Hilarious... A joke to get you going this morning

I was just reading an article in tomorrows Island..... that Muttusamy Ilango alias Samy, the LTTE international big gun who was supposedly "abducted" (according to the channel without a head) in Pettah, claims that he was in Sri Lanka to file a lawsuit against the Sri Lankan government for destroying one of his ships. Apparently some of those ships carrying weapons for the LTTE were his :-). What next.. Prabakaran sues the government for bombing his bunkers?

Who cares if Solders Die, I pay them!

This is a comment of a so called Sri Lankan (I have no way of knowing, but I took it off the comment page of indi.ca)

…you walk the streets of Colombo because some anonymous solider sacrificed his life to stop a terrorist from spreading his terror…

This is a myth that many continue to propagate.

Yes, it is true that anonymous soldier takes an enormous risk for protecting me, but I PAY ENOUGH for that. So he is NOT doing any favours to me.

Lets us see how.

Military today are among the highest paid, in terms of salary and privileges compared to their qualifications.

Entry level salary 25k +
Special privileges that no other government employee receives.
Compensation in case of death of disability
Pension after 10 years in job.
In case of death, full salary paid to wife and children till the death of wife and children become 21 years.
Posthumous promotions

Can you tell me which other job provides this kind of return for just GCE A/L qualifications? Probably MPs, but not anyone else.

Not that I say it is wrong. That is the price we pay for our security.

Now let us see how I pay.

About 20% of my earnings goes to state through PAYE.
About 12% of my earnings goes to state through indirect TAX (VAT = 15%, just take 3% out because there are few tax free goods)
Depending upon the rate more than 20% of the earnings lost due to inflation and this gets added up at the state coppers, as indirect ‘inflationary tax’.

So how come you say that anonymous soldier does a favour for me, when I pay nearly 50% of my earnings to state? (bulk of them go for the war including salaries of the military) Nobody asked that anonymous soldier to join army. I am sure he knew the risk when he joined, but attracted by the perks of the job. Economically speaking he is just acting rational.

So I get security, he gets paid for it. No favours from any side.

If anybody does that service for me without a salary and privileges, I will be grateful. Otherwise I do not see any reason why I should be grateful for receiving services for what I pay through my nose.

I pity him/her since he/she lacks humanity and gratitude!

Long Live the Free Media Movement!

I was reading the loud "Jing Bang" created in the local media and specially by our most beloved Free Media Movement about the arrest of the two France 24 journalist filming a "road block" (a.k.a the Boosa detention camp - LOL!) for allegedly 5 seconds (a photograph can give a lot of information, 5 seconds of video may give even more info).

Well any way I watch France 24 on MyEasyTV but to my amusement they did not care to mention this and make a big "Jing Bang" like our FMM NGO. I also did a couple of searches for it on the France 24 website but zipp about the arrest or release of these journalist (btw their web search is pretty accurate).

So WTF is the agenda of the FMM? What is in it for them? More money? Pleasing their foreign Masters? Or simply pacifying the Tiger Pussy?

"Long live the FMM" is probably what Prabakaran is chanting!

Sinhala, English and Tiger Terrorists?

It is a sad situation we have to face today with the Web 2.0 bringing to forefront the issue of accuracy of information. With anyone being able to put up anything on the web, there are more lies than truths out there today. Even worse is the fact that people still lack the skills of judging truth from fiction. Blogs have become one of those sources of misinformation and are being increasingly misused. It is not something ethical for one blogger to write against another, but once in a while you have to break the rules for the sake of the "better good".

Terrorist not only exit bearing kalashnikovs or a belt of explosives strapped on to their chest, but they exist bearing pens (now keyboards), peace doves, and humanitarian and human rights symbols. They conduct their propaganda war, while their brothers in arms blow up building and kill innocent civilians. Each mutually supporting the other for survival. One could not exist and profit without the other, a good "business model" with plenty of money involved no doubt and as the saying goes, I scratch your back - you scratch mine.

