Sunday, November 30, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
On Religion - Between Israel and India, a Link Based on Culture and, Now, Terrorism - NYTimes.com
On Religion - Between Israel and India, a Link Based on Culture and, Now, Terrorism - NYTimes.com
Hinjew leaders today conceded the merger of Hinduism and Judaism has not worked out as planned, as instead of forming a super-religion to fight off the common Islamic enemy, they have instead created a race of 900 million people who, no matter how many times they are reincarnated, can never please their mothers.”
Hinjew leaders today conceded the merger of Hinduism and Judaism has not worked out as planned, as instead of forming a super-religion to fight off the common Islamic enemy, they have instead created a race of 900 million people who, no matter how many times they are reincarnated, can never please their mothers.”
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Azaadi to patriotism, a generational sweep-India-The Times of India
Azaadi to patriotism, a generational sweep-India-The Times of India
Abdul Hai Khateeb, 80, has never ever voted — he believes in "azaadi". He has no intention of changing his stand at this ripe old age and will not vote this time either. He is the resident-grand-old-man with his known "separatist views" in this town where both BJP candidate Daya Krishen Kotwal, as well as Congress nominee and former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, are trying to woo him into casting his vote.
His son will not vote because he is not around. He crossed over 10 years ago — into Pakistan, along with militants. He is apparently still there. The family seems to have given up on his return.
Khateeb's grandson Abu Zarein Khateeb would have been a first-time voter at age 26. An MBA graduate from Bangalore, he runs the family shop in Sadarbazar, set up by his grandfather. Abu declares emphatically: "I am a hundred per cent Hindustani."
Abdul Hai Khateeb, 80, has never ever voted — he believes in "azaadi". He has no intention of changing his stand at this ripe old age and will not vote this time either. He is the resident-grand-old-man with his known "separatist views" in this town where both BJP candidate Daya Krishen Kotwal, as well as Congress nominee and former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, are trying to woo him into casting his vote.
His son will not vote because he is not around. He crossed over 10 years ago — into Pakistan, along with militants. He is apparently still there. The family seems to have given up on his return.
Khateeb's grandson Abu Zarein Khateeb would have been a first-time voter at age 26. An MBA graduate from Bangalore, he runs the family shop in Sadarbazar, set up by his grandfather. Abu declares emphatically: "I am a hundred per cent Hindustani."
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Corporate America is playing us, Treasury like chumps
Corporate America is playing us, Treasury like chumps: "During the hearing, Cummings said what I've been feeling for months. In straight-from-the-'hood vernacular, Cummings captured what has been done to American taxpayers.
'Mr. Kashkari, in the neighborhood I grew up in, in the inner city of Baltimore, one of the things that you tried to do was make sure that you were not considered a chump,' Cummings said. 'And what 'chump' meant was that you didn't want people to see you as just somebody they could get over on.'
Without a doubt, corporate America is playing us like chumps. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the folks he's assembled to try to get us out of the economic tempest are being played like chumps."
'Mr. Kashkari, in the neighborhood I grew up in, in the inner city of Baltimore, one of the things that you tried to do was make sure that you were not considered a chump,' Cummings said. 'And what 'chump' meant was that you didn't want people to see you as just somebody they could get over on.'
Without a doubt, corporate America is playing us like chumps. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the folks he's assembled to try to get us out of the economic tempest are being played like chumps."
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Thursday, November 06, 2008
USAF Pilot Critiques Red Flag Action | AVIATION WEEK
USAF Pilot Critiques Red Flag Action | AVIATION WEEK
He praised the Indians as extremely professional and said they had no training rule violations. However, they "killed a lot of friendlies" because they were tied to a Russian-made data link system that didn't allow them to see the picture of the battlefield available to everyone else. The lack of combat identification of the other aircraft caused confusion.
He praised the Indians as extremely professional and said they had no training rule violations. However, they "killed a lot of friendlies" because they were tied to a Russian-made data link system that didn't allow them to see the picture of the battlefield available to everyone else. The lack of combat identification of the other aircraft caused confusion.
But the U.S. apparently isn't ignorant of the Su-30MKI's radar either.
The Su-30 electronically scanned radar is not as accurate as the U.S.-built active electronically scanned radar carried by the F-22 and some F-15s. Also, "it paints less, sees less" and is not as discriminating.
He praised the F-22 as the next great dogfighter. But he faulted the fact that it carries too few missiles and contends that the on-board cannon could be a life-saver, particularly against aircraft like the MiG-21 Bison flown by the Indians. It has a small radar cross section, as well as an Israeli-made F-16 radar and jammer. The latter makes them "almost invisible to legacy F-15C and F-16 radars" until the aerial merge or until it fires one of its Archer, active radar missiles, the U.S. pilot says.
Against the much larger RCS Su-30MKI, the F-16s and F-15s won consistently during the first three days of air-to-air combat, he continues. However, that was the result of trying to immediately go into a post-stall, thrust-vectored turn when attacked. The turn then creates massive drag and the aircraft starts sinking and losing altitude. "It starts dropping so fast you don't have to go vertical [first]. The low-speed tail slide allowed the U.S. aircraft to dive from above and "get one chance to come down to shoot," the pilot says. "You go to guns and drill his brains out." The Su-30 is jamming your missiles so...you go to guns and drill his brains out."
U.S. pilots conclude that the Su-30MKI is "not [an F-22] Raptor," he further says. "That was good for us to find out." But when the Indian pilots really learn to fight their new aircraft - "they were too anxious to go to the post-stall maneuver," he says-- the USAF pilot predicts that they would regularly defeat the F-16C Block 50 and the F-15C with conventional radar.
A final weakness in the Su-30MKI was its engine's vulnerability to foreign object damage which required them to space takeoffs a minute apart and slowed mission launches.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Cut your food bills in half - Telegraph
Cut your food bills in half - Telegraph:
"When you're not thinking about the money, you can spend a lot. The hardest part was checking prices between stores. It's something my mum used to do, going from shop to shop, knowing where was cheaper.
'A lot of her generation did this, but it's difficult to do when you're short of time.'"
"When you're not thinking about the money, you can spend a lot. The hardest part was checking prices between stores. It's something my mum used to do, going from shop to shop, knowing where was cheaper.
'A lot of her generation did this, but it's difficult to do when you're short of time.'"
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)