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The recently constructed Boardwalk on the South coast which stretches from Accra Beach for about half mile towards Bridgetown has been well received by locals and tourists alike. This week it was reported in the news that the Segway Scooters donated to the Royal Barbados Police Force have been withdrawn from patrolling the Boardwalk. If we can read between the lines from the press report, a policeman was injured while negotiating the Boardwalk but may not have been covered adequately by insurance.

The biggest negative feedback to date about the Boardwalk has been the lack of lighting which makes strolling the Boardwalk in the late evening somewhat of a risk. We thought it was the biggest negative feedback until we viewed the video above. The Internet can be our friend but it can be our enemy.

The relevant government agency needs to get in gear and remember that if we don’t care for our own, we are a tourist country for Godsakes!


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593 responses to “Down By The Boardwalk”

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    Well said X


  2. Yes X very well said. ha ha ha lol!


  3. LIB said:
    Hoad’s argument was predicated on a racial division of economic and political power, therefore race/ethnicity was at the core of his arguments, not incidental.
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    What exactly do you mean? Are you saying that Hoad prefers the status quo and you don’t? What do you understand Hoad to mean? and that you find not to your taste as you said “as a black man”? Maybe we need to reproduce the Hoads Article and your response so that there can be clarity. yes?

    because this is very interesting. I happened to agree with Hoad, you didn’t and sought to remind him that you were black, but here in this thread you seek to remind me with John’s help about shades of grey, and not using one’s skin tone as a crutch and stick.


  4. YUH KNOW WHEN I SAID THIS!
    ————
    I gine back to the immigration issue as this bores me, yet somehow I think the two might be related. lol!
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    UH STOOD AND SAID THIS!
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    Othewise the Johns of Barbados aided and abetted by the LIB’S of Jamaica will continue to bamboozle you and your kind into perpetual submission to whomsoever they intend.
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    UH CAN’T HELP BUT THINK THEY ARE RELATED

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    Especially when i recall a current Member of parliament and minister of government intimating during the silly season (election campaign) it is time for black enfranchisement or something so.

    Now we have to contend with an influx of a people who have demonstrated an inability to get along with people that look like bajans, in their home state. If allowed to stay and their migration continued would this not put off any move to enfranchisment of black Barbadians? ha ha ha ha lol!

    I know I know, uh talking madness again. lol!


  5. Well well Hinds

    what a fraud you are! You wrote:

    “It matters little to me who or what colour of people come in or leaves Bimshire for whatever reasons. This is for wunnuh who remain to deal with. I am simply calling things as they are to me.”

    so you just running yuh mout from the safety and comfort of the US. A group of people cleaning up the boardwalk and the first AND ONLY thing you saw is white people with an agenda to embarrass black Bajans. Now you want to back peddle and play holier than thou.


  6. @PDC……….A word to the wise….

    [1]…If you are desirous of attaining political office, one thing you can or should do is to evolve from this sham known as democracy. You see, democracy is the tyranny of the minority by the majority and in a democracy the electorate does not actually have a say….they only get to elect the selected.

    [2]…..You should always stay out of the gutter. Raise yourself to a higher moral standard. Recently you came across as being very demagogic against a few bloggers, viz…Yardbroom, which I thought was unwarranted. Leave the gutter to Hopi.

    As a leader what is your vision for a ‘better’ Barbados?

    Since you will eliminate taxation, how will your government collect revenue to develop and maintain the infrastructure of the society?

    Will you keep Barbados yoked to regional and international institutions that are not in our national interest?

    Where there is blatant ambiguity, you are not in any position to determine what is/isn’t relevant.

    I really think that you should done away with the Marxists bs of masses and middle class…the [m] was added to asses to Mask the true intentions of what the ‘power class’ really thought of the ‘underclass.’ So if you are really about representing the people you should stay away from such stratification.


  7. Thank God that people with such racist views (both black and white) are a minority in Barbados. It’s sad that a group of people who enjoy using the boardwalk and go out of their way to clean it, get treated with such disrespect by people who seek to use race as an excuse for every failing in their miserable little lives.

