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The man behind the desk continued with his work not even noticing the President

The President did not have the courage to look up. He simply waited for the mans attention

Suddenly the man behind the desk stood up and walked around the President disdainfully

‘So you actually think you have power? You will send the ISI chief to India?’

‘No Sir’, the President mumbled

‘I have had enough of you Zardari. If I hear anymore talk of you taking decisions unilaterally, you will be ousted. And thrown into jail for your corruption cases ! Make no mistake of that. UNDERSTAND?’

The raised voice of the army chief made Zardari shiver. He thought of jail. He thought of no women for the next foreseeable future. NO. He was not going back to jail

‘You will release all Jamat Ud Dawah operatives immediately and release all their bank accounts’

‘Yes Sir. But there will be lot of pressure from the Americans and Indians’

‘Ha ! the Americans know that if they give us any trouble the Chinese will enter and checkmate all their moves. And their search for Osama Bin Laden will be over. That reminds me…’

He goes back to the desk and speaks into the intercom.

‘Abdul get me Osama Saheb on the line’

‘Osama Saheb. Salaam Aleikum. Yes Sir. The Americans have been given a view of your present hideout to please their bosses. You may move to location number 2 tomorow morning since they are planning another strike at this hideout. Yes Sir’

‘And Zardari. Before you leave …The video last night of the last girl you were with was good’

‘Yes Sir’

Zardari walked backwards and exited as soon as he could

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Massood Azhar, the Chief of Jaish E Mohammed and Hafiz Syed, Chief of Jamaat U Dawaah were in a meeting sharing a good laugh

‘And he took off his shoes and threw them at Bush !’

‘What a ’shoe’ ting that was ! If the shoes had landed there could have been ‘Boots on Bush’ !’

Good timing too ! He is after all getting ‘boot’ ed out of the White House !’

Yeah Liberty Shoes give Liberty to the world from Bush !’

Ok Now on to more serious matters. The attack on major cities in India is finalised. The men will arrive in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkatta, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai hiding in shipping containers. They will all attack simultaneously on January 3rd. Two men will attack the state legislature in each city and while the cops are busy they will destroy the power stations in each city.’

‘This will create complete chaos all over India. They will discuss as usual about attacking Pakistan and we will attack India from Nepal and Bangladesh and take over Kashmir . Their politicians will be too busy fighting to even react !’

‘Excellent ! Are all the men required for this job trained and ready? ‘

Yes. All arrangements have been made. The army chief has checked all the plans himself’

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The helicopters whirred through the air silently. They were the latest American Apache helicopters and hardly made a sound. Ten helicopters went deep into Pakistani territory. The pakistani radar operators saw the American emblem on the helicopters and cursed.

‘Why do they allow the Americans to come into our territory? Now they have allowed so many. Ok let us pretend to shoot at them and let them go past’

The helicopters veered off in different directions after passing the coast guards. Each had a definite target. Inside them NSG commandos from India sat determined. Each rehearsing what they had to do

The helicopters landed at their destinations and quickly surrounded the buildings. When the phones they carried gave the go ahead they moved in. Shooting each person they came across. They moved in to the office at the top of the building and shot the man behind each desk

Masood Azhar lay dead on the floor of his office and so did Hafeez Syed

The leaders of all the major terrorist organizations had been killed

Then men got back into the helicopters and met at a pre designated point. The pakistanis saw them but did not shoot. They were all paralysed

In two of the helicopters two men sat talking into their phones

‘Do not shoot !’

The two men looked at their Indian captors menacingly

The pakistani army watched the helicopters fly off into the distance

The Army Chief and the ISI chief were in one or more of those helicopters. They could not afford to shoot

The war on terror was over.

Obama called Gordon Brown

‘It is done. I told you we could trust the Indians’

‘And thanks to Mr ten percent , Zardari !’

They shared a good laugh

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Life is a beauty…..praise it.

Life is a challenge…..meet it.

Life is a duty…..perform it.

Life is a love….enjoy it.

Life is a tragedy…..face it.

Life is a struggle…..fight it.

Life is a promise…..fulfill.

Life is a game….play it.

Life is a gift….accept.

Life is a journey….complete it.

Life is a mystery….unfold it.

Life is a goal…..achieve it.

Life is an opportunity…..take it.

Life is a puzzle…..solve it.

Life is a sorrow….overcome it.

Life is a spirit….realize it.

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WE….USE MORE OFTEN.

EGO…..KILL IT.

LOVE…..VALUE IT.

SMILE…..ALWAYS KEEP IT.

RUMOR…..INGNORE IT.

SUCCESS….ACHIEVE IT.

KNOWLEDGE…ALWAYS ACQUIRE IT.

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News: Maharashtra Govt. and Live-Ins. Recognition in waiting?

Why the concept of Live-In came into existence after all? What was the basic reason is something less probed. With the advent of Nuclear families with Globalization in ‘90s somewhere youth imbibed a fear towards marital commitment. This actually led to rise and gradual social acceptance of live-in concept. ‘I will stay with you and both will see that are we compatible enough to live together till death…’

Somewhere even I am not comfortable with the idea of living in but still feel that Maharashtra Govt. has taken a positive step towards socializing the outcaste so that the oppressed may not suffer.

