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Some must be axed, a few must not contest

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 08:03 PM PDT

I believe Umno president Najib Tun Razak is having difficult time to finalise the list of general election candidates for the 222 Parliamentary and 505 state seats.

Although the list will be provided to him by state Umno chiefs, he still needs to weigh it by making adjustments, balancing and alignment. Some just don't deserve to contest, some dead woods have to be chopped off while a few (I think) must be given due consideration.

Sorry, no offend but sentiments on the ground must get proper attention as the voters hold the rights to choose or not to choose. Some Umno leaders are close to the inner circle but their are despised by the grassroots.

So, to Datuk Seri Najib, here's my 'unwanted' MP list:

DROP LIST:
1.   Nor Mohamed Yakcop
2.   Awang Adek Hussein
3.   Shahrizat Jalil (she already announced not to contest)
4.   Noh Omar
5.   Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
6.   Abdullah Md Zin
7.   Abu Seman Yusop
8.   Azalina Othman
9.   Azmi Khalid
10. Baharum Mohamed
11. Bung Mokhtar Radin
12. Halimah Mohd Sadique
13. Hamim Samuri
14. Ismail Kassim
15. Jamaluddin Jarjis
16. Lilah Yassin
17. Mohd Nazri Aziz
18. Mohd Johari Baharum
19. Mohd Zin Mohamed
20. Rafidah Aziz
21. Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin
22. Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor
23. Shahrir Samad

NOT ALLOWED TO CONTEST
1.  Reezal Merican
2.  Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim

NO MORE OF THESE
1.  Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik
2.  Mohd Isa Samad
3.  Radzi Sheikh Ahmad
4.  Syed Hamid Albar

Its time to give space to the new ones. Some of those in the list have been with us for more than three terms. So, its time to go and accept our 'thank you'.

The Iron Lady dies

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 06:26 AM PDT

Margaret Thatcher aka The Iron Lady died of heart failure today. The Britain's greatest post-war prime minister was 87.

When I first became a journalist in early 1981 and assigned to the Foreign Desk, I read about her mostly every day and began to scribble articles about Thatcher.

In America and in Eastern Europe she was regarded, alongside her friend Ronald Reagan, as one of the two great architects of the West's victory in the Cold War.

Of modern British prime ministers, only Lady Thatcher's girlhood hero, Winston Churchill, acquired a higher international reputation.

Lady Thatcher had become increasingly frail in recent years following a series of small strokes in 2001 and 2002. 

She ruled for 11 remarkable years, imposing her will on a fractious, rundown nation - breaking the unions, triumphing in a far-off war, and selling off state industries at a record pace.

She left behind a leaner government and more prosperous nation by the time a mutiny ousted her from No. 10 Downing Street.

Like her close friend and political ally Ronald Reagan, Thatcher seemed motivated by an unshakable belief that free markets would build a better country than reliance on a strong, central government.
 
Another thing she shared with the American president: a tendency to reduce problems to their basics, choose a path, and follow it to the end, no matter what the opposition.
 
RIP Lady Thatcer!
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