by Colin Hyde
You had to feel for Patrick Faber, that is, if you have any compassion in your heart, when on his return to the House after being absent almost as long as there’s been a microphone and empty seat for Queen’s Square, he started, with the tears streaming down his face, listing ALL the ribbons the PUP, especially Julius Espat, had cut for projects that the UDP had started and set aside finance for. The list, it is almost without end.
Before I go on, I wouldn’t condemn anyone who noh gat no pity fu Faber. You know the story about the bucket that went to the well every day? Well, this Faber was in the House way too long. Everyone knows that the UDP should have been swept away in 2015, but don’t blame the people; sometimes people in power can do sufficient kova benjamin to get them across the tape. Remember the time when Faber spoke in the House for almost four hours, and it was all repetition after the first 15 minutes? Remember the time when he expressed no remorse for firing a school warden who didn’t wave the red flag? No, nobody shud feel guilty if they don’t feel sorry for Faber. But those of us who have soft hearts can’t help but feel a little something. Some of us will forgive until maaga daag ton rong bite wi.
Port Mágico, Braa? Yap, the PUP, yet again, is looking to capitalize on another project the UDP blessed. Life is funny. In the past, the PUP was a creative party, which wasn’t a complete blessing, because they used that gift not only for furtherance of the people’s work. Oh how the mighty and smart have fallen. Now they scrape and scratch around to see what the UDP left in the pot. But whoa there, this miracle looks a big one.
You’ve heard the squealing from Dean and Pehreh. They hurt. Yes, the hog weh baal hihn da di one weh di feel di pain. Could you see the UDP presiding over a $750 million project? This is a party that loved grand things. How many 8-million-dollar, one-mile roads did they build, and how many roundabouts with fountains? Ah, showing favor to Mágico was risky; that’s why they had to wait until the last minute to sign it.
Bah, the teeving copycat PUP has nothing to lose, besides being exposed for not being able to produce any new thought. What Plan Belize? It’s all borrowed and stolen from old UDP manifestos. Is there anything in this thing for Belize? I can’t say, I can’t say. What I can say is that it is another PUP ripoff of the UDP. Poor Faber, he’ll need a wash basin the next time he goes to the House. And the House clerk will need a mop to keep the floor dry.
I just can’t end this piece without telling the PUP, please think fu unuself noh man! But I’d just be wasting our time. This party has become completely lazy and boring. Remember when they did Mahogany Heights? That was the PUP! I agree with Faber. Bah, all these PUP do is scrape the barrel for what the UDP left behind.
PBL shouldn’t have access to Ombudsman
There’s a mind working inside the PBL camp that doesn’t grasp that when Mr. Kipling said you’re a real deal man if you can walk with kings yet keep the common touch, he wasn’t thinking about the farce of sending your top lawyer to the villages to express solidarity with communal land rights or taking your litigation to the poor people’s court. I don’t know what the letter of the law says, but everyone in Belize knows our Ombudsman is for settling disputes between neighbors and that kind of thing.
The Ombudsman’s office is for people with small bank accounts, not for the people who own the bank.
Investigating a former minister is no small matter; it will take up all of the Ombudsman’s time. He won’t want to look bad, so he’ll put out his all to get to the bottom of the case. I bet he is already in the law office poring over books.
No, no, no, PBL has its gripe, and it might be a legitimate gripe, but it can’t go to the Ombudsman.
Pride month, everyone deserves a month
All this month the US is celebrating closet business. Wikipedia says Pride Month for LGBT is usually a June thing, and it got its catalyst in 1969 after police raided a gay bar, Stonewall Inn, in New York City. You see why sleeping dogs should be allowed to lie and why you should not kick down closet doors to find out who is behind it? The story says pride marches were held in several US cities in 1970, to remind people of the riots and to push for more liberty to do what they do. An organizer, Fred Sargeant, said the marches also serve to remind people that gays could be in their family and among their friends too.
Well, you know how the world goes, the thing caught on with shadow gays and gay sympathizers, and now it’s all over the world, maybe, maybe even in Belize. The Wikipedia says that in 1999 Bill Clinton declared June in the US as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month; in 2011 Barack Obama officially recognized the month for the “whole LGBT community”; in 2019 Donald Trump recognized it through a presidential proclamation, and in 2021, Joe Biden “vowed to push for LGBT rights in the United States, despite previously voting against same-sex marriage and school education of LGBT topics in the Senate.” That Biden character, he was sane once.
It’s caused a war in Ukraine. Reports are that because of the aggressiveness, Uganda has stiffened the laws against that behavior, and it might go as far as the death penalty. That might seem extreme, but it wouldn’t be if the effort was to stave off serious internal strife. The US is on the path to a civil war. Reports are that the friendly Russians are setting aside districts for Americans who can’t take it anymore. It’s all because this pride thing has gone too far. They had no right to break into your haven. Now you are breaking into theirs.
There are many sexual activities that the religions – the Christians, the Muslims, and the Bahá’ís – frown upon, demand that we repress. Bah, monogamy is set as the ideal, yet we bow to the powerful LGBT and encourage, embrace bisexuality. They’re supposed to have license to sleep in two beds.
No, it’s not just homosexuals who are called to suppress their sexual urges for the good of the whole. I could list a long list of “kinkiness” that human beings wrestle with every night. It’s all safe, well mostly, if you keep it in your mind, behind your door. I say, if it is about democracy, then every fetish, even the ones that are against the law, should have their month. Yes, even the ones that don’t fly with the law, so we all know what some of us are going through to keep this delicate fabric from coming apart at the seams.
Sachiz, not caldo
I absolutely vote thumbs down to caldo being the food in an eating contest. Low sachiz, that’s what they use in an eating contest. I saw the rich bowls of golden soup on television. It is sacrilegious to wolf that. That’s for a taste competition.
Okay, the ladies were quite dainty spooning their food, but along will come someone who wants to win at any cost, and out the window goes civilized eating. Hmm, if you think an eating contest is fun, try tortilla with a little butter or coconut oil and salt and pepper. And allow a liquid dip, because eating dry tortilla quickly can cause hiccups.