At times when there has been a news of a disaster or something of that kind, one would expect that all the politicians would all come together and lend support to the local community that has been affected. But all that they do is to gather the victims around them and give very long winded speeches and make it sound as though their rivals are to blame for the entire thing.
This is totally deplorable and yes, I know that the elections for the U.S president is just around the corner and even that does not excuse the kind of ugly behaviour shown by both the democrats and the republicans in the recent speeches in view of the latest shooting spree that took place recently!
Monday, December 10, 2007
Cheap politics and gun control!
Posted by
scorpius
at
7:12 AM
Labels: mall, politicians, shooting, terrorism, united states
Thursday, December 6, 2007
The Spanish way!
If you speak in Spanish and do not know much English to help you along and you are in the united states and would like to travel, can you imagine the difficulty that you would have coordinating the trip with most of the travel agencies? For one not all of them can understand a word that you will speak thereby making the whole process a nightmare from start to finish.
That is what was the case at least until now. With descuento en hoteles, the whole experience becomes very easy for the Spanish speaking people residing in the United states, you need no longer spend countless hours over the phone just trying to clarify your travelling details. Here, not only can they understand you perfectly they also have round the clock customer service. So if you want to travel and need to book your tickets, just go to the links above and the rest is all easy!
Iran still very much a threat - U.S!
It seems that after all that was said and done, the United states still believes Iran to be very much threat and that they still believe in going ahead with the missile defense shield plans. The baggage of past relations is one that Henry Kissinger would probably understand the best of all of us, for none more than he would know how history can have this resounding effect on relations for decades to come.
Look at South Korea and North Korea, technically they are still supposed to be at war, and that was over 50 years ago, so record wise that may be the longest war that has ever been fought in the modern history of man, not counting the 100 years war. One can only hope that both Iran and the United states find some peaceful way of resolving their issues!
Posted by
scorpius
at
1:12 AM
Labels: defense shield, europe, iran, missile, plans, russia, united states
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Iran: The report that never was!

Iran seems to be more in the news these days and not for all the right reasons. The latest round in the Iran-U.S war of the meek seems to have ended in the favor of Iran. The leakage of the intelligence report telling one and all that Iran seems to have halted its nuclear weapons program way back in 2003 is not all that surprising to those who know the Iranians well. For those who do know the Iranians well, know that they have this inherent tactic for survival and that they will never take the foolhardy path of Saddam Hussein. They well know that to take that path will only lead to total and utter destruction on all sides and that it is indeed better to live and let live. On that thought, did you know that the ancient school of philosophy can be traced back to Iran and that it is in Iran that it had its roots and not in Greece as many think so!
This intelligence report has come at a time that the United states is going hammer and tongs at getting even more sanctions against Iran approved by the Security council. For one, this report does make things a little bit difficult for the United states to push for even more tougher sanctions. And anyone can see that to most Americans today, Iran and its hardliners still represent a threat not because of their religion or the fact that Iran thinks that Israel does not exist, but for the fact that many Americans were taken hostage during the Iranian revolution. What irks the Americans to this day is the fact that many Americans were taken hostage in the American embassy in Teheran. This baggage is one of the main reasons why America today finds it so difficult to even get along with Iran. The past is in the past and that is easier said than done, but it is high time that both these countries realise that there is nothing to be gained by holding onto past grudges. They should really take a page from the India-Pakistan book, the whole world knows the legendary rivalry between those two and today, they are not against each other, at least not the way that they were in the 1970's. They have matured and come a long way since then.
One thing is for sure, the other countries can breath a sigh of relief as they know that the United states would not be pressing that hard for sanctions this time around and that the Nuclear watchdog and mr.ElBaradei can go about their job and make sure that Iran has indeed complied with the IAEA rules and that Iran is only involved in fuel enrichment for peaceful purposes!
Iran,United States,India,Pakistan,iaea,nuclear,
The Credit search engine!
In this day and age we are overwhelmed by the number of credit cards that are out there. Often we do not know which one to choose and which one to subscribe to. In the end we are often confused by the many offers and rewards that each and every card gives to its clients. And now that need not be the case any longer. With the credit card search engines, sorting through all the Fair Credit Credit Cards has become so much easier.
Now as a result of this search engine, we can sort through all the layers of enticing rewards and offers that each and every credit card makes to us and choose the one that makes the most sense, from our point of view. For me, the selling point would always be the lowest rate of interest as I am sure that will be the case with most of us. Here, this site features offers from leading U.S Credit Card issuers such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank and leading brands Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Card, and we can use this search engine feature to sort through them all and pick the one that we think would be the best for us!
Posted by
scorpius
at
2:58 AM
Labels: credit cards, purchase
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Dynamite,Clinton, Crazy and a Hostage crisis?
The title of this post alone should make the situation clear to all of us, one may even think that the title is a dressing for some mundane story but the sad part or the funny part is that it is all too true and that all of it had really happened.
All of this went down in ROCHESTER, N.H. The hostage taker was a man called Leeland Eisenberg. This person had been in trouble before with the law and just three days ago his wife had filed for divorce and that seems to have been the very last straw for Leeland. Normally in order to deal with the emotional issues regarding divorce or any other family issues we would go to see a psychiatrist. Since the united states does provide some form of health care to all its citizens, Leeland could have taken that and avoided doing what he did.
But Leeland is a person who does things differently, he went ahead and strapped some road flares to himself,made it look like a dynamite,walked to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign offices, and decided to hold the people there hostage. He, I believe wanted to talk to Hilary about getting some form of medical help for himself. Talk about the crazy wanting to talk to another crazy about being crazy, That is not a pun because that is how it sounded to me. Anyway he later released all the hostages and surrendered himself. This is one campaign that Hilary is not going to forget anytime soon!
Are you single? want a promotion?
It is that time of the year when we Single men try to meet up and date some of the 'pretty women' that we do meet. That is easier said than done, since most of us end up becoming nervous wrecks the very firs time we end up talking to one. Each and every one of us have a very particular idea as to who we would want to date, it may be JLo or Angelian Jolie or someone like that...right? Apart from joking the one thing that most single men have in common is that they just do not know how to date leave alone to hold a proper conversation with one of them, it is time we all face the fact that we do need a dating coach.
Is this for real, can there be a dating coach available? Yes, to both of those queries, this site provides us with all the information that we would need in order to go out on a successful date. Each and every one of us may have to polish our rough edges so that we can be considered as the 'right material' by the women of this world. It is going to take a lot of effort on our part, but believe me, when I say that with this site, we can get there. i often found that the hardest part of holding a conversation with a woman was knowing what to talk about, since the one thing that we men all love to talk about is sports. Until and unless, the woman in question is a sports enthusiast like us, forget talking about that. Here at this site, there are some really great conversation starters which we can utilise.
Once we have started to get the ball rolling, the rest should be easy especially with all the tips that this site has. The one place that we can meet some really eligible women is at one of these singles events. The fun part of the whole thing is that we get to meet up with everyone and in the end we end up choosing the person that we are most compatible with. So if you want someone to really help you with dating, then this is the site to go to, just click on the links above and have fun!