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Thought Picnic: The Americe First Principle in Fort Hood
Saturday, 7 November 2009 10:21 P GMT+01
The trigger for the killings at Fort Hood was pulled long before the guns went off, can the family of the US Army be a family of siblings that feel equal and respected no matter their diversity?
A relocation from the cacophony
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 9:59 P GMT+01
From noise to more amenable people, the results confirm what would be an aggressive course of treatment, it is Day 9 at the hospital.
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Nigeria: Why Candidates Fail Our Examinations - WAEC
Saturday, 18 April 2009 10:41 A GMT+01
WAEC lists why candidates fail their examinations, I think they are unto something very true.
Thought Picnic: Our Truth
Friday, 2 January 2009 6:43 P GMT+01
The happenings in Gaza with the media grab by both Israel and Gaza is summed up in one sentence by the Israelis - We are showing the world our truth.
Is anyone entitled to their own truth - this is the first of my Thought Picnics.
Nigeria: Ribadu and kids get bundled out of NIPSS graduation
Sunday, 23 November 2008 10:33 A GMT+01
The erstwhile EFCC chairman gets bundled out of the NIPSS graduation cermony after the government fails by all other means to stop his graduation. His wife, 6 children and his guests all get pulled out of the event too.
Nigeria: Another two oil cremations
Sunday, 13 January 2008 12:57 P GMT+01
News of Nigerians caught in the flames of oil burning amongst them hits the wires - two days in a row.
News: Chasing the thrill
Thursday, 2 August 2007 8:07 P GMT+01
Are these news chases really about getting us the news?
A class struggle disguised as news
Monday, 4 June 2007 1:30 A GMT+01
Class still counts for much in England even though it is not made too obvious to notice. The Daily Telegraph dabbles in these murky waters for an ulterior motive and one is not impressed.
The Cult of the Burnt Fornicator II - Judgment Day
Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:59 P GMT+01
The leader of the Christian Praying Assembly where sex sinners get doused with petrol and set alight in Nigeria is to hang. Would this be a lesson to those charlatans who seek to deceive?
Somehow, strange sexualities excite Africans
Friday, 8 September 2006 8:05 P GMT+01
They publish names, accuse people in high places, revile those caught in the act and the elders on the village might just ignore all this because it is just none of their business.
An admission in remission
Friday, 8 September 2006 6:55 P GMT+01
Admitting the CIA secret prisons did exist leaves one wondering how many more admissions would completely destroy the last ounce of respect America can show.
The Day of the Toothpicks
Thursday, 7 September 2006 11:03 A GMT+01
7 inconsequential ministers resign from Mr. Blair's government in order to force his hand to tell us when he is leaving the job of Prime Minister, it is possible they have been put up to it by the Chancellor of the Executor - who knows?
The raid on Peking, London
Saturday, 2 September 2006 8:04 P GMT+01
The raid on a Chinese restaurant in London shows how this war on terror is impacting seriously on our way of life.
Ahmedinejad-Bush coming to your television
Tuesday, 29 August 2006 10:59 P GMT+01
The Iranian doctor of engineering invites a one-time failed oil businessman to a debate about world issues. I want a front row seat, who is selling the tickets? bin Laden might also already be dead so what fuels the war on terror?
My contribution to the war on terror - suspicion
Monday, 28 August 2006 6:57 P GMT+01
This war on terror is turning me into a vulnerable, suspicious, jittery bigot ready to view any seemingly unacceptable observation as anti-social and hence having terrorist tendencies. Are we all getting programmed that way?
Making an ass of a South African policeman
Saturday, 26 August 2006 1:53 P GMT+01
The minister in charge of safety and security in South Africa suggests that the police should ride donkeys to crime scenes.
Back to James Blake and Rosa Parks - 1955 to 2006
Friday, 25 August 2006 1:50 A GMT+01
Black students are asked to give up their seats for white students 51 years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. America, we've got a serious problem.
Condi knows nothing about birth pangs
Saturday, 29 July 2006 2:04 A GMT+01
Bombs and hostilities continue as birth pangs of a new Middle-East as the midwife returns to the woman in travail and extended labour to probably deliver the baby still-born. No new Middle-East can emerge with this belligerence.
Explaining a stolen lunchbox
Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:59 A GMT+01
A hapless stranger gets mobbed and killed because some other stranger believes that his manhood has been stolen. This a part of reality in some parts of Nigeria. Unbelievable but true.
Evidence of good medical research
Tuesday, 25 July 2006 7:02 P GMT+01
That testtube baby is 28 today - that was research done in Europe for the benefit of all - hopefully, America and see through the emotion of stem cell research just as Europe did yesterday.
The new ball order - Football meritocracy
Friday, 23 June 2006 5:31 A GMT+01
The World Cup levels the playing field of political powers and undue influence - little countries make minced meat of behemoths and if you cannot play you get beaten and go home. The Olympics has nothing on the World Cup.
Arise! Sir easy
Saturday, 17 June 2006 11:37 P GMT+01
The Chairman of easyGroup of companies is knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list- I suppose a new business can come out of this accolade - easyHonours?
Insemination Tax Credit
Tuesday, 6 June 2006 5:08 P GMT+01
If the President of the United States is really serious about strong marriages, he should stop going after gay marriage and rather strengthen marriage through Insemination Tax Credits.
Old-age Rum's field day
Friday, 5 May 2006 9:43 P GMT+01
A hapless septuagenarian was heckled during an important speech to his supporters, then accused of lying. How rotten! This is in empathetic concern and commiseration. Why badger a poor old man?
How in God's name, did this happen?
Wednesday, 4 January 2006 5:08 P GMT+01
The media feeding frenzy around the West Virginia mine disaster just shows how rumour, speculation and incomplete information plays around with people's emotions.
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