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Why going back in time won't make you money on a sure bet.

So you got yourself a time machine and a copy of a Sports Almanac from 1950-2010 (in T&T it would be a Cricket Almanac but these days you don't need to bet on the West Indies, you KNOW what the outcome's going to be anyway. :)) But if you DO have an American football Almanac and you DID go back through time. . . lol not as sure as you'd think. Check out the info-graphic below.



Source: Time Travel Sports Betting

Now I have a counter idea. Why travel back to 1950? Just travel back a year to the previous season, bet and put the winnings in a bank account. If you do that 5-6 times going back 5 years and betting bigger amounts. You would have an account already open in the future with the winnings.

Hmmm something to think about?

Maybe the whole time paradox thing might come into play here. . .

11-3

Well thank God Trevor Sayers lost his deposit.

Remind me to tell you all how I know this man. But not now, now let's look at the intital results.

PNM Strongholds remain PNM strongholds . PNM "tillah Dead" Point Fortin surprised me actually. I'll have to look at the official EBC numbers but from what I gathered from the news, its been a close call. San Fernando was a surprise, but more surprising was that Diego Martin went PP. I feel the PP would have gotten more in POS had the COP been given a chance to run there. Just my thoughts on the matter. (NOT Trevor Sayers mind you) I really DO believe that man's going up caused a SIGNIFICANT number of COP people to stay away from voting. As I had said before the GE: low voter turn out means that strongholds remain strongholds. In this case the PNM voters ACTUALLY stayed away from voting. This could be one reason for the wins in Tunapuna and Diego Martin.

Just a thought.

Now as usual I am calling on the Government to START the process to reform both the Constitution (as promised) AND as a result Local Government. Remember this will be all for naught if the system remains as it is, it just shows that the UNC would rather keep the status quo under the guise of "Power to the People" and go along happily.

I would NOT really want a repeat of 1990 thank you very much. This time this PP Government needs to be in it for the long haul and the PNM needs to come out of the 18th century slave master mentality and evolve or die.

I'll speak further on the LGE when I get the results. Till then, keep your ears on the ground and listen for the thunder.

Oh and I'm going to be writing about the 1990 coup just to let you all know why the PP needs to be careful. Stay tuned for that.

Let's see how far the rabbit hole goes

Today is voting day for the LGE.

Go out and vote for the councillor who YOU think will best do the job and ALWAYS be vigilant, the system that's in place for the LG, definitely NEEDS reform. Push for that and push for constitutional reform!

This is the only way we can see a better T&T!

Stop thinking and go do!

Death. . .

"Be not proud, for some have called thee mighty. . ."

Prize goes to anyone who can name the poem and the author! But on to more serious matters. A big hullabaloo has emerged in the past week over the resumption of the death penalty. Jack, started it, as Jack seems to be the leader of the "loose ships sink ships" society, the other is:

I rest my case. But moving to the matter of death. I say kill them all. That's the ONLY way to rid this country of the menace of gang warfare! Kill those sons of bitches they deserve to fucking die. I mean how can you chop up someone and throw them away like garbage?! I mean WHAT THE FUCK! Kill em, hang em high!

We got justice when we hung Dole Chadee and his gang! They deserved it! The misery that they wrought, the families are still suffering to this day because of those evil men! Thank God when they were hanged the hangman said he'd need years of therapy to get over what he did. God bless the witnesses who saw the shit spill from their bowels as in the momenet of asphixiation their muscles relaxed. I spit in the face of you Dole Chadee and your family, some who were young enough to be in school, who murdered in cold blood, how do you like it at the age of 18 you're struggling to breathe as the stench of shit, piss and sweat assails your nostrils but you can't take a breath? I say it GOOD FOR YOU! Die fucking pig. You've murdered and raped your last.

We'll turn your house into a rehab center for the drug addicts YOU caused by the peddling of drugs that created smaller little gangs all over. We destroyed your empire when you were the emperor and you contorlled the gangs all over the country. No longer would people look up to you, but look at your grave and say, he was a bad man for organising all those gangs and making his money off ill gotten gains. Millions from corrupt practices and creating a community and a network the country has never seen, and will never see again.

