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Lankans life expectancy up by 10 years
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CaptainAhab
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 5 Aug 2008 10:56:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hey Channai
We dont transport the killed in ambulances without sirens & on the door mat like your dead men.
Dont talk nonsense crap rasak.
where did you go? You went missing there for a while bro...had to make a call and confirm? You want a foto of mine to compare? |
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 5 Aug 2008 10:57:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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brainy UNpers.
Hak Hak Hak
do we have any intelligent politicians ?? |
rasak
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5 Aug 2008 10:58:10 GMT Report for Abuse
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Is that why MR has appointed ministers to head COPE and PAC?
Is that why he removed Wijedasa Rajapakse as head of COPE.
if you dont know, please dont spread utter crap
where on earth MR appointed heads of these commitees, they were all appointed by the vote of the committee member...i just cant believe the lies this guy is spreading.and hes not even in sri lanka, what a moron! |
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5 Aug 2008 10:59:26 GMT Report for Abuse
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But as the days passed it became obvious that not much headway was being made by the party in the two PC campaigns, so it may be the case that some thought there was no point in postponing the discussion of reforms any further. The defection of Asoka Wadigamangawa, a UNP veteran and one of the most popular politicians in the North Western province, would also have come as a shock to the committee of seniors. What would have crossed their minds is that if this trend continues, there will be nothing left of the UNP. Even before the Wadigamangawa defection, there were rumours to say that six more UNP parliamentarians were going to join the government and that this would be effected close to the day of the NCP and Sabaragamuwa elections on August 23. The government certainly sprang an unpleasant surprise on the UNP by getting Wadigamangawa to appear on their stage in Anuradhapura. This was the one place where the government had a real challenge in the form of Janaka Perera.
So it was more useful to spring Wadigamangawa on the UNP in Anuradhapura rather than Ratnapura. Besides, Wadigamangawa is from the neighbouring district of Puttalam which he represented in parliament for nearly two decades. Even more significant was the fact that Wadigamangawa belonged to the generation that produced leaders like Mahindasoma from Anuradhapura. He was in fact the Mahindasoma of the neighbouring district. So there is no doubt that his appearance on the UPFA platform would have sent shockwaves through the older generation of UNP voters in the Anuradhapura district as it indeed would have within the UNP parliamentary group as well.
The election for the Wayamba provincial council will follow the NCP and Sabaragamuwa elections. Now that Wadigamangawa has not only defected but will be contesting as a candidate of the UPFA, the UNP will have to look for a chief ministerial candidate for Wayamba as well. Just as the defeat at the Eastern PC elections queered the pitch for the UNP at the NCP and Sabaragamuwa, a defeat at these two elections will send the Wayamba campaign into a tail spin. And it is doubtful whether the UNP will manage to find any more celebrities to send to the battlefront. This could well be one reason why the committee of party seniors decided to consult the UNP working committee on the proposed party reforms because it is a majority in the working committee that will finally carry the day when it comes to the reforms. |
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5 Aug 2008 11:00:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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According to Tamil sources in the island's troubled northeast, the LTTE is appealing to Tamil families to contribute at least one member each, irrespective of age and gender, to take on the advancing military.
I guess it's time for the Tamil Diaspora to return! Running out of fighters people, LTTE needs fighters, SLA needs targets.
Chennai...come on...be a man...fight for what you believe in.... we know yo have lead in your pencil..come shoot some lead now! |
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A thing that a lot of people say about the UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is that he is not a good communicator like Chandrika Kumaratunga, Mahinda Rajapakse, Premadasa, Lalith Athulathmudali and Gamini Dissanayake. But in a different and special kind of way, perhaps he is a good communicator. Some of the things he said many years ago, around the time of the presidential election of 1999 and the PC elections of 1998 are still talked about whereas the things said by Chandrika Kumaratunga, who ruled the country at that time, are long forgotten. In contrast to this, many people still recount with delight things that Wickremesinghe said in the past. That talk of bracelets and chains have become an all time favourite as has that desire to get the peasants of Sri Lanka to chew chewing gum instead of betel! A Wickremesinghe gem that people remember with much less amusement is the exhortation that people tighten their belts which he made soon after assuming power as prime minister in 2001.
