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Therefore since Badawi approves her to continue to hold her Cabinet post, it's a mandate from God! Blasphemy at it's finest. JAKIM better take note.

since when AAB become God?

'Rafidah: If God says you stay, you stay.'
Hmm...it sounded like she's calling PM AB, her God now for letting her stay. Gosh, how far ppl like her would go just to keep her AP-job.
Or perhaps the Press misquoted her? Oops! I wonder if it's going to be suspension or closedown for NST and TheStar now. My best guess would be suspension for NST and closedown for TheStar. Why? Go figure.
Either way also, the People lose. It's pathetic to retain her just because she's experienced. It just doesn't make sense? It's corrupted by land, heaven or hell standard. Do you want young generation like me to be brought up 'learning' from all the precedence that you're setting now? Gosh, it's wrong, wrong, wrong. It's never too late to change, and changing doesn't necessarily mean you're weak.

"When Everything Else Failed, Blame/ Swear Under God's Name", just like her other venerable counterpart.

She should be renamed 'Shih Huang Ti' instead of 'Iron Lady' for this 'God mandate' and 'The Great WallAP'.

Book-burning ceremony anyone?

by doing so AAB has shown that he has neither the guts or B to do what's best for the country. It is like bowing down to pressure from all sides. Another F grade for me in my own personal KPI for AAB.

Anyone still remember that Rafidah shed her tear, waving Holy Quran and using God name to defend herself during one of the AP press conference? Besides Rafidah, Samy Vellu is another one who likes use "God"'s name in vain. His famous quote: "Act of God"

There are two ways interpreting Rafidah's statement:
1. She equates AAB to be God and as a Muslim, this is wrong as in one of the commandments given by God to Moses, it was stated, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me"; or
2. She attributed her continued stay in MITI to God and not AAB. Hmmmm ... how ungrateful!

someone prayed very hard.

cannot help myself with a small squeek to say that i have seen some efficient, responsive and leading work done by her ministry from before till today ... first class work with FDI's ... just to counter "over-pessimism" ... thinking aloud

Her statement is making me sick! Like they say, feather of the same brid flock together,

What a sick country we are living in. Its goes to show that there is no fairness, equality, meritocracy etc etc. We the silent majority must start canvassing now and spread the word around to vote for change by voting in the opposition. Just tell the voters BN equals more strip squats, baldness, discrimination, etc etc. Thks.

...talking of which, there was some spin regarding how FDIs have numerically increased in this country.

The operative word remains 'APPROVED' and this should not be lost on anyone. A rule of thumb is that 50% of applications approved actually land up becoming reality; it's not hard to see why - international businessmen would apply first without committing anything, then shop around for best sites and incentives, taking the upfront application to buy time in case they want a faster start versus red-tape down the line. Thus, it would be more reflective of reality if she were to say exactly how many percents of the approved FDIs actually turned up over the years. That would indicate whether we're still relevant as an investment site.

Secondly, export numbers should be aggregated net; there was one year when we were number one globally in the export of electron tubes (used in TVs)so the export value was off the chart...until we see that concurrently there was import (from UK) of semi-finished electron tubes, so when you square off to get the real value-add, it wasn't much.

When you move around the industrial zones, keep an eye for real activity - how many palettes out there, what's the container traffic, even how many bikes are parked near the canteens. These provide a fairer indication of brown-goods activity. Motorola and Matsushita seem awfully quiet these past years.

When they put up the 9MP, that should be the way to read it, not look at it based on some nice charts.

It's going to be an important post, given how this PM has made it his raison detre for why he picked such a bunch to continue the m-legacy in all but name.

Now back to the topic; the grapevine talked about the twin mansions in tropicana and also about how someone's specs almost fell off on seeing the size of the swiss bank account; how true they be one leaves to the ACA which has apparently given the PM the clearance on his 'old,new' set-up.

And someone has been hauled up recently (with much press fanfare) about not declaring assets. To the same ACA, one poses the question: was the same done for the former PM, the former MOF and a certain highway ceo who could afford to use his 'own 25 mil'?

