Hsien Loong’s son should join the opposition

Chris K, a blogger said this in TRE. Though his reasoning was different, I think it is a damn good idea. This is really a win win development. From the point of PAP and Hsien Loong, if his son or sons joined the opposition, either side win will still be PAP and Hsien Loong winning, just like placing bets on a roulette table, placing bets on both sides.
 
The betterer thing is that if his son or sons join the opposition, the opposition will become more acceptable, become ‘ka ki lang’. When that happens, life for the opposition will be so much more comfortable and easier. They need not fear being fixed. They can be a real alternative to PAP and if they win PAP will say it’s ok, nevermind. It will be a pao ka liao kind of arrangement. No need to call out the army.
 
And Hsien Loong’s hair would turn black again. No need to keep thinking how to deal with the opposition and fearing what might happen if the opposition wins. Politics will take on a new rhythm, a friendly tune and everyone can pat each other on the back and party everyday. From confrontational politics it will be love making politics.
 
Of course the people will also benefit. There will be upgrading of estates everywhere, no matter opposition or PAP wards. No need to get approval or support from the Chairman of CCC. Ministers especially the Environment Minister’s life will be more pleasant. Only problem is that the judges will have less cases to deal with. Hong Lim Park can be the same Speakers’ Corner again but nobody will be there like in the past. NParks officers and men in blue will breathe a sigh of relief.
 
This is the most brilliant suggestion from the social media netizen.
 
Good or not? WP, SDP and all the Ps, please invite the sons for tea party, quick.

Kopi Level - Blue, thank you.

Threats posted in internet – US Supreme Court to decide

‘The US Supreme Court will consider a ground breaking case today about whether those who post death threats on Facebook are liable to prosecution or whether threatening comments are protected by constitutional rights to free speech.’ AFP article in the mypaper on 1 Dec.
 
The case was about a Anthon Elonis who posted this in his Facebook about his wife. ‘There’s one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you. I’m not going to rest until your body is a mess, soaked in blood and dying from all the little cuts. Hurry up ad die, bitch.’
 
was charged in court and sentenced to 44 months in prison. He appealed but the appeals court upheld the conviction. Now the case is taken to the US Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will decide if what Elonis wrote ‘constiture a “true threat” or were harmless because he did not intend to act on his words.’ According to US law, a threat is a statement that a reasonable person would interpret as a serious expression of intent to do harm to another person.
 
This case is interesting and I would like to point to the similarities of the threat against me by Raymond posted in my blog and I quote:
 
As for who I am, don't worry. We'll meet some day--at your funeral. Please make sure your obituary includes a mugshot of your ugly face.
October 29, 2014 1:22 pm
 
As a reasonable man, I feel threatened, that my life is being threatened by this blogger called Raymond. And he even dared me to make a police report. He refused to apologise or explain what he meant by his posts. And he added this post to my demand for a clarification on his intent.
 
Raymond said...
LOL! Go ahead, you crazy old wanker. I dare you.
October 30, 2014 8:31 am

I am still waiting for this Raymond to explain his intent. The case is now with the police.

Kopi Level - Blue, thank you.

PAP, do not be ungrateful

Now who is being ungrateful? When a party controls the media and the msm, it can keep on drumming whatever that suits its agenda and no one is likely to dispute or even has the chance to dispute whatever it is saying. The people are ungrateful. This is the accusation heard all over and utter by many jokers. The PAP has built this country from a 3rd world to a 1st world, raised the quality of life of the people to Swiss standard, but the people are so ungrateful. Without the PAP and the founder of modern Singapore, Singapore would still be a fishing village and the people would still be coolies and maids. Sinkies better be grateful and thankful to the govt, the PAP and the political leaders for the good life they are having.
 
Who are having the good life? The people that must be grateful must be those that are having a good life, not the losers. Why should losers be grateful? Definitely not all Singaporeans are having a good life. The people who are having the good life are the so called foreign talents here. They are given all the opportunities to lead an exceptionally good life that their countries could not provide them. An average mid executive Pinoy could be earning more than their ministers back home. A maid could be making more than their Pinoy PMEs in Manila. And this is applicable to all the 3rd world PMEs here. Even those from the western economies are also having a party that they could not dream of at home.
 
These are the people that must be grateful. They did not build Singapore but coming here at the right time to enjoy the fruits of Sinkie labour. But they are dreadfully ungrateful, thinking that they built this country and we owe them a living.
 
