A dedicated post to I.COWS ...

The youths of today has been on Desi’s radar screen a lot this week, following on the heels of A DANNY BOY emerging as Malaysian Idol 2 at the Arena of Stars. I had lauded Daniel Lee – as well as his talented opponent Nita – as GOOD ROLE MODELS for our YoungOnes. I say this for the professional ways of competing with each other – full of grace and mutual respect – always having some posotive things to say about their opponents, never running down the competition. I take pride in such an attitude because I'm just plain tired of all the bitchings and arrogance going on elsewhere, sepcially in te political arena.

Imagine some youths being led by an ex-Billionaire-at-27? What bloody arrogance is that? Malaysia BolehLand sometimes can get out of this real world, but do I digress? If only some of the “clowns” at the august House could learn from their next generation. Well, the arrogance of power – are there more Ignorant Cowws among the adult than among the teenagers? -- this is my poser this morning.

To start off, may I reproduce verbatim from one IgnorantCow’s post I sighted with surprised delight:
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choconicko Posted:


a-me-di-ka!!!
September 24th, 2005 6 Comments »

hahaha….
I’m bored.. might as well share to the whole world what I have in mind.. This is kinda true. Except the God and Mother Nature thing.
It’s…..AMERICA!
In 1992, they thought that Iraq had loads of petroleum.. so they planned an attack to take over Iraq and monopoly it’s oil supply.
But.. the planning took ages. So, they attacked on year 2002.. sad to say that they found little oil than waht they had expected.. way more little..
Why you may ask.. it’s because of Iraq’s neighbour.. Iran, Kuwait and so on stole all of Iraq’s oil in these 10 years by underground pipes.. making them having less then wat they have in 1992.
So America felt sad.. but. They still have 70,000 tanks of oil to be carried away to America.. They thought of a safe place to put the oil.. which is in New Orleans.. next to New Mexico (if I’m not mistaken).. they thought it was extra safe..
They didn’t know our GOD can do anything.. so.. GOD, with the help of mother nature (on my imaginations only) send Huricanne Katrina to..
destroy all of the ( )…
ehe..
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6 Comments
1. Nick says: (September 24th, 2005 at 8:36 pm )
all of the assholes?
2. wretchedlittlething says: (September 24th, 2005 at 9:28 pm )
I don’t really get it
3. ajibala says: (September 24th, 2005 at 11:20 pm )
aduhai… all of the petroleum..wasted
4. GL says: (September 26th, 2005 at 2:23 pm )
I raed in the nespaper that New Orleans were going to hold a gay festival thingy….maybe its God’s judgement on those ppl…(-.-)
5. ylchong says: (September 27th, 2005 at 8:53 am )
Hey, I’m tHAT teAcher at desiderata.english on Sunday at Borneo Post peeking in to see whetherthe I.Cows here have been behaving!:)
WoW, choconiko, you have an IMAGINE=active mind! I like your story — goOd plot, now you Xpand on it with sum characters, “direct speech as in Sppech bubbles like this within quoy\tes!” — you may have a BESTseller; secondBest also-canwat!!
Remember BUY DESI SE7EN teh tariks OK,,,why 7 you may ask … hey, SE7EN days a week, make it EIGHT DAYS A WEEK like The Beatles also can - lah…TehTarik, satu lagi!:)
6. ylchong says: (September 27th, 2005 at 8:57 am )
PS to choconiko:
Can you “approve” my request to REPRODUCE this piece of GOoD writin’ (must be shared one!) at Desi’s Place some time later, enhaanced with my version …then you can comapre and contrast? Just visit my blog and say a BIG YES, yes at least SE7EN times so that I can hear loud&clear! (SE7EN is actually my fav number!
Thanks in advance that you won’t say NO; I offer some wits-taker Chocs from NZ when I receive them from mGf in Newzzzzzland, OK!:) ****”


DESIDERATA:

I surmise Choconicko is just in upper secondary school (?), but it’s good “imagineation” on his part to tackle quite a current, yet potentially difficult” subject therough his young lens.

I’m gladdened because he could focus beyond all the media propaganda and raed beyong the media hype sold by the US Administration about its “war against terrrot” grounds to enter Iraq – its purported mission to get at Sadddam Hussein’s Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Choco did not make a firm conclusion about US President’s main obkective of his Iraq (mis)adventure … only posed the possibility of that which motivated the Big Brother’s goal --- Balck Oil … as implied within that telling ( ) at the the close.


Desiderata says Congrats to Choco because he knows the boundaries one can go in making a postulation and arriving at inferences.

Many of our MPs and indeed, the I.Cowws here, can learn about “critical and rational” mind at work.

