8 May 2009

Rihanna and Chris Brown Nude Photos

Teaser

Rihanna

I don’t plan on doing full nudity on this blog, therefore I’ll merely link you to the pictures. Rihanna is nude, and Chris Brown has her thong on his head. Follow the link below:

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http://trackleaker.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/rihanna-nude-photos-nsfw/

5 May 2009

Rethink Afghanistan (implications for the Caribbean and Latin America)

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http://rethinkafghanistan.com

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The Caribbean is not by any stretch of the imagination isolated from the rest of the world. It’s important for us to have our opinions on what takes place in even the most remote of locations. From a human rights perspective the distance is irrelevant, there are people and nations in need of resolve and that should be enough.

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In some ways it’s especially important for us to monitor US foreign policy, because we may one day be subjected to it. The USA still monitors the Caribbean and Latin America. Let us not forget that it was the USA who kidnapped and ousted President Aristide in 2004. Whether or not this was good for Haiti is not the issue, the issue is that back-door tactics are commonplace. Nor should we forget the decades long issue with Nicaragua and the US funding rebel groups. Jamaica knows full well what happens when politicians decide to arm various factions.

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Wake up.

30 April 2009

Worlds Strictest Parents – Jamaica Episode!

The Family

The Family

Worlds Strictest Parents – Jamaica Episode!

http://www.corny.org/video/771/Worlds-Strictest-Parents–Jamaica

(will play for persons outside the UK)

For some reason embedding isn’t working. The synopsis is that two troubled UK teens are sent to live with a Jamaican family for 10 days to learn some discipline … click the link to see how it all goes! (approx 20 minutes long)

21 April 2009

Take A Look In The Mirror

Although the boycott of Jamaica and Jamaican goods is old news by now, I feel compelled to share my views because this is just an example of a wider mentality that I despise.

Boycott Jamaica and feel allright

Boycott Jamaica and feel allright

In a nutshell, the organizers of the boycott and the government of Jamaica are exactly the same. They just happen to be polar opposites. They are exactly the same in the sense that they are both stubborn and have absolutely no respect for the views of the other side. Gay marriage was legal in California until Prop 8 was voted in last year which specifies marriage as between a man and a woman. The boycott organizers are doing the same thing that caused Prop8 in California to pass, which is make demands rather than realise that people are under no obligation to accept you or your views, and so the best bet is to propose compromise suggesting how everyone can live in peace.

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Bruce Golding and Ernie Smith are little different, but in this situation the boycott organizers have nothing to lose, everything to gain, and the Jamaican people are left holding the blade of the knife. It’s all fine and dandy for Brucy to cut his pay by 15% in a symbolic move to ‘trim the fat’, but 15% of $15 million still leaves him a rich man. Jamaica already has plenty of negative attention because of the crime rate, and the masses of lower class undesirable elements who somehow manage to get visas (I hear they cost JM$80k – 100k) and go overseas and act like bigger butus than ever before. Can we really afford to lose any money at all, even a single tourist, over something like this? Come now Brucy, surely you could have feigned interest in reaching a compromise with the boycott organizers.

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I have a particular problem with Golding’s apathy towards this. A Prime Minister should NEVER ignore a threat to the livelihood of the nation however small it is perceived to be. I am under no illusions that Golding would or should back down and champion a reform of the buggery laws, but I do at least expect him to try to reach some form of compromise and end the boycott. Perhaps he could have promised to set up a special task force for investigating “hate crimes” in return for ending the boycott.

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Moving on. The main purpose of this post is not to talk about that particular situation, but the general mentality and disease Jamaicans have called “duppy conqueror”. Popular Jamaican mentality is “I am Jamaican, I am always right, I am the badest thing alive, I am willing to risk getting acid up and stab up in a confrontation over my views because as aforementioned, I am the badest thing alive.” We see this mentality everyday on the streets, every time we open a news paper, and we see it in government mentality (e.g. how to handle the boycott situation) and I have to ask WHY? Why are we unable to recognize that others hold valid viewpoints, and that in the grand scheme of things if we fight, there is a possibility that we will be hurt and so we should seek democratic resolutions of issues? I’ve often heard people say something along the lines of “if you kill me I have so and so friends/family who come for you.” Now what good is that to you when you are dead? In the entire history of Jamaica did that ever stop anyone from killing the person in your shoes? In fact I did a post on this topic already, see: Whiny Bitch Disease for a real life example of my unfortunate conversation with a deluded girl.

