Saturday, March 31, 2012

Old soldiers fade away, but old politicians want to stay

Though Douglas MacArthur was credited with the lines ‘Old soldiers never die, they just fade away’, he borrowed it from an old army ballad to use as part of his farewell address to the US Congress in 1951. That army ballad in turn originated from the British Army's WWI parody of the song 'Kind Thoughts Can Never Die'.

Unfortunately, we have no similar saying for old politicians, probably because they won’t fade away, wakakaka.

Take for example, Dr Mahathir. He’s seen by us as still being very much in charge of UMNO and in turn PM Najib, and thus the nation, wakakaka.

Previously Dr M had favoured Najib to become PM, partly because he (Dr M) couldn’t stand AAB [for reasons that was once inadvertently revealed by AAB though in an indirect manner, and not because he cancelled most of Dr M’s mega projects], …

… and partly because he (Dr M) hutang budi to Tun Razak for rescuing him from the outer where he was politically consigned by Tunku.

A sign of Najib’s reciprocating hutang budi was the appointment of Mukhriz Mahathir as deputy minister for international trade & industry. The appointment has been controversial because Mukhriz is only an exco in UMNO Youth whereas Khairy Jamaluddin, UMNO Youth chief and a party post traditionally appointed a minister, was not [though the UMNO Youth deputy chief was].

With such a glaring incongruity, there’s small wonder everyone has been pointing fingers at Dr M’s immense power behind the throne, where it's assumed Najib had to placate him twice over, by making Mukhriz a minister while marginalizing KJ, wakakaka.

But in more recent times, we suspect that Dr M might have entertained some doubts as to Najib’s ‘loyalty’, not that Mr Zigzag has been particularly renowned for that quality. We detect (perhaps through our wild imaginations wakakaka) hints of Dr M’s subtlest threats to Najib in the figure of a much older but nonetheless PM-wannabe Muhyiddin.

Najib’s detractors joke (or were they?) about Najib’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, doing her formidable power manipulations too, perhaps (again in our wildest imaginations wakakaka) raising concerns for Dr M.

But whatever the outcome of UMNO's current internal power manoeuvres, Dr M is the very epitome of ‘old politicians never die and they also won’t fade away’ wakakaka.

Next we have Daim Zainuddin, hailed by UMNO apparatchiks to be as prescient as The Oracle of Delphi.

To the ancient Greeks, Delphi was the navel and thus the very centre of Earth, and the home of the mighty and powerful Apollo, son of Zeus. But prior to Apollo assuming residency at Delphi as the divine place for his oracles, the presiding monster there was a serpent-dragon known as Python, which was slain by Apollo (as an act of revenge for the serpent harassing and pursuing his mum during her very late stage of pregnancy).


Taking that Delphic name literally, we know what a python is frighteningly feared for, wakakaka, so I wasn’t surprised when I read Josh Hong’s column in Malaysiakini about Ex-minister Daim tak diam the title of his article being a play on Daim’s biography 'Daim yang Diam: Sebuah Bigrafi'.

Python-like, Daim amassed a huge fortune and expanded his business empire. Josh wrote of Daim's python-ish stranglehold on big business:

In fact, it was Daim who turned the Economic Planning Unit into a full-power agency in implementing the privatization policy.

Tenders for government projects became things of the past, while contracts were awarded in opacity, to the benefit of both Daim and Mahathir, and many other Umno-putras - Halim Saad, Tajudin Ramli, Wan Azmi, etc - but also trusted non-bumi tycoons such as Vincent Tan, the late Lim Goh Tong and Ananda Krishnan.

Lucrative deals also kept Samy Vellu and Ling Liong Sik so happy that they failed thoroughly to look after the very constituencies that they were supposed to take care of.

Josh sneered at Daim as ‘a typical Umno elite who has been living off the backs of the people’, and the only Finance Minister in the world who left his political appointment as a billionaire, and thus in Josh's opinion, a person ‘shorn of the moral authority to talk on the issue' [of Najib inappropriately holding appointments of PM and Finance minister concurrently].

But of late, seeking to help UMNO by exploiting his so-called renowned prescience (and perhaps hoping his oracles may become self fulfilling prophecies), Daim has been plugging away for his old team, even to the laughable extent of praising Chua Soi Lek for his intrepidity though we didn't read any mention of integrity or wakakaka, morality.

Not unlike the de-mystification of the British royal family some years back through the royal children's unbecoming behavior and utterances in public, and consequential loss of respect for a once-hallowed British institution, Daim has de-mystified himself and his hitherto Cimmerian aura through his implausible endorsement of BN people like CSL wakakaka, and similarly lost our once grudging admiration for him (or at least, his business acumen).

If only he had made senior statesman-like prognoses instead of pathetic partisan plugs!

But he is, like Dr M, another classic example of ‘old politicians never die and they also won’t fade away’ wakakaka.

22 comments:

  1. Strange, KTemoc stop attacking Anwar.Is he now a BORN AGAIN.

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  2. mana ada stop wakakaka! as I mentioned so often, this is neither a pro or anti this-that blog; it's kaytee's blog and kaytee posts on anything that kaytee wishes or wants to publish. Today could be criticisms against A, tomorrow may be against B, etc.

    I leave the staunchly anti this or pro that to mindless moronic fanatics wakakaka.

