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		<title>By: M.A.King</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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In the next life, you will either be in heaven or hell...there is no middle ground.In this life you are either with God or against Him...you either believe in Jesus or stand condemned.
&quot;Repent of your sins or perish forever&quot;.
God loves you.</description>
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In the next life, you will either be in heaven or hell&#8230;there is no middle ground.In this life you are either with God or against Him&#8230;you either believe in Jesus or stand condemned.<br />
&#8220;Repent of your sins or perish forever&#8221;.<br />
God loves you.</p>
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		<title>By: Invisible</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your Excellency,

You mentioned about armed forces clearly.I was so touched. It was the soldiers who were on ground zero first (of course upon Royal Command) and faced the harsh reality where rubber meets the road. So I thank you on behalf of all the &quot;invisible soldiers&quot; who are re-building lives and homes of people who were hit hard.

I also thank you for re-emphasizing the need to establish Relief Fund as mandated by the Constitution. I agree with you that all types of disasters have already hit us, what are we still waiting for?

Respects,
Invisible</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your Excellency,</p>
<p>You mentioned about armed forces clearly.I was so touched. It was the soldiers who were on ground zero first (of course upon Royal Command) and faced the harsh reality where rubber meets the road. So I thank you on behalf of all the &#8220;invisible soldiers&#8221; who are re-building lives and homes of people who were hit hard.</p>
<p>I also thank you for re-emphasizing the need to establish Relief Fund as mandated by the Constitution. I agree with you that all types of disasters have already hit us, what are we still waiting for?</p>
<p>Respects,<br />
Invisible</p>
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		<title>By: DorjiDrolo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hon&#039;ble OL,

Being the last of three speakers to present your kadrin legso, you did a fine job by not going into rhetoric but finding your own niche and approach to express your feelings and gratitude. You may like to extrapolate this approach in defining your political career and the new political system of this country. After you guys are the trendsetters. In fact the ruling government should also do the same.  Each party and power centres should find their own strength and approach rather than resolving to confrontations and victimism.  The ultimate goal is, I guess, the same – to serve the nation and its people.

If I heard you right, your actual presentation in Dzongkha also carried some commendations to the government, which you have not put in your translated version here.  I thought that was very nice of you.  Unless by “zhung” you meant “civil service”.  There are some things and events that should be above politics.  National tragedies are one of those things and I thought you got that right.

Your call for an immediate establishment of the HM Kidu fund was bit unnecessary because under the present situation the ruling government will not reject any requests for funds should HM require them.  If at all you wanted to call the attention of the honorable members of the parliament to their scared duty, the need of the hour is to rally around His Majesty the King and the government as one nation and move the country out of this tragedy.  Bring back that communal harmony that remains destroyed, because much of the blame for the unprecedented division of our communities goes to our honorable parliamentarians (including some of the ministers).

Rightfully, the inaugural session of the parliament was dominated by the recent natural disasters that paralyzed the whole country.  The silver lining to those dark moments was that, after a long time, we all felt like one nation.  We all felt like one people.  And we all felt like in good ole days.   For once, the scars left by bitter election campaigns were disappearing.  Your appeal therefore would have made lot of sense.  Because if we continue to stand as ONE STRONG NATION, no disasters, natural or man-made, external or internal, would be able shake our beloved motherland.

My homage and wishes to you and to all the MPs for fruitful deliberations in our august body.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hon&#8217;ble OL,</p>
<p>Being the last of three speakers to present your kadrin legso, you did a fine job by not going into rhetoric but finding your own niche and approach to express your feelings and gratitude. You may like to extrapolate this approach in defining your political career and the new political system of this country. After you guys are the trendsetters. In fact the ruling government should also do the same.  Each party and power centres should find their own strength and approach rather than resolving to confrontations and victimism.  The ultimate goal is, I guess, the same – to serve the nation and its people.</p>
<p>If I heard you right, your actual presentation in Dzongkha also carried some commendations to the government, which you have not put in your translated version here.  I thought that was very nice of you.  Unless by “zhung” you meant “civil service”.  There are some things and events that should be above politics.  National tragedies are one of those things and I thought you got that right.</p>
<p>Your call for an immediate establishment of the HM Kidu fund was bit unnecessary because under the present situation the ruling government will not reject any requests for funds should HM require them.  If at all you wanted to call the attention of the honorable members of the parliament to their scared duty, the need of the hour is to rally around His Majesty the King and the government as one nation and move the country out of this tragedy.  Bring back that communal harmony that remains destroyed, because much of the blame for the unprecedented division of our communities goes to our honorable parliamentarians (including some of the ministers).</p>
<p>Rightfully, the inaugural session of the parliament was dominated by the recent natural disasters that paralyzed the whole country.  The silver lining to those dark moments was that, after a long time, we all felt like one nation.  We all felt like one people.  And we all felt like in good ole days.   For once, the scars left by bitter election campaigns were disappearing.  Your appeal therefore would have made lot of sense.  Because if we continue to stand as ONE STRONG NATION, no disasters, natural or man-made, external or internal, would be able shake our beloved motherland.</p>
<p>My homage and wishes to you and to all the MPs for fruitful deliberations in our august body.</p>
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