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Harold’s Hogwash


Harold Camping is an 89 year old. He likes numbers. And dates. Based on numbers, he’s worked out THE date. According to Harold, the numbers in the Bible all work out to the world ending on 21 May 2011. That’s tomorrow. My mate is celebrating his 50th tomorrow. Should I tell him about Harold?  

I wonder what his website (http://www.familyradio.com)  will say if per chance, the clock ticks over 12am on 21 May 2011 and we find ourselves looking at 00:00:01 on 22 May 2011 with little more than a slightly sore head as a result of a few extra glasses of tipple on a mate’s 50th party.

Thankfully Harold isn’t taken too seriously, generally speaking. There are always people who would believe anything. Like the Norwegian Blue parrot, or the Arctic Grey. Enough people, apparently, to let him raise in excess of USD120 million. I wonder if Harold has given any of that wealth away, if he truly believed his own work. Or maybe he’ll disappear for a few years, and resurface with some explanatory recalculations locked away in case he is ever asked to account for the non-event.

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Is Perkasa the Malaysian Monty Python in disguise?


Is Perkasa the Malaysian Monty Python in disguise? Maybe Malaysians have been missing the point all along. Maybe the bigotry of race and religion is really like the dead parrot and Perkasa is nothing but the Palin styled pet shop owner. Certainly the way Perkasa geniuses respond to issues and statements has been very Pythonesque,  Can someone please tell the likes of Syed Hassan Syed Ali and Ibrahim Ali – why are they all Ali’s – that racism and bigotry should be dead. Expired. Ceased to be. It was a Norwegian Blue Parrot to start with, or the Arctic Grey one. It should be creatures which exists only in the world of Monty Python. Perhaps is we just picture the likes of Ibrahim Ali as a lumberjack singing the Lumberjack Song we can all have a laugh instead, except this circus isn’t merely poking fun for a laugh, it is spoiling for a fight. The audience is perhaps more likely to walk out than remembering lines and laughing along.

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