Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Teen banned from US for abusive email to Obama
Teen banned from US for abusive email to Obama
London: A British teenager who had sent an abusive email to US President Barack Obama has been banned for life from visiting America.
According to media reports, Luke Angel, 17, had sent an insulting email to the White House in a drunken state after watching a programme about September 11 attacks on the US.
In his hate email, Angel was abusive of Obama. The FBI intercepted the message and contacted police in the UK.
The local police found the teenager at his home in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, and informed him that he is now on a list of people who are banned from visiting the US, the Daily Mail reported.
Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/teen-banned-from-us-for-abusive-email-to-obama-51977?cp
London: A British teenager who had sent an abusive email to US President Barack Obama has been banned for life from visiting America.
According to media reports, Luke Angel, 17, had sent an insulting email to the White House in a drunken state after watching a programme about September 11 attacks on the US.
In his hate email, Angel was abusive of Obama. The FBI intercepted the message and contacted police in the UK.
The local police found the teenager at his home in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, and informed him that he is now on a list of people who are banned from visiting the US, the Daily Mail reported.
Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/teen-banned-from-us-for-abusive-email-to-obama-51977?cp
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The Pioneer > Online Edition : >> To fix Jaya CM robs Fort St George of its splendour
The Pioneer > Online Edition : >> To fix Jaya CM robs Fort St George of its splendour
The grandeur of the historic Fort St George which housed the Tamil Nadu Assembly for decades has been stripped, just to spite a rival.
Having made a huge structure, shorn of any traditional Dravidian artistry, to house the Legislative Assembly of the State, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief M Karunanidhi wanted to initially preserve the old pad as a museum — a testimony to Tamil Nadu’s history. History was so much in his heart that he even got replicas of the Speaker’s and other chairs made for the new Assembly, while preserving the old rosewood and green set-up with huge decorative chandeliers, lamps, etc.
However, earlier this month, Leader of the Oppo-sition and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa criticised the look of the new Assembly-cum-Secretariat complex and announced that when her party returned to power, the Assembly would be shifted right back to its old moorings in the Fort St George. No sooner did she mention that than Karunanidhi announced that the old Assembly would be turned into a library. Then what happened to his idea to preserve a valuable heritage?
At the recently held World Classical Tamil Conference in Coimbatore, Karunanidhi, driven by emotions, announced that the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) would be shifted to the hallowed hall at the Fort St George even before the conference ended and that his office chamber would become the office of the institute head.
The grandeur of the historic Fort St George which housed the Tamil Nadu Assembly for decades has been stripped, just to spite a rival.
Having made a huge structure, shorn of any traditional Dravidian artistry, to house the Legislative Assembly of the State, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief M Karunanidhi wanted to initially preserve the old pad as a museum — a testimony to Tamil Nadu’s history. History was so much in his heart that he even got replicas of the Speaker’s and other chairs made for the new Assembly, while preserving the old rosewood and green set-up with huge decorative chandeliers, lamps, etc.
However, earlier this month, Leader of the Oppo-sition and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa criticised the look of the new Assembly-cum-Secretariat complex and announced that when her party returned to power, the Assembly would be shifted right back to its old moorings in the Fort St George. No sooner did she mention that than Karunanidhi announced that the old Assembly would be turned into a library. Then what happened to his idea to preserve a valuable heritage?
At the recently held World Classical Tamil Conference in Coimbatore, Karunanidhi, driven by emotions, announced that the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) would be shifted to the hallowed hall at the Fort St George even before the conference ended and that his office chamber would become the office of the institute head.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Anti-politics machine - article by Noorani in Frontline
“[T]he politician lives in a world of publicity, calumny, distortion, and insult. He is often looked down upon by police society as being a mere ‘fixer’ and an ‘opportunist’ (though it is puzzling why this last word always has a bad meaning) and he is mocked by intellectuals for rarely having ideas of his own: a politician is an arse upon/which everyone has sat except a man, which is the whole of an easy poem by E.E. Cummings. And, indeed, the politician, beneath his necessary flexibility, will rarely be a man of less than normal pliability and ambitions. He will provoke such cheap mockery from spectators. But he will not take these things to heart. The successful politician will learn how to swallow insults.”
