No country for sales men -updated

The US Vice Presidential debate is about to begin...

here is my prediction...(I can always eat my words later)

US is a country where people are used to buying something that is priced at 299.99, and is on "blowout" sale at 99.99, when any TD and H would know that the real thing is worth 14.99!!

GWB pulled off the "I am stupid", "I am really stupid" routine till he changed it around in a debate where suddenly he pulled some punches with Gore and went on to do the same thing with Kerry..

Is Palin playing the same game?

Let us see..

An update after the debate:

6:02 : Sundar is all excited and posts soemthing on his blog.. turns on TV!
6:04 : San walks by and exclaims "who is she?" and I go "What?" this is Sarah Palin!!! She brushes aside my surprise and goes on her merry way..
6:10 : Palin seems to have no stutter, even knows "facts" , there are numerals thrown in her speech and just when she starts things like "I have only been at this five weeks!"...
6:15 my jaw drops and I am thinking.. (well, Obama has no experience.. but on a chance that McCain has an aneurism after the SEC tells him the real story behind the bailout, will Palin say things like "I have only been at this a few months and I pressed the wrong button"? when she is President.. especially when she gets that call at 3AM!!!!).. anyways, I digress..
6:16:00 : "I have to go Navrathri shopping. there are guests coming tomorrow". When I come back, I don't want to hear a single complaint. Better make sure the kids are ready for bed when I come back!
6:16:05 : !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhh

6:16:10 hear front door shut

6:16:15 "Daddy, I want to go somewhere too!" - says the little one!
After some haggling, muting TV, trying to read body language of debaters, then giving Jr. a bath ..

6:45 "I am trying to watch this movie. Seems to be a good movie!" This was Sivappadhigaaram, a movie title that translates to bloody tale, aired on SUN TV (Tamil channel) to commemorate the non-violent Mahatma Gandhi's birthday!!!!

7:40:00 In van on way to blockbuster (turn on radio).. there is an analysis of the debate!!! and snippets of audio! Yippeeeee

7:40:30 Jr. and LO in unison "Socha Hai" podu (play Socha Hai)

7:41 kids, please listen to this. I will quiz you on this. your future depends on what you hear (silence for a few seconds)

7:41:30 SOCHA HAI PODU, NOW !!

7:42 : turn on the CD player...

Sometimes I think that there are little Joe Biden-Sarah Palin debates in our house all the time. In fact, San maybe our home grown version of Sarah Palin! She might make me take down this post, because she is more powerful in all sense compared to me.. but it is true. She does not care much for facts, does not know much about the bailout, congress, etc. etc.. Not that she is not capable of knowing, but chooses not to! While I am busy listening to NPR or any other news radio, her only thought is to wait for a chance to switch to ARR music..

On the other hand I come across as some elitist ass who cares too much instead of going about the day to day living. True, no?

Those of you who managed to see the debate in full, can tell me if the first part of this post held true or not!

Going to take a lesson from San and focus more on Navrathri for the next few days..

The Kondaikadalai vs. pattani debate is of more value than the one that was just missed!

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Sundar for Vice President

It would be such an honor to be Chuck Norris's running mate!

As a guy who always wanted to drive a Prius, but could never justify the added expense to the Mrs., I am as qualified as qualified can be, to understand the economic ramifications of environmental policies! As it so happens, in my non blogger life, I have come across the word "technology" and throw buzzwords like "solar", "efficiency", "silicon", "energy", just like my guru Chuck Norris throws high leg kicks. Talk of "ram"ifications!

Add to that my dual citizenship and the fact that I actuall won certificates three years in a row in the Geography Talent Test in my middle school (thank you shoebox!), I may actually know something about Foreign policy. Okay, okay, the previous sentence only implies that I know something about "foreign" and not anything about policy.

Did I mention that my dad worked for 40+ freaking years in the LIC (Life Insurance Corporation)? Yeah, the tallest building in Madras (Chennai) for the longest time... that corporation! If there is one other English word, other than "a" , "an" and "the" , that I have heard more often as a child, it is the word "policy"! That proves, beyond all doubt, that I know all about Policies.

That said, lets put two and two together and come up with 700 billion! I am qualified on foreign policy also.

What else does a vice presidential candidate need today? Governing experience!

Governing is all about taking other peoples money and spending it on yourself. It is true that as a grown up, I have spent only money I had to earn, the hard way. But wait, as a child, I did take whatever money that was gifted to me and converted them to firecrackers!

My mother would say "let's buy you some new clothes with that money". My father would say "enn da kaasa ippidi kari akkare?" (Why, you are literally burning money by buying firecrackers?) and a lot of other near and dears would give me many an option to spend the money in other ways (note ,as a true governor, I said "other ways", not "wisely").

The solid governer in me, walked up to the nearest fireworks store with the money! That settles it then. I also have experince in governing for many many years.

In the coming election, please vote for Chuck and Sundar!

The new slogan?

Change is Stale..

Rage is coming!

ps. Have been writing a post of "what ever happened to all that money?".. but it has got to wait for the weekend..

pps. When 9/11 happened people went and filed a case against Osama. Has anyone filed a case or at least a class action lawsuit against the B@$!@^#$ who took all that money? In the event some of it is recovered, I would like a portion put back into my 401k

ppps. I will eat my US passport in public if McCain/Palin win! Will videoblog it.

pppps. Will a US passport taste better when mixed with Sambar saadam, rasam saadam or thayir saadam?

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New wall additions

After the return from India, we finally got a chance to add some new decor.

This one from a small shop in Monterey. These characters were created by the parents for their kid! Now it has gotten to Disney..or so we heard at the store. The drawings were amazing. So we bought this one, and thanks to IKEA have framed it. Dancing mice! That covers the adults and the children.

Another Ganesha added to the zillion already blessing us from every wall. This one though, was made for this location.

A Ravi Varma redone (oil on canvas), successfully framed in Mylapore with Plexiglass instead of glass (our previous attempts at bringing things with a frame were all failures no matter how good our packing inside the suitcase). It has been a long time dream to have one of these paintings in our bedroom and finally we have one!

Have never done any posts on wall decor before. This one was inspired by Dipali.

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