Quite deep, this espousal and commentary which speaks to the ubiquitous “six of one and half dozen of the other” that runs rampant around the Barbados landscape, masquerading under BLP/DLP shenanigans.

i will suggest this that will be lost on the teeming masses who like blind sheep either support the one or the other and will refuse to accept that both of them (composed from all of us) are carriers of that infamous “A”

The Christ is purported to have written the names of the men that the whore caught in adultery had slept with, the names of her accusers and then He asks them “let him who is without sin cast the first stone’ and all of them disperse.

We Bajans are practicing this whoremongering so adeptly that the “A” has been fashioned into whatever flavour of popular letter or letters gets us into the club, the job, the minister’s graces, the boardroom, the political party, any crest that get us accepted into the “holy grail” fold

Watch closely for the salvo that your Hester Prynne allegory is going to elicit

I guarantee that this blog item will undoubtedly fall squarely back into provoking the die hard supporters of the political parties jumping into the fray to use this article and pledge their undying support and commitment to “going wid Owen” or “making dollars from a penny, we want Freundy the Friendly”

Anoijah
Has written a very apt calypso this year..”something left in the bottle baby”.ALWAYS HOPE…
Has there every been a government that is without sin? No But the stench rises when you have a fella who boast. I WILL NOT LIE CHEAT OR STEAL…..and the enormity of the amount.Not to forget the broke pensioners, then a recent development of a Report being missing or stolen…..ridiculous.

Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right | August 22, 2012 at 9:03 PM:

“Quite deep, this espousal and commentary which speaks …”

Not deep at all. Cut and pasted directly from Wikipedia without attribution. Plagiarism, the real scarlet letter of the truly dull mind.

@Anon.author, August 23, 2012 at 5:27 PM

So you cut and paste 181 words from Wikipedia, without attribution, and then add 47 words at the end (some of which are from the Wikipedia item in any case), and call the 181 words a “preamble”?

You’re really a scholar.

Cite your sources, chum. Otherwise you look like a dick.

Anon.author | August 23, 2012 at 6:04 PM:

“It shows what existed in Salem in 1850 is present and flourishing toady”.

No, no, no, Anon. It doesn’t.

See, this is why it’s better to read actual books than to read bad summaries of them on Wikipedia. This is why it’s better not to be stupid than to be stupid. The book was published in 1850. It imagines events that took place almost exactly two hundred years earlier. Hester’s story is set in the mid 1600s. It has NOTHING to say about “what existed in Salem in 1850”.

Thanks for trying, though. Next!

Running Dear quick, call Soaring Eagle, tell her bring War drums and signal fire,…….annuda “Father of Battles” possibly brewing on the plains of the Nationville.

A is A no matter where it lies. It’s our choice to look for other letters. Will we?
Quite surgical there with the Aesop fables comment miller. lol.

How you does print them letters on this blog anyway….????

@millertheanunnaki

“Let us kill kill the messenger, for indeed we cannot get at the king who sent him”

What the Hester Prynne Alleyne person is practicing here is consistent with, nay even the very personification of the modus of engagement of Bajans in particular, “since we cannot contend with the logic of what is being said, let us assail their character,and in so doing dilute the message of the writer”

Let us bring front and centre this insignificant issue, the writer’s lack of observance of referencing his source and in so doing kill the message.

Undoubtedly i too shall be accused of this sin for in my quotation above they shall say that “it is not authentic…”, this thing that comes from the spelean caves of your humble servant’s head, are in fact “a plagiarism from KJV” and speak to de Rock’s “precis of the plot of the Pharisees and the ultimate crucifixion of Jesus the Christ! and in fact i got that from the Merriam’s Dictionary or some other source.

Lord forbid that It be attributed to that Assassin of the English Language, the venerable Minister of Education of Barbados, a man who cannot tie to sentences together if that allowed him to keep his seat during the next general election.

There is a picture called Anonymous which posits the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare’s plays; notwithstanding this possibility of theft of literary materials, does this make any less impactful the content of these timeless folios?

@frustrated businessman. Barbados will not revamp the political system during our lifetime and what you have floated, while a viable alternative will take 50 years at least to craft and another 50 for us slow poke Bajans to implement. Maybe the “Recall Option” for inept politicians (and they are many of them) might be easier to append to our current system? Do you thing Patrick Todd or Ronald Jones would be best suited to propose this for consideration BEFORE they both loose their seats?

@ Sleeper

This is not directed at you specifically but rather an observation to (BU) bloggers who enter a room and not having a clue on what is going on, are inveigled by the pixels on their screens, and the fact that eveybody writing sumting and dey gots to do sumting and dat cause dem to pounce pun de keyboard en write

Try to control this guna sparsa and move on to someplace else where your contribution will be more appropriate, someplace where your pissing in the sea will have more weight. Your contribution reminds me of those people who went to Sam Lords Castle and defaced the beautiful cacti close to the beach by chiseling out their names in these beautiful plants and saying “** & ** were here”

…..translated….AHole….

Huh!!!!!!!!!!

Sittin Bull no pale faced laureate …..but knows an idiot when he hears one……Go F Ur Shelf……nu nu bison.

Understand this, because you both are close to the king, you believe that this gives you both unlimited license to shout from the nebulous shadows seeing all but being seen (you hope) by none but soft awhile .. and note this

“I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams … you run too close to the edge of the envelope and any further into what is supposedly safeguarded and you will cause “this great hope” to implode…

** put a leash on the dogs. or the Jekyll will

..and to you yours
The devil a puritan that he is, or anything
constantly but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass,
that cons state without book and utters it by great
swarths; the best persuaded of him, so
crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies that it is
his grounds of faith that all that look on him love
him;
Twelfth Night…..site

Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right | August 24, 2012 at 3:43 PM |
” ** put a leash on the dogs. or the Jekyll will ”

Who unleashed the dog in the first place? Was it Mr. Hyde? Did he manage to tame the hound of the Baskervilles?
Tell us something, Piece Uh De Rock, what is your take on that book by L R Stevenson?
You think there is such a personality with a bifurcated outlook not knowing his Dr. Jekyll’s elbow from his mad alter ego Mr. Hyde’s arse in charge of things in Bim? It seems as if we are neither coming nor going at times? What a split personality of schizophrenic proportion we have to endure?

Ole indian saying, “Wounded raven hops to find comfort in any idle clover.”
Pity the emotions evoked by this cobble and mud slung all about. Real nasty openers, one so oft wonder why, similarly the cavalcade Custer, showing at lil Big Horn…to dominate but for a while.. but til day endth..
It is what it is…

millertheanunnaki has something to say on August 23, 2012 at 8:03 PM

Here it is: “So, Hester-Prynne Reincarnate, please let us- the non-literati- know what is the moral message in this piece of literature. What is Nat Hawthorne really trying to tell us?”

Ah, K., surely we’ve been through this before, even when you were paying someone to edit your words. Doubtless it’s sad, for you at least, that your emergent career in bad journalism ended so abruptly. But now you can rest, you can relax, you can surely take peace, in the certain knowledge that your writing and your thinking will always be well below average. That must bring some kind of, er, “closure”. Doesn’t it, K., er “millly”?

Sha’Wanta Dimmesdale-Grant
(if you are the persona)
Last time I saw you you were smoking weed, now like you on cocaine.Two Scarlet letters….WC…what next….?

…attend to the beam in thy own eye first, before ye judge.. Mathews 7:3

How history repeats itself.