  8. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @David, Adrian Hinds
    For those who wish to read what Mr. Hoad wrote in The Lowdown column, I think it was in the week of June 26, they can try to look at the Nation online or a paper copy. I provided a link in another thread, near the time. They can draw their own conclusions and see if they are on board with his view of keeping the post-independence Barbados he seems to like–a view I do not share, based as I read it on a division of Barbados by race and economic/political stations.

    However, I am not engaging in that discussion on this thread (and Adrian Hinds has tried to get me to expound again on my views in various threads), but I would be more than happy to discuss Mr. Hoad’s views if Adrian Hinds or David or anyone else wishes to post a piece around the article.

    Much as I like some of the interchanges, I am not going overboard to try to do them from a mobile phone.

    Anyway, Boston is sunny and who knows when the rain will come back.

    Time for dim sum and discussion of the Palestinian issue with an Israeli. That should be fun!


  9. Anonymous // July 13, 2009 at 11:46 am

    Well well Hinds

    what a fraud you are!

    *************

    ‘Anonymous’, at first sight, I thought the pic was taken in England! but then I saw the beach and realised it could n’t be England!

    Hopi, what would u replace democracy with which was a fairer system!! – communism?!! LOL!!

    Brer, thank you for the compliments! I’d be circumspect about running in Bim because I don’t think sufficient Barbadians, including David, like me!! 🙂

    And, as for Britain, the situ here is even more tortuous with an unacceptable number of Jamaicans, rastas, africans and everybody else to make it other than a climb up Mount Everest!! and, at my age, no thanks!! I’m more worried about Bim and the descending on it of the Jamaicans, Indo Guyanese and de rest uh dem!!


  10. am,…. Anon there is no such thing as the “safety and comfort of the US.” Unless you are implying that I would think twice about airing my views as I do without hiding, while in Barbados? It just happens to be were I am located at the moment.

    The truth is that the group and I include the videographer, did more than clean a boardwalk. So don’t try to belittle all of their efforts and intent. lol!

    ah term videographer, just reminded me that the Indo-guyanese have theirs (Analee Davis) and now some White Bajans in de do. Time fuh some black bajans to pick up LIB advice. Well really to change their subject from the explicit sex scenes and acident victims and start showing blacks in a positive light. Yuh don’t have to wait for naturally occuring events to film, you can stage them like this video and wuh Analee does produce. lol!


  11. livinginbarbados // July 13, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    @David, Adrian Hinds
    For those who wish to read what Mr. Hoad wrote in The Lowdown column, I think it was in the week of June 26, they can try to look at the Nation online or a paper copy. I provided a link in another thread, near the time. They can draw their own conclusions and see if they are on board with his view of keeping the post-independence Barbados he seems to like–a view I do not share, based as I read it on a division of Barbados by race and economic/political stations.
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    ha ha ha boy when you cornered you winch and wiggle to bad. We don’t only want Hoads article but your specific response to it then, not some after thought that you may since posted. lol!

  12. livinginbarbadob Avatar
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    @AH: Seek and ye shall find. If hard to do, then ask David for help. I haven’t posted so many comments. Must away to Boylston St and Apple Store.


  13. Come on LIB tell us what you said, to Hoadie AS A BLACK MAN. lol! they were no shades of grey in your statement!


  14. Again, trying to steer the conversation back to the beach and the boardwalk (who knew there was so much anthropology associated with the beach in Barbados) I have another idea for getting the sand removed in a timely fashion. How about utilizing the manpower of Dodds? – http://shar.es/C4WZ –


  15. 5) Seriously Reform the Hire Purchase Regime in this country;

    That is the best thing pdc ever say


  16. @ Save Mullins Bay or teck labor hours for child support, instead of locking up other wise good men.


  17. Is the clean-up as a result of the time of the year ie hurricane season? Is it a case of the NCC provisioning clean up to accommodate the season? The previously asked question stands: Is the boardwalk build to adequately stave off the beating of the waves over time?


