Last night I was listening to Radio KOL because I was bored with my music collection and wanted something else. RKOL is actually pretty cool and they play a bunch of really good music. The reason I mention this is because song that I really enjoyed was from a band called "Ludo", it was called "Good Will Hunting By Myself" and is all about this guy whose girlfriend has left him and now he has to watch Matt Damon crying by himself. It's a really catchy song and the band sound great, I'm definitely going to see what I can do about getting some of their Music.
THE IRISH
While listening to RKOL one of the DJs (Rudebaber I think) played nothing but Irish music for an hour and a half. It was pretty cool. There was old stuff from like Foster and Allan, stuff from River Dance, the Theme from The Boondock Saints, Irish contemporary rock like The Cranberries and also some very cool Irish Indie music. What was really awesome was that no U2 was played at all, rock on!
While listening to all this music I noticed a few themes that Irish people like to sing about. They are Death, Poverty and Drinking, but drinking was by for the clear winner! I suppose you probably wouldn't notice it unless you actually listened to that much Irish music at once. Sometimes they were drinking because they were poor and sometimes they were drinking because someone had died but the point is they were drinking most of the time. Now I know what Miles O'Brien gets up to when not running the transporter room.
Then an unexpected thing happened. While listening one of the DJs mention a KOL name I recognised which reminded me of someone I really thought was a friend until one day I never ever saw him again. You know who you are and if by some odd chance you ever find yourself reading this then me, and a bunch of others, want to know WTF? Dude seriously we want to know. Some of you may point out that people have run into him by accident quite a couple of times, bullshit, that was a pod person/body snatcher.
IN THE NEWS
Well it's good to know that religious extremists never give up. No time limit has been given on the cartoonist that drew pictures of the Prophet Mohammed. But then what do you expect from a religion founded by a man who ordered someone put to death for insulting him (read the article). Maybe the cartoonists and Salman Rushdie should start a support group.
Speaking of totally fucking over-reacting to an insult, an opposition MP in Zimbabwe has been arrested and may fact jail time for insulting El Presidente Bob Mugabe. What was this heinous insult that has brought the full wrath of the police down upon this politician? He asked some soldiers "Why do you let Mugabe let you suffer?". One of the soldiers reported him to the police and Bob's your uncle, or totalitarian autocrat as the case may be.
I really don't understand what this story is doing in the paper. Must have been a slow news day.
In a new twist on MMORPGs now there's one that lets you be a good little socialist. This is no joke either, it's been built in China, probably with government funding, to apparently 'educate' youths about the liberation struggle martyr Lei Feng.
CAPE TOWN POLITICS
I don't have much to say on the issue, actually I've got plenty to say I'm just lacking in the energy to say it. The DA and it's partners (note there is no coalition) have won power in the Cape Town City Council. Pulling this off has shocked the ANC and the ID who thought they had the whole thing tied up. It was only the honour, convictions and loyalty to the voters of the much smaller parties that allowed the DA to win.
The ID seems to have sided with the ANC despite Patricia Delille's vehement denials of agreements with any of the other parties and statement to the effect that they would be voting for their own mayoral candidate Simon Grinrod. Delille herself actually recently told the Financial Mail she would "under no circumstances" support ANC's mayoral candidate Nomaindia Mfeketo for mayor. Afterwards she said that they supported the ANC because they felt closer on their poverty alleviation and anti-racism stand points. Anti-racism? Wasn't it the ANC deputy mayor who claimed that all coloured people were drunken layabouts with no self respect? I suppose that the ANC's actions around corruption and other illegal activities didn't come into the picture at all.
In short I fell the ID has made a grave mistake by siding with the ANC. People in the Cape voted for them as an opposition party and by abandoning them in favour of the ANC they will have lost all credibility. Patricia, if you need an example just look at the NNP and as Martinus Van Schkalkvyk what he thinks his job prospects are.
Ultimately none of this matters because when floor crossing comes around we all know what's going to happen.
INTENTIONAL?
