(I was forwarded a chain mail claiming that its attached pencil drawings of a Caucasian was that of Jesus. To which I responded to sender with the below)
The guy in the pictures looked like any Tom, Dick or Harry to me. But definitely not like any Ah Kow, Ah Beng, or Ah Niu. Other than that I don't know how anyone can tell he is Jesus...
Perhaps, if all humans are God's children he could make his own son look a bit like Tom here, Ah Kow there, Ali somewhere else, Siva another place? Would make it so so easy to convince idiots like me.
May be it was just a birth defect? Or may be it's the Ah Kows that are defective? Or may be it's just a case of the grass on the other side looks greener...
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
When Idiots Play God or Think God's on Their Side
Every year a new batch of young and hopeful youths in my country has to live with decisions made by men that try to play god. Year after year for the last 30 plus years of my life, the result of the actions of these second group of idiots is either that documented in the below news report, or that I experienced first hand when I was in school.
Each year I read reports of Chinese or Indian children with top grades wondering why they cannot get into courses of their choice pleading to their respective 'politically influential saviours' (MCA or MIC) for assistance to change the fate placed upon them by their own government partly run by those same MCA/MIC idiots.
So each year, the idiots in MCA & MIC get to play nice guys to these bright young men & women pleading at their feet. It must make these idiots feel damn good for they keep retaining the problem caused by a system is blatantly fouled (see later for why). All they can suggest to those poor kids that had slogged for years to get the results they have is go plead to the same idiots that caused the problems in the first place! Otherwise, like a father in the report said, go watch a fish pond or some trees for the rest of your life.
And only dead fools fail to notice that this don't seem to be a problem with the UMNO politicians! And if you want to know why that is the case and the system is blatantly fouled, you only have to study in a government run school like me where children of all the races mix.
When I was about 16, my school had the usual annual O-level (MCE then) trial exams. When the results were published, kids like me were eagerly trying to calculate our 'scores' (like in the news report). As everyone around me was doing that, a fellow Malay classmate that played football with us every day came cycling in with a broad smile on his face.
When I asked him why he was so happy, I was shocked to hear his answer. He said he had no need to calculate his 'scores' for he only has to pass to get into university while everyone else (meaning the other non-Malay kids) had to compete with each other and score top marks. That incident hit me like a lightning and will forever remain fresh in my mind. For it made me wonder what system and parent would have given a young kid like that Malay friend of mine that idea. Before he does anything productive in his life he had already been inculcated with the notion that he did not have to work even as hard as the other kids like me!
So, it was not surprising that 20 years later Malaysia was one of the worst hit countries in the 1997 crisis (thank god they had free oil to coast on!) and PM Mahathir came out to criticise the Malay students (demonstrating against him for jailing Anwar Ibrahim) for not being grateful and more interested in scooting around the campus in bikes bought with scholarship money than in their studies! So he changed the system to be 'more meritocratic' but the problem persists (per today's report)
That was also why years ago when Mahathir came up with his Vision 2020 to bring Malaysia to developed nation status by 2020 people like me scoffed at it. How does one expect to do that if half his country’s parents (like that of my Malay friend's) believe their children don’t have to work as hard as the other kids for the latter will not be there to compete? The only way Mahathir can do that is to play god and control the university admission of all the children on earth so that his 'disadvantaged' Malay students get to all the top courses while the other kids in the world go plead at the feet of his UMNO politicians or be satisfied with watching fish ponds or trees for the rest of their lives. But then, it is nature's way that idiots that try to play god will get played out, and non-idiots will not submissively go watch fish ponds or trees. Which is why I harbour better hopes for the future.
Today, new PM Abdullah said that he will look into the matter with his cabinet. Again I am tempted to scoff at him. But in my heart and for the sake of the future of Malaysia, I hope good sense will prevail. But he will have to go against people that are damn sure it is their god given right to get to those university places. And that’s a big bunch of idiots thinking that god’s on their side - at least as long as their oil gods are around. Perhaps it is really the oil devils but it takes more than idiots to tell the difference….
xxx
Don’t despair, top scorers told
The Star, 1 June 2004
BY FOONG PEK YEE AND LEONG SHEN-LI
KUALA LUMPUR: MCA has asked top scorers to file their appeals and not to give up in despair.
“Please do not give up because of your present frustrations. You may regret later if you do not do your best to appeal and find a way out,” said MCA national education bureau chief Dr Wee Ka Siong
He said the Youth wing had classified STPM achievers who were denied entry to public universities or did not get courses of their choice into categories under a move to help them.
Dr Wee said the groupings are scorers with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 4.0 followed by CGPA of between 3.92 and 3.75 who scored either 3As and 2A- or 3As and 1A- , CGPA of between 3.50 and 3.74, CGPA of between 3.0 and 3.49, CGPA of between 2.5 and 2.99 and CGPA of between 2.0 and 2.49.
He advised affected students under such categories to submit their appeals to the respective universities and the Higher Education Department and forward a copy to his bureau before June 6.
“On our part, we will do our best to help you although we cannot give you any promise or guarantee,” he told a briefing for about 600 affected students yesterday.
About 20 students managed to take part in an hour-long question-and-answer session where the most common question was whether their appeals were likely to be successful.
Dr Wee advised students who did not meet the cut-off point for medicine, a CGPA of 4.0, to put in other options in their appeals if all their original choices in their applications were medicine.
Those with a CGPA of 3.92 were the most affected, he said, adding that this category who did not qualify for medicine, pharmacy or dentistry, were given “way out” courses like forestry, aquaculture and wood fibre.
He advised these students to put in new options which were more compatible with their earlier choices.
MCA Youth chairman Datuk Ong Tee Keat was also at the briefing.
“There are also many others, besides the 128 with a CGPA of 4.0, with very good results who got very odd offers or were not offered anything at all,” he said.
“I don’t want to see a brain drain which is not good for the nation. This is likely to happen when these bright students are forced to accept offers to study overseas after failing to get into a local public university and study courses they are interested in,” said Ong, who is also Deputy Youth and Sports Minister.
Pain and frustration was etched on the faces of students who packed the auditorium.
Many saw the briefing as the last hope of pursuing the career of their choice.
Straight As student Low Pei Teeng, 20, has been crying since she found out that she was not successful in applying for medicine and her 3.92 cumulative grade point average had instead qualified her for aquaculture at Kolej Universiti Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia.
Her father Ah Kuan had at the question-and-answer session said: “My daughter wanted to do medicine and now they have asked her to go and look at a fish pond in Terengganu.”
With a CGPA of 4.0, Lee Jun Hoe from SMK La Salle, Petaling Jaya, was extremely disappointed at not getting pharmacy, but was instead offered zoology.
Christine Chan, from SMK Raja Perempuan, Ipoh, was shocked to discover she was not offered a place in any university despite obtaining a CGPA of 3.4.
Each year I read reports of Chinese or Indian children with top grades wondering why they cannot get into courses of their choice pleading to their respective 'politically influential saviours' (MCA or MIC) for assistance to change the fate placed upon them by their own government partly run by those same MCA/MIC idiots.
So each year, the idiots in MCA & MIC get to play nice guys to these bright young men & women pleading at their feet. It must make these idiots feel damn good for they keep retaining the problem caused by a system is blatantly fouled (see later for why). All they can suggest to those poor kids that had slogged for years to get the results they have is go plead to the same idiots that caused the problems in the first place! Otherwise, like a father in the report said, go watch a fish pond or some trees for the rest of your life.
And only dead fools fail to notice that this don't seem to be a problem with the UMNO politicians! And if you want to know why that is the case and the system is blatantly fouled, you only have to study in a government run school like me where children of all the races mix.
When I was about 16, my school had the usual annual O-level (MCE then) trial exams. When the results were published, kids like me were eagerly trying to calculate our 'scores' (like in the news report). As everyone around me was doing that, a fellow Malay classmate that played football with us every day came cycling in with a broad smile on his face.
When I asked him why he was so happy, I was shocked to hear his answer. He said he had no need to calculate his 'scores' for he only has to pass to get into university while everyone else (meaning the other non-Malay kids) had to compete with each other and score top marks. That incident hit me like a lightning and will forever remain fresh in my mind. For it made me wonder what system and parent would have given a young kid like that Malay friend of mine that idea. Before he does anything productive in his life he had already been inculcated with the notion that he did not have to work even as hard as the other kids like me!
So, it was not surprising that 20 years later Malaysia was one of the worst hit countries in the 1997 crisis (thank god they had free oil to coast on!) and PM Mahathir came out to criticise the Malay students (demonstrating against him for jailing Anwar Ibrahim) for not being grateful and more interested in scooting around the campus in bikes bought with scholarship money than in their studies! So he changed the system to be 'more meritocratic' but the problem persists (per today's report)
That was also why years ago when Mahathir came up with his Vision 2020 to bring Malaysia to developed nation status by 2020 people like me scoffed at it. How does one expect to do that if half his country’s parents (like that of my Malay friend's) believe their children don’t have to work as hard as the other kids for the latter will not be there to compete? The only way Mahathir can do that is to play god and control the university admission of all the children on earth so that his 'disadvantaged' Malay students get to all the top courses while the other kids in the world go plead at the feet of his UMNO politicians or be satisfied with watching fish ponds or trees for the rest of their lives. But then, it is nature's way that idiots that try to play god will get played out, and non-idiots will not submissively go watch fish ponds or trees. Which is why I harbour better hopes for the future.
