Benzair Bhutto

1953-2007

This song is dedicated to Benazir Bhutto, the charismatic and courageous leader. You should imagine that the lyrics are spoken by her husband, Asif Ali Zardari.








Thousands of mourners surround the ambulance bearing Benazir Bhutto to the family's ancestral village in Ghari Khuda Baksh, Larkana district.




Asif Ali Zardari comforts Bilawal, 19, after the funeral prayers for Benazir Bhutto. The couple also have two daughters: Bakhtawar, 17, and Aseefa, 14.


After her burial, Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal scatter rose petals on the grave of the assassinated former Prime Minister of Pakistan.




The Bhutto family's ancestral graveyard in Ghari Khuda Baksh, Larkana, is dominated by the mausoleum of Benazir's father, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Last night I stood at your doorstep
Trying to figure out what went wrong
You just slipped something into my palm and you were gone

I could smell the same deep green of summer
'Bove me the same night sky was glowin'
In the distance I could see the town where I was born

It's gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
A long walk home

In town I pass Sal's grocery
Barber shop on South Street
I looked in their faces*
They're all rank strangers to me*
Well Veteran's Hall high upon the hill
Stood silent and alone
The diner was shuttered and boarded
With a sign that just said "gone"

It's gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home

[Guitar break]

Here everybody has a neighbor
Everybody has a friend
Everybody has a reason to begin again

My father said "Son, we're lucky in this town,
It's a beautiful place to be born.
It just wraps its arms around you,
Nobody crowds you and nobody goes it alone"

"Your flag flyin' over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone.
Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't"

It's gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home
It's gonna be a long walk home

[guitar break]

Woh Kehte Hai Na
Jo Hota Hai Achche Ke Liye Hota Hai
Galat Kehte Hai

Kismat Ka Khel Hai Saara
Phirta Tha Main Aawaara
Yeh Kya Se Kya Ho Gaya
Chaar Din Ki Zindagaani
Har Pal Ek Nayi Kahaani
Kya Tha, Main Kya Bana Gaya
Kya Huva Jo Laaree Chhooti
Jivan Ki Gaadi Looti
Kwaab Hai Toh Mujhko Na Jaga
Zindagi Ek Pal Mein Saali
Yuun Palat Gayi Hamaari
Zhoot Hai Toh Mujhko Na Bata

Mumbai, Suna Tha Yahaan Aadami Puri Zindagi Apani Kismat
Slow Track Se Fast Track Laane Mein Nikaal Deta Hai
Par Dhaayi Ghante Mein Meri Kismat
Aise Slow Track Se Fast Track Par Aa Jaayegi
Yeh Maine Kabhi Socha Nahi Tha
Saja Maja Ban Jaayegi, Yeh Bhi Kabhi Socha Nahi Tha
Last Local Kya Chhuti, Saala Kismat Patari Par Aa Gayi

Karlo Jo Bhi Karna Hai
Hota Hai Jo Hona Hai
Gujra Toh Pal Yeh Phir Na Aayega
Kya Bura Hai Kya Bhala Hai
Waqt Hi Shaayad Khuda Hai
Ho Jaane Do Phir Dekha Jaayega
Kya Huva Jo Laaree Chhooti
Jivan Ki Gaadi Looti
Kwaab Hai Toh Mujhko Na Jaga
Zindagi Ek Pal Mein Saali
Yuun Palat Gayi Hamaari
Zhoot Hai Toh Mujhko Na Bata

Woh Kehte Hai Na
Jo Hota Hai Achche Ke Liye Hota Hai
Sahi Kehte Hai
Jivan Ki Gaadi Looti

19-2000 lyrics

The world is spinning too fast

I'm buying lead Nike shoes

To keep myself tethered

To the days I try to lose

My mama said to slow down

You should make your shoes

Stop dancing to the music

Of Gorillaz in a happy mood

Keep a mild groove on

Ba ba baDay dee bop

There you go!

Get the cool!

