The Ugly Singaporean Award

– that events manager LIM BEE LEONG, 30, left his Alaskan malamute – an Arctic sled dog which has two coats of fur and needs plenty of water to stay cool – without water and shelter in the backyard of his terrace house in Lorong Pisang Emas, in Bukit Timah. The three-year-old dog died of heatstroke and was found with blood foaming at its mouth with faeces littered all over the backyard. Lim was fined $3,000 for causing his pet ‘unnecessary suffering’ in a case the SPCA described as one of ‘extreme neglect and cruelty’. (This sicko should be banned from having a dog for life or, IMO, subjected to a torture without water for 3 days in a 50 degrees Celsius room.)

The World This Week

– that America’s controversial new ambassador to the UN is threatening to torpedo 12 months of negotiations on the reform of the organisation. With only three weeks to go before world leaders arrive in New York to agree the deal, ambassador John Bolton has tabled at least 500 amendments. Dolt, erm.. Bolton’s intervention has greatly raised the stakes in the search for a deal. America is now effectively asking the world whether it wants a new deal, or no deal. America wants the UN to back fundamental reform of the organisation’s management structure; to agree with its measures to fight terrorism and to abolish its human rights machinery. (In other words the rest of the world should submit to America. This version of America can just f*ck off and die.)

– that there are claims that anti-war protestors besieged wounded and disabled soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Protest signs with slogans like ‘Maimed for a Lie’ were displayed and there are evidence of the wounded veterans being taunted by protesters. (The war maybe a lie for all I cared. But not everyone of these soldiers went to Iraq believing all the crap about WMDs and DemocraZy. Even though there’s no real evidence to link Iraq with terrorism in America, a lot of these soldiers went there believing that they are sharing the American dream with Iraq, and what they do can allow sonuvabitch losers like these the freedom to protest at home without the fear of a terror attack.)

– that military families disturbed by a sea of crosses erected by anti-war protesters supporting Cindy Sheehan near Warmonger’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, have removed crosses bearing the names of their fallen children and transferred them to another site to show support for American troops in Iraq. (And there’s nothing more shameless and despicable than making use of the dead to promote an agenda.)

– that anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is now ‘channeling’ her slain son, Casey, from heaven, suggesting he’s calling Warmonger ‘an idiot’ and she claims to have ‘tens of thousands of angels’ supporting her cause to bring U.S. troops home immediately. (A shrink, she needed.)

– that Cindy Sheeha said, “When I get up [to heaven], he’s gonna say, ‘Good job, mom’,” Mrs. Sheehan said in a speech last night upon her return to Crawford, Texas. “He’s not going to say, ‘Why’d you make me spin in my grave?’ you know. And I can just hear him saying, ‘George Bush, you are really an idiot. You didn’t know what you were doing when you killed me. You didn’t know what you were getting into.’” (Show me Casey in heaven, Cindy Sheehan, and I’ll show you God.)

– that after calling the terrorists in Iraq who killed her son ‘freedom fighters’, anti-Bush activist Cindy Sheehan now says other mothers of those slain in the conflict whose views oppose her own are ‘brainwashed’. She said, “I have been silent on the Gold Star Moms who still support [President Bush] and his war by saying that they deserve the right to their opinions because they are in as much pain as I am. I would challenge them, though, at this point to start thinking for themselves. How can these moms who still support George Bush and his insane war in Iraq want more innocent blood shed just because their sons or daughters have been killed? I don’t understand it. I am starting to lose a little compassion for them. I know they have been as brainwashed as the rest of America, but they know the pain and heartache and they should not wish it on another. However, I still feel their pain so acutely and pray for these ‘continue the murder and mayhem’ moms to see the light.” (Maybe it’s you who needs to know you are the one who needed the light.)

– that hot on the heels of the Cindy Sheehan media circus in Crawford comes word that Jane Fonda will ride again as an anti-war crusader, kicking off a nationwide barnstorming tour next month. (Once traitor always traitor.)

– that a new rotor was being brought in to be used as a spare part for a U.S. Border Patrol helicopter brought down by a rock thrown by an illegal immigrant, said the patrol’s Yuma sector spokesman. (We have a black hawk down!! A black hawk down!! Oops. Wrong movie.)