Today, new PM Abdullah said that he will look into the matter with his cabinet. Again I am tempted to scoff at him. But in my heart and for the sake of the future of Malaysia, I hope good sense will prevail. But he will have to go against people that are damn sure it is their god given right to get to those university places. And that’s a big bunch of idiots thinking that god’s on their side - at least as long as their oil gods are around. Perhaps it is really the oil devils but it takes more than idiots to tell the difference….
xxx
Don’t despair, top scorers told
The Star, 1 June 2004
BY FOONG PEK YEE AND LEONG SHEN-LI
KUALA LUMPUR: MCA has asked top scorers to file their appeals and not to give up in despair.
“Please do not give up because of your present frustrations. You may regret later if you do not do your best to appeal and find a way out,” said MCA national education bureau chief Dr Wee Ka Siong
He said the Youth wing had classified STPM achievers who were denied entry to public universities or did not get courses of their choice into categories under a move to help them.
Dr Wee said the groupings are scorers with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 4.0 followed by CGPA of between 3.92 and 3.75 who scored either 3As and 2A- or 3As and 1A- , CGPA of between 3.50 and 3.74, CGPA of between 3.0 and 3.49, CGPA of between 2.5 and 2.99 and CGPA of between 2.0 and 2.49.
He advised affected students under such categories to submit their appeals to the respective universities and the Higher Education Department and forward a copy to his bureau before June 6.
“On our part, we will do our best to help you although we cannot give you any promise or guarantee,” he told a briefing for about 600 affected students yesterday.
About 20 students managed to take part in an hour-long question-and-answer session where the most common question was whether their appeals were likely to be successful.
Dr Wee advised students who did not meet the cut-off point for medicine, a CGPA of 4.0, to put in other options in their appeals if all their original choices in their applications were medicine.
Those with a CGPA of 3.92 were the most affected, he said, adding that this category who did not qualify for medicine, pharmacy or dentistry, were given “way out” courses like forestry, aquaculture and wood fibre.
He advised these students to put in new options which were more compatible with their earlier choices.
MCA Youth chairman Datuk Ong Tee Keat was also at the briefing.
“There are also many others, besides the 128 with a CGPA of 4.0, with very good results who got very odd offers or were not offered anything at all,” he said.
“I don’t want to see a brain drain which is not good for the nation. This is likely to happen when these bright students are forced to accept offers to study overseas after failing to get into a local public university and study courses they are interested in,” said Ong, who is also Deputy Youth and Sports Minister.
Pain and frustration was etched on the faces of students who packed the auditorium.
Many saw the briefing as the last hope of pursuing the career of their choice.
Straight As student Low Pei Teeng, 20, has been crying since she found out that she was not successful in applying for medicine and her 3.92 cumulative grade point average had instead qualified her for aquaculture at Kolej Universiti Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia.
Her father Ah Kuan had at the question-and-answer session said: “My daughter wanted to do medicine and now they have asked her to go and look at a fish pond in Terengganu.”
With a CGPA of 4.0, Lee Jun Hoe from SMK La Salle, Petaling Jaya, was extremely disappointed at not getting pharmacy, but was instead offered zoology.
Christine Chan, from SMK Raja Perempuan, Ipoh, was shocked to discover she was not offered a place in any university despite obtaining a CGPA of 3.4.
Monday, May 31, 2004
Do you know what is happening?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3762677.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3762875.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3762217.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3761027.stm
Do you know what all these headline news in BBC today has in common? There are 4 different countries with seemingly nothing in common.
[Saudi Arabia] One country is the largest exporter of oil to the US & ruled by people installed by the British for their common convenience - now they have terrorists don't know for what reason.
[Venezuela] Another is the 2nd largest exporter to the US but whose popularly elected President decided that saving the poor was more important than enriching the oil magnates - now he is not popular don't know for what reason.
[Iraq] The third has the potential to be 2nd largest exporter to the US - it was recently whacked by the US and British don't know for what reason.
[Afghanistan] The last offered a path for the Americans & their cronies to build their pipelines to the rich oil fields in Central Asia that used to be controlled by the Russians and a potential source of oil for India & China - it was whacked by the US and British don't know for what reason.
Don't know who come up with such things. Don't know for what reason....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3762875.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3762217.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3761027.stm
Do you know what all these headline news in BBC today has in common? There are 4 different countries with seemingly nothing in common.
[Saudi Arabia] One country is the largest exporter of oil to the US & ruled by people installed by the British for their common convenience - now they have terrorists don't know for what reason.
[Venezuela] Another is the 2nd largest exporter to the US but whose popularly elected President decided that saving the poor was more important than enriching the oil magnates - now he is not popular don't know for what reason.
[Iraq] The third has the potential to be 2nd largest exporter to the US - it was recently whacked by the US and British don't know for what reason.
[Afghanistan] The last offered a path for the Americans & their cronies to build their pipelines to the rich oil fields in Central Asia that used to be controlled by the Russians and a potential source of oil for India & China - it was whacked by the US and British don't know for what reason.
Don't know who come up with such things. Don't know for what reason....
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Where are Thee, My Fella Nolah?
The world has lost and will continue to lose its natural heritage because of actions by supposed decendents of the great fella Nolah. Despite all their proclaimed God-like nature (albeit borne out of incest), man has yet to recognise that. Let alone control their actions & behaviours to stop/reverse the trend.
As a result, people like me really wish that our great Nolah fella can do an encore of his great feats. Then I'll be really impressed. But the 'smarter' Nolah-likes always say I cannot tell their Big Boss & Nolah what & when to do things otherwise I will be the Big Boss. Smart logic but other than say 'have faith lah' what better idea or solution to this
destruction do these 'smarter' Nolah-likes have? If history is any indication, not for another 2 thousand years at least!
By then bye bye to more life forms. But the good news is that any future Nolah need only to build a small tubby boat which won't need a hundred years to build. Unlike our poor last fella (may be the kinder Big Boss took pity on our last fella).
Just mere passing knowledge....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3700079.stm
p.s. anyone interested in getting a copy of my cheap bible on Nolah can request through e-mail to http://us.f416.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=cheekhiaw@yahoo.com&YY=29333&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b
As a result, people like me really wish that our great Nolah fella can do an encore of his great feats. Then I'll be really impressed. But the 'smarter' Nolah-likes always say I cannot tell their Big Boss & Nolah what & when to do things otherwise I will be the Big Boss. Smart logic but other than say 'have faith lah' what better idea or solution to this
destruction do these 'smarter' Nolah-likes have? If history is any indication, not for another 2 thousand years at least!
By then bye bye to more life forms. But the good news is that any future Nolah need only to build a small tubby boat which won't need a hundred years to build. Unlike our poor last fella (may be the kinder Big Boss took pity on our last fella).
Just mere passing knowledge....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3700079.stm
p.s. anyone interested in getting a copy of my cheap bible on Nolah can request through e-mail to http://us.f416.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=cheekhiaw@yahoo.com&YY=29333&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
After That Then What?
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_733662,0008.htm
When I shared my admiration of the landing of probes in Mars early this year, someone of a certain religious following asked me rhetorically: "so what's next? All that is going to be mere passing knowledge". As if he had found something more permanent and more important.
I did not ask him what 'knowledge' he would consider as non-passing but assumed it is what 'knowledge' he gains from his sacred book
Then I thought, jeeze, these fellas are going to live their lives through eternity (they believe that they will be in Heaven with God for eternity, you know) contentedly with knowing only what they read from that one book?
Phew, that should be real boring, isn't it? I mean, for God.
Imagine billions of these fellas sticking around the Big Boss talking only about what is written in that one book which the Big Boss supposedly wrote?
But I guess that's just a passing question.... unimportant.
But that great being has only one miserable 300 pager of knowledge for all these fellas to admire through eternity? Not a very knowledgeable Being.
Perhaps God has to a lot more to offer that will fill up many books. It's just that because these fellas would not be able to appreciate them, God had left all of them out of it. That's why God wrote only ONE miserable book. The rest He pass off as mere 'passing knowledge'...
When I shared my admiration of the landing of probes in Mars early this year, someone of a certain religious following asked me rhetorically: "so what's next? All that is going to be mere passing knowledge". As if he had found something more permanent and more important.
I did not ask him what 'knowledge' he would consider as non-passing but assumed it is what 'knowledge' he gains from his sacred book
Then I thought, jeeze, these fellas are going to live their lives through eternity (they believe that they will be in Heaven with God for eternity, you know) contentedly with knowing only what they read from that one book?
Phew, that should be real boring, isn't it? I mean, for God.
Imagine billions of these fellas sticking around the Big Boss talking only about what is written in that one book which the Big Boss supposedly wrote?
But I guess that's just a passing question.... unimportant.
But that great being has only one miserable 300 pager of knowledge for all these fellas to admire through eternity? Not a very knowledgeable Being.
Perhaps God has to a lot more to offer that will fill up many books. It's just that because these fellas would not be able to appreciate them, God had left all of them out of it. That's why God wrote only ONE miserable book. The rest He pass off as mere 'passing knowledge'...
Why So Many Idiots
Attached is BBC's chronology of events for Vietnam War.
Even a respectable news agency dare not document the fact that France agreed to free elections that the Americans sabotaged. Worse than that, the nationalistic fervor of the Vietnamese is simply brushed off and 'communist insurgency' used as excuse for causing the death of 6 million people.
I guess, the good news is that idiots can say it is not their fault if they don't know....
Even a respectable news agency dare not document the fact that France agreed to free elections that the Americans sabotaged. Worse than that, the nationalistic fervor of the Vietnamese is simply brushed off and 'communist insurgency' used as excuse for causing the death of 6 million people.
