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Gov. Arnold

Finally, Arnold is our Governor. As Jay Leno said while introducing Arnold last night, the state will from now be called “Cah-Le-Fawn-Ya” and groping would be legalized.
Gov. Davis had hiked the car tax 300%. One of the first acts the new Gov. would perform would be to repeal the car tax raise. Gov. Davis had signed a bill allowing illegal immigrants to get drivers licence (talk about appeasing a vote bank). The new Gov. would repeal that too. He had campaigned with many ads targetting Indian Gaming. According to Arnold the Indians were not paying their “fair share” of taxes.
He also was against the Lobbyists in Sacramento who were paying the politicians to get favors. He said that since he is rich, he would not have to pander to them.
So guess who all will be against him when he comes up for re-election.
Another job Arnold should do is find the 9716 people who voted for the Adult Actress Book Review: PakistanCarey and expel them to Las Vegas.

Hillary is running

Last week I was watching “Countdown with Keith Olbermann”:http://www.msnbc.com/news/countdownolbermann_front.asp?cp1=1&ta=y and he kept saying that he thinks Hillary would run for the office. Hillary had made a statement saying that she would not run for office in 2004. According to his sources, Former President Clinton was advising her how to get over that statement.
But even though Hillary Clinton has not made a public announcement, it looks like she is “running”:http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?P00003392 for the office of the President of United States. InstaPundit has the “instructions”:http://www.instapundit.com/archives/011870.php on how to find that for yourself.
So it could be Clinton vs Bush again in 2004.
Update (From National Review link sent by SAS) The entry Insta�s reader found was an ID created when a draft Hillary committee registered. Dig further and you�ll find records for a draft committee in 2000, too, I believe. So, while I�m still betting the day is coming (a matter of months), when Hillary jumps in, it hasn�t happened yet. (I checked it out yesterday, after a few Corner readers emailed me the same link the cyperpunditman has up.)

What's visible from space ?

I think we all have heard this, “Great Wall of China is the only man made object visible from space”. It seems like that is wrong. The following are “visible from space”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/space/whatsreallyvisiblefromspace
* highways
* airports
* dams
* large vehicles
* harbors
* ships
* tankers
* Egyptian Pyramids
So next time someone tells you about the Great Wall, correct them.

Newsmakers: Tigers

The newsmakers last week in US were, believe it or not, Tigers.
First performer Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy was “mauled by a tiger”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/tiger_attack_magician on stage.
bq. He suffered a severe wound to his neck when the 7-year-old male tiger named Montecore attacked Friday night in front of hundreds of people. Officials said Sunday he had improved and could move his hands and feet.
And in New York, a man decided to have a “Tiger as a pet”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20031006/od_nm/odd_tiger_dc in his apartment.
bq. New York has been described as a concrete jungle, but one Harlem resident seems to have taken that literally as police were called in to remove a tiger and an alligator from his apartment. Tipped off by phone calls from neighbors, police on Saturday found the wildlife in the apartment of 31-year-old Antoine Yates, who faces charges of reckless endangerment.
This is the last chance for the tigers to be in the limelight. Tomorrow it is the polls in California and all the talking heads are here, Tom Brokaw, Chris Matthews, Petter Jennings..

More on Arnold

As we enter the final week of recall campaign in California, it is getting dirtier by the minute. Yesterday the LA Times ran an article on “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s past”:https://varnam.org/archives/000246.html. Now ABC News has published some quotes from an unpublished book proposal in which he said that “he admired Hitler”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/10/03/national0955EDT0554.DTL for being a good public speaker and what he was able to do with it.
If you switch on the TV, you are bombarded with ads by Gray Davis, Bustemante, Arnold, and Native Indians. Often one follows the other, saying what the previous guy said is all wrong. The media has now discarded all major issues in the world like Iraq, Afghanistan, Al-Queda and is now concentrated on the recall. Anyways, the pain will be over in a few days.

