Three Men On a Boat

You must know that at some point in time the things that you own are really yours and that you merely are a temporary custodian with minimal rights. At some point you really don't have any rights and are merely a punchline in a long-winding rhetoric.

The biggest asset you think you might have is the thing that often holds you back. You run forward but you really are running back. It's worse than pissing into the wind because it makes no sense living life like you are teasing a lion with the prospect of perhaps beating in a friendly game of paw wrestling while listening to a rendition of the lion sleeps tonight,

You see while the lion sleeps the lioness has decided that you are made of really good texture of flesh and she has a family to feed.

Now then you have to see that the expectations change because the ground rules are never the same or at least as cleat. I have become a fan of this great woman called Hilalry Clinton. Sure she sponsored the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act along with Barack's new best friend Joe Biden (can't resist the temptation to call him Joe Budden) for which I will find it hard to forgive them because of teh nature of the act but I am a fan of her character. She has real power and it's not up for debate. She is the perfect wife. And the perfect person to run life on every level. She will compete with you but she will elevate you rather than try to bring you down. Classy.

Now readers of this blog will be a little astounded by the huge turnaround. I have always been seen as one of her fiercest critics but what can I say? It's politics

Blue ice just turned to ice that's blue...

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The first thing that comes to one's mind is what the bloody hell is he on about or if one fears that they might be whore of some sort then it is the gasp and all that other business.

It must be said that when one looks quite frankly that when one looks at it the world is filled with these but there are those who have taken it to the next level.

There are those who know no life but facebook. Zuckerberg has made them his bitches.

You see, an understanding must be made that there is a difference between someone who has a presence but those who make themselves something of a nuisance online. One of those that, as soon as you log on they are saying hello on the chat thing. Then they spam you with sticky notes, event or some other weird and extremely random invitation.

You see the biggest question to ask most of the time is how do they know you are online. After all it is not as if you get a notification that someone has just come online. Unless as this author might not be aware, there is an application that does that. If that is the case then we are all doomed because that means we could easily be stalked online. Mind you I have enjoyed being stalked here and there.

You see the whore now begins to have facebook messages appearing in his head as he lives. I know one that was woken up by a facebook notification. Not a real one but one that appeared in his dreams.

Although let's face it, facebook is kinda cool, it needs a place and sometyimes real life should be too crowded for it.

Not for the whore. The whore is online all the time... even in the dreams

Mayb we should have a book... confessions of a facebook whore. and we will sell it on FB... sorry facebook.

Now this is me doing the thing that I hate doing... Quoting people that I can't reveal. It's hectic.

A reliable source - aren't they all - has it off record that the cabinet will be divided as follows.

ZANU-PF - 15 posts
MDC-T - 13 posts
MDC - 3 posts

Now what is raising a lot of eyebrows among some is the number of seats that Mutambara has been given and why ZANU Pf as more than MDC-T.

Well that's politics.

For those who do not know. parliament will be sworn in on Monday or Tuesday and Cabinet same day or the soon thereafter.

And this is speculation based on a very reliable source - aren't they always reliable

Labels: Zimbabwe GNU

The basic things you will be taught when doing skateboarding is to kick, push and coast. The rest is all down to balance.

The business of politics often is about coasting. The kick and push are timed so that they have impact so that the coasting period lasts for as long a period as possible. It's called the manipulation of the masses.

You see it is completely unimportant what the noble picture is. It is all about perceptions. The man can be a weed-smoking fornicator and it would not matter if the impression given is that he is cool when he does that.

The sad thing is people are getting advice from the wrong place. You see, there is a precedence that is like death to the masses that permeates their thinking, that says you can get what you need witho8t really working for it.

Cause they covered the part where you kick and push and they show the coasting

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The murmurings from South Africa are that a real deal is close as the heads of the two main political parties in Zimbabwe have hacked away at some of the main difficulties that have made for a protracted negotiation.

Sources say that the undertaking at the start of the talks had been to have a signed deal by end of Sunday when the summit ends.

While Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition party has said that a deal remained elusive because of the sticking points from earlier in the week, he also appeared to give hope by saying that the talks themselves were going very well.

SADC is pushing both sides and insiders say that behind closed doors they are talking tough.

What remains to be seen is whether the two sides will have something special for their people at the end of the summit which is just a few hours away.

My guess? I have no idea

Labels: Zimbabwe deal

I sit as the member of an audience in which the strangest thing is happening. In a place where the majority of people who visit the place is often black we have them in the minority tonight.

The woman I am sharing a table with then joked that she did not know that there were so many of them left in the country. I quipped a la Hitler

We kept a few for the zoo

Of course in another place that is considered violently racist and i should be drawn and quartered for it and trust me if I was serious about then I should be strung by my prized appendage. She got the joke and that is all that matters

The hell we live in continues thoughh and we sit hopeful that they will have a chat and we will have a crowd as mixed as this one more often.

By the way a lot more blacks have just walked in so that's that

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Thabo Mbeki probably came to Zimbabwe under the guise of talks and then spent the long weekend here. After all he did spend time here during the apartheid area so he is well aware of the holidays here.

Well that is the joke aside.

The talks are supposed to have been completed by now and the celebration of a new Zimbabwe gathering pace. But at this point we are not sure if we are further from a conclusion than before.

You have people claiming all types of sources - everyone has one of those in Zimbabwe - claiming some sensational rumour or the other. One said that the two exchanged really harsh words, one calling the other puppet and the other hitting back calling him a murderer resulting in the alleged puppet running out and calling the talks dead. The person then tells the story that the mediator even ran out after him to the car. Of course the press missed all this because they were smoking weed somewhere.

