The bumbling idiots in George W.Bush’s administration have not been good to the American people but have been very generous to the merchants of death a.k.a. the military industrial complex (Anyone, remember Ike’s warning?).

While a lot of sectors of the American economy are in distress, the defense companies are flourishing.

The Iraq and Afghanistan wars may be bringing misery to the American people and soldiers but to the military-industrial complex, it’s Christmas every day.

Here’s a look at some of the key U.S. defense corporations and their share price at close of trading Wednesday, June 4, 2008 and a quick comparison eight years earlier i.e. June 5, 2000:

                            June 4, 2008          June 5, 2000
General Dynamics      $88.71                  57.38
United Technologies   $69.26                  60.75
Lockheed Martin        $108.49                25.87
Northrop Grumman     $73.48                  78.56
L-3 Communications   $101.90                58.19
Dassault Systems      $66.37                  81.25
Raytheon                 $61.89                  24.00
Boeing                     $78.02                  38.94
Rockwell Collins         $58.46                   NA
SAIC                       $21.25                   NA

Source:Yahoo Finance

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Bollywood film Sarkar Raj featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Tanisha Mukherjee is set to open in theaters this Friday across the U.S. and Canada.

Here are the U.S. and Canada showtimes for Sarkar Raj:

Sarkar Raj Movie Showtimes in USA

New York

New York City

AMC Empire 25
234 West 42nd St.
New York, NY 10036

June 06 |10:15 AM | 1:30 PM |4:45 PM | 7:45 PM | 11:00 PM
June 07 |10:15 AM | 1:30 PM |4:45 PM | 7:45 PM | 11:00 PM
June 08 |10:15 AM | 1:30 PM |4:45 PM | 7:45 PM | 11:00 PM
June 09 |  1:30 PM | 4:45 PM |7:45 PM |11:00 PM
June 10 |  1:30 PM | 4:45 PM |7:45 PM |11:00 PM
June 11 |  1:30 PM | 4:45 PM |7:45 PM |11:00 PM
June 12 |  1:30 PM | 4:45 PM |7:45 PM |11:00 PM

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Edison, New Jersey

AMC Loews New Brunswick 18
17 Route 1 Raritan Heights
New Brunswick, NJ 08902

June 06 |9:55 AM | 1:05 PM |4:05 PM | 7:10 PM | 10:15 PM
June 07 |9:55 AM | 1:05 PM |4:05 PM | 7:10 PM | 10:15 PM
June 08 |9:55 AM | 1:05 PM |4:05 PM | 7:10 PM | 10:15 PM
June 09 |1:05 PM | 4:05 PM |7:10 PM |10:15 PM
June 10 |1:05 PM | 4:05 PM |7:10 PM |10:15 PM
June 11 |1:05 PM | 4:05 PM |7:10 PM |10:15 PM
June 12 |1:05 PM | 4:05 PM |7:10 PM |10:15 PM Continue Reading…

Several Indian movie stars & singers have fancy names that are often different from their real names.

Here’s a brief list:

Movie Name     Real Name

Aamir Khan - Aamir Hussain Khan
Aditya Pancholi/Panscholi - Nirmal Pancholi/Panscholi
Asrani - Govardhan Asrani
Ajay Devgan - Vishal Devgan
Ajit - Hamid Ali Khan
Akshay Kumar - Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia
Ashok Kumar - Kumudlal Kunjilal Ganguly
Bobby Deol - Vijay Singh Deol
Chiranjeevi - Konidela Siva Shankara Vara Prasad
Dev Anand - DharamDev Pishorimal Ānand
Dharmendra - Dharam Singh Deol
Dilip Kumar - Yusuf Khan
Gemini Ganesan - Ramasamy Ganesan
Guru Dutt - Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone
Jagdeep - Syed Jawaher Ali Jaffry
Jayant - Zakaria Khan (father of Amjad and Imtiaz Khan)
Jamuna - Jamuna Ramanarao
Jayalalitha - Jayaram Jayalalitha
Jaya Pradha - Lalita Rani
Jeetendra - Ravi Kapoor
Johnny Lever - Janardhana Rao
Johnny Walker - Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi
Kumar Gaurav - Manoj Tulli
Mallika Sherawat - Reema Lamba Continue Reading…

Sun Microsystems is bleeding in every way possible.

In the latest blow to this struggling IT company, its sales chief Don Grantham has vamoosed to HP.

On Monday, HP named Don Grantham senior vice president and chief sales officer, effective immediately.

Grantham will report to Ann Livermore, executive VP of the Technology Solutions Group at HP, and be responsible for HP’s enterprise accounts and public sector sales.

Grantham also will lead sales for the Communications, Media and Entertainment; Financial Services; and Manufacturing and Distribution industries at HP.

As if the above were not weighty responsibilities, Grantham will also lead worldwide alliance sales, sales compensation, global pre-sales, sales support, sales operations and go-to-market effectiveness.

At HP, Grantham replaces Andy Mattes, who was recently appointed senior vice president and general manager of HP’s Outsourcing Services business.

Meanwhile, Sun named Peter Ryan executive VP of Sun’s Global Sales and Services organization, reporting to ponytail blogger Jonathan Schwartz.

Ryan was previously senior VP of Sun’s Continue Reading…