For now the little boys who's fathers you paid and made rich, now kill their own to fill the vacuum of the power that has disappeared. Its civil war in the streets of T&T. 10 years of it and more. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold. The barbarians who were kept in check seized the oppurtunity, and the massacre began. Fuck those innocents in the way.

This is OUR TIME NOW.

Meanwhile the families STILL suffer. They go to bed at night weeping missing their loved ones and have to contend with the bloodlust of a nation hell bent on killing anyone who scares them shitless.

Fear controls and dictates. Fear turns to desperation when we cannot find an answer. The clocks ticking down and we haven't finished the exam yet. We just give up and do some killing in the name.

That will solve everything.

Do you know where a gang member comes from?

And who's a gang member?

Something to think about.

Jack Warner and Roger Joseph Made a deal

I got this today in an email. . . I think the PP has duped us. . .

My Absence

I'm sorry readers if you haven't heard from me in a while. The ol' arhritis and rheumatism is back with a vengence! :P Just a short note to say that I have been observing the hustings for the LGE and I have become VERY disgusted. 1. The UNC have put back the SAME people in their hardcore areas to run, this is turning off voters who were looking for meaningful change. Remember the guy I told you about in my last post? Well, he's running again. The COP had to FIGHT to get ANY seats in the LGE and the UNC STILL believes their canidates can win in certain areas of the country over a COP candidate. Haven't they learned that THAT doesn't work? I have never SEEN a LGE being fought as a GE but all the postings and press ads and news items are showing that the UNC intend on taking all the seats away from the PNM. Where I agree that in the case of the LGE the PNM losing ALL its seats is to be wished for, it does not provide fro good governance, for you see, we NEED the PNM. Just as light needs dark to shine, the PNM is needed to oppose the People's Partnership. However in the LGE situation, once your PNM councillor wins, will he be able to do the job effectively?

Not likely.

And lets not even START talking about the MASSIVE corruption that will happen on the LGE level AFTER this election. . .

2. WHY IS THIS MAN GOING UP?



COP, you've all gone insane. . . imagine if he WINS!?

Sigh. I'm going back into my hole for a while and see what happens next. However I DO still encourage you to go out and vote. In THIS case if you think the COUNCILLOR has done the work he or she was supposed to do for the last 15-20 years on the Local Government Level, then by all means. . . do what needs to be done. If not, STILL do what needs to be done, if you can, put someone else.

There may be a message. After.

Cracks in the wall

So here's the deal. Our Prime Minister, a month into her office, has decided to put us into another election. Ok, so LGEs have been long in coming, but I think it could have waited a few more months. The simplest explanation, and I am by no means a political analyst, is that the PM is trying to do what Patos did, try to catch the Opposition off guard. What she has done, however, is expose the seedy underbelly of the People's Partnership. The whole "Jobs for the Boys" attitude that I spoke about in my last post, is the axel that this wheel is running on.

To secure the UNC's strength as a viable party, the PM hopes to win ALL of the seats against the PNM in the local constituencies. Where in a NORMAL scenario this might make sense, the People's Partnership is by no means "normal."

We have the COP and the other "orbiting" parties that come into play. TOP is out of this one as they have to fight THA elections POSSIBLY in 2012. So in the end the UNC is faced with the question: What do we do with these little COP people who feel they bigger than they are?

The Answer? Bury them.

I have heard from a reliable source that the UNC officials organising the LGE this time around have firstly failed to show for meetings with the COP and others and have, when meeting, maintained that "We don't need you anymore, we will fight LGE on our own against any member you put up." Discussions are still happening but as f the writing of this post, the UNC wants 80-90% of the councils and the COP can have the rest (the PNM held areas like POS etc)

Like the PM putting Jack in the Co-Pilot's chair, the LGE is signaling the UNC's intention NOT to use this as an opportunity for growth, but as an opportunity for greed. Its an unholy mess. The UNC internally cannot exist without Warner AND with Kamla's popularity running out of gas as time moves on, the UNC NEEDS the other members  of the coalition just as much as they need them.

