WTF?

How in hell does this cartoon pass the scrutiny of logic?

Obviously the Observer has no sensible editors in that grand building of theirs.

Maybe the cartoonist needs to expand his horizons a little, read something other than porn, and maybe he will know that there is far, far more to read than pornography.

The guvament’s tax on books will guarantee that more Jamaicans will be as dumb as he is.

Pornographic magazines represent less than 1% of the reading material available in bookstores and pharmacies, but he would know this if he had set foot in one of the same establishments wherein his books have been sold.

Clovis has zero creativity and credibility left,  but as long as Butch ah pay him he will continue to be Butch’s bitch.

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Besides, everybody knows there is far more porn on the internet.

Free too.

Perception

Ok, Bruce did his job. Good.

As the minister of defense he would have committed political suicide if he wasn’t as up front in the hijacking as he was, what with the budget due to be read in parliament.

So for leading from the front, good job.

Vaz on the other hand, in his capacity as information minister was very disappointing, sounding very much like the english-challenged lout i believe him to be. When asked questions about the matter his difficulty in getting the information across was embarrassing.

However, I am sure that many thought he did a good job, and that is up to them.

BUT!

Neither of these two men were anywhere in the ‘field of fire’, and at no time was in any danger. So to call them ‘Heroes’ is quite a stretch.

The Observer will do anything to prop up the guvament’s image especially when they delivering more and more hardship on people.

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Bruce spoke to the nation ahead of Audley budget speech, to calm nerves and reason with the people about the further hardships they face.

Good.

Some credit his talk to the nation as a reason why there were no riots, others in the media credits a Jamaican populace with being more politically mature.

Maybe.

The ever-increasing courseness of Jamaicans seemed to have let this opportunity slide.

Good for them.

However, the last time that a Jamaican guvament tried to impose a gas tax and the people rioted, afterwards there was whispers everywhere that the riots were instigated by the then opposition, to disrupt the guvament’s plans for the country.

How true that is depends on which side of the fence you fall. If you are a PNP supporter then it is absolutely true. If you are a JLP supporter then it’s all lies. If you are sensible smaddy, you wouldn’t put any underhanded dutty scheming past either of the two parties.

Of course another take would be that PNP supporters are less violent than JLP supporters.

But what I beleive the real reason  for the calm reaction to the budget is that we as a people have taken too many hits lately that we have been cowed into a near submissive mass.

We dread losing the little work we have because time hard so we wait on others to say something.

The high murder rate, has us keeping our heads down so as not to get it shot off. Besides we don’t want anybody to see we a protest , that may cost us our jobs or our lives or both.

We realize where acting up  may lead to no job, no money to pay bills or to eat food.

The guvaments of Jamaica are nearly successful in eroding our free will.

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As of this writing the guvament has yet to give the full details on the newly taxable items, maybe they using the weekend to give themselves and us some breathing room.

Or they still making it up.

Maybe they feel that spreading it out would ease the shock. It probably has, but one could start to get the feeling that they don’t know what they are doing  and are merely stretching things out to make it seem substantial.

The PSOJ is in love with Audley’s budget, how it’s fair and is necessary and good for this country. Maybe, but none of them has asked about the real impact it will have on the ever-growing ranks of the poor. Questions like:

What effect will the tax on gasolene have on the cost of food, which will also welcome new members into the group of products affected by GCT?

How will this affect the Jamaican worker whose pay has been frozen and therefore means that their spending power is significantly reduced.

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There are actually some who believe that teachers, in demanding their back-pay, are unreasonable in these hard economic times.

Let me tell you what is unreasonable, doing your work for an agreed amount, only to be shorted for a very long period of time, to now see taxation and cost of living flying up, to have been promised what is due to you, and now be told yuh can’t get it.

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Nex’ Time.

Butch’s Bitch Again?!?

 

(taken from Jamaica Observer website Jan 16, 2009, 8:45am)

A few questions about this cartoon:

1. Are they implying that the failed economy is the fault of the BOJ Governor?
If so, I was unaware that the BOJ Governor was in charge of the economy. Silly me.

