New Prime Ministers have dazzled the people with bold promises and pledges of a new beginning in their first 100 days in office.
Both the two previous Prime Ministers, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, took full advantage of the power and magic of their first 100 days in office, leveraging them into stunning general election victories in their first year in office – the unprecedented sweep of 91% parliamentary seats for Abdullah in the 2004 general election and the resounding victory for Mahathir in the 1982 general election.
For Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who will be the sixth Prime Minister after the Umno general assembly next month, his first 100 days would be overshadowed by his infamous pre-100 days, and featuring high on his pre-100 days list is undoubtedly the disgraceful and outrageous grab for Perak power, completely in disregard of the proper constitutional process and respect for the people’s mandate in the 2008 general election.
Malaysia has in the past 24 hours become an international laughing stock because of the constitutional crisis in Perak producing two Mentris Besar – the Pakatan Rakyat Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin who has never vacated office, and the usurper UMNO Mentri Besar Datuk Dr. Zambry Abdul Kadir.
In orchestrating the coup de’tat in Perak with the illegal and unconstitutional grab for power, when Nizar is still the legitimate, effective and functioning Mentri Besar, Najib has caused great harm and damage to the system of democracy, the monarchy and the rule of law in Malaysia.
Unlike his five predecessors, Najib will be assuming the mantle of Prime Minister with the greatest public doubts about his credibility and legitimacy, with so many serious and unanswered allegations hounding him to the highest office in Putrajaya.
Now he has piled up for himself another infamy – the trampling of the constitutional process and democratic rights of the people of Perak with the illegal and unconstitutional grab for power resulting in Perak becoming a state with two Mentris Besar.
In doing so, Najib has aligned himself against democracy, national integrity, constitutional propriety and the will of the people of Perak.
There is nothing he could do in his first 100 days as Prime Minister which could mitigate the grave wrongs he had committed against democracy, national integrity and public confidence in the system of governance in Malaysia in his pre-100 days as Prime Minister – particularly his disgraceful role as the subverter of democracy in Perak.
#1 by worried-malaysian on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 11:27 am
Very very very disappointed with MCA.
MCA’s OTK always talks loud but no action.
In Hokkien, ” OTK Kao Peh Kao Bu” everyday.
#2 by ALLAN THAM on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 11:27 am
Jelapang is good lesson for DAP and all other PR components to learn a lesson, this lesson must be learn
#3 by ALLAN THAM on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 11:29 am
Let forget about MCA and Gerakan. These are two Kow TAu parties hopeless party. Kow Tau to UMNO as seem they are their fathers
#4 by ALLAN THAM on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 11:33 am
‘I am menteri besar for all’ say the chelok MB.
yes MB for all corrupt only
#5 by Jeffrey on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 11:33 am
typo spelling errors – “preVious thread”, “…Of course IF one exercises too many wrong judgment in good faith one could and should be removed from positions” and “inCONtrovertible “
#6 by alberttye on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 11:39 am
In the hotly-contested Kuala Terengganu by-election, Umno lost due to the swing in Malay votes despite repeated attempts by Umno campaigners to show its rival Pas had sold out to the minorities to appease other Pakatan Rakyat parties.
This shows Umno is desperate and augurs well for Pakatan Rakyat
#7 by OrangRojak on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 11:40 am
Umno Youth
Stay well away. Let them make speeches to an empty Perak. The right-thinking people of Perak who voted for the exiled government have the moral high ground, but they do not have the police on their side. Najib needs a slip-up to crack down on. Don’t give it to him.
PR supporters can best show their strict adherence to principle by offering the UMNO Youth their inalienable right to protest. Not one head must be shaken, nor one voice raised in argument with these people. They need a token of treason so they can show how ‘right’ they are.
Jeffrey – I don’t see what need there is for ‘bad faith’. Can a supermarket cashier keep the extra 50sen she owes me if she short-changes me in good faith? Presumably nobody is trying to say that the sultan has done anything bad, only that he has made a very small error, not dissimilar to a mistake in counting change. If I leave Billion, and I am 50sen short to pay my parking fee, and the police tow my car away, and I am robbed and killed while looking for a bus to ride home, it is not the cashier’s fault is it?