In all fairness I think the rumour mill defines the shape and form of a real crisis because the absense of a credible information platform is killing the masses. That is why all types of rumours abound and the panic runs through.

My view? They are closer than the media makes them to a deal. They will be done soon.

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We have been waiting for that headline..

Zimbabweans usher in new dawn

You see we are waiting not just for Zimbabwe to realise itself but for africa in general. This is a time in the space of moments that Africa could really realise its greatness

We await the three men who will decide the immediate future of a nation that waits in hope

So they say that Beyonce has been lightened by L'Oreal which of course doesn't go very well with the left wing elements of society. They say it is racist and of course L'Oreal have denied this. Would they dare say yes we may have taken her down a few shades. Heck no

That said it is because of the slavery to fashion. It is not about right or wrong but about what sells... And it is about the new sex. Before they used to hide it and make it as if it was about the people they targetted but with reality tv and the internet, they don't even bother.

They tell the masses that it is con but the masses still buy en masse. It redefines the boundaries of stupidity and creates a whole new section. We're not even sure what to call that one to be honest except that there might be a bit of honesty and a bag-load of grey areas then a truck-load of outright cons.

The fear for me is that the next generations will say something else and this bit we're in won'tt feel so bad.l In fact we will celebrate the decadence as being the time when a vestige of morality

Today there are all manner of things that are offered on the table then taken away straight after. Doha was signed but there are bigger things to talk about.

History is made up of moments in which we think about the damn thing called life. What we think is all that matters because the language and texture of history is encapsulated in those moments.

Before, we could jst make of these events but now we are told what to do with them. We are told that it is bloody important that Barack Obama is in Wisconsin talking to some farmers about how great it is to be American even if we live somewhere in Djibouti. Who bloody cares.

It is the most unpopular thing to have an opinion and in a connected world it is almost dangerous. I mean beyond they have just discovered ways of making sure that your whole internet experience goes awry by keeping that loophole in the way the internet works. Now you're not sure who to be mad at, the guys who made the internet or the guy who looked for the hole. I say bugger them all.

We should all unplug ourselves and think for a second. Well could we dare you to? Maybe write a resignation letter like that done by Richard Nixon today in 1974...
I dare you to resign from being a connected zombie... Yes I do hereby resign as a member of the global village. Say it! Say it... Gosh that is just too fundamentalist!

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After the bomb in Hiroshima, this very in 1945, Winston Churchill said this

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It amuses me immensely when I see people living in one era talking about how times were different and of course better than the ones they find themselves in now. Yes, the talk about how the world was so much better and there was much more, I dare say honesty and the politicians and lawyers were more benevolent. Ah yes that time, that place, that space.

What turns me over even more is how people who lived in the same time and space have such different views of the world.

Now I am one who never reminisces because it is rather pointless. The past is gone. Yes it was great compared to now, but it probably didnt feel so good then. So be about now and solutions for now and the future are the only ones that matther.

That said it must also be noted with due respect to, well whoever deserves it, I can remember how the world I lived in was so different to I dare say even my neighbour. Granted one of them was related to the then President of the country and the other was the first homosexual I had ever met. Mind you I didnt know he was homosexual and didnt know why the called him a poof. But even then in the same time, the world was different because even in amongst all this, we have individualities we don't even have to strive for.

See this? on 5 August 1962, Norma Jean Mortensen, baptised Norma Jean Baker and known to the world as Marilyn Monroe died from an overdose of barbituates.Somewhere in Johannesburg in South Africa, on the very same day, after a tip-off from the United States Central Intelligence Agency as to his whereabouts in disguise, Nelson Mandela was arrested and jailed by South African authorities, having been on the run for 17 months.Now, same day, same planet, different worlds

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so i spent the whole night surfing the net and looking for past school mates and college mates on all the school reunion websites i could think of, the results i must say were rather disappointing.i found one lone person. i used to be in the same grade four class with this person a block who i never really spoke to. i was surprised i still remembered his name and surname . As i clicked his profile i almost sensed a desperation and excitement of a five year old unwrapping candy.well THE EXCITEMENT WAS SHORT LIVED he had lasted logged in july...july 2006 and there was no picture no details just his name.i immediately felt undone by the whole pursuit. I felt like the dogs had come back with no fox.

What was more saddening for me was the reality that i was actually happy to at least know one person. I consoled myself yet it eat me deep inside as i wondered about the rest who i shared my peanut butter sandwich and mazoe with over lunch or played the good old footer with all seemed to have just disappeared into thin air. somehow my failure to find anyone i regarded as being close to me, or to see an image over the net of someone i shared a past with seemed to throw the purpose of my whole existence into question,. it frightened me to think as independent as i am i had to look to other people to make me aware of my sense of being, i somehow felt i was floating on this sea which seemed to have no references the compass and human landmarks seem to have been swallowed into the belly of the earth, from primary school to high school to college, just one,

i felt my history had just been ruthlessly wiped out by fate and circumstance its crazy because when i try rationalise it i say to myself if they were really an important aspect of my life then wouldnt i know where they are? yet age does tricks to you it makes you worry about the past because you know you are nearing the end of your journey we all want to fight the good fight we all want to finish the race but enough for this idle reflection takes a man nowhere.

The boat needs to keep on going the oars of boat have been kept moving by the hand of one comrade, while the other two fell asleep at the back, one in pursuit of knowledge which he seems to know less and less of , the other ah well money and the fairer species.The human sense of wanting to belong is a strange and weird thing.

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