Toilet paper is just as good ..

Ahmadinejad said that the American dollar is a worthless piece of paper. The CEO of Iran now sells his oil in euros. While all other countries of the world back their currencies on  their assets, like reserves in gold, forex, trades, etc., the USD is not based on anything except a busy printing press churning USD notes. Countries with strong economies like the Euro countries, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and even China have therefore strongly backed currencies while the USA, which is mired in debts for overspending, see the value of its currency dwindling down vis-a-vis other currencies. Yet, currently, international trade is carried out based on the USD. Why ?

The forex reserves of Asian countries are in the trillions of USD and if these countries decide to forego doing business in currencies other than the USD, the USD's value would rapidly plummet as to cause a rapid devaluation of the countries reserves. Just imagine China having their reserves of about USD 1.2 trillion and Japan with about USD 0.8 trillion would see  a substantial amount of their forex reserves wiped out much to the advantage of USA. It makes good sense for these countries to manage the value of the USD and to prevent any rapid debacle of the American dollar. In the meantime, these countries are changing their economies to suit the Euro, or their own currencies. In fact, this is what every country should do - do away with USD when doing international business.

Dark secrets ...

While I am not attempting to talk bad about Hillary Clinton, there was a news article in  the Pravda news website about her lesbian relationship with her aide some years ago. Pravda claimed that this little bit of scandalous fact was mentioned in a book. But what was not mentioned was that she and her husband, the randy ex-President of USA , were involved in the swinging scene years before her husband became president. 

Ask Robert Bolton about this, and he would whisper to you that not only were the two swingers, but he himself was also involved. Ask Al Gore about this and he will tell you the same thing. They were all together in this and that's why Hillary dared not do anything against her husband's widely  publicised affair with Monica Lewinsky. Randy Bill didn't mind this because after all, the White House has been the venue of many a scandalous sexual tryst and drug session from since Jack Kennedy's romps with Hollywood actresses especially with Marilyn Monroe.

For this little bit of information, Hillary will be the butt of jokes and sniggering among the White house staff if she should ever become President.

At last ...

At last, the dim-witted PM of Malaysia has announced the dissolution of Parliament and the date of the general election which is on the 8th of March 2008. He need not do so since he has a full year to run the country. However, he thinks he's good enough to win the election and continue to be a PM for the next 5 years.

Its unlikely that the opposition will win but they can give the ruling party a good fight.

Anti Islam is raising its head again ...

A country that is synonymous with pornography is allowing its newspapers to reprint the cartoons on Prophet Muhammad. The Danish people whose pastime is fornication likes to provoke Muslims, especially the Arabs, into taking action like boycotting Danish goods and so on. The sad fact is that, apart from protesting in the "strongest possible terms" to the Danish government, the Arabs are simply at a loss as to what to do. 

Like a couple of years ago, the Arabs did not do anything except pathetically protesting against Denmark. Because of this and in a show of support, the European media reprinted the cartoons in their newspapers and thumbed its nose on the Arabs who were helpless to take any action. The Arabs should appeal to other Muslim countries to cut off oil supplies to Denmark, boycott all goods made in Denmark, and in a tit-for-tat response, allow their media to publish insulting caricatures on Danish institution. The Arabs could do a lot of things to aggravate the Danish people but they miserably failed to take any action. The OIC (Organisation of Islamic Countries) was silent in its response to a grave insult on the Prophet.

Now it seems that OIC continues its apathetic attitude towards Denmark. Is it afraid that Denmark stops purchasing its oil ?

The Turks are drunken Muslims ..

I find it strange that about 30,000 Turks protested against the Turkish government for lifting the ban on women wearing head scarves. These 30,000 Turks and many others are afraid that their country may become a taliban-type country and that they would lose their "European" identity. What's wrong with members of the female sex covering their head scarves. Its just the fashion these days for Muslim women to wear the hijab and like all things that are in vogue, the fashion may some day change to something else like women wearing bikinis as their normal attire in the summer

The Turks are having a terrible time to be included in the Euro population. Turkey's application to be part of Euro has been blocked by countries such as France and Austria. The fact that they are Muslims is the chief reason why their country has been refused entry into Euro. However the Turks in their stupidity have still not realised this, thinking that because they have "European" faces, they are eligible for entry and should be treated as equals among the Europeans.

When my uncle was in Turkey, he commented that those Turks in Istanbul looked like Greeks, or the Balkan Europeans, but as he went East, the majority of the population looked more like the Syrians. So the "European" Turks are actually a minority concentrated mostly in the western part of Turkey such as in Istanbul. My uncle said that more than 95 % of the Turkish population are Muslims but from what he observed, they did not take their religion seriously. Everywhere he saw, there were bars, nightclubs, and restaurants full of these Muslim Turks having a great time time drinking alcoholic drinks, womanising, and doing things that you don't see Muslims indulged in in countries such as Malaysia, or Indonesia. In fact, in the mosque there's hardly anybody praying, when there were more mosques per square mile in Turkey than perhaps in other Muslim countries.

When my uncle asked some Turks he knew why the mosques were empty, the reply he got was that praying was for old people - the younger Turks were not interested at all. Further, they said that religion was between the individual and God and if they didn't pray, then it's their business and nobody else's. They, however, emphasised that they were taught religion when growing up. But they were not expected to live like  good Muslims, like fasting, praying, abstaining from alcoholic drinks and from fornicating, after age 21.

My uncle, not a really good Muslim, reckoned that Turkey was where he should live rather than in Malaysia.