A politician deserves scorn only when he is disloyal to his calling and fails to perform his duties as a politician. A free society has diverse interests with conflicting claims on power and the state’s attention and finances. The politician is an advocate as well as a mediator. He espouses an interest and meets with advocates of other interests to reconcile them peaceably and in an orderly way, whether in the legislature or outside. That is the only way a free society can function: by compromise, conciliation and reconciliation. It is messy, but it is unavoidable. That is life.
To be sure, the politician does not act purely from altruistic motives. He does seek power for himself. But it is a pursuit that is informed by a commitment to the public interest as well. That is what is known as “honourable ambition”, as distinct from that of the man who enters politics in order to line his pockets. The corruption of politics and the disavowal of politics form a vicious circle. Implicit in both is contempt for the political process. Read it all here
A politician deserves scorn only when he is disloyal to his calling and fails to perform his duties as a politician. A free society has diverse interests with conflicting claims on power and the state’s attention and finances. The politician is an advocate as well as a mediator. He espouses an interest and meets with advocates of other interests to reconcile them peaceably and in an orderly way, whether in the legislature or outside. That is the only way a free society can function: by compromise, conciliation and reconciliation. It is messy, but it is unavoidable. That is life.
To be sure, the politician does not act purely from altruistic motives. He does seek power for himself. But it is a pursuit that is informed by a commitment to the public interest as well. That is what is known as “honourable ambition”, as distinct from that of the man who enters politics in order to line his pockets. The corruption of politics and the disavowal of politics form a vicious circle. Implicit in both is contempt for the political process. Read it all here
Thursday, January 22, 2009
US priests 'in $800,000 theft'
By Robert Pigott
BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent
Father John Skehan admits stealing the money for property and gambling
Two Roman Catholic priests have been accused of stealing $800,000 from the collection plate of their church in the US state of Florida.
They allegedly planned to spend the money on property, holidays, gambling and to meet the expenses of mistresses.
One of the priests, Fr John Skelan has admitted the charges, but his colleague Fr Francis Guinan denies them.
US law - the statute of limitations - prevents the priests being charged with thefts that occurred before 2001.
But the auditors say that up to $8m might have disappeared over a period of 20 years.
It could be the biggest embezzlement case to affect the Catholic Church in the United States.
One of the priests - Fr John Skehan - abandoned his not-guilty plea just before his trial began, and admitted stealing $800,000 given by parishioners at St Vincent Ferrer Church in West Palm Beach.
The priests allegedly hid the money in the church ceiling and opened offshore accounts.
Fr Skehan - who is 81 and has been given the honorific title "Monsignor" - served at the church for 40 years.
He admitted spending stolen money on expensive houses and gambling in Las Vegas.
Police reports claimed that he used more than $100,000 to pay the expenses of an alleged lover, and almost $300,000 on rare coins. More
BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent
Father John Skehan admits stealing the money for property and gambling
Two Roman Catholic priests have been accused of stealing $800,000 from the collection plate of their church in the US state of Florida.
They allegedly planned to spend the money on property, holidays, gambling and to meet the expenses of mistresses.
One of the priests, Fr John Skelan has admitted the charges, but his colleague Fr Francis Guinan denies them.
US law - the statute of limitations - prevents the priests being charged with thefts that occurred before 2001.
But the auditors say that up to $8m might have disappeared over a period of 20 years.
It could be the biggest embezzlement case to affect the Catholic Church in the United States.
One of the priests - Fr John Skehan - abandoned his not-guilty plea just before his trial began, and admitted stealing $800,000 given by parishioners at St Vincent Ferrer Church in West Palm Beach.
The priests allegedly hid the money in the church ceiling and opened offshore accounts.
Fr Skehan - who is 81 and has been given the honorific title "Monsignor" - served at the church for 40 years.
He admitted spending stolen money on expensive houses and gambling in Las Vegas.
Police reports claimed that he used more than $100,000 to pay the expenses of an alleged lover, and almost $300,000 on rare coins. More
Twitter Surpasses Digg: Almost 1000% Growth in One Year
Tweet smell of success over Digg
The rise and rise of Twitter traffic in the UK
Twitter, the mobile phone-based micro-blogging service, rocketed nearly 1000% in use in the UK over the past year according to industry analysts HitWise.
For the first time, the site has seen more visits than "social bookmarking" site Digg, which allows users to share links to sites.
Twitter made headlines earlier in January, providing the first pictures of downed US Airways flight 1549.
The site may continue its meteoric rise as the new US President is a devotee.
