It’s so damn easy to blame others for all the problems in your life. Blame your parents for your loveless arranged marriage, blame your husband for your boredom, blame your relationship for creating chaos in your life, blame your emotional issues on others having failed you, blame your increasing weight on your desk job, blame your uninteresting, disinterested spouse for your infidelity, blame… blame… blame all the way to death, when many blame others for their decision to commit suicide. Let me state something loud and clear, ‘This is your life.’ And if you don’t like your reality, change it! Every moment in your life is a reality because you have allowed it to be so. You could have had a very different life, but you made your choices. If you allowed someone else to make choices for you it’s because you were scared, you were weak or because you didn’t know any better. That’s not anyone else’s problems, it’s yours. I truly believe that we attract at the frequency we vibrate at. It’s for you to want better for yourself, to go out there and use the incredible individual power you have to get what you want and find ways to manifest positive change. Oh! You don’t have any personal ability or power? That’s your belief? Perhaps that’s why you are where you’re at. You’re only as helpless as you allow yourself to be. Change your attitude, change your life!
Baljit! I dare you to post the same question to Najib!a nobody and incapable of doing anything – yet following the footsteps of Perkasa contributing to noise pollutionThere are many things that are even more “morally wrong” but are being done and practised by political leaders in power. They include stealing, cheating, lying, mismanagement of public funds, abuse of power, nepotism, cronyism and CORRUPTION, etc. etc . time you should defect to PKR as Gerakan is going to be wiped out come 13th GEWhy don’t you ask BN / UMNO the same questions about Zahrain,Hassan Ali and the other frogs BN has paid. Anything you people ask about mismanagement within PR managed states, you can ask with 100 times the intensity. Do that first before making a big deal about nothing.
Enough of being irrelevant. Make a proper stand against UMNO if Gerakan or MCA or MIC wants to be a force. Otherwise you guys are nothing….
Don’t try to create a semblance of relevance in the community
Don’t try to create a semblance of relevance in the community
Have you ever made any public condemnation on the above? you are typical of sikhs talking nonsense, just like Karpal bsingh who is hell bent on splitting up the pakatan rakyat on the hudud issue, we all know the constitution of this country is watertight in not allowing this country to become a Islamic country, so whats Karpals beef in shouting around, If PAS says thet want hudud , they know they have to have a 2/3 majority to change the constitution, you think thay can get this majority if PR is in power with Anwar as PM and either Lim kit siang / hadi awang as deputy PM. come on lah baljit your Gerakan is a spent force give it up and go sell capati like your forefathers did go ask your masters what they did in Perak? Did you condemn them …. you arse licker? this gerakan guy is trying to earn some brownie points. Give PR two third majority, maybe anti hopping laws will be passed. hate to see lapdogs from Gerakan making statements…Lapdogs statement carries no weight!,why are you becoming a parrot for g..eract..kan?You’re in charge of legal section,why don’t you expose all the wrong that bn has done in Penang?Why don’t you?No guts..
Gerakan will be wipe off come GE13 ….. so stop hoping to be a candidate … you may lose your deposit,
Thanks Rahul Baba! For once, the nation is one hundred per cent behind you. Last week, the Son of India declared he was ‘seriously’ not interested in what Baba Ramdev was saying or doing because he is more interested in investing his precious time doing ‘serious work’. This is, seriously, the most serious thing he has ever said. And we should take him seriously. It isn’t that tough. Sixty-five years after Independence, we haven’t taken ourselves seriously. Or, at any rate, seriously enough. No wonder nobody else does, either!
Two extraordinary events polarized India last week, and had we paid more attention to the gravity of both situations, perhaps things wouldn’t have reached this sorry state. Today, we are dealing with a seriously nasty situation in which we are turning on ourselves – our own people are being chased out of one state after another and more or less ordered to go back to their home states in the northeast. This is just too shocking for words! What crime have these Indian citizens committed? Why can’t assorted state administrations offer them the protection they are entitled to? What message is Delhi sending across the nation by making special trains available to terrified people, to flee like petty thieves scurrying for cover? Yes, Rahul Baba. Serious (and immediate) work is indeed needed on a war footing, before the situation worsens.
Ditto for what Mumbai experienced just a few days before our 65th Independence Day, when for the first time in public memory, rampaging mobs systematically attacked the police, snatching service weapons, firing in the air, molesting female constables, torching police vans, fire engines, OB vans, private cars and two-wheelers. Such a daring and dangerous development does not take place ‘spontaneously’. Someone was clearly testing the waters. But who? It was an unprecedented lethal attack on the vardiwalas, possibly to check the official response to it. Would the incensed cops retaliate brutally to the provocation, leading to a carnage? Would a bloodbath follow? Nothing of the sort happened mercifully – Mumbai cops displayed both maturity and restraint. Worse, the same hooligans desecrated the Amar Jawan Memorial, smashing the glass case and stomping all over the site. Post the mayhem, several questions remain unanswered.
No matter how efficiently Mumbai cops handled the aftermath of this awful incident, one thing cannot be dismissed easily. The Mumbai attacks on cops were carefully planned. They were the prime targets. All the other acts of wanton violence were incidental. What we mutely witnessed was the ugliest manifestation of power play involving warring politicians, settling old scores and using the police force to do their dirty jobs for them. When cops become puppets of politicos, what faith can the public have in their ability to protect the city?