However the whole greedy nature of the UNC people have started to come through. They won, Patos is out, screw you COP and NJACK and MSJ people, WE IN CHARGE.

PNM style nepotism all over again.

I had a chance to meet the Councillor for a council on the east west corridor, I will not name names. But he's renting an apartment below his house and he ONLY managed to build these apartments because he's been "skimming" off the top for little things here and there from infrastructural developments in the area he's in. He had told me that the back of the house wasn't finished because he needed to wait to see what new projects are in the pipeline in the area so he can "get some more things to finish up." You believe this corruption?? He's been in there since the UNC was in power! Are we going to put another one like him in!? Now mind you he's a nice guy and he DOES do a lot for his community, his area is clean and relatively developed as far as East-West corridor places are "developed" so can you really fault the man for taking a little thing here or there to fix himself up?

I think stealing is stealing. That's what I think.

The UNC doesn't want the "new politics" peddled by the COP on the Local level because:

IT WILL SCREW WITH THE BUSINESS THAT THEY HAVE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TOO!

Under the PNM the UNC people had to survive SOMEHOW because yes this business of Government is just that. . . a BUSINESS and this is how they did it. The whole thing blew up in their faces when the "Sheriff" (who himself was a councillor steeped in the same corruption) put the whole stinking mess on the news with his "gun toting" antics and HE was labeled the "Best Minister!" Go figure.

The PNM is right, the darn LG NEEDS reform, the whole bloddy system needs reform! You think that's going to happen if the People's Partnership starts to crack internally because some small minded greedy individuals want to keep the status quo?

This is the beginning of the end. Where does it stop? when does the wheel of corruption grind to a halt?

Maybe never.

I guess we DO get the Governments we deserve.

We fight on.

Jack In the Box

I was going to call this "Jack Warner" but that's boring. The Jack's sprung and all those who warned us about the bogey man called "Jack" are "tut-tutting" and saying, "We told you so."

I am speaking about the appointment of Jack over Winston Dookeran as acting PM, by Kamla. "But DeepThought. . ." you say "What's the big deal?" The "big deal" is that the coalition is in the early stages of cracking.

I hate to admit it, but Patos was right. The PNM was right, I predict by the end of the year if maybe later, we will be going back to the polls.

Why would I say this?

Two things. Firstly the Government is 30+ days into its term and 30 days into its much touted on the Platform "120 days of immediate action." I have waited and not said anything up until now, but what is apparent to me, AND to a lot of other people is that the coalition is suffering from a simple disease. "Rudderlessness." Kamla has the people on her side, but that's slowly fading, all the running around beautifying things is to show she "cares" BUT so far things on the policy front seem quite grim. Jack Warner's appointment is only the last straw that has got me writing again. Why in heaven's name would you put the ONE man that has such a cloud of conspiracy and corruption, in charge of the country while you are away? "New Politics" my ass, you just replaced Lenny Saith with Jack Warner. Its a sign of "giving jobs to the boys" You fucked it up Kamla. Jack already is at loggerheads with the Integrity Commission, has a pall around him so think you can't see the nose on his own face, and HE'S LEADING THE COUNTRY!? This is not a fete. This is madness.

Giving Dookeran the acting PM job is a SYMBOL. You remember the symbols of the campaign Kamla? By putting Dooks you signal to the people that you TRUST him and the COP to be EQUAL partners! He is MORE than qualified! If he had turned it down I can understand, but at this point you pull a Patos and didn't consult, you just DID it, or SEEMED to have done it without "consulting." Was this the "deal" you struck during the internal elections and the GE? That once you won Jack will be the right hand man forever?!

Fuck Dooks you say, Jack is more suited.

I say Fuck YOU Kamla. You did shit. MONUMENTAL Shit.

