Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
Hilarious Start To Muhyiddin's Half-Baked National Directive For Social Distancing!!! By UMAR MUKHTAR
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Social Distancing
Via WhatsApp : First, donāt get us wrong. We are always prepared to give a fledgling new government a chance. But if in its first public directive, it fumbles big-time, indicative of its lack of thought and planning over a policy matter, it does take quite a bit of convincing that it is actually a functional unit.
Social distancing was to combat the spread of Covid 19 through close over-crowding, it seems. But tonight over-crowding were at major police stations, ironically created by the need for social distancing.
Within hours of the controlled movement directive by Muhyiddin, after his golf game that delayed the telecacast, came the IGPās interpretation of the approvals needed from the police in order to cross state boundaries.
You have to fill in a form. What? In these times of on-line everything! We bet the form is not even a legally registered document either! And wait for the police approval. How it is approved is a mystery, like if you need medical necessities etc. maybe?
Somebody forgot about the university students who are not from the localities. The universities have told them to get out of their hostels, and yet the police have just told them to get their written permission first.
They were forced to queue and crowd the police stations all over, for hours. If there were Covid 19 virus there, they were having a party there with the crowd at the police stations by courtesy of the IGP!
Tempers flared. And a policeman was recorded giving the weary and tired undergraduates a lecture that the purpose of the whole excercise was to reduce close socialising, that they should not go back to their kampungs and spread stuff. Stay where they were, he urged.
He was spot-on, but he was ignorant of the fact that the kids have no place to stay soon, having been asked to go. These are, in fact, the fortunate ones compared to the ones without travelling expenses for such emergency trips. Aha! A Malay government not familiar with Malay poverty!
What poor coordination between government agencies that caused the students to suffer. Even the minister of higher learning had to publicly appeal not to be cruel to the students. Finally, at late night the order to fill in the forms were rescinded to the studentsā relief.
New orders will be made after a meeting later.
What? You had not known or discuss the consequences of your orders? Wasnāt there a plan? What a bunch of nincompoops! Anyway, we can bet that a thousand over votes were lost from āsaliran satuā tonight!
Then, until at the time of writing, there must be a crowd of tens of thousands of Malaysians stranded on the causeway in JB in the rush to be in Singapore, trying to get there before the midnight deadline, and to be there at work tomorrow in order not to lose their cherished jobs. Partying with Covid 19 alright!
The government is still silent as to any inter-governmental understanding as to their being away for two weeks from their jobs. Will it still be there when they come back?
Wisely, they dump their government, and decided to be in Singapore tonight, squat at their friendsā place or as one father of six said, āI will sleep in the five- foot ways for the two weeks if I have to!ā.
And in all that fiasco there was silence from the government. No cabinet minister even bother to say anything. Like this was happening in another country.
Weāll let it go this time. But the next fumble will invite hell because itās support-the-semburit team again!
Not forgetting his partisan attempt to sideline 5 Pakatan Harapan States from Federal Funding and help!!
