If I get down to it, over the next week or two, you'll probably see some work-in-progress here, including the possibility of me migrating over to WordPress from Movable Type.

I'm gonna wipe the slate clean, meaning that the old stuff will no longer be here. I've backed up my posts and published them at this address:

backupman.wordpress.com

So if you wanna read em, go there.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Haaapeee Neeew Yeeeaaar ...

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has denied buying a RM30 million boat as reported by a newspaper in Turkey recently.

"The report is inaccurate. It is a lie. I don't know where it got such facts," he told reporters here when asked to comment on a newspaper report that he went to Bodrum in Turkey recently to see the boat which he ordered four months ago.

Abdullah said he would ask the newspaper to make a correction.

...

"I was in Turkey but did not see the boat," he said ... [Bernama]

He describes Hurriyet's report as inaccurate and a lie, but the only thing that Abdullah actually denies here is seeing the boat, and the only thing that he wants of the newspaper is a correction, not an apology and a retraction.

The Prime Minister needs to do better than that.

Maybe something along the lines of "no, I have neither bought a boat nor ordered one to be built. And nobody has bought one or ordered one to be built for me."

Pretty simple and straigthtforward, don't you think?

***** *****

When he comes back from wherever he is now, our Prime Minister needs to explain a few things to us.

Did he commission a Turkish boatbuilder to build a boat for him at a cost of US$8 million?

If so, who is paying for it?

If the Prime Minister is forking out his own money, then where did he get the money?

Don't be quick to jump to conclusions.

For all we know, rich son Kamaluddin might be the one footing the bill.

As long as it's not anyone else, it should be OK. In a way. I think.

ON ANOTHER NOTE, I long to see us having a "commoner" for a Prime Minister.

We have never had one before.

It's unlikely we will have one in the foreseeable future.

The government could not spread the burden of imposing higher toll rates over a much longer toll concession period as it did not want toll collection to be a permanent feature in Malaysia, said Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.

He said the government had to put a limit on the extension of the toll concession period at between 30 and 35 years in order to avoid motorists from paying toll for life.

"If we allow the concession period to be extended to 60 years just to enable motorists to pay much lower toll rates now, it would result in motorists paying toll for life," he told reporters, here. [Bernama]

I suppose 30 to 35 years is just right.

You buy your first car between the ages of 20 and 25 years old, and by the time you retire, you don't have to pay toll anymore.

How considerate of the Government.

How nice of Samy Vellu to explain it to us.

How much dumber can you get?

The "scheme" only works if you don't introduce any new tolled roads beyond a certain date.

But at the rate the Government's going, tolled roads are set to be a feature of not just the current generation of Malaysians, but of several generations to come.

THAT ASIDE, how many newspapers and TV stations do you think will run this "news"?

BTW, the title of this post is a take on the Malay word "tolol", which means "possesing Samy Vellu-like intelligence".

A Cupertino man has been charged in a 38-count indictment alleging he stole leading-edge trade secrets used for military flight simulation training from a San Jose company and shopped it to the governments of China, Malaysia and Thailand.

Xiaodong Sheldon Meng, 42, a Chinese national with Canadian citizenship, is charged with stealing military combat and commercial simulation software and other materials from his former employer, Quantum3D.

The economic-espionage charges allege that Meng, a former resident of Beijing, intended to use the trade secrets to benefit the governments of China, Malaysia and Thailand.
...

The indictment has not charged Meng with actually selling material. [Mercury News]

He might not have actually sold the secrets, but don't you think the charge suggests Meng had found willing potential buyers?

It all depends on what the bloody Yanks mean by "intended to use the trade secrets to benefit the governments of China, Malaysia and Thailand."

If only a certain defence expert was available for comment.

Oh well, maybe Najib can enlighten us.

Cool? Read on:

Circumcision appears to reduce a man’s risk of contracting AIDS from heterosexual sex by half, United States government health officials said yesterday, and the directors of the two largest funds for fighting the disease said they would consider paying for circumcisions in high-risk countries.