I have been reading some so called "bloggs", one of them started in English and then branched out into Sinhala and Tamil, all blowing the trumpet of the Tiger terrorists and their supporting power-hungry puppet politicians. I think the Sri lankan blogosphere are not that stupid as these terrorist think we are. Just because they right in Sinhala or Englis it does not mean they are not terrorist supporters (What about the Sinhala Terrorists and some SL politicians - they are Sinhala speaking right, and the Canadian and British parliamentarians who attend LTTE rallies - they are English speaking right - so language, race or religion does not in anyway give a new face to terrorists). Let me ask you, if Tamilnet starts a site in Sinhala or Tamil we know that they are still the mouthpiece of the LTTE, right? So I'm not going to beat around the bush anymore, and the winner in the terrorist blog category is... "grounviews" and its sibling Sinhala terror sites "vikalpa" and their Tamil site "Marru wali" (sorry but I have forgotten my Tamil - read it as best as I could). Everybody know what "groundviews" agenda is and what terrorist group they support - and how they published a disagreeing commenter's IP info and bocked and moderated comments from others who had different opinions (they promote human rights and support free speech?). And now "vikalpa" meaning "alternate" and we all know who's alternative policies they are and who makes money through that NGO and which terror group they say "Ai Ai Captain" to.

The runners-up in the terrorist blog category is.... "transcurrants". If that bloke post something it is a fabricated piece of rubbish. I was wondering why famous defense analyst like B.Ramana and other eminent people only write to this website. These specific articles on "transcurrents" were never published anywhere else on the web not in any other news or defense site. Could it be because they are not the actual writers? Likely that some joker is impersonating these experts to give a moral boost so that the Tiger Terrorist may pump out more money from the Tamil diaspora and pacify the power hungry SL politicians and peacenics? B Ramanan publishes all his material on Rediff but where are these articles that praise the LTTE and rundown the SL government? The most horrifying thing was when I read one of these fabricated articles on the Island of the 25th of October 2007. They had simply done a "copy and paste" without verifying facts. One must say, now that is a dangerous trend, because we still believe that the Paper bought at the local boutique is a little bit more valid than what we might find on the Internet (because of the process that it SHOULD go through)!

So please keep your eyes and ears and most importantly your minds open, since this is just the tip of the iceberg. Many other blogs, youtube videos etc. etc. wait in line to do the bidding of the Tiger Terrorist to achieve their "virtual" Eelam (it just occurred to me that may be the Tiger Terrorist and their entourage could actually buy some space on SecondLife and create their own virtual Eelam and Prabahakaran can be their king LOL!).

Wish you all PEACE, LOVE AND HARMONY this Christmas and the New Year to come.

Tamilselvan killed in Sri Lanka Air Force aerial bombardment

Well that is the cost of pissing off the Air Force, with their so called "daring" Attack. Rest in Pieces!

At 6.00am today, Friday 2nd November 2007, Head of teh LTTE Political Division, S P Tamilselvan (no more false smiles) was killed by the Sri Lankan Air Force aerial bombing. With him the self appointed jackasses "Lt Col" Anpumani (Alex), "Major" Mihuthan, "Capt" Nethagy, "Lt" Adchgivel, and "Lt " Vahaikumaran were also killed.

Rubbish on the "Island"

Felt like breaking the long silence of not blogging, even though I am really busy. I thought I just needed to speak out my mind, to let them know. I was probably the first in the world to read the online version of the Island news paper today (25th Oct - but it's still 24th here). I respected the Island paper, so I even went and payed US$ 10 to read the paper online. Well any! way I just read the article with the heading "Ex-Indian Addl. Cabinet Secy details attack on air base - (supposedly) by B.Raman" and remembered that I read this article on kottu yesterday. I knew it was a posting by "someone" with a sympathetic eye for the terrorist, and the wording and the respect shown to the LTTE barbarians and the amount of misinformation published was so obvious that I knew it was some S-o-B impersonating B.Raman. I thought of letting the editor of the Island newspaper know, that he had published something with no truth and not from and authentic source and baring the name of a "reputed" intelligence expert from India. So I filled this form for opinion and clicked send, but it gave me an error. So I thought I'll put it out like this;