Such questions wouldn't be coming out unless one is riled to the pits looking how the rakyat are suffering at MRR2 every damn working day.

Such catharsis wouldn't be spilling out unless one feels the terribly uneven roads in so many places when the works in TTDI including SYABAS pipe changing takes place over and above other older, denser and more used places.

Such pain wouldn't be surfacing unless one reads of AP rent policy exacted on the rakyat to benefit a few cronies, again, and now, again again in broad daylight. It is doubly painly because the alternative is to buy a local car which is simply unacceptable in quality/price ratio compared to others artificially made unaffordable.

Such trauma wouldn't have come out seeing how leaders, supposedly world-wise and educated and committed to national causes, can shed tears, behave like petulant brats, talk bull and thump their noses at the suffering of both rakyat and mother Malaysia by shifting attention, twisting facts, pushing personal agendas disguised as party loyalty to win the feeble heart of the guy 'up there'.

Ask a few simple questions:

what have they done all these years which has succeeded for the nation?

what have they done that hasn't cost the nation too much and brought results twisted out of context?

You don't get a sense of progress at all - it's just one step apparently forward in form and three steps full backward in real substance.

None of what has happened these past two months shows any intelligence, perceptiveness or justice. It's all micro view, kneejerk reaction, and ambling around like drunkards trying to stomp out fires under their feet, all the while making loud noises as if they're very savvy or smart.

While the rest of the world looks amused, shakes its head in disbelief, and moves on.

For a nation which has had a good start, and given some foundation to become more relevant in this world, this bunch of jokers has ripped off her future, taken away her security (you can buy army vehicles without spareparts?!), do stupid things like earsquats, suspend a paper for printing a photo of someone looking at another picture (but keep a deafening silence on a media which has broadcasted it into your living room), and so many other race-based things, that when they say racist-racist-racist in such a formerly hallowed hall of parliament, you wonder whether they're being hypocrites.

Too many non-malays, the Chinese especially, have GIVEN UP on this country. This is a fact. It is a fact that the bunch of jokers has better wake up to, for it will come to a head someday. If they keep only dreaming that they can seduce and tax the patience of half the rakyat population, then mother Malaysia will one day have to face up to some of its most belligerent offsprings, those who seem to think theirs should be the only voice.

It's not about Rafidah and God, nor about her AP kings and Malaysia, nor about the Toyo and Dahlans and Taibs and who-the's. It's just all about principle-centred governance and God, and the use of the stick because the carrot doesn't work anymore; it only breeds hungrier bunnies.

Does this PM know what the rakyat think when he said that her services are needed because the AP issue is only a small part of Miti? It is tantamount to saying one can overlook indiscretions. Especially when those indiscretions caused the rakyat a lot of money, paid to a bunch of cronies who did nothing to earn them, in order to get something that will ease their pain over uneven roads built by an Act of God (this type of Act is not gazettable).

Frankly, one is not sure anymore God will want to have anything to do with anyone in this blinkered country.

My fire is dying out.

Using God's name other than in a holy manner sends the message about her faith or God that you might want to.

It is important to be aware that the name God is sacred and using God is less than her best.

Oh God! Looks like not many Rafidah's fan out there. Fortunately I am one of them. She walks the walk and talks the talk. Foreign investors praise her. She whupped Mahathir/leel with her AP's. And due to her, I reckon taxes on lmported and locally assembled atomobile will go down from an all time high, cos she challenged Proton.As for the corrupton issue, innocent until proven guilty.

now the ppl in the middle east will kick up a storm.

‘Even if you blog until foam at the mouth,
if God says you shut up, you shut up.’

Guys, this just in, from Bernama:
Committee In PM Dept Fully Responsible For AP, Says Abdullah

perhaps someone overhere can tell me, if she is not remain in her position, who will be the qualify people in current cabinet.
even i don't like her but i'm afraid i could't find replacement. not that she is good but ...

i know it is the malaysian culture for the ministers to shine the PM's shoes. but to equate him to god, that's a bit too much...

whatsoever:

problem is, when? if you don't train up the people, how long can she last?

