This is a cool pic of President Obama getting on his plane

It’s a well deserved holiday as this time of year is a hectic, cold and stressful period.

While the story is innovative I did not like the characters. The lead is unable to play off the role of a poor ghetto Indian boy. Rather, he looks like he should be sipping tea in the UK somewhere. Anil Kapoor who plays the host of the game show probably played his most difficult role yet, a somewhat smart and distinguished man. That differs from his usual role of prancing around and acting like a jackass in the traditional Bollywood movies.

What’s most interesting is that out of the probably hundreds of thousands of Bollywood movies made none has achieved the type of success that Slum Dog has. Therefore, all these so called Bollywood stars who suck ass when it comes to acting have never come close to winning an Oscar. Not to say that the Oscars is the end all, I mean it is just a North American mouth piece for the cinema. Even if there is one or two who cares what does that mean? What I am trying to say is that Bollywood absolutely blows big time. I can’t believe this dumb fuck Amitabh is still acting I mean really, buddy give it up.

People in India have been upset about Slum Dog gee, I wonder why. Is it because it sheds light on the grotesque lives of the poverty stricken masses? Is it because it doesn’t cloak everything under the guise of a pretty mansion, song and dance and a foreigner from America coming to fall in love?

Anyways, like I have said before Bollywood can eatafatone and while Slum Dog wasn’t amazing in my view the story itself was very good and definitely worth watching.

In Splinter Cell you play Sam Fisher who is part of the NSA. Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six are special forces teams such as the Green Berets and Navy Seals. Missions include taking out ambassadors and Presidents of countries hostile to the US. For example, in Rainbow Six you are to take out President Hugo Chavez. In other missions terrorists are holding Americans hostages.

Does any of this ring a bell? Think about what happens to young, ignorant uninformed people who play these games and then turn on their television sets. The point is that today, Iraq refused to renew Blackwaters contract. Blackwater is an independent small military force that is contracted and hired by the American government.

In the past Blackwater has committed many illegal acts and in 2007 a number of Blackwater members got into trouble for illegal killings.

Today, Iraq indicated that Blackwater was no longer welcome in Iraq. Under the new legal structure the Iraqi government now has authority over who can operate within its borders.

This is a huge blow to Blackwater, a bunch of red neck dumb fucks who have watched way to many Rambo movies.

This sends a strong message that while priority number one is protecting Americans, the new US administration is open to new ideas i.e, talking to Muslim leaders.

President Obama indicated in the interview given on an Arabic television network that he plans to give a speech from a Muslim capital sometime within his first 100 days. This is incredible news and it’s certainly positive.

At this time the Muslim world must accept President Obama’s hand of friendship. He is already favoured heavily in many moderate and not so moderate Muslim nations.

People save for years to go in and buy that dream car. Only to be swindled, by fast talking salesmen and “packages” and promotions that make no sense. You can buy a shirt from Walmart or the Gap for $5 bucks and return it 90 days later with no questions. But a vehicle, new, which can cost anywhere from $20 to $60,000 is non-returnable or exchangeable the minute you sign the dotted line. Some say there is a two day cooling off period but I am not so certain about that. Within the last three years I leased two new cars and I can tell you it was the worst experience ever.

Vehicles today are worthless in value and performance. A vehicle instantly loses its value the minute you drive it off the lot. Worse, your vehicle in terms of style and design is garbage come 10 months when next years model arrives.

How can it be that these huge auto giants that have teams of people who analyze its financial data and muse over it day and night were not able to see a financial meltdown? If you and I, mismanage our money the debt collectors are at our door trying to force us into bankruptcy or jail. What’s the worst crime we could commit? Not being able to pay our debt?

But the automakers can get off with nothing. I agree we need the bailout package without it the ramifications would be huge. But I don’t feel any sympathy for an industry that produces a crappy package and tries to peddle it with sleaze ball tactics.

In the wake of the Mumbai attacks Dalrymple wrote an excellent article in the well known publication The Observer. He draws attention to an issue that many have failed to acknowledge, violence against Kashmiri Muslims. It’s not his argument that Kashmir was along Pakistan’s. Rather, it’s his analysis of the underlying root cause of the Mumbai attacks and others.

While Indians and the world media are quick to lambaste and attribute the attacks to Pakistan and its incapacity to control Islamic Jihadists, critics fail to either accept or dismiss any criticism of India’s actions in Kashmir.

The article can be found here.