Perhaps good/bad faith is important for recourse. We have to assume, without an improved CAT scan that can detect political bias, that the sultan acted in the very best of faith, and so any recourse is limited to setting right that which was initially wrong – MB2 goes back to being an ordinary assembly person and gets his chance to call a vote of no-confidence, Nizar gets to refill his drawers, after allowing the BN staff 10 days to vacate the premises again. Or am I slow on the uptake again?
#8 by alberttye on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 11:43 am
“As long as Umno is seen as the backbone by other component parties, who see themselves as followers in the coalition, nothing will change. Not only Umno leaders must change, other BN parties must also change,” said Dr Agus Yusoff of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
This is the fact about MCA MIC Gerakan PPP and other mosquito parties in Sarawak and Sabah.
#9 by mendela on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 11:46 am
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Economy is bad, companies like Gamuda needs Government contracts. Najis is Finance Minister.
#10 by imranj78 on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 11:49 am
LKS, you wrote `In orchestrating the coup de’tat in Perak with the illegal and unconstitutional grab for power, when Nizar is still the legitimate, effective and functioning Mentri Besar, Najib has caused great harm and damage to the system of democracy, the monarchy and the rule of law in Malaysia.’
Tell that to Anwar who wanted to topple the fed government via the same manner since Mar08, even to the extent of sending his reps to Taiwan to convince the BN reps there!! Also tell that to Nizar who clearly mentioned earlier when the Bota ADUN jumped to PKR that there is no need for a bi-election!
While BN’s actions in Perak were not right, DAP, PAS and PKR have all lost the moral ground to criticize BN and Najib on this matter. As such, it is time that you LKS and all your colleagues in PR stop being two-faced politicians!!
#11 by negarawan on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 11:49 am
What Mahathir is alluding to when he said that it is “unethical” to sue a sultan, is that it is “unethical” for people to sue Mahathir himself. You have to read behind the lines when you deal with this guy. Sultans are not above the law, period. In fact many royalties bring disrepute to our country by their actions. For example, just last year a sultan was sued by Chartered Bank for failure to repay a loan, and sued by Bruce Willis over a “green rubber” scam. Malaysia became an international laughing stock and this scared away many FDI.
#12 by Jeffrey on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 11:50 am
So if you can’t prove mala fide and yet you defy and demonstrate against a decison made purportedly in good faith in the course of constitutional duties, you will be accused under our system of rules as showing “disrespect” for the institution, and even if you disagree, all the levers of power – ie police, armed forces, laws (sedition Act, ISA etc) and referees/courts – are all arrayed on the other side with overwhelming force against you in any contest and stand off.
As I said before, your capital is moral; capital, your only vindication is truth and justice of your Cause. You cannot win by fighting on these alone, you have to play smart, abide time, choose territory, timing and circumstances to engage when they combine in your fabour to correct a little the tilt in the uneven playing field – and you have to play smart and just don’t bull doze your way because your emotions would have you do so without objective calculations of a situation, the small picture of the immediate engagement as against the larger picture of how it would play out….
#13 by negarawan on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:04 pm
Published: Sunday February 8, 2009 MYT 11:10:00 AM
Quit now, crowd tells Hee
IPOH: Hundreds of people have turned up at the Jelapang market here Sunday to sign a petition demanding their assemblyman Hee Yit Foong quit her seat.
The people of Changkat Jering and Behrang need to step up pressure on Osman and Jamaluddin. They don’t deserve to have these two sex maniacs and conman.
#14 by ablastine on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:10 pm
Knowing how deep, treacherous and dirty UMNO will play, PR should even now prepare itself or pre-empt what is to come in the next General Election. Remember at that time the country will be under this Najib who still has not explain how C4 was made available for the murder of the Mongolian interpreter.
Like even now , BN or UMNO knows that it will stand no chance of winning the election fair and square and probably with even all the conventional dirty tricks they used like in the two previous by election. They cannot induce the Sultan not to have the general election as in Perak so that people’s mandate can be frustrated.
So what can they do because if they do not win, a lot of them will suffer a fate similiar to that of President Chen in Taiwan. They will definately take the most drastic means.
If my guess is correct, UMNO will create an emergency situation in the country and the easiest to execute is racial incitement. Have the likes of Ahmad Ibrahim and start attacking the minority races until they give. Staged or otherwise, an emergency situation allows them to delay election, justify the use of ISA and have all or most of Pakatan leaders behind bars including promient bloggers or any one who can lead a movement. Operation Lallang 2. Of course with all political opponenets in jail, Malaysia will become another Burma but these corrupted bastards’ main concern is their own pocket and life, not the countries, so this will come to being.
