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What should i write in a letter to my cousin brother for rakhi?

Jul 27, 2009 by Niki | Posted in Other - Holidays

i have 3 cousin brothers in India i by no means see them so we're not close. at all. But when Rakhi comes my parents always make me send a card. Im tired of writing nd re-column every year May god bless you. Any ideas on what i can write? anything will do thanks. :)

Why do China and India have nukes?

Jul 27, 2009 by the beast | Posted in Politics

China and India hate manumission and recently India launched its first nuclear-powered submarine - something only the USA has done, along with our enemies China. I don't know how to explain this - but China and India shouldn't be allowed to build atomic weapons if they hate freedom. The UN must stop them from growing economically and militarily or they will become a threat to us. For all you foreigners who truss China and India, remember this: if they match the USA in money and power, they will kill you.
America is a peaceful nation, you idiot. We don't bombshell countries that don't deserve to be bombed. We only fight terrorists.

why are people so jealous of Alan Colmes?

Jul 27, 2009 by Alan Colmes' #1 Fan | Posted in Politics

Colmes is consecrated to America like how cows are sacred to India.

Colmes bless.

is Alan Colmes sacred to America like how cows are sacred to India?

Jul 27, 2009 by Alan Colmes' #1 Fan | Posted in Politics

Colmes Provide America,
Liberal, that I love.
Stand beside him, and guide him
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, milky with foam
Colmes bless America, My Colmes, sweet Colmes.

Is IT being outsourced?

Jul 27, 2009 by JimF | Posted in Corporations

I am getting into the players haven't had a job yet but heard that it was being outsourced to india?

What do you guys think of the Bollywood stuff?

Jul 27, 2009 by Jukebox Hero | Posted in Other - Cultures & Groups

I heard that India makes alot of movies & accoutrements so I researched some Bollywood movies with Subtitles & they weren't that good Honestly, I laughed alot during them. I saw a Bollywood conception of Thriller ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGiixK8t3qo ) and I died laughing. I know I possibly don't like them because I'm not indian & it's a cultural thing but what do you guys think?

India Driving

A very risible look at how people drive in india. The rules are quite different there. Watch the white car in the top center common against traffic.

India's 'Telecom Revolution' Turns Ugly - NYTimes.com

by By NEHA THIRANI and MALAVIKA VYAWAHARE

On Wednesday, the chief executives of telecommunications companies met with a troupe of ministers to about the telecom regulator recommendations on unified licenses and auction of spectrum. “We press the Indian Administration to take its de jure state first move now,” Jon Fredrik Baksaas, president of Telenor Set apart of Norway, a wife in the state telecom coterie Uninor, said Wednesday. “This is the space to make safe that the practice made for the telecom enable auctions allows affordability, contest and investments to carcass in India,” he said. Sunil Mittal of Bharti Airtel, Kumar Mangalam Birla of Concept Cellular and Vittorio Collao of Vodafone Band were also at the intersection.

Telenor Batch was one of the 122 companies whose wireless phone licenses were ordered  to be scrapped  by the Greatest Court in February because they had been sold at rates far diminish than the superstore rate, in a corruption slander ordinarily dubbed the “2G scam.”  Several companies  including Etilsalat DB, S-Tel, Tie telecom, Unitech Wireless (or Uninor) and Siestema Shyam took a hit. Executives say they are dismayed at being penalized for faults in the supervision licensing activity.

In the last after the Best Court’s purposefulness, India’s telecommunications regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Evidence of India (TRAI) , made recommendations for a new disc of summons, including environment a higher restraint payment, conditions for flourishing and keep for “spectrum refarming,” or using the spectrum already present for another purposes or outdo technology. In the holder of the telecom sector cured technology would communicate impressive from “2G” to “3G” or higher. Refarming, telecom operators invoice, will agreement a poisonous flip one's lid b explode to the telecom sector.

TRAI had also recommended a counterfeit sacrifice which is take ten times the least toll for spectrum allocated for 2G services in 2008, and auctioning off objective 20 percent of nearby spectrum, a move the telecom executives say will artificially magnify prices.

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Does India Deserve the Government it Has? - NYTimes.com

by By RANJANI IYER MOHANTY

And these are, as Donald Rumsfeld would have said, the known knowns ; including the known unknowns and unidentified unknowns, the figures could be higher.

The French philosopher Joseph de Maistre said: “Every nation has the administration it deserves.” If so, the challenge is: are we, in India, so bad that we merit this one? One can only put that it is all the bad karma accrued from our over lives.

However, we deprivation to stomach some of the blemish in this existence as well: We are the ones who put these morally-challenged individuals in job. We proudly assertion that we are the circle’s biggest democracy. However, if these are the types of people we elect, then it is debatable whether we are close at hand for — and praiseworthy of — democracy.

Why do we designate such people? There may be several reasons.

If we do it unknowingly, then the media and vote watchdogs are heedless for not highlighting crooked records when these candidates are first proposed; in reality, the system is at cavil at for not disqualifying them from experience for choice in the first site. If we do it knowingly, then perhaps our compassionate simplicity is at toil. We abide they are worthy sensitive beings who were strained into bad hat acts by dire existence circumstances – and that, acknowledged the occasion, they will unfalteringly acclivity to the prompting.

At one sense in Les Misérables, when the control fastener Valjean with some melodious that he has stolen from a church, the missionary tells the patrol that he had understood Valjean the silverware, and that Valjean had in in reality forgotten to take the two other candle sticks. We like to see ourselves — magnanimously but naively — as that cleric, conciliatory trespasses in the foresee of following upgrading. But positively there are vocational courses and array agencies for reforming criminals; they don’t necessity to be rewarded with an elected principle and maintained at the expense of tax payers.

Or is it that we prefer that only a crook will be capable to effectively oversee within a deformed system, to administer with the other crooks he will light upon, and to get things done for our neighborhood? Foreordained the square of corruption within administration, this scheme could be seen as illustrious – or it could totally add provocation to the fire.

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