tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post8800209058608759500..comments2023-11-03T03:45:54.322-04:00Comments on Fox Home: Mumbai (What's Up in Thailand)Foxessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-79417843644104043922008-12-01T13:43:00.000-05:002008-12-01T13:43:00.000-05:00That's the one.I also recently read Alex Von Tunze...That's the one.<BR/><BR/>I also recently read Alex Von Tunzelmann's <I>Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire</I>. (2007). Henry Holt & Co., NY. A well-researched and well-written account of the events leading up to the dvd series. I had wanted to find out how much of what was in the series was true about the Mountbattans and Nehru and Jinna and Gandhi. The series is more like sketching than real drama, which leaves someone like me who didn't grow up with this as her history rather lost. For instance, was he really this great stategic leader in Burma? (Why, no, he wasn't.)<BR/><BR/>But then, I've been trying, fairly systematically, to fill in this great big black hole of history in my own education over the last 3 years or so.<BR/><BR/>The one thing I thought I knew before beginning this was that I didn't like Gandhi much. This was based on reading his Autobiography and so on in a seminar back as an undergrad. I loathed how he treated his wife. These days, the more I learn about him, I like him even less. But Edwina Mountbatten and Gandhi had an affinity from the beginning, just as she and Nehru did.<BR/><BR/><I>Indian Summer</I> is going to be a film, maybe, even though it is history, not fiction. At least there was talk about it earlier. Haven't seen any mention of this lately, however.<BR/><BR/>Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-65519570348397976512008-12-01T10:59:00.000-05:002008-12-01T10:59:00.000-05:00Is that the one with Nichol Williamson as Mountbat...Is that the one with Nichol Williamson as Mountbatten?K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-4298495040168729072008-12-01T10:30:00.000-05:002008-12-01T10:30:00.000-05:00K -- Certainly at many a Thanksgiving feast this v...K -- Certainly at many a Thanksgiving feast this very explanation of everything was blown out by the resident know-it-all blowhard. At least according to various people reporting in on their Thanksgiving with their families in which they are the only 'libwhacks'.<BR/><BR/>Love, c.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-17860327340097945432008-12-01T10:28:00.000-05:002008-12-01T10:28:00.000-05:00The photographer who followed the two terrorists w...The photographer who followed the <B>two</B> terrorists who started their mission at the train station begged the train station guards, who were numerous and armed to shoot the killers. "They're sitting ducks." But the guards did <B>nothing</B>. Why?<BR/><BR/>Having recently watched <I>Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy</I> (1986), where each episode had at least three long viewing of passenger train cars and / or buses filled with dead, hacked bodies, as well as at least 3 long scenes of Muslims or Hindus or Sikhs or Others committing brutal murder and mutilation upon their neighbors, I can all too easily conjure up the images of this last week.<BR/><BR/>It was a bloody one through the middle east.<BR/><BR/>Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-76227332591526927552008-12-01T10:22:00.000-05:002008-12-01T10:22:00.000-05:00As the resigned head of Mumbai security admitted, ...As the resigned head of Mumbai security admitted, the beach where landed the boat carryin the <B>ten</B> men who spread murder and chaos throughout the most opulent and privileged area of Mumbai for <B>three</B> days was a slum beach, i.e. used by poor people. So his forces didn't bother to patrol or guard it ....<BR/><BR/>Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-8568964955939299952008-11-30T23:11:00.000-05:002008-11-30T23:11:00.000-05:001. Anant Goenka writes empathetically of the despe...1. Anant Goenka writes empathetically of the desperate plight of Mumbai's poor and hopes that awareness of them might be a positive outcome of this tragedy. --><BR/><BR/>2. Anant is a scholar at the Annenberg School, originally endowed by Walter Annenberg. --><BR/><BR/>3. This is the same Walter Annenberg who supported the Chicago foundation whose board included Barack Obama and WIlliam Ayers. --><BR/><BR/>4. Barack Obama is a Muslim. --><BR/><BR/>5. Therefore, it's possible that Obama and Ayers planned the Mumbai massacres, and they certainly sympathize with the terrorists. --><BR/><BR/>6. If this is true, it's equally possible that Obama is a member of Al Qaeda. --><BR/><BR/>7. This means that Obama's candidacy was part of a plot by Osama bin Laden to get a member of Al Qaeda elected president. --><BR/><BR/>8. Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden are the same person.<BR/><BR/>What do you bet I could post this on a right-wing blog and have it taken seriously?K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-74770918681223414542008-11-30T22:06:00.000-05:002008-11-30T22:06:00.000-05:00The accusations against Pakistan, diverts from Ind...The accusations against Pakistan, diverts from India's lack of security. India is doing everything to keep the discussion away from focusing on their security problem. In addition India treats people in Kashmir, much worse than Chinese treat Tibetans.<BR/><BR/>You know how hard it's to occupy an airport. In Thailand it is possible, if you are pro dictatorship.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-2181136965846554542008-11-30T19:23:00.000-05:002008-11-30T19:23:00.000-05:00This has been a terrible weekend in Iraq and Baghd...This has been a terrible weekend in Iraq and Baghdad as well.<BR/><BR/>Included among the bombings in Baghdad was an assassination attempt on an NPR crew today. Their car blew up in front of their eyes. They were detained from entering it by their Iraqi guards.<BR/><BR/>And what's up with Thailand, with all those people in the streets?Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.com