Of a two-dollar throat and billions plundered

MR promises to slit his throat if ‘they’ find evidence that he pilfered even one dollar, leave alone the 18 billion that is said to be stashed away.

On Thursday, June 23, this figure shot up to 20 billion when Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka made a statement.

And he, Ranawaka, does not shoot his mouth, clever man that he is. The finger is pointed at several members of a family.

The threat of throat slitting, whether in a true spirit of hara-kiri or as a mere loud sound, was pronounced by the ex Prez, Mahinda Rajapaksa, in an interview with a Japanese news magazine while he was holidaying in Japan, invited there by well wishers.

This was soon after President Maithripala Sirisena was invited to attend the G7 meeting in Tokyo and made a success of his presence and visit.

Galé kotalaa

The words of the previous Prez, this cat says cattily, must be remembered as if galé kotala. It would surely come in useful.

The government with its CID and FCCID and all that should delay trailing persons like Gamanpila and concentrate on tracing at least two dollars banked or otherwise safe deposited by Prez Rajapaksa.

Don’t misunderstand this mild cat full of the milk of feline kindness. She does not want to hear of, leave alone see, Mahinda Rajapaksa slitting his throat – will need a mighty effort since the girth is wide and the throat strong considering the voluminous air that emanates as sound.

No, she is not blood thirsty, but more it is that she wants it proven no money was hidden away, no money earned unlawfully, under the table, by M. Rajapaksa, the patriarch of the clan. Then he can safely retain his throat.

Considering how tortoise-like FCCID and all other akin institutions are; how many tortuous paths a file has to negotiate; how, (it is reported), a file could stay put with a loyalist; how responsible people have pronounced nothing will come of these investigations on stashed-away, illegally-got billions, the indication is: continued good health for the ex-Prez with a safe, unscarred throat.

Also, as he had said, ‘if I am found to possess a single stolen dollar, I will slit my throat’ this cat points out: There lies hidden the safety net, the way of escape, the exonerating use of the singular – ‘me’, ‘I’, ‘mine’. The explanation of this riddle is left to the reader who knows how branched is the Rajapaksa Tree of Life.

Also, has the ex-Prez always told the truth and nothing but the truth so help him god! Has the ex-Prez kept all the promises he made in his long political career and especially when he was captain at the helm of the ship of our country?

One more un-kept threat matters not at all. We, the people, are more used to lies and broken promises than truths upheld and promises kept.

So, no fear! No throat-slit hara-kiri by our ex-Prez. If anyone had dreams of an easy exit or death to an already splintered Joint Opposition, this cat’s sympathies are offered.

A woman or a loud-mouthed billionaire?

The election of the President of the United States of America is hotting up. Many Americans were very sad Bernie Sanders’ bid was rejected.

We, women, of course, should celebrate the fact that a woman is on the brink of becoming the most powerful person in the world, barring Putin who shares, in this cat’s opinion, second place with the head of China.

A fact we cannot reconcile ourselves with, though so far removed from the US, is how a property dealer made it as the Republican candidate, and a loose cannon at that.

A few tidbits were garnered which this cat wants to share. Read on, below.

The idea of a black president was far, far, in the distance, if even considered by most, until Barack Obama came centre stage and swept up the presidency eight years ago.

“For most of this nation’s history, the prospect of a woman in the Oval Office had also reposed in the realm of speculative fiction.”

There have been Hollywood films, of course, like Kisses for my President (1964) where Polly Bergen becomes prez but gives up on getting pregnant. But they were light as candy floss.

“Hillary Clinton has been in the public eye for decades and her ideology, instincts, mistakes, her victories, her intelligence and character, her resilience are as exposed as those of any candidate in recent memory. Donald Trump – gaudy real estate brander, reality-show star, educational huckster - has been in the glare just as long but as a bit player in the national phantasmagoria.”

Not any more. He has clinched the Republican nomination with ease, vanquishing sixteen rivals with “an unending stream of personal insults, racist woofing and misogynist bile.”

Many Republicans do not endorse him; the Bushes say they won’t vote; but Clinton admits she has to fight to the last.

Trump could trump her, “rallying voters to his banner of America First… power will be in the hands of a malevolent fraud. And then what?

A disaster beyond the imagining of any screenwriter.”

Maybe the very reason she contests this loud man may bring her even more votes, endorsed as she is by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, not forgetting vote-drawing Oprah Winfrey.

A person in New York said Elizabeth Warren will be selected as running mate to Clinton.

This cat went to Internet to check out Warren. Elizabeth Ann Warren (67), twice married, is an academic and politician and senior senator from Massachusetts. Let’s wait and see.

It was refreshing for this feline to move away from the local scene, even though never dull.

An Olympic silver medalist complains about marital abuse of the physical sort and the accused promises to tell all.

This cat cheered when Ranjan Ramanayake was reported to have exchanged not only hot words but sharp blows with Mahindananda Aluthgamage in the sacrosanct precincts of the House by the Diyawanna.

Her purr was for One Shot. After all he is one of those who point a loud and unshaking finger at billions of our money stolen and hidden for a certain family which even now faces rainy days. Money won’t help if wrong has been done and justice is meted out.

- Menika