Monday, October 29, 2012

NOT MOCKING, JUST LAMPOONING…..

Blog reader Nicole Tan commented on October 29, 2012 1:09 PM:
The term ‘Bread and Circuses’; (Latin: Panem et circenses) is a figure of speech for a fake sense of satisfaction or the ‘feel good’ factor. In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the garnering of public approval through manipulation and/or the instant/quick satisfaction of the shallow requirements of the citizens.
In other words, as ‘panadols’ are for quick fixes. Juvenal (a Roman poet) defined it as “a simplistic motivation of common people”. The phrase is taken to describe a populace that no longer values civic virtues and the public life.
To politicians, it connotes the winning formula for the survival of the Roman Republic for centuries. Both the Roman Republic and China’s Han dynasty lasted for 500 years. The former used “bread and circuses” whilst the latter was an absolute monarchy.
Instead of winning the citizens’ approval through excellent public service and policies, the Roman Republic gave cheap food and entertainment. The Roman Republic provided the bread and circuses in order to order to keep the Roman citizens from becoming too discontent with their lives.
The Roman government provided the citizens with enough food (bread) so they wouldn’t starve and enough entertainment (circuses) so they would be amused. Hence, the Romans elected them again and again.
BN’s breads are the 1Malaysia goodies and handouts (BR1M Part 1 & 2, free tyres for taxi drivers, smart phone allowances for young adults, Felda’s RM15,000, pay rise for civil servants, etc).
BN’s latest ‘bread’ was the announcement by Najib of RM2.98 billion for Sabah next year. Its circus shows are the alphabet soup management (ETP, GTP, NKRA, etc); not forgetting tarring of roads before any general election. Another great circus show was Najib’s ‘groundbreaking’ announcement in his Malaysia Day’s speech.
He said the government shall repeal the three Emergency Declarations and draconian statutes like ISA, Printing Presses and Publications Act and Banishment Act. They were BN’s powerful weapons to curb opposition and rakyat who do not accept the government’s policies.
Why should BN take away these powerful weapons? It is actually for BN’s political survival. Like the lizard’s survival skill. The lizard will shed its tail in order to escape from its predator/death.
Food (or bread) for thought: Is BN using the age old formula of ‘Bread and Circuses’ to survive another general election? Are we gullible enough to allow that to happen again? (end of comment)
Nicole, thanks for the timely erudite contribution. 

 All these “goodies” didn't make much sense to me, the bunch of stuff the government did, and the last straw, to me, was what we Hokkiens refer to succinctly as por lam pah as opposed to the euphemistic brown nosing. Elaborating the recent antics of the MCA HERE would be unadulterated mockery and not lampooning.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

KAMAL BASHAR, ALLOW ME TO BASH THE CHINESE, CAN?

 One of my visitors told me point-blank, “Uncle B, I noticed you hardly hantam the MCA of late.” “True,” was my reply, “ when a person is DOWN, you either kick him/her out of your way or walk over him/her. The humane thing would be to walk away from these near-dead!”
Of late the father/son tag team have amassed a plethora of guffaws with their infantile utterings; Donald  lame Lim was given the honor by UMNO to announce another RM500 vote buying offering come 2013 whilst Health Minister was diagnosed as a pathological liar. We are reliably informed that no cure, but treatment like major therapy is recommended and possibly lifetime medications.
For a brief moment we thought the recent the Nine Emperor Festival (Oct15-23) when devotees turn vegetarian for 9 days to achieve ritual cleansing and pray for blessings and to get rid of misfortunes and bad luck was bearing fruit, in struts on stage this MCA strumpet the Honorable Heng Sei Kie, Deputy Minister to our alpha male Minister of Women Affairs and whatever, to remind the Chinese that Tok Guru Nik Aziz once said that any women who did not dress like Muslim women were ripe for rape.
 YB Heng, I just hope recently sacked PAS Hasan Ali don’t see this pic below. No matter how I tried to Picnik Edit this I am sure he can recognize the young man.


Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Sunday, October 21, 2012

I CAN TAKE CRAP IN ALL HUES, BUT NOT CRASS STUPIDITY.

PPIM chief activist Nadzim Johan HERE said Starbucks had been nominated for the award based on allegations that some of its profits go to Israel.


I don’t need anger management! I need people to stop pissing me off.
The list of Jewish products listed below is ony 1/10 of the full list of Jewish products. I have picked only those available in the country and to make it simpler I have drawn the list up according to alphabetical order for impact.  I was wondering how I could support Nadzim Johan apostolic zeal when he finally engineers the loss of jobs of myriads of our rakyat if his crusade bears fruition.
To make it simpler:
Do not drink or eat commercial drinks and foods, do not use a car or other industrial product, do not sleep in a house.
Doing any of those things (and many others on my prepared list) you will directly or indirectly support some Jew owned company. And by the way, avoid diamonds …… Jews own all the diamonds.







If idiots could fly UMNO would be an airport, yah?


Here's a few to start with and don't forget STARBUCKS!
Aramis
Ball Park
BALI
Biotherm
Buitoni
Banana Republic
Boss - Hugo Boss
Clinique
Carrefour
CNN
Caterpillar
Champion
Coca Cola
Donna Karan
Dr. Pepper
Disney
Estee Lauder
Fanta
Gap
Giorgio Armani Parfums
Haper Collins
Helena Rubinstein
HEMA
Huggies
ICQ
IBM
Intel
JC Penney
Jimmy Dean
Johnson and Johnson
Kit Kat
Kiwi
Kimbery Clark
Kleenex
Kotex
Lancome
Leggs
Libby's
L'Oreal
McDonald's
Marks & Spencer
Maybelline
Maggi
Nestle
Nokia
National Geographic Channel
Perrier
Ralph Lauren
Revlon
Sprite
Schweppes
Sunkist
Starbucks
Time Magazine
Timberland
Tommy Hilfiger
Victoria's Secret
Vittel
Villager's hardware
Wonderbra
20th Centrury Fox


And remember one other thing…..If the barcode start 7290 put it back on the shelf.
And should you lose your job because of this boycott, you know who to look for.
In the meantime enjoy your jobs while you still have them.

Friday, October 19, 2012

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!


During those 12 days in hospital and sleep was an effort I spent a lot of time reflecting on whether along the way I have strayed from my main focus – a necessary CHANGE towards a BETTER Malaysia. I have come to this uncomfortable truth: Under this current government WE have NO RIGHTS! But there is one RIGHT that nobody, not even the almighty UMNO can take away from us!
OUR RIGHT TO VOTE UMNO OUT!