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A natural born skeptics view on Bahamian culture, politics, and issues at hand. An opinionated blog on the things happening around me

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Hubert cries wee wee wee all the way home

LOL just read the comment I posted.

Article: http://www.tribune242.com/news/2012/jul/26/former-pm-calls-ruling-last-speech-bogus/?c=4888

LOL this is laughable, I can't believe this immature man ran a whole country for years. Why does he think he should be first on the agenda? He isn't even an MP for his constituency anymore. He should've just waited and I'm sure he would've had a chance to speak. Seems like he just loves to hear his own voice. There are much bigger issues at hand than for a speech to be first priority give me a break. Even in primary school they tell you wait your turn to speak. Guess he can't be too mad he made a ton of money during his employment. If he thinks this will somehow bother people he's sorely mistaken he just made himself to look like a 5 year old whos parents didn't buy them candy in the store.

Hubert and Perry slapboxing as usual

Sorry guys it has been a while since my last blog post I have been busy but now I am back on track. I recently read an article in the Tribune actually a few but decided to comment on this one. Reason for that is I can't stand when politicians just say what the people want to hear but don't give any real solutions, unfortunately it seems to be the commonplace amongst most politicians. Oh well. Here's what I said.

ARTICLE:: http://www.tribune242.com/news/2012/jul/25/fnm-could-not-grasp-true-value-urban-renewal/?c=4886


Yet again politicians are being vague and dancing around the subject. Hubert seems to be criticizing something irrelevant just to shake the bees nest. If the houses are abandoned and run down, obviously no one is around to represent it or they just don't care, or they just can't afford to do what the government can. The government isn't planning on taking the land over just getting rid of eyes sores, and potential dens of mischief, crack houses, places where women can be raped, etc. Perry doesn't seem to grasp urban renewal either, urban renewal isn't just finding out the problems and notifying the branches of government. What is that going to solve? How are you going to find out the problems of the household exactly? Are the police going to come in sit the people down and force them to just tell them all their problems? Very unlikely. Getting the people to trust the police is a whole other issue that kind of speaks for itself on how difficult to impossible that is these days.What the government needs to do is put extra curricular activities in place to get the kids away from home and interact with them on a daily to weekly basis. You will find out everything you need to know that way, and you can instil values and discipline they aren't getting at home. Its just one of many suggestions they can address. Besides the basis of solving any problem is finding the root cause not the effect, just a thought.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Should Bullies Be Held Accountable For Causing Suicides?

Recently there was a story about a mother Toni Medrano who accidently smothered her three day old son after drinking, she had a blood alcohol level of .11, laid down next to her son Adrian, rolled over on top of Adrian, and killed him. The incident itself is downright horrible. You can imagine the guilt and sheer grief she was feeling after the death of Adrian by her own hands. She was a fairly young mother 29, she had other children before Adrian. Then Nancy Grace got wind of the story, Doomsday. When the story was featured on Nancy's show she condemned Tori with comments such as 'She's waking up and she is so drunk off a fifth of vodka she doesn't even know her baby is laying there dead beside her,' practically yelling. After the segment aired Tori was ridiculed so harshly with death threats, and insults AFTER the Nancy Grace show. She was so miserable racked with guilt, she lit herself on FIRE, and committed suicide. Now it isn't Nancy Grace's fault that people went and treated her that way. She didn't tell them to go and send tons of hate mail. But that doesn't mean she didn't instigate it, Tori was already charged with two counts of manslaughter which can face up to 10 years in prison. Granted not the value of life loss, but time for atonement. The main question is, is Nancy Grace a bully and be held somewhat responsible? I think so if you are on TV and millions of people are watching you, you should be careful what you say it may be YOUR opinion but people can sympathize with you and act on it. Check the video for yourself.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Meet Your Promises, Don't Just Spread Propoganda' Maybe you shouldn't talk FNM

Article: http://www.tribune242.com/news/2012/jul/09/just-meet-your-promises-dont-just-spread-propogand/?c=4190


I found this article so ironic I just couldn't pass it up, What is the FNM thinking just trying to bash the other party? Heres what I said.

Is the FNM serious? They are trying to call out a party for committing politics? The FNM is not safe from this accusation either. There really is no point to this, but to well spread propaganda themselves, which is hilariously ironic. For the FNM to talk about something, really the only successful thing they did with utilities as some form of evidence that they are free from criticism is just brazen. Point is no party can claim they have fulfilled all their promises around elections. Period.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

" Bahamians ‘Not Disciplined Enough’ To Use Casinos" I guess everyone is not mature enough but the top 10%

Article: http://www.tribune242.com/news/2012/jul/07/bahamians-not-disciplined-enough-use-casinos/?c=4131
I noticed this article on what Robert Sands said about the gambling situation. I think he is trying to divide the different wealth classes further. Here is what I posted on the article.