Get the cool shoeshine!

Get the cool!

Get the cool shoeshine!

Get the cool!

Get the cool shoeshine!

Get the cool!

Get the cool shoeshine!

There's a monkey in the jungle

Watching a vapour trail

Caught up in the conflict

Between his brain and his tail

And if time's elimination

Then we got nothing to lose

Please repeat the message

It's the music that we choose

Keep a mild groove on

Ba ba baDay dee bop

OK bring it down yeah we gonna break out

Get the cool!

Get the cool shoeshine!

Get the cool!

Get the cool shoeshine!

Get the cool!

Get the cool shoeshine!

Get the cool!

Get the cool shoeshine!

Ah Ah Ah Ah

Day doo de bop

The two sides of Brown

By Andrew Rawnsley

LONDON: To his fury, Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, was accused of plagiarising phrases from the speeches of American politicians in the address he gave to his party conference last month in September. That allegation certainly cannot be levelled against the lecture ‘On Liberty’ he delivered to an audience at the University of Westminster. Says one of the Prime Minister’s friends: ‘He wrote it all himself.’ That I believe. The copyright on the title of the Prime Minister’s lecture belongs to John Stuart Mill. But the content and style were clearly all Mr Brown’s own work. Indeed, they couldn’t be anyone else’s work. I can think of no other leading Anglophone politician who could or would deliver such a self-consciously intellectual speech.

Five minutes in and the Prime Minister had already mentioned Milton, Locke, Orwell, Churchill, Voltaire, de Tocqueville, Bolingbroke and American revolutionary Patrick Henry. Gordon Brown is not a Prime Minister to wear his learning lightly. By the time he had completed a historical sweep through liberty and its contentions, he had also managed to name-check Green, Hobson, Hobhouse and various other historians and philosophers, British, French and American. When did a Prime Minister last mention one philosopher in a speech, never mind half a dozen of them?

Gordon Brown was famous for arriving on holiday with a suitcase packed with books. With him, you can be sure that he not only knows the works he is quoting, but he has read them all.

Densely argued and historically referenced, it was an audacious speech to make in an age when many will think that Coke is a reference to a sugary drink and Tawney is a type of owl.

It was a speech to set you thinking both about the arguments and the contradictions of the man making them. His contention was that liberty and toleration are the most important strands of Britain’s story. Our politics have too often forgotten that, so he suggested without quite saying that this was especially true of his predecessor in Number 10. In future, he promised, everything done by government would be subject to a ‘liberty test’.

One thought provoked by this was that the Prime Minister is two people. There is Doctor Brown, the Prime Minister with a PhD, who can wax expertly and eloquently on big philosophical questions, as he did to that university audience.

It was in stark contrast to his party conference speech, which was dismally anti-intellectual with its clumsy assembly of focus-grouped phrases and crude populist slogans.

This Doctor Brown, learned lecturer, exists in the same body as Doc Marten Brown, the political streetfighter with the steel toecaps who tries to bellow and brutalise opponents into submission.

While Doctor Brown surveys the historical sweep, Doc Brown is a brawler who thinks in terms of the next day’s headlines. Listening to cerebral Doctor Brown, you had to pinch yourself to remember that the illiberal and intolerant Doc Brown had ranted to his party conference about ‘British jobs for British workers!’, a slogan that would get a cheer at a conference of the far-right British National party.

The split in the Prime Minister’s personality is reflected in his entourage.

The tacticians in Team Brown are obsessed with trying to maximise every ounce of advantage from the daily firefight with their opponents and the media. The Prime Minister’s more strategically minded advisers reckon that his premiership will only have a long-term future if they plan for the long term. The debacle over an early election has been blamed on the tactical tendency in the Brown camp and the Brown brain. It seems to have strengthened the hand of those around him who want him to think and act more strategically.

The charge that he bottled the election hurt him less than the accusation that it has revealed that he lacks a vision for Britain.