The Sinkies that should be very grateful to the rest of the Sinkies that built this country, it cannot be built by a few men talking and walking around, are those that are living the Swiss standard of living, emasculated and emancipated from the squatters and public housing to live in landed properties and mansions. The people that should be grateful should be those that are paid millions in public office. Remember, it is the people that are paying for their good life. They must not take the people for granted and called them losers, daft and lazy. It is exactly the daft and losers and the lazy that are footing their multi million dollar income and the good life.
 
Be grateful, be very grateful. The people’s tolerance has a limit. The people are not daft just because you called them daft. If you choose to remain recalcitrant, arrogant and ungrateful, the people will take your multi million dollar income away. Your good life and well being and the big salaries you are getting come from the grace and kindness and sacrifices of the people. And the people are the Sinkies whom you have chosen to kick aside in favour of foreigners. Keep taking away the jobs and opportunities from the very people that feed you, keep biting the hands that feed you, keep being ungrateful…the day of reckoning is near.
 
The foreigners are also here participating in the buffet spread but would flee when the daft Sinkies wake up from their ignorant and helpless slumber. The daft Sinkies will take back the buffet for themselves. They will take away from those enjoying the multi million dollar incomes and the good life but did not contribute to it, just inheriting the good fortune and pretending that they did it or created it for the people. Just keep believing that the daft will forever be daft. Don’t be ungrateful to the people that are paying for your good life.
 
PS. This is what Tsai Ingwen, chairwoman of DPP, Taiwan said, 'We will start from the local level and win back Taiwan. If a govt doesn't stand on the side of the people, the people can take away its power.

Kopi Leveln - Blue, thank you

Headlines: PAP trounced!!!

When I saw the headline of a Taiwan paper with the words ‘KMT trounced’, the first thing that came to my mind is “PAP trounced’. I think quite a significant number of people are cherishing this magical moment, that this will be the headline in the next GE, a refreshing change from the suffocating political environment of fear, threats and a man named Sue. It has happened in Taiwan with the KMT losing so badly that they would just bend their heads in shame. KMT lost Taipei, its stronghold, and also Taichung, not to say Tainan and Kaoshiung. It is as good as over. Such a devastating defeat is rare, exceptionally rare in the history of KMT.
 
History is predictable but often also throws up exceptions in the most unexpected way. Would this scenario happen in Singapore? Would the PAP be trounced, and the ST splashed it across its front page? Highly unlikely. Many of the experts and apologists have already predicted PAP would be unbeatable for the next 15 years, that is 3 more GEs. And PAP is likely to remain in power for the next 50 years.
 
For those hoping for such a front page earth shaking headline, well, shall I say fat hope? It will not happen, it cannot happen. The political experts and pundits said it would not happen. At best it is a wet dream.
 
What do you think?

Kopi Level - Yellow

Smart City or Smart Nation and the Silver Brigade

Singapore is going to transform itself into a Smart Nation. Note the difference between a Smart City and a Smart Nation. Got it? Ok, we are drumming to build Smart Cities in India but promoting a Smart Nation for ourselves. You need to be a bit smart to notice the difference. Simply put, Smart Cities are simply Smart Cities, all wired with gadgets and fibres. Smart Nation involves making the people smart. The only problem is whether this is so easily said than done. My proposal is to input a smart computer chip into every Silver Hair to interface with all the smart computer devices in the same way C3PO and R2D2 related to each other. This will make the Silver Hair ‘computer smart’ at a jab.

There was an article in the ST on 29 Nov by a Calvin Soh on the topic of Smart Nation and the Silver Brigade. The concept of a Smart Nation as proposed by Hsien Loong is all inclusive. The seniors, many illiterate or computer illiterate, will be trained or educated to benefit from a Smart City. The lonely old folks would be the first beneficiary as computer and electronic devices would be installed in their homes to monitor their movements to protect them. This is only a small step in the whole process.

Training and education and high tech devices would be the natural follow ups in this Smart Nation process. The people, Silver Brigade included, would be made smart to use all the smart equipment. And I believe, though no one is saying it, there will be a compulsory scheme to make sure that no one is left out of this smart programme.

Where to find the money, it is not free you know. Who is going to pay for it? The users, including the Silver Hair for sure, will have to pay for it. Nothing is for free mah. There is no free lunch.

In the future, instead of buttoning my own shirt or making my own cup of coffee, a computer gadget would to that for me while I lie down in bed. Now all these must cost money right? Not to worry, did anyone suggest another compulsory scheme to set aside some money from the CPF for this Smart Nation Scheme? Don’t ask me, I can’t afford it no matter how affordable they are going to drum about it.

I think I am smart enough not to be duped into paying for things I do not need. The sad part is when they make it compulsory. But there is a way out of these compulsions.

Kopi Level - Yellow