hindu,  Mon Feb  1 17:51:42 EST 2010

    COLOMBO: The new Sri Lankan parliament to be elected by April this year would turn itself into a Constituent Assembly to draft a fresh Constitution for the country to replace the present one, The Nation Weekly reported on Sunday.

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Hope GOSL will get the much needed 2/3 support to change the current constitution. Anything is better than the mess we have now.


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Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way! - Proximus
"I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways" - Michael Jackson

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To keep the ministries in check, the new constitution will have an advisory committee for each ministry.

and.... these advisory committee will contain 50 members, each member of this committee will receive 2,000 USD per each sitting and they will be given official residence and a luxury car.  Furthermore, they should be relatives of.....

Each of these 50 members will be allowed to import duty free cars and have a personal secretary who must be related. To pay for them an additional tax will be levied on all those who use the toilet more than once a day. This will be known as Special Human Ingestion Tax  on the grounds that these people have more to eat. Politicians and public officers will be exempt from SHI'T because they are special human being. The president will also not.