Vote for Obama

I was in two minds about who to vote for, but with the latest endorsement from the remaining Kennedy dynasty I’ve decided that Obama is the worthy candidate. So I encourage all the Yanks who read this blog to vote for Sen. Obama.

America’s Got Talent

If you don’t believe in magic then watch this. You will be amazed.

Pierrepoint

Tonight I watched the movie Pierrepoint. It’s about the Chief Executioner in Britian during the early part of last century. It got excellent reviews on the radio which is why I decided to see it. To be fair, it was interesting and well done, but a little predictable. The movie wasn’t so much a debate about capital punishment, but rather Albert Pierrepoint’s role in carrying it out. This movie could have been really dark and heavy, but actually wasn’t that bad.

Simple questions to Americans

This is really funny. Basic general knowledge questions put to Americans on the street…

Ten Questions with Madeline Albright

Click here to view Time.com video

Husband runs into wife in brothel

A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment’s employees.

Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town.

“I was dumbfounded. I thought I was dreaming,” the husband told the newspaper.

The couple, married for 14 years, are now divorcing, the newspaper reported.

Jyotish

The reign of Saturn is nearly over. I’ve been in Saturn mahadasha since February 1989 and at the end of next month I move in Mercury mahadasha. Looking forward to it a whole lot.

Also, I’ve been meaning to blog about the statement, “Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone.” To put it in laymans terms, self-knowledge means consciously experiencing your soul.

Intellectual understanding will not set you free. The unbounded freedom, bliss, and real happiness found in the soul only comes from its direct experience. During meditation, with the complete settling of the activity of the mind, what remains is the real YOU – pure consciousness, Being – stainless, pure, absolute, eternal.

The most famous Vedic text the Bhagavad Gita says:

A lamp which does not flicker in a windless place – to such is compared the yogi of subdued thought practising Union with the Self. (6.19)

Be a Yogi and learn to live from the freedom of your soul.

My Political Orientation

So now I will nail my political colours to the mast. I took an online survey at PoliticalCompass.org. It asks a number of questions regarding economics, social ideas, religious views etc and plots them on a grid. The idea is that a simple left/right wing description isn’t clear enough in today’s world.

This is a good video:

Are they going to jail?

www.dontvotelabour.org.nz

This is an interesting website. Is it breaking the new Electoral Finance law? They are not supporting any other party.