New blood is much needed to improve this country.

As for old blood, yes, they have the experience,

but we have a term called "generation gap"

if they can't understand what the new generation needs, how could the country enter a new generation?

I rather be poor than to partner a crook to get rich.

However, this country’s leadership thinks otherwise. To rake in the riches for its citizens, we need the crooks to help us.

EDUCATION FOR THE YOUNG
Question: Is it okay to be a crook?
Answer: It depends on who your boss is.

Question: Is it okay to steal?
Answer: It’s okay to steal if you can give something valuable of your own.

Question: Is it okay to sin?
Answer: Ask God when you are dying.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. To think that the stupid electorate gave Pak Lah the 90+ pct mandate....never again.

SOrry Jeff, just need to say this..

Can you jokers here post constructive postings like Neil's.
If you have nothing intelligent to post, please don't post...it's rather irritating, in fact bloody irritating

It's asuring to see that iKabinet members steal have God on their mind. Or minds, butt I believe Pak Lah and rAPidah are in sync/sing? as in singin' the same BN song.

And Blogsworld mates, when God says, "Stop", it means STOP ... it also meAns stop your writ(H)ing ...
I:
S:
A: .... anyone, or are you steal waiting until:
The Fat Lady Stops Sing(E)ing?

Fat hopes if it's anytime soon!

itu terjemahan dari bahasa melayu dengan berseleroh bukan dengan muka macam tu.... ini bunyinya "kalau dah bercakap berbuih mulut pun, kalau Tuhan nak bagi jadi, Dia akan bagi jadi jugak" with slow tone lah.

those who SINCERELY thinks that if our dear minister is not retained would change anything to the AP or ETC ...

THINK AGAIN...

I don't think the status quo would change, not with how policy/mandate is done ...

Does it really matter as to who is actually the minister of the ministry ?

Does it make a difference to our country with populace of 25 million but a JUMBO-sized CABINET ?

Who is the leading public figure ?

Why all the MINISTERS who submitted the MEMORANDUM previously all GOT SHOT DOWN ?

think again ...

This gusty lady is a gem to foreign investors. Ask the boss of any MNC. Thus, I am not surprised that she is retained in the cabinet as this country still needs her service (compare to the crap we get from other spineless ministers who would stupidly parrot the subordinate civil service).

She is the only cabinet member who can tell proton to fly kite and I admire her for that !

thingking at a tangent to the issue and thinking being allowed/aloud

decisions and approvals all the way tnb to local councils move (active) whenever fdi's seek her ministries assistance ... there is a very un-malaysian like pro activeness, agree with mike wang, ask any MNC.

however, the choice of realising an approved investment in any country (and it always deviates from the realized investments) in todays world is subject to intensive study of many details including infrastructure (good highways, ports - transport ministry), risks (home ministry, ministry of defence), demographics, access to market (MIDA, MITI), size of market (single market china versus culturally diverse SEA), economy of scale (1 billion versus 24 million), access to resources and much more ... i.e. risk assesment. there is no doubt that we are faced with the far reaching effects of greater china that has acted as a giant sponge sucking away fdi's not just in manufacturing but also in services and we will have to contend with the next upcoming powerhouse of India. it then lends to then being able to at least provide quality service to mnc's (however few there may be) that do come to invest in our country. it is a zero sum game at the end of the day and the race up the worlds economic ladder is only that wide a ladder. if we do not continue to stay ahead we will be elbowed down the ladder by others who are more driven, made the right decisions, have the right tacit knowledge - which is not just the hardware but also the software - the people, the experience, the law, the culture - in short you cannot help but find that it is difficult to put the finger on that tacit item. i do not come close to knowing what it is, but know that it has to come together.

so while one ministry may respond well in its endeavour for service (which it has) it by no means mean sufficiency in progressing up the economic ladder. so ... tough one Malaysians, time to just roll up our sleeves, grit our teeth and work like hell. There is no short cut. stop blaming everyone else.

perception, such a powerful thing in todays digital world, greespan's over-exuberance is after all decribing a wrong perception of the state of financial affairs during the dot com bubble, over-pessimism on the flipside also has its own momentum and the energy to drive it either way is equally powerful. Our dead cat bounce must have seen 9 lives already, are we ready? we must be ready to start some semblance of momentum the other direction. winter never lasts, spring never skips its turn. cut out the noise lets focus on the issues at hand malaysians, let's move forward.

hope that was not too loud!