  18. Save Mullins Bay // July 13, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    Again, trying to steer the conversation back to the beach and the boardwalk (who knew there was so much anthropology associated with the beach in Barbados) I have another idea for getting the sand removed in a timely fashion. How about utilizing the manpower of Dodds? – http://shar.es/C4WZ –
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    How interesting coming from you. Wuh happen, cheap guyanese labour has become to expensive in these tough economic times?

    @David: Time will tell, however the deposit and removal of sand is another issue. The answer to which is clear.

  19. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @David: Now the w/e is over so one can pick up a phone and pose a few questions of NCC and/or CZMU? Or is it that the love of discourse trumps doing anything? At least if NCC etc give no info someone accuse them of something.


  20. Is the state of the boardwalk consistently as the video portrays or is it as someone said on another blog?

    Ok, so there was a swell event and a little more sand was deposited than usual and the NCC was not around to clear it up. The important thing here is that it is gathering sand and creating beach like it was suppose to and that is great. The NCC is another headache.


  21. David asked – Is the boardwalk build to adequately stave off the beating of the waves over time?
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    I was told it definitely is and that includes waves generated by hurricanes.


  22. @ whoever makes decisions about what you publish on this blog

    A quiet word to the wise: you might want to be a little careful, and perhaps do a bit more arse-covering than you’re already doing. The published comment by “199”, when he said that he wouldn’t let a single British person into Barbados, that has gone. But the reply quoting “199” has not gone, so the comment by “199” is still there.

    In a country where about half the economy and a huge amount of employment depend on tourism, it might not be a really tremendous idea to willfully and knowingly publish the following comments from ONE SINGLE THREAD on your blog.

    Given Jamaican reactions to the possible adverse affects of a single and temporary UK television programme hosted by Sir Trevor McDonald, you might want to reconsider how far you want to let the comments below remain internationally available to, say, Bajan authorities working hard to induce American and Canadian and British tourism.

    Before you get to the comments, it’s fascinating to note that one of your most prolific contributors, one whose views appear below, and one whose opinions on race you have published on very many occasions, says this on that very same thread:

    Adrian Hinds // July 13, 2009 at 1:41 pm
    there is no such thing as the “safety and comfort of the US.” … It just happens to be were [sic] I am located at the moment.

    Now that’s interesting.

    Here are some other comments on the thread:

    199 // July 12, 2009 at 7:50 am
    the thing which really irritates me is that these ppl are probably some of the same who have given our people hell over the years at work and now they’ve reached retirement age, have come to live in BIM!! I would want to check their background before letting any of them into there!!

    Hopi // July 12, 2009 at 9:52 am
    I remember a time when Barbados was truly a clean a beautiful country and it was truly predominantly Black … Well, I hope that whisety continue to build their houses, villas and hotels on the sand, because they are some things that are guaranteed in this life and one of them is that you can’t fight Mother Nature and win.

    Adrian Hinds // July 12, 2009 at 9:57 am
    No John I will look at the color angle

    Anonymous // July 12, 2009 at 11:02 am
    Wouldn’t it solve all of Barbados’ problems if all the white and “whitish” people just up and leave and let us sort things out? People here getting tired of having to work hard and getting exploited and only white people enjoying all the sweets … I heard that Kyffin Simpson bought a million acres of land in Guyana … All the white and whitish Bajans can relocate there and build their paradise (if they can) and leave beautiful Barbados to Black people to finally enjoy.

    Anonymous // July 12, 2009 at 11:30 am
    what wrong with being racist?!

    Adrian Hinds // July 13, 2009 at 8:27 am
    WHITE BAJANS BELIEVE THAT BLACK PEOPLE CANNOT MANAGE A THING. EQUALLY TRUE IS THE CURRENT ACTIVITY OF SOME WHITE BAJANS TO DISCREDIT BARBADOS INTERNATIONALY IN SUCH AWAY THAT ALL LOOK BAD EXCEPT THEMSELVES.

    199 July 13, 2009 [post deleted, oddly and interestingly]
    My experience has been of the British as a consequence of which, if I had my way, I wouldn’t let a single one of them into Bim, to retire!!”

    Adrian Hinds // July 13, 2009 at 9:43 am
    John I am not surprise that you would get first hand info (white boy’s version) and use it as the gospel truth. lol!