The announcement was made by officials of the National Institutes of Health as they halted two clinical trials, in Kenya and Uganda, on the ground that not offering circumcision to all the men taking part would be unethical.

The success of the trials confirmed a study done last year in South Africa.

AIDS experts immediately hailed the finding. [The New York Times]

How so?

Uncircumcised men are thought to be more susceptible because the underside of the foreskin is rich in Langerhans cells, sentinel cells of the immune system, which attach easily to the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS.

The foreskin also often suffers small tears during intercourse.

But bear in mind that it is not a cure-all:

Dr. Mark Dybul, executive director of President Bush’s $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, said ... it was only one new weapon in the fight, adding, “Prevention efforts must reinforce the A.B.C. approach — abstain, be faithful, and correct and consistent use of condoms.”

Other related benefits of male circumcision:

Male circumcision also benefits women.

For example, a study of the medical records of 300 Ugandan couples last year estimated that circumcised men infected with H.I.V. were about 30 percent less likely to transmit it to their female partners.

Earlier studies on Western men have shown that circumcision significantly reduces the rate at which men infect women with the virus that causes cervical cancer.

A study published in 2002 in The New England Journal of Medicine found that uncircumcised men were about three times as likely as circumcised ones with a similar number of sexual partners to carry the human papillomavirus.

See it as an added level of protection.

I agree with Dr Dybul above.

Abstain. Be faithful. But if you don't want to, then always, always use a condom. And consider getting circumcised.

It's from a Q&A with K S Jomo published in Aliran Monthly in 2004, just before the general election in which we stupidly gave Pak Lah a massive landslide victory:

Q: Okay, so corruption is still a problem, but what about cronyism and nepotism?

A: On abuse and nepotism, what is the difference with Mahathir's or Taib Mahmud's sons or Ling's son or Samy Vellu's? People are asking how does a condom salesman become one of the ten richest Malays in the country (according to Malaysian Business) in less than a decade?

Q: You mean Kamal Abdullah Badawi, who was in charge of selling male contraception for Sime Darby?

A: You said that, not me.

Is there any truth to this?

Pak Lah only mentioned the bit about Kamal being a lawyer and being involved in oil and gas.

If it's true, there's nothing to be ashamed of, really.

Condoms and oil and gas have at least on thing in common -- they both involve some form of drilling.

I did mention that the old man practically smashed Khairy's pot of rice. That's something about which I am very sad. He has sold his interest in ECM Libra (a merchant bank). Sold it at a loss. Now he has some debts to settle.

Khairy studied economic philosophy at Oxford. He was going to work in Hong Kong but it was too far away. Then he decided to go to Singapore. By that time he was already in UMNO Youth.

I posed him a question: 'Are you going into politics or are you going into business?' You cannot do both together, especially if you are going to operate in Singapore. That was the time when he was offered to join ECM Libra. That was the time they made all sorts of news about him. I thought, what the hell are you talking about? They made all sorts of noise so as to disqualify him. To make him scared. As a merchant banker his company was doing well. People were asking him to do all sorts of things. It is very unkind. [Bangkok Post]

"The old man practically smashed Khairy's pot of rice"?

And here I was, thinking I had a hand in it, or at least a finger.

Finally some balls from the boss? You gotta be shittin' me.

It's more like foot-in-mouth, a disease that Pak Lah seems unable to shake off.

If Khairy's "pot of rice" that was his shareholding and job in ECM Libra was "clean" in all senses of the word (not to mention being in accordance with the much-vaunted principles of Islam Hadhari that his father-in-law likes to talk about so much), then where was the need to dispose of the shares and to quit the job?

If you have done nothing wrong, what is there to be afraid of?

And this is KJ we're talking about, someone who in the few short years of his political career has had to face a helluva lot more than many older politicians have.

He doesn't quit that easily.

The truth is, it was far more expedient, personally and politically, for KJ to take the route he took than to have the public find out about the gory details.