The second thing is leading off from the first. A rudderless gov't is the result of the whole "Job for the boys thing" seen in the appointment of Jack. For example, one such "job for the boys" appointment was Minister of the People, Mr Glen Ramhadarsing. He has not a CLUE what he's doing. That "Ministry of the People" is a PAPPY SHOW. Its only a matter of time before the people start burning tires. . . wait the squatters have done that already haven't they? Wait and see, mark my words, the burning of tires and all that coming RIGHT back to bun Ramhadahr in he ass. The man's on Facebook apparently and "frennen" ONE SETTA gyual (watch all the other UNC MPS eh, they doing it too, ONE setta young girl with "sexy pics") You think we stupid?

Get OFF YOUR ASS and do some work.

The ONLY people doing any stinking work is the COP people. Anil reopen Wallerfield for racing, good move, tour the Tarouba Stadium and basically LAID it out that Fellas, big steups, we broke in this Ministry you hear? Dooks already sound off, Treasury in a mess and we have PLENTY wok to do. All Jack could FUCKING do is open the PBR from 4am to 6am WHEN NOBODY ON THE FUCKING ROAD! This government start bad. I have more ranting to do. But suffice to say, we need to start making noise. I have one more post that will rock your world* related to this. Stay tuned.

a note on the picture. That particular "Jack-in-the-box" is under a recall since 2003. See more here. How appropriate! :)


*or at least make you go hmmmm

Centering Your Breathing in Yoga

I hear a lot of people complaining about being "Pissed" I have been there, I am STILL there in a way, that's why I write this blog, so that I can journal some of my thoughts. Yes they can go very deep, but in the end we're not into being superficial, we want the answers. lol Well the FIRST thing I have learned while thinking is that to successfully think, you need to clear your mind. Sounds confusing? It isn't only with clarity of mind will you received that thought that once eluded you. Being calm and centered should be everyone's goal. Its not easy, but it should be tried!

How do I clear my mind? By centering my breathing. Now let me warn you, this isn't as easy as it sounds AND it takes practice. But let's make a start eh?

The process of centering one’s breath is called ‘Pranayam’ in Yoga. Pranayam is extremely powerful technique of ancient yoga. The concept behind this breathing exercise is quite simple. In the process of breathing exercise, one has to maintain a rhythm of breath. When the air moves in the body, it creates harmony. This harmony creates a healing effect, and therefore, it is very good for the body. . .

. . . When you perform initial exercises, you will notice the benefits in a day of two only. The first effect of centering of breath is that your mind will become very calm. When you practice the advanced techniques, you can never suffer from severe cough, cold and a lot of other diseases.So, the process of centering yoga is quite simple yet extremely powerful. Those who perform Pranayam on regular basis rarely fall ill.

Here's what you do:

1. Sit with your back straight in a comfortable chair, NOT a lazy-boy or soft armchair. You can do this lying down BUT its better to do it sitting. If you lie down you WILL fall asleep, and if that's your goal, cool. :)
2. Put your hands in your lap one hand in the other. Relax your shoulders.
3. Place your feet firmly on the floor, flat and relaxed.
4. Take a NORMAL breath and on the exhale breathe ALL the way out as much as you can. Then
5. fill your lungs all the way up by breathing in normally but exhaling when you have filled your lungs.
6. Do not PANT. Do not Breathe HARD. Just breathe normally. In and out, exhaling all the way, breathing IN all the way.

When you do this a couple of times start concentrating on your breathing. The exhale and the inhale is ALL you're going to be concerned about. Feel your chest rise and fall. Feel your feet's contact with the floor, your shoulders relaxing, your body relaxing as you concentrate on your breathing.

Do this for five minutes. (believe me it will not seem long after you do it a few times)

Now here's the HARD part. You have to stop thinking. You will discover that when you do this exercise you will notice ALL the thoughts running through your head, a cacophony of noise that you never actually LISTENED TO, but is there impacting on your brain. "DidIturnoffthestove.didIputthecatout.Mybackitches.Ishouldhavepaidthatbillbefore.whyisitsohot?hasfiveminuteselapesed?Iwanttolookatmywatch.Dumdeedumdeedummdaddada. . ." And so on. When you begin the excercise this is normal. The practice comes in IGNORING these thoughts and thinking only of the breathing.