To the Editor Island Newspaper: Your article with heading "Ex-Indian Addl. Cabinet Secy details attack on air base" is not an authentic article by B.Raman. It is a blog post (intellibriefs.blogspot.com) by some LTTE supporter and impersonator of the "reputed" intelligence expert from India. We the truth loving people would appreciate that next time you publish something, you look at your sources and facts and verify their authenticity. I have bought subscription to the Island and don't expect to read rubbish like this and see irresponsible information on your paper. Please act more responsibly and apologize to my Sri Lanka and the armed forces for publishing this rubbish. As an Editor; can't you read between the lines and see this is an attempt by an LTTE supporter not B.Raman to mislead the world community and the Sri Lankan public to puff up the LTTE terrorist's image?

I would say if Island does not correct their mistake and apologize they should refund my US$ 10, cause I have no intention of paying to read rubbish on "Yellow Media".

REAL front line footage.... WOW

Its an Al-Jazeera news report I found on YouTube, which is 18 hours old. Not my favorite job posting up YouTube clips, but thought I'd post it up for majority viewing since one can really feel the rush of adrenalin and imagine what it is like out there. How come our journalists and cameramen don't provide coverage like this?

Flying the Tigers

The Sri Lankan Air force from March 2002 (yep the start of the love affair between the LTTE and so and so) till the tattering of the ceasefire, spent 160 million rupees on 507 flights amounting to 1200 flying hours transporting the LTTE terrorists agents and Norwegian peace mongers to and from various parts of the island.

These transports most likely carried the unchecked baggage of Tamiselvan (a.k.a falls-smile) and his band of brothers, which probably included night vision goggles, GPS and navigation systems the Flying Tigers now use to attempt bombing raids during the night.

Analysts say that the Air force could have bought much needed night vision equipment for the amount spent of baby sitting the LTTE.

No I don't blame the Air Force, they were only carrying out orders of you know who.

Should not they be "Threatened" & even MORE?

Just an example of the responsibility, professionalism and quality of Sri Lankan journalist and media. I refer to a Sunday news paper article with headline "President seeks India’s support".

The article starts off by stating that Lalith Weerathungs has made a trip to India to meet the Indian Prime minister. Reasonable, and it goes on to explain when, why and for what.

Then with no relevance to the title a paragraph appears out of the blues, and I quote "The last guerrilla air raid on Sunday led to panic with several members of the public being injured. This is particularly from firing by Security Forces and the Police. In fire, directed at suspected guerrilla aircraft from the Air Force base at Ratmalana, homes in Nugegoda, Nawinna and Maharagama were damaged. At least one resident in Nugegoda is now under Intensive Care whilst another member of the same household regained consciousness in hospital after an hour.".

This reminds me of the famous Sinhala saying "Kohida Yanne? Malle Pol" ("Where are you going?" and the reply "I have coconuts in my bag"). Probably any blooming idiot (except the writer and the editor) can understand that this paragraph should be in another article with a heading like "Air raids cause panic among security forces..." or what ever. It is most likely that this so called journalist who wrote this, though of cramming all what he had in his pea-sized brain into the article, or likely that the so called editor does not know how to edit, or was half a sleep, drunk or had a brawl with his wife last night.

Question! "Are these media men/women toying with the moral of the armed forces and Sri Lankan people?". I agree that all citizens have a right to know. But at what cost should they know? If it depletes the moral of the armed forces and the citizens and boosts-up moral of the terrorist, is that a price we the Sri Lankan public are willing to pay, just to "know"?

Should not these so called media men/women be kicked out. Don't they deserve being threatened, assaulted and harassed for being irresponsible and unprofessional. They hide behind a curtain called "media" and they consider themselves above the law, above righteous and above all. They look for a story just to get a rating, or just to fill up their pages. They stir-up a honest nest so they can write about each innocent sting victim for weeks and weeks. They don't write about news, but they create news and then write about it. They are scum on earth who thrive on the suffering of others.

I say they deserve what they get, and the so called terrorist supporting free media movement and all those media NGOs should be banished form this world.

We can only hope that someday form somewhere a media culture of professionalism, responsibility and nationalism will emerge to make our Sri Lanka a better place, where you can read a paper, listen to the radio and watch TV without cursing their dead parents.