This speech was a response to that charge. The word ‘relaunch’ has been banned in Downing Street. It has too many echoes of the hapless days of John Major, the last Conservative PM. But there is clearly an effort to try to regain the initiative and reclaim some of Gordon Brown’s reputation as a leader with a serious and long-term purpose.‘It’s an important indicator that he’s thinking strategically rather than tactically,’ contends one of his allies. Some will say that this talk of strategy is actually just another tactic, a tactic designed to get him through the criticism that he has no strategy.

Other sceptics will argue that his government cannot hope to pass any ‘liberty test’ when it is still pressing ahead with the introduction of identity cards and hoping to double from 28 days the time that terror suspects can be held without charge.

In his late period at Number 10 Downing Street, Tony Blair only made speeches on liberty in order to argue that freedoms had to be surrendered. So it was refreshing to hear his successor arguing the case for liberty in principle.

As for practice, he is going to surrender some important prerogatives wielded by the Prime Minister under the cloak of the crown. He seems serious about curbing the number of agencies with the power to force their way into private homes. It’s a gain for transparency that the government will abandon plans to restrict media access to coroners’ courts.

Anti-terrorism legislation has been used in ways for which it was never intended by MPs: to arrest peaceful and legitimate protesters. Mr Brown should be commended if he puts an end to that. A British bill of rights could be big stuff. This is such a large, contentious and complex undertaking that it will not be completed before the next election. There is nothing short-termist about that.

About identity cards, he says there will be a ‘continuing debate’. You bet there will, Prime Minister, as there will be about extending detention without charge. He has a lot of work to do to persuade many of his backbenchers, never mind the country, that either should be included in ‘the next chapter of British liberty’. He will be judged as a Prime Minister not by his grasp of history, but what he does to the country’s future.—Dawn/The Observer News Service

General Motors REPLY TO BILL GATES

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving$25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press releaseStating: "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics :
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have tobuy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. Youwould have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed an Illegal Operation"warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. "

Office joke

Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Person asked the young MBA fresh out of MIT, "And what starting salary were you looking for?"

The candidate said, "In the neighborhood of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package." The HR Person said, "Well, what would you say to a package of 5-weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every 2 years - say, a red Corvette?"

The Engineer sat up straight and said, "Wow!!! Are you kidding?"

And the HR Person said, "Certainly, ...but you started it."

God is watching

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: "Take only ONE. God is watching."

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.

A child had written a note, 'Take all you want. God is watching the apples'.

Maths Teacher

At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction. "Al-gebra is a fearsome cult, "Gonzales said. They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves as unknowns, but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle." When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes."


Bush in Trouble....errr.... Almost!

Bush was sitting in his office when his phone rang. "Hallo Bush!" a voice said. "This is Banduk Khan from Pishin District, Balochistan. We are officially declaring war on you!" "Well, Banduk Khan," Bush replied, "This is indeed important news! How big is ur army?" "Right now," said Banduk Khan, "there is me, cousin Toap Khan, neighbour Usama Jr., and entire Mulakhra ( local wrestling) team from the Killi (village). That makes 8".Bush paused. "I must tell you, that I have 1 million men in my army waiting to move on my command." "BLOODY Hell" said Banduk Khan. "I'll ring you back!"
Sure enough next day Banduk Khan called again. "Mr. Bush, it is Banduk Khan, I'm calling from Pishin. The war’s still on! We’ve managed to acquire some infantry equipment!" "And what equipment wud that be?" Bush asked. "Well, we’ve two AK 47s, a donkey and a tractor." Bush sighed. "I must tell you, that I’ve 16,000 tanks and 14,000 APCs. Also, I've increased my army to 1.5 million since we last spoke.""Oh teri (oops)....." said Banduk Khan. "I'll get back to you."
Sure enough, Banduk Khan rang again the next day. "Mr. Bush, the war’s still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne. We've modified the tractor by adding a couple of shotguns, sticking on some wings and the killi's(Village's) generator. 4 boys from Chamman have joined us as well!" Bush was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat. "I must tell you, that I’ve 10,000 bombers and 20,000 fighter planes. My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, S.A.M sites. And since we last spoke, I've increased my army to 2 MILLION!" "Oooo zoey...." said Banduk Khan, "I'll have to ring you back."
Sure enough, Banduk Khan called again the next day. ", Mr. Bush! Sorry to tell you that we’ve had to call off the war." "Sorry to hear that," said Bush. "Why the sudden change of heart?" "Well," said Banduk Khan, "we've all had a long chat over a couple of Sajjjis (Roasted Lamb) and decided there's no way we can accommodate and feed 2 million Prisoners