The rice is already cooked. The milk has been spilled. Yous see the thumbing nose. So what can you do! You say what you want to say, the same old story is being read! This is becoming pathetic. The excuse is the impending 9th MP. What is so great about this coming Plan that needs the same bunch of 'jokers' to oversee its implementation. Look at the last 8 plans, who were the ones implementing them.... the civil servants. Did they do a good job of these plans. What did these plans do to this country and at what costs...perhaps some good roads but at what costs again? The crux of the matter lies in intergrity and corruption free.

You can have all the rules and it is true that we have a set of good GOs but there are ways to circumvent these guidelines. A simple example is you must have at least three bidders for quotation..so that you have a choice to select the lowest or otherwise of the quotes. So what do they do? Yes, you have your three bidders all generated within the system shutting out those outside the system.
The corrupt decadence has gone into the bone morrow and the cancer has spread over the years. A good example is MAS, rid the corrupt practices and this airline will recover faster and healthier. Ask the old timers of the airline and they know best what has happened over the years. Those responsible are scot-free and thumbing their noses on you!

Good old Rafidah must learn not to shoot from the hip. This arrogance certainly invite trouble. This is an advice from an old acquantaince. Perhaps it is best to stay at home to look after and play with the grand children rather than fending off attacks. But this is human nature, because if one is too long in a job, the tendency is to feel that one has become indispensable. And you think without you no one can do the job. No! the globe still goes around whether you are there or not!

Again, this government has become so confused as to the demarcation of responsibilities. What has happened to the administraion, so many gaffes and so many clarifications. The people are confused because we have a PM equally confused!

After almost 49 years of merdeka we seem to go backwards! Where do we go from here?

I wonder how she can prove that in fact god had a hand in this matter, can she provide evidence? Its pathetically petty.

But the big question is, why would god want you to stay in office Ms.Rafidah, to bbe exact, what would god want you to do here?

Neil and bystander are pessimists.the issue of motorcar APs is indeed a small part of MITI. there are APs for steel in order to protect lion/megasteel. AP for sugar to protect PBB (Kuok group) and Pernas and countless other APs.APs for cars is not mandatory and you do not have to give rent seekers a single sen if you buy Naza, Perodua or Proton. If your argument then that by buying these products, you are actually encouraging a non free market policy, dont fret cause Rafidah and AAB is committed to Afta and Rafidah has just signed a FTA with japan allowing free imports of cars in ten years time.I agree that race based policy should be discarded. you can really see the frustration and hate this has created, even when attending a hair cut.But the real challenge is that the management of this country has to change by discarding the thirteen states and turning Malaysia into only two states, West(Penisular Malaysia) and East(present day Sabah and Sarawak). The present day state bereaucracy is one of the reasons why this country is so ineffective and liable to corrupt practices.Water privatisation deal in selangor being one of them, and land managemnt matters.9MP should include human resource enhancing measures such as research grants and funds as suggested by AAB and not just funds for construction industries. As for LKS, he is not radical enough and plain old boring. he does not deserve a salute.

Ahahahaha Rafidah's Divine Mandate lolol. Betul lah, little sultan.

I share similar thoughts as "Senang" viz> the "God" issue has been overplayed here.

It was most likely Rafidah saying something like "Insyallah" - "God willing". The English wording "God says she stays" may well be just poor translation [if her original words were said in Malay].

The bigger issue to me is Rafidah's pompous "APs still under me" declaration.

Followed shortly by Pak Lah's "Oh no, it is NOT..."

We are realists while you, sydput, is probably young, ignorant, naive and a dreamer. If your ideals and dreams can come through in 5 years and prove me wrong, i will donate RM 500/ to any MCA or BN charity that you care to choose. Keep on dreaming man. Thks.