-that a judge infuriated by youth violence stunned a Boston court when he set bail for a 12-year-old boy accused of firing a gun on a street corner at US$250,000 The sum was 50 times the amount prosecutors had sought and the boy was sent to a youth detention centre when his family said they could not raise the sum. Judge Paul D. Lewis said that after 23 years on the bench of the juvenile court he had lost patience. “These kids don’t take responsibility for anything,” he told the Boston Globe after the ruling. “They’re fearless. It’s out of control. It’s beyond out of control.” (Kids committing capital crime but is under the age to be sentenced to death or life-imprisonment should be castrated to keep their genes out of the genepool for good.)

– that British troops combating the heat and dust of Iraq have a new weapon in their armory — germ-fighting underwear. The antimicrobial underpants have been introduced as part of a new desert uniform. They are the first undergarments issued to British troops, who traditionally have had to supply their own. (Are their weenies shrivelling and shrinking in the desert?)

– that Venezuela’s vice president accused ‘religious’ broadcaster Pat Robertson of making ‘terrorist statements’ by suggesting that American agents assassinate President Hugo Chavez. Robertson said on the Christian Broadcast Network’s ‘The 700 Club’: “We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability.” (Thou shall not murder.)

– that ‘religious’ broadcaster Pat Robertson insisted that he did not call for the assassination of Hugo Chavez, despite comments broadcast on his program earlier. “I didn’t say ‘assassination’,” Robertson said on his Christian Broadcast Network show ‘The 700 Club’ about remarks reported by The Associated Press and other media outlets. “I said our special forces should ‘take him out’. ‘Take him out’ could be a number of things including kidnapping. (Thou weasel. Thou shall not lie.)

– that Pat Robertson apologized for calling for the assassination of Hugo Chavez, saying he spoke in frustration earlier in the week. “Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement. I spoke in frustration that we should accommodate the man who thinks the U.S. is out to kill him.” (In thy anger, do not sin.)

– that an 80-year-old woman dubbed the ‘granny spy’ helped Brazilian police to arrest 15 people, including two police officers, by secretly filming a narcotics operation for two years from her flat window. The retired woman, who remained anonymous and under police protection as a witness, said “desperation” at the lack of police action against the drug ring drove her to make the films. (Well done, super granny. All drug traffickers should be hanged.)

– that a day after a special meeting between John Coward and Muslim lea-duhs, Muslims who do not respect secularism and law were told on August 24 to leave the country. “If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Shariah law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you,” Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as heir apparent to Howard, said on national television. He was quoted by AFP as saying that there are no two laws governing people in Australia. (And they can always go to the moon. The Lunar – or Lunatics – Caliphate is such a great idea.)

– that John Coward angered some Australian Muslims by saying he supported the use of spies to monitor the nation’s mosques. (Ahh, they prefer he not say it and do it quietly and secretly.)

– that ‘Palestinian’ Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei and members of various ‘Palestinian’ terror groups, such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, this week decided at a meeting ‘resistance’ against Israel would continue and would be coordinated at the national level until the Jewish state evacuates ‘all occupied territories’ – code for the destruction of Israel. (There are vipers less venomous than these.)

– that massive queues at petrol stations resulting from a fuel shortage disappeared overnight in Shenzhen after China’s key petroleum companies reportedly delivered new shipments to ease the crisis. (How many people did they threaten to send to Inner Mongolia to do hard labour?)

– that China has warned government officials to get rid of any illegal shares in the country’s disaster-plagued mining industry amid a renewed crackdown on corruption blamed for thousands of deaths a year, an official newspaper said. Such stock ownership is already illegal, the official China Daily said, but it added that the announcement will give officials a chance to ‘right their wrongs’. (An easier way would be to just shove them into the mines they ‘invested’ in and make them work there.)

– that Japan will give up its bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the time being because it failed to win enough support from the international community, a Japanese newspaper reported. However, Mr Yu Kameoka, a spokesman for Junk-ichiro Konkz-umi, said he has not heard of any decision regarding the bid. Japan, Brazil, Germany and India – the so-called Group of Four, or G-4 – have proposed expanding the council from 15 to 25 seats, adding six permanent seats without veto power. (Cleaning up your history cirriculum and quit going to Yakusuni will win you some support.)

– that Japan has not given up its bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, but will not push for an early vote on its proposal along with Brazil, Germany and India to expand the council, a gover-min official said. The gover-min official denied an earlier report which said that Japan would soon hold talks with the three other countries to confirm that they are giving up their Group of Four bid, due to a lack of support in the UN General Assembly. (Where got so easily give up one?)