    Anonymous // July 13, 2009 at 10:00 am
    No progress can be made until these white and whitish people leave this island. … We will celebrate you as a true champion of Black Barbados.


  23. @Adrian Hinds

    LOL, Adrian, all guns blazing as usual! You must have imbibed the ghost of Samuel Colt the gunsmith from your long walks along the boardwalk of his beloved farm – Colt State Park. We need to get you down on the South Coast Boardwalk for an exorcism. LOL! Oh, btw, by the time you get here the West Coast Boardwalk should be ready too.


  24. Save Mullins Bay // July 13, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    @Adrian Hinds

    LOL, Adrian, all guns blazing as usual! You must have imbibed the ghost of Samuel Colt the gunsmith from your long walks along the boardwalk of his beloved farm – Colt State Park. We need to get you down on the South Coast Boardwalk for an exorcism. LOL! Oh, btw, by the time you get here the West Coast Boardwalk should be ready too.
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    ha ha ha ha love colt state park. I will not see the boardwalk anytime soon if ever. I’ll continue to enjoy the pics and videos of them.

    who is that johnny come late with his scare tactics???? chuspes!


  25. @Adrian Hinds

    Don’t you live in the United States?

    There are two answers to this question.

    One is Yes. The other is no.

    If you absolutely HAVE to say something that isn’t yes or no, could you do your best to make it at least barely literate?

    Peace to all of god will. Peace to all except subliterate racist tools


  26. Oh, Adrian Hinds, I forgot to add your device, the device of all 12-year old American girls (are you a 12 year-old American girl?).

    Here it is: “lol!!!”

    “lol!!!” That’s the device. It’s so eloquent. It makes you seem so grown-up. It does not in any way make you or your subliterate fans look like American teenagers. Not in any way at all.


  27. Jack Bowman
    Stop nit-picking at the comments made by we the members of the BU family..You are petty and stupid.

    Jack Bowman the jack ass you commented on our grammar and try to ridicule & criticize our use of the English language.None of us is an English language expert and this blog is not to demonstrate who has a the greatest command of English Language.It is an opportunity for many of us to express our opinions & feelings on many subject matters.

    Jack Bowman the nincompoop You are mighty upset when we Black People have to castigate and tell stinking White People how we feel about them.You get highly offended when your white thrash counterparts taste the wrath of Black People.You & your white thrash family & friends could go and find some place to exterminate you all self.This world will be peaceful with less white thrash people on it.The destruction of this world,all the diseases,all the crime & decadence in this world the stinking white people have a major role in all of it.

    Jack Bowman stay over at Barbados Free Press and do not come over here at Barbados Underground & try to dictate to David what should or should not be posted on this blog.

    Jack Bowman the pathetic ass you have the gall to come here at BU and make comments.It is stinking you that masterminded Barbados Free Press to remove BU from it’s side bar and you made some of the most awful comments about Barbados underground.

    Jack Bowman you & your white thrash family & friends exit this world & leave this world for beautiful Black People to live in.


  28. Jackie Bowgirl, so picky! lol!

    as a very literate person currently performing the role of a language maven, would you like to correct the following?

    “Peace to all of god will.”

    lol!

  29. Livinginbarbados Avatar
    Livinginbarbados

    @Adrian Hinds
    My comments on Richard Hoad’s article on this blog were ABOUT the article. I sent him comments via The Nation and one of his brothers, whom I happen to meet a few days after reading the article. The public comments should still be out in cyber space.

    As I wrote above, “Everything COULD dissolve into shades of gray, but some would rather try to put them as ‘black’ and ‘white’.”

    Here, for a few days, I am in the relative safety and comfort of the USA (note relative, not absolute), and just back from arguing with a Haitian whether a mixed race American girl looked ‘African’. I said she looked Moroccan. He said she was not African because she was not black. I walked away and will salve my brain with some good Irish beer.


  30. But negroman my sister in law is a white woman, and several of my nieces and nephews look more like she and I love them all. Wuh you expect me to do if your banishment were to be carried out? Man stop de over reaching generalizations do! cause I aint gine join you. I love my family too much. lol!


