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	<title>Comments on: Our very own &#8220;lipstick on a pig&#8221;</title>
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	<description>keeping it real.....</description>
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		<title>By: Wormie</title>
		<link>http://groundnotes.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/our-very-own-lipstick-on-a-pig/#comment-403</link>
		<dc:creator>Wormie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well written. 

The flaw is that the PAP always thinks that it will always have good people to choose even better people. The problem with this is that if these few good men goes astray, there is no other alternatives in the political system. When you kill all the thinking opposition, the only ones left will be those less able, less thinking lot. When this happens who is there to run the country. However, if you accommodate the thinking opposition, then even if you fall, there is always others to hold up the country. This scenario is not too far fetch because in evolution, once &#039;in-breeding&#039; takes place, a simple infection can wipe out the whole colony. We are, after all, just one of the organisms in the evolutionary process.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well written. </p>
<p>The flaw is that the PAP always thinks that it will always have good people to choose even better people. The problem with this is that if these few good men goes astray, there is no other alternatives in the political system. When you kill all the thinking opposition, the only ones left will be those less able, less thinking lot. When this happens who is there to run the country. However, if you accommodate the thinking opposition, then even if you fall, there is always others to hold up the country. This scenario is not too far fetch because in evolution, once &#8216;in-breeding&#8217; takes place, a simple infection can wipe out the whole colony. We are, after all, just one of the organisms in the evolutionary process.</p>
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		<title>By: Gerald Giam</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gerald Giam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You forgot to mention Israel (pop 7.2 million) is also a democracy, despite being surrounded by enemies and having a very diverse population with vastly different ideologies and religions. There goes the &quot;vulnerability&quot; argument against democracy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You forgot to mention Israel (pop 7.2 million) is also a democracy, despite being surrounded by enemies and having a very diverse population with vastly different ideologies and religions. There goes the &#8220;vulnerability&#8221; argument against democracy.</p>
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		<title>By: tewniaseng</title>
		<link>http://groundnotes.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/our-very-own-lipstick-on-a-pig/#comment-298</link>
		<dc:creator>tewniaseng</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t worry,Pap won&#039;t last 3 generations.When the time comes, it has to go.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t worry,Pap won&#8217;t last 3 generations.When the time comes, it has to go.</p>
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		<title>By: goodie</title>
		<link>http://groundnotes.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/our-very-own-lipstick-on-a-pig/#comment-297</link>
		<dc:creator>goodie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i wish i could write a piece like you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i wish i could write a piece like you!</p>
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		<title>By: sushibar</title>
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		<dc:creator>sushibar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>15到20年是一个相当乐观的评估，我以为按照目前的态势，时间还会短一些。</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>15到20年是一个相当乐观的评估，我以为按照目前的态势，时间还会短一些。</p>
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		<title>By: deminc</title>
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		<dc:creator>deminc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>good piece.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>good piece.</p>
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		<title>By: vinyarb</title>
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		<dc:creator>vinyarb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i do sense the tides changing, and our youths are definitely on the rise to question them more on their policies and shake them from their ivory towers.

Change is coming, my friends!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i do sense the tides changing, and our youths are definitely on the rise to question them more on their policies and shake them from their ivory towers.</p>
<p>Change is coming, my friends!</p>
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		<title>By: 253SA</title>
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		<dc:creator>253SA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>15-20 years?  You gotta be &quot;sheeting&quot; me.  It took America 200 years or more to see a non-white in the White House.  I think its going to take a while longer than 15-20 years to see real change.  Not my time for sure.  Maybe my great-great-great grandkids.  By which then, the ozone will be gone, every estate will have a casino, GST will be at 300% and it doesn&#039;t really matter who&#039;s in charge.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>15-20 years?  You gotta be &#8220;sheeting&#8221; me.  It took America 200 years or more to see a non-white in the White House.  I think its going to take a while longer than 15-20 years to see real change.  Not my time for sure.  Maybe my great-great-great grandkids.  By which then, the ozone will be gone, every estate will have a casino, GST will be at 300% and it doesn&#8217;t really matter who&#8217;s in charge.</p>
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		<title>By: Singaporean Abroad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Singaporean Abroad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I left the country because of the attitude of the elitist PAP insiders - that the rest of us are fools!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I left the country because of the attitude of the elitist PAP insiders &#8211; that the rest of us are fools!</p>
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