Another powerful communication of this nature by Wickremesinghe was the second christening of actor Ranjan Ramanayake as One Shot . At the first UNP Ratnapura district committee meeting held after nominations were handed over for the Sabaragamuwa PC elections, Ramanayake requested Wickremesinghe to make a public announcement that he was the chief ministerial candidate. He prefaced his request with the good humoured observation that the UNP leader was well known for prevarication (kalmereema) and that he even has a degree in the art of prevarication . To this, the UNP leader equally good humouredly, replied that all posts offered to Upul Shantha Sannasgala have now been given to One Shot . From that moment onwards, everybody, even the newspaper columnists and reporters, started referring to Ranjan Ramanayake as One Shot . Even as I pen these words on Friday, there is a Daily Mirror page two picture of S.B.Dissanayake and Rauff Hakeem in conversation at a campaign rally with a caption which goes as 'In support of One Shot ?'
It is true that Ramanayake himself occasionally referred to himself as One Shot just to bring home the point that he was a straight talking type. Even at that meeting in Ratnapura where he requested the chief ministerial candidacy, Ramanayke started off by saying that like One Shot he says what has to be said and speaks his mind freely. But everybody started referring to Ramanayake as One Shot only after Wickremesinghe gave him the chief ministerial candidature. Until then nobody ever referred to Ramanayake as One Shot . In fact, until just days to the Sabaragamuwa nominations, Ramanayake participated in the Sirasa Dancing stars programme and there he was only known as Ranjan Ramanayake and not by the names or nicknames of the screen characters he had played.
Actors like Vijaya Kumaratunga and Gamini Fonseka were in politics but they were known by their own names. Ramanayake however appears comfortable being known as One Shot . He seems to be contesting the Sabaragamauwa PC election not as his real self but as the silver screen character. In the first half of the UNP campaign, he was attending campaign meetings in tight fitting T-shirts, displaying his body builder like physique and talking like a silver screen hero crusading for justice and fair play. This was not going down well among the voters and someone seems to have prevailed on him to change his attire. By last Friday, he had managed to change completely, and he had attended meetings in a white shirt and a white sarong. Actors like Gamini Fonseka, never wore T-shirts to display their physique or tried to portray themselves as screen characters once they entered politics. The same can be said about Vijaya Kumaratunga who is a close kinsman of Ramanayake.
In the 1970s Vijaya was a young actor and in real life too he dressed in tight fitting trousers and almost sleeveless T-shirts, exactly like the screen characters he portrayed. It s hardly surprising that the snooty Anura Bandaranaike looked askance at his sister Chandrika s choice of a husband. Vijaya s wardrobe in those early days consisted of clothes not considered tasteful by the Colombo elite. It was more attuned to the tastes of the Sinhala speaking, lower middle and working class hoi polloi who patronized the Sinhala cinema industry. |
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 5 Aug 2008 11:04:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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we know yo have lead in your pencil..come shoot some lead now!
Hehehe ! I dont want to waste mine on your face even if you want me to.
Sorry. Ask sinthaka / Pera for that. |
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5 Aug 2008 11:04:47 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Life expectancy will most probably go down after MR's term because of one poor meal a day and malnutrition. |
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5 Aug 2008 11:06:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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Withana,
Life expectancy will most probably go down after MR's term because of one poor meal a day and malnutrition.
Dont say that when you are staying in Sorry lanka.
I thought everyone had a 5000 rs meal thanks to this Farce Saarc. |
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5 Aug 2008 11:06:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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A must see video.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV72lv_24i4
wow....! |
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