Hey America, Come Join The Civilized World! The Senate panel rejected the current health care proposal, so who knows what's in store for American health care.

mittar ji: this is a nice write-up, and I'm glad you feel that the health care system does work well for Canadians when some Americans spread lies including not wanting to be like Canada. I hope that we can achieve something approximating universal health care soon, but it is going to be a long tough fight.

Hey America, Come Join The Civilized World! masadi: as someone who has had some experience working around health care givers, I know that doctors and hospitals charge a lot for patient care, but it is the insurance companies who determine what gets paid, and it is at the mercy of these insurance companies that the patients who depend on them are.

The system is broken all over, but America needs her doctors, even if some do need to learn how to be moral again.

Hey America, Come Join The Civilized World! Parthaab, seriously, I mean seriously, what the heck is male-phobic about health care. If you think everything discussed here on Chowk is male-phobic then YOU NEED TO WAKE UP!

I apologize for the brief digression from the topic mittar ji.

Who are the Power Elite I know he was published before. I read his article. I suppose I should say published again, since no one thought it would ever happen again.

Who are the Power Elite masadi:

You got published! Congratulations!

Beyond that, I can't comment too much at the moment until I read your article. :)

Bring Back Jagannath Azad’s Pakistan Anthem hamid dada #491

I wasn't referring to your views on Kashmir per se. . . but I will agree that it is good to believe in something. I guess once upon a time I enjoyed your satires more than your blatant honesty.

Bring Back Jagannath Azad’s Pakistan Anthem When did hamidm2 change from being a witty satirical "fool" to just a plain old "fool"????!!!!

Chalo, parda nasheen kab se beparda ho gaya?

Bring Back Jagannath Azad’s Pakistan Anthem Tahmed ji: Did you not read Urstruly sahib's posts? He said Pak sar zameen is not written in Farsi, but Classical Urdu. I think sahib ji missed somewhere that Classical Urdu has a lot of Farsi in it - which is why Iranians like my friends know what it's saying.

Khair . . .

Tariq Ahsan: A Forgotten Foot-soldier of Democracy This made me think of Faiz's "Khat'm hui baarish-e-sang".

Bring Back Jagannath Azad’s Pakistan Anthem fuzair #3:

I really like the words to our Qaumi Tarana too, but there are those days when I cannot stop humming the music to Jana Gana Mana, hard as I try. Kya karooN?!

Our Piñata: The Western Culture I just received a message from TNITC a.k.a masadi not too long ago. He wishes to inform all, in case you have not noticed, that he has been banned. The reason that he has been banned was that his posting of as many comments as he did was in violation of policy. His ilog was removed as well

I am not making any other statements other than to give this message, and I don't know who else he's contacted or who "all" is here but I know I have opposed the removal of his comments in the past, and no matter how much we disagree with one another, that has not changed. There it is.

Now back to our regular programming!

Bring Back Jagannath Azad’s Pakistan Anthem shankar:

Not sheepish. I just think it's rather funny a song we sing as an anthem to our nation is indecipherable to a lot of people.

And you're partly right about the SSB; a lot of folks do understand it, they just don't know it.

Bring Back Jagannath Azad’s Pakistan Anthem tahmed ji: no, I was actually poking a little fun at those who insist the National Anthem is written in Urdu. I guess we can say it is written in mega-adabi Urdu in which case it is written in Farsi. :)

Bring Back Jagannath Azad’s Pakistan Anthem shankar #72 some say Farsi, others say Urdu which means it's Urdu with a whole helluva a lot of Farsi. :)

Our Piñata: The Western Culture masadi: thank you for your very lengthy comments, and congratulations on making approximately one fourth of the total, that too mostly on a roll.

ab khush???

Our Piñata: The Western Culture masadi:

Have you stopped making sense - again?

The article was written by Taji, and from what I understand, Taji is not male. I was responding to Fouz's comment.