A and B lives together. B gets pregnant and A runs away. What will happen? B will have to live with stigma and child will suffer for something he had no role.

A and B lives together. A is already married but hides the fact. What will happen? B will have to live with the feeling of being cheated.

In both cases today law cannot punish A or sort out B’s woes. Reason: It’s not legal.

We cannot stop people living in together so that there are minimum woes. The advisable thing is that legalize the practice that has been widely adopted. Hadn’t we adopted the Abortion Of Unborn Babies to stop population explosion and teen-pregnancies. We should move ahead with people.

http://justada.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/10/live-in-and-live-out.htm

I am like submerged in gallons of paints, and you could bury me under unpainted virgin canvases. There’s no time to think up of anything interesting to write…not that I usually think and write…I write the best when I am not thinking…which is pretty much almost always. I always believed that if nothing comes to mind don’t write. That suited me fine. I went thro’ phases of not writing, and then a very wise lady told me that she made it a point to write something everyday. As a matter of discipline!

I am certainly seriously lacking in that department, so I thought I might start with one per week bare minimum off on a Monday, and more if so inclined. This Monday, there wasn’t anything interesting to write about. I was sure people do not want to hear about my dogs, they already heard about my boy, and well I’ll have to be in a different state of mind to write about Sakha…

So what would people like to read…about my boyfriends??? Umm maybe but nothing as exciting as this gal who came out with this book about her exploits. That book had absolutely everyone talk non-stop about women and stuff, and have rousing discussions! I have sadly lived an almost tame and though it didn’t seem so to me but a dull life.

When I was in college, we used to have Duck laws…They worked for me, so today I think I’ll share those duck laws with you… (You really thought I’d tell all about my BF’s over the years… LOL think again! I DO NOT KISS AND TELL.)

Duck Law 1

If it walks like and duck, talks like a duck, looks like a duck, cooks like a duck. It’s a duck…

Meaning: – All things are known by their attributes.

Duck Law 2

Even under ideal circumstances, no duck, no matter how noble or well intentioned, can be an eagle.

Meaning: – All things must be what they are.

Duck Law 3

A duck can pretend to be an eagle except in times of adversity.

Meaning: – Pretence and adversity are inversely proportional, adversity reveals the true nature of all things.

Duck Law 4

No duck may be an eagle until it abandons its webbed feet and bill for talons and a beak.

Meaning: – All things remain as they are until the attributes that define them are abandoned. Then, and only then, can they evolve.

Duck Law 5

Ducks are noble creatures. They shall not be penalised in the eyes of other creatures because they are not eagles.

Meaning: – All things are valuable and honourable, if they are what they are honestly, even if they are different from you and me.

Duck Law 6

The greatest duck that ever was cannot fly as high as even a modest eagle.

Meaning: – If one can soar with eagles, do not swim with ducks. Be the best you can be, not better than someone else.

Duck Law 7

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.

Meaning: – Sometimes there are no answers.

These laws are by no means my own. They originate from some brains infinitely wiser than mine. But I love them, and can see the truth in them.

These are really fine laws, if only we understand and inculcate them.

Now if you are like my friend Priya you’ll probably say, the duck laws are for ducks girl.

But if we contemplate just for a while on them, put it all in context, they are about tolerance, understanding and Honesty. We need these attributes desperately, in today’s world.

(Now I’ll come to what I really wanted to talk about, but find I really have no words to express what I feel, the rage, the confusion, the pain, I’m at a serious loss…)

A world where every time you blink a bomb blasts. Why, who, how? These questions have layered answers. Terrorism has no religion, and terror has no face.

Indian Mujahideen… Who or what are they?

It’s high time we stopped, and tried to understand really the whys and the who’s. I know it cannot be about religion, and never about God. The answer Muslims or Islam does not really satisfy or fit completely.
In the mean time life will continue, people will dust themselves off andwalk on…those who can, some will never be the same again, a senseless death is often like having no answers…isn’t it?

I do not want to talk on terrorism; there isn’t much I can say that hasn’t already been said or that you could not read on the net or in numerous books written about it.

I know I have treated this very grave, subject in a light hearted manner, that’s just me…

Sometimes I laugh, just so I don’t cry…

PS: For all those who are interested google ducks laws… The ducks have a web page of their own. And unfortunately terrorism has loads of them.

http://blackmagicwoman.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/09/nothing-new-something-old.htm

Close to a thousand participants took part in the 10-kilometer Family Walk on September 7, 2008. Participants ranging from age 4 to 80 walked in support of BAPS Charities and Sick Kids Foundation. The rains did not dampen the excitement of the walkers.

“SickKids Foundation is extremely grateful for the generous support of BAPS Charities, and I am personally thankful to have been involved in the 11th Annual BAPS Family Walk. It was incredible to see the amazing enthusiasm of the community – even with all the rain. I am already looking forward to next year!” said Christine Cleland, Development Officer for Sick Kids Foundation.