Pakatan should study this possibilities carefully and take pre-emptive measures NOW. They failed to do that in Perak and now it became a mess. How can Pakatan avoid this very likely situation. I think all Pakatan leaders should not be in the country when UMNO starts inciting racial riot when election time comes so that they cannot be arrested by ISA. Power lies in the barrel of the Gun. In the States that Pakatan control, Pakatan should first replace the top few police position in the State with its people. Do now allow a repeat of the scenerio in Perak when the State Secretary himself gave himself the dubious honour of chucking the MB out of the State Secretariat. All State Secretary and for that matter, any high position in the State should be manned by candidate sympathetic to the Pakatan cause. All top police officers in the State should be sympathetic to Pakatans’s cause. In fact Pakatan should even go further, as the final arbiter of power is the army. Pakatan should have army commanders who are sympathetic to its cause as well because when it comes to shove, it is the power of the gun which says it all. With a power base /structure in place to draw from, with a very credible cabinet that cannot be touched by unfair laws, BN may find it this drastic step non viable come next election. Prevention is better than cure. Pakatan must prepare now. Do not underestimate your opponent. Mandate of the people is not enough in our type of country as Burma clearly shows. We need the power of the gun to be on our side as well.
#15 by negarawan on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:12 pm
Many Hindu devotees are carrying kavadi today for the release of HINDRAF five, success for PR, and justice for Malaysia. Let’s unite our hearts and prayers with them today!
#16 by Jeffrey on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:18 pm
“Jeffrey – I don’t see what need there is for ‘bad faith’. Can a supermarket cashier keep the extra 50sen she owes me if she short-changes me in good faith?” – OrangRojak’s posting February 8th, 2009 at 11: 40.07
The problem is (1) humans are not infallible (2) when discharging their official duties they are “protected” by good faith which has especial meaning ie: a decision made in good faith, which is wrong, there is normally a redress by way of appeal to higher authority or courts.
We protest : good faith is not licence to make wrong decision.
The other side defends: however since humans are not infallible, the only way for them to discharge their public and constitutional duties for the public good is to protect them by defence of ‘good faith’ – so that they could be be free to make decisions without anxiety, fear of reprisals and legal suits – and if their decisions are wrong, to vest the public an avenue of appeal or recourse to higher authority or courts.
The problem with a decision of the Highest Supreme Court or a Monarch that is “in good faith” wrong is that there is NO higher authority to which one can appeal except the same one which for the contemporaneous period of time will most certainly re-affirm the same verdict and decision
So the only other way remaining if the above holds true is for public to prove mala fide ie bad faith because in cases of bad faith, a wrong decision is not excused as bona fide!
However again on mala fide, it is easy to suspect but hard to prove : for eg. how does want prove that the supermarket cashier purposely keep the extra 50sen? If you have several other customers there who allege that Billion’s supermarket cashier did the same thing, then you may have the case or the cashier has some criminal records of theft and misappropriation etc. In this cases, it is no more a question of countermanding, reversing or impugning the cashier’s actions or decisions: if mala fide could be proven, the cashier will be sacked and locked up!
But until then the system of rules are there, often stacked against us especially when the interpretation of these ruules again is vested with referees appointed by those against us protected by same rules that you cannot attack their decision if made in good faith no matter how you and I and others think it otherwise. That is the reality whether we like it or not!
#17 by OrangRojak on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:22 pm
Keep up, imranj78 – the game has moved on! Yes, the low-jump is ill-conceived. Yes, every jumper should have been met with demands for a by-election by the party they betrayed. Yes, the matter should have been taken to the courts at the first jump.
But soliciting turncoats is not against any law in Malaysia, is it? We can decry it, but is it in the rules or not? Anwar, in my view, has thrown 2 dice with only 10sen left in his pot, and come up with 5 sixes and a royal flush! By my reading, the rules may have been broken, and if broken, then the heavy-handed capitalisation of the break was a terrible misjudgement on Najib’s part. Anwar’s luck is incredible! I hope he is buying lottery tickets today, perhaps he can retire a rich man by the end of the month!
Yes, the people still supporting mandate betrayal (the jumpers must be voted for in the first place, or there is no issue) as a political tool are attempting to subvert democracy. Yes, PR, if they didn’t start it, were most vocal about it. And yes, they lost at traitor-tempting. But if they broke a rule, they should have been taken to court. Justice is where the high ground is. Our wives may betray us, but if we beat those who cuckold us, it is us who will be going to jail. Some acts, while distasteful, are not against the law. Others are.
