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Still want to sit down and talk to them Barak?

Iran's government spokesman is quoted as saying Saturday, Jan. 31 that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of Khomeini's overthrow of the shah that Iran's Islamic revolution was not limited to its borders. His response to the US president Barack Obama's overtures was a demand that America apologize for 60 years of "crimes against Iran" and its new president carry out a "deep and fundamental change." Let's start apologizing to Iran.

40 years passed, but I am no wiser

Nation lead by Actors and Pop Singers

I just turned on the TV to a spectacle of pre-innaguration festivities. Tom Hanks was speaking to the throngs at the Lincoln memorial. Even now, jaded by all that has come to be, I was taken aback. So, on the eve of supposedly historical innaguration the nation is being spoken to, lead, shown the way by..... actors? Whatever happened to philosophers, scientists, visionaries, leader ? Do we have any left? Is the best we can do is to trot out people whose achievements are mostly defined by a careeer of  playing REAL heroes and leaders and visionaries? Am I the only one who finds this delciiously absurd?

So they spend $150 million of REAL people's money to stage a made-for-TV variety show studded by the likes of Tom Hanks, Queen Latiffa, and Jon Bon Jovi? Are you kidding me? Have we all lost our collective common sense? Will we not look back at this 3 ring cricus years from now with a sense of embarssement and wonderment: Just what the hell were we all thinking?

Happy Birthday to Me

Yes it is today and I THINK I am 48. But here is the weird news of the day. My cousin Eugene happens to livge in China. Thi smorning I got a Skype message from him wishing me a happy birthday and informing me that his daughter ws born TODAY. Katya Vizitei. Born on January 16, 2009. So, there are now 2 Viziteis in the world with the SAME birthdate. How strange is that?