Gentle folks.... I've decided to move to wordpress. Blogger not offering me enough templates and I am once again haunted and want to change it. Because they introduced widgets, I lose too much when I use an outside template. Don't have the time to wade through the code, so the easiest thing is to move over to a provider who will give me choices. Don't plan to close this blog but want to see my blog in better/ different colours.
So I'll be at http://bashmentbasses.wordpress.com/ . I am importing my posts and comments there as well.
Talk about carrying around baggage!
Later.
I regret not following up my blog as I used to in previous years. Everyday I see something else I can blog about, some mundane, some topical... all with something I can learn from. But alas I have not been sharing in this medium. I avoid lumping them and presenting bites because that's Bass chocolate's MO. But none-the-less I just gonna speak extemporaneously.
HIJACKING
Let it not be said that I agree with any politician but.... if you have things in place to deal with what you are accustomed to dealing with, and a breech occurs outside of the culture.. I suspect you will be caught with your pants down too. Everyone was in shock when they awoke to the news. The first thing I thought was that the hijacker came down in the plane, not that he boarded in Ja!! Dat don't mek no sense to me. All now it don't mek sense. Him coulda deh pon crack or have schizophrenia.. it is not a Jamaican tactic!! My fear now is dat some idlers thinking to demself ... "hey, yu know seh mi neva ting bout dat! Come mek wi Ijack one plane to farrin!"
STRIKE
My fellow doctors decided that the best way to deal with the current economic impasse with the government is to go on strike. Here's the problem. If a patient dies on my watch because I was on-strike, then I am criminally responsible. I may be able to get a lawyer to get me off on some technicality and suffer no real fall-out from something like that..... but I have a conscience that won't allow that. I think it is not the best option at this time. Yes we need to put pressure on the government to devise and execute transparent methods of collecting outstanding taxes. As it is if they should manage to that, they would have made up their shortfall. Instead they want to impose new taxes while freezing wages, allow a continuation of free market forces to worsen inflation, risk civic unrest, threaten the citizens with police retaliation if they want to protest, etc...
But we cannot in good conscience expect increases in wages at this time, given the country's economic difficulties. I see first hand how health care suffers when patients can't afford medications because they have to choose between caring for children and buying meds. That's unacceptable! Until I went to the pharmacy to fill a prescription for my grandmother. $8000 for pain killers and pressure meds!!! How di backside pl gonna keep up?!
CHARITY
We need to become our brother's keeper. It's the only way we will survive. Nuff said!
BARAK
The man has been given a basket to carry water through hell! He inherited a messed up economy. If he manages to guide them through this, the powers that be will say they chose wisely. If he falls on his face, they will say that a black man wasn't ready. I wish him well and hope he makes it. More people depend on his success than he realizes. Lets see the reports on his first 100 days.
TALIBAN
We throw the title around, and many claim it when they are charlatans. The truth is that the talibans' biggest weapon is fear, thanx to the International Media. No one can keep watch effectively forever.
Selah!!
Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2008 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2008 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2008 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2008 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2008 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2008 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario 4:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.
2008 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.
Scenario 5:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirins to school.
1957 - Mark shares his aspirins with the Principal out on the smoking dock.
2008 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario 6:
Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
2008 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario 7:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2008- ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2008- ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario 8:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2008 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2008 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
With all the shiitz coming out of Jamaicans mouths, not withstanding that from their rectums, I would never have thought that we needed to bring in more foreign crap to expose our people to. American export products are and have always been inferior to what is available to their domestic market. The opposite holds for Jamaican products. We send the best away and leave the rest for our domestic market.
So why is it that we are importing American shiitz instead of using our own? Perhaps because we still think that all that comes from foreign is good and local is bad. That stinks to me. Human excrement is terrible!! Humans only look good on the outside. Inside we are disgusting in comparison to our herbivore counterparts from whom we usually obtain our fertilizer. A dog bite is cleaner than a human bite!!! Patients with bed sores exposed to their own excrement usually end up dying of overwhelming sepsis due to the massive volume of germs living in our stool!!
Why not process Jamaican excrement then since we are now willing to take the chance on human don't-don't! I suppose they'll say it's cheaper to buy American excrement than to process our own. I'm not reassured that its been tested to American/International faecal standards. I don't care to be exposed to it knowingly (cause for all we know its been happening for years subterfugally)!
They can keep that sh*t!!!
SELAH!!!
P.S. The farmers informed that the regulatory body that certifies their products, doesn't like the human faeces fertilizer so they may lose their international certification for their products if it fails their test!! So much for not doing anything to hurt the Jamaican people.
Is your company like this?
CORPORATE STRUCTURE
DEFINED AND ANALYZED
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD:
Leaps tall building in a single bound
Is more powerful than a locomotive
Is faster than a speeding bullet
Walks on water
Discusses policy with God
PRESIDENT:
Leaps short buildings in a single bound
Is more powerful than a switch engine
Is just as fast as a speeding bullet
Walks on water if the sea is calm
Talks with God
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT:
Leaps short buildings with a running start and favorable winds.
Is almost as powerful as a switch engine
Is faster than a speeding BB.
Walks on water in an indoor swimming pool
Talks with God if special request is approved
VICE PRESIDENT:
Barely clears a Quonset hut
Loses tug-of-war with a locomotive
Can fire a speeding bullet
Swims well
Is occasionally addressed by God
GENERAL MANAGER:
Makes high marks on the wall when trying to leap buildings
Is run over by locomotive
Can sometimes handle a gun without inflicting self-injury
Dog paddles
Talks to animals
MANAGER:
Runs into buildings
Recognizes locomotive two out of three times
Is not issued ammunition
Can't stay afloat with a life preserver
Talks to walls
TRAINEE:
Falls over doorsteps when trying to enter building
Says "look at the choo-choo"
Wets him/herself with a water pistol
Plays in mud puddles
Mumbles to him/herself
SECRETARY:
Lifts buildings and walks under them
Kicks locomotives off the tracks
Catches speeding bullets in his/her teeth
Freezes water with a single glance
Is God
A woman and a man are involved in a car accident on a snowy, cold Monday morning; it's a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished, but amazingly neither of them is hurt. God works in mysterious ways.
After they crawl out of their cars, the man is yelling about women drivers. The woman says, 'So, you're a man. That's interesting. I'm a woman. Wow, just look at our cars! There's nothing left, but we're unhurt. This must be a sign from God that we should be friends and live in peace for the rest of our days.'
Flattered, the man replies, 'Oh yes, I agree completely, this must be a sign from God! But you're still at fault... women shouldn't be allowed to drive.'
The woman continues, 'And look at this, here's another miracle. My car is completely demolished but this bottle of wine didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this wine and celebrate our good fortune.'
She hands the bottle to the man. The man nods his head in agreement, opens it and drinks half the bottle and then hands it back to the woman.
The woman takes the bottle, puts the cap back on and hands it back to the man.
The man asks, 'Aren't you having any?'
The woman replies, 'No. I think I'll just wait for the police...'
Women are clever and evil ... Don't mess with them.