Friends and clown

James Taylor, crown gone, but assurredly not a clown

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Indonesia's star attraction, a world class vocal artiste,
Ruth Sahanaya
in a medley.

Lembu punya susu, Sapi tidak malu

Abdullah said during an exclusive interview with Sin Chew Daily at his private residence in Kuala Lumpur that during his five-year tenure as the prime minister, he has managed to change the mentality of the Malays.

"Young Malays feel that they need the opportunities, so they begin talking about DAP and PKR. They believe they have better opportunities there."

"I can change the Malays" - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

www.mysinchew.com

US shares Shoe Stinks with Germans

US GENERAL ON BERLIN AGENTS IN BAGHDAD

'The Germans Were Invaluable to Us'

In a SPIEGEL interview, Retired General James Marks, 55, discusses the importance of the BND, Germany's foreign intelligence agency, for US attack plans in Iraq.

SPIEGEL: General Marks, how valuable was the information you received from the BND team in Baghdad during the war?

Marks: The German information was of extreme importance and value for us. That's true of all of the information we received from all of the "eyes on the ground" human intelligence we got out of Baghdad. We were well supplied with electronic, signals and aerial reconnaissance. That made up about 95 percent of our intelligence. When it came to human intelligence, we were in bad shape. That's why the Germans were invaluable to us, but also because the information they provided was detailed and reliable.

SPIEGEL: The German government claims that the information wasn't suitable for US purposes.

Marks: I can only say this: We trusted the information from the Germans more than we trusted the CIA because we knew that the Germans tend to be anal retentive and would only report on things they had seen, felt or smelled or that they were very sure of.

More at www.spiegel.de

George of the Jungle - a Morning Show

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Knaves or Diamonds or Jack of all trades

Interests rates can go off to 750,000% as in Zimbabwe. What it does is wipe out all civilized attainable means to access goods or services by paper money. The only thing you could do is, driven to despair, to rob and steal. Well, you could do barter. In other words return of the lanun days. During the lanun days, your identity is not on My Card. It's the size of your feast or the doom of your kris. After a while you become King or a Sultan. If you have romantic ideas about royalty get it out of your head. It's pure dung. Had Zimbabwe been a "progressive" state, with enough people able to exert efforts on socio-cultural dynamics, no one need suffer. Our friend Roberto is His Highness and absolute monarch the Sultan of Zimbabwe.

Why should zero interest make people panic? It's just a scale or measure of something. Some crazy scientist bound by the bariers of his mind and society worked out the use of the Fahrenheit measure and we boil at 212 F. Then they took it down and put it to 100 C. We could put it down lower to 50 S or higher 10,000 S and you still boil. I could get angry with just a word. So could you.

Anwar Ibrahim is making compromises by undertaking to restore full rights of Malaysia's Royalty. If we are to see any change in the social fabrics of Malaysian life, it won't be because of Royalty. They had so many chances in the last so many years and they did nothing. If Anwar is going to do same, change will come, but it will be loose change. Change is the cause of everybody, even decent members of the Royalty. Change is the people's bizness. It's everyone's. But we can't keep on clinging to pretences.

So if anybody offers you a deck, you still have a choice of four Jacks! Both ends of the stick are Jack of Knaves and Jack of Diamonds.

But we have to move on!

Shoes for Bush

TV Stringer, Muntazer al-Zaidi of Al-Baghdadia channel which broadcasts from Cairo, is in detention in Bagdad, after he threw his size 10 shoes at Bush on the latter's suprised appearance in Iraq Sunday 14 December, 2008.

It's the biggest insult you can do to anyone, according to Middle Eastern culture. Malaysian Muslims have same belief.

There are plenty targets in Malaysia so take your pick!

I dread the day when we have to get a license for our shoes.

Who has shoe shields to sell? At or away from the seashore!

AFP story by Google News

The Butcher who no gambles

The Butcher

A man walks into a butchers shop asks the butcher "Are you a gambling man?"

The butcher says, "Yes".

The man says, "I bet you fifty dollars that you can't reach up and touch that meat hanging on the hooks up there."

The butcher looks up at the meat hanging on the hooks. He says, "I'm not betting on that".

"But I thought you were a gambling man," the man retorts.

"Yes I am," says the butcher, "but the steaks are too high".