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Archive for November 2007

Intelligent design

Posted by: agsharma on: November 26, 2007

Wow….what a documentary!!! Everyone, everyone needs to watch this.

Gotta Love Reality

Posted by: agsharma on: November 26, 2007

Excuses, Excuses

Posted by: agsharma on: November 25, 2007

New version of “the dog ate my homework”. Welcome to File Destructor 2.0 Want to play games on your Playstation but got a deadline for an exam or report that didn’t match your gaming ambitions? Then you have come to the right place. Send trashed files and blame your faulty computer, instead of confessing that [...]

Universal Medicine

Posted by: agsharma on: November 25, 2007

For all those dip-shits who think that USA has a world class medical facilities, here is something you need to read. Dial, a 23-year-old truck-stop waitress who earns $17,000 a year plus tips, suffers from Type 1 diabetes. Sudden drops in her blood sugar level have sent her to the emergency room four times in [...]

The Transformer

Posted by: agsharma on: November 25, 2007

Congratulation Prime Minister Stephen Harper!! Congrats!! Your transformation to Bush is almost complete. KAMPALA — Commonwealth leaders agreed to a much watered-down agreement on climate change after Prime Minister Stephen Harper resisted any reference to binding targets on greenhouse gas emissions. But Mr. Harper said that he could not agree to the original proposal which [...]

The Torture Policy

Posted by: agsharma on: November 20, 2007

So, there is a huge debate on torture going onin the USA (1). The side For torture, constitutes mostly the republicans and the 101st Keyboard fighting brigade (2) who say that torture is completely acceptable in the "war on terrah". After all a lunatic might be ready to detonate a suitcase nuclear bomb right now [...]

"Bullshit" Number One Issue

Posted by: agsharma on: November 15, 2007

Hilarious!!!

The Amazing Super Stupid Conservative

Posted by: agsharma on: November 15, 2007

From CC we have the crazy dumb conservative of the day. This woman has an article that clearly illustrates why the insanely crazies come from the right. So, because there have been a few accidents with wind turbines, it’s time to declare that the whole experiment was wrong. She, of course, does not come out [...]

Tasered man’s last moments (Updated)

Posted by: agsharma on: November 15, 2007

Stole the title from Globe and Mail. I saw the video and believe me that there was nothing 4 professional mounties with flak jackets could do to restrain an out of shape man who clearly looked like he was mounting an attack….well it was mostly a verbal attack and using chairs and stools to create [...]

India Shinning?

Posted by: agsharma on: November 14, 2007

All those people who claim that India and it’s citizens are on their way to prosperity, here is a dose of reality : A low-caste Indian man has been killed for shooing away cattle belonging to upper caste people in the western state of Madhya Pradesh, police say. Kailash Bagri, 40, was beaten to death [...]

The Reagan Years

Posted by: agsharma on: November 13, 2007

Do you want to know what the Ronald Reagan years were like? Go here : <http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/innocent-mistakes/>

Rachel Marsden

Posted by: agsharma on: November 11, 2007

How is it that I can wish someone who looks like this die an horrendous death. An excerpt from her article : According to the Geneva Convention, prisoners of war are afforded certain protections. But contrary to what some folks might believe, we’re not talking about prisoners of war here. In the war on terror, [...]

Why? Please Explain To Me, Why?

Posted by: agsharma on: November 11, 2007

<Link> Two Taliban rockets struck a forward operating base west of Kandahar Tuesday during a visit by Defence Minister Peter MacKay. MacKay was conducting private meetings at Forward Operating Base Wilson, about 20 kilometres west of Kandahar city, when the attack occurred. “I do not believe he was targeted,” Gen. Rick Hillier told reporters on [...]

Press Freedom In Canada

Posted by: agsharma on: November 9, 2007

To be 16th On the World Press Freedom Index (1)was quite a shock to me. After all, Canada is theone of the G8 countries. However, I never knewthis (2) : “Canada is one of the most concentrated mediamarkets in the world. Only four corporations distribute70 percent or our dailies, three control most of thetv news [...]

The Handbook Of Denying Torture Allegations

Posted by: agsharma on: November 6, 2007

I had thought that this was over (1). (2) The federal government is dismissing an incendiarynewspaper report about the continued abuse of detainees in Afghanistan. Prisoners at an Afghan jail in Kandahar are being bashedwith bricks, having their fingernails ripped out, getting electrocuted,being forced to stand up without sleeping and are whipped with electriccables, Montreal [...]

Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

Posted by: agsharma on: November 2, 2007

From A Creative Revolution : A few weeks ago a man was tasered at the Vancouver airport, and passed away as a result. But this story has gotten bigger and hasn’t gone away as i am sure the RCMP would like it to. So many different accounts and conflicts, mostly with the RCMP version. The [...]


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