  31. @David
    ¿Cómo es que hay tantos racistas en su blog? El gillipollas cómico y racista Hinds siempre me divierte, y el solapollas Hopi es a menudo divertido.

    ¿Pero por qué has decidido publicar las opiniones infantiles de personas tan obviamente dañados?

    Me pregunto. ¿No te preguntas?

    Suerte, chico. Lo digo en serio.


  32. Livinginbarbados // July 13, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    @Adrian Hinds
    My comments on Richard Hoad’s article on this blog were ABOUT the article. I sent him comments via The Nation and one of his brothers, whom I happen to meet a few days after reading the article. The public comments should still be out in cyber space.

    As I wrote above, “Everything COULD dissolve into shades of gray, but some would rather try to put them as ‘black’ and ‘white’.”

    Here, for a few days, I am in the relative safety and comfort of the USA (note relative, not absolute), and just back from arguing with a Haitian whether a mixed race American girl looked ‘African’. I said she looked Moroccan. He said she was not African because she was not black. I walked away and will salve my brain with some good Irish beer.
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    ha ha ha ha The more I read you the more I relalize we are similar. I love a good argument and so you seem too as well.

    …so you felt compel to tell Hoad that “Everything COULD dissolve into shades of gray, but some would rather try to put them as ‘black’ and ‘white’.”

    Your SOME is in reference to me and to Hoad? Wuh I don’t recall any such comment in your response to Hoad. You sure?
    lol!

    Jackie Bowgirl that was fuh you! lol! there! another one for good measure. ha ha


  33. Sorry, I didn’t mean to call the subliterate Hopi a “solapollas”.

    On the contrary, I meant to call the subliterate Hopi a “soplapollas”.
    I hope that’s clear.


  34. Jack Bowman // July 13, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    @David
    ¿Cómo es que hay tantos racistas en su blog? El gillipollas cómico y racista Hinds siempre me divierte, y el solapollas Hopi es a menudo divertido.

    ¿Pero por qué has decidido publicar las opiniones infantiles de personas tan obviamente dañados?

    Me pregunto. ¿No te preguntas?
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    Jackie wuh saying above or do you wish your words to be anonymous? ha ha ha don’t be afraid to make further grammar and or spelling errors in English. I wouldn’t comment if you don’t. lol!


  35. Jack Bowman // July 13, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    Sorry, I didn’t mean to call the subliterate Hopi a “solapollas”.

    On the contrary, I meant to call the subliterate Hopi a “soplapollas”.
    I hope that’s clear.
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    But Jackie if you believe there is a serious cause for concern regarding the comments you listed to David that should be censored for fear that they could lead to significant fall out to Barbados, do you think that to Identify the authors of said words as subliterate would gain you any significant seriousness from British tourist to warrant the action you predicted? lol!


  36. @ Jack Bowman
    We will never let you tell us what or “how” we should communicate with each other. Uncomfortable with your “inner angst” in the place you have “freely” chosen to reside; you strain on tip-toe constantly a-peeping over the wall, never engaging with the topic but seeking to divert.

    Despite all your bluster, you find it impossible to ignore us…that is most telling.

    Yardbroom
    End


  37. ha ha ha maybe he is truly subliterate like me, and so finds my company refreshing. lol!

    I have had an extra helping of labels to day. http://www.normangirvan.info/a-caricom-executive-mechanism-pj-patterson/#comment-4731

    But I am happy to be of the same opinion has Richard Hoad on the issue of immigration in Barbados. Um is black n’ white fuh me and he. lol!


  38. @ Negroman

    I don’t have time to reply to you in full immediately. I have to do things that will make me money . .. write grammatical sentences, for example. Sorry about that. I will reply to you in full as soon as I have made some money by my ability to write grammatical English and have reasoned thoughts.

    In the meantime, you should definitely be my guest and feel free to hit me with the most witty, incisive, best-wrought grammatical abuse that you can muster. If it’s not grown-up and grammatical, I won’t read it. Apart from that, fire away. Be my guest.

    Best wishes to you and yours.