I guess, the good news is that idiots can say it is not their fault if they don't know....
Zorro is Just Another Cowboy
Another hour of the Tonto (Spanish for idiot) for those that live in their own surreal world of American Zorros....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3685043.stm
(news report on abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British & American troops in jails)
Background on 'Tonto' :
In the 1960s, we kids used to eagerly watch an American TV show called 'The Lone Ranger' where the hero is a single American cowboy doing good deeds fighting against bad guys (typically crass looking Mexicans and Red Indians with an occasional sprinkle of bad whitemen) with the help of a Red Indian side kick by the name of Tonto. Only decades later did I find out that the word Tonto means 'fool' in Spanish. Those bastards had no qualm wtih openly using such a derogatory for the people who were helping them and whom they killed and robbed for centuries. Such arrogance...
Meaning of 'cowboy' :
A term used to mean 'one who shoots from the hip'; do things before thinking
(New report)
US President George W Bush is to appear on Arab TV channels on Wednesday in an attempt to regain trust after US forces were caught in an abuse scandal.
Photographs have emerged showing inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad stripped naked and humiliated. Mr Bush will say the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is "shameless and unacceptable", his spokesman said. The US military has admitted to 25 deaths in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, including two murders.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the president would offer 10-minute interviews to the US-sponsored al-Hurra television network and the Arab network al-Arabiya.
Al-Arabiya is a mainly Saudi-owned pan-Arab satellite channel. Across the Arab world, al-Arabiya probably has about 20 million viewers, as compared to al-Jazeera's 35 million.
Like al-Jazeera, the channel has been accused by US and Iraqi officials of encouraging attacks on US troops, giving too much prominence to anti-US attacks and providing a forum for opposition to the occupation. Al-Hurra TV is also a satellite channel. It is funded by the US to the tune of $62m and broadcasts from Springfield, Virginia. Anecdotal evidence suggests that about 20 to 25% of Iraqis have access to satellite TV. Damage limitation "This is an opportunity for the president to speak directly to the people in Arab nations and let them know that the images that we all have seen are shameless and unacceptable," Mr McClellan said.
"These images do not represent what America stands for, nor do they represent the high standards of conduct that our military is committed to upholding," he continued.
Mr Bush's appearances are the latest attempt to limit the damage from the scandal, which has caused anger in Arab states and shock and condemnation around the world. US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice gave an interview to al-Arabiya on Tuesday in which she expressed "the United States' deep sorrow over the US troops' abuses against the Iraqi prisoners". She told the channel that President Bush was "disturbed by the distressing pictures". Deaths in custody Also on Tuesday US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said those responsible for the "unacceptable and un-American" conduct would be brought to justice.
The Pentagon has confirmed that criminal charges have been filed against six US soldiers in relation to the photos, while six senior officers have been reprimanded.
But there have been concerns that the mistreatment is more widespread. A senior army official said there had been investigations into 25 cases of death and 10 of abuse in US custody in Iraq or Afghanistan since December 2002. Of the 25 deaths, 12 were found to be either of natural or undetermined" causes, one was a "justifiable homicide", and two were murders. Ten inquiries are taking place, he says. Fresh allegations of US brutality against Iraqis emerged on Wednesday. The UK's human rights envoy to Iraq, Ann Clwyd, said she has for months been pursuing the case of a 73-year-old woman who claims she was taken to a prison, hooded, made to go on all fours, told she was a donkey and was then "ridden" by her tormenters. Deepening scandal The abuse scandal has deepened with the revelation that a report into mistreatment at Abu Ghraib was commissioned in January and completed in early March, but had still not been read by Mr Rumsfeld as of Tuesday. The report by Maj Gen Antonio Taguba found evidence of "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses of Iraqi prisoners", including sexual abuse. Members of the US Senate Armed Services Committee have demanded to know why they were kept in the dark about the report, and have called for an opportunity to question Mr Rumsfeld. The BBC's Nick Childs in Washington says there's no hiding the dismay in the Bush administration and the Pentagon over the political fallout from this controversy. He adds that it is puzzling why, when it knew some weeks ago that these photographs were going to be published, that it didn't do more to try to pre-empt the furore.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3685043.stm
(news report on abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British & American troops in jails)
Background on 'Tonto' :
In the 1960s, we kids used to eagerly watch an American TV show called 'The Lone Ranger' where the hero is a single American cowboy doing good deeds fighting against bad guys (typically crass looking Mexicans and Red Indians with an occasional sprinkle of bad whitemen) with the help of a Red Indian side kick by the name of Tonto. Only decades later did I find out that the word Tonto means 'fool' in Spanish. Those bastards had no qualm wtih openly using such a derogatory for the people who were helping them and whom they killed and robbed for centuries. Such arrogance...
Meaning of 'cowboy' :
A term used to mean 'one who shoots from the hip'; do things before thinking
(New report)
Bush appeal to Arabs in abuse row
5 May 2004US President George W Bush is to appear on Arab TV channels on Wednesday in an attempt to regain trust after US forces were caught in an abuse scandal.
Photographs have emerged showing inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad stripped naked and humiliated. Mr Bush will say the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is "shameless and unacceptable", his spokesman said. The US military has admitted to 25 deaths in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, including two murders.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the president would offer 10-minute interviews to the US-sponsored al-Hurra television network and the Arab network al-Arabiya.
Al-Arabiya is a mainly Saudi-owned pan-Arab satellite channel. Across the Arab world, al-Arabiya probably has about 20 million viewers, as compared to al-Jazeera's 35 million.
Like al-Jazeera, the channel has been accused by US and Iraqi officials of encouraging attacks on US troops, giving too much prominence to anti-US attacks and providing a forum for opposition to the occupation. Al-Hurra TV is also a satellite channel. It is funded by the US to the tune of $62m and broadcasts from Springfield, Virginia. Anecdotal evidence suggests that about 20 to 25% of Iraqis have access to satellite TV. Damage limitation "This is an opportunity for the president to speak directly to the people in Arab nations and let them know that the images that we all have seen are shameless and unacceptable," Mr McClellan said.
"These images do not represent what America stands for, nor do they represent the high standards of conduct that our military is committed to upholding," he continued.
Mr Bush's appearances are the latest attempt to limit the damage from the scandal, which has caused anger in Arab states and shock and condemnation around the world. US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice gave an interview to al-Arabiya on Tuesday in which she expressed "the United States' deep sorrow over the US troops' abuses against the Iraqi prisoners". She told the channel that President Bush was "disturbed by the distressing pictures". Deaths in custody Also on Tuesday US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said those responsible for the "unacceptable and un-American" conduct would be brought to justice.
The Pentagon has confirmed that criminal charges have been filed against six US soldiers in relation to the photos, while six senior officers have been reprimanded.
But there have been concerns that the mistreatment is more widespread. A senior army official said there had been investigations into 25 cases of death and 10 of abuse in US custody in Iraq or Afghanistan since December 2002. Of the 25 deaths, 12 were found to be either of natural or undetermined" causes, one was a "justifiable homicide", and two were murders. Ten inquiries are taking place, he says. Fresh allegations of US brutality against Iraqis emerged on Wednesday. The UK's human rights envoy to Iraq, Ann Clwyd, said she has for months been pursuing the case of a 73-year-old woman who claims she was taken to a prison, hooded, made to go on all fours, told she was a donkey and was then "ridden" by her tormenters. Deepening scandal The abuse scandal has deepened with the revelation that a report into mistreatment at Abu Ghraib was commissioned in January and completed in early March, but had still not been read by Mr Rumsfeld as of Tuesday. The report by Maj Gen Antonio Taguba found evidence of "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses of Iraqi prisoners", including sexual abuse. Members of the US Senate Armed Services Committee have demanded to know why they were kept in the dark about the report, and have called for an opportunity to question Mr Rumsfeld. The BBC's Nick Childs in Washington says there's no hiding the dismay in the Bush administration and the Pentagon over the political fallout from this controversy. He adds that it is puzzling why, when it knew some weeks ago that these photographs were going to be published, that it didn't do more to try to pre-empt the furore.
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Bush's Choice for New Iraqi Flag
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3660663.stm
After the Americans attacked Iraq for dubious reasons and refusing to hand over sovereignty, this is Iraq's new 'inclusive' flag http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3660663.stm
Of course, if they had asked Idiot Bush what his preference would be, he would have loved them to just have an American flag with a little green crescent added among the 50+ white stars! And on the other side of the flag are tonnes of '$$$$' signs.
But may be that is a bit too obvious, hor?
After the Americans attacked Iraq for dubious reasons and refusing to hand over sovereignty, this is Iraq's new 'inclusive' flag http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3660663.stm
Of course, if they had asked Idiot Bush what his preference would be, he would have loved them to just have an American flag with a little green crescent added among the 50+ white stars! And on the other side of the flag are tonnes of '$$$$' signs.
But may be that is a bit too obvious, hor?
Thursday, April 15, 2004
To Make An Italian Hero
What does it take to make one Italian hero?
The gall to go whack a 5,000 year old civilization that refuses to take it sitting down just for money, and the stupidity to remain arrogant even when caught....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3628977.stm
(news report on the killing of Italian hostage by Iraqis, and he supposedly wanted to take off hood just before killing to 'show his captors how an Italian die')
The gall to go whack a 5,000 year old civilization that refuses to take it sitting down just for money, and the stupidity to remain arrogant even when caught....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3628977.stm
(news report on the killing of Italian hostage by Iraqis, and he supposedly wanted to take off hood just before killing to 'show his captors how an Italian die')
Confirmed: Me & Palestinians Have One More Thing in Common
Pls read AFP report below. Now, we can confirm I do have one more thing in common with the Palestinians.