The Twitter site has jumped from 2,953rd most popular in the UK in 2008 to 291st as of mid-January.
"A big driver of traffic to Twitter last week was around the US Airways plane crash in to the Hudson River last Thursday, driving many posts and updates about the situation," said Hitwise research director Heather Dougherty.
The first picture of the crash was posted to TwitPic, and was picked up by more traditional media outlets - sparking the widely-quoted notion that Twitter is the poster child for a new era ofcitizen journalism.
Among the "Social Networking and Forums" category, however, Twitter came in at 23rd for the week ending 17 January, garnering just 0.24% of the site visits in the category.
Facebook maintains a significant dominance among them, with nearly 38% of site visits, twice as many as YouTube and more than four times as many as its predecessor Bebo. Read it all
The rise and rise of Twitter traffic in the UK
Twitter, the mobile phone-based micro-blogging service, rocketed nearly 1000% in use in the UK over the past year according to industry analysts HitWise.
For the first time, the site has seen more visits than "social bookmarking" site Digg, which allows users to share links to sites.
Twitter made headlines earlier in January, providing the first pictures of downed US Airways flight 1549.
The site may continue its meteoric rise as the new US President is a devotee.
The Twitter site has jumped from 2,953rd most popular in the UK in 2008 to 291st as of mid-January.
"A big driver of traffic to Twitter last week was around the US Airways plane crash in to the Hudson River last Thursday, driving many posts and updates about the situation," said Hitwise research director Heather Dougherty.
The first picture of the crash was posted to TwitPic, and was picked up by more traditional media outlets - sparking the widely-quoted notion that Twitter is the poster child for a new era ofcitizen journalism.
Among the "Social Networking and Forums" category, however, Twitter came in at 23rd for the week ending 17 January, garnering just 0.24% of the site visits in the category.
Facebook maintains a significant dominance among them, with nearly 38% of site visits, twice as many as YouTube and more than four times as many as its predecessor Bebo. Read it all
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Christian bus driver walks out over atheist advertisement
Jan 17 2009
A CHRISTIAN bus driver refused to take out his vehicle because it sported an atheist advert.
Ron Heather, 62, walked out of the depot in protest at the words "There's probably no God" written on his bus.
The First Bus vehicle was one of 800 across the UK to feature the first-ever atheist ad campaign, run by the British Humanist Association
Now bosses have agreed to accommodate Ron's beliefs by trying to put him on buses which don't carry the advert.
Dad-of-three Ron, from Southampton, said: "I was just about to board and there it was staring me in the face. My first reaction was horror.
"I'd heard about this silly campaign but I had no idea it was coming to Southampton.
"I felt strongly I couldn't drive that bus, so I went up to my inspectors and told them.
"To be fair, the company have been very good and have agreed to do everything they can to keep me off those buses.
"However, if it goes on any longer, then I will consider giving up my job." more
A CHRISTIAN bus driver refused to take out his vehicle because it sported an atheist advert.
Ron Heather, 62, walked out of the depot in protest at the words "There's probably no God" written on his bus.
The First Bus vehicle was one of 800 across the UK to feature the first-ever atheist ad campaign, run by the British Humanist Association
Now bosses have agreed to accommodate Ron's beliefs by trying to put him on buses which don't carry the advert.
Dad-of-three Ron, from Southampton, said: "I was just about to board and there it was staring me in the face. My first reaction was horror.
"I'd heard about this silly campaign but I had no idea it was coming to Southampton.
"I felt strongly I couldn't drive that bus, so I went up to my inspectors and told them.
"To be fair, the company have been very good and have agreed to do everything they can to keep me off those buses.
"However, if it goes on any longer, then I will consider giving up my job." more
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Yagam that smacks evil
Gayatri Aswamedha Yagam to be held in Sambalpur district on December 25 smacks of evil intent Christian leaders in Orissa told the Chief Minister of Orissa.
A delegation of Christian leaders led by Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Raphael Cheenath met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik urging him to provide security to Christians in other areas besides violence-prone Kandhamal district.
"Christians in other dioceses are also afraid. Security should also be provided to Balasore, Berhampur, Rourkela and Sambalpur dioceses", Cheenath told reporters after meeting the chief minister.
Claiming that a number of "strange" people from outside Kandhamal had entered the district despite extensive frisking exercise on roads, the Archbishop alleged criminals were freely moving in Kotagarh area.
