masterwordsmith-unplugged

In the light of recent developments in our country, I surfed quite a bit about the hottest topic today and harvested quite a bit of interesting information which I would like to share with you. Apparently, what we have on our shores is not something new....This post is something lighthearted and I have no intention of showing disrespect to YB Eli. My heart goes out to her and this is my way of defusing the situation by making us realize that the situation is terrible only because some people intended it to be so....
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SOMETHING SERIOUS, SOMETHING SATIRICAL

Could forcing politicians to do away with the clothes they stand up in usher in a new age of decency and honesty?

by Richard Smith, Guardian, U.K.

"For a top politician you can't continue in power when you are seen naked," wrote political analyst Ooi Kee Beng in China Daily in January. He was writing about the former health minister of Malaysia, Chua Soi Lek, who had to resign after featuring in two sex videos which were available on the internet. I don't want my politicians featuring in sex videos (although I don't especially mind if no deception is involved) but I'm strongly in favour of naked politicians. Indeed, I'd go as far as to suggest that all politicians give at least one naked press conference before they can be elected and that one session of prime minister's questions each year should be held with everybody in the room naked, including the policemen.

The besetting sins of politicians are pomposity, horribly overrating their own talent and importance, taking themselves too seriously, oversimplifying complex problems, patronising us and being slippery with the truth. Nakedness is an antidote to all of these. If Robert Mugabe had to stand naked before the people of Zimbabwe and justify his actions he'd be gone in seconds.

Some of the most miserable afternoons of my life were spent sitting in the finance and general purposes committee of the British Medical Association (BMA). The BMA is run by small-time politicians - arguably the worst kind - and the pomposity sucked the air from the room. People took positions based not on what made intellectual or even business sense but rather on accumulating credit for future debates or doing others down for the fun of it. "If only," I'd sit there thinking, "these people were naked then they wouldn't be able to keep this up. Reality would intrude. These middle-aged men with their ......For more click here.

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SOMETHING NASTY

Naked politics and naked politicians

The Government's subterfuges are flushing out whistleblowers, who understand about omission and commission

by Deborah Orr

David Blunkett threw a withering accusation yesterday at the press, or, at least at "some of the right-wing press smelling blood". It is, he accused, resorting to "naked politics". How could certain journalists have sunk so low? The filthy business of naked politics, as any fool knows, is best left to naked politicians. And Mr Blunkett's politics are presently looking horribly naked. In his eagerness to defend his Immigration minister, Beverley Hughes, against a drip-drip campaign of accusation, Mr Blunkett has employed the oldest, saddest trick in the naked politician's book.

He has insisted that the opposition and its supporters can't accuse the Government of any dodgy, underhand, corner-cutting practices in clearing immigration backlogs, because he can prove in turn that the opposition did the same sort of thing when it was in government.

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SOMETHING REALLY FUNNY

Naked Politicians

I am sixty-nine. At some earlier age I would have snorted over being that age. But by the time you are sixty-nine you are (hopefully) past the stage in life where an Arabic number reminds you of a ......PLEASE READ THIS HILARIOUS ARTICLE!!! CLICK HERE


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SOMETHING RAUNCHY

Politician's naked ambition exposes a moral dilemma

Mark Forbes Herald Correspondent in Jakarta
December 5, 2006

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Have a good rest everyone!!! May tomorrow bring good news and fresh hope for all of us!!!