And sometime in the future, some of us will find among the people that talk to us on this topic, idiots (especially those from certain religions) with no idea of what happened years before wondering aloud why the idiotic Palestinians do not accept whatever the nice Israelis had to offer. Not knowing, of course, that those Palestinians had already been short changed by deals cut years before by some superpower.
As history is only repeating itself, there are already such idiots existing today. If you, like me, know of such people you can help them with some history to present day Palestine: tell them to find out about the history & players surrounding the Balfour Declaration, and the Sykes-Picot and Hussein-MacMahon Agreements done about a hundred years ago by Bush-like idiots from Britain (it is not a coincidence if they have the same religion).
WASHINGTON (AFP) President George W. Bush broke with a decades-old US policy by stating Israel could keepsome Arab land captured in the 1967 war, infuriating Palestinian leaders who condemned the US leader.
Bush signalled the change as he endorsed a plan by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and some West Bank settlements. He caused further controversy by saying Palestinian refugees should not be allowed to land lost to Israel in 1948.
Palestinian premier Ahmed Qorei described Bush's move as unacceptable and in breach of the US-led Middle East peace process.
Bush backed the plan to withdraw from 21 settlements in Gaza and four in the West Bank after a White House meeting with the Israeli leader. He hailed Sharon's proposal as "historic and courageous".
A senior Israeli official said the withdrawal would be completed in 2005.
"If all parties choose to embrace this moment they can open the door to progress and put an end to one of the world's longest-running conflicts," said Bush. The president reiterated his support for the "road map" peace blueprint, which calls for the eventual creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
But Bush declared that Palestinian refugees from the 1948 upheaval in the region must settle in any new Palestinian state. "In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949," he said, referring to large settlements in the West Bank.
The two leaders exchanged letters on Bush's endorsement of the disengagement plan during their meeting, officials said.
In what appeared to be approval of a key Israeli demand, Bush said in a statement that Israel will "retain its right" after any pull-out to strike Palestinian militants in Gaza. The US leader again warned Palestinians that "they must fight terror." "It is very important for a Palestinian state to emerge in which we have confidence, in which any prime minister of Israel has confidence, in which the United States has confidence, that will be a peaceful partner," he said.
But Bush also said the security barrier Israeli is building in the West Bank must not become a permanent construction. "It should be temporary rather than permanent, and therefore not prejudice any final status issues, including final borders."
At a joint press conference with Bush, Sharon was visibly pleased with the results from his ninth visit to the White House since the president took office in January 2001. "I was encouraged by your positive response and your support for my plan," Sharon said.
Washington's endorsement was likely to give Sharon the backing he needs to win a vote in early May on the disengagement plan by his Likud Party. The withdrawal proposal has drawn fierce opposition from right-wingers.
A senior Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Gaza withdrawal would be completed by an unspecified date in 2005. And Sharon said in his letter to Bush that Israel plans to speed up work on the security barrier in the West Bank, that has faced widespread international criticism, but promised it would be "temporary rather than permanent" in line with Bush's demands. The senior official hailed Bush's comments on Jewish settlements in the West Bank and negating the right of Palestinian refugees to return to Israel as an historic first. "The United States made unequivocal statements not heard in 56 years," the official told reporters after the White House talks.
The Palestinian premier angrily accused Bush of an "unacceptable" violation of the peace process. "It cannot be decided by the president of the United States what is realistic and what is not realistic," Qorei told reporters at his West Bank offices. "This is a real violation of the road map." Qorei said the borders and the status of refugees must "be decided in negotiations" involving all sides as laid down in the US-backed road map peace plan, which was launched last June.
He also criticised Bush for not demanding that the Israel tear down the separation barrier. "It is not realistic that the Israelis occupy Palestinian territories; it is not realistic that the Israelis build the separation wall on the Palestinian territories." Qorei said he had been let down by the Americans after being told by a group of visiting envoys this month that "the permanent status issues would be negotiated in a permanent status agreement. "Today we are really disappointed," he added.
The Palestinian leadership warned in a statement before the Bush-Sharon meeting that any US endorsement of the disengagement plan would trigger a new cycle of violence. Any deal "would lead to the destruction of any possibility of peace, of stability and security in the region and will launch a new cycle of violence," said the statement.
Sharon has argued that he has no option but to implement his disengagement plan in the absence of a Palestinian negotiating partner, accusing Qorei and his government of not moving to crack down on militants groups who have carried out a string of suicide attacks.
The two prime ministers have not met since Qorei came to office in October and the Palestinian premier ruled out the prospect of talks with Sharon after his visit to Washington. "I do not know what we would have to talk about," he said.
And sometime in the future, some of us will find among the people that talk to us on this topic, idiots (especially those from certain religions) with no idea of what happened years before wondering aloud why the idiotic Palestinians do not accept whatever the nice Israelis had to offer. Not knowing, of course, that those Palestinians had already been short changed by deals cut years before by some superpower.
As history is only repeating itself, there are already such idiots existing today. If you, like me, know of such people you can help them with some history to present day Palestine: tell them to find out about the history & players surrounding the Balfour Declaration, and the Sykes-Picot and Hussein-MacMahon Agreements done about a hundred years ago by Bush-like idiots from Britain (it is not a coincidence if they have the same religion).
WASHINGTON (AFP) President George W. Bush broke with a decades-old US policy by stating Israel could keepsome Arab land captured in the 1967 war, infuriating Palestinian leaders who condemned the US leader.
Bush signalled the change as he endorsed a plan by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and some West Bank settlements. He caused further controversy by saying Palestinian refugees should not be allowed to land lost to Israel in 1948.
Palestinian premier Ahmed Qorei described Bush's move as unacceptable and in breach of the US-led Middle East peace process.
Bush backed the plan to withdraw from 21 settlements in Gaza and four in the West Bank after a White House meeting with the Israeli leader. He hailed Sharon's proposal as "historic and courageous".
A senior Israeli official said the withdrawal would be completed in 2005.
"If all parties choose to embrace this moment they can open the door to progress and put an end to one of the world's longest-running conflicts," said Bush. The president reiterated his support for the "road map" peace blueprint, which calls for the eventual creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
But Bush declared that Palestinian refugees from the 1948 upheaval in the region must settle in any new Palestinian state. "In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949," he said, referring to large settlements in the West Bank.
The two leaders exchanged letters on Bush's endorsement of the disengagement plan during their meeting, officials said.
In what appeared to be approval of a key Israeli demand, Bush said in a statement that Israel will "retain its right" after any pull-out to strike Palestinian militants in Gaza. The US leader again warned Palestinians that "they must fight terror." "It is very important for a Palestinian state to emerge in which we have confidence, in which any prime minister of Israel has confidence, in which the United States has confidence, that will be a peaceful partner," he said.
But Bush also said the security barrier Israeli is building in the West Bank must not become a permanent construction. "It should be temporary rather than permanent, and therefore not prejudice any final status issues, including final borders."
At a joint press conference with Bush, Sharon was visibly pleased with the results from his ninth visit to the White House since the president took office in January 2001. "I was encouraged by your positive response and your support for my plan," Sharon said.
Washington's endorsement was likely to give Sharon the backing he needs to win a vote in early May on the disengagement plan by his Likud Party. The withdrawal proposal has drawn fierce opposition from right-wingers.
A senior Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Gaza withdrawal would be completed by an unspecified date in 2005. And Sharon said in his letter to Bush that Israel plans to speed up work on the security barrier in the West Bank, that has faced widespread international criticism, but promised it would be "temporary rather than permanent" in line with Bush's demands. The senior official hailed Bush's comments on Jewish settlements in the West Bank and negating the right of Palestinian refugees to return to Israel as an historic first. "The United States made unequivocal statements not heard in 56 years," the official told reporters after the White House talks.
The Palestinian premier angrily accused Bush of an "unacceptable" violation of the peace process. "It cannot be decided by the president of the United States what is realistic and what is not realistic," Qorei told reporters at his West Bank offices. "This is a real violation of the road map." Qorei said the borders and the status of refugees must "be decided in negotiations" involving all sides as laid down in the US-backed road map peace plan, which was launched last June.
He also criticised Bush for not demanding that the Israel tear down the separation barrier. "It is not realistic that the Israelis occupy Palestinian territories; it is not realistic that the Israelis build the separation wall on the Palestinian territories." Qorei said he had been let down by the Americans after being told by a group of visiting envoys this month that "the permanent status issues would be negotiated in a permanent status agreement. "Today we are really disappointed," he added.
The Palestinian leadership warned in a statement before the Bush-Sharon meeting that any US endorsement of the disengagement plan would trigger a new cycle of violence. Any deal "would lead to the destruction of any possibility of peace, of stability and security in the region and will launch a new cycle of violence," said the statement.
Sharon has argued that he has no option but to implement his disengagement plan in the absence of a Palestinian negotiating partner, accusing Qorei and his government of not moving to crack down on militants groups who have carried out a string of suicide attacks.
The two prime ministers have not met since Qorei came to office in October and the Palestinian premier ruled out the prospect of talks with Sharon after his visit to Washington. "I do not know what we would have to talk about," he said.
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
25 Reasons Why Bush is Right
See below AFP report on Bush's claim that comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam are false.