"We apprehend that influx of non-state players into Kandhamal is aimed at creating communal violence", he said adding Christians were leaving relief camps because of fear. read it all
A delegation of Christian leaders led by Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Raphael Cheenath met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik urging him to provide security to Christians in other areas besides violence-prone Kandhamal district.
"Christians in other dioceses are also afraid. Security should also be provided to Balasore, Berhampur, Rourkela and Sambalpur dioceses", Cheenath told reporters after meeting the chief minister.
Claiming that a number of "strange" people from outside Kandhamal had entered the district despite extensive frisking exercise on roads, the Archbishop alleged criminals were freely moving in Kotagarh area.
"We apprehend that influx of non-state players into Kandhamal is aimed at creating communal violence", he said adding Christians were leaving relief camps because of fear. read it all
Geneology of Pencil: Fifty year old article on Pencil by Leonard E Read
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not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me. This sounds fantastic, doesn't it? Especially when it is realized that there are about one and one-half billion of my kind produced in the U.S.A. each year.
RP.6
Pick me up and look me over. What do you see? Not much meets the eye—there's some wood, lacquer, the printed labeling, graphite lead, a bit of metal, and an eraser.
Innumerable Antecedents
RP.7
Just as you cannot trace your family tree back very far, so is it impossible for me to name and explain all my antecedents. But I would like to suggest enough of them to impress upon you the richness and complexity of my background.
RP.8
My family tree begins with what in fact is a tree, a cedar of straight grain that grows in Northern California and Oregon. Now contemplate all the saws and trucks and rope and the countless other gear used in harvesting and carting the cedar logs to the railroad siding. Think of all the persons and the numberless skills that went into their fabrication: the mining of ore, the making of steel and its refinement into saws, axes, motors; the growing of hemp and bringing it through all the stages to heavy and strong rope; the logging camps with their beds and mess halls, the cookery and the raising of all the foods. Why, untold thousands of persons had a hand in every cup of coffee the loggers drink!
RP.9
The logs are shipped to a mill in San Leandro, California. Can you imagine the individuals who make flat cars and rails and railroad engines and who construct and install the communication systems incidental thereto? These legions are among my antecedents.
RP.10
Consider the millwork in San Leandro. The cedar logs are cut into small, pencil-length slats less than one-fourth of an inch in thickness. These are kiln dried and then tinted for the same reason women put rouge on their faces. People prefer that I look pretty, not a pallid white. The slats are waxed and kiln dried again. How many skills went into the making of the tint and the kilns, into supplying the heat, the light and power, the belts, motors, and all the other things a mill requires? Sweepers in the mill among my ancestors? Yes, and included are the men who poured the concrete for the dam of a Pacific Gas & Electric Company hydroplant which supplies the mill's power!
RP.11
Don't overlook the ancestors present and distant who have a hand in transporting sixty carloads of slats across the nation.
RP.12
Once in the pencil factory—$4,000,000 in machinery and building, all capital accumulated by thrifty and saving parents of mine—each slat is given eight grooves by a complex machine, after which another machine lays leads in every other slat, applies glue, and places another slat atop—a lead sandwich, so to speak. Seven brothers and I are mechanically carved from this "wood-clinched" sandwich.
RP.13
My "lead" itself—it contains no lead at all—is complex. The graphite is mined in Ceylon. Consider these miners and those who make their many tools and the makers of the paper sacks in which the graphite is shipped and those who make the string that ties the sacks and those who put them aboard ships and those who make the ships. Even the lighthouse keepers along the way assisted in my birth—and the harbor pilots.
RP.14
The graphite is mixed with clay from Mississippi in which ammonium hydroxide is used in the refining process. Then wetting agents are added such as sulfonated tallow—animal fats chemically reacted with sulfuric acid. After passing through numerous machines, the mixture finally appears as endless extrusions—as from a sausage grinder-cut to size, dried, and baked for several hours at 1,850 degrees Fahrenheit. To increase their strength and smoothness the leads are then treated with a hot mixture which includes candelilla wax from Mexico, paraffin wax, and hydrogenated natural fats.
RP.15
My cedar receives six coats of lacquer. Do you know all the ingredients of lacquer? Who would think that the growers of castor beans and the refiners of castor oil are a part of it? They are. Why, even the processes by which the lacquer is made a beautiful yellow involve the skills of more persons than one can enumerate!
