Malaysian Post

Thought I’ll share with my readers a couple of errors I discovered in recent Malaysian Miniature Sheets.

I spotted a tiny yellow circle printed on the top left hand corner of the recent Unique Flowers Issue of 9th October 2008. The spot can clearly be seen on the scan below. I can’t explain what caused this extra spot on the sheet.

Spot on Miniature Sheet of Unique Flowers

The Second error is a perforation error on the Visit Malaysia Year 2007 Miniature Sheet whereby an extra 3 sided perfs were punched into the wrong side of the image as per scans below.

Front side of the miniature sheet with perforation error

Gum side of the miniature sheet with perforation error

The Malaysian Police became the laughing stock of the nation and possibly the world when the Home Minister declared in Parliament that a police beat base located in a crime-prone area was abandoned because it was unsafe for the police officers to be based there.

If it is unsafe for the police, how safe is it for the public?

And if I am not mistaken, it is the job of the police to make the place safe for everybody. Am I missing something here?

Sheeesh! What a clown of a Minister!

KUALA LUMPUR: A police beat base located in the Chow Kit area of downtown Kuala Lumpur has been shut down because the “presence of criminals could make it unsafe” for police officers.

Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said the beat base was located in a dirty area where police faced the possibility of being exposed to contagious diseases.

The presence of criminals also posed a threat to the safety of police officers.

He said this in a written reply to Dr Lo’ Lo’ Mohamad Ghazali (PAS - Titiwangsa).

Dr Lo’ Lo’ had asked why the beat base along Jalan Haji Taib was closed considering that vice activities were high in the area.

She also wanted to know what kind of action had been taken by the police to curb vice activities in the Chow Kit area.

Found this rather mind boggling off-beat item on the net and thought I’ll share it with my readers.

If I were the judge, I’ll throw the guy in jail for a couple of weeks for wasting the court’s time. Hopefully by then, he’ll come back to his senses.

But then, in the good old U. S. of A. anything goes!!!

NEW YORK, Oct 16 — A judge has thrown out a Nebraska legislator’s lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn’t properly served due to his unlisted home address.

State Sen. Ernie Chambers filed the lawsuit last year seeking a permanent injunction against God. He said God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents in Omaha, inspired fear and caused “widespread death, destruction and terrorisation of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.”

Chambers has said he filed the lawsuit to make the point that everyone should have access to the courts regardless of whether they are rich or poor.

On Tuesday, however, Douglas County District Court judge Marlon Polk ruled that under state law a plaintiff must have access to the defendant for a lawsuit to move forward.

“Given that this court finds that there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant this action will be dismissed with prejudice,” Polk wrote.

Chambers, who graduated from law school but never took the Bar exam, thinks he’s found a hole in the judge’s ruling.

“The court itself acknowledges the existence of God,” Chambers said yesterday. “A consequence of that acknowledgment is a recognition of God’s omniscience.”

Therefore, Chambers said, “since God knows everything, God has notice of this lawsuit.”

Chambers has 30 days to decide whether to appeal. He said he hasn’t decided yet.

Chambers, who has served a record 38 years in the Nebraska Legislature, is not returning next year because of term limits. He skips morning prayers during the legislative session and often criticises Christians. — AP

From the BBC came this interesting report:

1 Million Pound Note

A £1m Treasury note has fetched £78,300, twice the expected price, at an auction in London.

The note, numbered 000008, was issued after World War II in connection with the Marshall Aid Plan.

The Marshall plan was a programme of funding given to Western Europe by the United States to help with recovery after the war.

Another £1,000,000 note numbered 000007 was sold for £8,000 in 1977, through a private sale.

Private ownership

It was listed by the Guinness Book of Records as being the highest denomination in private ownership.

The number eight note is dated 30 August 1948.

It bears the signature of E E Bridges, secretary to the treasury, in the lower right hand corner and is cancelled over the signature and stamped 6 October 1948, Bank of England.

Before the sale a spokesman for Spink auction house told Coinlink that the defunct number eight note, entered for sale by UK-based banknote collector Bill Parkinson, was expected to fetch between £35,000 and £40,000 in the world banknotes sale at its auction house in Bloomsbury.

It is believed notes number seven and eight are the only remaining notes of nine that were produced at the time.

They were given as mementoes to the US and UK Treasury Secretaries.