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  3. He is a BORN AGAIN without a Face or a Name....a ghost.
    All others are mindless moronic fanatics. He s perfect.
    We all know he can twist and turn like a snake.
    This is a blog belonging to a faceless...nameless snake.
    Treat it that way.
    His BORN AGAIN is a disguise...no repent...no regrets...still the same snake.
    He is the same coward...talking cock...3000 miles away.

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  4. Ask yourself..why does a person claiming to be a Malaysian talk about Malaysia...3000 miles away?
    Sudah kasi ibu/papak tendang....football kick outside Malaysia la.....causing so much sleepless nights and trouble in Penang for parents...OR....run like hell...disturbing gangster's daughter...run or die.
    All run to Australia to look for jobs...no time to blog nor talk nonsense....but this faceless creature..does not work..talk cock all the time...like a retired man....but he is not old at all....married or working for any one at OX land.
    You can conclude parents keep sending him money....as long as he stay away from them.....sort of advance from their death wills to a fucking lunatic son...shaming them in Penang...all the time.
    His blog...CORRECT..but INSULTS OTHERS...judge others...bring down Anwar Ibrahim..he is asking for trouble.

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  5. One of the wonders, and also the limitation of the written word is that the majority , if not all, of those who get to read it never meet the author in person.
    Plenty of writers also prefer to remain obscure in person, if not anonymous.

    So....an author is known by what he writes.
    His intention in writing is almost irrelevant.

    If he writes trash almost every day, he becomes known as a trash author.
    If he writes anti-Wakakaka diatribes every day, he becomes known as an anti-Wakakaka author.

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  6. sombong itu confidence..

    sombong atau confidence?

    condom is for sailor!

    elton need it!

    newayg urgiopl irpho eningl

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  7. malaysians mudah lupa. just like anwar, daim sudah born again.

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  8. Putting out trash and promoting anti ...cannot be call an author at all.
    It's a cross between a snake and a sankanchil...call kan ni neh kercil ular....OR...KanKTmoc...a Snakedeer....new specie...discovered by Monsterball......hahahahahahaha
    Call me a mad dog..I will write alot of trash to counter fight and dilute his doses of poison given out freely...to keep readers sane and alert..and ROJAK his blog as promised.
    Have a nice weekend.

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  9. KTemoc said...
    "mana ada stop wakakaka! as I mentioned so often, this is neither a pro or anti this-that blog; it's kaytee's blog and kaytee posts on anything that kaytee wishes or wants to publish. Today could be criticisms against A, tomorrow may be against B, etc."

    Of course you can blog anything you fancy.
    It is only that when it comes to Anwar, readers take your comments as clouded by emotions and showing your vindictiveness.
    And you are the antithesis of that fella who is raging against you...

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  10. Woah...that monster still could not get over KT's comment of Siow Kau which btw, he richly deserves.

    Now at every posting, he foams at the mouth like the rabid dog that he is, heheheh.

    So obsessive is that rabid monster that he just tarok no matter what the topic at the blog owner, heheh. Grrr...growl growl..grrrr...this is one mad dog that won't let go.

    Hahahaha...his so-called freedom fighting comes down to just ROJAK-ing as he called it...aiya, what rojak la...he's the rojak la, otak rojak udang la

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  11. "Previously Dr M had favoured Najib to become PM, partly because he (Dr M) couldn’t stand AAB [for reasons that was once inadvertently revealed by AAB though in an indirect manner, and not because he cancelled most of Dr M’s mega projects]" - by KT

    Any one care to enlighten the real reason/s why Dr M have forsaken AAB ? Would appreciate.

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  12. I ROJAK the blog.. as well as I teach sincere Malaysians...asking for help...to learn the truths.
    Only an idiot cannot see that.

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  13. Muslims love gado gado wakakaka. What about non Muslims? Rojak, I suppose.

    My toes are laughing lah, wakakaka.

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  14. Mahathir is one of the greatest sons Malaysia ever produced.

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  15. Monsterball, thanks for your effort to my queries, but i repeat - "Previously Dr M had favoured Najib to become PM, partly because he (Dr M) couldn’t stand AAB [for reasons that was once inadvertently revealed by AAB though in an indirect manner, and not because he cancelled most of Dr M’s mega projects]" - by KT

    According to the above posting, Dr M couldn't stand AAB for other reasons and NOT because of the cancelled projects.

    Any one else could enlighten ? Or perhaps KT could further elaborate ?

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  16. he knows EVERYTHING, but specifically Muslims liking gado gado wakakaka, including Bashar al-Assad, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Mohammed V, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wakakaka again

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  17. rabid and foaming at mouth wakakaka

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  18. Ktemoc!!...Talk Musa Hasan...BK Tan..Tenku Goh ..Abdul Gani..Ramli Yusoff..Nor Azizul..Rahman Taharim Radzi..Shiekh Ahmad..Johan Baharum....ALL MALAYSIANS..you IDIOT!!
    You know who they are?

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  19. gaduh gaduh, not gado gado lah wakakaka

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  20. Oh wow!! KTemoc and Monsterball seem to be engaged in a marathon session of murmuring tender, romantic words at each other, much like Romeo and Juliet, that it's becoming rather embarrassing for the rest of us to read. hehehe

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