Pirates amongst flying Bullets?

This strip is inspired by this news of MPAA Worries About Pirating U.S. Soldiers in Iraq. And you thought they had more important things to worry about in war zone.

Never Fully Trust a Bank or Their Agent

Yeah that happened to me lately. Any one else feels cheated technically by your bank lately? Uninvited credit card, authorized insurance products to name but a few from the stories I heard from friends and family had me at times wondering just how desperate or ruthless these people working in a bank can get.

Can I bribe you with your own money?

A recent hot topic on the National Front (Barisan Nasional) - Can the Prime Minister openly bribe voters and get away with it? Apparently in Malaysia, anything is possible, as per the national mantra of Malaysia Boleh! (Malaysia Can!), set by the 4th Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir.

BP Gulf Oil Spill Leak

As the story of BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill leak continues to unfold, another story of a USD500K security device for the BOP (Blow Out Preventer) may have prevented this disaster from the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig. Kinda makes you wonder what happened in the BP meeting room. Interested to know the size of the oil spill?

Browse to this site and key in your city name to get a better idea how it compares with where you are. It uses the Google Earth browser plug-in to see the globe interactively. Want to see more pictures of the spill? Then browser over to this site.

School Lunches now a matter of U.S. National Security

Reports of school food making kids unfit to serve hit the net just recently, linking school lunches to sharp rise in obesity rates for young people in the U.S. over the last 15 years which lead to weight problems are now the leading medical reason that recruits are rejected.

Since this is about U.S. national security, it does make one wonders if this persist will school canteens in the land of the free fell under the jurisdiction of National Security Agency (NSA) ?

This Hand Shake can create 77 millionaires

Apparently our dearest ruling regime has done it again, in the time of multiple problems in all fronts it is revealed their PR contract with Apco cost RM77 mil a year. The seems like a staggering amount of money to look good. Yeah, looking good now aren't we?

The Thailand Red Shirts

Some issues have affected the comic update rate lately, this might get worse before it gets better. This strip dealing with Thailand declared state of emergency was in fact supposed to be done a few days ago - when the news was still hot - not that it isn't now, in fact it's getting hotter!

Anyway, for some behind-the-scene information, Jack's comment in this strip was a reflection of a friend's comment, who is unhappy with the current local political situation when he read the proposed script. As much as I would like to see the Malaysian Parliament being stormed in the light of some local headlines at times, in reality it can be a very unsettling approach to solve any problems.

The Malaysian Parliament building

It is in my opinion, not uncommon for a nation to be divided on core issues, but if every time a side won and the other side took to the streets, nothing can be done to progress forward, no?

NEM = NEP 2.0?

For Malaysians, today marks a very special day, for our 6th and current Prime Minister, Dato' Sri Mohd. Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak, will be announcing the NEM (New Economic Model), which is designed to replace the NEP (New Economic Policy), which has been criticised for being unfair to the other minority races in Malaysia via its affirmative action that was put into place by his father, Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein Al-Haj, the 2nd PM, which was also responsible in setting up Barisan Nasional, the current leading Government party. While we wait for the news of the new NEM, here's what Al Jazeera (English-language channel version) has to say:

If you're wondering who's the guy who keeps saying "Shit!", he's none other than Ibrahim Ali, the founder and 1st president of Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia, or better known as Perkasa, a Malay supremacist (Ketuanan Melayu) organisation (yes it's surprising in a post-Nazi era, we still have such institutions).