Treading Backwards...?

Looks like whatever effort the stalwart CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya painstakingly put over last 7 or 8 years to put back the "renaissance" city (always my weakness) and the state back into the world map...is going down the drain too fast.

First Tata, then Infosys...now Satyam and DLF too? If trend continues Rajar-Haat might soon turn into Kangaal-Haat. I dont think we can blame the CM, his policies or his government but it his own party and politburo members who needs to be blamed. After all they are the one who condemned Buddhadeb for speaking against the traditional CPM-Weapon called "Bandh and Gheraos"..Per them even thinking like that is anti-communist. Recently read somewhere that Buddhadeb has done well as Deng Xiaoping with his economist reforms but now he what he needs to do is a "Gorbachev" for a Prestroika to his own party. He is indeed the right man in the wrong party!

..... And then there is another one..a very special and effective one...equally responsible for this backward treading...what can I say better than this "cartoon" which I recently came across.

For the non-bongs:
"You did not marry when it was time for you, didn't start a family, elo-melo'ed your own life, and now elo-melo'ed the country too....my poor baby"
What is elo-melo....Well you dont have to be a Bong to get that!

Bipartisan

I cant be biassed towards one...So if I can see "Morphed" Obama, I sure can find Palin look alike too. And I am not talking about SNL's Tina Fey....!
Only, in this case for the latter I also need a different hair do and a pair of "kawasaki 704" !
Agree?

Maverick ???

Sheer Maverick!

• When all the news channels are discussing about LIPSTICK while election is mere 50 days away
  
• When I realize the "Lipstick on a P.." is a much accepted English Phrase. By the way my vocab also has a brand new word in it now "Haberdasher".
  
• When the Presidential Election suddenly becomes all about one Vice Presidential candidate.
  
• When the VP Candidate gets more coverage than rest of the 3 Combined..and certainly is overshadowing the own party's presidential candidate.
  
• When the same potential VP laughs about "Reading the RIGHTS to the convict", and mocks on "Community Organizers" amid cheering of crowds. Unbelievable...
  
• When the so far common phrase "Soccer Moms" gets replaced by more hip and trendy "Hockey Moms"
• When the would be VP is also referred as "One Heartbeat Away" President.
  
• When I come to know that other than Bikes, Kawasaki also makes Eye Glasses.
• and Finally....When I hear that Dinosaurs are nothing but Lizards of Satan..

It is unbelievable how things turned around since that Birthday surprise...though I will remain doubtful if this much of turn around was really foreseen by Maverick himself. After all suddenly he is not in lime light as of today. Whether it is going to Help or Hurt only time will indicate, but whatever it is, are not we fortunate enough to witness the "First Time Ever Happened" event in American history..be it the President or the Vice-President.