About The Donald bringing an end to Democracy in the USA,   The Independent   featured Sir Michael Caine, a 91-year actor: One such person who shared their thoughts on the incident was   Get Carter   and   I nterstellar  actor Caine, who simply wrote on X/Twitter: “Calm down Trump.” He followed this up with a post referencing one of the most famous quotes from his 1969 film   The Italian Job , which saw him memorably utter: “You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” Caine wrote in the second post: “You’re only suppose to sign a cease fire [sic].” Many concurred with the actor’s words, celebrating its succinctness, with one person stating: ‘Excellent, no notes. ”   Thomas Friedman of the  New York Times  remarked on this incident.  If you can't access that newspaper,  Raw Story  has a coverage.  Here are Friedman's first two paragraphs.  The drama going on between President Trump and President Volodymy...

  If you've been with me in this blog for any length of time, you know that I just don't like to go to India.  The people themselves are fine, but the government is a mess. Let me start with something almost trivial, but typical.  All of India has the same time, but at  UTC +5:30.   You'd think that a ship going east would lose an hour every time it passes a certain zone.  But no....one night we had to advance an hour, then the next half and hour, and tonight we gain half an hour when we leave India. The bureaucracy is both a joke and total pain.  Try getting a visa, especially when you're in some countries.  We had problems in the U.S., but if you're from the U.K., India penalizes them a lot more by having to go through all kinds of hoops.  This is payback for the country making in migration difficult.  For example, after you get the India visa, you end up with two pieces of paper that you need to show three times leaving and retur...