It gets dirty

It is just 5 days before the elections here in California and the LA Times has come with some muck against Arnold Schwarzenegger. In “the story”:http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/recall/la-me-women2oct02,1,2313555.story?coll=la-home-headlines, the LA Times managed to find the women whom Arnold had groped during his career.
This is one point Arinana Huffington has been stressing, Arnold does not treat women with respect

Book Review: Bias

“Bernard Goldberg”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060520841/jksobservat-20/103-3604793-4877406 saw an item on the CBS evening news with Dan Rather about Steve Forbes. The news was presented by one of Rather’s reporters about Steve Forbes flat tax plan. Mr. Forbes was running as one of the candidates for the post of the Republican nominee for the President of United States. The piece was very critical of Mr. Forbes plan and the experts who expressed their views criticized the plan. According to Goldberg, this piece was biased, not objective and should not have been aired.
Goldberg wrote an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal pointing out a liberal bias in the media. If Goldberg had been any other tax paying American, it would not have mattered. But he was one of Dan Rather’s reporters and that too for almost two decades. After this Goldberg became a non-entity in CBS. Dan Rather stopped talking to him (after saying, You were my friend and will remain my friend for ever), so did most of his colleagues and he was taken off the air.
The piece on Steve Forbes was not the one that triggered Goldberg. He had been watching the liberal slant of the media for many years and had complained to his bosses at CBS. Even though his bosses agreed with him in private, they refused to say that in public. Goldberg then tells us various stories and the angle with which the media cover them. One of them is the way how people are identified on television. Anyone from a conservative organization is identified as a conservative, but liberals are identified as just “experts” implying being liberal is normal.
The problem according to Goldberg is that producers enforce their liberal values on the story. It is not like they come in the morning and say we will slant all stories to the left today. According to Goldberg, it is something that comes naturally to them. But the same media which likes into poke into other people’s lives could not take it when someone did it to them. Dan Rather said he would never read that book. But I found this book very fascinating and worth reading if you are a person who gets his news from the American news channels.
After reading “this book”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060520841/jksobservat-20, I was thinking, it would be nice to write a book which looks at the bias with which the media here covers international news. (What international news ?) Rajiv Malhotra had an article on this issue titled CNN’s Pakistan’s Bias. It would be nice to hear what people from other countries think of the coverage they are getting in American media about their countries.

Two states, wierd politics

Our California Recall Circus now has “new poll numbers”:http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/28/recall.poll/index.html. 63% of the people polled said that they would replace Gov. Gray Davis. And guess who is leading the polls to replace him – Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold was the choice of 40% of the people.
There is another Republican candidate, Senator Tom McClintock in the fray and there is news that the Republican Administration wants him to withdraw. This was the “same reason”:https://varnam.org/archives/000239.html that Darrel Issa, the person who started the recall campaign asked people to vote No on the recall.
Arnold has been running ads against the Indians saying that they have not been paying taxes after making money in their casinos and if he becomes Governor all that is going to change. The Indians have been running their own ads against Arnold.
But leaving all this aside, one person who is benefitting from this recall is Adult Actress Book Review: PakistanCarey. Her videos are now selling well.
In my other home state, Kerala, the by elections, the official Congress candidate was defeated by the leftists. In Kerala, Congress party is made of two factions, Karunakaran and Antony. Antony is the Chief Minister and Karunakaran is acting as the opposition party. So when an Antony loyalist was given the ticket, the entire Karunakaran machinery worked against the official candidate.
Now Rediff is reporting that Karunakaran is “planning”:http://in.rediff.com/news/2003/sep/29iype.htm to join hands with the Communists to topple the ministry. So this would be Congress and Communists joining hands to topple a Congress ministry.
We are all waiting to see what the “High Command” will say in this matter.
Is it me or why do the two states I live have such wierd politics ?

Meteor Attack

Here is a story you don’t get to hear daily in India
bq. As many as 20 people were injured in India Sunday when a small meteor reportedly struck a village. The meteor struck a village in the state of Orissa, in eastern India, according to Indian and other news reports. Fragments of the object destroyed several houses. Although the BBC reported that as many as 20 people were injured, other reports suggest that the number of casualties could be as low as one.
[Source: “Space Today”:http://www.spacetoday.net/]