Selangor gets nod to campaign against ISA

(The Star, 2 April 2011)

So strange. So, so strange. Relevant bits and pieces from the article:

The Selangor government has passed a motion to campaign against the Internal Security Act (ISA).

This gives the state government the green light to set up a special secretariat to run anti-ISA campaigns, as well as an allocation to put up billboards with the theme “Save Malaysia: Abolish ISA”.

Sulaiman Abdul Razak (BN – Permatang) said the motion was politically motivated.

“Why do you want to use the people’s money for this? Not every citizen is against the ISA. If that was the case, the Federal Government would have abolished it a long time ago,” he said.

Sulaiman said instead of spending money putting up billboards, the state government could generate revenue by selling advertisement space on the billboards.

I'm sorry lah, but this is too lame.

Not the motion to campaign, but you know, the other thing.

After reading this, do you feel like you understand why Jesus rebuked Judas for saying Mary, who honoured Jesus with expensive perfume, should have sold the perfume and given it to the poor?

Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume;

she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped His feet with her hair.
But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot,

who was later to betray him, objected,

“Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor?

It was worth a year’s wages.”

He did not say this because he cared about the poor

but because he was a thief;

as keeper of the money bag,

he used to help himself to what was put into it.

“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied.

“It was intended that she should save this perfume

for the day of my burial.