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There is no vision in political circles in Saint Lucia. Therefore, any reference to leadership in political circles is farcical because vision is part and parcel of leadership. We have something else. But please, do not call it leadership.
Turning to the 3Rs, that kind of thinking is a bit dated. It is not what today will bring about the necessary change in human capital development that will redound on the population with INCREASING prosperity. Therefore, in terms of the economists say, they are 'necessary but insufficient'.
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Josie/Horsey:
Redesign our Education to fit the future?? Josie I am aware that you and your "roll" model Gale consumed too much intoxicants this past week, so I imagine that the effects of the Bounty has left you deranged. We are aware of your deep involvement in the arts of Occultism and your ability to invoke the dead; your recent conversation with our deceased brother Odlum was a testimonial to your Black Magical practices.
I must express my disappointment in your open display of selfishness, by keeping us totally in the dark about the future events of the next Century. As I read this disconcerted article I was forced to ask myself, since when it has become disadvantageous to know the names of various types of diseases? Or to know the Sun's distance from Earth is 93,000,000 miles? If you believe that knowledge is the problem, and ignorance the solution to the Future, it makes sense the reason you pen such stupidity with this much consistency.
Then you pitch an Off-break, encouraging Reading, and I ask you if not reading to acquire scientific knowledge of medical terms, you must have reading the Bible in mind. So read this for entertainment from your Bible:
New International Version (NIV)
Two Adulterous Sisters
23 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother. 3 They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed. 4 The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
5 “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors 6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen. 7 She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after. 8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.
9 “Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted. 10 They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her.
11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister. 12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.
13 I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.
14 “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans[a] portrayed in red,
15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.[b]
16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.
18 When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.
19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.[c]
This alienated SOM is always drunk on something. Having a one-track mind is not a sign of learning or erudition, except for the low-information processing capabilities inherent in our local populations of idiots and retards. A jackass by any other name is a jackass.
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Unlike the Mis-educated Negro who is doomed to the worship of a Naked dead Caucasian as his God, I don't call myself by a Slave-name – think Muhammad Ali - I have acquired the knowledge of self, Language, and History of the Original people of our Planet, the African. Without this knowledge, my college degree from an accredited American University would make me nothing other than a mis-educated slave like Josie – one has to only observe the examples of the colonial Caucasians he cites as his heroes of the Slave Master's language. Here is a Negro whose knowledge is limited to the language of Slavery – I read and write the Language of the the Great Africans; ARABIC. Many of you think that learning another language of slavery will make you French, like Haitians.
To understand what I have just told you I recommend you view this Video of your Own Rich Legacy:
8 Centuries of Muslims in America (Part 1) - Documentary Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJO37p4ALhs#t=399
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Who is so idle and so retarded to have time to watch unadulterated crap? This is what appeals to your primitive existence?
One wonders why the blog administrator allows this proselytizing Moslem to corrupt every discussion with overt hate-filled anti-Catholic, anti-women and racist anti-white rants?
This is a very odd recurring pattern. Whilst for others, who make similar sorts of statements, their comments are promptly deleted.
Gail Rigbot @ 10:31
FROM OUR OWN St. Lucian, Dr. Dalphinis at Sir Arthur Community College, LEARN YOUR HISTORY “TO FIT THE FUTURE” IN THIS VIDEO BELOW. IGNORANCE OF YOUR HISTORY IS YOUR PROBLEM.
Advancements in DNA research have shed light on the multifaceted makeup and origins of today's African Americans. In fact, most of today's African-American/Caribbean population can trace their ancestry back to one of just 46 ethnic groups. Three large regions of Atlantic Africa were the major contributors to the slave trade: Upper Guinea, including the modern countries of Senegal, Mali, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia; Lower Guinea, including the southern portions of eastern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria; and West Central Africa, which encompassed mostly the western portions of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hap8t6s1f7k
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SOM I owe you for this EDUCATION about my St. Lucian history, thanks so much, and God bless.
You will need a wheelbarrow of that kind of education to exchange that for a paying job. Good luck. The job market is hiring replete with 100s of openings for those with the 3Rs and African history.
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11:29
You should remain in the your state of ignorance, where you enjoy the bliss of its fruits. Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but now you venture to prescribing pills to the employees of this Award-winning newspaper I can now accuse you of terrorism.
