CityGirl

I have been so disgusted with the hypocritical and insincere behavior displayed by our politicians during this run-up to the August 27th election here in Jamaica. 

How many political codes of conduct are they going to sign, only to act in total contradiction of said code while on a political platform a few hours later. 

If all the beautiful speeches about not saying inflammatory things while campaigning, not acting in a manner that is contrary to encouraging peaceful elections are simply empty rhetoric, why the hell do they even bother?  They’re not fooling anyone!

Surely, they don’t in all honesty expect their supporters to take them seriously after observing the way that they’ve been acting? 

Instead of  trying to convince us that they’re worthy of our votes by addressing issues germane to the running of the country, they’ve resorted to petty name calling and trying to out-promise the other party.  So exactly what are we supposed to base our votes on?

Are they so blind that that they can’t see that its highly irresponsibly to politicise every act of violence in order to score political points?  How about waiting until the authorities conduct an investigation in order to determine if an incident has political overtones?

Having said all that I was quite heartened by a news item on TVJ during tonight’s broadcast.  I wasn’t paying full attention but the gist of the news item is this.  Apparently there was some act of violence (don’t remember if it was a shooting or arson) in one of those depressed communities.

As usual, political candidate, in this case the JLP’s Audley Shaw, descended on the scene and without anything to back up his pronouncement, promptly declare the PNP to be responsible.  The residents, obviously fed up with being used as a mere pawn in the war for votes, quickly interrupted his spiel in full view of the viewing public. 

They told him an a no-nonsense way that what he was saying was totally unnecessary because they don’t know, have no evidence that would point to who the perpetrator of the crime was.  They declared that they don’t know if the persons responsible were JLP, PNP or just nothing to do with politics.

I could see the embarrassment on his face and I was embarrassed for him.  He tried several times to continue his interview with the reporter, continuing the same accusatory line of argument.  The residents, quite irate would not allow him to finish.

Eventually, red-faced, he pushed the cameras away.

That newscast totally made my night.  Is it possible that the supposedly uneducated are finally wising up, no longer willing to sit idly by while the politicians used them as baits? 

We can only hope. 

I’m here watching sports news on TVJ and just can’t stop laughing. 

I know that people like to beat the table when playing dominos (or rather after the game is finished) but it seems to be a mandatory part of any domino game.

They showed several tables and at every single table even the one where the woman is the winner, after winning the game and jumping to to his/her feet with arms raised in triumph, the very next action was to turn around the give the table a proper whopping.

Hehe.  I found that funny.  I use to play a lot with my family as a child.  I haven’t done that in a while though. 

I thought I was being so resourceful. 

I didn’t have a vehicle this weekend so I figured that since I was stuck at home I’d use the time to read and clean house.   

Having read all day Saturday, I was now ready to clean today.  I did quite a good job I thought and the place was feeling much lighter. 

I was almost finished and decided that I’d extend my cleaning efforts to my make-up brushes.   I gathered about seven of them including my favourite big powder brush, washed them in shampoo and hot water as usual. 

Normally, I’d just lay them flat to dry in the bathroom.  Every now and then though, I’d get a flash of what seems like brilliance and I had one such this evening.

So I flashed out the excess water and wondered to myself, Why can’t the microwave oven be used in a similar manner to a clothes dryer?  I thought some more about it and didn’t see any harm, so feeling quite pleased with myself for coming up with this stroke of genius, I gathered them all, put them on a sheet of hand-towel, set the oven for 5 minutes and went back to wiping the floor.

 I was almost through when I notice the smell of something burning.  Wrinkling my nose I went out to the kitchen, saw that smoke was coming from the microwave oven.

My brushes were ruined.  In thinking about it, I didn’t remember that the handles were made of some type of plastic material.

As I said, I thought I was being resourceful…..