Asking politicians not to be two faced? Too late! They are ‘laughing on the other sides of their faces’ now. It’s no longer about our views of right and wrong, a rule may have been broken. If the rule isn’t checked and amends made (if needed), justice will follow our politicians’ morals into the toilet.
#18 by alberttye on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:32 pm
BN/Umno grab of power angers people because it is not right morally, politically, never mind whether legally or not !
Hence, Pakatan/Pas will win in the end because the people are rigtheous.
YAB Nizar is a popular figure and Umno is trying to tarnish his reputation just as they did to Teresa Kok
#19 by Jeffrey on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:35 pm
“Our wives may betray us, but if we beat those who cuckold us, it is us who will be going to jail.” – OrangRojak (February 8th, 2009 at 12: 22.41)
I have to say that is playing smart. What do we gain from and why should we go to jail for a wife and her clandestine lover who cuckold us?
Smarter still, we ask our wives’ lover for money which you can construe as relegating the unfaithful wives to status of a prostitute by one stroke but if you have qualms about being seen a “pimp” you can always excuse it by saying it is just recompense for loss of matrimonial consortium!
With the wives’ cuckoldry or adultery we have the moral and legal cause and excuse to divest our immediate bondage in quest for an alternative nuble younger alternative without wearing a ball of chain of guilt around our neck that we have committed adultery : it was she who drew first blood, a tactic well grasped by Najib when dealing with Anwar/PR on the subject of cross overs.
#20 by Jeffrey on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:37 pm
Ooops – “nubile” not nuble.
#21 by limkamput on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:43 pm
DAP and PR should rethink party strategy. The party should be organised like a corporation. I think grass-root activists and grass-root politics are a waste of time. What the party need are thinkers and strategists who can come forth with refreshing ideas and strategies to garner attention and bring meaningful development to the country.
At this age, there is no need for party activists who are no more than soldiers of fortune. What we need are good ideas and strategies and let the sms and internet do the rest. There is no need to reward the so-called party workers with constituencies or positions. Usually they are greedy, political novice and shallow. They will sell their mothers for RM10.00.
Some people are really loading this blog with your endless rojak and half baked view on all kinds of things. Hello, wake up; please don’t take it upon yourself you must have a final say in everything.
#22 by juno on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:46 pm
The first 100 pre-100days of Najib. http://sjsandteam.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/the-minds-open-letter-to-tengku-razaleigh/
#23 by OrangRojak on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:47 pm
Hello, wake up [limkamput]; please don’t take it upon yourself you must have a final say in everything.
#24 by limkamput on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:50 pm
DAP and PR should rethink party strategy. The party should be organised like a corporation. I think grass-root activists and grass-root politics are a waste of time. What the party need are thinkers and strategists who can come forth with refreshing ideas and strategies to garner attention and bring meaningful development to the country.
At this age, there is no need for party activists who are no more than soldiers of fortune. What we need are good ideas and strategies and let the sms and internet do the rest. There is no need to reward the so-called party workers with constituencies or positions. Usually they are greedy, political novice and shallow. They will sell their mothers for RM10.00.
Some people are really loading this blog with their endless rojak and half baked view on all kinds of things. Hello, wake up; please don’t take it upon yourself you must have a final say in everything.
#25 by Jeffrey on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:53 pm
There is certainly no more effective way to challenge break & refresh from the monotony of sensible remarks littering the blog here than by the use of a timely if exceptional reminder.
#26 by limkamput on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 12:53 pm
I don’t. That is why I am not like you, coming up with endless postings with all the c and b stories.
#27 by OrangRojak on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 1:06 pm
LKS – I appeal for you to apply your wisdom! Please limit us all to no more comments than limkamput posts on any thread. I fear limkamput has the moral high ground on this issue, but I am too easily tempted by your invitation “Leave a reply“. I beg for draconian laws to save me from my own weakness! I desire the power of insight so greatly that I make random comments in great numbers in the hopes one will be right!
You see? Jeffrey saw a better meaning in my ‘cuckold’ analogy than the one I intended. Now I am so smart, I surprise even myself!
Aiyah, limkamput is right – I use this blog like a chatroom! I have no self restraint. If I beg you all for forgiveness, will you promise not to spit on my mother? Sorry, sorry, I’m going now.
