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Americans have blogs, talk shows and podcasts about man/woman relationships but have no clue about how the rest of the world feels about them. It’s not important because they are the eternal father Christmas. They vote for aid for Ukraine to fight the evil Russians. They don’t know how the conflict began and the difference between Ukrainians and Russians. It doesn’t matter. Congressmen don’t know and don’t care. They’ll just vote along party lines. Americans do not know anything about the cost of foreign policy. Donald Trump is a blessing in disguise for countries that hate America because of envy or helplessness. G7 countries don’t necessarily love America. They are indebted to Washington because of history, when the U.S. came to Europe’s rescue during the second world war. America came with troops, candy and cigarettes to save Europe from Nazi Germany. I don’t know what kids are taught in school, but that is the foundation of American foreign policy in Europe. We saved you 25 years a

If men got pregnant, there'll be no war. 'W hen I grow up.' Children born during a war and partially grow up in a war do not think that far, about growing up. It is one day at a time. Sometimes, they take sides very early in life and join the side taken by elder brothers and cousins. There are no dreams of adulthood because they might die in an air raid or a soldier can kick the door down and that’s the end. The soldier has a mother somewhere at the capital city where decisions about war are taken. She cannot be blamed for giving birth to the soldier because women are not around the table when attack or retaliate decisions are made. It’s important work, men’s work.  “Don’t worry your   pretty little head about it.”  Women’s only responsibility is to give birth to man power, soldiers or resistance fighters. It’s tradition. Not just in your country but in all societies. Women give birth to sons but men decide how they die. Women have one role, to wait and wait and wait, then

My right eye is twitching. No, I won’t see a doctor. It means I might meet an old friend, a long lost cousin, a favourite high school teacher or a beloved ex. It’s bad news if the left eye is twitching. I might get bad news or cry. C’mon, that’s old school mumbo jumbo.  I see, like #13 being bad luck? Let’s try this hypothetical situation about an old acquaintance who has elevated herself to ‘friend’ because she meets me Toronto. I tell her I work on the 13 th  floor of that blue building. If she’s a new immigrant, she’ll drop by one day unannounced and security will escort her out of the building because there is no floor with that number. It’s a belief that nothing good comes from #13. I don’t know the reason, but I’ll do some research one day. You think twitching eyes are mumbo jumbo ? Wait till you hear about hands. I will come across some money if my palm is itching. No, I don’t go to casinos or sell strange concoctions online, but I will get some money mysteriously. Maybe the cas

What is money? What is its value? It depends on whether it is the British pound or   pula , the Botswana currency. Botswana is the second biggest producer of diamonds after the Soviet Union, but the  pula  has a lower value. Money has no value. Interest does. The air we breathe and water had no ‘monetary’ value before the British invasion. Humans and animals shared these resources. From time to time, snakes bite us on the leg and run away, but there was peaceful coexistence between humans and animals, until pieces of silver. We pay with debit and credit cards now, but the origin of money is a piece of paper where A gave B something and B promised to pay. If B failed to pay, A grabbed his land, houses, plantations in the Caribbean or slaves. That promise to pay had a time factor. If B failed to pay, the promise increased in value. Time passed and the promise to pay became bank notes, pounds with the Queen’s head. Pennies were the bridesmaid, which brings us to Canadian cents. Canada dec

One man's meat, is another man's poison. We have no respect for people who came before us thousands of years ago, because we press a switch and electricity floods the room; we cut down trees and put murals in public parks; we put something in the microwave oven and dinner is ready and we pay other women to get pregnant for our husbands. If people of long ago are dumb, we smart, why is it that proverbs are still buoyant as they were all those years? 1.  One man’s meat is another man’s poison. One man’s Biden is another man’s Trump. 2.  Two’s company, three is a crowd. If Donald Trump becomes U.S. President #47, he will choose one Vice President and the crowd will have to disperse. 3.  Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. The Republican Party put all its eggs in the Trump basket. It fell on  30 May 2024 , when the jury in Judge Merchan’s court found him guilty on all 34 eggs for falsifying business records in order to win the 2016 election. Did I say eggs? Sorry. I mean 34 felo