Here may be the reasons why that idiot think that way :
1. One happened in the 20th century, the other in 21st
2. One was started by Truman, the other by Bush
3. One the U.S. continued from immediately where the French left off, the other 40 years after the British left off (hey, if you want to pick on this, remember they had wanted to whack Iraq since 1990 hor)
4. One war started after the US torpedoed elections promised by the French, the other started before the US torpedoed free elections (supposedly because it was not suitable for the country they attacked)
5. One started after they claimed Truman’s military advisers did not do a good enough job, the other after they claimed the UN inspectors did not
6. One was supposedly inspired by ‘evil’ Marx, the other by ‘evils’ Saddam & Osama (see there are 2 evils for this one, so more evil lah)
7. One was against ‘evil’ Communism, the other against ‘evil’ Islamism/terrorism (see, more evils again)
8. One was against ‘illegal’ yellow faced commies, the other ‘illegal’ non-yellow Shites and Sunnis (evil nevertheless)
9. One was whacked supposedly for having WI (wrong idea), the other for having WMD (more evil, the US having more of both notwithstanding)
10. One was conducted with conventional arms, the other by high tech weapons (ha, finally a non evil way of killing those evil fellas)
11. One they managed to get the locals to kill each other, the other they have yet to (see, one was not entirely their fault)
12. Which is why one they managed to get 6 million killed, the other only 30,000 (shucks, what a big difference)
13. And the ‘kill ratio’ for one is 1 of theirs to 100 of everyone else, while the other is worse at 1 to 50 (more disappointment)
14. One made tones of money for the US military complex, the other for that, the oil companies and others like ‘security contractors’ etc. (this makes up for all the disappointments. And you see the beauty of free market? Now, thanks to the ingenuity of America’s businessmen, the world has a new business line called ‘security contracting’. Compare that to the Spaniards 500 years ago when they only had the Conquistadors which is why the Spanish were so happy to go along on this one)
15. One they managed to only destroy, the other they have a chance to stay around after the destruction for ‘rebuilding’ efforts (always mean more money that way)
16. One they have to bluff idiots like my parents, the other they have to bluff idiots like me (ha, they failed on both counts on this one! Even my father, as uneducated as he was, could see through them. In fact, one of my most memorable sight was my old man laughing every time a James Bond or Rambo movie came to town. His comment was: if the Americans had a few of those fellas in Vietnam they would have had it easy)
17. One was shown on TVs by reporters they lost control of, the other by reporters they did not
18. One’s war frenzy was whipped up with the help of the likes of Time magazine, the other by Fox TV
19. One took place before the world of internet, the other after
20. One took the world about 20 years to realize what happened, the other the world realized it 2 years before it happened! (why do you think the French, Germans etc. were against it even before it started?)
21. One they tried to be funny at Mao’s backyard, the other at the Ayatollah’s
22. One they lost, the other they have yet to
23. One ended when their own protesters invaded Washington, the other started when some foreigners with nothing to do with Iraq attacked Washington
24. One the Israelis were not there to cheer about, the other Israeli agents were caught cheering when it happened.
25. One ended shortly after Nixon tried to cheat to stay elected, the other started shortly after Bush cheated to be elected.
You see, everything was so different. Bush is no idiot and he is right (the neo-con type, hor).
WASHINGTON (AFP) President George W. Bush was holding his first press conference of this election year, hoping to reassure Americans after the bloodiest two weeks in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad a year ago.
Bush Tuesday warned against the "unthinkable" consequences of failing to rebuild Iraq and set it on course for democracy, saying that would embolden terrorism worldwide. "The consequences of failure in Iraq would be unthinkable," he told a press conference. "Everyone against America would celebrate, proclaiming our weakness."
Bush also said he would send additional forces to Iraq if needed, and vowed to stand by a plan to transfer Iraq to self-rule on June 30 despite deadly clashes between US-led forces and Shiite and Sunni insurgents.
"On June 30th, Iraqi sovereignty will be placed in Iraqi hands," Bush said in a lengthy opening statement at the start of just his third primetime news conference since taking office in January 2001.
Bush flatly rejected as "false" comparisons between deadly fighting in Iraq and the bloody Vietnam war that bitterly divided the US public.
"I think the analogy is false," he told reporters at just his third prime-time press conference since taking office in January 2001.
"I also happen to think that analogy sends the wrong message to our troops and sends a wrong message to the enemy but this is hard work," he added after some commentators and critics raised the specter of Vietnam following the two bloodiest weeks of fighting in Iraq since Baghdad fell a year ago.
Bush warned that radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr must answer the charges against him and disband his illegal militia.
"Al-Sadr must answer the charges againt him and disband his illegal militia," Bush said of al-Sadr, who is believed to be in hiding but has continued to send messages to supporters urging action against the US occupation.
He tied radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters have clashed with US forces in Iraq, to extremist groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
In a lengthy opening statement at the third prime-time press conference of his presidency, Bush said al-Sadr led an illegal militia and had in "public supported the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah."
Here may be the reasons why that idiot think that way :
1. One happened in the 20th century, the other in 21st
2. One was started by Truman, the other by Bush
3. One the U.S. continued from immediately where the French left off, the other 40 years after the British left off (hey, if you want to pick on this, remember they had wanted to whack Iraq since 1990 hor)
4. One war started after the US torpedoed elections promised by the French, the other started before the US torpedoed free elections (supposedly because it was not suitable for the country they attacked)
5. One started after they claimed Truman’s military advisers did not do a good enough job, the other after they claimed the UN inspectors did not
6. One was supposedly inspired by ‘evil’ Marx, the other by ‘evils’ Saddam & Osama (see there are 2 evils for this one, so more evil lah)
7. One was against ‘evil’ Communism, the other against ‘evil’ Islamism/terrorism (see, more evils again)
8. One was against ‘illegal’ yellow faced commies, the other ‘illegal’ non-yellow Shites and Sunnis (evil nevertheless)
9. One was whacked supposedly for having WI (wrong idea), the other for having WMD (more evil, the US having more of both notwithstanding)
10. One was conducted with conventional arms, the other by high tech weapons (ha, finally a non evil way of killing those evil fellas)
11. One they managed to get the locals to kill each other, the other they have yet to (see, one was not entirely their fault)
12. Which is why one they managed to get 6 million killed, the other only 30,000 (shucks, what a big difference)
13. And the ‘kill ratio’ for one is 1 of theirs to 100 of everyone else, while the other is worse at 1 to 50 (more disappointment)
14. One made tones of money for the US military complex, the other for that, the oil companies and others like ‘security contractors’ etc. (this makes up for all the disappointments. And you see the beauty of free market? Now, thanks to the ingenuity of America’s businessmen, the world has a new business line called ‘security contracting’. Compare that to the Spaniards 500 years ago when they only had the Conquistadors which is why the Spanish were so happy to go along on this one)
15. One they managed to only destroy, the other they have a chance to stay around after the destruction for ‘rebuilding’ efforts (always mean more money that way)
16. One they have to bluff idiots like my parents, the other they have to bluff idiots like me (ha, they failed on both counts on this one! Even my father, as uneducated as he was, could see through them. In fact, one of my most memorable sight was my old man laughing every time a James Bond or Rambo movie came to town. His comment was: if the Americans had a few of those fellas in Vietnam they would have had it easy)
17. One was shown on TVs by reporters they lost control of, the other by reporters they did not
18. One’s war frenzy was whipped up with the help of the likes of Time magazine, the other by Fox TV
19. One took place before the world of internet, the other after
20. One took the world about 20 years to realize what happened, the other the world realized it 2 years before it happened! (why do you think the French, Germans etc. were against it even before it started?)
21. One they tried to be funny at Mao’s backyard, the other at the Ayatollah’s
22. One they lost, the other they have yet to
23. One ended when their own protesters invaded Washington, the other started when some foreigners with nothing to do with Iraq attacked Washington
24. One the Israelis were not there to cheer about, the other Israeli agents were caught cheering when it happened.
25. One ended shortly after Nixon tried to cheat to stay elected, the other started shortly after Bush cheated to be elected.
You see, everything was so different. Bush is no idiot and he is right (the neo-con type, hor).
WASHINGTON (AFP) President George W. Bush was holding his first press conference of this election year, hoping to reassure Americans after the bloodiest two weeks in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad a year ago.
Bush Tuesday warned against the "unthinkable" consequences of failing to rebuild Iraq and set it on course for democracy, saying that would embolden terrorism worldwide. "The consequences of failure in Iraq would be unthinkable," he told a press conference. "Everyone against America would celebrate, proclaiming our weakness."
Bush also said he would send additional forces to Iraq if needed, and vowed to stand by a plan to transfer Iraq to self-rule on June 30 despite deadly clashes between US-led forces and Shiite and Sunni insurgents.
"On June 30th, Iraqi sovereignty will be placed in Iraqi hands," Bush said in a lengthy opening statement at the start of just his third primetime news conference since taking office in January 2001.
Bush flatly rejected as "false" comparisons between deadly fighting in Iraq and the bloody Vietnam war that bitterly divided the US public.
"I think the analogy is false," he told reporters at just his third prime-time press conference since taking office in January 2001.
"I also happen to think that analogy sends the wrong message to our troops and sends a wrong message to the enemy but this is hard work," he added after some commentators and critics raised the specter of Vietnam following the two bloodiest weeks of fighting in Iraq since Baghdad fell a year ago.
Bush warned that radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr must answer the charges against him and disband his illegal militia.