– that a Japanese court threw out claims that a notorious contest by imperial troops to behead Chinese soldiers was a journalist’s fabrication, handing a rare legal victory to critics of Japan’s wartime past. In the run-up to the Nanjing Massacre, Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun – the predecessor of Mainichi Shimbun – reported in 1937 that two army lieutenants engaged in a contest to see who would be first to behead 100 Chinese soldiers. The story was meant to boost morale at the time. But relatives of the two lieutenants, who were later executed, filed a lawsuit in 2003 saying that the article and a subsequent story by Asahi Shimbun in 1971 were false. However, Tokyo district court judge Akio Doi said: “The lieutenants admitted the fact that they raced to kill 100 people.” (Too ashamed to have such beasts as relatives?)

– that Taiwan detained 20 Chinese fishermen aboard six boats for illegal fishing during the first day of a week-long crackdown, an official said yesterday. The men were held off Kinmen and Matsu, two fortified island groups near the Chinese mainland. Thirty-two other Chinese fishing boats were driven off in the operation involving 36 coast guard patrol boats. Smuggling is rampant between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland. (You would wish they showed the same enthusiasm when facing down the Japanese.)

– that Taiwan’s Gover-min Information Office (GIO) has come under fire after it was revealed that not a single cent of the money it collected for survivors of the Asian tsunami has been disbursed. Some US$13 million collected by Taiwan’s Gover-min Information Office remains in Taiwan. (Might as well not collect.)

– that dozensS of foreign labourers burned cars and attacked police with slings and stones in a dispute over working conditions in Taiwan’s southern port city of Kaohsiung, police reported. No one was injured in the confrontation, Taiwanese media reported, in which a makeshift office was also set ablaze. The melee was sparked when several drunken workers returned to their dormitory at night after a day off from work but were barred from bringing alcohol and cigarettes into the building, news media said. (So much for all the crap about championing human rights from the likes of Chen Shui-bian.)

– that Malaysia has labelled a costly US$26.5 million anti-smoking campaign a failure, with the number of female smokers doubling since its launch last year, reports said. Health Minister Chua Soi Lek said the five-year ‘Tak Nak’ (Don’t Want) campaign launched in February 2004 had failed to curb smoking and that it would be reviewed. (No sweat as long as they get the idea that the campaign isn’t about anti-smoking but to make $2 for every $1 spent.)

that Abdullah Badawi closed the door on sacked Anwar Ibrahim’s return to dUMNO by stressing that his sacking was a disciplinary matter and unrelated to the court cases against him. (Even when there’s no grounds for any disciplinary measures in the first place. But of course, who wants to let a potential rival return? Better to strangle the baby in the cradle before it grows into a rival to the throne.)

Singapore This Week

– that Vivian Bakayaro-nan made an unscheduled stop during his ministerial visit to Punggol South at the as-yet-unopened Buangkok MRT station, where eight white elephants caught his eye. The four-foot tall cardboard cut-outs of cartoon elephants with smiling faces were placed there by the residents of Punggol South. And their silent message was not lost on Baka. (Kranji MRT station was built in the middle of nowhere before the race course moved there. Not to mention the Singapore Expo MRT station when there are not exhibitions. Not enough traffic and so no stop at station is an lousy excuse.)

– that almost all NKF patients will pay less for dialysis from next month. The charity’s interim board has lowered the cost of dialysis treatment from $2,730 a month to $2,211 per patient. That works out to about $162 a session – down from $200 previously – and compares well with the Kidney Dialysis Foundation’s $154, and private centre Asia Renal Care’s $283. From next month, the NKF will also simplify its subsidy policy and fix flat rates. Those with Medishield cover will get a lump sum subsidy of $961 a month; those without will receive a more heavily subsidised $1,711 a month. (Finally doing something with that 30 years of reserve, huh?)

– that the family of the 40-year-old cyclist who was paralysed from the neck down after crashing into a metal barrier at a pedestrian bridge in Tampines, is demanding compensation from the LTA. (Why the hell die he ignore the sign to push, not ride, his bike across the bridge in the first place?)

