Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Who controls the purse strings? The Mentri Besar. PKR guys want to have their fingers in the till, apparently the MB flicks their fingers away everytime. The MB does not want to have any of that. Anwar and PKR are doing this because they think that the rakyat are lost for choices. They have in their mind that the rakyat will not abandon them. We must kick Anwar out early, so has to give PKR a rude awakening, not to take the rakyat for granted. You will actually be doing them a favour in preparation for the GE-14.
Not to forget, Khalid did not do a bad job in managing state. If Anwar chooses to take over as menteri besar from Khalid, he would be attempting to better a very tough act.
With such high financial benchmarks already set in the state, would it bode well for a former deputy prime minister as well as former finance minister to perform anyway less than twice as good as Khalid?
It has everything to do with "Anyone But UMNO". It must have gone to their head. Khalid runs the state with the rakyat in mind, he makes the rakyat happy, PKR politicians in turn are not happy, as they cannot get their fingers into the till. Why fix something that is not broken?
Definitely there are dubious motives in play, by the PKR elites. Even the polls conducted on Khalid by The Star, on the 29th January 2014, states that he is even more popular than Anwar. Out of 2,125 respondents, 43% of them, numbering in 915 voters, favoured Khalid to continue to helm the state.
“He has shown good governance, something that is sorely lacking in other Malaysian leaders. He should continue as MB despite the calls for him to do otherwise from his detractors,” said one voter. With 24% of the vote, Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli was a distant second with 497 supporters.
Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who has been named by PKR as its candidate in the by-election, only managed to take third place with 450 or 21% in his favour. Trailing behind him was PAS’ Cempaka assemblyman, Iskandar Abdul Samad, with only 172 votes or 8% in his favour. Gombak MP Azmin Ali, who garnered only 91 votes or 4% of popular support, came last.
There was also a Merdeka Center poll some years back where Khalid was shown to be a more popular leader than Anwar? If so, Anwar would be one hell of an unhappy person. The problem with PKR is, it is mostly like UMNO, in that it is an extremely feudal party.
So what has UMNO to do now? Tell off that party of porn stars to not contest in Kajang. Listen to Oxford Kari, after all, MCA are boot lickers. Next get "Tempe Face" the one time wannabe UMNO candidate for the Mentri Besar of Selangor and charge him for corruption. Once you win you can of course drop all charges and declare him a saintly person. After all it is a great strategy! You can do it, I am bloody sure you might just pull it off. On second thoughts, throw him in jail for just being ugly, no need for the corruption charges.