"Al-Sadr must answer the charges againt him and disband his illegal militia," Bush said of al-Sadr, who is believed to be in hiding but has continued to send messages to supporters urging action against the US occupation.
He tied radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters have clashed with US forces in Iraq, to extremist groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
In a lengthy opening statement at the third prime-time press conference of his presidency, Bush said al-Sadr led an illegal militia and had in "public supported the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah."
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Zhou En Lai's History Lesson
Zhou En Lai (if you don’t know who he was, this story should apply well to you) was once asked how he found the Americans to which he laughed and said that they had no sense of history. Of course, Zhou En Lai was only partly correct. The ones in power in the US do know history. In fact, they know from history what works and practice that to a fine art. One example is the art of war and plunder at others’ expense. Also, Zhou En Lai would probably laugh at the lack of sense of history around the world today despite all the high tech media & communications we claim we have.
For example, do you know what is common between Vietnam, Palestine, and now Iraq?
1. One powerful country whacking another whenever it likes.
2. The powerful one sends its own well armed hooligans to someone else’s homes on their whim to satisfy these men’s bestial instincts and these animals kill up to 10 times their opposite numbers for everyone of them killed. In the meantime, their powerbrokers’ geopolitical objectives are conveniently satisfied.
3. They get their co-conspirators in the media to glorify such animal acts in the name of freedom and all sorts of drummed up heroics, and paint their opposite numbers in bad light by labeling them terrorists, insurgents and enemies (unless, of course, when these fellas are fighting the Russians, Germans or Chinese!)
4. They manage to fool a tonne of idiots in the world who are all too happy to parrot after them, cry for their dead, and are totally impervious to the plight of their opposite numbers. For example, I know of Australians that cry at Washington’s Vietnam War Memorial, and the PM of Singapore organized a crying session in the National Stadium 2 years ago when 2,000 Americans were killed in September 11. But they are no where to be seen when 6 million Vietnamese and 30,000 Iraqis are killed by what the Americans started (but of course, such idiots of this world are usually not aware of this)
5. And they actually succeed in doing so most of the time which pushes
their opposite numbers to greater desperation and to adopt drastic measures against them
6. They then use these drastic reactions from their opposite numbers to justify their doing all the above.
7. The world starts from step 1 above all over again, year after year, decades after decades. Which is why people like me seems to keep harping on the same thing!
If you don’t believe in the above, try this trick: ask your neighbours what they think people like Christopher Columbus are commonly known for versus what history books say they really did. Then see the difference….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3620109.stm
For example, do you know what is common between Vietnam, Palestine, and now Iraq?
1. One powerful country whacking another whenever it likes.
2. The powerful one sends its own well armed hooligans to someone else’s homes on their whim to satisfy these men’s bestial instincts and these animals kill up to 10 times their opposite numbers for everyone of them killed. In the meantime, their powerbrokers’ geopolitical objectives are conveniently satisfied.
3. They get their co-conspirators in the media to glorify such animal acts in the name of freedom and all sorts of drummed up heroics, and paint their opposite numbers in bad light by labeling them terrorists, insurgents and enemies (unless, of course, when these fellas are fighting the Russians, Germans or Chinese!)
4. They manage to fool a tonne of idiots in the world who are all too happy to parrot after them, cry for their dead, and are totally impervious to the plight of their opposite numbers. For example, I know of Australians that cry at Washington’s Vietnam War Memorial, and the PM of Singapore organized a crying session in the National Stadium 2 years ago when 2,000 Americans were killed in September 11. But they are no where to be seen when 6 million Vietnamese and 30,000 Iraqis are killed by what the Americans started (but of course, such idiots of this world are usually not aware of this)
5. And they actually succeed in doing so most of the time which pushes
their opposite numbers to greater desperation and to adopt drastic measures against them
6. They then use these drastic reactions from their opposite numbers to justify their doing all the above.
7. The world starts from step 1 above all over again, year after year, decades after decades. Which is why people like me seems to keep harping on the same thing!
If you don’t believe in the above, try this trick: ask your neighbours what they think people like Christopher Columbus are commonly known for versus what history books say they really did. Then see the difference….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3620109.stm
What Me & Others in Palestine Have in Common
Fifty plus years ago, Japanese forces invaded Malaysia supposedly, among other reasons, to free people like my parents and grandparents from the ‘terrible’ British colonialists. During that occupation, they took away one of my father’s brothers one night and he never returned. No one knew what happened to that poor young man. A couple of years later, the Americans and British whacked the Japs and ‘freed’ (supposedly from the ‘terrible’ Japs as the Brits got to keep their prize) all the Malaysians alive then. And when the Americans through an idiot known as Mac Arthur signed the surrender agreement with the Japs, they agreed that Japan will not be required to account and compensate for everything they did to all the Asians during the war. This was of course very different from Germany which was required to pay war reparations to its European counterparts.
Which is why to this day, you still see old people in China & Korea still try to raise the issue of justice and compensation (if you are not aware of all the above, it’s OK, it is not your fault. Not many people are interested in such trivials).
Perhaps America thought that Asians are more magnanimous than Europeans, or, may be, they thought Asians are idiots that do not deserve a fair settlement for any injustice done to them. Whatever the case, they had the gall to assume that they had the right to decide everything for Asia.
Of course, people like me could never accept such things (forget the past and look ahead, so to speak) and considers America a bastard country while to many other buggers it is a great country with much to teach or offer to the world.
Ha, I sound just like those idiotic Palestinians that can never accept those nice Israelis.
But then I see history repeating itself again and again. Like in this attached report where the Israelis are trying to get the Americans to ‘agree’ to them annexing huge tracts of Palestinian land without bothering with the Palestinians nor the UN. And if those bastard Israelis get their way with the bastard Americans, many buggers in time to come will be wondering why in the name of God can those Palestinians not agree to whatever the nice Israelis have to offer (which is of course always gonna be lesser after the Americans are through with them).
If you are not aware of this, it is OK too. Again, it is not your fault. Perhaps, you do not want to be an idiot like me….
And if you are a Non-Jap Asian, check with your grandma. You never know if you have something in common with those idiotic Palestinians.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/414640.html
Which is why to this day, you still see old people in China & Korea still try to raise the issue of justice and compensation (if you are not aware of all the above, it’s OK, it is not your fault. Not many people are interested in such trivials).
Perhaps America thought that Asians are more magnanimous than Europeans, or, may be, they thought Asians are idiots that do not deserve a fair settlement for any injustice done to them. Whatever the case, they had the gall to assume that they had the right to decide everything for Asia.
Of course, people like me could never accept such things (forget the past and look ahead, so to speak) and considers America a bastard country while to many other buggers it is a great country with much to teach or offer to the world.
Ha, I sound just like those idiotic Palestinians that can never accept those nice Israelis.
But then I see history repeating itself again and again. Like in this attached report where the Israelis are trying to get the Americans to ‘agree’ to them annexing huge tracts of Palestinian land without bothering with the Palestinians nor the UN. And if those bastard Israelis get their way with the bastard Americans, many buggers in time to come will be wondering why in the name of God can those Palestinians not agree to whatever the nice Israelis have to offer (which is of course always gonna be lesser after the Americans are through with them).
If you are not aware of this, it is OK too. Again, it is not your fault. Perhaps, you do not want to be an idiot like me….
And if you are a Non-Jap Asian, check with your grandma. You never know if you have something in common with those idiotic Palestinians.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/414640.html
Saturday, April 10, 2004
Idiots In Common
What is common between the countries forming the 'coalition to free Iraq' and some of the Korean hostages in Iraq?
1. They are idiots 'enlightened' by a certain religion
2. They are there to teach Iraqis the lesson that freedom (like eternal life as these idiots believe) can only be attained by death. That's why killing Iraqis that disagree with them is actually good for 'em Iraqis (so the world shouldn't complain).
3. They are dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Iraqis who do not seem to appreciate these idiots' divine efforts. That's why such Iraqis are terrorists that should be terminated.
4. They are there for selfish reasons including plundering and making tonnes of money without having to submit to free market forces that their idiot leader a.k.a. Bush a.k.a. the US preach to others.
5. They think the whole world is full of idiots that don't know what they are up to.
6. All the above
1. They are idiots 'enlightened' by a certain religion
2. They are there to teach Iraqis the lesson that freedom (like eternal life as these idiots believe) can only be attained by death. That's why killing Iraqis that disagree with them is actually good for 'em Iraqis (so the world shouldn't complain).
3. They are dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Iraqis who do not seem to appreciate these idiots' divine efforts. That's why such Iraqis are terrorists that should be terminated.
4. They are there for selfish reasons including plundering and making tonnes of money without having to submit to free market forces that their idiot leader a.k.a. Bush a.k.a. the US preach to others.
5. They think the whole world is full of idiots that don't know what they are up to.
6. All the above
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Spanish Hour of Bush-like Idiots
Here goes a group of Bush-like idiots that think they can get away with whacking & plundering others based on drummed up excuses...
(attached BBC report on lost of power of Spanish conservative government that supported Iraq attack after massive rail train bombings in Madrid that killed about 200 people blamed on Islamic militants from Morroco)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3511280.stm
(attached BBC report on lost of power of Spanish conservative government that supported Iraq attack after massive rail train bombings in Madrid that killed about 200 people blamed on Islamic militants from Morroco)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3511280.stm
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Heavenly Hour of the Idiots
My country Malaysia has its constitutionally required elections once every four years or so. As usual, the political parties get one week to nominate their candidates and another week to campaign. This year, voting day is 21 March which is the Formula 1 race day at Sepang. Like the fast car race which means it is all over in a matter of hours, it is understandable that Malaysia’s political ‘leaders’ will try their best to make the most bang for themselves in the most efficient manner. That is why we Malaysians again have the opportunity to witness another “hour of the political idiots”. However to my memory, this must be the zenith. In fact, this time their hour should be known as the “Heavenly Hour of the Idiots”. And here is why.