Your malignancy is known to anyone who has had to endure the profanity and acrid odour exhuming from your soul, while the hatred you display to the African-American/Caribbean legacy and your calumny against the billions of Muslims, Caucasians, Indians, Chinese, Africans, etc. has given you the foul identity of Lucifer. You contribute nothing other than foul language to this blog - NOTHING, EXCEPT BAD ODOUR!
Do you have to broadcast your vagrancy by indulging in backbiting, obscene profanity, and deceit? You critter lowlife! Can you cease calling your brother, your sister, your mother, your daughter and grand mother Primate and Bitch??
How does my condemnation of worshipping a Naked Caucasian as God make me Anti-Catholic or anti-white? It is that Religion of the Slave-Master given to my ancestors in captivity, that teaches God is a white-male, God's mother is Caucasian, and God's father-god is Caucasian and you must drink his blood making you a demented cannibal.
GET OFF YOUR KNEES AND STOP BEGGING THE WHITE MAN FOR CRUMBS, LAZARUS! CREATE YOUR OWN JOBS! STOP MAKING "BOM" WITH TAIWAN.
JUST LOOK AT YOU DRINKING BLOOD WITH THE CAUCASIAN IN THE BACK LOOKING AT YOU IN TOTAL DISGUST:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=668252259913123&set=a.269581839780169.63030.269474423124244&type=1&theater
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Anonymous said...
One wonders why the blog administrator allows this proselytizing Moslem to corrupt every discussion with overt hate-filled anti-Catholic, anti-women and racist anti-white rants?
This is a very odd recurring pattern. Whilst for others, who make similar sorts of statements, their comments are promptly deleted.
July 27, 2014 at 11:29 AM
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Nuff said.
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Muslims around the world celebrated with prayer and food during the Eid al-Fitr festival on Monday, marking the end of Ramadan 2014, the Islamic holy month of fasting. The annual holiday, which lasts for three days, marks the anniversary of the Quran being revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.
There was some confusion this year as to when Eid would be celebrated, The Guardian reported, but both the Saudi Press Agency and the Fiqh Council of North America declared Monday, July 28, as the end of Ramadan.
The three-day festival, sometimes abbreviated as “Eid” or “Eid Mubarak,” marks the end of the monthlong daytime fasting during Ramadan, which began on June 28 this year. Eid al Fitr begins after the new crescent moon appears and falls on the first day of Shawwal, the tenth month in the Islamic lunar calendar, when Muslims celebrate unity. During Eid, many join in Islamic prayer, known as salat while saying "Allahu Akbar," or "God is Great," and feasting.
Ramadan is an annual celebration held during the ninth month of the 12-month Islamic calendar, starting after the sighting of the new moon. The holy month began this year on June 28 at sunset, or “rukyah,” when the moon was spotted. The celebration lasts for 29 or 30 days until the next new moon appears, which happened on Monday. The month of fasting is celebrated by more than 1.5 billion Muslims around the world, including in the U.S., where there are nearly 2.6 million Muslims, according to the Pew Research Center.
The purpose of Ramadan is to focus on spirituality, prayer and withholding any acts of violence during the fast. Many Muslims around the world are expected to participate -- with the exception of the elderly, sick and pregnant -- and wish each other "Ramadan Kareem" or "Ramadan Mubarak."
For the end of Ramadan, Muslims celebrate Ed al-Fitr, Arabic for “breaking the fast.” Muslim families will exchange gives, sit down for meals and pray together for three days.
Traditional greetings during Eid al-Fitr are “Eid Mubarak,” which means "Blessed Eid," and “Eid Said,” meaning "Happy Eid." Muslims also donate food, called “Zakat al-Fitr” or “charity of breaking the fast,” so that the poor can also celebrate the holiday.
During Ramadan, Muslims are expected to refrain from food and drink and abstain from smoking and sex from dawn to dusk as one of the five pillars of Islam. The breaking of the fast, or iftaar, begins at dusk by eating dates. Some Muslims have slightly different variations and have broader definitions of practices during Ramadan.
So what?
Since when one of the three Rs stood for "religion", or what passes for it?
Religion: "The opium of the masses."