– that as security tightens at Woodlands Checkpoint, smugglers are resorting to hiding contraband goods in their underwear. One was a 41-year-old woman who ‘fainted’ twice in a bid to prevent checkpoint officers uncovering cigarettes in her panties. Another is a motorcyclist found with 4 uncensored VCDs and DVDs stuffed down the back of his underwear. Sixteen Dormicum tablets in slab form were found in the 25-year-old’s groin area. Another 20 tablets of the controlled drug were found in his wallet and four packs of undeclared cigarettes were discovered under his motorcycle seat. (Next time, they should just shove them all up their own ass.)

– that after Kelvin Tan Wei Lian was crowned male champion of Project Superstar, some kaypoh – i.e. rosy – people have been asking: “How many sympathy votes did the blind busker get?” (Hey losers. Go blind yourselves and find out!)

– that a LAU POH FIAT commented that lowering water pressure and installing auto-sensor taps is not the right way to save water. Lau claims that by doing so, ‘one cannot wash properly. The flow of water stops very quickly – sometimes in as little as 5 seconds – and the volume is so little that one can’t even clean the fingers! This also leaves the washbasins with saliva stains and other stuff and the cleaner will have a tougher time maintaining hygiene standards.’ (What a whiner! Just lift your hands and stick it under the tap again to activate the water flow, stupid!)

Trivial, Jokes and Thoughts from Discussions

– that in late July, Chinese authorities told the country’s top blog host to move Sister Furong-related content to low-profile parts of the site. Her pictures can still be found online, but links to them and chatrooms about her have disappeared from the front pages of major Web portals. (Awww… shucks. For a moment I thought she can be China’s very own Xia-Sway. Oops! I mean Xiaxue.)

– that a Belgian nun’s acrobatic dancing with a missionary during the Catholic World Youth Day in Germany over the weekend earned her a reprimand from her mother superior, a Belgian paper said. Daily Het Laatste Nieuws showed pictures of a dancing Johanne Vertommen being held up in the air by the missionary, and then clinging to him with her legs wrapped around his body. (It’s the Mother Superior that needs help.)

– that when a pervert exposed himself on a Manhattan subway last week, victimn Thao Nguyen reached for her secret weapon – her camera phone. The quick-thinking 22-year-old snapped a shot of the smirking sicko who is masturbating and took it to cops and then posted it on the Internet. (Caught with his pants down on camera. How long can he run?)

– that an online thesaurus struck a listing for the word ‘Arab’ after Arab-American groups complained the entry listed derogatory synonyms. The entry, which appeared on thesaurus.com, listed the word as a noun meaning ‘beggar’ and gave 16 pejorative synonyms including ‘homeless person’ and ‘welfare bum’. The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee contacted the synonym book’s online publisher to complain about the entry; the American Arab Forum also criticized the listing. Several hours after Roget’s Thesaurus was called by The Associated Press, all entries for ‘Arab’ had been pulled from the site. (Even this report attempts to be politically correct. There was no mention of the dreaded ‘T’ word.)

– that a review of medical evidence has found that fetuses likely don’t feel pain until the final months of pregnancy, a powerful challenge to abortion opponents who hope that discussions about fetal pain will make women think twice about ending pregnancies. The review by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco comes as advocates are pushing for fetal pain laws aimed at curtailing abortion. (Did the researchers at the University of California urn themselves into fetuses and find out if it’s painful?)

– that more than 50 people in Tangzhuang township of Henan province in central China have thrown their centuries-old surname to the dogs, hoping to free themselves of a stigma supposedly imposed on their clan by an ancient emperor. The families said that Shi Jingtang (石敬瑭), who founded the Later Jin Dynasty (后晋, 936AD -947AD), ordered their ancestors to give up the surname Jing (敬) and change it to Gou (苟) – which means careless or indifferent – because he wanted his name, which had the same Chinese character, to be exclusive. (History: Shi Jingtang is one of China’s famous traitors. To become Emperor he traded all territories north of the Yanmen Pass (雁门关) to the Khitan’s (契丹) Liao (辽) Dynasty and shamelessly address the Liao Emperor, younger than him by 10 years, as father. This act allowed Shi to be Emperor for 7 years, and left northern China completely indefensible. It laid the ground for the successive conquest of all territories north of the Yangtze River by non-Han races such as Khitans, the Jurchen’s (女真) Jin (金) Dynasty and the subsequent conquest of the whole of China by the Mongols in 1279AD, which established the Yuan (元) Dynasty until 1368AD.)