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This female has been convicted of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves. Look at her face.. I would have sentenced her anyways! She looks like a witch. Read more
This female has been convicted of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves. Look at her face.. I would have sentenced her anyways! She looks like a witch. Read more
A 19 year old girl was sitting in a car with a guy in Saudi Arabia. Seven men came and kidnapped them and gang raped the girl! The rapists get 9 years in prison, while the girl herself gets Jail and 200 lashes!! Why? Well, she was with a guy .. alone! So, not only was there no sympathy for the rape victim.. she was actually punished! Around the world, people were mad and there was outrage - even the Saudi friend US President Bush came out and said that if the same thing had happened to one of his daughters, he would be “angry” at a government that didn’t protect the victim. Read more
Here is a reason why slowdown is coming: The latest sign that growth in consumer spending, the mainstay of the U.S. economy, is slowing? A nip and tuck in spending on cosmetic surgery. The slowdown was a hot topic at the meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons in Baltimore this fall. One breast-implant maker sees hints of a slowdown in demand. The number of vision-correction surgeries appears to be falling as well. "This whole mortgage credit crisis is making people think twice," said J. Peter Rubin, a Pittsburgh plastic surgeon. "It's something I've noticed and some colleagues have noticed as well." Read more
Here are some interesting stock picking articles: 1. 40 stocks to retire on. 2. 10 small stocks for 2008 3. 8 stocks to own in 2008 4. 5 stocks with great potential And if you are wondering what is ahead for the US economy in 2008.. read the views of these four top jokers! Here is a sampler: Is recession coming? John Eade, president and director of research, Argus Research: We say no. We're hinging that call on the strength of the consumer sector. Sarah Ketterer, CEO, Causeway Capital Management: Although we don't expect a recession, we do think it will feel like one in this country in 2008. That's largely to do with the decline in house prices. Bob Rodriguez, CEO, First Pacific Advisors: I put it at north of 70%. The consumer is getting hammered unmercifully with interest rates and food, energy, and medical costs. We're looking for employment numbers to finally get hit in '08. Read more
When one is ready to say this kinda statement - you can categorize that person as a success! "I am the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don’t believe in or things I think are stupid." - Warren Buffett Read more
For all the talk against adultery and severe - actually inhuman - punishments in Islam and specifically carried out in Arab states, the Arab men are remarkably adulterous! Everyone knows about the Sheikhs from Saudi Arabia and other countries - how they travel to Asian countries to satisfy their urges. Now, here is Libyan leader Qaddafi openly requesting 200 attractive French females in his tent while he will be there to sign a nuclear agreement! Read more
We do not have to seek truth. Truth is not something far away. It is the truth of the mind, truth of its activities from moment to moment. If we are aware of this moment-to-moment truth, of this whole process of time, this awareness releases consciousness or that energy to be. As long as the mind uses consciousness as the self-activity, time comes into being with all its miseries, with all its conflicts, with all its mischiefs, its purposive deceptions; and it is only when the mind, understanding this total process, ceases, that love will be. Read more
Chennai Superstars claimed the inaugural ICL twenty20 tournament after defeating local favourites Chandigarh Lions by 12 runs in the final match on Sunday. The first real alternative to BCCI and the normal cricket establishment of the world, Indian Cricket League, reached its finals. It may not have gotten as much coverage but it seems to have had a fairly big purse and riches. The prize: Winners: Rs 3.9 crores Runners-up: Rs 1.9 crores Read more
Dr. Avtar Singh is writing a series of articles titled "Are Science & Spirituality Two Mutually Exclusive Pursuits?" In the second part he wrote: Their experiments showed that the blind following of religious rituals/beliefs, memorized information and knowledge of scriptures, and physical/worldly (penances, fasting, yoga postures etc.) pursuits were ineffective in realization of the wholesome universal reality (God). To this Naj wrote: So what is Bhakta Yoga? Are Bhakta Yogees concerned about this holistic relativity ? If they are not, will they not be able to realize the wholesome universal reality, as you call it ? If I understood Naj correctly, then he seemed to imply that the Bhakti Yogis were "followers" - since had "Love".. and so there should be an object of love by logical reasoning. This is the problem with the understanding of "Love" itself as it is understood in the materialistic framework while interpreting the spiritual Love. That is why I believe "love" has NOT been used in the - at least - the Vedantic texts. The closest word to Bhakti is Devotion. Bhakti is non-judgmental and self-less. Read more
Joshua Kennon says in his Investing blog this about dividends: In his classic 1938 text The Theory of Investment Value, John Burr Williams published the following poem: "A cow for her milk, a hen for her eggs, And a stock, by heck, For her dividends. An orchard for fruit, Bees for their honey, And stocks, besides, For their dividends." As the market volatility has increased lately, it's becoming increasing apparent that investors focused on fundamental earnings and dividends are being rewarded through their purchase of additional, cheaper shares at lower prices through reinvestment. Well, the importance of dividends was emphasized by Jeremy Siegel - the Finance Prof at Wharton and author of the best sellers "Stocks for the Long Run" and "The Future of Investors". He showed by Altria (MO) was such a great investment - over all other "superstars" and the best of funds. In fact, according to my research, Philip Morris has offered better long-term returns to its stockholders than any other stock, nearly doubling the returns on the market over the last half century and crushing the performance of virtually every other mutual fund and active money manager. Let the facts speak for themselves. Read more
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