I just finished watching Wrath of Khan on DVD.

It was, and continues to be, the best Star Trek movie ever made.

The small things matter:

1) Spock trying to adjust his uniform, and pay respect to his Admiral even when dying is touching.

2) "The word is given" scene with the young recruit is more so.

3) "I never faced death" scene with Saavik still makes me cry.

4) The broken spectacles.

5) "From hell's heart i stab at thee" by the one and only

6) "You proceed under a false assumption. I have no ego to bruise." That scene was amazing. Corporate Leaders should watch it.

Ricardo Montalban- that man was amazing. He lived the part.

My wife was amazed to see me cry at this movie, even when i was watching it after 8 years.

Why was it such a success?

Because the director didn't know anything about Trek lore.

He went out to make a naval movie with duties and responsibilities of naval commanders.

If they could remaster it and release it with updated graphics and same music, i would pay $15 to watch it in a theater and pay more to buy the HD-DVD.

Dear LW,

You are a pig.

If you had separated BEFORE therapy i can understand.

But after going through extensive therapy sessions, and agreeing to live lie together once again after airing your deep feelings and concerns, you say you want to separate.

Why the hell did you go through those sessions?

For Fun or torture?

Now, you are going to drop the bombshell on a lady who thinks the therapy sessions have been useful and you both are going to stay together...

Man, iam so mad at you...

Haven't you heard of the old proverb:

A Banker is a person who will gladly lend you an umbrella when the sun is shining, but take it back the moment it starts to rain?

That is why Microsoft is sitting on a War Chest of $25 Billion and more. It knows that banks will not lift a finger to help it when it pours.

Bankers MUST be ruthlessly regulated to prevent them from putting profits ahead of the economy.

I would go one step more and add the following:

1) All communication between a bank/lender and the credit reporting company must be copied to the customer too.

2) If a customer disputes any change in his credit score to the reporting company, the change cannot be done without full & complete investigation by the company. This prevents banks from trashing your credit score easily and get away with no punishment.

3) If a bank wrongly trashes your credit history/score, the bank must accept all consequential financial damage arising out of such change until the customer's credit is back to its original score.

4) Interest rates on credit cards cannot be changed unilaterally for one customer. That should be classified as racism. They can be changed for all customer at same time.

...the same way it loves Credit Card companies, Countrywide Mortgage companies, Bank of America, American Airlines, AIG, H1N1 Flu, and not to mention Monica Lewinsky.

Except for US and some EU countries which have very lax regulations, none of the world's other countries offered bailouts.

India and Canada did not offer bailouts, even though they are enmeshed deeply. Why?

1) Capital.

2) Regulations that strictly force banks to obey regulators and public needs. Indian banks were forced to reduce interest rates, put public good over their profits.

3) Strict lending practices. Unlike canada and much like US, indian tax system allows mortgage interest to be income tax deductible. This gave rise to a balloon. But the balloon was not pricked to burst like US. It was slowly deflated by regulators, who did not allow banks to foreclose as usual. Instead banks were punished by regulators which forced them to keep old rates or reduce them when the borrower went out of a job.

4) There are no cabals of bankers in India. Why? Most are nationalized. Yes, some may say its socialism. But Capitalism failed miserably (inspite of what WashPost wants us to believe)

Now, lets look at US style capitalism:

1) Banks grab the taxpayers money without oversight because they own the government.

2) Citi can grab as much money as it likes and the public can do nothing because congressmen and senators do not listen to voters.

3) Banks hate regulations. They always have. The only way to make them obey rules is by whipping them into shape. US does not have the guts to do it. Congress would commit harakiri before it allows a bank to be convicted of fraud.

Till today NO banks have been charged or convicted of fraud even though it is plainly open.

The US government by the people is now for the bankers and of the bankers.

They need next year bonuses to buy Mercedes and they will get the money.

This starts the decline of the US industry as a whole.

When a nation's banks are broken, the nation is broken.

If i were Obama, i would have called the bluff, arrested and charged the biggest bank CEOs of wire fraud and my AG worry about legalities.

The sign of the biggest frauds in business being shackled and led out to vans is a sight that will instantly restore confidence of the people since it means a new beginning.

I would then ask the 2nd and low level people to adjust to new realities without further protests. Seeing that their CEOs were made companions of bubba in prison, the lower management would fall in line quickly.

Yes, the press (owned by bankers) would shout hoarse, Fox would cry for impeachment and congress would start proceedings, but the people would definitely force the rudderless congress to heel.

Unfortunately maintaining status quo is costly and it will ultimately bring the corrupt bankers down. Why? Rest of the world will have stricter regulations while US will be lawless land.