Today, the most sensitive appointments in the police force are determined by conniving politicians. The nexus is blatant and brazen. The home ministers of several states report to their bosses operating from Delhi. The most critical positions are filled by cops who are openly identified as being so-and-so’s men. There is no unity within the state cabinet, leading to divided loyalties in the police force. The day a top cop becomes someone’s man, anarchy rules.
We have reached the tipping point. The violence against citizens, be they students from the northeast or Mumbai cops, is being strategized and manipulated by shadowy people with nothing to lose. Not a hair on their heads is likely to be touched in the chaos. Their names may never be known to us. It is a truly terrible situation with bureaucrats at war with other bureaucrats, cops at war with other cops, ministers, their hirelings… everybody at war with everybody else. That leaves our preachers, maulanas, godmen and gurus – perhaps the most dangerous bunch of the lot.
In such a strife-driven environment, the few sane voices around don’t stand a chance of getting heard. Even if they do manage to articulate what needs to be strongly stated, who’s listening? Weak at the Centre, weak at the state level… India is about to commit hara kiri. Sixty-five years ago, there was hope in the air, and great expectations. Today, those we entrust to lead the nation are on the backfoot, busy offering alibis and excuses. It has come to a point where we are passively permitting religious fissures to further divide us. Will our desperation compel us to pin all our hopes for salvation on an unlikely savior? Will the next Indian political blockbuster be titled Ek Tha Rahul? Or wait, it could also be, Ek Thi Priyanka. Yup, folks, serious work ahead!
Gerakan has challenged Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to clarify his position on the defection of elected representatives to rival parties.
Up to now Lim has not made a stand on whether he approves of such defections, which are described by state Gerakan human rights and legal bureau chief Baljit Singh as “morally wrong”.
A government, Baljit explained, must be chosen by the people through the election of their representatives and therefore, those who plan to seize power through defections should be condemned.
He said Lim had remained silent when PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim announced that many BN parliamentarians would be crossing over to Pakatan Rakyat on Sept 16 two years ago.
Baljit praised only one opposition leader – DAP national chairman Karpal Singh – for having the guts to speak out against defections and Anwar’s Sept 16 plan.
“How much did Anwar offer these representatives to cross over? Why is Lim silent about this?” Baljit asked at a press conference yesterday.
“Or is Lim thinking of the possibility that his father, Kit Siang, could be the first non-Malay deputy prime minister if Pakatan manages to take over the federal government?”
Baljit was accompanied at the press conference by state political training and education chief Rowena Yam, publicity, information and communications bureau chief Dr Thor Teong Ghee and state Gerakan Youth vice-chief Dr Lim Boon Han.
He was responding to a recent news report quoting Lim as saying that he could not understand why the federal government would not enact legislation to prevent party-hopping of elected representatives.
Lim had also reportedly said that he did not think the BN would do it as it needed to buy such representatives to cross over.
Following the resignation of two BN Sabah MPs, the ruling coalition labeled them as ‘frogs’, to which Lim had supposedly replied in the media that “I don’t understand (the criticism), BN has been encouraging this culture.”
Last week, Lim, who is DAP secretary-general, rubbished the newly-established Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in Sabah as a sham.
He described the RCI as an attempt to hide the “loss of confidence” in Sabah BN following the defection this month of a deputy minister, a parliamentarian and a senator, who said they were disillusioned with the ruling coalition.
According to Baljit, anyone who defected, whether from the BN or Pakatan, is a “political frog”.
The federal government alone, he added, could not ensure that a law against defections could be passed as both sides of the political divide would need to back it in Parliament.
In December last year, a Gerakan team led by Baljit proposed to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Electoral Reform that elected seats be automatically declared vacant if the representative quits his or her party.
The proposal, Baljit had said, was to ensure that there would be no political coup after an election and that a by-election should be held to determine the new representative for the constituency.
In 2009, three Pakatan assemblypersons in Perak quit their parties and declared themselves BN-friendly, which eventually led to the BN seizing power from the PAS-led Pakatan administration.
Why do we wear turbans?”
Nearly every Sikh American who grows up in the U.S. asks their families this question and as two Sikh Americans who maintain our faith, we were no different when we were little. This week, as Americans join in vigils for the six murdered Sikhs in another violent act of hate, many are now asking us this same question.
“Our ancestors were beheaded so that we could practice our faith without fear,” our grandparents told us, detailing stories of torture and heroism, martyrdom and sacrifice, in 500 years of Sikh history. These stories gave us a legacy that infuses the turban with deep meaning: it embodies our community’s commitment to devotion, honor, and service to all, a gift made possible by those who died to protect the practice of our faith.
While some non-Sikhs wear turbans as cultural garb, Sikhs are the only community for whom the turban is religious and nearly every person who wears the turban in the U.S. is Sikh. For many of us, abandoning this visible identity is equivalent to abandoning our faith and core values, including the commitment to protect the right of all people to practice whatever faith they choosereadmore.http://engagechittarkootaijamath.blogspot.com/2012/08/underneath-turban-gerakans-chief-lier.html
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