According to PAS, everyone that voted for them will get to go to heaven. If these idiots are to be believed, that would mean that god has lost control of the gates of heaven (perhaps he learnt from the Americans and started practicing democracy but lost out to PAS in a heavenly contest), and those generous idiots had lowered the price of tickets to heaven. And voters that believe PAS should die soon enough to maximize their enjoyment of the pleasures of heaven (hey, no need to even go to Mecca and throw pebbles!). Heck, that’s good news for people like me, it just means thousands of idiots lesser in this world! People like me also wonder why the PAS leaders are still on this unholy earth given their supreme holiness and new-found control but we soon learn not to quibble with supreme idiots.
And according to MCA, a vote for them means striking a lottery. The MCA idiots probably meant to describe themselves and the money that will line their own pockets when they get to power, rather than that of the voters. But heck, who cares? Their supporters are as stupid as them anyway. Like someone once said, the greatest thing about democracy is that it makes sure that a country do not get a government better than it deserves!
So you know what non-idiots should do in this election? They should cast one vote for MCA in the parliamentary elections, and one for PAS in the state elections. Hey, this way they cover all corners. Good money on earth and a ticket to heaven when their luck on earth runs out – that is if PAS & MCA are not bluffing! And if those PAS and MCA idiots prove to be liars, Malaysia will still not be a living hell full of PAS-like idiots running the country at the parliamentary level, and we can always bribe the MCA parliamentary idiots to stuff those PAS state idiots! Hey, what a deal made in heaven!
Lastly, all those who have been trying so hard to end up in heaven should hurry back to Malaysia or apply for Malaysian citizenship (you can buy one, you know), and vote for PAS – but, remember to do us all a favour, only state seats hor?
Legend:
PAS stands for PArti Se-Islam Malaysia a.k.a. PArty of Supreme Idiots of Malaysia
MCA stands for Malaysian Chinese Association a.k.a. Malaysian Clowns Association
According to PAS, everyone that voted for them will get to go to heaven. If these idiots are to be believed, that would mean that god has lost control of the gates of heaven (perhaps he learnt from the Americans and started practicing democracy but lost out to PAS in a heavenly contest), and those generous idiots had lowered the price of tickets to heaven. And voters that believe PAS should die soon enough to maximize their enjoyment of the pleasures of heaven (hey, no need to even go to Mecca and throw pebbles!). Heck, that’s good news for people like me, it just means thousands of idiots lesser in this world! People like me also wonder why the PAS leaders are still on this unholy earth given their supreme holiness and new-found control but we soon learn not to quibble with supreme idiots.
And according to MCA, a vote for them means striking a lottery. The MCA idiots probably meant to describe themselves and the money that will line their own pockets when they get to power, rather than that of the voters. But heck, who cares? Their supporters are as stupid as them anyway. Like someone once said, the greatest thing about democracy is that it makes sure that a country do not get a government better than it deserves!
So you know what non-idiots should do in this election? They should cast one vote for MCA in the parliamentary elections, and one for PAS in the state elections. Hey, this way they cover all corners. Good money on earth and a ticket to heaven when their luck on earth runs out – that is if PAS & MCA are not bluffing! And if those PAS and MCA idiots prove to be liars, Malaysia will still not be a living hell full of PAS-like idiots running the country at the parliamentary level, and we can always bribe the MCA parliamentary idiots to stuff those PAS state idiots! Hey, what a deal made in heaven!
Lastly, all those who have been trying so hard to end up in heaven should hurry back to Malaysia or apply for Malaysian citizenship (you can buy one, you know), and vote for PAS – but, remember to do us all a favour, only state seats hor?
Legend:
PAS stands for PArti Se-Islam Malaysia a.k.a. PArty of Supreme Idiots of Malaysia
MCA stands for Malaysian Chinese Association a.k.a. Malaysian Clowns Association
Saturday, January 31, 2004
The Idiot that tried to Change the Hour
This is a real life story I hear from my father. In the workshop where he worked decades ago there was a young apprentice that everyone called ‘Idiot Fu’. This Fu fella earned that nick-name because of the many foolish things he did. Once he tried changing the amount on his pay check but was ‘caught’ by a bank officer when he tried to cash it. The bank reported the attempt back to his company bosses but they ‘forgave’ him because they figured it was really not his fault. He was just plain stupid.
And on another occasion, he wanted to leave early from work. So during lunch break when no one was around, he turned the hands of the workshop clock ahead and thought everyone would not notice and leave early with him! Of course, his bosses and supervisors had wrist watches. As usual, he got his usual ‘scolding’ and things just went back to normal – to wait for our Idiot Fu to do his next ‘act’.
If you are idiotic enough, you really do get away with many things. Many people will just laugh it off and move on. In fact, I can remember Idiot Fu so well precisely because he was so idiotic. So if you are an idiot, you should aim to be Idiot Fu like. George Bush and his goons really remind me of that. And boy, they will be well remembered for sure…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3443627.stm
And on another occasion, he wanted to leave early from work. So during lunch break when no one was around, he turned the hands of the workshop clock ahead and thought everyone would not notice and leave early with him! Of course, his bosses and supervisors had wrist watches. As usual, he got his usual ‘scolding’ and things just went back to normal – to wait for our Idiot Fu to do his next ‘act’.
If you are idiotic enough, you really do get away with many things. Many people will just laugh it off and move on. In fact, I can remember Idiot Fu so well precisely because he was so idiotic. So if you are an idiot, you should aim to be Idiot Fu like. George Bush and his goons really remind me of that. And boy, they will be well remembered for sure…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3443627.stm
Who to Blame for Bird Flu?
According to the New Scientist, they suspect this year’s bird flu started in China as a result of a mass vaccination exercise gone sour when chickens in China were vaccinated following a bird flu epidemic in Hong Kong a few years ago. The Chinese government denied the allegation and strongly protested the irresponsible reporting of the weekly.
Those of us aware of the Story of Nolah would understand why the Chinese government may have a case. You see, according to the Nolah-likes, there is no such thing as evolution. Every thing that exists around us had been there since the beginning when God created everything and Nolah’s family were the only humans saved from a later ‘big flood’ by our fella Nolah himself.
So, Chinamen must be descendants of Nolah’s incestuous family and should therefore be preceded by the bird flu virus which existed from the very beginning. Of course, this assumes the following:
1. that Chinamen are humans.
Since we know many Chinamen claim they are Nolah-likes, Chinamen must be humans (anyone want to ‘arg’ with that? How about you Dolahs out there?)
2. the concepts of time and precedence holds true in Nature all the time.
Since the Nolah storybook did not say that these concepts are false, we have no basis to think so (this is the logic of IBBDNSSCSSL or ‘if Boss’ Book did not say so, cannot say so lah’). In addition, if time and precedence do not ‘pakai’, the New Scientist has no basis to be sure China’s vaccinations a few years ago caused the bird flu now.
There you have it, the New Scientist is wrong to blame the flu on the Chinese. Someone else is responsible but we can be sure it is not the Chinamen. I really give up on those ‘scientist’ fellas. They never accept such simple and neat explanations to things. And those silly fools are still mucking around everyday trying to find so-called ‘vaccines’ which they claim are slightly mutated and less fatal/virulent versions of the actual virus that they think when injected into humans will cause their bodies to produce anti-bodies against the actual culprit. (If you wonder why those stupid scientists should not waste time on that, it’s because mutation is the cornerstone of evolution and that’s not possible according to our Nolah-likes. Which is why when those Nolah-likes have a flu they don’t go to the scientists but go to the doctor! Hey, there’s a lot of difference, OK.)
By the way, how come Chinamen look different from other in-bred descendents of Nolah if there is no such thing as evolution? Aw, silly question, only fools say they are different. The only thing different is their names but even then it is just the ‘unimportant hind part’ where you find irrelevant terms like ‘Tan Ah Kow’ and ‘Chin Ah Beng’. And if you focus on the ‘most important’ front part of their names (you know, front means most important according to the precedence theory), they are all the same.
No? Let’s not quibble over that.
Actually, I left this out from our Nolah story. Once when an off-spring pair of Nolah was practicing their incestual kung fu, the father over-did the hops and chases. Which was why the mother over-heated. Which was why the Negroes were overcooked black and their hair permed. That also explains why Negros run and jump better than other humans (you better be able to run fast for the air cooling to work).
The Indians were luckier, their parents were either less enthusiastic or discovered Yoga to cool themselves down. So their mother’s temperature was lower and Indians only black but hair no perm.
The Caucasians were conceived while their parents were holidaying in the North Pole where the colder weather compensated for the mother's over-heating, and they liked the color of the polar bear.
And the Chinamen? Hah, this one more high tech! Their parents were holidaying in a region known as the Yellow Sea which is in between North Pole and India, so color also in between. They also discovered plastic surgery that they employed to pull back the skin just behind the eyes of their kids to produce the slit eyes! And since they liked the Indian’s straight black hair they transplanted some of those to their children.
Those of us aware of the Story of Nolah would understand why the Chinese government may have a case. You see, according to the Nolah-likes, there is no such thing as evolution. Every thing that exists around us had been there since the beginning when God created everything and Nolah’s family were the only humans saved from a later ‘big flood’ by our fella Nolah himself.
