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What is this nukular commotion in India? Why are people in India angry at it? How come we’re the new American favorites?

As far as I can see, India comes out way ahead on the deal^[1]. The US is blurring hard lines and bending rules to accommodate India. I don’t blame the US Congress for being concerned, I would be too.

However they needn’t worry and here’s why.

Indians will murder, torture, rape and pillage within their own borders, but India is a baa-lamb to it’s national neighbors. We’ve contained our mess for half a century, thank you very much, no spillage, no leakage. (As an aside: this is exactly opposite to the way USA functions. Funny, no?)

I think we’re getting special treatment for being good bachhas and not beating up on the neighbors.

Counterpoint to my point: India-Us 123 on Digg.

1. We don’t open anything but our civilian facilities for inspection
2. We gain access to fuel and technology that we’ve been trying to indigenously develop for years (sotto voce: no easy task when the best minds up and leave the country first chance they get)
3. The US will continue to give us fuel even if we test a nukular weapons
4. We STILL don’t sign the NPT (sotto voce: not that we proliferate….not weapons anyway)
5. A bitchy bonus: We piss off China and Pakistan
   
   

This story is innocuous enough, a local politician wants to replace a crematorium with a garden. But the comments below the article make it blog-worthy. Take the first comment for instance,”We will DIE for our cemetery”. Um, pun unintended may be? The last comment is,”……we will have to go to Amboli to bury our children”. WTF? I think if I was his child I would be putting myself up for adoption right about now.

Hope this cop has a nice couch. He is gonna need it considering that he pulled his wife over twice for drunken driving!!

For this guy, the term “going banana’s” will forever be synonomous with “going potty”. And no, not this potty, but this potty.
Thanks to Sarita for the link.

In come cases yes. As this NY Times article shows, in some cases it maybe better to buy something that was shipped hundreds of miles than an item grown at a local farm. As an advocate of buying local produce, this was quite an eye-opener. Now if only they could have an article about how organic produce isnt necessarily always organic and that organic milk is such a rip-off (although free range milk isnt), then my ranting would be cut in half.

Well, not in this case for sure. Somehow, chasing after a record-breaking baseball brings out the worst in fans. Each time it get uglier and uglier, one of these days someone is going to get seriously hurt, and all because some nincompoop wants to pay oodles of moola for a used baseball.

PS. “oodles of moola”……has a nice ring to it doesnt it?

How to feel poor despite being a millionaire? Move to the San Francisco Bay area, where instead of being happy with what you have, its important to have more than the other family. Makes me want to gag reading about these people who profess to not having enough wealth despite being in the top 1-2% of the population.

Pretty good stuff this.

Link via India Uncut.