    Miss Jackie


  39. @ Hopi

    Hopi asks: “When will we learn to do things our way and stop following ‘whitey.’ When will we ever learn to UNLEARN?”

    Er … I don’t know. But I’ll make a guess. June 23, 2010. Is that the right answer?

    No? Damn!

    OK, let me try again: August 2, 2011. Is that right?

    I have to know. Is that the right answer?

  40. Caramba Scramba Bambarito Avatar
    Caramba Scramba Bambarito

    Hey, Fat Pig Bowman-Bourne! You love to show off your Spanish and French, don’t you. (“N’est pas” is your favourite).
    Well, how’s this for you …..
    CALLETE SU BOCA!


  41. @ Negroman (and @ David, who decides what gets published here)

    Quoting the racist known as “Negroman”:

    “We Black People have to castigate and tell stinking White People how we feel about them.”

    Nice. Keep up the good work. You’re doing grand.


  42. @ Negroman

    What is “white thrash”? You use the term four times while you’re abusing me AND MY FAMILY.

    What is “white thrash”? Did you mean, four times, to use the basic English word “trash”?

    You might be, demonstrably, a subliterate prick, and you can abuse me in your subliterate manner as much as you want.

    But if you call my family “thrash”, you subliterate fool, then we have a very serious problem, and so does the publisher of this blog.


  43. Wait Jackie Bowgirl is really Ian Bourne? no way say it aint so Jack,..ie lol!


  44. I would assume that negroman knows you, and that Jack Bowman does in fact legally exist as such. If this IS not the case then I don’t know how Negroman could have insulted YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.


  45. @ “Adrian Hinds”

    “Adrian Hinds” asked: “Wait Jackie Bowgirl is really Ian Bourne?”

    That’s right. I’m Ian Bourne in Barbados. And who are you in the United States, you comical little subliterate racist dullard?

    All best wishes to you and yours.


  46. @Jackass Bowdown…….I think that’s how you’ll say it in Spanish right? Or como se dice? Now you can call me sophomoric, subliterate, idiotic, comical and so forth, but one thing you can never do is take away my experience and knowledge. Sorry to disappoint ya! And you can patch all your descriptions all over me, I feel no pain.

    Neither you nor anyone else can define BU as racist, because to be racist means that you must have certain mechanisms in place and I’ll put my neck out on a limb and say that BU DOES not possess such mechanism. [like I said before we weren’t wired like that]. Just go and ask your EUROPEANS how they perfect it!

    Another little tidbit for you chico. One of the majors reason why Black folk continue to live in a subordinate position, is because other Blacks who are in certain positions who truly know the agenda of the ‘power elite’ refuse to speak up against it and continue to lead Blacks down the path of utter self-delusion and destruction. These token traitor Blacks continue to hold onto some crazy materialistic illusions that are afforded to them by the same ‘power elite.’ They most likely don’t want the same fate as Malcolm Martin, Marcus, Khalid and all the other Black Men who sacrificed their lives for us. And Hopi could never ever fill their shoes. So don’t expect me to shut up. And another thing I’m not looking for a pat on the back by, neither am I looking for friendship with the enemy.

    Now you too can put your tail between your blubber legs and run on back over to your side of the tracks.

    Adios chico!


  47. @ Caramba Scramba Bambarito……..
    Are you fa real. Jackie is really my pandejo amigo Bournee? Dios Mios! I thought that he was thru with BU. I guess Yardbroom is correct..he is straining on tip-toe and peeping over the wall. Well BU must be doing something right!

    @A mi amigo, si tu…..I see ya still talking to yaself @ 5:45 pm…


  48. Which side you on Hinds? Our side or whitey’s side? Forget that cop out about your white sister-in-law or how you living in the US. Don’t let Bowman/Bourne (???) frighten you.


  49. @John Da Silva…….Too bad we can’t say the same for those with the racists programmed technology, biological and financial weaponry who are terrorizing this planet today. Why don’t you pull out ya blanket and wrap yaself up in that?


  50. Jack Bowman is not Ian Bourne. Just how gullible are you people?
    Jack, keep up the good work. You are like Septic-X for this cesspool.

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