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Free parking on all sides of all streets except metr spots in NYC. ALL DAY Today
Christians & Jews love it
Just a non spiritual reality about one of the biggest activities of daily life here in this metro .
True democratic maturity and responsible citizenship requires us to allow religious freedom and expression. The inroads made by SDA, Baptists, Kingdom Hall, Pentecostals, etc. among St.Lucia in the wake of Catholic dominance of society including partnership role in running public schools; came about because of freedom to ask questions and listen to what others had to say OBJECTIVELY.
The Socratic Method of asking questions is a a hallmark of democratic thought and practice.
I know christians who assert" I just love the Catholics for their High Mass. It is like a royal coronation BUT I prefer to let loose at a sing out and praise, pentecostal revival.
We, inherited a "children are to be seen and not heard " from our colonial past that fuels our communication dysfunction. Like the Warden said to Paul Newman's character in "Cool Hand Luke" (What we have here is a Failure to Communicate).
There is a major difference between hearing and active LISTENING.
Finally, children ought to know about the many types of ear infections and their connections to nose throat ailments. Live in the tropics require said knowledge earlier the better. Think of the tropics as a sunny delight of light speed vectors and breeding opportunities. Its their play world too.
12:01
A religious holiday in NY for the Muslims? what a great country. USA USA USA USA
SOM WOULD LOVE NY.
Thomas Jefferson.
It’s almost impossible to define Jefferson’s subtle religious views in a few words. As he once put it, “I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.” But one thing is clear: His skepticism of traditional Christianity is well established. Our third president did not believe in the Trinity, the virgin birth, the divinity of Jesus, the resurrection, original sin and other core Christian doctrines. He was hostile to many conservative Christian clerics, whom he believed had perverted the teachings of that faith.
Jefferson once famously observed to Adams, “And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”
Although not an orthodox Christian, Jefferson admired Jesus as a moral teacher. In one of his most unusual acts, Jefferson edited the New Testament, cutting away the stories of miracles and divinity and leaving behind a very human Jesus, whose teachings Jefferson found “sublime.” This “Jefferson Bible” is a remarkable document – and it would ensure his political defeat today. (Imagine the TV commercials the Religious Right would run: Thomas Jefferson hates Jesus! He mutilates Bibles!)
Jefferson was confident that a coolly rational form of religion would take root in the fertile intellectual soil of America. He once predicted that just about everyone would become Unitarian. (Despite his many talents, the man was no prophet.)
Jefferson took political stands that would infuriate today’s Religious Right and ensure that they would work to defeat him. He refused to issue proclamations calling for days of prayer and fasting, saying that such religious duties were no part of the chief executive’s job. His assertion that the First Amendment erects a “wall of separation between church and state” still rankles the Religious Right today.
Jefferson's influence shows up where it is needed the most as this vignette attests:
Just prior to the ultra mega development of downtown Brooklyn and its immediate environs, the gentrification of the residential sections on its periphery was on at the changeover rate of an avalanche.
My nephew's elementary public school was now composed of approximately 50% African American and Hispanic ; 20% Caucasian and 30% Chinese/Arabic/ Pacific Islanders.
The Head Mistress run her school run this above average professional school like the Citadel. All traditional holidays were stripped of ALL religious and commercial motifs. They were replaced by literary exercises in the form of Book Club readings and poetry contests all themed around nature and its seasonal setting.
I recall an invitation to attend a Winterfest Celebration of skits, songs, readings and choral ensembles. This production replaced the traditional Christmas assembly program.
I was touched by a fifth graders poem "What would I Be doing Now". She used climate, surf sand, recreational activities to compare her native Indonesia to Winter in NYC. The semantics of her stanzas were expertly constructed
- it was her voice and its lyrical cadence that was a near tear jerker. That one exercise made me reflect on the culture shock syndrome that many newly arrived Caribbean youngsters may experience and its melancholic impact on initial school performance in colder if not harsher latitudes.
I was amazed . I questioned my nephew's teacher. The gist of her response was that they aimed to make all children , regardless of religion comfortable enough to participate fully- so much so that even an atheist from Mars could not find any violation of his / her rights.
You know what's amazing 1:44, it's the international perspective people like you bring to this forum. that's the beauty of this publication, which the rags totally lack.
@ July 28, 2014 at 8:58 AM, frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
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