#28 by Onlooker Politics on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 1:15 pm
“detainees currently living
I thought they were all let go recently, weren’t they?” (OrangRojak)
OrangRojak,
I think you must have read the mainstream newspaper in Malaysia on the news of the release of one or two ISA detainees and got the misperception that all ISA detainees or Preventive detainees under the Police Act have all been released.
Do you know how the IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan celebrated his appointment of the IGP post in 2003? He gave order for the arrest of all Big Tycoons of unlicensed 4-D gaming business and illegal gambling business and putting them to Simpang Rengam Detention camp for preventive detention of 2 years. There was one case of a suspected Big Boss of loan shark business in KL who got released upon obtaining a habeas corpus from the High Court. A habeas corpus order from the High Court may cost more than RM200,000 in Malaysia. This is not a price which many people can afford in Malaysia.
There are still some Big Bosses who managed to go for exile to foreign country few years ago but had been detained upon their return to Malaysia recently. I can assure you that Simpang Rengam Detention Camp is not vacant as at the post of this comment.
It is also a publicly know fact that Hindraf 5 have not been released from the ISA detention insofar.
We shall keep praying and hoping for their being set free in the near future!
#29 by m.hwang on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 1:17 pm
limkamput is spot on. We need thinkers and strategists, not activists and party workers. Some are born to lead whilst some are meant to contribute in other ways. In rare circumstances you will get a party worker who turns out to be a exemplarary leader. In all honesty these examples are rare.
To attract talent you must have talent. Talented professionals cannot look up to crude leaders who think nothing of balancing their ideals with get rich quick schemes. Less educated leaders will also do everything in their power to discourage or prohibit talents from joining or rising up party ranks.
Recruiting Tony Pua was one of the recent successes of DAP. Let’s encourage more members of substance in PR…not put them down.
#30 by alberttye on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 1:33 pm
YAB Nijar visited Ipoh Subramaniam Kallumalai temple at 10.40 am and received tremendous welcome from the Indians.
This contrasted starkly with the cold reception received by Zambry earlier at 9 am.
This shows Nizar’s government has a good chance of surviving compared to Zambry’s.
Hence, the PR supporters need to continue steadfastly the non-violent boycott of BN/Umno supremacy behaviour.
#31 by alberttye on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 1:41 pm
Constitutional expert professor Aziz A Bari today said that the Sultan of Perak had no powers under the state constitution to “hire or fire” a menteri besar.
He said that while that was the position before independence, the post-Merdeka constitution made it very clear that the menteri besar does not hold office at the sultan’s pleasure.
YAB Nijar’s government is getting more and more support. The end of the tunnel is nearing and he shall see the light once again.
Justice shall prevail over evil
#32 by ktteokt on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 2:04 pm
100 days is the Chinese custom whereby the spirit of deceased people are believed to have been “cleansed” and this is when they are allowed to ascend to the ancestral worship tablet (shen zhu pai). I believe Najis now qualifies for worship on the shen zhu pai already even before the 100 days!
#33 by storm62 on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 2:10 pm
YB Kit Siang,
can the people of Perak lodge a police report for being ROB of their state by a bunch of criminals?
MB Nizar should also lodge a report for his office was being robbed of all his documents and personal belongings.
#34 by orang_cina on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 2:15 pm
Well I think you all must have signed on Sultan’s guestbook until it was removed. YB Nga Kor Ming once said, BN haram government will be overthrown very soon; I hope BN statesman will see through this evil act of Najib and repend very soon.
If there is a mega demonstration of whole Ipoh from all races; to demand a dissolution and Sultan refused; I think the rakyat can decide what they want for the state. UMNO can call their members from whole Malaysia to demonstrate, but the Rakyat Perak has the true says. Go Najib, call up all your UMNO youths to come demonstrate and fight.
I always said, without Rakyat, there is no Kingdom.
#35 by alberttye on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 2:20 pm
Just as the defection dust is settling in Perak, several Pakatan Rakyat state representatives have come forward to claim that the new Barisan Nasional state government is not done fishing for defectors.
So what Pakatan Rakyat should be doing now ?
#36 by Outcasts on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 2:20 pm
“The mercury is set to rise further in Perak tomorrow with plans for Umno Youth to hold a rally supporting the constitutional monarchy.”