KISS OFF
Well I promised you a granadilla juice story but you're just going to have to wait for it. Nyah, nyah.
schpat out
THE IRISH
While listening to RKOL one of the DJs (Rudebaber I think) played nothing but Irish music for an hour and a half. It was pretty cool. There was old stuff from like Foster and Allan, stuff from River Dance, the Theme from The Boondock Saints, Irish contemporary rock like The Cranberries and also some very cool Irish Indie music. What was really awesome was that no U2 was played at all, rock on!
While listening to all this music I noticed a few themes that Irish people like to sing about. They are Death, Poverty and Drinking, but drinking was by for the clear winner! I suppose you probably wouldn't notice it unless you actually listened to that much Irish music at once. Sometimes they were drinking because they were poor and sometimes they were drinking because someone had died but the point is they were drinking most of the time. Now I know what Miles O'Brien gets up to when not running the transporter room.
Then an unexpected thing happened. While listening one of the DJs mention a KOL name I recognised which reminded me of someone I really thought was a friend until one day I never ever saw him again. You know who you are and if by some odd chance you ever find yourself reading this then me, and a bunch of others, want to know WTF? Dude seriously we want to know. Some of you may point out that people have run into him by accident quite a couple of times, bullshit, that was a pod person/body snatcher.
IN THE NEWS
Well it's good to know that religious extremists never give up. No time limit has been given on the cartoonist that drew pictures of the Prophet Mohammed. But then what do you expect from a religion founded by a man who ordered someone put to death for insulting him (read the article). Maybe the cartoonists and Salman Rushdie should start a support group.
Speaking of totally fucking over-reacting to an insult, an opposition MP in Zimbabwe has been arrested and may fact jail time for insulting El Presidente Bob Mugabe. What was this heinous insult that has brought the full wrath of the police down upon this politician? He asked some soldiers "Why do you let Mugabe let you suffer?". One of the soldiers reported him to the police and Bob's your uncle, or totalitarian autocrat as the case may be.
I really don't understand what this story is doing in the paper. Must have been a slow news day.
In a new twist on MMORPGs now there's one that lets you be a good little socialist. This is no joke either, it's been built in China, probably with government funding, to apparently 'educate' youths about the liberation struggle martyr Lei Feng.
CAPE TOWN POLITICS
I don't have much to say on the issue, actually I've got plenty to say I'm just lacking in the energy to say it. The DA and it's partners (note there is no coalition) have won power in the Cape Town City Council. Pulling this off has shocked the ANC and the ID who thought they had the whole thing tied up. It was only the honour, convictions and loyalty to the voters of the much smaller parties that allowed the DA to win.
The ID seems to have sided with the ANC despite Patricia Delille's vehement denials of agreements with any of the other parties and statement to the effect that they would be voting for their own mayoral candidate Simon Grinrod. Delille herself actually recently told the Financial Mail she would "under no circumstances" support ANC's mayoral candidate Nomaindia Mfeketo for mayor. Afterwards she said that they supported the ANC because they felt closer on their poverty alleviation and anti-racism stand points. Anti-racism? Wasn't it the ANC deputy mayor who claimed that all coloured people were drunken layabouts with no self respect? I suppose that the ANC's actions around corruption and other illegal activities didn't come into the picture at all.
In short I fell the ID has made a grave mistake by siding with the ANC. People in the Cape voted for them as an opposition party and by abandoning them in favour of the ANC they will have lost all credibility. Patricia, if you need an example just look at the NNP and as Martinus Van Schkalkvyk what he thinks his job prospects are.
Ultimately none of this matters because when floor crossing comes around we all know what's going to happen.
INTENTIONAL?
KISS OFF
Well I promised you a granadilla juice story but you're just going to have to wait for it. Nyah, nyah.
schpat out
2 comments:
They don't need floor crossing Schpat. At any time the ANC feel like it, they can call for a no confidence vote in Zille.
And that 2 vote margin is unlikely to stand up against the fact that you have a non-binding partnership between every single party other than the ANC and ID. You know, because religiously based Christian and religiously based Muslim parties are so likely to get along.
The one thing you missed, is the people that threatened the ID with court action for reneging on their promises if they sided with the ANC.
That I'd like to see.
Rutabega was the DJ. And she's fantastic =) From Noblesse Oblige, Stu's old clan.
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