Apparently the City of San Diego has problems with their budget and the mayor has warned of the hard times ahead. This doesn't come as a surprise considering this what they spend the tax payers dollar on. These people on Segaways are  called Safety Ambassador and job function is listed as follows "Ambassadors act as an extra set of "eyes and ears" for law enforcement and property owners." The cops hate them, they can't give tickets to anyone and I have never seen them doing anything but cruise around. Nobody would buy San Diego bonds a couple of years ago, it seems nobody will in a year again. So how about this Mr. Sanders, you fire those people and sell those Segaways at discount to people like me.

"My experience with Americans is that they often have opinions about a racial or religious group but that they are nearly always willing to put those opinions aside and consider an individual."

-   Philip Greenspun That is very true of Americans. I am not sure they would apply that to someone who would be their next President. Especially the religious folks. Time will tell. My money is still on McCain.

 

The Democrats had really good chance last time but nothing compared to this time around. So they are obviously finding creative ways to screw up. A women or  black guy for president, after a year in this country I know for sure that won't happen. It might be the worlds biggest economy but it is one hell of racist nation. This may be the place for feminists but more than half the population here believe feminism is all about promiscuous sex. John McCain, as I've been telling all along, is gonna walk over the Democrats. And Iraq is going to be Vietnam all over again.

Disclaimer: I am not racist, I support feminism and I never vote.

You people are not tuned in well enough on how read your newspapers. Please, allow me. Let's say that you read this

Although the ruling clergy in Iran are very unpopular, they are not going anywhere anytime soon.

The right way interpret it would be

The ruling clergy in Iran are very popular but I want them to be unpopular, disdainful and overthrown soon.

People writing in newspapers, the intellectuals, always have the opposite view compared to the people, anti-intellectuals, who elected these governments. Trust me on this, i have had the rare opportunity of being among both these kinds.

I am moving  to Ukraine. If she can be the prime minister I can only imagine how beautiful the women there are. She is 47, I can't believe it.

I can't read the India press any more. I am sick and tired of the irrational writing. I don't think there has been a week in the last few years that Indian press hasn't written about how "India is shining", how we are the next superpower and how we will rule the world by becoming the permanent member of the Security Council. It unfortunate to see that journalists, if you can still call them as that, have forgotten not only the facts but also history. May be I should refresh their memory. The astuteness of the leaders of our free world, past and present, is very admirable, particularly when they talk about our future. Winston Churchill may be Sir Winston Churchill, about the future of our world “The government of the world must be entrusted to satisfied nations, who wished nothing more for themselves than what they had. If the world-government were in the hands of hungry nations there would always be danger. But none of us had any reason to seek for anything more…. Our power placed us above the rest. We were like the rich men dwelling at peace within their habitations.” Ref: Winston Churchill: The Second World War, Vol. 5 (1951), p. 382.