Zimbabwe Is Mine!

Finally???? I think it happened a while ago! Must admit I was quite taken aback by his recent outburst. Craig

Mugabe's latest statement to the UN: "Wibble" ~ www.fabulousmother.co.uk

No it was deffo "wobble" or maybe that was an even later statement. Craig

What's really worrying is that we're now adopting Mugabe's economic policy of printing more money, repackaging his "wibble, wibble, lobster", calling it "quantitive easing" and pretending we're sane. jude "Cacoethes scribendi" http://www.judesworld.net

I woke up with an old cockney song running round my head this morning, J. It’s the same the whole world over It’s the poor what get's to pay. It's the rich what get's the pleasure As they exploit us every day. We are poor but we are honest Victims of the rich man's whims First they f*** us, then they chuck us Then off to church to sing their hymns Singing to The Christ in Heaven Who has said – they won’t get in. Try to tell us they're on God's side But their lies are wearing thin! A simple koan involving camels... Passing through a needle’s eye Yet the rich don’t understand it But they will do when they die. When the meek at last inherit and the faithful get their reward With the return of The Good Shepherd A final end to the Devil's fraud.

I enjoyed this! http://www.bleedtheworld.com/ jude "Cacoethes scribendi" http://www.judesworld.net

Loved it, J! Styx is looking a trifle hirsute in the video though – I hope he’s having a Merry but alcohol free Xmas!

Must have heard that song a hundred times but never noticed how long it takes to get to the main chorus. I doubt they could get away with that nowadays when we all have the attention span of a gnat.

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Yes, Shy, there are several different versions of this old song and this is obviously a very recent version judging by the use of “Ko-an” which has only recently come into English usage as a kind of puzzle or parable. So far as I know the original was somewhat similar but described the fate of a young woman, who was, as the Americans might say ”from the wrong side of the tracks”, seduced and then abandoned by a Labour Politician and consequently ended up first pregnant with his child and eventually a diseased lady of the night – while he married 'a woman of substance' and went on to become a leading MP... it may be this version that you are refering to.

I feel that perhaps I ought to elaborate on the koan regarding a camel having more chance of passing through the eye of a needle than a rich man of entering The Kingdom of Heaven. I call it a koan because I don’t believe it to be a straight forward statement of fact but rather an idea to be contemplated. I certainly know many rich men who I believe would have no problem entering Heaven and I think that the key to this koan is attitude... There are those rich men who are not corrupted by their wealth and strive to use it to help others. There are many more that simply love money and will do anything to accumulate more. It is the latter who cannot see that the LOVE of money is the root of all evil who, I believe, Christ was warning. Yet they are often the ones who sing loudest in church!