And this bit, "as a merchant banker his company was doing well. People were asking him to do all sorts of things", is something else.

What's missing here is that KJ was also asking people to do all sorts of things. Wouldn't your company do well if you had KJ on your side? Go ask Kali.

This inability to make sense that seems to have gotten a real hold of Pak Lah is further exemplified by his defence of his son's "business":

My son [Kamaluddin] is a lawyer, he knows everything, that his father is the prime minister.

He was in oil and gas. He worked overseas. He's got 35 locations overseas. He got some contracts with Petronas through open, international tender. And he offers the best terms.

That's what he does.

And he bought some companies which he wanted because of their engineering capabilities, machine-tooling capabilities. He does not build the company organically, he goes for mergers and acquisitions. That's his style of business.

Although many people have come and asked him to go into joint ventures with government-linked companies, he says 'No, I have enough money, I am rich'.

Sure. If you gloss over the details, you could also say that Adolf Hitler only had the best interests of the German people at heart.

And, "I am rich". So were the family of Suharto. Not to mention that of Dr Mahathir's.

Many people voted for Pak Lah because they wanted him to set things right, and he promised to set things right.

One of the things he promised was that he would show no fear or favour, not even towards his family members.

Who is being unkind now?

Pak Lah shouldn't worry too much about KJ's debts. As Prime Minister of this country, the thing that should most concern him is the debt he owes us.

Reason No 1: The re-examination by the Syariah Court of Appeal on Dec 7 was not considered a final decision as the court had ordered that the Syariah High Court retry the case.

In this case, the final decision on the status of Rayappan (as a Muslim) had not been made at that time.

Reason No 2: Rayappan died in Kuala Lumpur and his death records were under the Kuala Lumpur Hospital. Any decision by the Syariah Court in Selangor is not applicable in the Federal Territory.

Reason No 3: MAIS being the body responsible for upholding and protecting Muslims and Islam, as well as ensuring fairness to other religions, is respected by the Syariah Court.

When MAIS withdrew its claim on Rayappan’s body, it was reasonable for the Court to allow it.

Reason No 4: Although the Islamic law prohibits a judge from overturning his own decision, there is a provision that allows for it when there is a lacuna in the law. [New Straits Times]

I mean, like, huh?

I thought the reason was that the preponderence of evidence was in favour of Rayappan being a Catholic and not a Muslim at the time of his death.

Didn't the Mais chairman say this the other day?

“We have two sets of facts – some stating that he [Rayappan] was not a Muslim and some stating that he was.

“But the existing facts were more towards him being a non-Muslim,” Mohamad Adzib told a press conference at the Mais headquarters here. [The Star]

The four reasons sound more like an attempt by Mais to cover up the Syariah Court's newly-accorded impotence, rather than an explanation on why it dropped its claim.

The whole affair is more than a mess. It's chaotic.

Guys, it's ok to use the urinals in public toilets:

Myth 24: Black guys generally have bigger penises, while Asian guys have the smallest ones.

The truth: It’s just nuts.

Whether you’re hung like a rabbit or a rhinoceros probably has nothing to do with your race. Science has never shown any correlation between ethnic background and penis size.

The closest you get to any proof of genetic luck is a 1996 study in which urologists at the University of California in San Francisco found that the penises (from biggest to smallest) of black, white, and Asian men varied slightly in length while flaccid but were roughly the same size (an average 5.08 inches) while standing at attention. [Maxim Online's Urban Legends]

Anyone out there can verify this? The only data I have at hand is sourced from, ahem, adult movies.

[Joke: What do you call a computer that displays the Blue Screen of Death? Well-hung]

In any case, which Asians are we talking about here?

Here's another one from the good people at Maxim:

Myth 18: Wearing briefs instead of boxers will lower your sperm count.

The truth: Only if they’re permanently shrink-wrapped around your balls.

Even David Lee Roth’s painted-on crotch amplifiers are safe, say researchers. True, the family jewels are sensitive creatures that must be kept at an average temperature of 94 degrees, almost five degrees lower than body temp.