OMG NO! Trying to further separate the different classes of people in the Bahamas by giving the rich rights others don't have because of wealth is downright sickening. Taking away rights is never anyone's benefit, they are losing their liberty which doesn't seem to matter to Mr.Sands. Just because something is legal doesn't mean everyone is going to go out and gamble. If you made cocaine legal today people aren't going to flood the streets with white noses and tweaking. The number houses are actually quite genius and progressive thinking whether the people, Christian council, or politicians like it or not, they are most likely here to stay as long as they provide jobs and contribute to the flow of money in the country. So make gambling legal give us our liberties, and maintain our human rights.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Mccartney Suggests Public Floggings Because that totally worked in primary school

Article: http://www.tribune242.com/news/2012/jul/05/mccartney-suggests-public-floggings/

Now when I heard about another independent party spearheaded by Hon. Branville Mccartney I was excited. All the things I have seem him do for his constituency was remarkable, he transformed it. But his politics it seems as of late that it is just to appeal to the here and now, and whatever the people want to hear. Public floggings? thats about as effective as spanking a rude child in the middle of super value. Its awkward for everyone. I get that rapists should be punished to the fullest extent of the law they broke but c'mon what is he trying to portray? that the only way we can overcome rape or whatever crime we must resort to menial spanking? Again this train of thought of being REACTIVE and not PROACTIVE is detrimental to society. We can't possibly assume capital punishment is somehow going to prevent crimes. Plenty of countries have capital punishment but don't have a decreased crime rate because of it. Flogging is just some grand spectacle we don't need. We should just have them up on an online database flagging them for being a sexual predator and track where they live etc, and have them serve their time prison is for reformation. Just like Familywatchdog.us. Making parents pay for the CHILD'S mistake is completely wrong how is the child going to really feel the repercussions of his or her actions if their parents must pay for it? Need to completely reform the child and put them in an institution if needed. Branville sadly gets the head nod of shame for this. Cheers.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Top 5 Worst Bahamian Professions everyone seems to have

There is this huge trend of people trying to make money through jobs that look "cool", or seem generally easy and fun to do. Majority of young Bahamians have adopted these job titles trying to look for an easy buck. Sadly they couldn't have been more wrong.
"Dude buying an expensive camera has to be easier than this"

1. Photographer
Photography seems like a glamorous and easy job, you take pictures of beautiful women all day right? And you get paid for it! whats better than that? Just stop right there, not all photographers take pictures of models and the ones that do are very few. They have worked years at networking, getting to know the business, and actually getting the attention of clients willing to pay for their services, and selling their artwork at a gallery which is a feat to get into itself. Majority of photographers take contemporary pictures, scenery, everyday people, and abstract. Even after years of schooling and building a portfolio to present to a firm who would hire you. Most photographers don't make much money, if hardly any. It is a very competitive, highly criticized field. A lot of Bahamians assume just buying a fancy camera, asking a few girls to take pictures of,  and adding a water mark on their pictures makes them a photographer. If they met a real photographer they would most likely get punched in the face, and have their picture taken afterwards. This then leads into the next profession everyone seems to want and think they have.
 
 
"WTF! where are the half naked women? I didn't sign up for this."
 
 
2. Model
This is the bane of my existence, every girl who have ever had their picture taken seems to believe that they are in fact a model. Although they have never seen a single dime of money for it nor have any credentials to show. Never has been featured a "model" outside of Facebook. "Photographers" ask a decent looking woman to have their pictures taken, and are told they can be models. What happens is they actually believe it, and the photographers play along so they can just take some pictures to give the illusion that they are actual photographers. What we soon have is a bunch of women who claim to be models and thus feel superior to people who aren't models. As if modeling has the per-requisites to actually have brains or any other skills. Then they refuse to do any other work because they claim to be models taking pictures in their bathrooms with their blackberry's making a duck face in the mirror. BOOM! time to go duck hunting.
"This will look fabulous on my resume'"

3. DJs
Being a DJ sounds like the easiest most fun thing in the world, you attend parties and you just play music all night. Then possibly get a few chicks to leave with you after sounds like the life doesn't it? Wrong being a DJ is one of the hardest things to do these days. The industry is so saturated with Virtual DJ posers and people who have no sense of rhythm and tone it makes the people who actually hone their craft hard to notice. Seems like in every teenage Bahamian's life there was a DJ phase where they would just mix songs together and play sounds effects over the songs, the proceed to share them on Facebook. When the actual DJs do the opposite, they go out searching foe venues to play at most of the time for free at first, get more known then actually OFFER their services to people planning parties, Bahamians just assume that they will just come looking for you while you chill in your room abusing virtual DJ.

"This is so easy why aren't more people DJs!"


4. Phone Card Re-saleSelling phone cards isn't as big as it was before, literally there was 4 or 5 people on every corner selling cards until they lowered the commission you would make on each sale. Then the unthinkable happened EZ-topup. This god awful system has enabled anyone with a cell phone to sell minutes. So you have people walking around in random shops, clubs, and hangout areas trying to sell you minutes. Although its fine to have it as a side venture but to make it a main job is downright awful. Not only your returns for the effort you put towards it not worth it, you start to lose money after a while if you don't sell enough. Yet everyone seems to be jumping onboard because it seems too good to be true, and it is.

"If only there were Nokia death matches"
 
5. Event Planner
Every weekend you hear about some party from some entertainment group with some razzle frazzle name like "WeArePromisingYouWillGetLaidIfYouPay10Bucks" or something along those lines. Event planning isn't just throwing parties at different locations, you would just be called a great party thrower. Event planing has a very unique art to it only a handful of people can really pull it off. Getting the right caterer, designing the venue, making sure there are enough seats, right amount of activities, marketing, making sure you deliver what the client wants specifically, and the list goes on and on. Seems like every Bahamian wants to be a huge mogul by throwing parties with all sorts of gimmicks like a certain attire you must wear, or if its some time of the year, and sure enough every year the same thing happens and we all fall victim to the wet n mads.
"What a wonderful way to celebrate a great achievement in history, NUDITY"