Donald Trump and Alina Habba, one of his lawyers. Debates between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the man he defeated in 2020 will not change the resolution millions of Americans took after, 6 January 2021. Based on that alone, Donald Trump will lose the November election because it will be Republican voters showing their revulsion, at his treasonable act. Joe Biden will remain in the White House but history might repeat itself. Which is? He might borrow a page from Gerald Ford’s script and pardon Trump. On September 8, 1974, President Ford gave Richard Nixon, the former president responsible for the Watergate scandal, a ‘ full, free and absolute pardon’ for crimes he committed or may have committed against the United States. Pardoning should be on the table because there are two pardons at play. With the Supreme Court in his corner, Donald Trump is delaying his criminal trials because he believes he will win the election and pardon himself. The other pardon is in Biden’s hands w

Ashleigh Merchant, lawyer for Trump's co-defendant Michael Roman tainted Nathan Wade's relationship with Fani Willis as sordid and mercenary, to try and kill the Rico case against Donald Trump a man found guilty of rape and paying hush money, to a former porn star. I was wrong. I maintained in all my blogs that Donald Trump’s delaying tactics were bearing fruit. He would not go to his criminal trials before the November election. Today, 30 May 2024 , the jury in the election interference case brought about by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney has a verdict. After hearing all the evidence in Judge Juan Merchan’s court, it unanimously found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts. I want to bury my head in the armpit in shame. Where am I going to hide all these blogs, where I said Donald Trump is untouchable because of friends in high places, especially the U.S. Supreme Court? One thing for sure, I won’t take them home as hand luggage, the same way Trump unilaterally demo

Donald Trump will probably go for a dress fitting now. Not for a wedding, but for a prison uniform fit for a former president. All the friends he betrayed did time. Now it's his turn. Breaking news : May 30, 2024. Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts in the hush money payments designed to interfere with an election. Next thing on the agenda? Prison threads. OLD BLOG MAY 6, BELOW. Otisville prison in upstate New York, is getting a bed ready for Donald Trump, should Judge Juan Merchan throw him in jail for defying gag orders. Trump, who still regards himself as the U.S. President, must not expect the correctional facility to make major renovations for him or get him an oak credenza. Let him appeal the cell decor to the U.S. Supreme Court, if he wants. The official prison name is the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI Otisville), and is defined as a medium security federal prison. Medium security or not, I hope they wear orange uniforms like all U.S. inmates. Why do you think Trump

Cops are security guards in some stores now. I saw them yesterday. Public reaction to the police varies. Some people smile and feel they are safe. Others become apprehensive, is there a crime in progress? Others do like Katt Williams, the famous African American comedian. In his comedy specials, he says he just flops down, hands on his back, ready to be cuffed without committing any crime. But police officers in a clothing store? I saw them yesterday and it brought back memories of seeing them more than once, in a mega grocery store in this town. I found it scary because they stood near the door with hands inside their body, ready to pull out the hardware. I can’t blame the pandemic, my usual scapegoat because this happened around 2019. Some locals got concerned. Why is the police guarding a grocery store? They should hire a security company. It turns out it’s a side hustle. The store pays off-duty police officers to nab people with a propensity to pick-and-not-pay. They are still in t

The internet is the lying capital of the world because there’s no perjury. The world? You know what I mean: the world online, as in the air. What is perjury? I’m no lawyer, so allow me to borrow this definition: “The offense of willfully telling an untruth in court after taking an oath or affirmation.”   What is an untruth? It’s the absence of truth. Excuse my English, but it is lying. The internet is the lying capital of the world because we don’t raise our hands and take an oath. We just say this pavlova was my mother’s recipe, when in actual fact, we stole it from Russian or Ukrainian cooking sites. Mothers in their graves have a problem with that. They cannot believe that their good-for-nothing children can stoop that low, live an ‘untruth’ and attribute it to them. We lie online because we get away with it most of the time, not like politicians. Example. Donald Trump, the man who wants to be king, went to the Bronx last week to drum up support for himself, not the Republican Party

Left-right: Deion Jr., Shilo, Shedeur and their 'old man' Deion Sanders. Great news. Shilo Sanders is up and about after surgery on his pinky that took him out of circulation. Let’s hope he heals quickly and goes back to his team, Colorado Buffaloes. Zulu Lesson My only interest in the matter is how Shilo Sanders used to mock the old man (his father) about his missing toes. Now look who is having the last laugh. He who laughs last, laughs best. Now let’s look at a Zulu proverb. (Inxeba lendoda alihlekwa) which literally, talks about a wound. You must not laugh at someone’s wound because you can be wounded tomorrow. Shilo Sanders is the comedian in the family. In 2023, he liked to taunt his father about the toes that were amputated. Shedeur Sanders is the bodyguard, Coach Prime’s bodyguard. He would watch his brother making fun of the old man and just smile. Shilo Sanders had fun about Coach Prime’s missing limbs, not knowing that one day, he would be the one wearing a hospital

