Hasina Maan Jayegee

It's a New Year and not much feels different. I can still write extraordinarily crappy headlines and a South Asian nation can still elect extraordinarily crappy presidents. In this case, Bangladesh (the country not the producers who's beats are "Bangladesh, it's just foreign to the ears") elected Sheikh Hasina to the office of the presidency. Sheikh Hasina is renowned for being the Bengali Benazir Bhutto and looking like the evil saas in most Indian dramas. Hasina was actually running against another fantastically corrupt politician in Khaleda Zia and won in a landslide victory which Zia's party doesn't recognize because they're a little retarded. Long story short, women are terrible leaders. Benazir, Hasina, Zia, Mother Teresa, perhaps they stole from their countries so that they could shop because I'm told that's what women like to do. And for good measure, Bengalis eat fish. Thank you and welcome to the year 2009 everyone, it's gonna be a good one.

Wannabes

God, this took me like half an hour. I might be retarded.

With election fever in the States done it's time to shift our attention to the next big election in the world (yes, there is a world and they also have heads of states). That's right East-Pakistan! Now, specifically I think we should focus on how much East-Pakist...err Bangladesh (I read about their Independence on wiki so they deserve to be called Bangladesh for the time being, don't screw this up) is trying to emulate Pakistan in this election. The election is primarily between the ruling military and Sheikh Hasina, the exiled former Prime Minister who was jailed on corruption charges. Now I'm worried about Sheikh Hasina because she's traveling down a familiar path that doesn't end well. The path I'm talking about, of course, was blazed by Benazir Bhutto and it ended kind of like JFK's presidency ended. What's the cause of concern? Well, the lives of Benazir and Sheikh Hasina are so similar it's eerie. Both their fathers were Prime Ministers of their respective nations and were deposed violently by the military. Benazir's father, Zulfiqar Bhutto was hanged by a general and Hasina's father, Mujibur Rehman was killed along with most of his family by the military as they grabbed power. They both spent a good amount of time out of the country before leading their father's party back into prominance with the good faith of the people of their countries. Then they proceeded to stick it to the same people they represented in the elections as they shamelessly stole millions and millions of dollars from their already impoverished nations leading to their eventual ousters and exiles. Then they came back. We know what happened to Benzy but Hasina only returned today so we really don't know about her yet, but if history is any indication she should probably look into renting out the Pope-mobile for a few months and she should probably divorce her husband too, you know, just to be safe.

I Miss The IPL

East-Pakistani National Cricket team practice, photo taken yesterday

Desis are getting into a tizzy because India, Pakistan, and East-Pakistan are playing cricket against each other. Which is exciting I guess but the only cricket I could watch with some interest was 20/20 (with Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs) and more specifically the IPL. So as far as I'm concerned cricket is out of my life until the IPL returns next season. To bid it farewell I will post Nike's first Indian commercial, it's about a year old but it has the usual Nike creativity. In related news Nike advertising executive has overtaken Google engineer in corporate dream jobs, that is in the highly unlikely situation that BihariShabab doesn't turn into a media conglomerate and make myself and Raheelium into multi-millionaires (I call a 90-10 split of profits in my favor!). Enjoy.