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LIVE A LIFE THAT MATTERS

Ready or not, someday it will

all come to an end.

There will be no more sunrises,

no minutes, hours or days.

All the things you collected,

whether treasured or forgotten

will pass to someone else.

Your wealth, fame and temporal

power will shrivel to irrelevance.

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It will not matter what you owned

or what you were owed.

Your grudges, resentments,

frustrations and jealousies will

finally disappear.

So, too, your hopes, ambitions,

plans, and to-do lists will expire.

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The wins and losses that once

seemed so important will

fade away.

It won't matter where you came

from, or on what side of the

tracks you

lived, at the end.

It wont matter whether you were

beautiful or brilliant

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Even gender and skin color will be

irrelevant.

So what will matter? How will the

value of your days be measured?

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What will matter not what you

bought, but what you built: not

what you got but what you gave.

What will matter is not your

success, but your significane.

What will matter is not what you

learned, but what you taught.

What will matter is every act of

integrity, compassion, courage or

sacrifice

that enriched, empowered or

encouraged others to emulate

your example.

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What will matter is not your

competence, but your character.

What will matter is not how many

people you knew, but how many

will feel a lasting loss when

you're gone.

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What will matter is not your memories,

but the memories that live

in those who loved you.

What will matter is how long you

will be remembered, by whom

and for what.

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Living a life that matters doesn't

happen by accident. It's not a

matter of circumstance but the

choice.

Choose to live a life that matters

- Michael Josephson

Tutankhamun was a pharaoh of the 18 dynasty who governed from 1333 BC to 1322 BC during the period of Egyptian history known as the new kingdom. His name meant living image of Amun. Tutankhamun became the king at the age of 8 years and remained the king for 11 years when he died at the age of 19 years. There is no agreement among radiologists and archaeologists about the cause of death The king's nearly intact tomb, discovered by Howard Carter in 1922, received worldwide press coverage and sparked a renewed public interest in ancient Egypt for which Tutankhamun burial mask remains the popular face.
The splendor of Tutankhamun tomb are among the most travelled treasures in the world. The exhibition was shown in Great Britain, USA, USSR, Japan, France, Canada and West Germany from 1972 to 1979. More than 1.6 million people came at the British museum London where visitors waited up to 8 hours before the building opened to view the most popular exhibition. This sensational travelling exhibition toured 7 USA cities from 1976 to 1979 attracting approximately 8 million visitors. The splendors of the artifacts included 55 objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun consisting of the king solid gold funeral mask, a guilded wooden figure of the goddess Selket, lamps, jars, jewelery, furniture and other objects for the afterlife.
The face of king Tutankhamun is recently displayed in climate controlled case at his tomb in the valley of the kings, close to Luxor, 500 kilometers south of Cairo.

The anthropological and archeological evidences both indicates that the ruling dynasty of the kings helped the people of Egypt to make Nile valley the cradle of civilization(s) by making higher level of social complexity in the fields of agriculture, mathematics , medical institutions, surgery, barge transport, art work of ships, ceramic faiences , writing, architeture, commerce, culture and construction of ancient tallest pyramids during the years 3150 BC to 664 BC.
This blog, titled to commemorate the great and immortal king Tuthankhamun , shall provide intresting articles about current political events, history, literature, science, technology, quotable quotes and comical writings.