I am just going to blog just often enough to this thing going,
There are a flourish of activities in my head but most of it old and exposition on older ideas.
Just a few thoughts for the London bombers and al-Qaeda. If your reason for bombing London as a act of vengeance for the Iraqi CIVILIANS hurt in the Gulf War 2( well the US did declare war so Saddam and co aren't covered) well then why stop there. Onwards to Beijing( oppresion of Uighurs in Xinjiang), Khartoum( Darfur crisis), Rabat( occupation of Western Sahara), Jakarta( heavy handling of Acheh).
You see given the numbers the Brits killed, at least they are paying reparations by rebuilding infrastructure. Quite unlike settling thousands of Hans to make you the minority, starving the Furs and preventing aid from reaching them, hunting down REAL freedom fighters and the likes. To fight for oppressed Muslims you must fight all the oppressors and not just those in the West...or are you just rascist?
I need to note that I do not think for one moment tat US and Britain are oppressing the Iraqi people. If they are why bother helping them rebuild and forming a democratic society. If they wanted oil they could have much more easily opened the Alaskan Nature Wildlife Reserve or Invaded Venezuala( the US got allies within and without the country and it is much much closer and doesn't have this suicide bomb crap); if it is Saddam Hussein they should have just left after capturing him and dropping a few more extra bombs to make sure the Iraqis don't get out of the Stone Age until sometime the next century instead of helping rebuilding Iraq which is a thankless job and it is the most cited reason for attacks against you.
I suspect a much nobler course. Cleaning up the mess for 4 decades of real-politik that includes turning a blind eye to people like Saddam. Would have saved us this mess and thousands of Kurds and Shiite if George Bush 1 pushed all the way to Baghdad in Gulf War 1. Why he didn't? Most likely real-politik. You see they were only sanction to save Kuwait. Ahh the Un but that will be for another time.

Pretentiousness

One thing about having a pretentious name as new ideas is,
You realise quickly how pretentious it is because the new ideas after a while seem to run out. But what to do it is already called that and I think it will stay that way. Hopefully I will do more things with my life and then I will have more ideas so for you new readers out there, go and read my older works.

It has been a while since I visited these parts,
Mostly because I am lazy to update and it is a momentum thing. Once you stop it takes while to get started again or never.
Well my most recent thoughts have been the Law has NO business in being compassionate, it should only just. That is it. The moment it tries being compassionate like in a welfare state there will be fraud( people trying to live off the state)...That is why in the Bible the welfare is most often in the hands of the closest relatives. Only in extreme circumstances is it the responsibility of the state. Even then most of the time it never reaches that level for for it to reach that the death of all relatives, then neighbor's then private citizens must ensue.
When welfare is in the hands of the state what is the picture a centralise and highly bureaucratic disbursement of help. Inherent in this structure is fraud. The money being swindled or lying idle and there is much of the people it is designed to help don't get help. Then there is the dependency where like drugs people get addicted to handouts.
The model propose in the Torah is one where Man is commanded to be compassionate and go beyond that compassion to make sure the person get back on their own two feet.
My thoughts are disjointed now but just for the sake of blogging I am putting this post up.

The debate about whether Vijay Singh was lucky he didn't Malaysian PR,
Is a non-starter. For one he had unquenchable desire to succeed so whether he went to Fiji or stayed in Malaysia he would have succeeded. Furthermore you could argue that he would have succeeded earlier had he stayed in Malaysia because how many golf-courses can you fit in Fiji?
But I think deep down every Cabinet minister is kicking themselves because Vijay Singh would have the first world champion since the late 80's and early 90's when the Sidek brothers dominated badminton. Furthermore it can be said that golf as a game is more famous and played by a lot more people than badminton.

Doctors I admire.

I had this conversation with a friend recently and I guess it make for interesting blogging,
So in no particular order: William Gorgas http://www.archives.state.al.us/famous/w_gorgas.html; Norman Bethune http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume4/58-63.htm; Albert Schweitzer http://www.schweitzer.org/english/aseind.htm; David Livingstone http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorplivingstone.html; Ronald Ross http://stevenlehrer.com/explorers/chapter_6-5.htm; Paul Brand http://www.tlm-ni.org/brand.htm; Hudson Taylor http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorptaylor.html; Robert Koch http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1905/koch-bio.html.
Well these are the guys whom I would say reading baout their lives changed and shaped the way I view my career and I believe that their lives should be required reading at least to Christians intent on becoming doctors. I might add Jonathan Kaplan to my list but it is not good and can be downright embarassing to include still living persons. Ones work can only be judged when they no longer have the ability to tarnish it.

This is a weird idea like all my other ideas,
But I have been thinking if frnace has a French Foreign Legion. http://www.info-france-usa.org/atoz/legion/what.asp why can't Israel have a Israeli Goyim Legion. Consisting goys like me who are interested in defending Israel against her enemies. I do not support all of Israel's actions but I do believe that she has a right to exists and thus have a right to be defended. Not that Israel will need any help because as far as I know she is capable of defending herself and of course there is the Divne hand but men are the instrument of God and maybe and just maybe should they need help we will be there. Uriah one David's mighty men was a Hittite and he had a group of personal bodyguards consising of Gittites so using foreign elements has always been a norm.