2. My Ignorance abounds, could they explain to me how the BOJ Governor was responsible for the slide of the Ja. Dollar?

3. Why the different versions of the cartoons?

Print version differences include:

• A top hat instead of the pointed dunce cap.
• T-shirt says: “Jamaica NO Problem”.
• No dogs.
• An extra yellow paper with “WE PUT HIGH INTEREST FIRST!”

Did the lawyers advise Clovis to remove the dunce cap? Could it have been seen as defamatory?

And was the extra flyer added at Butch’s request to deliberately mimic the PNP’s “We put people first!” slogan of a few elections past?

Sure they will claim that the artist wasn’t pleased with one version and therefore fine tuned it.

Or that multiple versions were done and the wrong one was used (either print or online).

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Whatever the reason, the common elements could very well be misleading.

What is funny is that the PNP has been on the right side of many arguments of late and this feels like Butch and his Bitch of an artist is trying anything to deflect from the guvament’s ineptitude.

…But What Do The Dons Have To Say?

Now that our elected officials have voted their “conscience” to keep the death penalty, what do the many “dons”/area leaders have to say about it?

Consider that the Minister of National Security and the Minister of Labour have both come out in favour of the criminals themselves having a say in the long delayed, oft quarrelsome, long ago promised and seemingly stalled crime plan.

Are the “dons” going to now give their full support to whatever the final plans are, as hanging is definitely still on the cards?

Will we, the regular law-abiding(for the most part) people, now be faced with even more delays of the pretty toothless plan, because the “dons” nuh inna de hangin’ ting?

Will the eediat ministers see how stupid it was to even suggest that criminals should get the chance to determine aspects of the law, at a time when our wish, the wish of the people of Jamaica, is to be rid of these parasites once and for all?

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p.s.

yes Clovis!

We get it!

Portia was absent for the vote, when her backside should have been there! We naah go vote fi har if snap election run, but you must admit Bruce dem a mek all Mark Wignall have doubts!

 

How about cartoons lampooning:

The contract awarded to Rodney Chin’s company? One would think they’d want to avoid possible embarrassment.

Or the long delayed report on the sand theft? Why still so much silence in the matter?

The JTB shenanigans? Firing the board appointing their friend to head the board and direct tourism?

The fairy tale, la la land that Audley must live in? The economy is going to get hit hard!

The twenty-four million dollar an acre land deal with their political sister in the Hydel deal? You have to admit the reasons given the changing story and that their friend got a hefty sum does look fishy.

Sigh…

I Guess the Bitch will always side with the guvament.

Did they really ask the public if this is how they feel about the matter?

I’m sure the public is concerned about people losing their work.

Or is it that all who challenge the guvament will be painted in such an unfair manner.

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When they were campaigning, the chant was “JOBS JOBS AND MORE JOBS!”, who knew it meant that people would be losing theirs.

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Ahh Bitch!….

Not quite “the pirate with a blade to a child’s neck”, but just as despicable.

Depicting the JTA pushing the child out with a “We Want Pay Hike” sign, is yet another example of the paper’s bias for the guvament. The guvament that already agreed to the pay hike, but were too coward sign a statement saying they did agree to it.

Why must teachers continue to suffer with the pittance they getting?

No wonder so much of them a run go a foreign.

Butch’s Bitch …again

Sunday 24th of August, 2008. Yet another depiction of our nations educators as pirates.

I suppose I should be relieved that this time they are not depicted holding a blade to a child’s throat.

Clovis, the cartoonist, was once universally respected by all. Even some of the stinging cartoons ridiculing the political parties did not insult the readers. Now however, he seems to be merely parroting the views of the Observer chairman, who is now staunchly pro JLP. To the point, that rather than pour scorn on the disgraceful pronouncements branding our nation’s educators as extortionists, have instead sided with the Bruce and continues to do so almost daily.

Clovis must really need to eat a food.