Vincent Van Ross - Instablogs
Dec 17 2008
(In a lighter vein!) What a way to bid farewell to Bush?! I mean,…with a pair of shoes? No other pair of shoes in the world would have drawn so much of attention from the media and the world at large as the ones that were hurled at Bush by an Iraqi...
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Dec 16 2008
(In a lighter vein!) Bush went all the way to Iraq to bid goodbye to the US army personnel deployed there but instead returned with the honourable title of “Dog” and a gift of the choicest pair of size 10 Iraqi shoes air delivered to him by...
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Dec 16 2008
After the Mumbai terror attacks on November 26, the only captured terrorist, Ajmal Kasab, has confessed to being a Pakistani from Faridkot. He has confessed to training in Pakistan, he has given details of his accomplices. In fact, these have been...
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Dec 16 2008
(In a lighter vein!) I am incorrigible! I am sorry…but I am a compulsive humourist looking for humour at every nook and corner of every situation for an opportunity... Even when I spent nearly a week in Max Hospital tending to my father who was...
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Dec 16 2008
Last Saturday, my father had a brain stroke. His first symptoms showed giddiness. I shunted from one hospital to another unable to make out what afflicted my father. The first hospital wanted to know if he had a history of blood pressure or diabetis....
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Dec 9 2008
With her hat trick in Delhi Asssembly polls, Sheila Dikshit has taken the Indian National Congress to a new high. The results came as an absolute shocker…not only to the Bharatiya Janata Party but also to our political pundits who were making all...
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Dec 8 2008
Security personnel are people who stake their lives to save our lives. So, the least we can do is to provide them the best of equipment and gear to protect themselves while they protect us. What did we find during the Mumbai terror attacks? That...
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Dec 7 2008
If you must put the lives of our heroes in danger just to telecast minute-to-minute details of the commando operations after the Mumbai terror strikes in order to improve your TRP rating, I say: “To Hell with your TRP ratings!” Yes, I would like...
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Dec 7 2008
Something of a magnitude of the Mumbai terror attacks happen. One minister resigns or is made to resign and another one replaces him. How does that improve the situation? This has been going on for decades. It is time to put a stop to this. After...
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Dec 3 2008
Why is the life of a common man so insecure? Because, a huge chunk of our security forces are deployed to protect the lives of the so-called VIPs! In fact, VIP security in India might be costing the national exchequer nearly 50 percent of the expenses...
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