Posted by: agsharma on: August 28, 2008
<Link> Students in this tiny town of grain silos and ranch houses spent much of the first couple of days in school this week trying to guess which of their teachers were carrying pistols under their clothes. “We made fun of them,” said Eric Howard, a 16-year-old high school junior, with an adolescent sneer. “Everybody knows [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: August 27, 2008
Just finished listening to the DNC speech by Michelle Obama (part1 part2). Only the hard hearted will not respond positively to the speech. It was powerful and intertwined with the same theme as most of Barack Obama’s speeches. » Family; » Loving one another despite differences; » Honouring everyday Americans. I thought she handled the [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: August 26, 2008
Posted by: agsharma on: August 22, 2008
Looks like the prospect of me voting Liberal in the fall election (if Stephen “firm election date” Harper has the guts to call) are increasing day by day. I like this. Stephane Dion has challenged the prime minister to clarify his view on abortion, threatening to reignite the debate as Canada careens towards an election. [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: August 22, 2008
And so it continues……. An explosion that killed three troops and wounded another west of Kandahar marked a devastating strike against the Canadian Forces by insurgents whose recent attacks have come in rapid succession. Sergeant Shawn Eades, Corporal Dustin Wasden and Sapper Stephan Stock died in the attack on Wednesday. It was the worst one-day [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: August 21, 2008
Do you want to see racism in action in Canada? This is an Olympic themed ad campaign from Bombadier. <Video Link> And these are some of the colourful comments from one of Canada’s premier bloggers. Comments The Song is called Oh Canada, not Oh Kanada. It is sung in either English or French, or both. [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: August 15, 2008
It’s difficult to understand why a sporting powerhouse like Canada has not won a single medal yet. I can only hope that the best is yet to come. They have come tantalisingly close, but in the end, the result has always been against Canada. My money (really) is on Simon Whitfield, James Steacy (a surprise!!), Melanie [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: August 14, 2008
A friend sent this………
Posted by: agsharma on: August 8, 2008
One has to wonder how a seemingly smart intelligent person can say something so fantastically stupid and dumb that all you can do is shrug your shoulders. The latest being the “Obama Tyre Gauges” scrap. Here is Obama saying something smart, something honest, something my mechanic tells me everytime I get my car serviced and [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: August 7, 2008
Went to see Margot And The Nuclear So And So’s last night at the Horseshoe Tavern. First impression? The band was tight and played absolutely superb music. I was afraid that the new material that they were going to introduce would put me to sleep. But the new stuff was really good. Waiting eagerly for [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: August 4, 2008
<Link> Staff at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel have found a four-year-old girl alone in a duty-free shop after her parents accidentally took a plane without her. The parents boarded the flight to Paris with four of their five children. The mother and father were sitting in different parts of the aircraft and did not [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: August 3, 2008
Over the talk show the other day a discussion was going on about democracy and how wonderful it is, when a caller called claiming to have visited 2 dozen countries and how it was only Judea Christian nations that were capable of democracy. I find that comment to be blinding stupid. Here is a list [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: August 3, 2008
In my book tasering is one of the worst tools given to the authorities, especially the police. Sure it is effective in controlling unruly and potentially dangerous behaviour but the exponential abuse of this tool renders it ineffective. I mean we have had incidents where people have died after being tasered by trigger happy police [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: August 3, 2008
Wow!! Right from the word go these guys just rocked. The concert started at 9:10pm and they did not let up until 10:45pm. The music was awesome, the showmanship by Chris Martin and Will Champion was exceptional and the way they engaged the crowd was captivating. The quietest of the four was Berryman, the bass [...]
Oh Dear God!!!
Posted by: agsharma on: August 27, 2008
Wingnuts of the world will find any stupid shitty little molehill and make a mountain out of it. Here is a prime example : What did Hillary Clinton’s body language give away at the Democratic National Convention? Dan Hill, a body language expert and author of “Face Time,” told CNN that even while the words [...]