But what happens next? When you stop thinking you start calming down. You start relaxing and your brain starts resting. 5 minutes of this every morning will help you deal with the day better.

Trust me.

Now stop thinking and go breathe! :)

excerpt taken from www.maniacsportfan.com

Raising the Angostura Bitters

So I was sent this a few days ago and thought it worthy to share. Trini's constantly look for ANYTHING that smacks of home and one thing that ALWAYS smacks of home is having a bottle of Angostura Bitters. I was once told by a bar man in Paris that he had a bottle of the stuff and had NO idea what it was for. It was just collecting dust on the shelf as decoration. Well the ENGLISH seemed to have more luck using it. The writers and producers of "Raise the Titanic" worked it in to the script to give the scene some Cornwall "local flavour" but isn't it cool for it to be said in a movie? Trinidad should spend more time catalouging things like this and using it to put ourselves on the map.

Too bad this movie was BAD. (The book wasn't that good either) Come to think of it NONE of Mr Cussler's books are that good. . . lol check it out here:

This is getting serious. . .

This is the latest NASA Satellite pic of the Gulf Oil Spill. Amazing isn't it? This will not end in a few years, this will affect the planet for the next 50 years! Sigh. I am going back into the cave for a while. :P Sad just sad.

Some words of Advice. . .

From Mr Rowley to Mr Warner from Hollywood.

Bruno's Ready for Football. . .

. . .are you?

Love it.

>

Its FOOTBALL season!!

Tomorrow Trinidad stops and for the next month will be glued to the TV. Personally my team never made it. Yes I am die hard T&T supporter, but we shall not speak anymore of this. :) I haven't decided yet who I will support although I'm leaning towards England and maybe Italy. However I know that these two won't win. But then, things that have happened in the last few months have! For all you know the United States will win the world cup. lol So to kick off the month here are some of the sexiest supporters in the World Cup. Enjoy!

 

See the rest here. Sexy World Cup Fans

Chuck

This is so funny. Just had to share it.

Shoeboxblog.com

Anti BP images from the Internet

Coming off of our election its evident that the internet has become an ally. But what if it becomes a foe? I am not defending BP in the least for its HUGELY deficient way of handling this oil spill, on the contrary, they SHOULD be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Yet we have to wonder, if BP falls what happens to us here in Trinidad? We can see a HUGE problem if the company folds and has to lay off its local workers. We will have a major social catastrophe on our hands here AND in every OTHER country that BP resides in. But we can't dwell on the future too much, except to watch it unfold. Regarding the internet, where it was a boon to one political party it was the bane of another. In this case the internet is proving hard to "spin" for BP. Have a look of some of the anti-images conjured up by citizens horrified at the event.

Credits: Super Mario Killed by BP! by Zero Lives
some images via io9.com

Orgasmic Knowledge

I seem to be on roll here. Finding these things VERY interesting. I like to share. Anyone willing to test the theory of who REALLY has more nerve endings? :)


Via: Medical Insurance

Urine

Here's another one for you all. I think its good to know these things. For those "offended" by this. Sorry, but you SHOULD open your minds a little. And remember knowledge is power!

Wow. This is interesting. And Slightly Disturbing. :P

Who says I gotta be talking politics all the time. And now for something thought provoking and different:

Think about that. Now think of where Trinidad sits in there. Look at number 18. Go figure.

