Tommy Peters' Bicycles

"I became minister of defence due to the military's will and not yours, and you know this very well. Moreover, you can't remove me; that's it, you no longer have any legitimacy" - General al-Sisi, responding to President Morsi's threat to dismiss him.  On July 5, 2013, El Watan, an Egyptian daily,  published the dialogue  (in Arabic) between General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and President Dr Muhammad Morsi that took place on Tuesday, July 2, 2013, a few hours before Morsi's final speech to the nation and after that his detention. A reporter was allowed to witness and transcribe their conversation from a TV screen (translated by Raymond Ibrahim): -  Morsi: What's the military's position concerning what's going on? Is it just going to stand by watching? Shouldn't it protect the legitimacy? Sisi: What legitimacy? According to documented reports, the entire army is with the people's will, and most people don't want y...

∆   Announcement :- Ive transforms Forstall in September 2013  ∆ Setting up the MacBook Pro (depicted below) in 2010

It’s akin to beefing up an old Hillman at the ankles, giving it a new heart and thighs and ask it to reminisce the days of yore. As SSDs make the new PROs and AIRs fast, Danny Dilshod’s 2006 MacBook Black has ejected its lazy HDD for the quick brown fox.

If gay unions are legally allowed, we are swinging Sodom, the old Decadency Sword, where 'personal freedoms' were institutionalized. Sounds dramatic, but with the US Supreme Court ruling , humankind has once again taken leave of its senses by ignoring the tried and tested balloons of convention; the opposite sex of full age, not a blood relative, and monogamy that served to keep the old sword at bay. Instinctively, we yearn for the old convention. On the other hand, our kaleidoscopic world has surreptitiously allowed the sword to evolve into a 'human rights' thing while promoting convention over the old construct is consigned to a 'trampling-on-one's-personal-freedom' issue. The Sodomite gushes forth like a living thing. Not the natural-selection I'll-be-a-monkey's-uncle-overtime-type living thing - but living water that you drink. We are witnessing the return of the three-winged seraph. As its flutter's consistency resonates again, we aba...

Transcript: I'm Caroline. The writer asked me to deliver this commentary in place of those voodoo characters he usually employs. The writer said, being female, I am better suited to provide this brief tribute about a beloved Malaysian, a transparent personality yet sometimes misunderstood even by friends. For the affable Malaysian, such issues have to be taken in stride, and it has become a learning experience for those who know him.  A comparison between a Hollywood star and a Malaysian. Denzel Washington transcends racial barriers. He cannot 'blacken' his script, no matter how hard he tries, resulting in his roles being swappable with every Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Chow Yuen Fatt, and Jackie Chan. Washington did not create the ethnically neutral genre through acting lessons. An inherent character 'flaw' enables him to turn into a subliminal teaching device. 
 Lim Kit Siang transcends racial barriers. He simply does because the longest-serving politician i...

The apostasy prohibition is the 'hidden' encumbrance to a Muslim leader who places Islam in the public domain.  The Arab psyche is in a cage. On one hand, they are born into a religion that prohibits them from leaving at the risk of death. On the other, they yearn to experiment with democracy, a construct b ased on personal freedom, freedom of religion inclusive. A construct that challenges the underlying prohibition. Morsi installed a Sharia-centric constitution in December 2012 but resisted turning Egypt into a full-blown Islamic state. He experimented with democracy and embraced its institutions. A Muslim leader in a Muslim majority state must choose between placing Islam in the public domain or keeping it private. Keeping it private, as in Azerbaijan and Malaysia, allows for a secular constitution, whereas placing it in the public domain demands a Sharia-centric constitution and its enabling institutions. Otherwise being encumbered with such prohibition himself, a ...