Prozac

Interesting how a nation and its leader can change so fast from being an African example (especially in the eyes of the US) to a barbaric threat to human rights.

Uganda and its president Museveni have been praised for a long time for stability and open minded AIDS policies. But that was in a recent past. Now the East African country is going ugly and is turning the clock back. From progress to backwards. One step forward, 2 steps back.

Before its parliament lays a new bill, supported by the president, which would issue the death penalty to gays and lesbians. Yes, the death penalty! This is anti-gay legislation from a barbaric kind. And not just gays and lesbians are targeted. If you know gays and lesbians and you do not report them to the police you are guilty too and will face tough justice. Kick that!

We are about to go into 2010. Ten years into the 21st century and then Uganda is about to pass such a prehistoric law. Inhuman, barbaric, violating basic human rights,... against everything progress and civilisation stands for. If Museveni allows this to pass, he should be banned from entering civilised states. Isolate him!

It’s amazing while the world is gathered in Copenhagen trying to save its future; Uganda decides to go back into a dark age.

Human behaviour is often shocking. Sadly so.

From Uganda to New Jersey, but same battleground.

Old rocker Bruce Springsteen is on the barricades in his home state of New Jersey to support the equal-marriage bill that is being debated there. It's welcoming that The Boss is vocal about a worthy human rights cause. He might be old but certainly still knows when to stand up and fight.

The bill, supported by New Jersey’s governor, would stipulate equal rights for same sex couples as it sees it as a basic civil rights issue. Bruce joined in and wants the voices of those who believe in equal rights for every citizen to be heard and to be heard loud and clearly.

Right on Bruce, right on. Maybe Museveni should listen to some Springsteen tunes and get enlightened.

Human behaviour has sparks of hope.

But then again, human behaviour remains too often disgusting. Former British prime minister Tony Blair, also known as the Bush-poodle, said in an interview that he would have invaded Iraq anyway even if his (and the CIA’s) spies didn’t tell him Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

Now, in the mean time we all know that Saddam did not have any of those weapons and that the US presentation before the UN Security Council (by then Secretary of State Powell) about the need to go to war to stop Saddam from making the bomb, was a pack of lies. Only lies, total lies, disgusting lies. So we know that.

Now Blair comes out and says that he would have gone to war anyway. Why? So first he is treated like a dumb kid by his so called US friends as Washington passed on fabricated “proofs” to him, and now he says he was war-hungry anyway anyhow. Why? To remove a dictator? Noble cause, but maybe then start with Zimbabwe, China, Burma, Sudan,....

Blair should just shut up and leave politics right now.

Human behaviour and its lies.

Get this. Between the start of the month and December 11 (so that is less than 2 weeks) there have already been 186 people killed on South Africa’s roads. It’s like a slaughterhouse. It’s worse than a warzone.

South Africa already has one of the world’s highest crime rates, but it is clear that just getting from point A to point B is a pretty risky business too.

If you look at population size and extrapolate these road-death figures from South Africa to the USA, you would have 1240 people killed on American roads in 11 days. For China that would be 5514; and for the United Kingdom 252 killed on the roads in 11 days. It’s all very mad.

From mad humans on crazy roads to mad humans in an old-age home. Welcome to earth.

In Dartmouth in the US state of Massachusetts a 98 year old lady strangled and killed her 100 year old roommate. Kick that. Never too old to kill.

Apparently Laura Lundquist killed her roommate Elizabeth Barrow because she was sleeping closer to the window than herself. The human race has slightly gone nuts here. Wires tripped in the head.

And how do you serve justice on a mad 98 year old pensioner? Sentence to life? From an old-age home to a prison cell. Might be an adventure for Laura. A welcomed change of scenery. A last thrill before a last breath.

Mad, mad, mad.

Human behavior is a killing zone. From death penalty for gays and lesbians; to death and destruction across Iaq; to carnage on South Africa’s roads; to Darthmouth’s strangling oldie.

Is Prozac still available?

Throw out. Yes! The Mighty Mighty Bosstones; the kick-ass, Boston, ska-rockers; are back with a full album. “Pin points and gin joints” brings 14 tracks of pure entertainment. These lads have been around for a long time but still kicking it. Great tunes, great vibe.

C-Ya

collateral – December 2009 slowly sliding towards its final hour