So, Chinamen must be descendants of Nolah’s incestuous family and should therefore be preceded by the bird flu virus which existed from the very beginning. Of course, this assumes the following:
1. that Chinamen are humans.
Since we know many Chinamen claim they are Nolah-likes, Chinamen must be humans (anyone want to ‘arg’ with that? How about you Dolahs out there?)
2. the concepts of time and precedence holds true in Nature all the time.
Since the Nolah storybook did not say that these concepts are false, we have no basis to think so (this is the logic of IBBDNSSCSSL or ‘if Boss’ Book did not say so, cannot say so lah’). In addition, if time and precedence do not ‘pakai’, the New Scientist has no basis to be sure China’s vaccinations a few years ago caused the bird flu now.
There you have it, the New Scientist is wrong to blame the flu on the Chinese. Someone else is responsible but we can be sure it is not the Chinamen. I really give up on those ‘scientist’ fellas. They never accept such simple and neat explanations to things. And those silly fools are still mucking around everyday trying to find so-called ‘vaccines’ which they claim are slightly mutated and less fatal/virulent versions of the actual virus that they think when injected into humans will cause their bodies to produce anti-bodies against the actual culprit. (If you wonder why those stupid scientists should not waste time on that, it’s because mutation is the cornerstone of evolution and that’s not possible according to our Nolah-likes. Which is why when those Nolah-likes have a flu they don’t go to the scientists but go to the doctor! Hey, there’s a lot of difference, OK.)
By the way, how come Chinamen look different from other in-bred descendents of Nolah if there is no such thing as evolution? Aw, silly question, only fools say they are different. The only thing different is their names but even then it is just the ‘unimportant hind part’ where you find irrelevant terms like ‘Tan Ah Kow’ and ‘Chin Ah Beng’. And if you focus on the ‘most important’ front part of their names (you know, front means most important according to the precedence theory), they are all the same.
No? Let’s not quibble over that.
Actually, I left this out from our Nolah story. Once when an off-spring pair of Nolah was practicing their incestual kung fu, the father over-did the hops and chases. Which was why the mother over-heated. Which was why the Negroes were overcooked black and their hair permed. That also explains why Negros run and jump better than other humans (you better be able to run fast for the air cooling to work).
The Indians were luckier, their parents were either less enthusiastic or discovered Yoga to cool themselves down. So their mother’s temperature was lower and Indians only black but hair no perm.
The Caucasians were conceived while their parents were holidaying in the North Pole where the colder weather compensated for the mother's over-heating, and they liked the color of the polar bear.
And the Chinamen? Hah, this one more high tech! Their parents were holidaying in a region known as the Yellow Sea which is in between North Pole and India, so color also in between. They also discovered plastic surgery that they employed to pull back the skin just behind the eyes of their kids to produce the slit eyes! And since they liked the Indian’s straight black hair they transplanted some of those to their children.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
What a Great Feat!
(attached link to BBC new report on landing of 2nd Nasa probe on Mars)
Reading this news item is really enlightening. And it reminds me of what Issac Assimov once said. It was something along this line.
In thousands of years of human history, religions had only words to offer the world - telling us how great each religion is, the feats/miracles their idols had done, and what great future mankind will have if we follow their words. But what history had proved is that the world had progressed little when those religious fellas were in charge, and all the progress
mankind made only came about in the last couple of hundred years of modern science and medicine, and rational thoughts (by the way, one faithful once told me he is not sure if rational thought is the way to look at the world. Then I say why do we think God gave our brains to us? All that just to be able read one book and say faith is all you need?)
I also remember a few favourite claims of a certain religion:
- that this entire existence is created for humans
- some of their idols can do miracles like parting the sea.
Of course, they have a hard time convincing people like me. For one, if this existence is for man's pleasure, then what the heck had those religious faithfuls been doing all this while? Of all such people I have the opportunity to know, it was nothing. Ziltch. They know nuts of even the simplest of astronomy! They send around chain mails with quotes from their one book (the only one they really read, I suspect) but I had never seen anything from them admiring real life accomplishments like that in the news article above (perhaps they think those were all cheap thrills or conspiracies to bluff fools like me!)
Secondly, if those idols of theirs were so great why didn't they pass on their skills to their millions of current day faithfuls? (I know some of these fellas are damn sure they are faithfuls!). Then, they won't have to do much convincing. No, they didn't. Perhaps the truth is more like those Chinese swordfighting novels where the masters fight and die trying to keep their 'kung fu skills' from all and since then foolish chinamen had been fantasising about flying through air and blowing up things with a wave of their hands? I mean, can you imagine how 'green' this world would have been if those chinese kung fu masters had passed their skills to us? We would not need cars, ships and planes. Heck, we don't even need WMDs! (I can never stop laughing when I think about these kung fu movies!)
That notwithstanding, given the scale of the world around us, parting sea is small trick for supposedly godlike super humans. I mean if these fellas' book tell me that one of their idols went universe hopping with his bunch of followers and he parted a few galaxies along the way, then I say, hey may be that was something. But no, these fellas didn't even know how to make a telescope to look at the moon & sun until our friend Galileo came along. And they even had the gall to call Galileo a liar!
So now, which do you think is a greater feat? Writing stories about parting seas (or kung fu masters, depending on which is your fancy) or sending probes to Mars?
Reading this news item is really enlightening. And it reminds me of what Issac Assimov once said. It was something along this line.
In thousands of years of human history, religions had only words to offer the world - telling us how great each religion is, the feats/miracles their idols had done, and what great future mankind will have if we follow their words. But what history had proved is that the world had progressed little when those religious fellas were in charge, and all the progress
mankind made only came about in the last couple of hundred years of modern science and medicine, and rational thoughts (by the way, one faithful once told me he is not sure if rational thought is the way to look at the world. Then I say why do we think God gave our brains to us? All that just to be able read one book and say faith is all you need?)
I also remember a few favourite claims of a certain religion:
- that this entire existence is created for humans
- some of their idols can do miracles like parting the sea.
Of course, they have a hard time convincing people like me. For one, if this existence is for man's pleasure, then what the heck had those religious faithfuls been doing all this while? Of all such people I have the opportunity to know, it was nothing. Ziltch. They know nuts of even the simplest of astronomy! They send around chain mails with quotes from their one book (the only one they really read, I suspect) but I had never seen anything from them admiring real life accomplishments like that in the news article above (perhaps they think those were all cheap thrills or conspiracies to bluff fools like me!)
Secondly, if those idols of theirs were so great why didn't they pass on their skills to their millions of current day faithfuls? (I know some of these fellas are damn sure they are faithfuls!). Then, they won't have to do much convincing. No, they didn't. Perhaps the truth is more like those Chinese swordfighting novels where the masters fight and die trying to keep their 'kung fu skills' from all and since then foolish chinamen had been fantasising about flying through air and blowing up things with a wave of their hands? I mean, can you imagine how 'green' this world would have been if those chinese kung fu masters had passed their skills to us? We would not need cars, ships and planes. Heck, we don't even need WMDs! (I can never stop laughing when I think about these kung fu movies!)
That notwithstanding, given the scale of the world around us, parting sea is small trick for supposedly godlike super humans. I mean if these fellas' book tell me that one of their idols went universe hopping with his bunch of followers and he parted a few galaxies along the way, then I say, hey may be that was something. But no, these fellas didn't even know how to make a telescope to look at the moon & sun until our friend Galileo came along. And they even had the gall to call Galileo a liar!
So now, which do you think is a greater feat? Writing stories about parting seas (or kung fu masters, depending on which is your fancy) or sending probes to Mars?
Pantun Sili
SMS from Tan Chee Peng dd 26 Jan 2004 (5th day of CNY)
(Pantun Cina)
Hali busak sula mali
Beli nimau satu loli
Satu tawun satu kali
Wa mikin silap wa vely soli
GONG XI FA CAI
Itu ampau sini mali
The above 'pantun' was received sometime after I heard that Chee Peng had left Stratech (where I worked from Mar 2002 to May 2003) after a short stint as CEO. By then I also heard that Stratech had cut the pay of all management staff except the HR manager because of the weak state of its business. My 'pantun' response below had that back drop in mind:
Slamat pagi, Mari mari
Kami copi, Main sini
Pantun ini, Mana cali
Hebot skali. Akan tapi Sikit sili
Dengar stori, habis moni
potong gaji, semua ofis kurang happi
U pegi dari strategi
Ngapa lari, Mana pegi?
Lain kali, Kalau free
Boleh mari, beli kopi. Cakap stori
Harus pegi, ada busi. Veli sori
(Pantun Cina)
Hali busak sula mali
Beli nimau satu loli
Satu tawun satu kali
Wa mikin silap wa vely soli
GONG XI FA CAI
Itu ampau sini mali
The above 'pantun' was received sometime after I heard that Chee Peng had left Stratech (where I worked from Mar 2002 to May 2003) after a short stint as CEO. By then I also heard that Stratech had cut the pay of all management staff except the HR manager because of the weak state of its business. My 'pantun' response below had that back drop in mind:
Slamat pagi, Mari mari
Kami copi, Main sini
Pantun ini, Mana cali
Hebot skali. Akan tapi Sikit sili
Dengar stori, habis moni
potong gaji, semua ofis kurang happi
U pegi dari strategi
Ngapa lari, Mana pegi?
Lain kali, Kalau free
Boleh mari, beli kopi. Cakap stori
Harus pegi, ada busi. Veli sori
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