Except for Anishinaabe (indigenous people), Canada is a quilt of imported women, a patchwork from the south, north, east and west of this world. Canada gave us refuge and time passed. We became Canadian women. Yes, that is the beauty of a quilt, isn’t it? Therefore, we refuse to be divided into a.m. and p.m. During the day we are given certain instructions. Don’t smoke like Canadian girls. Don’t wear make-up like Canadian girls. Don’t sleep with boys when you’re still in school like Canadian girls. Don’t wear short skirts like Canadian girls. Don’t hang out in shopping malls like Canadian girls. Don’t talk back to husbands like Canadian women. Don’t go to nightclubs like Canadian women. What happens at night? Men conduct prayers, put daughters and wives to bed, then leave the house with brothers and cousins, to enjoy the services of the very Canadian women they label as scum. I first witnessed the hypocrisy of men of a certain religion in London, England. Nightclubs will go out of busi

Cook the foundation shown below. Add carrots and cook for 4m. Cook for 7m if it is sweet potatoes. Eat.  Cooking foundation? Yes, onions and tomatoes. I don’t have pots. Obviously you do, if you have a stove. Yes, you can cook if you have the basics: onions, tomatoes and olive oil. You chop and slowly cook them in olive oil with a little salt for six minutes. This foundation will help you make many meals. 1. Place chicken pieces  on the foundation , add some water and cook slowly for 1 5  minutes. Eat with green salad or rice. 2. Cut liver into medium size pieces.  Place them on the foundation , pump up the heat and cook for 3 minutes. Eat with bread, Italian polenta or stiff corn meal. 3. Open can of baked beans, place on foundation, cook for 5, eat with bread or rice. 4. Soak beans overnight or a few hours. Cook for 40 minutes, depending on type of beans.  Place them on top of foundation  and simmer for 10. Eat with bread or rice. 5. Defrost peas,  place on foundation  and cook for 6

Dad, how did you vote in 2020? Ask your mom. Mom, how did you vote in 2020? There is no answer because the vote is secret. Some husbands don’t brook debates on anything. Their word is law. If Republicans are ‘family history’ then it shall be. Problem is, he’s alone in the voting booth and only the pen knows whether he made a tick next to Biden or Trump. Movies are supposed to be fiction, but I learned something from the movie  The Distinguished Gentleman  starring Eddie Murphy and Sheryl Lee Ralph. Let’s say the vote is on removing power lines from residential areas. Congressmen cannot hide how they voted, because it is announced. His constituents back home in Iowa will know if he is a two-timing person. An authoritarian husband cannot prove if the wife voted blue or red. In fact, he is so sure of his authority, he tells himself she wouldn’t dare vote otherwise. He can’t even buy her flowers, slide closer to her and ooze romance. “Who did you vote for honey?” Which is why I still don’t

  U.S. President Joe Biden during State of the Union address, Vice President Kamala Harris claps, House Speaker Johnson on the right. Will Joe Biden pardon Donald Trump in 2025? He has nothing to work with. Debates between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the man he defeated in 2020 will not change the resolution millions of Americans took after, 6 January 2021. Based on that alone, Donald Trump will lose the November election because it will be Republican voters showing their revulsion, at his treasonable act. Joe Biden will remain in the White House but history might repeat itself. Which is? He might borrow a page from Gerald Ford’s script and pardon Trump. On September 8, 1974, President Ford gave Richard Nixon, the former president responsible for the Watergate scandal, a ‘ full, free and absolute pardon’ for crimes he committed or may have committed against the United States. Pardoning should be on the table because there are two pardons at play. With the Supreme Court in his

Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D). I know I routinely accuse Hollywood of using the same screenplay over and over again, but I must admit that movies also gave us a glimpse of how American institutions work. Police. Courts of Law. Congress. Colleges. New job? There’s always someone to show you around the workshop, factory, hospital ward, garage, the library, hotel, locker room, lawyers’ chambers or U.S. Congress. What is frustrating about politics is that on the ground campaigning is different from being in Washington D.C. New city, new office, new corridors and formality. Congress has rules of engagement. This is how you ask a question. This is how it is replied. This is how you ‘get mad.’ We get mad because we’re human. After the November presidential election, some Americans will find themselves in Congress for the first time. It will be daunting but they will remember what happened between these Congresswomen. - Jasmine Crockett (D), representing Texas, 30 th  Congressional

City Hall cleaning bus shelters. In Washington D.C. Special Counsel Jack Smith is waiting for the Supreme Court's ruling on Donald Trump's immunity claim. He knows it will throw him under the bus, like the Colorado insurrection case. Special Counsel Jack Smith has Plan B, he will put in motion when the U.S. Supreme Court rules that indeed, Donald Trump has immunity against prosecution for crimes committed when he lived in the White House. It’s a done deal. Trump will walk. We know what happened to Roe v. Wade  and how he boasts about how he killed it. Jack Smith tries to think ahead, especially because he is dealing with somebody that changes shape like an amoeba. Last year, Smith wanted to get the immunity barricade Trump was erecting out of the way. So he approached the Supreme Court to give an opinion ASAP. On 22 December 2023, the justices declined and said he must go through the whole legal chain first. In February 2024, a federal court ruled he has no immunity from prosec

Student protesters can be divided into two: those that believe in the issue at hand and those that do it because it is the in-thing to do. The latter also involves the personal. You are clueless about the whole Israel and Gaza conflict but your boyfriend or girlfriend is passionate about it. You don’t want to lose him or her, so you forget the sacrifices your parents made to send you to college and join him/her in the tent you plant on campus grounds to force the administration to divest from Israel. You even put the tent on the credit card mummy and daddy gave you. It’s worth it because the camping tent is rather cozy, especially at night. The first group believes in the nature of the conflict, which means they weighed both sides and decided on protesting for Side A, not Side B. This group understands the academic and future consequences of bringing the university or college to a standstill. They understand that college administrators are also future employers. Students understand tha

Some stores did not survive the COVID-19 pandemic. I don’t know about your city. I thought it was smaller businesses in strip malls or stand-alone coffee shops, until I saw a FOR LEASE sign on a corner Starbucks. Pandemic or not, it had a steady clientele because of government offices, hotels and apartment buildings. Coffee houses have two  kinds of traffic: drink inside and takeaway. I’ve always wondered how Starbucks in particular, made money because of strays, people who buy one cup and sit there for hours. Other strays brought laptops and other digital ammunition. My idea of a successful coffee shop are scenes in movies like  You Got Mail  starring Tom Hanks and English Vinglish  starring Sri Devi, the late Bollywood star. Busy, busy. These movies have busy coffee shop scenes. How do you know that Starbucks is a pandemic casualty? Maybe less people are drinking coffee. I’m certain it is another casualty because a sister Starbucks in a busy mall uptown, also shut down after the pand

Whose brilliant idea was it to have coffee shops in bookstores? We are supposed to buy books and read them at home. If we read them for free while having coffee, we won't buy them. We are forced to return home now. Starbucks coffee shops we used as an excuse to run away from the wife, kids, in-laws, boyfriends and girlfriends, continue to close their doors permanently, in this town. I don’t know about the U.S. and other countries. If I had access to the company’s financial records, I would be able to come up with a credible diagnosis: the what, why, when and how much. Since I don’t, I will maintain that the coffee shop chain is having problems because it lost direction. It became a patio, a lounge, a dining table, a study, a den and an office, not a place that sells coffee to take away, or sit down for a few minutes, drink and go. I’ve always wondered about profit. How does Starbucks make profit from someone occupying a table of four, buys one latte and stays there for two hours? M

“Back off. Don’t give me no community story. I do what I want." Something happens to you, then your family goes online to beg for money. What is a community? The definition varies.  Sociologists have their own, so do anthropologists, a field that I distrust. I studied Anthropology in college and for the likes of me did not understand how someone who did not speak languages of indigenous people of Africa, Australia, North America, New Zealand, Asia and South America could write books about their customs and culture. A very loose definition of a community would be a group of individuals that share a common interest, religion, language or habitat. The latter could be a piece of land, church, submarine, fire station, fish market or the internet. The internet does not have a physical space like a village in Poland or Trinidad and Tobago islands, but it is a community for all intent and purposes because it has all the attributes of a traditional village. The only exception is that there

