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A soup of doltishness, arrogance, and pettiness.
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You'd think that Prez Max R. would have taken a hint from Brother Hinn regarding PM Manning's mental agility. Had he done that, he would not have been so quick off the mark heeding the PM's request. Let's say Hinn is not the brightest spark around, all the Prez had to do was ask himself, how many brain cells did the PM have in gear to come up with the idea to build a (22m?) bridge linking T'dad to Tobago? How many.... did he employ in his latest request regarding the CJ? How many....to give Nigeria money, a country where USD 1BN per day of oil money is looted.
Alas there is a doltish cloud hanging over T&T's corridors of power (TTCOP) apparently sparing no one, commonsense seems to elude them ALL.
My take is: this ‘Poodle/Bitch thing' is spreading like some form of STD (sexually xmitted disease). First there's Cheney-Bush (Bush the Poodle/Bitch) then there was Bush-Blair (Blair the Poodle/Bitch), now we seem to have the PM Manning-Prez Max R. combo with the Prez clearly the ‘Poodle/Bitch' (in ‘presenting' posture?)
Quest: When is the Prez going to: grow a ‘Pair' (testis), act as his own man, and start doing the right thing?
Ans: Are you kidding me? (rhet'l)
Actor/singer Harry B. (of come-Mr-Tallyman fame) had the perfect description for C. Powell. Harry referred to Powell as a ‘House-Ni**er', of course he (Harry) has the cultural/ethnic immunity to so do. Okay he did take some flak from certain quarters, but generally, the majority of his countrymen agreed he was bang on. Subsequently we learned there were millions out there who were absolutely disappointed with Powell's inability to grow a pair and RESIGN, rather than play the ‘Poodle/Bitch' role. The fallout of Powell's gutlessness? His name is now mud, he is history, he had the world in his hands, he could have landed USA's 2008 top job in a breeze if only he had grown a couple and done-the-right-thing, SAID "NO" / RESIGN, rather than meekly going along with something that clearly ate at his conscience.
So back to the PM and Prez duo, any lessons learned from the Powell disaster? So far it doesn't look like it, The doltish cloud continues to hang tough akin to the earth's radiation barrier/belt, people in TTCOP seem to have their own ‘commonsense barrier' a toxic soup of doltishness, arrogance, and pettiness.
Maybe Pakistan's on-the-ground reality of their Prez-CJ fiasco, might break through the doltish cloud barrier and filter down to TTCOP.......caution to the less cynical, don't hold your breath. Is anyone paying any attention to the carnage so far in the Pakistan Prez-CJ row? Is this reality lost on the misguided TTCOP folks?
Where are the thousands of T&T boots-on-the-ground and placards-in-the-air?
Foolish questions...
I keep forgetting ‘we-like-it-so'. THE: "it's not my problem, it's the CJ's, I am all-right Jack", me, me, me.....
Here are a couple of Cdn examples to emulate:
- When former Cdn PM Brian M. tried to stick it to the seniors, they banded together, formed the ‘Grey-Power' Movement and brought PM Brian M to his knees. Of all the stupid things to do, this idiot went after people who had all the time in the world on their hands not to mention the vast pool of know-how (retired CEOs, lawyers, You name ‘em) – De PM boiled-dong-like-bhajee, wen you say ‘seniors' in front ah he after dat, he would start stammering, and dis is ah man who cud talk rapid fire like ah ticker-tape. He is the only fella I know about, who cud talk for half hour straight, and eh say one damn meaningful ting, like he eat fowl posterior--
- When elected MPs tried to give dem-selves a hefty pay raise, people went ballistic, boots on the ground, placards in the air, Media blitz..... they (MPs) put their tails between their legs and backed down pretty darn quick. They realized of course that their pay-masters (we-da-tax-payers) were less than amused, that the majority of us were pretty P O'D (read Pissed Off). Some(angrier) folks put it in more colorful terms like:"We got them to STFU pretty damn fast" (STFU = Shut To F— Up).
Just TWO examples (of many), showing PEOPLE-POWER AT WORK.
