Desi In Toronto

In NewYork and Washington until the end of this week. Will start posting regularly again

…..I’d like to think so. Here is the original speech. It’s about 13 minutes long. and here is an edited musical version of the speech. How many celebrities can you identify?

Here is a site that is a must for all : www.storyofstuff.com It will help you understand the world a whole lot better.

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is a site you must see………<link>

Is it just me or is the second season of Heroes going down the crapper? One dimensional stories. One dimensional characters. No explanation of the close of last season (a few characters were supposed to have been dead. What the hell are they doing in season 2?) Some characters have suddenly changed powers (excuse me [...]

What do you do when you have too much time on your hands….this has never crossed my mind!!!

Here is a page that everyone needs to bookmark!! http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml

The Thorne Speech last night (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071017.wthrone17/BNStory/National/home) It is a push by Harper to model Canada into a USA. 1) Tougher crime bill (just like in the US)2) Discarding Kyoto (just like US did)3) Establish permanent stations in Arctic regions (thereby posturing againstRussia and Denmark which something US does against allies all the time)4) Put a [...]

The funniest thing I saw this morning…… …….I was walking out of the Union Station and saw a man dressed in Santaoutfit a little further away. As I got closer I saw he was a homeless guywho had a donation box with a sign on it that made me like everyone aroundme fish out change [...]

This is what geographical world map look s like…….

The more I think of it, the more I like the MMP system. What is the MMP system? I won’t go into the details of the system as there are thousands of sites that could explain (just google MMP Ontario) more lucidly than I can. All I will say is that MMP allows you to [...]

Everyone in the right-wing arena (blogs, mainstream, talk show etc.) is upin arms over the comments made by the Iranian president Mahmood Ahmadinejadwhen he visited the US. He said that "there are no gays in Iran" whicheveryone knows is a blatant lie. Now the right wingers are rightly (excuse the pun) mocking this stupidstatement. But [...]

Severe lack of blogging can be squarely blamed on facebook. Anyone curious of what I am up to, can go here <link>.