

This info is based on tour of the hospitals in gaza and looking at the number of dead there and using that as a yardstick to measure the number of deaths. You know this reminds me of a sketch from 50-50, a Saturday Night Live type show in Pakistan from the 70's. In the sketch pakistan's health minister was being interviewed. The host ask him what were his thoughts about pakistan's health crisis, to which the minister replied that there was no crisis! And his reasoning was that since one hospital has 250 beds, and all beds were full and theres no other sick people in the hospital, that follows that no one else is sick.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292939271&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Many more thoughts bubble in my mind but the rush of blood prevents them from being transcribed. Just one word keeps resurfacing: BULLSHIT

Perfect

We can come up with perfect solutions, perfect ideologies, perfect institutions. But in practice, nothing is perfect. We can talk about em, we can write about em, but we can't ever physically materialize anything perfect.

For example a perfect car is one that gives 100% efficiency for the fuel we supply it with. One that gives no sound, no heat, only translational motion. But in practice it is impossible to create such a car.

Capitalism similarly is something which many believe is a perfect institution, but like anything else is far from perfect in practice (and in theory too IMHO). So my question to those people who unashamedly blare the trumpets of capitalism, now that we have established that its not perfect, is that can you play the devil's advocate for yourselves and sit down and write down things that are not right about capitalism. I can list a whole lot myself but i'd like some champions of capitalism to sit down and list its problems.

Wonder what Obama would have to say.

Turn down the lights

Google / Youtube has done it again. This time in the form of a new very nifty feature called "Turn Down the Lights". What it is is a small lightbulb above every youtube video which, when pressed, dims the entire contents of the page except for the video itself. Kinda like how the lights in a theatre get dimmed down when the feature presentation starts.


Apart from the aesthetic aspect, it really does help relax your eyes even if its just a wee bit.

Not something you can't live without but very smart nonetheless. I have a feeling this will grow on people very quickly eventually turning into a feature you can't live without. Okay maybe not exactly not something you can't live without.

400,000

So the accord just turned 400,000 km and still going strong. Hit the milestone somewhere on I-69 in Michigan and it was dark already so couldnt get a pic of the actual mark. Do have some before and after pics though.

Got the timing belt replaced last August so doesn't hesitate to touch the red zone if asked to. And this is a car thats well past its best-by date.

Back again

I came, i saw, i blogged. Again.

I zipped by a cop at 140 kph yesterday. I think he was asleep or something otherwise I would have been the proud owner of a $200 ticket. The roads are extra slippery these days due to snow so im supposed to exercise more caution. But what can you do when you're late for for work three times already and one more late means you're fired?

"It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen" -Homer Simpson

I realized today i can properly pronounce most african names the way theyre supposed to be pronounced, by virtue of my sindhi tuned vocal cords. Which ofcourse also helped me win a bet against an african coworker. =)

Houston, we dont have a problem.

I seem to have gained sufficient control over this blob. err blog. If it causes any more problems im stopping all funding.

Houston, we have a problem

sunday well wasted. back to the grind tomorrow.
oh, by the way, im sharjeel.