“Several top Umno officials are expected to speak at the gathering in Ipoh tomorrow.”
“Several Umno leaders also stoked the fire accusing Nizar of treason.”
http://m.themalaysianinsider.com/articles.php?id=17874-umno-swings-for-sultan-in-peraks-dire-straits
I’m waiting for the police to issue a warning to the people not to attend the “illegal” gathering organized by umno youth tomorrow.
#37 by alberttye on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 2:28 pm
The real question on Perak — Amer Hamzah Arshad
No doubt there are several legal and moral issues that have arisen from the Perak fiasco. But the real issue that irks the rakyat is the fact that the capitalists and the royalty have robbed the state government from the rakyat.
The support for PR government under Nizar is growing stronger.
#38 by Prasad on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 2:30 pm
“(The Malaysian Insider) The mercury is set to rise further in Perak tomorrow with plans for Umno Youth to hold a rally supporting the constitutional monarchy, in particular Sultan Azlan Shah, much criticized for his role in the transfer of power in the state. ”
Ohh great another mamak demonstration coming to Perak. Don’t be surprised if its the same people from Penang.
#39 by michael13 on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 2:33 pm
How could we expect our political leaders to stamp out corruption when they eagerly introduced the method of corruption to change Perak Mentri Besar? A false hope!! The decision makers, both their IQ & EQ must be terribly low. It is obvious that all those involved will be buried in the next GE.
#40 by alberttye on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 2:37 pm
Mahathir said the law allows the PR government to challenge the sultan’s decision in court.
Can you believe that. Even the nemesis of Anwar is standing on his side !!!
#41 by alberttye on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 2:42 pm
Cheras Umno division head Senator Syed Ali Alhabshee suggested that the ‘Datuk Seri’ title conferred on former Perak Menteri Besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin be revoked.
Is he related to Syed Hamid who threatens to use ISA against those who demonstrated in K. Kangsar if they do it again ?
#42 by veddy.lum74 on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 4:12 pm
oklah,oklah,calm down for a while,have a break,have a drink n enjoy this stories:
1.small kid en.jumaat was having a conversation with his friend,his friend suddenly asked him:”how did you get your name?”,sigh a while and said:”my mother told me,i was born on friday!so,what about you,why your name like that?”
“i wasnt born at hospital,but on the river side!”,river side reply!
and not far from there,somebody shouted:”no wonder my name is hospital!”
2.both zamry n obama were born at night,that’s why their skin is darker,those born with fairer skin,the parents will tell you:”kid,your father is an engineer,he doesnt want to enter to a wrong tol,he was riding motorbike,sometimes at nite,you cant see clearly you see
#43 by veddy.lum74 on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 4:31 pm
excuse me,this 4 fellars are not frogs!
frogs’ life span are longer than grasshoppers!
the grasshoppers’ life generally only 30 days,so they are more accurately to be described as grasshoppers!and,their days are numbered!
correct me if i m wrong!
#44 by shortie kiasu on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 4:45 pm
According to news REPORT, that ex DAP Hee aka Wu Sang Kwai, will be appointed as ‘new’ “Exco” member of Perak.
It only goes to further prove that she is all for her self and her selfish interest, making use of the party to get elected in order to reap riches and power for her own and no body else.
Since the people she was supposed to represent in the state assembly are clamouring vigorously for her resignation, she should just quit.
Hee aka Wu Sang Kwai can no longer perform effectively as representative of the said constituent.
Her face painted a thousand pictures of the betrayal of the lowest and crudest kinds.
#45 by Evenmind on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 4:48 pm
2nd 100 days in office , Najib’s aide will publish a book on anal intercourse , third 100 days , Najib will sell Malaysia for US$ 300billion commission , he’ll try to compete with Bill gates to be the the richest man in the world. , cheers to Nostradamus……….
#46 by Evenmind on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 5:01 pm
Book will have elements of voodoo and blowing up bodies to make it a best seller.
#47 by Loh on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 5:06 pm
///Najib, who is also Perak UMNO and BN Chief, said that no one should challenge the Sultan’s decision to declare Barisan the rightful government. Doing so would be insulting the institution of the constitutional monarchy. Whatever it is, everyone must respect His majesty’s decision. As the former Lord President he would really understand the role of the constitutional monarch.///– The Star 8 February 2009.