Inspired by His Divine Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj, this annual event is growing and becoming more successful with each passing year with the joint efforts of participants, well-wishers, sponsors and youth organizers.

The youth of BAPS organized the entire event, from initial conception to actual implementation. The theme for this year’s walk was “One World, One Family”, with the underlying Vedic message that we are a single human family.

The kick-off ceremony took place at 10:00 am in front of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Toronto. Following warm-up exercises, the sponsors, dignitaries and invited guests officially launched the 11th annual BAPS Family Walk.

Chief Sponsors of the event included Coca-Cola, Arthurs Juice, Pitney Bowes Canada, Rubicon, Fortinos, and No Frills, among many others.

Refreshment stations were setup en-route providing water, energy drinks, fruits and snacks for the participants. Volunteers at street crossings helped the participants cross safety. Local police from 23rd Division supported the event by patrolling the route for the safety of the participants. A medical team of volunteer doctors also provided their services for this event. A group of volunteers followed up behind the walkers to clean-up after the event. A delicious lunch was provided for all at the end of this very successful annual BAPS Family Walk.

Simultaneous BAPS Family Walks took place in more than 30 locations across North America sponsoring beneficiaries such as the American Diabetes Association, Boys and Girls Club of America, Shiners’ Hospital, Local police and fire department and various Children’s Hospitals in major metropolises. The spirit of these charity events is grounded in the countless hours of selfless voluntary efforts of BAPS Charities volunteers around the world.

BAPS Charities has helped those in need in almost every part of the world. Its contributions and responsiveness during natural calamities and disasters in South Asia, South America and North America are at a world class level.

http://swatitripathi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/09/vasudhaivkutumbakam-family-walk-in-toronto-supports.htm

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
- Bum Phillips

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
–Emily Dickinson

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
- John Wooden

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye

We must all hang together, or, assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
- Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
–Vicki Baum Austrian-US novelist

The measure of success is not whether you have tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
- John Foster Dulles

A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.
–Unknown

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
–David Weatherford

Do or do not. There is no try.
-Yoda (Star Wars)

Even a smile is a Charity
-Prophet Muhammad

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
-Sam Keen

Sometimes, I wish I had never met you. Then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.
-Anonymous

This may sound selfish, but, I hope that I die before you do, because I never want to know the pain of what it’s like to be without you.
-Unknown

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?.
-Albert Einstein

Love can heal the deepest wounds, but it can also create them.
-Unknown

If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.
-Unknown

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you, even when you’re fooling everybody else.
If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.
-Unknown

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-Sir Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
-Sir Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
-Sir Winston Churchill

the object of war isn’t to die for your country but make the other poor bastard die for his
-Anonymous

Don’t frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
-Anonymous

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because people do evil, but because people sit by and let them.
- Einstein, Albert

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
-Anonymous

You always pass failure on the way to success.
-Anonymous

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
-Scott Adams

I like to be against the odds. I’m not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it’s just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.
-Barry Bonds

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?.
-Albert Einstein

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
-Winston Churchill

While there’s life, there’s hope.
-Unknown

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.
-Unknown

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
-Truman Capote

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
-William James

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him
-Sydney Smith

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-Thornton Wilder

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain

Better hazard once than always be in fear.
-Thomas Fuller

Do what you fear and fear disappears.
-Anonymous

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
-Anonymous

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.
-F F Bosworth

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
-Saint Augustine

Desire, ask, believe, receive.
-Stella Terrill Mann

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.
-John Holt

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
-George Weiss

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
-W Somerset Maugham

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
-William James

Sow an act…reap a habit; Sow a habit…reap a character; Sow a character…reap a destiny.
-George Dana Boardman

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
-Danny Kaye

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
- Thomas Jefferson

It has been said that man is a rational animal.
All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
- Bertrand Russell

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SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS from around the world are predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well come to an end. Some are saying it’ll be humans that would set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it’ll be God himself who would press the stop button. The following are some likely arguments as to why the world would end by the year 2012.

Reason one: Mayan calendarThe first to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things — building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and sacrificing virgins.

Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it’s likely they’ve got the end of the world right as well.
Reason two: Sun storms

Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery. Our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic and it’s supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the earth with lot of radiation energy. It’s been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse and calculations suggest it’ll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012.
Reason three: The atom smasher

Scientists in Europe have been building the world’s largest particle accelerator. Basically, its a 27 km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it’s properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They’re predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

Reason four: The Bible says it

If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn’t bad enough, religious folks are getting in on the act as well. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between good an evil, has been set for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese Book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.

Reason five: Super volcano

Yellowstone National Park in United States is famous for its thermal springs and old faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple — it’s sitting on top of the world’s biggest volcano and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we’re many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.

Reason six: The physicists

This one’s case of bog — simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berkely University have been crunching the numbers. They’ve determined that the earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they’re claiming that their calculations prove that we’re all going to die, very soon. They are also saying that their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 per cent; and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.

Reason seven: Earth’s magnetic field

We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that shields us from most of the sun’s radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call North and South have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so — and right now we’re about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30 kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is under way, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.

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