President Barack Obama has done so much to heal racial divisions that he "forgot he was black"

MSNBC's Chris Matthews says President Barack Obama has done so much to heal racial divisions that he "forgot he was black" while watching his State of the Union address.

Those four words - "forgot he was black" - so instantly set the Twitter world afire that Matthews came back less than 90 minutes later to explain what he meant.

He said it was noteworthy to him that a black president was addressing a room of mostly white people and how it didn't seem to be an issue.

He said he saw it in the context of growing up at a time racial divisions were ever-present.

Says Matthews: "I went in the room tonight, you could feel it wasn't there tonight and that takes leadership on his part, to get us beyond those divisions."

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Macquire Banker Dave Kiely looked at semi-nude pics of Ausy Model Miranda Kerr hungry media made song n dance n flopped.

An Australian banker who was caught on live TV looking at photos of scantily clad model Miranda Kerr will not lose his job, the bank said Friday.

Macquarie Bank worker Dave Kiely was at his desk as a colleague was being interviewed about interest rates when the camera showed him apparently opening e-mail attachments of nearly nude photos of the model.

The clip became a YouTube hit and other media broadcast it during prime-time Tuesday.

Australia-born Kerr, 26, who is engaged to "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Orlando Bloom, had said she hoped Kiely would not lose his job.

"I am told there is a petition to save his job, and of course I would sign it," news.com.au quoted her as saying.

On Friday, Macquarie said in a statement it had completed an internal review and Kiely would keep his job.

"Macquarie and the employee apologize for any offense that may have been caused," the bank said.

Any red blooded man, irrespective of age,  will look at such a beautiful female form with both cheeks open to view so shamelessly as if all her parts are meant for public exhibition !

Ah !  Culture indeed !!

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'Chuckle' Taylor is ordered by US court to pay $ 22m for torturing five men in Liberia. Will Lankan president and Mugabe too pay?

A US judge has ordered the son of ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor to pay more than $22m (£14m) to five people tortured during its civil war.

The abuses were carried out by a paramilitary unit led by the son, Charles 'Chuckle' Taylor.

It comes a year after Chuckie was sentenced to 97 years in prison by the same Miami federal court.

He was the first person convicted by a US court of committing human rights abuses outside the US.

The five Liberian victims had testified before the court that they had been tortured and abused by the Anti-Terrorist Unit - the official title by which the group Chuckle Taylor ran was known.

They said they had been held in pits in the jungle that were filled chest-high with water, had been exposed to electric shocks to the genitals and other body parts and had witnessed the killing of others by the paramilitaries.

Human rights groups have welcomed this latest ruling against him.

They say it is a move that might serve as a warning to others who commit similar abuses that they will be held accountable for their actions.

Chuckle Taylor's father is currently on trial in The Hague.

He faces 11 charges including murder and rape in connection with the civil war in Sierra Leone in the 1990s.

Are there any chances of Sri Lankan President and Zimbabwe President facing such charges in International Court?

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Sinhala has 'B' 'G' 'F' whereas Tamil has none as Tamil Pandits obstruct Tamil innovators from finding suitable alphabets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8498534.stm
By Alastair Lawson
BBC News

Boa Sr
Boa Sr remained the last Bo speaker for at least 30 years

The last speaker of an ancient language in India's Andaman Islands has died at the age of about 85, a leading linguist has told the BBC.

Professor Anvita Abbi said that the death of Boa Sr was highly significant because one of the world's oldest languages - Bo - had come to an end.

She said that India had lost an irreplaceable part of its heritage.

Languages in the Andamans are thought to originate from Africa. Some may be 70,000 years old.

Professor Abbi - who runs the Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese (Voga) website - explained: "After the death of her parents, Boa was the last Bo speaker for 30 to 40 years.

So,  ''Bo'' is much older than ''Thamil''. ''Thamil'' is a South Indian language of which Thamil poets and pandits tell us ''Thamil'' is the 'best' language in the whole world, despite its short comings.

Thamil has no letters to represent the sounds ''B'',  ''G'' and ''F''.

Thamil classical music was written and sung in Telugu for centuries.

Whereas the ''Sinhala'',  the sister language in Sri Lanka has the alphabets that represent ''B'' and
and ''G'' and the wise persons of Sinhala language have innovated to form the equivalent character
for ''F'' sound.

