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It was a regular day in Half-Way-Tree,
hustlers, bustlers and part-time rustlers streaming in and out of Jamaica’s Times Square. Then the clinking of locks and chains percolates above the daily crazy mayhem of busses, taxis and the shouts of higglers selling; phone cards, bag juice and banana chips. The day was about to change.

Betty-ann Blaine  and a group of her supporters of the New Nation Coalition gathered in HWT and locked themselves to the guardrails. Occupy Half-Way-Tree had begun. Daring and defiant these protesters took the frustrations of a nation to the street. But unfortunately, there were more eyes to observe than there were voices to protest. The group never grew beyond  about 20 souls.

Here in lies, as simple as it may seem, the probable death-knell to the orange tide. For all that the JLP has “put the nation through” over the last four years more than a handful of citizens showed up. Was it that the NNC lacked the political gravitas of it’s goliathal competition. Many the reasons may beWhile but here are my 0.02c ….Jamaicans are not fed up enough, things are not bad enough to take off even a few hrs of work to protest either the gross mismanagement of the nations economy or the broadly trumpeted pathological mendacity.

Granted, there was another protest near the Bank of Jamaica but just like the HWT squeaking in the din of the everyday, OCCUPY Jamaica or any other protest just simply never gained traction. It simply slipped into the dark, rarely traveled crevices of history.

So here we are on the cusp of the election called by “Prince Andrew” in the very high and slightly chilly centre of the nation…Mandeville. Known to house the newly-wed and the nearly dead, Mandeville was whipped into a green frenzy as the bell-tolling masses descended in copious  numbers into the city’s central square. Those numbers though were unmatched by the following PNP meeting at the same location a few weeks later.

So, close it might be, but this one will prove for whom the bell tolls….I doubt it will be for the “head”.

Into this election we march,
some voting, others doting,
on the massive sidelines.
Whether green you be
Or orange you see,
Remember this truth sublime
Only in the land of Reggae
Could Power and Shower, rhyme.

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What is the real issue here, why are they losing, they are just playing for the pay check. period. The spectre of our colonial overlords has long since passed. The meaning of a black wash has evaporated into shadow and and the last great West Indian batsman dismantled the morale of an entire team. THAT is why we are where we are. We need to find a new identity. I think that will only happen through something major happening to the team. Whether by something negative….disaster, the Jamaican contingent leaving or one or two unknown players stamping West Indian swagger all over the place. It will take more than a few mighty sixes to revive these dry bones. But I do believe they can live again.

Unreasonable

It’s unreasonable to get out of bed on a snow day, when school has been cancelled, and turn the downtime into six hours of work on an extra credit physics lab.

It’s unreasonable to launch a technology product that jumps the development curve by nine months, bringing the next generation out much earlier than more reasonable competitors.

It’s unreasonable for a trucking company to answer the phone on the first ring.

It’s unreasonable to start a new company without the reassurance venture money can bring.

read the rest here: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/02/unreasonable.html

LIME is finally leveraging it’s massive land-line network here in a very clever marketing move. Talk for 24hrs to any LIME phone number, from your cell, for just $100/day. Well done Mr. Dehring, well done.