If not for the external “to go” bag of the scrotum, keeping things chill down there would become every guy’s primary hobby.

But to answer the question: Does wearing tighty whities, which draw the nuts unnaturally close to the abdomen, lower your sperm count?

Researchers at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center exaggerated the effect of briefs by strapping guys in polyester-lined aluminum cups.

The result: a rise of less than two degrees in the scrotum, which wasn’t enough to kill the swimmers.

Ok, but maybe the researchers should conduct such studies in countries with a tropical climate like Malaysia.

For the record, I don't think boxers are practical here.

And one for the road, this allegedly the honest truth:

Myth 2: Women with pierced tongues give the best head.

The truth: Believe it, buddy.

A very unofficial survey of four New York City body-piercing parlors and a large number of our friends confirms beyond a doubt that a barbell in the tongue is the bomb.

Izzy of Mean Street Tattoo, a tattoo and body-piercing parlor in New York City, says pierced tongues offer another world of sensation because of the added texture.

“When you’ve got that little ball under there ... it’s like an added stimulus,” he says. “Add that to a woman who knows how to give head and it makes being on the receiving end even better.”

Some pierced girls will even freeze their tongue studs before beginning or attach the equivalent of a French tickler to their barbell. You decide.

I have to admit I wouldn't know. And I think my wife would look at me funny if I even suggested that a pierced tongue would add to her natural beauty.

Ignorance is bliss? These guys will tell you it's not.

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You know the guy who was poisoned with radioactive material, allegedly by the Russian intelligence service?

Well, former Russian security officer Aleksandr Litvinenko had one wish before he died:

Litvinenko's father, Valter, told RFE/RL's Russian Service his son converted to Islam shortly before his death and wished to be buried according to Muslim tradition.

"He told me about his decision two days before he died. He said, 'Papa, I have to talk to you about something serious. I've become a Muslim,'" Valter Litvinenko said.

"I said, 'Sasha, it's your decision. As long as you don't become a communist or a satanist, that's the main thing.' I'm a Christian myself, but I have a granddaughter whose father is Kabardin -- my daughter's husband, he's Muslim as well," he continued. "We haven't lost God; we believe in God. But how to believe in God, how to pray -- everyone should do that in the way they consider best."

Valter Litvinenko, who described the conversion as "an important personal decision," said his son had been thinking about becoming a Muslim for some time because of growing disenchantment with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Akhmed Zakayev, the London-exiled Chechen separatist envoy, told RFE/RL that Litvinenko asked him about the possibility of converting in the early days of his illness.

"I told him it was a purely personal matter, that it isn't important to which god we pray as long as we aren't doing ignoble acts," Zakayev said. "And I sort of dropped it. But he over and over again returned to the subject."

Zakayev added that Litvinenko went on to pronounce the shahadah, the fundamental Muslim statement of faith.

... One day before his death, however, Litvinenko asked Zakayev to bring an imam to his hospital room to perform last rites.

"On November 22, at his request, I, with his wife's approval, brought an imam to him," Zakayev said. "He read over him a sura from the Koran, the one that is read over a dying Muslim."

Zakayev noted that, according to Muslim ritual, prayers are conducted over the body before burial. Now, he added regretfully, " that part of the process which Aleksandr requested cannot be fulfilled because of the exceptional circumstances of the radiation in his body and the fact that the coffin that will contain his body cannot be opened for 6 1/2 years." [Radio Free Europe]

Sad.

The most thought-provoking part for me is not Litivenko's conversion or that prayers cannot be conducted over his remains due to safety concerns.

It is what his father said to him:

"I said, 'Sasha, it's your decision. As long as you don't become a communist or a satanist, that's the main thing.' I'm a Christian myself, but I have a granddaughter whose father is Kabardin -- my daughter's husband, he's Muslim as well," he continued. "We haven't lost God; we believe in God. But how to believe in God, how to pray -- everyone should do that in the way they consider best."

To you your religion and to me mine. It's your decision, so everything's fine.