Iraq just just had its elections,
Good or bad, legitimate or illegitimate I let those who are more informed judge but I ask just one thing that the Iraqi people be given the benefit of doubt, trust, and choice to choose the person who they think will lead them best. If it is a mad mullah in the style of theocratic Iran so be it. The only thing is that fair and open elections muct be held so even that when people realise to their horror they have made a mistake they are given an opportunity at the end of it to correct it. Dictators only remain in place because there are no free elections and therefore they don't have t be accountable to the people. Even in politically homogenous Singapore which is a virtual dictatorship the very fact that the epople have a choice to vote some one elase if they want to ensures that it is not a dictatorship in the style of Sudan or Syria and its people are actually enjoying better lives in the of economic prosperity access to health and so on. They is accountability. Free elections must be enshrined in the Constitution and it must stated in such a way so that martial law can't be used to remove this freedom ala Pakistan.

There have been a lot of going ons in the Middle east,
Iraq and Afghanistan gone democratic. Very soon Lebanon will experience the same and there is talk that the mullahs of Iran and the dictators of Syrian will not last much longer. But ladies and gentlemen there is no denying the value of freedom and the power to choose one's own destiny but what I fear is a repeat of the former Soviet states scenario. They got their independence but their economies are busted and there are signs they are going back to their old Soviet leaders or people who emulate them. Going much farther back we can see a precedence in the independence of many African nations. They got independence and after tat it is pretty much down hill. What can we do to prevent this?

The UN has so much redundant agencies and so inefficient,
We need someone to clean it up. More money is spent on admin than helping it was design to help. Same with humanitarian organisations. Most of them fail to deliver. For example the eradication of polio is 7 years overdue! Now if Toyota is 7 years late in producing a new model it will go under. Many NGo's don't fulfill their purpose and yet they are still getting money. They should be treated like companies if they don't deliver they must be closed and money should go to the ones that are the most efficient and do the most number of good because at the end of the day we have finite resources and man-power and heck billions been poured into Africa and it is still a shit-hole.
So I am nominating Jack Welch to be the head of the UN. First off fire all the redundant staff, streamline the organisation, merge redundant agencies or subcontract the work to other agencies that can do a better job for a lower price, have reports like you would a in company and audits. Where does our money go? Jack Welch we need you.

I read in the papers that Malaysia will have new procedures,
For entry into medical school. It includes an entry exam and considering extra-curricular activities as part of the points. I predict that it will degenerate into a farce as always. The point is whatever system they use it will be be discriminating against those who truly want to serve and favour those who 'point-hunters' or people whose teachers are willing to falsify their involvement in extra-curricular activities. Thus we have house captains who can hardly do any sports or any skills save doing well in studies. This is a fact of the Malaysian school system.
A better idea and an improvement over one I have earlier is having a pool of students with the top ten percent results and have write a thirty year plan of their careers and practise an market style in the selection. The student with the most attractive 30 year proposal will be selected and must sign a contract base on that 30 proposal. Just like a tender. No one will begrudge the kid with 90 points who is going to serve the rural areas for thirty year getting a place over the kid with 100 whose only passion is status and money.
prospective students will have to count the cost and we will know that there won't be any with some false idea of what entails and in the end we overcome the reluctance of most graduates to go to the rural areas. You can apply the same thing for scholarships and other fields of studies. It is a win-win situation. No one will complain about the system because it inherently favour future Nobel prize winners, saints, and renown humanitarians who are under no illusions the sacrifices they must make and of course the people get served. I am still waiting for a phone call from the Prime Minister.

Imagine this hypothetical situation OK?
Some guy in the heart of Africa lost his family ala Job. He wishes he was dead and contemplates suicide. Very normal except I was thinking to myself what if this guy was one of the children I gave up everything to immunise so that he would not be another statistic and live old enough to have loved, be loved and fulfill the first command God give man and one that we are all hard-wired to obey. As I progress in this thought I experiment I find that I was very offended by this person and should his attempt succeed I am angry for I would've said to him that did not give up all that he had a chance to enjoy for him to throw his life away in this manner. If I can live without it and countless others why shouldn't he? Instead of he leaving for the sake let us not waste this tragedy and take it as they leaving it so you can pursue the Kingdom of God. Maybe in way now I understand the sarcastic tone of God's answer to Job.
To all married, engaged, and dating couples out there. Remember and sear into your head all this is temporary and so do not develop too deep an attachment for God has every right to take it away at any moment He so chooses. Yes love your wife as God commanded but know also she may be taken and prepare yourself so that you do not commit the sin of leaving God. You can be angry ike Job butk know that He is righteous.