Lazy Bones

Finally this week .. the man who is currently hiding his face the most, has to be that member of the Singapore defence forces who having received his call up papers, had his maid carry his kit bag to the boot camp.

Lazy Spoilt Soldier

The picture was all over Facebook, and is now viral on the web .... the soldier has not been named, but you can bet your life he will be .... in the meantime, the web has been full of jokes from men, and outrage from women in equal measure.

A raft of parodies of Singaporean soldiers storming into battle, followed by their maids, has appeared, including one of SAF troops marching in their serried ranks, followed by serried ranks of domestic helpers carrying their bags.

Here's a couple of the funniest memes ....

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There are others ..... and the red face of the squaddie who has caused this loss of face to the Singaporean  Armed Forces command, will be something to behold when its finally unmasked.    

Our 'Friends' In The Middle East

While the 'West' has its attention turned to Libya, the Saudis and their surrogates in Bahrain have been given a free hand in their suppression of the Shia majority in that small kingdom.

Bahraini Police Torture A Man

Now I am not a conspiracist, and I don't believe that this is 'deliberate' or because its the mad 'Shia's' who are being suppressed we turn a blind eye.

The Two Faces Of Northern Ireland

Ireland has always had a Jekyll and Hyde personality ..... on the one hand its all Leprechauns, Shamrocks, Pubs, "The Craic", 'Smiling Irish Eyes', Guinness, 'St Paddy's Day' and New York Band Parades, but on the other, its Northern Ireland, Sectarianism, Bombings, Assassinations, Mass Murder, Irish 'Traveller' invasions, Marching Seasons, IRA, Republicanism, Orange Orders, Derry, and 'London' Derry ....

There have been very worrying signs that the darker side is coming to the fore again .... there has always been low level violence in Northern Ireland. Even during the 'Peace Process' brokered about a decade ago, the republican gangs have operated as low level criminal enforcers ... allegedly certain sectors of the economy are run by former terrorist gangs, some of whom have drifted into completely criminals endeavours such as bank/post office raids, protection rackets and of course the ubiquitous drug trade (which now finances violence in large areas of the world).

Now however, despite the political and economic gains that have been part of the peace dividend, some sections of the 'Republican' movement have now apparently decided to resume the terror campaigns of the 1970's, 80's and 90's .... their aims are even less coherent than in that last campaign (where even the  southern Irish state didn't want what they were proposing  ... as it would simply have transferred the violence from Belfast to Dublin).  Apparently they don't want Catholics to join the police so they are sending death threats to Catholics who have joined, and have just assassinated a Catholic police officer (after other attempts last year). They also have attempted to place bombs on roads and town centres .... bombs which would kill Catholics as well as Protestants,

This shows how twisted the 'logic' of terrorists becomes ... in order to 'protect' the Catholic community they kill and terrorise members of the same community ..... try and explain the rational behind that. Of course in reality the only 'threat' to the Catholic community now, comes from their 'protectors' in the 'Republican' movement. This has led to the strange sight of the former leaders of 'the struggle' as they termed it, having  to condemn terrorism from another generation of 'Republicans'  .... Martin McGuinness has urged the Catholic community to support the police, and others have also had to make political statements which they may otherwise never have made.

Ironically, while this has been happening, another face of Northern Ireland is being beamed to the world, as Rory McIlroy is trying to win one of the major events of golf, on the final day of the US Masters. So lets finish this post with an image of hope, and not one of terror.

Strange Comment By Dictators

Over the last few weeks, as regime after regime in the Arab world has come under pressure from protesters, there have been strange utterances from each of the dictators who have been threatened. In  nearly every case they have said that the protesters were being misled by outsiders, or "armed gangs" of foreign-backed militants...... but also they are "drunk" or "drug addicts".


Libyan Drunks Marching ..... 

The Libyan woman lawyer who was gang raped by Gaddafi's men in Tripoli, and who in her distress went to the foreign press hotel to complain (before being bundled away by secret police, to not be seen again), was also described as "a drunk, a prostitute and a thief" by a regime spokesman.

Now, apart from the ludicrous nature of these statements, which are the same claims that these regimes have made against opponents for the last thirty or forty years, there is the strangeness that alcohol is illegal and prohibited to the Muslim faithful in any of these paradises on earth ..... alcohol is actually one of the principal rewards (along with sex) that is given to the faithful when they die (men only - women get nothing), so they only get to drink an alcohol beer when they are dead (which many of the regimes have tried quite hard to arrange).

All The Taste ... But None Of The Fun!

In fact alcohol is not sold anywhere openly in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia or Yemen where these protests broke out - only non alcoholic beers .... so just where are all these 'Drunks' coming from? 

I just can't work out where these dictators think all these are gangs of drunks were actually hiding for the last thirty years, nor where they were getting their drinks from to become 'Drunks'?

Post Script: The woman lawyer, Iman al-Obeidi ended up in Colorado USA, where she was later charged with a number of violent offences, including a February 2014 assault on two patrons at a down-town bar in Boulder, Colorado for which she was convicted in May 2015 of a Class 4 felony - she was sentenced in Boulder District Court to 6 years in prison. So she was in fact a violent drunk after all. Life is odd sometimes.

Ten Wasted Years

The UN mission in Afghanistan has been trying to help the people of Afghanistan for a decade .... part of the brief is to help the transformation from a backward, feudalistic, violent nation of Islamic nutters. Kieran Dwyer, director of communications for the UN mission in Afghanistan described their roles as "These are civilian people, unarmed, here to do human rights work, to work for peace in Afghanistan."

Yesterday, in response to rumours or reports that a Christian fundamentalist had burnt a copy of the Quran, a mob was quickly rounded up in the town of  Mazar-i Sharif, marched to the UN compound, where the UN guards apparently were overwhelmed, and then killed fourteen UN workers. They did so, because whether local Afghan or 'foreigner', they were all classed as 'Infidel Crusaders', and therefore can be killed whenever a Mullah orders it, by 'responsible Muslims'.


Rent A Mullah Mob on the March

At least two of the 'foreigners' were 'beheaded' as enemies of the "Religion of Peace" (aka 'Submission') and included at least one woman .....  Norwegian Lieutenant Colonel Siki Skare, a 53-year-old female pilot, another named victim of this Muslim atrocity is Swede Joakin Dungel aged 33, and four of the seven foreigners killed, were former Gurkha's working as private security guards, with a Romanian also known to have been killed.

Zabihullah Mujahid the local Taliban spokesman said that "The Taliban had nothing to do with this, it was a pure act of responsible Muslims."  ..... I'll repeat that 'a pure act of responsible Muslims'. Incidentally, while burning a Quran is apparently worth killing men and women for, blowing up mosques, killing other muslims, and burning hundreds of Qurans in the process, doesn't even raise a mini protest in the Muslim world ..... dumb hypocrites.

Mosque Bombed - many killed and injured - Qurans despoiled
..... No Mobs Protesting the Qurans being Bombed.

You can keep telling me that there is such a thing as a 'moderate responsible Muslim majority', and I will say show me this mythical state or group, because I can show you one hundred instances of the opposite, and it seems to me that many of the rest are just one sermon away from killing someone.  
 
We are wasting our time and money, and most of all risking good peoples lives, in trying to help these people ... they actually want to be a backward feudalistic nation of violent followers of Islam. We can't stop them and when we do go, they will revert to type again.