Monday, July 15, 2013

Send The Jokers to Coventry

To send someone to Coventry is a British idiom meaning to ignore or ostracise someone. Typically, this is done by pretending that the shunned person, although conspicuously present, can't be seen or heard.

Grose's The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue defines it thus:
"To send one to Coventry; a punishment inflicted by officers of the army on such of their brethren as are testy, or have been guilty of improper behaviour, not worthy the cognizance of a court martial."

The list of characters that deserve to be sent to Coventry is getting long and nauseating, think Khaw Boon Wan, Teo Ho Pin, Yaacob Ibrahim, Vivian Balakrishnan, etc. Our patience has been tested once too often. Even Low Thia Khiang has had enough of the petty bickering, and we agree: "We have made our position known both inside and outside Parliament and the relevant documents are already in the public domain, so the public can make its own judgment on the matter."

Lee Hsien Loong was treading on thin ice when he boasted, “If we cannot trust a politician to tell the truth, then we cannot trust him or her to safeguard public funds, to put public interest ahead of personal gain, or to make decisions affecting the well-being and security of Singaporeans.” Is he even aware that Balakrishnan conveniently left out the 7 Feb email from NEA from his so-called dossier of truths?

"If any of my PAP colleagues is accused of lying, I will investigate and get to the bottom of the matter. If he has lied, there is only one option – he has to go." Except that he has yet to investigate Ross Worthington's narration of how Dhanabalan was slapped ("Governance in Singapore" is available at the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library, page 150). The stakes are high. If Dhanabalan, Richard Hu and Tony Tan are put to the polygraph test, the result could be epic. Hey, we may even get to elect another president. This is how Goh Chok Tong recalled the incident at a National Day Rally:
"You may also have heard this old story about Loong. In case you have not, I'll tell you now.
”Back in 1990, Loong had a quarrel with Richard Hu. S. Dhanabalan sided with Richard. Loong lost his temper. ”He reached across the table and gave Dhanabalan a tight slap. The whole Cabinet was thrown into commotion. “I then forced Loong to apologise. I must be suffering from amnesia. I just cannot remember this incident. Now you know how creative Singaporeans are."

Was Khaw also lying when he said HDB pricing is delinked from private sector market rates? Teo has yet to come clean about A.I.M. and, using Lee's own words, "the matter has to be resolved one way or other. It cannot be left as an “I say, you say” matter of opinion, which leaves a permanent question mark hanging over his reputation, and the reputation of my government."

The whole bunch is behaving like kids, as an Indonesian minister put it, "in a tizzy". Sending them to Coventry is the best recourse, we need to get on with our daily struggle to pay for the house, daily commute, living expenses, kids' education and healthcare.

26 comments:

  1. Why u never send Lee HL to Coventry? The boy deserves it.

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  2. PAPig Joke About Employment Opportunities for Singaporeans
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    Lee Hsien Loong was chatting to a Singaporean architect at a dinner party.

    "You know," Ah Loong says, "if I weren't Prime Minister, I would probably design buildings for Singapore."

    "Really ah?" says the Singaporean architect. "If you weren't Prime Minister, I probably would be designing buildings for Singapore too."

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    1. If ah loong was chatting with me.

      ah loong: if my father was not LKY, I would have been PM at 35

      me: I concur! you could have been PM of Timbuktu, but only for 1 day.
      And you would have been just a lance corporal working as store man in the SAF. But the good part is your sister would have got married, your brother would have fulfilled his dream of wine, women and song, and of course HC would have been spared marrying a woman. LOL

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    2. If ah loong was chatting with me.

      ah loong: if my father was not LKY, I would have been PM at 35

      me: I concur! you could have been PM of Timbuktu, but only for 1 day.
      And you would have been just a lance corporal working as store man in the SAF. But the good part is your sister would have got married, your brother would have fulfilled his dream of wine, women and song, and of course HC would have been spared marrying a woman. LOL

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  3. "We omit, we do not lie; we pay our contractors promtly (even when jobs are not completed) we do not manipulate economic statistics; we are ensuring that our sheeple hear only the good things, we do not censor; we incentivise all our top civil talents market rate, we do not feather our own beds; we foster an open market economy, we do not create inequality; we are not a refuge for forest burning companies, we are a haven for entrepreneurial capital"

    What do vbala, cow, chicken, sham, kojak, ah loongsan and teo think? They are too busy counting their bank accounts, no time to think.

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  4. When you have the power, you wipe off all dirts and threaten others not to tell. Don't think the voters do not know? They just let you lie through your teeth only as long as you do not affect their livelihood. Tahan is the word. They know if they change the government same thing will repeat itself.

    Having said that please do not make yourself too white. No one would believe politicians while not lying, are telling the whole truth.

    As the Chinese says "Kiang jui hor, Mai ke kiang".

