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“What is wrong with us Malaysians?” Chuah Ping Shien asks, for not switching off enough lights in KL for Earth Hour.
What is wrong, you ask?
Too many insufficiently educated, smugger-than-thou people like Chuah Ping Shien who STILL don’t realize that there hasn’t been any warming in 15 years so keep harping on about faulty pseudo-scientific hogwash is what’s wrong.
SATURDAY night was the second time Malaysia participated in the Earth Hour programme.
From what I observed from Look Out Point in Ampang, some high-rise buildings like KLCC, Menara Maxis and KL Tower switched off their lights.
We should commend such efforts. Kudos to the respective authorities.
Generally however, Kuala Lumpur was a letdown because the city was still bright.
Other cities like Sydney, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Moscow, Johannesburg and London were much darker than us.
What is wrong with us Malaysians?
How can we pledge to reduce carbon emission by up to 40% come 2020?
The ordinary citizen never seems to bother about such events.
We might think that nothing much can be achieved by switching off lights for an hour.
It’s not the time that counts, but the togetherness and the will to do something to make this Earth a better place.
What happened on Saturday might be due to the lack of promotion by the organiser, the WWF.
We must have a will to preserve and conserve the environment for our future generations. We must discard our selfish attitude now.
If you think switching off lights and staying home is boring and stupid, why not hang out with family or friends during the hour?
That way you can kill two birds with one stone.
You can save the planet and enhance your bond with each other.
The people in power, corporate figures and the NGOs should set an example by doing the same thing and asking everyone to switch off their lights.
I am very supportive of Earth Hour and feel we should make Kuala Lumpur the darkest city during that time.
Remember, everything is possible as long as we think of Mother Earth.
It would be good if other cities such as Putrajaya, Ipoh, Petaling Jaya, George Town, Miri and Kota Kinabalu join Kuala Lumpur in such an important event.
…highlight the fact that the writer was in fact polluting the environment even more by driving to the Lookout Point in Ampang.
Let’s assume he is from Kuala Lumpur and headed to Lookout Point before dinner.
This means he needed to drive some distance and let’s not forget about the traffic jam he was probably caught in.
Can you imagine the amount of carbon dioxide he contributed to the environment while driving there as compared to switching off his lights for an hour?
Somewhat astoundingly, in the entire nation’s history, there’s never been a presidential assassination attempt by a right-winger. There have been more than a dozen by left-wingers… Conservatives, we’re endlessly told, create ‘an atmosphere of hatred and fear.’ This is as opposed to liberals who just go around shooting elected officials.
Angry violent mobs are always Democratic: Code Pink, SDS, The Weathermen, Earth First!, anti-war protesters, and union protesters in Wisconsin,
Don’t forget it was Obama’s friend Bill Ayers who used terrorism as a tool for political change. SDS is still radical, with arrests in 2007 and the storming of the CATO Institute in July 2008.
It was a liberal who was sentenced to two years for bringing bombs and riot shields to the Republican National Convention in 2008.
31) One La Raza anti immigration laws protest in one state has more violence and arrests than the past one year of Tea Party protests nationwide. (Get a load of them here and here – would you feel safer around these guys or the ‘violent, dangerous, terroristic’ Tea Partiers? Not that the MFM would admit.)
57) Who uses target symbols on a political map and put a bulls-eye on a politician, while simultaneously decrying Sarah Palin’s use of surveyor symbols as ‘encouraging violence’? Or places a gunsight on a politician in an ad?
67) Who declares to all his radio listeners that he wants to choke Rush Limbaugh… After a long, sordid history of sick fantasies targeting other Conservatives?
75) Who tarnished Martin Luther King Day by wanting to fight the Tea Party – while ironically/hypocritically/ignorantly accusing them of being based on hate? (For the record, see this roundup for whether the Tea Party is racist, monolithically White or even Republican.
100) Whose security officers violently manhandle a veteran for quietly, peacefully turning his back on Hillary Clinton’s speech – which was ironically about freedom to protest in the Middle East?
160) Who invades a bank and won’t leave till the police are called?
161) Who cares so little for the value and dignity of human life, that they use a woman’s suicide as a political attack despite having been rebuffed by everyone who knew the woman?
191) Whose official is so disruptive and offensive at a Republican’s townhall event that the audience is fed up enough to yell at her to sit down? And her supporter wanting to start a fight to the point that police escort him out?
192) Who attends a fundraiser just to heckle Obama until they are removed? And no, they aren’t Conservatives!
272) Who sits in the middle of two roads until they are arrested? (Really, lefty logic – how does inconveniencing everyday folk fight ‘corporate greed’?)
310) Who calls for killing White babies, and was let off the hook for overt voter intimidation at the 2008 elections – likely because they’re good buddies with Barack Obama?
314) Who screams and cusses at a reporter for daring to question their operation that intentionally released more than 2000 guns to illegal buyers in Mexico which resulted multiple deaths?
351) Who forms a gang armed with AR15s (on tip from hutchrun) and threatens law enforcement? Compare to when MSNBC doctored footage of one single black man with an AR15 at a Tea Party and portrayed it as a racist death threat against Obama.
First up, my compilation of Sarah Palin Derangement chock full of disgusting insults, rape wishes, death threats and sheer hatred which could count as dozens more examples of liberal violence – 413 cases and counting!