T&T's People-Power should be commanding the TTCOP and their misguided defenders to STFU, and get their act together, that we're not going to take this bovine-residue from you any longer enough is enough.
Where the hell are all the retirees in T&T? Am I to believe they are all out in their RVs (Recre'tn Vehicles) touring this tiny 50m x 100m Island? They sure as hell not out there fishing ‘cause I was told I could not go to Icacos on a fishing trip and camp out for the weekend, Quote: "Nah boy dat eh safe, we go have to leave dey 4:00pm while it still daylight!". So where are they?
I buy into the reality that most 9-to-Fivers are pressed for time and as such can't carry the full burden of Organizing protest etc, but where are the Seniors/Retirees? Why are they (MIA) Missing In Action? Are there NO RETIRED Co. Heads? Judges? Lawyers? Average Joe/Jane/Boodram? Do they ALL have more IMPORTANT things to do? If so, LIKE WHAT? Playing NERO? (Rome-burning-Nero-Fiddling)
Let me see if I've got this right, today's retiree's are the very same people who worked their butts off, made all kinds of sacrifices (kids to Univ, seed $ for business start ups etc) so that their offsprings would have a better life than they had. OK so what do we have here? A Bush #2 ‘Mission accomplished' now watch this Golf drive?
What madness is this? Now that these kids are in their 30's and 40's proving you did a terrific job getting them to where they are, DARK OMINOUS CLOUDS are forming in the horizon (dictatorship?) threatening all that you and your kids sacrificed for.
Uproot and move? At 30-40? To where?
Uprooting and moving to a new land is NOT AN OPTION not in today's FLAT-EARTH, (please re-thing this option). I see A MISSION HALF ACCOMPLISHED and headed for disaster!! and I am hearing a chorus of "watch this drive"! Oh wait , ah tink ah hearing some fiddle music too....
I ent even going NEAR the Ukraine and Lebanon examples, hundreds of thousands on the streets......hmmnn on second thought, I wonder how de COP (chief-o-police) go handle 10,000 (BCS) ‘Body Cavity' Searches? I mean let's face it, given the COP's political bias, you know he'll try to humiliate ALL AH DEM. Remember Inshan I? Po-fella lead a harmless protest and look way de COP do to he, talk about bad-mind (or is that NO-Mind?).
I ent know bout you but to me, de message is crystal clear, If only ah handful of all-you protest, den you asking for Cavity Search, but 10,000 strong will make de COP poop he diapers/knickers, even 1,000 would do the trick, ‘cause he go try to cut one or two from the herd to bully dem (like Inshan?), Aha but this time, at least 9,998 angry people will be at his throat, and the ‘fallout' won't be ah pretty sight, something will give/fallout and my guess is it will be from his diapers/knickers.
Please people, if you really wanna make things happen via PROTEST MARCHES, go out there in LARGE numbers.
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There will be little done. Unless it applies to SELF, there is a general malaise and apathy that strikes citizens, and the long term effect we are seeing now.
Like stray pothounds, the only concern is foraging for leftovers for self, and despite all common sense and advice, they are content to wait till others take action on their behalf. Ent, Ms Bhagwandeen?
Jumbie, I can share in your sentiments. In life we have leaders, followers and those who get in the way. Okay plodders-along can fall in to either of the latter two categories.
Cindy and Anand are definitely leaders. In most societies you will have followers and those getting in the way. I don't know if there are any statistics for what percentage of human beings take on leadership roles. I'm not talking about appointed leaders.
I can only imagine from experience that it is about 1 to 5% of people who actually lead.
So if you take the situation in T&T, for whatever reason, between 95-99% of people actually fall into my latter two categories.
And I can see your analogy to stray pot-hongs ('pothounds' for those not familiar Trinbagonian slang).
I think that some of these pot-hongs could actually do something more than 'forage'. As they are not leading perhaps they can do the 'following' thing more constructively. But getting in the way passively or unknowinlgy is the way not to be.
Followers can add their support and give leaders the confidence and greater strength they need to get on with the job.
Unfortunately, many people instead of supporting leaders behave like crabs in a barrel - always trying to climb over each other or pull each other down. Dat cyah work in a progressive society. Whuh yuh say?