S’wak Chinese unbowed by Taib’s threat

By Joe Fernandez
ANALYSIS The Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP), in trouble with Chinese voters in particular since 2006, is being told that the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) will be able to form the next state government even without a single seat contribution from it. This is the message going out to the party from Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud who has to call state polls by the middle of next year.

Taib’s message is based on the fact that SUPP will be allocated as usual only 19 of the 71 state seats at stake. The party lost eight seats at the last outing in 2006. The Bumiputera-based Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) will take the lion’s share at 35, Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) nine and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) eight.

FRIGHTENING REALITY ABOUT MUSLIMS

Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book:  Slavery, Terrorism and Islam:  The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.

Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult.  In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life.
Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components.  The religious component is a beard for all of the other components. Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges.

Formation of Malaysia

In the years immediately before the formation of Malaysia, two commissions of enquiry visited North Borneo (along with neighbouring Sarawak) in order to establish the state of public opinion there regarding merger with Malaya (and Singapore).

It is important to note that neither commission was mandated with addressing the legal status of North Borneo; neither were they 'referendums' in the proper sense.

A Malaysia Day reflection

By Hilary Chiew

COMMENT Malaysia Day last Thursday saw considerable outpouring of sentiments of ‘oneness’ on the pages of newspapers and online portals and even on the streets.
Some were the predictable reiteration and re-examination of the 20- and 18-point agreements that applied to Sabah and Sarawak when the two states in Borneo together with the Federation of Malaya and Singapore formed Malaysia in 1963.

There were also the propagandists ‘feel-good’ stories of West Malaysians singing praises of the ‘development’ they saw happening in the two states across the South China Sea.

Law of the Garbage Truck

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.

‘Indian youths engineered into gangsterism’ by UMNO.

Source Malaysiakini

The Human Rights Party Malaysia (HRP) claims that Umno’s social engineering has denied Indian youths the right to education, jobs, business mobility, loans and contract opportunities that has resulted in many of them turning to gangsterism and violent crime.
Protem secretary general P Uthayakumar (right) alleged this has resulted in the emergence of a new Indian criminal underclass at levels disproportionate to the Indian community’s 8 percent of the nation’s population.
He says detaining such youths without trial under the Emergency Ordinance (EO) will not do; Indian gangsterism must be tackled at its roots.

Ex-Sabah state sec moots panel on constitution

 

By Joe Fernandez

KOTA KINABALU: Former Sabah state secretary Simon Sipaun has suggested that a special committee be set up to study past amendments to the federal constitution, the role of the judiciary in interpreting the constitution and further amendments that are needed whether to the constitution or in existing legislation.

The committee could particularly help determine whether the judiciary has been acting "impartially and courageously" when interpreting the federal constitution, he said.

Jokes for the day: PUNCTUATION is POWERFUL !

An English professor wrote the following words

"A woman without her man is nothing"

on the board and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.

 

All the males in the class wrote: 

"A woman, without her man, is nothing."

 

All the females in the class wrote: 

"A woman: without her, man is nothing."

PBS MAN CRIES FOUL OVER UMNO DOMINATING POSTS IN DUSUN KAMPUNGS

By Ezra Haganez
KOTA BELUD: A local Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) member from Kampung Pangi in Kelawat near here, Dumit Banati, had questioned the rationale of putting in perpetuity UMNO leaders as Village Headman in a predominantly Dusun kampung with many PBS members.

"Recently, the long-serving Ketua Kampung of Kg Pangi who was an UMNO member was replaced by yet another UMNO member, recommended by UMNO.

"Just where is the so-called power-sharing when only UMNO men could be considered for even ketua kampung post? And worse sometimes even the Pengerusi JKKK of the same kampung is also from UMNO," he told Borneo Herald.

PKR preaches good governance but teaches dirty polling tactics to its members, say members

By Ezra Haganez

KUDAT: At least three local Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) leaders from Kudat claimed there were irregularities too at their weekend party polls.

Ondon Mangajil, who won a divisional committee seat, said he was unhappy because of glaring irregularities at the party polls where candidates aligned to incumbent Mursalim Tanjul were allowed to assist the monitoring team appointed by headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

“How could it be that even candidates themselves were running themselves the polling process? This does not happen in other political parties but it is allowed in PKR and worse it was only for certain group in the party.