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Reflections on a president’s speech: Whose Lang was it anyway?

South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, tricky things, what i am watching

Reflections on a president’s speech: Whose Lang was it anyway?

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation last night. As he did - and this is not for the first time - i felt a sense of pride, the feeling of being led, a deep respect for the humility that was shown when he spoke about government miscommunicating and making mistakes, confusing messages, and contradictions. While he spoke, i jumped on to Facebook and simply wrote this: Such humility coming from Cyril Ramaphosa... [...]

By brettfish|2020-05-14T09:47:59+02:00May 14th, 2020|South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, tricky things, what i am watching|2 Comments

sanity prevails? koran-burning cancelled

so taken directly from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11255366 US pastor Terry Jones cancels Koran burning The pastor of a small US church who wanted to burn copies of the Koran has cancelled his protest. Terry Jones said he was calling off the Florida event after the group behind a planned mosque close to Ground Zero in New York agreed to relocate it. Mr Jones had said the burning would be a stand against terrorism, but his plan was [...]

By brettfish|2010-09-09T21:16:59+02:00September 9th, 2010|change the world, life, shtupidt people|1 Comment

you don't know jack (which can be handey i guess)

Why do the caterpillar and the ant have to be enemies? One eats leaves, and the other eats caterpillars. Oh, I see now. I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not? It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back [...]

By brettfish|2010-07-27T08:06:44+02:00July 27th, 2010|humour'ish|1 Comment