This week the stock market saw its largest increase since 1974, five straight days of hefty upticks. This surge occurred at the same time that a consistently awful string of financial and economic news was pouring in, not only in this country but around the world. So why this latest bubble? What spurred the great stock beast to its latest burst of excessive enthusiasm? The … [Read more...] about Whoopee for Stocks. Woe for Government Finances.
Rabbi Gabriel and Rifka Holtzberg Have Been Murdered, and There Will be a Strong-Gentle Young Leader Rising up in the East
Rabbi Gabriel and Rifka Holtzberg Have Been Murdered, and There Will be a Strong-Gentle Young Leader Rising up in the East....but he is only two years old now... His young mother, Rifka, which is Hebrew for Rebecca, and means 'to bind,' as in to hold together, to wrap round with protection, and with love, to keep together, as in keeping family close, binding as in a promise, … [Read more...] about Rabbi Gabriel and Rifka Holtzberg Have Been Murdered, and There Will be a Strong-Gentle Young Leader Rising up in the East
Indian PM’s Daring Move: Pakistan’s ISI Chief Invited
With the elections to the Indian states and the federal parliament looming in the horizon, the Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh has taken a major gamble by inviting the chief of the Pakistan's controversial spy agency ISI to assist in solving the mystery behind Mumbai terror attacks. (AP file photo above shows: From left, US Adm. Mike Mullen, Rear Adm. Scott Van … [Read more...] about Indian PM’s Daring Move: Pakistan’s ISI Chief Invited
How to Make Web Ads Effective
I remember a time when we liked commercials. The one above had me buying 7-up even though I don't like 7-up. As I kid I'd run to the TV and laugh out loud when one of the series of Alka Seltzer commercials featuring a man and his stomach came on. In recent years (decades?) we've had to put up with so much advertising clutter, irrelevance, and interruption that we have come … [Read more...] about How to Make Web Ads Effective
Schadenfreude Alert and Open Thread
How horrible of a person might you have to be to take any pleasure from a person suffering a broken jaw? I may be one of the most horrible people in the world. You are invited to use this as a TMV holiday Friday open thread and abuse my lack of basic humanity at your leisure. Or... whatever else is on your minds. … [Read more...] about Schadenfreude Alert and Open Thread
Another Global War: Against Plastic Bags
It is interesting that the global war against plastic bags is progressing faster that the war against terror. I am proud to say that in India my hill state of Himachal Pradesh banned the use of plastic bags in 2003. However, the first city to do so in the country was Mumbai or Bombay in 2000 (now much in news for all the wrong reasons). A BBC report says that in the US, San … [Read more...] about Another Global War: Against Plastic Bags
Mumbai: It’s Never Over
Every time one of the Mumbai attack sites is reportedly pacified and over, there are more gunshots, explosions. Whereas the entire series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai is awful, I have some comments about the attack on Chabad. The Chabad siege with dead hostages is reminiscent of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack on Israeli athletes known as the Munich massacre. Probably the … [Read more...] about Mumbai: It’s Never Over
Leftovers
The turkey and the dinosaur... … [Read more...] about Leftovers
Ongoing Chronology Of Today’s Terrorist Developments In Mumbai
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The Disappearing Vice President?
This is a question posed by Politico's Carol Lee today in, Bidentity Crisis: Where's Joe? More than three weeks into the transition, and Vice-president elect Joe Biden generates less buzz than the non-existent first puppy. The vice president-elect has not spoken publicly since the election, and was at Barack Obama's side just once this week as the president-elect … [Read more...] about The Disappearing Vice President?
Mumbai Terror
Tab, The Calgary Sun … [Read more...] about Mumbai Terror
Best Leftover Turkey Recipe Ever
Skip the sandwiches. Try this. … [Read more...] about Best Leftover Turkey Recipe Ever
Obama’s Foreign Policy Inclination To Bush 41 Becomes More Evident
Last week in this post I noted that the incoming Obama administration was in some ways a reinvention of the Bush 41 administration due to President Elect Barack Obama's close ties and selection of some people linked to the administration of the first Bush administration, which pursued a tough but realistic foreign policy. The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne Jr. addresses that … [Read more...] about Obama’s Foreign Policy Inclination To Bush 41 Becomes More Evident
Mumbai
Mumbai Terror: CNN & ‘Uncomfortable Questions’
While the media keep reporting on the events related to terror in Mumbai and elsewhere, their viewers might also be interested in fresh perspective/analysis on terrorism, instead of listening to the same old theories. Deepak Chopra, a well known writer/thinker, raised some vital questions on CNN's Larry King Live. "Who is financing this (terrorism)? Where is the money coming … [Read more...] about Mumbai Terror: CNN & ‘Uncomfortable Questions’
India Mourns
Patrick Corrigan, The Toronto Star … [Read more...] about India Mourns
Rosie O’Donnell’s Variety Show Flops With Critics And In Ratings
The verdict seems as if it is definitively -- and strongly -- in: Rosie O'Donnell's new variety show "Rosie Live" was DOA (various critics used this obvious pun) and seemingly provided another nail in the coffin for the once-dominant TV variety show format. But it's worth looking at whether the format is really dead or -- like Dracula rising from the grave -- it'll be back … [Read more...] about Rosie O’Donnell’s Variety Show Flops With Critics And In Ratings
Mumbai: Indian Army, Cops Prevent Foreigners’ Massacre
New Delhi: Reports are now coming in from terror-struck Mumbai (or Bombay) of the valiant rescue effort of the Indian army and the police thus saving the lives of scores of foreigners held hostage during the past 24 hours. Top police officials led from the front and at least three anti-terrorist cops were killed.(Photograph on top - courtesy Reuters - shows a commando landing … [Read more...] about Mumbai: Indian Army, Cops Prevent Foreigners’ Massacre
How Ike Saved Europe a Second Time at Thanksgiving, 1945
The war in Europe was over and the Allied commander, General Dwight D. (Ike) Eisenhower, was extremely ill, at home on leave. Doctors had ordered him to rest. But, in the face of an enormous humanitarian crisis that threatened millions in Europe with starvation, the leader of Europe's liberation from Nazi Germany, testified about the need of relief from a war-weary United … [Read more...] about How Ike Saved Europe a Second Time at Thanksgiving, 1945
Give Thanks: This is NOT the Great Depression
Daniel Gross says don't be depressed. It's not like 1929 and all those Great Depression analogies are wrong: The world of 1929-33 was one that lacked shock absorbers such as Social Security and deposit insurance to insulate people from economic disaster. In the 1930s, some of the world's largest economies—Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan, and Italy—were run by leaders hostile … [Read more...] about Give Thanks: This is NOT the Great Depression