Seccession and other economics

Instead of focusing on the validity of Kosovo's independence declaration, let's talk about related possible events. Kosovo declares independence and one can expect a ripple effect reaching the far corners of the world. Taiwan, Kashmir, Chechnya, Basque, Quebec and the list goes on.

"If history repeats itself and the unexpected always happen, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience - George Bernard Shaw". The British established colonies all over the world, plundered wealth and left them to their devices. I would say that more than half of the world's current problems are the making of the British. They leave colonies in shambles and the colonies in turn fight it out or take a lot of time to restore some semblance of sane governance. Israel-Palestine conflict, India-Pakistan partition and the first post independence war, Kenya, Nigeria to name a few.

USA is falling into a similar pattern in various degrees and roles with Taiwan, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tibet and the erstwhile Soviet Union republics. In the name of protecting and promoting democracy, the great nation of the U.S. of A is creating long term problems for itself as well as the 'free world'. Saddam Hussein was a necessary evil; in that he kept the country of Iraq united. Killing Saddam was a catch-22 situation. If we had stood by and watched him massacre the civilians, then we would have been accused of inaction. Now that he is no more and the country is in shambles, it is easy to criticize the actions of George Bush Jr. Afghanistan is a different story. They were invaded to capture Osama which did not happen. The only good was that the country was freed from the clutches of the Taliban. The world as well as the UN has stood by and watched the country deteriorate. It is understandable that self-preservation in the form of Stimulus package for the US Economy takes precedence over world peace and order, but the United Nations has a glaring pattern of inaction over Afghanistan. Why not a stimulus package to Afghanistan to restart their economy? Afghanistan was a country which was a rich trade zone historically. Why can't somebody renew the country's carpet industry which was one of the best in the world. What happened to their dry fruit exports? Why can't the UN think simple? What is the motivation for the poppy-seed farmers to stop poppy-seed culture?

My rambling goes on and on and on.........

Bedlamites on the rise?

Why is it that school shootings on the rise? North Illinois University , Virginia Tech, Oxnard California, Finland..... As a society why do we need the second amendment? Without going into the politics of gun control, I would say that the second amendment should be nullified. The second amendment was written and relevant at a time when the country was still in its infancy and the 'Wild Wild West' culture was prevalent. In today's world, the second amendment seems to be filling the coffers of the gun makers. As for the shootings, are the gun makers to be blamed? ABSOLUTELY NOT. I would not blame the NRA. On the contrary, it is the parents who are to be blamed for keeping their guns accessible to the kids, the Walmart person who sells a pistol without sufficient background checks or the idiots who want to carry guns just for the heck.

Child rapists: The very thought of a child rapist starts to boil my blood. What is a punishment that should be meted out to an individual who rapes a 3 year old child. Then the paedophile hides behind a defense of 'insanity'. A paedophile is just like a madman with an automatic, only more vile and one that should be locked up for good, with no possibility of parole and in isolation. The barbaric punishment of cutting off the penis of a rapist followed in some Islamic nations is the apt punishment for a rapist. We claim that such a punishment is not one that is meted out by a cultured and humane society. If so then I question the presence of such rapists in our society. Either banish them to an island where all of them can rape each other or cut of their instrument of violence. Cut off the root and the weed would never grow. Cut of the penis of one rapist, and the next one would think twice. Cut 10 more and there would be no more. I do not condone violence, but rapists and paedophiles have no place in society and should be treated as such.

Shiv-Sena: India's bedlamitic political party

The idiots of Shiv Sena do not realize that by angering the non-Maharashtrians in Bombay (oops it should be called Mumbai) they are creating a wrong precedent which could end up splitting the ocuntry. First Bal Thackeray and then Raj Thackeray. The whole family seems to have a penchant for extremestic shenaniganism. The more they talk, more it seems like they are spitting out fenks. Shive-Sena(and RSS being its parent organization) think that they can indulge in Hindutva helotry and force people into believing that westernism is evil. How different are the zealots of Shiv-Sena than the fanatics of Islam who enforce karao on the 'widows' of their martyrs? In fact they are a lot worse because of the hypocritic bigotry of their policies. On one hand you want the money generated by the 'westerners', on the other you claim swadeshinesess of your policies to NOT CELEBRATE festivals which are against the so called principles of Hinduism. The people who protest Valentine Day's celebration would be the first ones to go ahead and rape a foreigner, eve-tease a girl dressed in a salwar-kameez, commit adultery or have a string of mistresses. These imbeciles do not believe in freedom of speech and expression. They are no different than the fanatics who support imperialism or dictators.