Duppy

Duppy Conqueror

Jamaicans are fighting a losing battle against the times held back by our duppy conqueror disease. Jamaica needs to progress economically and the more is does, the better for all of us. There is no such thing as a truly unified nation, but all attempts at unity must fail unless there is compromise on key issues. In recent times in politics this novel idea has caught on to an extent between the PNP and JLP, but I don’t get the impression that it has been a conscious realization. Be corrupt and skim money off the top and award contracts to your friends if needs be, but at the end of the day please be so kind as to form a compromise as to how you will go about this, and actually complete the projects, laws and reforms proposed so that Jamaica can actually move forward. This is one thing we need to absorb from the USA. Sure there is corruption and conflict between each party, but they realise that the better the USA does the more money and power they will hold. Jamaican politicians are blinded by duppy conqueror disease. It forms a cataract over their eyes causes them to focus too much on the conflict for domination over the next party, neglecting the betterment of Jamaica which they don’t seem to realise would also increase their holdings. So once again I ask what will it take for Jamaicans to wake up? The diaspora in those lovely first world countries they hate to leave except to spend x-mas in Jamaica are a big part of the problem. They have the luxury of being all talk with no risk, because when Jamaica falls they will burn the Jamaican passport and only travel on the US/Canadian/UK one. It’s up to us who actually live here and have a vested interest to do something.

18 April 2009

Monkey Business

Average Jamaican

Notice the expression the monkey has is very similar to the expression commonly found on the faces of jamaican "leaders" - totally serious as if saying something important, but in reality is just wondering where the next banana will come from.

I am living in a nation of idiots. I’m sure there are many other places in the world I would feel surrounded by stupidity, but I live in Jamaica and so I can only speak about Jamaica in depth. Jamaicans want to act like first world people but don’t want to think like first world people. We are a nation of monkeys and parrots. We imitate rather than innovate. The issue which set off this rant is the age of consent. I came across this article from the Gleaner. It’s an old article from 2007, but that’s OK. The gist of it was that some persons in government want the age of consent raised to 18, and the article is hilighting the views of some students who also support the measure. I found the article to be not-so-eloquently worded and overwhelmingly biased horse shit. But why am I surprised, the writers at the Gleaner never produce balanced articles which show both sides of an issue. They are unwaveringly conservative and will always represent that view point and no other, and when it comes to politics … well that is best left alone for now.

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Anyway, these young adults and parliamentarians claim that at 16 children are not mentally capable of handling it. Now I can agree that many persons at 16 and even at 18 and 20 are rather immature. So like monkeys we run to pass laws without considering the effect of the laws, the necessity of the laws and the alternatives. A law does not prevent, it only punishes. If the average Jamaican 16 year old is not making the right decisions when it comes to sex, then we need to educate them about it. According to this, the average 16 year old has the cognitive mental ability to handle it, but only the average 26-30 year old has emotional maturity. I hope we aren’t proposing raising it to 26! Clearly we need to work with the cognitive ability, and hope they use what they know to make the right choices until emotional maturity kicks in. Therefore the problem is not their age, but lack of education. What we cannot do is criminalize their explorations because no matter how much we push abstinence only campaigns, they do not work. At all. In any country. We need to realise that when people hit puberty they have urges which we cannot bottle up and so we need to teach them how to handle various situations they may find themselves in. It was precisely this reasoning that led Peru to lower their age of consent from 16 to 14. The rational was that teens were getting pregnant but afraid to come to the clinics because they did not want their partners to be arrested for statutory rape. That my dear readers, is real innovation. A response and an attempt to solve the problem rather than cover it up. That is a first world mentality, and the government of Peru recognises it and called it “the progress and development of a modern society.” I wholeheartedly agree. [Also note the article on Peru demonstrates both sides of the equation.]

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Of course there is the issue of exploitation of minors, which is a very real concern. But that can be addressed even with a low age of consent. In the Philippines, the age of consent is 12, but it is illegal to have sex with anyone under 18 who is paid for it in cash or kind or is coerced. While I think 12 is a bit young, the point of the law is that it recognises that there are instances which are exploitation and instances which are not. That too is innovation rather than imitation.