RP.16
Observe the labeling. That's a film formed by applying heat to carbon black mixed with resins. How do you make resins and what, pray, is carbon black?
RP.17
My bit of metal—the ferrule—is brass. Think of all the persons who mine zinc and copper and those who have the skills to make shiny sheet brass from these products of nature. Those black rings on my ferrule are black nickel. What is black nickel and how is it applied? The complete story of why the center of my ferrule has no black nickel on it would take pages to explain.
RP.18
Then there's my crowning glory, inelegantly referred to in the trade as "the plug," the part man uses to erase the errors he makes with me. An ingredient called "factice" is what does the erasing. It is a rubber-like product made by reacting rape-seed oil from the Dutch East Indies with sulfur chloride. Rubber, contrary to the common notion, is only for binding purposes. Then, too, there are numerous vulcanizing and accelerating agents. The pumice comes from Italy; and the pigment which gives "the plug" its color is cadmium sulfide.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Marriage soleminsed at Orissa police station
Orissa policemen play cupid
Subhashish Mohanty
Monday, December 15, 2008 01:22 IST
BHUBANESWAR: Marriages are made in heaven. But this one in Orissa was solemnised at a police station.
Sabir Ahmed, 25, an Indian Air Force man, on Friday married girlfriend Reshmi Roshan Nigar, 22, at Kendrapara police station, about 100 km from here, under the watchful eyes of superintendent of police Diptesh Patnaik.
Sources said Ahmed, who is now posted in Chandigarh, met Nigar in Bhadrak in 2005. They stayed in touch over the phone and soon fell in love. Nigar’s parents told Ahmed’s family about the relationship. But Ahmed’s parents did not approve of the relationship.
Ahmed snapped all ties with Nigar. Shattered, the Nigars sought the help of Ashiyana, a Bhadrak-based NGO working for the welfare of minority communities.
Ashiyana secretary Sophia Seikh stepped in to settle the discord. She first went to Chandigarh to settle the issue amicably. “As we did not get any help from the Air Force, we came back and lodged a police complaint,” she said.
When Sabir came to his hometown, Kendrapara, for Bakri-Eid last week, cops took him to the police station. The girl’s family members were summoned to the police station. Ahmed then agreed to marry Nigar. The marriage was soleminsed at the police station. Before the nikaah, a pre-nuptial agreement was signed between the two families. “The agreement states that if Nigar dies under unnatural circumstances, Ahmed’s family will be held responsible. Ahmed cannot divorce his wife,” Sophia said, adding that her NGO has settled about 18 such disputes. But for the first time, a marriage had been solemnised at a police station, she added.
Subhashish Mohanty
Monday, December 15, 2008 01:22 IST
BHUBANESWAR: Marriages are made in heaven. But this one in Orissa was solemnised at a police station.
Sabir Ahmed, 25, an Indian Air Force man, on Friday married girlfriend Reshmi Roshan Nigar, 22, at Kendrapara police station, about 100 km from here, under the watchful eyes of superintendent of police Diptesh Patnaik.
Sources said Ahmed, who is now posted in Chandigarh, met Nigar in Bhadrak in 2005. They stayed in touch over the phone and soon fell in love. Nigar’s parents told Ahmed’s family about the relationship. But Ahmed’s parents did not approve of the relationship.
Ahmed snapped all ties with Nigar. Shattered, the Nigars sought the help of Ashiyana, a Bhadrak-based NGO working for the welfare of minority communities.
Ashiyana secretary Sophia Seikh stepped in to settle the discord. She first went to Chandigarh to settle the issue amicably. “As we did not get any help from the Air Force, we came back and lodged a police complaint,” she said.
When Sabir came to his hometown, Kendrapara, for Bakri-Eid last week, cops took him to the police station. The girl’s family members were summoned to the police station. Ahmed then agreed to marry Nigar. The marriage was soleminsed at the police station. Before the nikaah, a pre-nuptial agreement was signed between the two families. “The agreement states that if Nigar dies under unnatural circumstances, Ahmed’s family will be held responsible. Ahmed cannot divorce his wife,” Sophia said, adding that her NGO has settled about 18 such disputes. But for the first time, a marriage had been solemnised at a police station, she added.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Woman, 70, in 'oldest new mum' claim
A 70-year-old woman from India claims she has become the world's oldest new mother.
Rajo Devi and her husband Bala Ram had wanted a child in all their 50 years together.
