Politics, Anyone?

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book

-- Ronald Reagan

DESIDERATA:

See, I am located just next to a former US President. Writers are Great people by association.

I agree with the former actor-President of the greatest nation on earth (ITHO - In their humble opinion). He, like Estrada, made a success of acting and politicking. But actuall;y, you need to be a good actor before becoming a politician, so their career in Hollywood and Pollywood did help lots.

I'm just about to begin acting lessons. Anyone willing to spunsor?


Dr M refutes
Tajudin's
claims

'I DID NOT
INSTRUCT
HIM TO
BUY MAS
SHARES'

Frontpage of theSun today.
Do I need to elaborate? No neeed-lah, you know the 'hole story,
already, before Desi.

Desi's sole comment: Between a fromer PM's word against a corporate's,
WHOSE WORD WOULD MY DEAR ER GIVE CREDENCE TO?


My answer lies in the following pome~~

Words -- BIG or small

Words big or small
Simple words to say
Small words to receive
Like "I love you"
Or "Go fly a kite"

Big words, like "misleading",
Difficult words like "trust me"
Sometimes they cause misunderstanding

But if given in sincerity
With no ill intent
Big or small words
We both understand
Only if you're an actor
And I a politician be.

So beware sweet, rambling words
Coated with honey and wine outside
Loaded with arsenic and bile inside.

An actor's words are to entertain
A politician's words are to mislead

But a Malaysian Corporate's words?
Like the UMNONO-MCAA-MICC politikus'
Leave DAAP, PASS and PKRR alone
Untested on the Stage
They entertain
They also mislead
But most insiduous of all
They subtly copulate you
Until you are Soul'd.


AFTER-THOUGHT:

Just as you are encouraged to THINK ALLOWED, THINK ALOUD,
Desi's encouarging some after-thought; so he's reproducing
the similar report today, but from another source, The People's Paper~~

"Wednesday July 26, 2006


Dr M: I did not direct Tajuddin to buy MAS

KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has denied he had instructed former MAS chairman Tan Sri Tajuddin Ramli to buy shares in the national carrier shares to bail out Bank Negara.

“I don’t remember instructing him to buy the shares,” he said.

He said it was former Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin, who had told him that Tajuddin was interested in MAS shares.


Dr Mahathir: ‘I never asked him to do national service’
“We were privatising everything at that time. When he wanted to buy the shares, we told him we wanted cash,” he added.

He said Tajuddin had earlier proposed to the Government to buy MAS shares through the exchange of Celcom and Naluri shares. Dr Mahathir said he did not agree with this proposal.

“I said if he had no money, we were not willing to sell him the shares,” the former prime minister said, adding that Tajuddin borrowed RM1.8bil to pay for the MAS shares.

Dr Mahathir was commenting on Tajuddin’s claim that he was asked by the Government to acquire a 32% stake in MAS in 1994.

Tajuddin had made this claim in his counter suit filed on June 29 against the Government and 24 other parties over his purchase of MAS shares.

This followed the suit by Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Bhd and its subsidiaries, Danaharta Urus Sdn Bhd and Danaharta Managers Sdn Bhd, against Tajuddin, filed on May 11 seeking RM589mil as the balance of a RM1.79bil loan given to him in 1994 to buy MAS shares.

“I did not force him to buy MAS shares. I never asked him to do national service,” Dr Mahathir said after launching a book entitled The Chinese Maaysian Contribution, which featured the accounts of Chinese migrants in the then Malaya, and how they contributed to the building of the country.
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Desi: Don't say I did not pamper some of you lazy-bummers who also stinch (right word?) on RM1.20 for the people's paper. I think the 4th Estate is going to die...
ESPECIALLY when the PM asked people not to rely ion BLOGS but more on the maionstream media for infomration, because, knowing Malaysians, THEY WILL DO JUST THE OPPOSITE! IMHO-lah, but what am I versus Pak Lah's, yes?