Mthls for your comments bystander. I am a realist and a young at heart.britain in the seventies was a basket case.The rich was considered pariah because socialism is in vogue. Taxes was exhorbitant. Unions ruled the factories and everything was going down the drain including education etc, etc, etc. margaret Thatcher came into the picture and change the whole scenario. She stood up to evrything that was in the way of progress and won. We now need such a leader. Criticising without an alternative solution will not solve a problem.

I just hope you are right and Malaysia will change for the better and I would be more than happy to donate to any charity. But I just hope that your fire would not die before me and migrate overseas. We will review the situation in 5 years. In the meantime pl keep dreaming. Maybe your energy and your radicalism and ideals which have not been mooted might just work. BUT I DOUBT. Thks.

They say there's a term called creative destruction. You destroy but in the process pave the way to changes that're more progressive. In this context, criticism doesn't just destroy. It can also chip off the calluses to open the pores and rejuvenate the skin.

Why hasn't it at all been seen like that?

sydput has written something but i don't follow what APs for steel has anything to do with APs for motorcars that benefited only a few identifiable cronies at the immense expense of both state and rakyat. In fact, this is a tragedy because the end-result of what Rafidah has done is positive for the majority of the rakyat but negative by riding on rent-based activities that spell favoritism/cronyism. The amounts involved weren't peanuts. The flip side was that Proton was affected, and while one had wanted Proton to succeed in the earlier years, more and more worms have come out of the woodwork to show that the vendor scheme was overpriced while also inefficient. So you have a dance of negatives that results in something messy. Two wrongs don't make one right. Is that the end of this story? No. The head of govt came out and virtually defined how weak his administration is. In fewer words, someone is INdispensable. If anything, it shows how weak the legacy and leadership grooming system (if there exists one) is in this country.

Let me jump sideways by asking an indirect question in two parts:

part 1: how many Malay civil servants retire with deep satisfaction of a lifetime of real achievements for the country? i mean real as real.

part 2: how many non-Malay civil servants retire without any real satisfaction of anything? i mean without as without.

So we have one problem here. In sydput's vision, he calls for a thatcher in our midst. The last one who would fill that mould, as many would vaguely recall, almost sunk this country and tore apart the very foundation of national unity. The next one if one were to follow sydput's vision has to be sought in the present coterie of cabinet ministers. Or their sons-in-law, perhaps. Now will sydput pick a card that has the name of any one such person in the present coterie and say s/he has the makings of a thatcher, not that i am the least admiring of a country that has become a poodle to their anglosaxon brother.

So excuse me if my pessimism is deflating. We've had 49 years to inflate it. At what cost for an answer that even a monkey with a typewriter can tell you?

Am i finished tonight? Just a few more words.

So the PM overlooks indiscretions (i am being very diplomatic in my choice of words). He's using the oldest trick in the wily Indonesian's book: when lost, deflect attention. He points to the 9MP. As peterpan above sagaciously points out, what's one plan from the other eight? Were they well-done, or medium-rare?
We ALL know the answers to that. Ask the retired civil servants. Ask the veterans of independence. Ask the teachers and doctors and engineers and backbenchers. Ask the honest policeman, the nasi lemak makcik, the kopitiam owner. Ask them all where they're and not when they're on tv or about to be paraded before another merdeka celebration. And if the there's still some tape left, ask the m numbers who've left.

Am i finished? just a bit more. While asking the n millions who've left, you might as well as the n numbers who had slipped into the state of Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia (via Melaka) AND somehow or other managed to get Malaysian citizenship papers. There's a campaign going on for some years now in the state of Sabah to identify the gravity and extent of that situation. Why is the Home Ministry deathly quiet on this? Do you know why this simple thing is brought up here? Pick a reason, say, in the socio-economic/demographic domain. I say no more.

So long after the spirit of the Alliance was forged have we all finally learnt that all men regardless of race are brothers. But as was also said, some are more brothers than others.