What do these convicted felons have in common? Take a closer look!
See also a list of 7 cases where the Left loudly tried to blame Conservatives for murders with zero evidence available, but became silent as soon as they were proven wrong. Michelle Malkin has a column detailing the same topic.
Here’s an article on left on left violence. Those liberals are so unhinged and chaos-loving, they can’t even restrict their violence to their political opponents!
Regular commentors are invited to share theirs. I’ll begin as an example.
Abortion: Pro-life. Abortion only in health emergencies or rape, incest etc.
American politics: Lean Conservative, not necessarily Republican.
Anthropogenic Global Warming: Skeptic.
Communism: Nice idea that really, really doesn’t work in the real world.
Economy: Free market with regulations to prevent unethical practices.
Energy: Fossil fuels now, gradual introduction of better technologies and renewable energy. Pet favourite is
Polywell clean fusion reactor. USA should drill for its own oil, stop buying it from terror-funders.
Environment & Animals: Humans first. Animals should be treated well, but have no rights per se.
Evolution: Middle ground. Transitional fossils meh, DNA link yeh. Still don’t see how macro-evolution could work.
Government size: Smaller, leaner government. Privatization is the way to go.
Gun rights: Gun ban in countries with few guns, concealed carry for countries already swimming in guns.
Homosexuality: Neutral on gay marriage. Believe homosexuality is prohibited by JudeoChristianity.
Immigration: Legal only, skills/qualification/dire needs based, no mass amnesty. Thousands are waiting patiently in legal line. If you broke the law to get in, you’re likely to break the law in other ways too.
Israel/Palestine: Two state solution. Hamas stops trying to kill Israelis, and Israel reciprocates.
Obama: Think he is inexperienced, egoistic, very very far left, doing a lousy job.
Religion/Philosophy: Protestant Christian.
Torture: Hawkish. Water in your nose is not torture, gouging our eyes as shown in Al Qaeda manuals is.
War on Terror/National Defense: Hawkish. Peace through strength. Military intervention to prevent genocide. Kill terrorists before they kill innocents (including Muslim
I’ve been wondering, why is it that just about all the Communist dictatorships were also de facto atheistic or downright anti-religion (Stalin, Pol Pot)? What similarities or complementing factors led to this synergy?
At this point, I can only conjecture some reasons:
1) Traditional religions get in the way of the new religion of Leader Worship.
2) Religion proposes a higher moral authority than mere fallible man (whether God or the law of karma), which undermines the control of the Party.
3) Religions come with an existing set of immutable laws and an absolute moral code, which interferes with the State’s fascist policies (i.e. the state comes first, Thou Shall Not Murder be darned).
4) Religion attributes a higher, spiritual purpose for humanity, which conflicts with the Communist higher purpose of The Greater Good (again, the state comes first, 8 million Ukrainians be darned).
5) Monotheistic religion generally rejects or is antipathic towards evolutionary theory, something that is seen as a challenge to the Social Darwinist policies carried out by Communist regimes.
If anyone has more solid info, please feel free to share.
This fact has liberals ardently wishing and campaigning for the state-enforced banning of all smoking, anywhere and everywhere. (Here I differ from the standard conservative, in that I support the phasing out of all smoking as it contains addictive substances – no fundamental difference from drugs.)
But you’d be hard pressed to find a liberal who advocates restrictions on casual, multi-partner, unprotected sodomy – let alone state-enforced laws! – despite the very real potential for a massive health crisis.
If Obamacare and all of his other ‘solutions’ are soooooooooooooo good, then why did he have to resort to circumventing the vote in every case? Especially when up till recently, he had Dem supermajorities in both the Senate and Congress – so why does he always resort to blaming the Republicans when they couldn’t even filibuster?
JOHOR BARU: Two men believed to be responsible for more than 10 robberies have been arrested after a high-speed car chase which ended in a shootout.
The suspects, both 34, even crashed their silver Proton Waja into four police patrol cars in their attempt to evade capture during the pre-dawn chase yesterday morning.
Seri Alam deputy OCPD Deputy Supt Saifi Abd Hamid said several police personnel suffered light injuries in the incident and had to be given outpatient treatment.
“We believe that the suspects are involved in more than 10 theft and robbery cases in the state. They have been operating since 2001,” he said.
A police patrol unit had earlier spotted the Proton Waja in front of a hypermarket near Taman Johor Jaya at about 4.20am.
When told to stop, the suspects rammed their vehicle into the patrol car before speeding off.
The suspects again rammed into the patrol car after the police gave chase, before the police cornered them at a dead end in Taman Mount Austin.
Five other patrol cars joined in the chase and tracked down the suspects to a location near the Puspakom office in Taman Daya.
One of the officers fired several shots at the suspects as they crashed their Proton Waja into three other patrol cars. One of the suspects was wounded on his right hip.
DSP Saifi said police seized a 12-inch dagger, a pocket knife, a 19-inch machete, 20 steel cutters and several sets of car keys from the suspects.
He said the two men had pulled off a robbery at a computer shop in Taman Johor Jaya at 9.30pm on the same day and stole two laptops valued at more than RM4,000.
He urged anyone with information to contact the police hotline at 07-2212999 or the nearest police station.
Wondering if these two could just possibly be the ones who robbed me?
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