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The issue with age of consent is just one example in a wider pattern of monkey business Jamaicans love to keep up. When I was leaving high school I heard the words ‘zero tolerance’ being thrown around. I don’t remember how it was being applied, but if it’s being applied as it is in the states then that too is an example of imitation rather than innovation. Zero tolerance policies expel problem students rather than reform problem students. In the short term you may have kept the peace at school, but you have also failed in one of your prime directives as an educator. You have made no difference in the lives of those children, and you have taught them nothing. In the long run, the problem with such students go unchecked and worsen until you have a psychopath on your hands.

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Does anyone ever bother to do research before implementing a program? Monkeys are running Jamaica and if you are offended by that statement you’re probably a monkey too.

2 April 2009

The New Alibi

If a man got arrested on suspicion of arson which took place between the hours of 10pm and 11pm, could he use his internet logs as defence? “Oh your honour there is no way I could have done this. Between those hours all 356 persons on messenger saw me online, I sent 6 messages on facebook, updated my twitter, added 3 youtube videos to my favourites and added a new photo to by hi5 page.”

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Are we spending too much time chatting over the net and not enough time face to face with those friends? Everyone has a computer at work, another one at home and a blackberry or some other smart phone. When do we ever plug out? Is the Matrix about to be a reality, where we give up our fleshy bodies and simply explore with our minds?

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This guy would certainly be happy with that.

Already in the matrix

Already in a sick and twisted matrix

31 March 2009

Daily Thoughts

Gang members are reportedly giving up their guns for training and gainful employment, thanks in part to an in-your-face Government initiative.

This is the first government plan to tackle crime that I can remember agreeing with. It actually seeks to solve the problem rather than bury all our liberties under a police state. Next step – clear out the ghettos and relocate some to the country. The higher the population density in an area the higher the chances of social pathology developing. The ghettos are not the result of town and country planning gone awry, so unfortunately we have no one blame, but we do need to fix it.

Girls’ glory – ‘Immaculate’ performance in math, English

As regards the CXC exams “Immaculate finished second in English (3,146) and math (2,642) to Campion College, which returned figures of 3,495 (English) and 3,534 (math).”

Why does Immaculate deserve to have a special article? Immaculate has a reputation for being one of the top schools, so their performance isn’t anything special. Campion took the top spot and so they deserve an article in their honour, or alternatively, if an underdog high school had made a remarkable improvement they too would deserve an article. But Immaculate is neither the best nor an underdog that has achieved something. Who pulled some strings and got this in the Gleaner?

What is almost five inches thick, 171/2 inches wide, weighs in excess of 80 pounds and takes more than 19 hours to make? Clifton Thompson’s giant sweet potato pudding, of course!

Sweet Potato Pudding

Sweet Potato Pudding

Now this news worthy!

7 March 2009

Self-preservation or status quo?

According to Head of Epidemiology and AIDS in the Ministry of Health, Dr Peter Figueroa, it’s time to remove the buggery laws in order to help promote safe sex and stem the spread of AIDS.

Dr. Figueora to the right, sporting a beard.

Dr. Figueroa to the right, sporting a beard.

“When we stigmatise men who have sex with men, it drives not only the epidemic underground, but it also moves men who have sex with men to disguise their sexuality,” explained Figueroa … As such, he said some men, in order to disguise their true lifestyles, take on a girlfriend and have sex with these women, who are unaware that they are really homosexuals. This acts as a bridge in terms of HIV transmission from the gay community, where rates of HIV are very high, into the general population and continues to feed the epidemic. Figueroa charged. Unprotected anal sex, he noted, was a very high-risk means for HIV transmission and although the epidemic is primarily heterosexual, there is a significant contribution through risky unprotected sex among men. He added that his call was purely from a public health standpoint and not on any moral grounds.”

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Now will Parliament heed this call? Obviously the first thing that people will say is that if the buggery laws were enforced you could prevent it. The only problem is that would be a pipe dream. There is no way to do that. So will Jamaica infect itself to spite homosexuals? I find the words of Dr. Figueroa to be quite true, and the same sentiments of gay men having to cover is reflected in the comments of these persons, on the Shebada Birthday Party pictures.