She claims to have given birth to a baby girl at the end of November after having IVF treatment. Her husband is 72. more BBC
Bush gets Foot in Mouth award for his abuse of English language!
Wed, Dec 10 12:35 PM
New York, Dec 10 (ANI): United States President George Bush's long, rambling sentences and grammatically incorrect speeches have finally been acknowledged by a British language watchdog group.
Bush's famous gaffes have won him this year's not-so-coveted Foot in Mouth Lifetime Achievement Award, reports the New York Daily News.
The Plain English Campaign (PEC) gave the award to mark the departure of Bush from the White House.
While handing out the title, PEC praised Bush for "capturing the spirit of every true gobbledegooker" by using his unique way with words to address a wide range of subjects.
"I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?'" was just one of the Bushisms singled out for special praise, along with a comment he made on a visit to Rome in 2001.
Bush said: "I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right."
Bush has joined the list of celebrities and politicians who have also received the title, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and supermodel Naomi Campbell. (ANI) courtesy
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Martha "Sunny" von Bulow dies after 30 years in coma
Sun, Dec 7 05:05 PM
New York, Dec 7 (ANI): After spending 30 years in coma, Manhattan socialite Martha "Sunny" von Bulow died in a New York nursing home. She was 76.
She spent the last decade at an upper East Side nursing home, surrounded by pictures of grandchildren she never got to meet.
Sunny was found unconscious in the marble-tiled bathroom of Newport, R.I., estate in December 1980.
Her second husband, Claus von Bulow was convicted of trying to kill her with an insulin overdose - then acquitted after an appeal got him a retrial.
The events were turned into a 1990 Hollywood film, 'Reversal of Fortune'. more
Sunday, October 26, 2008
P. Sainath on American Elections: Socialism haunts America
Pro-Obama television channels are running dictionary definitions of ‘socialism.’ These aim to clear the air by establishing that nothing he has proposed falls into that dreaded territory. In no other electoral democracy in the world is this kind of response possible. Certainly not in Europe where so many of Washington’s allies wear the labels — if not the legacy — of ‘socialism’ and ‘labour.’ To those from most other countries, this ‘debate’ must seem whacko. In the United States, it still has adherents, even if they are confounded by the scarier spectre of economic crisis. Two million families could lose their homes in the mortgage avalanche. But the buzzword, for the Republicans at least, is ‘socialism.’ “Obama says he wants to spread the wealth around,” Mr. McCain now protests. “That’s a basic tenet of socialism. If I were President, I would never do that.” more
NewsBlaze Published: October 25,2008
Obama Wants A Welfare State For America
By National Black Republican Association
Thanks to Joe the Plumber, we now know for sure that Barack Obama wants to "spread the wealth around." But the Democratic candidate still hasn't come clean on just how much of a European-style socialist he is.
Look at the "tax cut" he says he'll give to 95 percent of Americans. In fact, this is simply a government check he'd hand out - including to millions who don't pay income taxes, since each year 38 percent of Americans already get a full refund. In other words, his "rebate" is a welfare plan, plain and simple.
When called on this, Obama's answer is that those 38 percent still pay payroll taxes, so he's rebating part of those payments. But that actually puts him deeper into the socialist hole. Here's why.
Payroll taxes go to fund Social Security and Medicare - the main US social-insurance programs. The taxes are dedicated because these are insurance programs - you're paying so that you'll be covered when you hit retirement age. more
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Bishop told to file affidavit
HC wants to know if there is a sale deed by the church land trust
The Bombay High Court on Thursday asked bishop of Mumbai Prakash Patole to file an affidavit stating whether or not there is any sale deed between the Bombay Diocesan Trust Association (BDTA) that runs Afghan Church and any private builders.
Additional public prosecutor Sangeeta Shinde said the case will be heard on November 17 by when Patole will have to submit his affidavit.
Former bishop of Mumbai Baiju Gavit and other trust members of the BDTA that runs Afghan Church in Colaba had moved the high court urging it to quash a complaint of forgery and cheating filed at Colaba police station.
Gavit with trustees Bishop Vijay Sathe, Shrikant Salvi and the bishop of Pune Rajnikant Salvi, in their application stated that an activist, Cyril Dara, had filed bogus complaints against them for allegedly striking illegal deals worth crores of rupees with various builders for development of the land where the Afghan Church, a heritage structure, stands on. more
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