It is good that Najib reminds the world that the Sultan of Perak was the former Lord President. It is because of his standing in the legal profession that the citizens feel confident that His Highness accepts freely the need to allow legal accountability, and that decision made under the authority of the constitution can be reviewed based on law. To prevent the people who had the locus standi in the legal challenge from doing so would be seen as an attempt to protect the Sultan, as if the Sultan’s decision could not stand up to the scrutiny of court, where His Highness was once the chief of the system. It would also show that the government attempts to silence critics and to deprive the citizens the right to legal recourse. It arouses suspicions that the government intends to practices the rule of law.
Najib should realize that it is because the decision is made by the constitutional monarch that recourse to legal channel is the most civilized procedure to settle a dispute. If the aggrieved party is prevented to do this because of the status of the personality, then the government gives the indication that the monarch is constitutional in name but absolute in fact, and he rules on the status of his person without regard to constitution. The government certainly cannot allow this misconception to ever emerge.
Najib suggested only yesterday that in disputes, the matter could go to court. But he is changing his tune. Following his change, or otherwise, there are now people trying to make police report invoking the seditious act against people who exercise their basic human right to go to court. There are UMNO leaders who wish to turn the legal dispute into question of loyalty to the country, as though people cannot have a different opinion from those of the constitutional monarch. In the dark ages in Europe, Galelio was punished for his ideas, and UMNO is leading its people back to dark ages, all because it wanted the government of Perak to be under BN.
UMNO has been using the race issues for the past 51 years since independence to get whatever little political advantage it wanted. Now it is trying to link the legal issue into the right of monarch, loyalty, and respect for customs. TDM said that as Malay he thought it was unethical to take the case to court, because the person who answers the charge is the constitutional monarchy. But TDM was the person who set up court to try constitutional monarch for matters relating to their personal actions. How he can square the two stands can only be answered by him.
Najib will soon become Prime Minister. He should have foreseen that if there were doubts on the decision made by the constitutional monarch, there would be court cases. He should have been advised, or is he ignorant about a similar occurrence in Sarawak in 1966 when the court found that the government of Stephen, the Chief Minister of Sarawak was wrongfully dismissed based on the state constitution of Sarawak. It should be noted that the two clauses on the departure of the Chief Minister/MB relating to non-confidence of the Legislative Assembly are identical for Sarawak and Perak. If Najib did not know of the precedent, then he is quite unfit to be PM. If he knew and yet proceeded to declare that BN had the number and sought audience with the Sultan of Perak, then he had brought the trouble to involve the Sultan. He caused the Sultan into making a decision which had a precedent and proven to be unacceptable to the court. It is because of the precedent that had occurred in Sarawak that the Sultan should be protected from making the same decision. That would invite gossips around the country that the decision made by the Sultan was similar to one found to be acceptable to the court. The reputation of His Highness as a learned law expert and his illustrious records as Lord President of the country travels far and wide not just in commonwealth countries but the world. The fact that His Highness made a decision similar to one which was made by the governor of Sarawak in 1966 and which ended in the court as ultra vires would harm the reputation of His Highness in dispute. All this because the waiting PM was over zealous to gain control of Perak.
UMNO youth Penang is as usual over zealous in supporting action by UMNO and the powers-that-be in Putraijaya in their effort to prevent the case going to court. Unless Najib tell them in plain language that he accepts that the matter could end up in court as he declared yesterday, then it shows that UMNO prefers the matter resolved on the streets rather than in the court.
#48 by alberttye on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 5:06 pm
Perak MCA Youth lodged a report at the Ipoh police headquarters at 12.30pm, alleging that several PR leaders had uttered seditious remarks to the extent of violating the rights of the people of Perak, and ridiculing the power and authority of the sultan.
State MCA Youth chief Dr Mah Hang Soon filed the report on behalf of the movement.
He is going to be an Exco under the Zambry’s government.
More trouble for PR and Nizar ?
#49 by alberttye on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 5:08 pm
Meanwhile, some 700 people, including members of Perak ex-servicemen association, 4B Youth movement and Manjoi Malay Association, stage a peaceful gathering at the state Umno headquarters.
Did the police use tear gas against them ?
#50 by alberttye on Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 5:12 pm
Wanita Umno chief Tan Sri Rafizah Aziz has called on the authorities in Perak to take action against Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin and his executive councillors for continuously defying the orders of the Sultan of Perak.
Did she call for the same action against Dr Mahathir ? Being his minister, she also was part of the party of that history.