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Shebada & Milk

Shebada & Milk

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Posted by: Sunshine on February 20, 2009 02:45 PM

It’s nice to see that you guys are embracing gays and lesbians and actually putting them on your site…They are people too and I rather know than not know that someone is gay because you have a lot of down low brother sleeping with women and pretending that their straight because people won’t accept them for who they really are…

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Posted by: preps on February 20, 2009 08:41 PM

KHA KHA FART, i hate to say this but there are alot of undercover brothers in jamaica especially in the entertainment industry, they are involved with females but they really prefer males. Alot of them are dance hall entertainers, local actors,politicians,police ,dons AND DANCERS yea!! they need to come out of the closet like SHEBADA.Mi naw lie SHEBADA brave no Rass.

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Posted by: Nuh Worry on February 21, 2009 06:52 AM

You people fucken kill me!!!!!!!! Look how much batty man deh a Jamaica fram time. Uno act like uno never see batty man before. Like please. Get over it!!! Mi certain plenty a uno a do worst sin dan weh Shebadda a kip up! Jamaican people are the most hypocritical people me know. Uno if jus’ drop dead and dun since uno a gwan like it a kill yu. Oh and by the way, news flash, battyman a tek ovah di fukken island if you haven’t noticed!!! What’s the islands population?? LOLOLOL…now go drop dead cause uno soon dead anyway cah Aids a tek ovah di fukken island. Stop watch people and go clean out uno owna dutty closet!!!!! :o ) Do any of you even wear condoms? All uno ooman who a chat Shebadda, uno nuh know seh yu man a teif piece fram him behind uno back..and all you man who a fukk dem dutty dancehall bitches uno nuh kno seh dem gyal a fuck batty man???? The way I look at it everyone on the island of Jamaica has fucked each other, either directly or indirectly…

Have a blessed day…,mauh!!!

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Prior to seeing the scandalous pictures I had no idea who or what a Shebada was. Apparently he is the star of a popular play, Bashment Granny.

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So question of the day. Do we take the route of self-preservation, or that of continuing the status quo?

23 February 2009

Whiny Bitch Disease

I hate people that are ruled by their emotions. Time and time again I have to suffer the mental anguish of being exposed to persons suffering from “whiny bitch” disease. I believe the colloquial term for it is “bloodclaat ieediat”.The first symptom of whiny bitch is stubbornness and a refusal to listen to cold hard facts. This by itself however, is merely ‘tuff head’ syndrome, which is bad an nuh suh bad. You can tell someone is whiny bitch positive if they get overly aggressive and overly excited when you disagree with their opinion. In the latter stages of ‘whiny bitch’ disease, such persons will completely refuse to acknowledge cold hard facts, and go with their emotions, usually accompanied by name calling and personal attacks.

Whiny Bitch Disease

Whiny Bitch Disease

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I encountered two girls in the latter of stages of whiny bitch disease, who were of the opinion that “anybody weh a tek up fi chris brown need fi go play in traffic they are just as weak and pathetic as he is … anyman weh beat woman or even considers justifyng that its acceptable under any given circumstance is a big big big big big PUSSYHOLE!

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Now of course I responded by saying “what happen to innocent until proven guilty? we don’t know what caused the fight. I heard the fight was a mutual fight, so we don’t know who the aggressor was or what started it. neither party has released a statement of what took place, so the world world is just speculating. i heard she got beat cuz she gave him an std. Now if this is true, then as chris rock said “OJ, I’m not saying it was right, but i understand”. I see people commenting already saying its never OK to hit a woman. Well allow me to list a few circumstances where it is morally OK, even if it is not legal, and where any woman should expect to get her ass kick by any man, or woman for that matter if you swing that way.
-she cheated on you and gave you AIDS
-claim the child is yours and it’s someone else
-starts to hit you first … in which case hitting her back is a matter of self defense and is legal too

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… in this life men get beaten by women just as much as the other way around … *links for statistics which I posted relating to male victims of domestic violence* … This is the age of equality. A woman with a knife or pot or a gun can still do damage. We need to elevate ourselves past the level of thinking that it is mostly men who beat women, or that women are incapable of doing anything. “

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By the way, these are direct copy and paste from the conversation … she responds with …

blah blah blah blah any man weh a justify weh dutty chris brown do is a big big PUSSYHOLE mi dun talk study coulda show likkle more i dnt give dam! CHRIS BROWN is wrong all the way … CHRIS BROWN IS AN ASS FOR DOING DAT 2 RIHANNA, REGARDLESS OF WAT SHE DID!!! U ARE AN ASSSHOLE!! TAKE UR STUPID LINK N FUCK URSELF WITH IT.

