Tsunami causes Emotional Meltdown

Accidents happen, they always have and they always will.

The trick that any right thinking person learns during the formative years is to use those accidents and see where you went wrong and ensure that you don't do what you did before. You learn from your mistakes in other words - the end result is that you are able to walk, run, talk and not bumble around making random noises while falling on your face.

With the unfolding events after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the possibility of a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, the tree-huggers are having an emotional meltdown as well.

Earthlife Africa is 'horrified' and immediately compares this disaster to Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Paks.

Courtesy of Wikipedia we can safely say that they do not bear any relation to each other. Chernobyl in 1986 was caused by inadequate training combined with human error and an unsafe design which was recognised as being out of date at the time it was built. The Three Mile Island partial meltdown in 1979 was also caused by flawed design and human error, with minor effects on the surrounding area and it was mostly contained.

The two incidents at Paks in Hungary does not have any reported effects on the operators or the surrounding towns, and it is still operating as we speak, a non event it seems. We seem to have learned a few things since 1979 and the mistakes of yesterday may just be making a difference today.

What happened in Japan then, was not caused by human error or a flawed design, but the same mother nature that the tree-huggers are so in love with, fucking with us.

The design withstood the type of disaster that it was designed for, the tsunami caused additional problems which we are sure will be taken into account when building future power plants.

If we stopped designing or building or inventing each time that something bad happened which was not foreseen, there would have been very little advancement in the history of mankind.

Imagine the inventor of the internal combustion engine being 'horrified' when the first car accident happened and everyone stopped designing? We would still be traveling at 4 miles an hour with a person walking in front of the car waving a red flag to warn people.

Because of an accident we cannot say that we should not be investigating and pushing the boundaries, if we knew exactly what we were doing, would we be doing it at all?

Christiaan Barnard took huge risks when he did the first heart transplant, a procedure that is almost routine today, but he unfortunately caused the death of his test subjects before he tried the first human.

Should we not take any risks at all? Should we not push the boundaries of knowledge and science because of risks involved?

If we are too afraid of adverse results and end up doing nothing, the result would be no advancement in knowledge or humanity, and we may as well return to living in caves and eating fruit, because inventing the first flint knife may have unforeseen results.

Don't shoot the Boner

Rather give him a bitch slap and tell him to wake up, or at least have his coffee a bit earlier in the day before acting rashly.

Throwing tickets in a river does not accomplish anything and is very far from constructive debate and not much of a protest either. That is of course if you did do the same and the supposed 'river' wasn't actually your loo.

We would suggest next time that the press gets called so that at least the act can be captured on film and a relevant sound bite added so that you are not misquoted or taken out of context, as happened in this case.

The article in question and the interview with Bono actually reads:

"I was a kid and I'd sing songs I remember my uncles singing . . . rebel songs about the early days of the Irish Republican Army," he said, proceeding to sing a song whose lyrics spoke of carrying guns and readying them for action.
"We sang this and it's fair to say it's folk music . . . as this was the struggle of some people that sang it over some time," he told the newspaper.
But the rocker went on to say such songs shouldn't be sung in the wrong context.
"Would you want to sing that in a certain community? It's pretty dumb," he said.
"It's about where and when you sing those songs. There's a rule for that kind of music."

So that brings us once again to the context question. We fully support the banning of the Shoot the Boer song, from public gatherings and public forms and spaces. Purely from a practical viewpoint as well as a reasonable compromise.

As much as we don't see a place for it in post-Apartheid South Africa, it will not be possible to police in any way otherwise. Public gatherings and places are accessible to all and therefore there will be a certain deterrent, but you cannot control what is being said behind private doors.

Allowing songs such as these in a private space is not much worse than what is already being discussed over the fire at any AWB or Boeremag gathering. It cannot be denied that there are certain things that you will discuss and talk about with your friends, you also use certain terms that you would not repeat to your colleagues, boss or parents.

It is only the definition of what is private versus public space which can be debated in this case, which is pretty obvious and with very little leeway for interpretation.