Most countries in Europe and Canada prefer families with small kids. Why?  They are future consumers. Older people don't buy anything. Five eyes? That must be a strange creature because humans have two. Yes, immigration has five eyes, something I gleaned from @odunlamiLawFirmLLC, recently. Apparently, the immigration five eyes are Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, U.S.A. and New Zealand. They share information. Therefore, forget about lying on your application. They’ll catch you and stamp VISA DENIED. It’s easy to share data because they are former British colonies. The U.K. is the ‘mother country’ as we were taught in school. Lying in general is not a good idea, unless you have lawyers and accountants. Ordinary people cannot afford to lie, because lies end up, biting us in the butt. We have always known that Canada border control and its U.S. counterpart share information. It started in the summer of 2019. That is why it’s possible that four friends can rent a car in Vancouve

Call me simplistic but common sense tells me what I see in the mirror, is the most beautiful creation in the world. I’m not Jesse B . Semple , a character created by Langston Hughes, who brought Harlem to the world through his short stories, essays and poetry. Jesse B. Semple is too formal so, the author simply called him ‘Simple’ a guy who lived around 125 th  Street, and other Harlem streets. Harlem is in New York, U.S.A. for the uninitiated. Simple loves himself. I also love myself because the mirror tells me so. I used make-up very late in life, because of friends. They said it tames a shiny face. Julia, my friend in London also wanted to pluck my eyebrows. She pulled one hair and I screamed. She never got to the second one. Such pain! It was also because I didn’t see the point of tampering with a perfect product, that is me. If you know me, you will testify that I still have both eyebrows I saved from Julia. Call me simplistic, but I don’t understand how some people don’t like wha

We need some investigative journalism about what went down between Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. Why did she endorse him?  Photo:  Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in All The President's Men,  a movie about investigative journalism. All The President’s Men  is a non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, which was made into a movie, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford. It is about investigative journalism that led to the fall from grace, of U.S. President Richard Nixon.  Nikki Haley’s endorsement of Donald Trump a few days ago will make a great film and guess who will write the screenplay? Yours truly. I kid you not. Why not tweak that 1976 title, All the President’s Men and add a woman? All The President’s Man And A Woman Seriously though, Nikki Haley was going to succumb at some point and endorse her former boss Donald Trump. Her autobiography is at the first draft stages, so I cannot wait for it. That is where she will tell-all about how she cornered Donald Tru

 Donald Trump appointed Nikki Haley to this U.N. position, when he was president. Old blog 6 March 2024, when Nikki Haley was still on the campaign trail. This is a quote from Michael Steele, one of the MSNBC hosts. You also remember he knows the lungs, veins and kidneys of the Republican Party because he is a former RNC Chair. “Let Nikki Haley do Nikki Haley until she cannot do Nikki Haley,” pardon me Michael Steele, if I missed some bits and pieces. I heard him on a show he co-hosts. Steele was part of a panel that was discussing Nikki Haley, who was still on the campaign trail, even after candidates like Ron Desantis, Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy and Chris Christie had thrown in the towel. Why is she still running, when Donald Trump is the heir apparent to the throne? Some party members and the media tried to nudge her out of the door. The heir apparent wanted her kicked out, period. Michael Steele said it’s up to her. It’s her decision to stay on the campaign trail as long as she wan

Here's the deal Donald. My voters have no common sense. When I say jump, they say how high, and they'll make the great leap to you. What I want in return, is a surprise.  There was a deal. I don’t know what Donald Trump promised Nikki Haley to convince her to come back home in prodigal daughter fashion, because Mama said eavesdropping is rude. The thing is, Nikki Haley never left because like all family members, she does not denounce the 6 January 2021 insurrection. A Trump endorsement is an endorsement for the violation of the Capitol. The two are like the tongue and saliva. Inseparable. The deal. Allow me to pretend I’m a speck of dust in some of the conversations Nikki Halley had with Donald Trump. Donald Trump : People voting for you in primaries embarrasses me. Nikki Haley : What do you want Donald? Donald Trump : Say it. Tell Americans you endorse me. Nikki Haley : No can’t do. You don’t need me, remember? Donald Trump : I’ll make you Vice President. Nikki Haley : I want