by Colin Hyde
Someone, a consensus wise man, once said that the evidence of stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. I am daam sure what that wise man would say if he was told that Belize is on the eve of ANOTHER Commission of Inquiry. Are these vocal people in our country haad head, ayz haad or what? I can’t name the fancy titles they gave to the various exercises of this kind over the years which have led us up the krik, but I know the people and the institutions that were in the crosshairs. Some who’ve been on the stage that jump to mind are called DFC, and SSB, and Immigration, and GoB vehicles on fire sale.
What have we got to show besides theater? Not only has no one gotten hung or gaan to jail, no one has even been fined or suspended. It’s no mistake—me saying that no one has ever gotten suspended from duties. The evidence before these commissions was so overwhelming that suspensions were handed out or parties absconded before the show began. It’s all about posturing, that we are a democracy. Bah, somewhere deep inside the annual reports on government expenditures, the bills for these papishoaz are recorded. It’s all about distraction. What do we need that for? Cable television has 400 channels.
The harvest has gone from grass to worse as we went along. In the last one, the one featuring the cheap former GoB rides, wow, the table was turned on us. We went from accusers to criminals. No criminal has ever been made to pay, but we the people have to pay everyone who was brought before the head table bikaaz it appears we failed to follow the procedure. Ouch!
The lawyers are still enjoying a big haha about how silly they made us look. That community feels so smart every time they get one over, no matter the cost to the nation. Well, not all of them. Thank gudnis for Pehreh, a true Belizean hero. He said he didn’t have the heart to take poor people’s money. I hear he will bite you if you have the dough. But that’s not our worry.
So, someone wants a Commission of Inquiry into the Definitive Agreement between Port Magical and Erwin. That someone, independent senators, either they stake it and we give them their money back if they deliver the results we agree on, or they had better find another tool. These Commissions are all paid for with the people’s money. If interested senators need a suggestion, I offer that they stay back one evening and decide on a list of questions they believe need to be answered, and send them out to the suspects.
Please don’t burden the people with another dud. We’ve been down this road, and we know how it ends. Commission of Inquiry, all that does is make us angry, and waste our time; Commission of Inquiry is no hurricane; dat da lee breez. Yes, we want to know what Erwin was thinking, and all that his friends did. But please take away the theater.
But, but Dr. Williams said nothing wrong
Someone needs to tell Waterloo and Channel 7 that scientists deal with cold, hard facts, not theater. While one is running on high, private interest and media, the other is running on what’s sober. There isn’t anything strange or untoward about a government representative seeing potential in a project. Do we elect governments to be neutral on critical development issues? Please, doant be joaki!
No, there’s no big deal about Dr. Kenrick Williams nudging the scientists to try and find a solution to the problems. Those scientists are mature people.
Scientists are human beings, and they don’t all have the same philosophy about development and the environment. A different opinion doesn’t mean someone is on the take, or ignorant. The big game is about striking a balance. Our faith in them comes from their performance in the past. The report is that over the years they’ve turned in a pretty fine job.
Note that that CEO isn’t out of his water. His bio says he “holds a doctorate degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies from the national Dong Hwa University in Hualien, Taiwan, as well as a Master’s degree in International Environmental Sustainable Development from the National Central University (Taiwan).” Sterling stuff!
When a scientist hollers, the manatees, the manatees, the CEO has every right to say, well, can we find a solution here? Of course, it’s possible he doesn’t see the sky falling if a bwai malanti has to navigate around Gegg’s peninsula to go see a gyal malanti at Gales Point or Swallow Cay. Human beings are known to go much farther for sex. There’s no harm in the CEO saying what he believes, because the other scientists in that meeting, the NEAC, know their subject and, as proven time and time again, they will stand their ground.
So, the PM is happy that NEAC approved Port Magical. I don’t think anyone would be too surprised if his private thoughts leaked out of his head and we learned that he was hoping for the green flag for Waterloo too. My sense of him is that he’s no true Green, and he’s pretty partial to FDIs. But the environmentalists just couldn’t see any mitigation to save that one. Hmm, to pile on that disappointed crowd, did somebody say the most ridiculous thing they’ve ever heard is a cruise port and cargo port in the same bed? I don’t know if I’m yay or nay to that, because I haven’t given it a thought.
Hey, it’s no sin if the Ministry’s CEO signaled that the GoB wasn’t against the project.
Naked gay bicyclists ruin Seattle rainbow parade
Let me get this very, very clear. On matters of sex, heterosexuals don’t understand, can’t comprehend what homosexuals are thinking. Whoa, I’m not after belaboring a difference. Simply, briefly, we don’t see eye to eye here. So then, let us keep it simple: one to their bedroom and one to their closet. See, that’s how we can live together.
I say, you never hear of groups of women, only here and there a wild one, being flagrantly disrespectful to society. Maybe that’s because all the children of this world come here through women, and they appreciate the need to set good examples.
In one of the gay parades last year there were some buff guys; hmm, gays are into bodybuilding too, and some were wearing these things called thongs, a speedo kind of thing which is a design to draw attention to the male member and the buttocks. These guys had a tiny piece of cloth at the front part, and at the back side there was no cloth, just a string up the gap of the buttocks. That noh right, Braa, that noh right to parade in public like that.
Fox News said that at one point the naked gay cyclists went to wash themselves at a fountain where children were playing. Fox said a number of prominent politicians in Seattle praised the gays for their overall show. Fox said none of the Democratic Party’s big wigs responded when they asked them to “comment on the group of nude cyclists exposing their genitalia in front of young children, [asked them if they] believed this was appropriate behavior for participants in an event attended by families.”
Stop mash cockroach
After “bragging” about all the fantastic powers of the cockroach, how they can support 900 times their weight – that has to be a daam lie – and how they can survive without food for months, as, at the website en.as.com, said the WHO had advised that we not stomp on cockroaches when they cross our paths. According to as, the WHO classifies cockroaches as “unhygienic scavengers in human settlements” – we all knew that – and warned that “squashing them can spread bacteria into the environment that can lead to asthma, allergies and illnesses.” Well, thank gudnis for Baygon and Fish spray and Shelltox.