Then the Boners who think that their grand act of throwing little pieces of paper into water will also be silenced so that we do not have to hear them whine, and then apologise for misunderstanding.

14th of Feb

In the year of our lord two hundred and forty nine,
One poor martyr, with the name Valentine;
Was made to suffer and tortured till dead,
Now we celebrate love and going to bed.

The dungeon master was so very cruel,
He lashed him with whips and nails, not cool.
Now we go forth and buy undies with feather,
And all sorts of toys, and garments of leather.

What once was a dream, nay a true fact,
That he’d rather die, than sign the devil’s pact;
Is now a big farce of chocolates and roses,
Of lovers and admirers, statements and poses.

Do you not think it would truly vex,
St Valentine to find, we celebrate sex.

Night of the Long Bullshit

With Madiba in hospital and the world press waiting to see what happens next, we are sure that the same old crap has been going around on email again.


We also reckon that the guys at Stormfront are having a field day, if it wasn't that they were out shopping for candles and canned food.

But to get back to the title of this post, The Night of the Long Knives, or operation Hummingbird as it is also known, already took place under Nazi rule in Germany in the 1930's, so even the name is a rehash. If you prefer the other term, Uhuru, it is either a reggae band from Jamaica or the Swahili word for freedom.

You must have received the email at least once, telling the story about how the Swart Gevaar! are waiting for Madiba to pass away before rising up and slaughtering all the white people, woman and children included.

But what about other race groups and foreigners? If you skim the news there has been more violence against people from other African countries than other Race Groups, no matter what the Freedom Front (there's that word again) wants you to believe about farm murders. Will there be special attention or special dispensation? What if you don't want to join, do you also get murdered then and another embassy have to get involved?

Now, have you seen your gardener, domestic or factory worker skulking around with a panga or AK47 today? Just watch out tomorrow, and the next, and the next and so on, until Madiba gets out of hospital.

Because the moment he does not and gets driven away in a hearse, the Swart Gevaar! will come. (Unless they have to quickly pop home to go and fetch the panga because it started getting ridiculous carrying it around. And they will probably ask you for extra taxi fare as there is no way that any taxi driver will allow free rides, no matter the purpose.)

Pathetic as it may sound, some people believe it, but let's consider for a bit.

At this point Mandela is a trending topic on Twitter, the CNN regularly switches over to Milpark hospital, Google is awash and the whole world is watching. Then if he should pass away, we will have a state funeral with more coverage than when Princess Diana died.

With that kind of exposure, what will be the result if the Swart Gevaar! does rise up and kill all the white people?

Foreign Investment will go down the drain, who will want to invest when your CEO gets killed when he sets foot at the office? The JSE will crash bigger than 1929 as all of a sudden in one day or week there are no more leaders in the big international listed companies.

The Rand is also the most actively traded emerging market currency in the world, what would happen if it were to drop to R50 or R100 to the dollar?

Sure, the events in Rwanda can be taken as an example, but the death toll is estimated at 800 000 over a period of three months and it did not happen at a time when the whole world was watching, neither did they have a World Cup in the last year with an estimated 860 000 tourist entering the country every month. The figures speak for themselves, and then the white race in South Africa are around 4.6 Million.

So do you really think that the logistics are possible with a government that can't even fix potholes but have to rely on an insurance company to do so? When the Major of Johannesburg tells everyone that there is no billing crisis when 8% of all invoices sent are queried? When it takes months before a real crisis with acid mine drainage that threatens a World Heritage Site is still awaiting the final report?

And then we have one last question: Why kill and murder off your tax paying residents that ensures your Breitling watch gets you to the exclusive Sandton restaurant on time in your luxury car to feast on Cristal and oysters at their expense?

Isn't it so much easier to just fleece them every month and raise the petrol price and other taxes every so often?

Playing with Numbers

More blacks live in homes which are fully paid for than any other race group, the SA Institute of Race Relations said on Monday. (Now before the Ghost of Terblanche gets all in a knot and Pieter Mulder calls up Mr. Constand, read on a bit.)