Why else would it be officially admitted that the government was wrong in the matter of the Highlands tower fiasco but the judgement has to be it is absolved by dint of a clause in some Act, probably written out by a legal clerk so long ago, a clerk who would not in his/her absolute faculty, ever could countenance that a government dept/town council could be derelict of duty in ensuring the safety of structures.. perhaps because of corruption?

As different even today when only have the press have highlighted that the JB condo (entire!) have been completely 'cleaned out' that the reaction was "we'll investigate"?!

And you put the lives of your families in the hands of this government?

Am i finished now? just a little bit more.

Two column entries later by Wong of Star, and they still can't get it right. Lebuh Bandar Utama remains uneven in some parts. All that they have done, for the info of Mr Wong, is to patch up a small strip at one traffic light. The entire stretch from Centrepoint to the highway rolls like a water-bed. Will the honorable MP for Bandar Utama please do the needful and close this matter, or does someone have to be another Panjang on a bicycle? It's just a small stretch - why can't they do it like the way it was done for the main road in front of TTDI (facing the firestation)? Why must people have to write in the national daily and in this GLOBAL blog so that there can be some finality in this country? Don't talk to anyone about federalising the country or looking for a thatcher. Just for God's sake, even the road, patch up the flyovers, look out for how EPF money is used for extrajudicial investments, investigate the GLCs and state-investments in companies at the interstices, and lest anyone thinks i may forget, people like Citizen Nades will re-call you to investigate the city and town councils. You know, those places where they can make 16 pieces of land disappear. From the books, one understands. Even Houdini and David Copperfield will be stumped!

Does one have to jump over the front-desk and do the thing ourselves so that substace will finally beat the living daylights out of form?

You know how it works, they create a policy, then a set of guidelines that are skewed, then nail your application with an administrative process that is completely dependent on whether you're in the good books of the processing official. Closure is only made when s/he gives you his/her handphone number. Don't ask why. It's banal and venal to even give the answer.

And we're talking about glocal?!

Am i finished? patience is a virtue...why can't the government push forward roaming teams? one team to clean up (read update and publish for public consumption) the books of every agency, federal and state? one doesn't want to just know Administrative Expenses. One wants to know the items under Administrative Expenses. In fact, the identity of the shareholders and proxies of the contractors, if it's not too much trouble.

What has all these got to do with the sydputs of Malaysia and Rafidah, and even God?

Denial of reality is a dangerous disease. It can strike down future generations because, like the army vehicles, when you run out of spare parts, or oil for that matter, you're wide open to the very colonialisation that has warped your fears.

Except that the new form of colonialisation isn't from outside.

It's all inside.

Thanks, dr strangelove and bystander.

And, sydput, nasi kandar someday?

My opinion is Rafidah implied her job something like "Jodoh".

But on logical part. She should avoid using the word of "God". Come on I'm also Muslim.... it quite irritating somebody keep on using Quran.... Tuhan etc-etc..... Kalau ya... Than Dear Rafidah pakai lah tudung tutuplah "Aurat".... If you use God... Than you should respect your God!!! - Sentiasa tutup aurat melainkan untuk suami!

Than we have another minister also using "Act of God" for thier reasoning.

All the above is man made problem which is not created by god... it is created by thier own greed...wanted to stay in power..... etc-etc...

Jeff - sorry doooo Bro! I'm really frustrated with AAB management...!

I totally agree with bmart ,but bro ,what the fat b***h is trying to say is KUN FAYA KUN.if god says she stays ,,she stays! He must have his reasons coz his ways are not for us to understand.But using his name in vain is totally abusing it.As for me ,i dont care what punishment she gets after death,i wanna see her suffer in life and belive me,all those corroupt will,only a matter of time.And to Uncle Sam, GOD didnt cut all the trees near gua tempurong ,nor did he build the highland towers and he didnt get a 10% cut out of the cheapo MRR2 project.He didnt! "The sword of Gideon will strike so swiftly to those who live of their brother that they know not what came"

so the score is Rafidah 1 Tun O, or is it AAB 1 Tun 0, or Najib 1 AAB 0.

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