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Being a calm and reasonable man, I exited from this conversation telling her that she should be careful about how she talks to people. As is expected from a person of her class, and one in the advanced stages of whiny bitch disease, the response naturally was along the lines of an invitation to try something if I’m so bad. This my dear readers, is the heights of being a bloodclaat ieediat. Being a pacifist, I would never dream of taking up her offer, but it’s just so sad that we still have people who feel the need to act like the baddest thing alive. With an attitude like hers, I foresee domestic abuse in her future as well.

The future for all Mrs. Whiny Bitch Positives

The future for all Mrs. Whiny Bitch Positive's

17 February 2009

Domestic Violence and Personal Responsibility

We are constantly bombarded of the voices and tales of women who suffer abuse. We are led to victimize our fellow man, and we have bought into the bullshit that women being the aggressors in domestic violence is rare. We have stood by and let the courts awarded custody more often than not to the mother, when she might be an evil bitch and the worst thing possible for the child. Yes, it happens even here in the Caribbean, and in Jamaica. This mindset is a direct evil of the second wave of feminism, the McKinnon era, where every man was a rapist waiting to spring, and women could no wrong.

Male Victims of Domestic Violence

I remember when I was little, my mother telling me about the neighbors, and how the husband would do the chores around the house, right down to washing his wifes panty, and when they had arguments she would beat him with a pot. I was warned from an early age not to put up with such shenanigans, but I understand that not everyone had the benefit of such childhood teachings, and also that the stigma of saying that your wife beats you would make a man afraid to ask for help.

Thankfully, the veil is being lifted. Statistics now show that men in their 20’s are more likely to be the VICTIMS of domestic violence than women in their 20’s. Thankfully, there are organizations dedicated to archiving equal rights for men and women, and not just catering to women. Thankfully, a new wave of feminism has come, where equal rights are being sought, where responsibility is places on women where deserved, and where scientific methods rather than “womans intuition” are used when making claims. (Yes, some older feminists bashed the scientific method as being “masculine” and wanted to use intuition to solve things. Which is why when you read papers from that time, small biased sample pools are taken, and the results generalized based on ‘intuition’ which led to incorrect conclusions.)

The second important part of this post, which speaks to the villanization of men, and victimization of women, is personal responsibility. In the Caribbean we don’t have the same mindset as the Americans that just because a woman is drunk, she is incapable of consenting to sex. However, there are many among us who would think otherwise. It always leads me to ask two questions. 1- So assuming the man was drinking as well, can he then claim rape against her? And if it’s mutual rape, is it rape? And 2- How can one tell when someone crosses the line between having a drink, and having too many drinks? There is a large gray area inbetween. Thankfully the Courts in the UK have more common sense than the Americans, and have upheld the rights of adults to make personal choices, and also of the impossibility of designing a scheme to determine how drunk a person was. There is also a clear double standard, since one cannot use being drunk as a defence to crashing your car into the light post, or getting behind the wheel of the car in the first place. Why should it be a defence regarding consent to sex? The obvious exception exists where a person is passed out in which case they literally could give no consent.

Personal Responsibility

Further in the realm of personal responsibility, are dress and actions. How you carry yourself and the things you do speak to the world around you. You do not live in a bubble. While you have the legal right to do as you please, you should use your common sense to know that regardless of whether or not you have a right to do something, it doesn’t meant you should do it. e.g. walking along a lonely road at night just because you feel like going for a walk. Most women can instantly see why that would be a problem, and would advise against it. Yet when that same logic is applied to wearing overly revealing clothing, or leading a man on, it suddenly doesn’t make any sense. You have sites like THIS ONE trying to say that women are never to blame for anything that happens to them. While I won’t blame you, it doesn’t invalidate the point that you were being stupid and inappropriate. Taking an idealistic stance won’t stop anyone from raping you, are you going to tell the rapist that it’s your right to walk through the back roads in lingerie, and that will stop anything? Are you going to tell the rapist that it’s your right to tease him, follow him to a room, then suddenly change your mind? While in both situations you have a right not to be violated, common sense dictates that rights can only be enforced after the fact, and will not protect you. The right to life never protected the 2000+ people that are killed in Jamaica every year. Yes the harsh reality of life is personal responsibility, and when it comes to personal responsibility, prevention if better than cure. If you took your precautions and something bad happens, then there can be no blame, and there can only be sympathy. But if you act like a duck, and quack like a duck, you must be an idiot.