The study conducted by the SAIRR found some 60 percent of black households in the country had fully paid-up the homes in which they lived in 2009, compared to 46 percent for other race groups. (Can we be more specific here? 46% average across or for all other Race groups?)

The institute said the higher home ownership figures for blacks could be explained by the transfer of government-subsidised houses. (Thus only fully paid for in theory...)

In the country's two most affluent provinces, Gauteng and the Western Cape, 34 and 42 percent of households respectively had fully paid off their homes.

The less wealthy Eastern Cape and Limpopo had higher home ownership figures, with 71 percent of households in both provinces having paid off their homes.

"The total number of households that owned and had fully paid off their homes, out of a total of 13.8 million South African households, was just over 56 percent. Out of the total fully paid homes, male-headed households made up 56 percent and female 44 percent." Seventy percent of all households headed by women had fully paid off their homes, while only half the households headed by men had fully paid up theirs. - Sapa

If you are fully confused about the numbers now, allow us to make it worse.

The author states in the first sentence that "more blacks...than any other race group" but the rest of the figures do not reflect this except for the blanket statement of 46%.

The next question we have then is the breakdown of the 46% and how it is made up. Can we not use the standard of 'per 100 000'? Then you can really compare, as it will be shack with shacks.

And speaking of which, what counts as a home? Does the 60% include shacks and are they thus fully paid up? We can only hope not.

With around 50 million people in SA of which 79.4% are black, that gives us 10.96 million black households with 1 732 604 still living in shacks according to the same SAIRR.

Now the 2001 census data reflects the following:

The percentage of Black African households that have a flush or chemical toilet is 41.9%. Refuse is removed from 45.3% of Black African households by the municipality at least once a week, and 11.0% have no rubbish disposal. Some 17.9% of Black Africans have running water inside their dwelling, 51.7% have running water on their property, and 80.2% have access to running water. The percentage of Black African households using electricity for cooking is 39.3%, for heating, 37.2%, and for lighting, 62.0%. - wikipedia

60% have houses that are paid, but not all of them have a flush toilet, refuse removal, nor running water or electricity. So what is actually the good news?

Very pretty piece of writing, but it does not address all the issues.

Just a quick gloss over some facts that attempt to make the government look good and ourselves content, but without proper in-depth analysis of anything else that is important.

We can move into a tent and thus count as a household with a fully paid home, but would that really be acceptable?

Gold to go?

ATM bombing threats and fraud are not likely to hinder the first GOLD TO GO ATM opening up in SA, with German developer Thomas Geissler saying on Tuesday that the first one in SA should open at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront this year.

Without elaborating on the security technology underpinning the concept, Geissler, from Geissler C-B-T, says: “Our security concept is very well done, so we are pretty sure that GOLD To GO will come this year to the Waterfront in Cape Town.” - iol

Huh?

We like the idea of going to a vending machine basically and walking away with a bit of the yellow stuff, but really?

Whether they will get bombed to hell or if the crooks will wait around and rob people afterwards we will have to wait and see.

Can you imagine though that you could go to the V&A for an evening out and stopping for a quick cup of coffee, some muffins and bit o gold?

Somewhere between freaky and cool.

A Virtual Fuckfest

Consider the irony...You decide to finally join Facebook because you feel left out. Then you suddenly get all these new friends, some of them from school.

The next step is to look up the hot girl from math class that you never stood a chance with, maybe she is married or divorced, else still single and you are in luck. You friend her and then you don't know what to do anymore, exhausted all your options, you play around with messages and wall posts until you get bored.

Until one day you get the light bulb idea, let's Poke her!

Seriously, now you have entered the territory of virtual sex without having to mess around in chat rooms and looking for Hottie18 or Stan24.

With over 600 million users, if only a quarter of them Pokes one person per day, that is still 150 million Pokes a day.

According to the Penguin Atlas of Human Sexual Behaviour, there are only 120 million instances per day of people doing it for real.

So definitely more cyber Poking going on then, but it does not stop there.

To help you along, they even offer a Poke fan page and there is an offical Poke Day...

So get in there and become a fan of Poke! Or you can even Poke yourself.

Just so long as it does not get any worse.