Why do I say this?

Ah, My Rationale.

I have been saying to some mGf that on the US invasuion of Iraq, I mostly supported former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s stand that the US foray into Iraq against the decision of the United Nations’ decision and mandate was clearly not in line with its stated objective of the “War on Terror”. It had a lot to do with the US ambitions in the Gulft regional politics, tied to the decades-old problem of the Israel-Palestine issue.

And at the back of many minds, including YoungChoco’s, and Desi, is that valuable asset called the Black Gold.

Most of mGf and Desi too do not agree with much of Dr Mahathir’s politics – whether on home scene or in the international areana.But we must be able to learn to disagree on the issues, and not let his personality cloud our lenses.

But when it’s an issue such as Bush’s adventurism into Iraq on flimsy grounds of seeking out “Saddam’s WMD” which was subswquently proven to be without any basis for belief that the WMD existed there, the US stubbornly refused to acknowledge it had made a “fatal” mistake.

Desi had prior occasions stated that Iraq would prove to be US’ 21st century VIETNAM WAR reprise, and the recent mass demonstrations in the US by families and sympathizers of US soldier casualties in Iraq are reminiscent of those massive demonstrations against US War in Vietnam … echoes of “where have all the flowers gone?” resonate on the streets of New York and Washington DC, and soon they will spawn similar demonstrations of people power across the globe, if the Big Brother remains “recalcitratnt” on its comedy of errors. I term it a comedy because the Americans allowed a series of half-nightmarish events overtake them … Bush’s re-election when Gore had to concede Florida’s vote-reconts with unresolved questions of foul play; US adminstartions’ intimations on several occasions they had evidence of WMD in Iraq …. Well, I might not agree with John Moore, but his “docu-drama” on 911 revealed a lot of chicanery so common through the world.

So in my arguments with mGf when we were on “opposing” sides, I told them not to allow our “prejudices” against Dr Mahathir (You either love, or hate, him, Desi had said in an eralier Post here …) to cloud our judgments on individual issues. We must be objective, and analyse an issue apart from Dr Mahathir’s other agendas. Distinguish THE SINGER and HI SONG -– That was my premise for adopting a stand implied by Choco, and contrary from many of mGf's. Thanks, Young I.Cow Choconicko for giving this writer such an insight into what some of our YoungOnes are thinking; I took the liberties of appending those few “youthful” comments. I also digressed by INVITING THESE I.COWS (http://Ignorant.Cows.blogspot.com) TO GIVE THEIR 3SEN WORTH on integrity at SABRINA’S PLACE (http://sabrinawstan.blogsome.com) >>>>>>>with a promise of wits-taker chocs!:) Note to Sab – trying some mind-reading, I made the pledge on thy behalf, I think this “presumption” is justified, NO?


Just the latest extracts, may seem “not so relevant”, but DESI discerns some common threads, both sighted side-by-side in the New Straits Times September 27, 2005, page 33:

"***Headline1:

Troop supporters up in arms

WASHINGTON, On. – Support for American troops fighting abroad mixed with anger toward anti-war demonstrators at home as hundreds of people, far fewer than organizers had expected, rallied yesterdayon the National Mall just a day after tens of thousands protested against the war in Iraq.
“No matter what your ideals are, our sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom,” said Marilyn Faatz, who drove from New Jersey to attend the rally. “We are making a mockery out of this. And we need to stand united, but we are not.”
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Many demonstrations focused their ire on Cindy Sheehan, the Californian woman whose protest near President Bush’s Texas home last summer galvanized the anti-war movement. -- AP

DESIDERATA: A decade or two from now, will it be Faatz’s stand or Sheenhan’s that will go down well in US and world history? My bet from the lesson of US involvement in the Vietnam War is on Sheehan’s. But you may beg to differ.

Headline2:Suicide bomber kills 10

BAGHDAD, Mon. – A suicide bomber drove a car into a bus, carrying employees of Uraq’s Oil Ministry today, killing at least 10 people and wounding 14, police said.
The bombing was the latest blow to Government efforts tp improve security for its oil industry. Attacks on pipelines have deprived state coffers of billions of dollars in revenue and scared investors away. – Reuters****"

DESIDERATA: Some quarters term them as “suicide bombers” as terrorists, others defined them as “freedom fighters”, so it depends on which side of the fence you sit, just as the foregoing Faatz’s and Sheehan’s.
Back home, the Government deems some ISA detainess as “oublic enemy”, to others, these same inmates are “martyrs”. So on which side of the fence is your lens focused?
No ringgit for your thoughts, just a TehTarik from Haridas for my EsteemedReaders’ and your generation’s future horizons, mayhaps?