cakap cakap...what will tomorrow bring?

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Who are these people that tells us that each day our country moves closer to the brink of chaos? Are they mischief makers bent on provoking the people into believing that “kiamat” (Armageddon) is coming and that the Day of Judgment will be upon us by the first Sunday of July or August at the latest? Are these simply the ramblings and ranting of a people who despair that any good can come of the times that they now live in because hope seems to be no longer something they have? And when hope is no longer there what else is left? 

I really do not know my friends. I do not know what tomorrow will bring. Like you I am tired of having politic thrown into my face everyday and everywhere I look. Sometimes it is hard to believe that our Prime Minister, our Deputy Prime Minister and our Ministers in the Cabinet can do the things they do.

In the NST today we have this:  

PM to highlight Islamic way of good governance

Najib will be the first speaker at the main forum held at the newly completed Palace of Independence here after the official launch by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.


Besides Najib, other world leaders gracing the forum include the president of Djibouti and the prime minister of Tajikistan.

Najib is going to speak about Islamic good governance in a forum graced by “world leaders” including the president of Djibouti and PM of Tajikistan? What else is new? In as far as the two world leader gracing the forum  - please note the following:

Djibouti:

·      Population under 1 million.

·      Employment rate 40% to 50%.

Tajikistan:

·      One party dominant system.

·      “Elections there failed to meet basic democratic standards” Current economic situation remains fragile because of corruption.

·      Drug money corrupts the government.

I rest my case!

Unperturbed I continue to peruse NST (peruse means read lah…have to impress those reporters at NST once in a while)

Next come that Muhyiddin guy…our DPM with the following headline:

New perks for small businesses to innovate.

Under that headline in the NST comes the usual blah blah blah…

·      Newly launched Green lane facility

·      In a bid to spur the growth of more innovative SMEs

·      It includes a two per cent rebate for approved loans, stamp duty exemption on loan agreement documents, tax deductions on expenses to acquire the 1-InnoCERT, fast track registration in e-Procurement from seven days to just a day, priority to participate in government offset programmes and privileges in Government and Finance Ministry Incorporated companies' procurement.

·      Proactive approach

·      SME master plan

·      Developed nation status

·      Muhyiddin witness signing of MOU

·      Quantum leap

Now whether this Muhyiddin understands all this very impressive lingo does not matter because also present was International Trade and Industry Ministry Deputy Minister Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir. I guess they are already deep in discussions re what is to come after Najib!

The “Serve husband like a first class prostitute” thing is still getting some airtime here and there – but let it go for a few more days and it will die a natural death. We have milked it for all it is worth. But again the sheer stupidity of any one – let alone a women and a wife to boot – to come up with such utterances is beyond my ability to comprehend.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Elbert Hubbard

What perplexes me most is this. This Prime Minister of ours must be living in cuckoo land! How many more incentive packages are to be wheeled out? Where else on the world stage is he going to lecture world leaders on good governance and Islamic values? How many more deaths? In MACC, in PDRM, Indonesian maids, multiple bus accidents deaths, multiple deaths in boat accidents, people dying in landslides? Talk about deregistering Pakatan Rakyat, talk about deregistering UMNO! Cannons to the right, cannons to the left and still this Najib rides serenely into the valley of death! It would seems that only him and his First Lady seems to tell themselves that  “All is well that ends well?”

We all know what is happening around us. The corruption, the greed the arrogance of a BN government gone AWOL. But not Najib. Not UMNO.

UMNO reminds me of crabs in a barrel.

“Go down to the fish market and look at the crab barrel. They never have to put a lid on it because if one crab starts to crawl out, the others will grab him and pull him down. That is what negative peer pressure does”  God help UMNO for the Malays will not!