Test yourself and your friend by this rule
Region: IndiaA false friend is selfish and worse than an enemy. He will not want to help you when you are poor or ill. This kind of friend should not be trusted at all. He is not a loyal friend because he will not stand by you when you are in need. True friends are a great asset. They are like rich and rare diamonds. A person who has found a good friend has found the greatest treasure. True friends will come to help you when you are in need. Trails are tests of true friendship. Test ... more
Views: 75People have money but they don't have cooking gas-Nepalese are not talking it
Region: Nepal
Kathmandu February 02 2012: People have lost their patience regarding the crisis situation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cooking gas. Many confrontations have been seen in various locations from past few days with people trying to fight and get hold of the LPG for their daily household. Today morning high security was seen near Bishnumati Kalimati junction with the arrival of LPG at the BABA gas distribution center. People rushed in when they saw the gas truck. The crowd gathered so much... more
Views: 266Newt Gingrich and Me
Region: New York
For many years, I worked at the 92nd St. Y, in Manhattan. One night Newt Gingrich came to speak in their capacious auditorium. "I must protest this fiend!" I realized, so after long thought, I created the following placard: NEWT G(ETT)INGRICH I was delighted with my own cleverness, but later saw the same sign in Time magazine. As usual, I was not the first person to invent a witticism. (But I did recently devise this fake quotation from Morris Louis, the Color Field painter... more
Views: 350On Running Headlong Into 2012: Stay Light on Your Feet
Region: IAby Donald Croft Brickner Per the Growing Importance of a Tenable Global World View -- a Recommended Ontological Backdrop to the Essay that Follows: Ours is not a primary reality. Everything in our cosmos is a construct of an invisible-to-the-naked-eye building-blocks foundational reality -- whose operating rules are not only consistently different from those of our three-dimensional (and time enhanced) physical reality, but are blocked from interacting with it on any direct cause-and-ef... more
Views: 123FEMALE EMPLOYEES OUTNUMBERING MALE EMPLOYEES RESULTING IN ‘NO MARRIAGES’ FOR MEN IN INDIA
Region: IndiaWhen we are speaking something we must speak from realistic perspective on any issue. And we must also have the conscientious attitude to understand the things with open mind and to accept the things. And we should not speak contrary to the facts existing in the society how distasteful to us or prejudicial to our minds. For example the issue pertaining to women employment in India what statistics shows regarding women employment in Urban India is quite different from ground realities. W... more
Views: 279Brewer, Obama Make War On The Tarmac
Region: AZAs an Arizonan-in-political-exile, it was interesting to read today that apparently upon Barack Obama's arrival in Phoenix, Arizona - my former stomping grounds and home for over 45 years - he got into an in- your- face discussion with Arizona's current governor, Jan Brewer. Seems to me that this little exchange once again was another of those performances for the media, and not any true confrontation of note that would even begin to address the problems that have and continue to face Arizon... more
Views: 340Islamic Month of Birth of Muhammad (P.B.U.H) Started
Region: PakistanFaisalabad: Month of Rabi-ul-Awal has started today. This is the holy month for all Muslims living on the plannet. This is the Islamic month in which Prophet Mohammad (P.B.U.H) was born on 12th day of the month. more
Views: 175Classy Gabby Giffords Exits Congress With Grace
Region: AZOn this quiet Sunday the mainstream media announced that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who has been personally battling the after effects of a shooting in a Tucson strip mall a little more than a year ago, will not be seeking re-election and has resigned her House seat. Ms. Giffords made her announcement with the grace and optimism she has been known for, especially as she continues her battle to fully recover from her injuries. Even before, she was a moderate that attempted to see both side... more
Views: 395Will the French ever stop worshiping Napoleon?
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
So, the French are planning to build a “Napoleonland” theme park in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, in the south of Paris (the site of Napoleon’s last military victory over the Austrians, in 1814), with daily re-enactments of some of the Napoleonic Wars battles to which visitors will be able to take part, with battlefields filled with bodies of soldiers and horses frozen in time and visitors skiing around, etc. A controversial character, French ... more
Views: 1307Let King Be King: The annual commemoration is nice, but have we lost sight of Dr. Martin Luther King
Region: DCBy Mark Farr, The Faith and Politics Institute, www.faithandpolitics.org The electrifying oratory has long been silenced: the fearless personal passion ended. But Dr. Martin Luther King’s message still resonates. Nearly sixty years after King climbed the white steps outside Dexter Avenue Baptist to begin ministry there, fifty years after the Freedom Riders boarded buses to challenge a fundamentally immoral transport system, and twenty years after President George H. W. Bu... more
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