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  5. You seemed to have missed out Josephine Teo.
    Dont think she has much understanding about Certificate Of Entitlement(COE) for vehicle ownerships or purchases
    She had expressed difficulty in administering or control of it.
    How could a measure be implemented without proper comprehensive control and method to prevent any abuse?

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  6. Angry Singaporean7/15/2013 2:41 PM

    Hypocrites.

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    1. To become a MIW you have to be either a congenital liar or a habitual liar.

      The day the MIW are voted out, it will be absolutely crucial to introduce a mass polygraph test for those at the apex of our state institutions. I have no doubt that the results will be epic and mindboggling...legacy of LKY you might say?

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  7. It feels good to know that the Rulers is leaving no stone unturned.
    The only lament is that it appears that they pick the stones selectively.
    Some stones were turned but, examinations were not thorough.

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  8. The behaviour of those in power sown the declining gracious tone in our society. Increasingly, we see boorishness, pettiness, loutishness and a disregard for others. I am appalled and reject lhl and his team's behaviour.

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    1. How can we forget the vindictiveness of the PAP over the years? It seems they are finding it difficult to get rid of this trait, or perhaps unwilling to change, after watching the hostile stance of VB and the response from LHL. I can only see the PAP's rough ride come 2016.

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  9. Someone recently raised one simple question in the Shit Times about how are our new HDB flat prices are derived at ?

    And just look at how HDB cunningly replied by avoided answering the question directly by telling a mother goose story about how many options & grants are available for the new HDB buyer. Nothing about the price calculations as if they have a lot of things to hide ?

    And yet our PM talks about integrity ? But where is the G's integrity about Operation Coldstore detentions or the Palmergate affair, one may ask of our PM .... talk cock only ?

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  10. We pay million dollars to our story tellers?

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  11. Khaw is a four-faced Buddha. Depending on which face you see, you can get different answers from him. The property cooling measures are a farce. Just look at the HDB resale price index. It is climbing up, up and away. Your children have no future if you do not bequeath your property to them. They will be sleeping in the streets even if they have a degree as their pay will never be able to catch up when the government keep importing cheap Ftrash into our shores.

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    1. The Government is not interested in bringing down property prices. I never doubt that. Khaw is just sowing contradiction after contradiction to confuse Singaporeans, and property speculators can read his mind like an open book. That is why the cooling measures are not working.

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    2. this is blasphemy, associating a "holy being" with this fucking piece of "khaw" dung .

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  12. How many are "luo guan" (naked officials) whose extended families already own foreign passports/PRs, and living abroad? There are also those with super-scale pay checks from MOE ST wives living in western countries.

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  13. Ms Chin Peiyun's name is not found on www.sgdi.gov.sg [any longer]. Can anyone verify if she is still in the NEA? Has she been used as a sacrificial lamb so that there will be silence when people try to question her? Silence of the Lambs ;)

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    1. She should be rightfully sacked for the saga.

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    2. On the contrary, she might get a promotion for setting up the booby trap for the WP to step on. Only thing is that time will tell whether it was the PAP themselves who walked on the booby trap, instead of its intended victim!

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  14. Japan: Radioactive water from quake-hit plant likely leaking into Pacific

    Japan's nuclear regulator says radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima power plant is probably leaking into the Pacific Ocean, a problem long suspected by experts but denied by the plant's operator.

    SOURCE:
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/11/japan-radioactive-water-from-quake-hit-plant-likely-leaking-into-pacific/


    Don't you think it's lucky for Singapore that Japan's Fukushima nuclear accident happened?
    Before the pro-nuclear PAPigs had a chance to influence Sinkies into accepting nuclear power into Singapore?

    See also:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/10/us-japan-nuclear-idUSBRE9680DY20130710

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/world/asia/japanese-nuclear-plant-may-have-been-leaking-for-two-years.html?ref=energy-environment&_r=2&

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    1. Does Minister Balakrishnan have a plan for when the radioactive waste from Fukushima washes up on Singapore beaches?

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  15. What makes stupidity really insufferable is that it is forever in action - idiocy knows no rest.

    Unknown quotes

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  16. “If we cannot trust a politician to tell the truth, then we cannot trust him or her to safeguard public funds, to put public interest ahead of personal gain, or to make decisions affecting the well-being and security of Singaporeans.” - Ah Loongsan

    I have a similar one from WWII:

    "The State has the absolute right to supervise the formation of public opinion" - Joseph Goebbels (aka Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945

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  17. /// Lee Hsien Loong was treading on thin ice when he boasted, “If we cannot trust a politician to tell the truth, then we cannot trust him or her to safeguard public funds, to put public interest ahead of personal gain, or to make decisions affecting the well-being and security of Singaporeans.” ///

    Well, at least he was telling the truth about fixing the opposition.

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