Jay Walking Rudy Giuliani

I just read this article about the comedy show at the republican presidential debates starring New York's ex-mayor and now a Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani.

This is typical Jay Walking material. It always stuns me to find out the sheer lack of basic common knowledge in Americans. For nearly a decade now they have been facing the ire of extremists and fundamentalists from the middle east who have openly proclaimed war on their nation on the singular premise that the "infidels", aka the Americans, have infiltrated and occupied their holy land, ie the middle east beginning from the Kuwaiti occupation of American troops.

Now this has been shouted off the rooftops by these terrorists. A simple withdrawal of troops from the middle east would nip the menace right at the bud. If this is done these terrorist organizations will cease to have any reason for existence and if nothing else their sources of funding and ability to recruit new blood will definitely drop to minuscule levels.

The fact the Rudy Giuliani had no clue about this, even though he has been riding the high wave with the 9/11 attacks, and the fact that the crowd cheered at his dumb explanations is even more comical. How about some common sense courses for the American curriculum. Try being a good global citizen before attempting to be a global superpower.

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Freedom of Expression - Do we have it in India?

It has been a shameful spate of events occurring at Vadodara. The thugs of the VHP, lead by a particular Neeraj Jain, who claim to be representatives of the majority of the country have vandalized and illegally imprisoned a college student. All this hooliganism based on their restricted and uneducated point of view of the paintings of a few students.

It's sad to see that in a country like ours where our forefathers paid artists generously to adorn their palaces and temples with deities and beautiful women alike, today's artistes don't have the freedom that is symbolic of a diverse and educated society. They respected these artistes as they held the ability to put into form what all of us just could only dream of. The palaces of Rajasthan, the temples of Bellur and Halibed all show beauty in its true form. It's just sad to see that a handful minority is ruling the vast majority in our country. These hooligans are openly flaunting their control over the police and the nauseating elements of our society.

Paintings are a medium of self expression. The person who paints is free, free even by the Indian Constitution that we so proudly cite, to express himself or herself in any way that he or she wishes to. This is something that is very personal. If you dont like it you should move onto the next painting and if you are someone from the VHP, BJP or Sang Parivar just move along to the next garbage dump and park yourselves there.

Am Old Skool already

The recent ads on Star show that there will be some Old Skool programs on the telly starting the 14th. Some of which include Wonder Years and Dougie Houser MD. These were the days when cable telivision wasnt that widespread and the few english channels that we had were always the talk of the next days lunch breaks in school. I still remember all of us talking about Winnie Cooper and how Kevin tried to kiss her unsuccessfully and all that. It was totally awesome. Will be fun catchin up on these classics or as they are calling it ... the old school stuff :)

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The untimely demise of my creativity and enthusiasm can be greatly attributed to the presence of the hierarchial egos.

Good 'ol 70s and 80s

Heard some of these beauties on Yahoo Radio

You've got a friend (album:mud slide slim and true horizon) - james taylor
I'll have to say i love ya in a song - jim croce (time in a bottle)
You are so beautiful - joe cocker(ultimate collection)
I cant make you love me - bonnie rait(luck of the draw)

Now I feel like diggin up my oldies collection... Oh the beauty of romancing it with the blues, some jazz, some slow music and just swaying... considering that I dont know how to dance :) haha