HAVING SAID THAT, what do you think of communism and satanism?

True freedom of religion means freedom to believe in anything at all.

Which means that if Marx or the Devil does it for you, go ahead and knock yourself out (of course, human sacrifices are a no-go).

If you demand the freedom to believe and to practice your beliefs, you must also acknowledge the rights of others to do the same.

Would Malaysians be better off in such a State?

And heck, is communism and satanism compatible with the Rukunegara?

What does "belief" and "God" mean in the first article of the Rukunegara -- "Belief in God"?

Is the Rukunegara binding upon all of us? Is it discriminatory? Is it all a waste of time?

Senator Datuk Musa Sheikh Fadzir said if the proposed [NSTP-Utusan] merger went through, "it will result in the monopoly of the media by one company." [Bernama]

He starts off well enough, but wait till you hear the punchline:

"If it (media company) has the intention to topple the government, it can do it in two days. The first day through the television and the newspapers the next day," he said when debating the Supply Bill (2006) at the Dewan Negara Thursday.

"The country will be destroyed. So we have to be cautious (about this proposed merger)," said Musa.

Musa, the Bukit Mertajam Umno division chief, bears the name of no ordinary man.

Unfortunately, he spouts drivel. As usual.

What a waste of a good name. And a Senate seat.

No one can claim a monopoly on wisdom, but with many leaders like Musa in its ranks, Umno has almost cornered the market on stupidity.

That, and not media mergers, is what will destroy the country.

Take (what I shall call here) the "conversion cases", of M. Moorthy, Nyonya Tahir and most recently Rayappan Anthony.

It was decided that Moorthy was Muslim, and Nyonya Tahir and Rayappan were not at the time of their deaths.

The decisions themselves are less remarkable than the "authorities" who decided and the reasoning employed.

In the Moorthy and Nyonya Tahir cases, it was the Syariah Court in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan, respectively. Bear in mind that Syariah laws differ among the states, and that Nyonya Tahir might not have neccesarily been declared a non-Muslim in say, Selangor.

In Rayappan's case, only God knows whose "will" was ultimately brought to bear and prevailed upon the "judgement" that was passed.

Was it the Cabinet's? The Attorney-General's? The Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais)? The family of the deceased?

It certainly wasn't the judgement of the Syariah Court:

Barely an hour earlier, the Syariah Appeal Court ruled that the Syariah High Court had the power to review its Dec 1 order that gave Mais control over Rayappan's body.

The appellate court also ordered a retrial ...

... The Syariah Appeal Court's ruling, however, still considered Rayappan a Muslim until the hearing proved otherwise. [The Star]

The judiciary, civil or Syariah, had little say in the outcome.

And think about this: Moorthy's family claimed that he did not lead the life of a Muslim, and that he had in fact, worshipped at a Hindu temple.

Do you remember the picture publised in a newspaper of two men carrying Moorthy in his wheelchair up the steps of Batu Caves?

I remember the photograph.

Now, for purposes of determining the religion of the people concerned, is there any difference between the evidence presented by Moorthy's family and the evidence brought forth by Rayappan's family to "prove" that the two men, respectively, were no longer Muslim at the time of their deaths?

I don't see any difference.

So why was Rayappan "released" while Moorthy was not?

Said Mais chairman Datuk Mohamad Adzib Mohd Isa:

“We have two sets of facts – some stating that he [Rayappan] was not a Muslim and some stating that he was.

“But the existing facts were more towards him being a non-Muslim,” Mohamad Adzib told a press conference at the Mais headquarters here.

Actually, only one fact matters in Islam: That Rayappan had declared he was no longer a Muslim.

And as far as I'm concerned, Moorthy had also made a "declaration" by worshipping at the Sri Subramaniar Temple (we have the picture) 11 months before his death, and by describing how he was celebrating Deepavali in a TV3 interview mere weeks before he fell into a coma.

I personally believe that in Rayappan's case, it was the Cabinet that ultimately decided his "official" religion for him.