We believe some Tamil innovators are being impeded in efforts to find suitable letter to write ''F'' sound by many jealous Tamil Pandits.

Progress and improvements cannot be,  unless short falls are spotted and openly acknowledged !

Will the ''pure'' Thamil fanatics accept this fact of progressiveness !

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Is it true Tony Blair never discussed but dictated what and how to think and decide in Cabinet meetings

Is it true Tony Blair never discussed but dictated to his Ministers what and how to think and decide in Cabinet meetings ?

Is it true Tony Blair compelled the Attorney-General of the day to change ''illelegal'' to ''legal'' the invasion of Iraq and the spineless AG complied like a whimpering puppy ?

If so,  was not the Prime Minister of UK acting like a thug of the underworld ?

Is it true,  the UK does not intend to punish the brazen wrong doings of Tony Blair by which he has enriched himself enormously through the machinations of Dick Cheney the vice-president of George Bush, the sick president of USA ?

Is it true Dick Cheney was the Chairman of Haliburton the company that most benefitted from contracts being granted to it in Iraq from Security to Construction of buildings ?

Is it true many senior officers in Procurement department of the Defense Ministry of USA were hounded out and either dismissed or forced to retire when they refused to coloborate in granting contracts to Halliburton company w/o calling for quotations from other companies ?

Is it true billions of dollars went missing in Iraq whenever or wherever Halliburton company was involved ?

Is it true Tony Blair was paid millions of dollars by Dick Cheney for declaring war on Iraq on behalf of the people of UK ?

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Malay Muslims are angry? Should a group have ownership of Allah? They say Christians want to use it to try and convert Muslims.

Found this on BBC
Should you be able to call your God whatever you want?

God’s been to court in Malaysia.

A recent ruling decided that non-Muslims can use the word Allah to refer to God.

That makes it sound simple, it’s not. Instead, implementation of the ruling has been suspended due intense protests and a court appeal.

Muslims today at mosques in Malaysia carried placards reading ‘Allah is only for us’.

Earlier today, three churches were attacked in Kuala Lumpur. The debate continues to grow in the blogosphere.

Do Muslims have a right to be angry?

Should one group have ownership of Allah?

One argument is that Christians want to use it to try and convert Muslims.

Insan Mukim on our blog had this to say.

It is plain obvious that the use of Allah is for proselytisation reasons.

The other side says it’s a Malay word used for centuries and Arabic-speaking Christians used the word Allah before Islam was founded.

So, does the name matter?

If so, what does the word Allah mean to you?

Who (if anyone) owns God’s name?

In case you got an answer,  please post it on BBC using link given above,  so that we all can read you and learn.

And you shall be known as the Great Teacher !

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And you would agree Google didn't lay a golden egg when someone knowledgeable says, ---

Nexus One is the latest hand phone from the house of Google.

It's a Smart Phone just like the Nokia and Apple's iPhone.

Of course, the main amazing features are the same with little bit of difference in each of them.

The Nexus One is a slim, touchscreen phone.

It is built by HTC of Taiwan and runs on Google's Android operating system.

It will be sold for US $529 direct from Google. 

T-Mobile of USA will distribute on contract at US $179.
   
The Nexus One boasts of these features:

B 4 that, Nexus means  ''the means of connection between things linked in series''.

The Touch Screen is of 3.7 inch
The Processor is 1GHz snapdragon
Its Camera is of 5 Megapixel with LED flash
Google's ''Earth'' must combine for the  GPS and compass
Accelerometer
Noise cancellation technology
Voice recognition

It has a flash memory of 512MB that could be expanded to 32GB with an SD memory card
We manage quite nicely with a 4GB in our Clone phone.

As of now, Nokia has 40 % of the world market. Apple with iPhone shares 20 % and Android of Google a mere 4%.

And you would agree Google didn't lay a golden egg when someone knowledgeable says,

"The Google phone isn't much different than the iPhone," wrote VC Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures on his blog. "It's basically an Android clone of the iPhone."

And,  listen to this,  ''Google also announced a plan to launch "pay to call" adverts that would appear on mobile phones.

Just as the "pay to click" adverts that comes on in many websites.

These adverts form a significant chunk of Google's revenue.

So,  ''nothing'' is free on Internet --- Unlike Air and Water Nature gives !

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