Archive for November, 2003
Meanwhile women MPs walked out of parliament because they were not allowed to take their handbags in with them as apparently the bags can be used to smuggle weapons into the chamber. Now that is ridiculous. I mean what’s stopping a disgruntled MP from wrapping himself in dynamite under his shirt and blowing the whole place up? Are they going to ban shirts too? As for the Honourable Member for Budalangi Mr Raphael Wanjala standing up to demand the Speaker address the issue; someone in government please give this man a committee to run or something as he clearly has too much time on his hands. Quote of the day goes to Education assistant minister Mrs Beth Mugo who stated without their handbags women felt undressed. Just another day at the top of our democracy!
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2003 at 5:19 PM
Mutahi Ngunyi writes in the Sunday Nation that NARC in Kenya has now turned itself into a government of the elite, by the elite and for the elite. Remember this time last year a global report found that Kenyans were the
most optimistic
people in the world about their future. How things have changed.
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2003 at 4:57 PM
Thinking up new ideas and projects is fun, putting the hard work to implement them less so.
Thus, I am very happy to highlight that the good men and women at allafrica have launched an African weblogs list.
Which means they’ve done all the hard work for me as I was about to launch a list of my own. Go check it out and if you are African, or are in Africa or are a friend of Africa and have a weblog then you can register too! Let’s make this happen! [No i don't work for them. Yet.]
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2003 at 9:32 PM
The Conservatives replaced party chair Theresa May with Dr Liam Fox and Lord Saatchi. Proof, yet again, that it takes two men to do a job one woman can do on her own. Ok I should qualify that, it takes two Tory men to do a job that one woman can do her own!
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2003 at 9:19 PM
It is so ummm Brtish how people in Britain keep banging on about Bush and his illegitimate war and conveniently forget that without Blair this all would not have been possible.
Blair provides the teeny weeny little bit of legitimacy there is for the “coalition of the willing” especially after the UN Security Council refused to be bullied. All this noise about illegal wars directed at Bush during his state visit should be
directed at Blair if they are serious.
To quote Gray Younge, [The British] can make Bush uncomfortable; it is only Blair [The British] can make unemployed.
However i hope at the demo on Thursday we get more of the good bush, bad bush! [poached from Blogjam ]
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2003 at 10:02 PM
Dr Canaan Banana will always be synonyms with homosexual assault. It was a sad end to a life dedicated to Zimbabwe and Africa and tarnished his reputation and effectively removed him from his place in history as one of Africa’s leading statesmen.
- Banana became first president of an independent Zimbabwe on April 18 1980. As a former political detainee and a member of the minority Ndebele people, he had impeccable political credentials, and was the only person nominated by Zanu.
- In September 1980 Banana was an intermediary in talks about merging Zanu-PF and Joshua Nkomo’s Zapu and was credited with brokering the 1987 Unity Accord which brought to an end the Matabeleland massacres in which Mugabe’s army is thought to have killed an estimated 20,000 civilians.
- In 1989, he was on the United Nations commission of eminent churchmen
investigating business in South Africa.
- In 1991 he was one of a group of Commonwealth “Eminent Persons” which observed Codesa (Convention for a Democratic South Africa).
- Until his trial he was the Organisation of African Unity’s special envoy to civil war-torn Liberia.
But hey, you do the crime you do the time.
As for the name, in 1982 a law was passed in Zimbabwe forbidding jokes about the president’s name, though it continued to invite cheap jibes, illustrated later in such headlines as “Man raped by Banana” and “Mugabe Slips on Banana”. When he visited England Prince Philip asked him “Did you come on your own or are there a bunch of you?”
Canaan Sodindo Banana, clergyman and politician, born March 5 1936; died November 10 2003
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2003 at 2:01 PM
I finally finished reading Antony Beevor’s “The Fall of Berlin 1945″ last night. It has taken me four months to read. Four whole months. To put it in perspective “Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943″ took me approximately one week to read and I found Berlin more interesting than Stalingrad. That’s what I get for starting a good book at the same time I am starting a new job, finishing a thesis, moving home and revaluating my life!
Beevor is seriously talented. I am envious actually. The man can write! You can feel, see, and hear the battles, tanks, guns, and cries. You share the joy and the pain of the soldiers. Everyone should read it. Even if your not normally a fan of history.
On the downside, now I don’t have a book to read. Any suggestions?
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2003 at 2:35 AM
Life is full of twist and turns and together they have conspired to keep me away from this site. (Does that sentence make grammatical sense?) To all those who have written, commented, emailed I apologise for the lack of response.
I have made a few changes to the layout. The menus make more structural sense. Although my php links are still all over the place. I have moved things around. Some things have been deleted, such as my privacy statement. To be honest I only put it up on my site as a reaction against a violation of my privacy. It was there to show that I am a bigger, better person that they are which was childish. But ultimately all it did was remind me that my privacy had been violated.
Just for reassurance any email you send me or submit via my contact form is considered private. So go ahead and email me your credit card details i won’t share them! (This rule does not apply if you send me an email that is insulting and especially if you send me a email that is threatening. Just don’t do it. For your own safety you shouldn’t threaten me. I am a psycho. I am crazier than you are. Don’t test me just trust me. So trying to scare, threaten me via email will not work. I am like a ceetah. I just wander around the plains minding my own business eating a gazelle here or there. But like a cheetah if you attack me be prepared for vicious retaliation.) By the way I also did law, not very well but I did it. So threatening to sue me is a non starter. You might as well try to get Mike Tyson to take up yoga. Anyway what are you gonna take if you win? My Primark socks? Knock yourself out.
Anyway, normal service resumes.
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2003 at 12:55 AM
God is a Liverpool fan. How do I know? He is turning the moon red.
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Sunday, November 9th, 2003 at 12:01 AM
Is it Al Qaeda? Is it the new look KGB? Perhaps it is a priceless message with information about Iran’s nuclear programme? Or it could be a goat?
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2003 at 10:15 PM
Despite all you might have heard America did win the Vietnam War. Well according to The WSJ anyway. In next weeks piece Bartley explains how pigs are taught to fly and fish taught to cycle.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2003 at 9:40 PM