The Mais chairman can say anything he wants, but the Cabinet, through the Attorney-General and largely for political purposes, decided to impose its "will" on this case.

All's well that ends well?

Far from it. The ends does not justify the means in this matter.

In fact, Moorthy's family could be forgiven if they feel hard done by right now.

And what about the Syariah Court, which has been made to look like moot court by the Cabinet?

Heck, why don't we let the Cabinet decide all contentious cases involving conversions, since you can be sure that when the next case crops up, the family of the deceased will appeal to the good offices of the Prime Minister and his "court"?

And before you start to think you've seen it all, wait for the Federal Court's decision on Lina Joy's application.

Like I said, we are a mess.

Wait. Instead of highlighting the differences between us, lets emphasise our similarities.

One thing I can say for sure is that there are Chinaman and Melayu who are stupid.

Deputy information minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says:

... the mainstream media including the official government media should provide the correct explanation about allegations spread through the internet or blogs, especially if the allegations were targetted at the government and its policies.

"(This is because) not all the information (and slanders) spread through internet or blogs are accurate," he told reporters here last night.

"We do not want the public to be deceived by inaccurate information including those that are slanderous." [Bernama]

Zahid also wants us to have ethics and self respect. The motherfucker should start with himself and his party first before he starts preaching to the rest of us.

Ethics? Self respect? This stupid dick was once Anwar's running dog, but went running with his tail between his legs after Mahathir bitch-slapped the dude.

So go fuck off, Zahid.

Not to be outdone, and demonstrating that a Chinaman can be just as "smart" as a Melayu, is deputy science, technology and innovation minister Kong Cho Ha:

Registering bloggers may be a “stricter” way to stop cyberspace writers from spreading disharmony and lies.

Acknowledging that the registration of bloggers was a difficult task, Deputy Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Kong Cho Ha said that it needed the cooperation of other countries.

Kong said: “We need to have stricter cyber laws to prevent these bloggers from disseminating disharmony, chaos, seditious material and lies.

“We are talking about creating cyber laws to control those who misuse the Internet,” he added. [The Star]

I thought Kong had more brains. But maybe he keeps forgotting to bring them along with him.

Oi Kong, the fuckers who are "disseminating disharmony, chaos, seditious material and lies" are the Barisan Nasional (specifically Umno) and its ball carriers in the mainstream media, not the blogs.

And the mainstream media are just as fucking stupid as the people who are buttfucking them.

How else can you explain Bernama and The Star publishing idiotic statements made by idiots?

So now you can truly understand why a Mat Salleh describes us as Malaysia Bodoh.

Not just because we have stupidity in the power elite, but also because we, the people, allow such stupidy to rule over us time and time again.

Yes. If we let this crap continue, you and I are just as responsible for screwing up this country as the people who are actually screwing it up.

Proton announced yesterday that group net loss stood at RM250.3 million on a revenue of RM1.27 billion for the quarter to September 30 2006. This brings its net loss for the first six months to RM308.9 million on a revenue of RM2.69 billion.

The results came amid a period when the automotive industry is still experiencing low sales, lower trade-in values and high interest rates; while tighter credit screening and loan approvals continue to hamper demand for new cars, Proton said in a statement. [Business Times]

Proton needs to push the pedal to the metal and zoom into the scrapyard of history.

And you know what the Government should do next?

Do away with the excise duty on cars and APs, so we can enjoy better cars at more affordable prices.

That way, we will not need to set aside so much of our monthly income to pay the bleeding car loan.

We can then use the money for other things.

Howzabout it, Pak Lah?

You'll make a lot of people happy. And it'll give a boost to the economy as well (you know what the economy is, right?).

Pollution? Provide incentives -- lower sales tax and road tax, for instance -- for the use of "cleaner" cars and fuel.

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In any case, the ads do not influence my choice of topics and the content of my posts, except in several posts during the first few weeks of my use of Google Adsense, when some of the ads that appeared made me sit up and take notice. [See here and here]

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