Saturday, December 06, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
An American Election
It is November 5th, 2008 and a new dawn for American Politics. We seem to have made a huge transition from previous politics lead by ideology, fear and ciniscism to hope and reason. This long and ardous battle for the hearts and mind pitted people who have long thrived on fear based on race color, religion and those who wanted to transcent all of that and embrace life liberty and pursuit of happiness as envisaged in our original doctrine. We have now embraced a new path, maybe unknown but at least has a chance of fundamentally changing how we precieve our place in humanity. For the Barak I hope you live up to your promise and image, the hopes and dreams of a lot of young people are on you. You have shown that someone with no priviledged background, brought up by a single mother with the help of grand parents can climb to the very top, that too at an age of 47. It is a fantastic acheivement.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Hi, Just wanted to update the blog.
It has been a hectic year so far and find myself all the way in Fall with a feeling that the early part of the year vanished in a flash.
Politics:
The presidential elections loom and as far as I am concerned this elections are one of the most important in our countries history. It pits a political group (Republicans) who have successfully pitched the idea of personal independence with clitches such as small government and low taxes, market independence and low or no regulation to be better then government intervention, taxes, regulation (ala tax and spend liberal motif). However reality is very different, these 8 years of unparralleled power in the hands of the Republicans have got us into the worst financial mess, which on top of an extremely poorly handled war adds to a meltdown worse than the crash of the 1920's. I think poor or no regulation and the role of the contractors such as Halliburton played no small part in this mess. We have a choice now between lies where we have a bait and switch from what Republican stated positions are and what they actually do when in power and the Democrats who would be a fresh albeit an unknown force. We are so disgusted at our plight that a leap in to unknown territory sounds far better than the Republicans.
Travels:
The highlight of this years travel was our trip as a family to Israel. Our decision to rent a car at Ben Gurion was perhaps the best thing we did. As this allowed unfettered ability to go anywhere in the country. We went to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv (beach front), Ceaseria (ancient port city build by King Harrod), Dead Sea (at Ein Gedi and Massada). People were wonderful, and the history fantastic. Check out the pictures in my flickr account. You can get this on my yahoo flickr account.
It has been a hectic year so far and find myself all the way in Fall with a feeling that the early part of the year vanished in a flash.
Politics:
The presidential elections loom and as far as I am concerned this elections are one of the most important in our countries history. It pits a political group (Republicans) who have successfully pitched the idea of personal independence with clitches such as small government and low taxes, market independence and low or no regulation to be better then government intervention, taxes, regulation (ala tax and spend liberal motif). However reality is very different, these 8 years of unparralleled power in the hands of the Republicans have got us into the worst financial mess, which on top of an extremely poorly handled war adds to a meltdown worse than the crash of the 1920's. I think poor or no regulation and the role of the contractors such as Halliburton played no small part in this mess. We have a choice now between lies where we have a bait and switch from what Republican stated positions are and what they actually do when in power and the Democrats who would be a fresh albeit an unknown force. We are so disgusted at our plight that a leap in to unknown territory sounds far better than the Republicans.
Travels:
The highlight of this years travel was our trip as a family to Israel. Our decision to rent a car at Ben Gurion was perhaps the best thing we did. As this allowed unfettered ability to go anywhere in the country. We went to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv (beach front), Ceaseria (ancient port city build by King Harrod), Dead Sea (at Ein Gedi and Massada). People were wonderful, and the history fantastic. Check out the pictures in my flickr account. You can get this on my yahoo flickr account.
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