Ministers in the Kamla Cabinet 2010

I have some issues with this new cabinet. One is Mr Tim Goopesingh, and the other is of course Jack Warner. Giving him a Ministry with ANY set of money being moved is a dangerous thing. BUT we shall have to see. I am also looking at the Ministry of the People post. This Mr Ramadhar Singh was accused of using UNC party support in 2001 to get himself elected in the Guild Elections in UWI in 2001 I believe. However this should have NOTHING to do with how he performs mind you but as I state below, favoritism in Ministerial posts should be frowned upon! Back to the Cabinet. Here's a list:

MINISTERS
Jack Warner—Minister of Works and Transport.
Winston Dookeran—Minister of Finance.
John Sandy—Minister of National Security.
Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan—Minister of Energy and Energy Affairs.
Dr Surujrattan Rambachan—Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Rudrawatee Nan Ramgoolam—Minister of Public Administration.
Fazal Karim—Minister of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education.
Therese Baptiste-Cornelis—Minister of Health.
Emmanuel George—Minister of Public Utilities.
Vasant Bharath—Minister of Food Production.
Mary King—Minister of Planning, Economic and Social Restructuring and Gender Affairs.
Chandresh Sharma—Minister of Local Government.
Dr Roodal Moonilal—Minister of Housing and the Environment.
Stephen Cadiz—Minister of Trade and Industry.
Rupert Griffith—Minister of Tourism.
Herbert Volney—Minister of Justice.
Glenn Ramadharsingh—Minister of People and Social Development.
Dr Tim Gopeesingh—Minister of Education.
Nizam Baksh—Minister of Community Development.
Prakash Ramadhar—Minister of Legal Affairs.
Errol McLeod—Minister of Labour, Small and Micro Enterprise Development.
Anil Roberts—Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs.
Vernell Alleyne-Toppin—Minister of Tobago Development.
Winston Peters—Minister of the Arts and Culture.
MINISTERS IN MINISTRIES
Rudranath Indarsingh—Ministry of Works and Transport.
Clifton DeCoteau—Ministry of Education
Delmon Baker—Ministry of Tourism.

MINISTERS IN STATE
Colin Partap—Office of the Prime Minister
Rodger Samuel—Office of the Prime Minister.

PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARIES
Kevin Ramnarine—Ministry of Energy and Energy Affairs.
Stacy Roopnarine—Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs.
Jairam Seemungal—Ministry of Legal Affairs.
Nela Khan—Ministry of the Arts and Culture.
Ramona Ramdial—Ministry of Planning, Economic and Social Restructuring and Gender Affairs.

I like the appointment of Dooks of course and Mary King. But where I find a bit confusing is the AMOUNT of ministries on the whole! There are a ton of them that are new. . . let's hope we REALLY have the money to do this.

What I want to make CLEAR at this juncture and send a message to the Minsisters is that if I even catch a WHIFF of party favourtism in these ministries I am going to expose it. The ROOT problem of our Poitics is the whole "Jobs for the boys" mentality. This HAS to STOP. IF someone is qualified to do work for the Ministries there can be be NO prior connections with those people through either FAMILY or PARTY affliations. In other words, because I helped you on the campaign, you have to give me a little something something. Not a fuck a dat!

Let's tell ourselves its time to do things for COUNTRY and not SELF. Its doing thing for SELF that got us where we are today with the Manning Admin and the PNM. Its time to start changing the way we do things and especially on a personal level.

Savvy?

The FINAL Results.

As Promised Final Winners after recounts and the EBC declared. As of today all recounts were cancelled. In total over 70% of Trini's came out to vote. That is an increase of over 5% than the election in 2007. Remember what I had said about voter turn out. Manning was truly living in an another world. These is so much to say about this election, that has not been said already. But what you do remeber is that voting DOES work. Always remember that, you CAN initiate the change you want by voting. If Kamla et al DON'T perform, then we vote them out to. Remember that.

Constituency	COP	NNV	PNM	TOP	UNC
Arima	Roger Samuels		Laurel Lezama-Lee Sing
Arouca/Maloney	Anna Maria Mora		Alicia Hospedales
			Joseph Ross
Caroni Central			Sheila Madoo-Kurban		Glenn Ramadharsingh
Caroni East		Prakash Persad	Harold Ramoutar		Tim Gopeesingh
East			Mustapha Abdul-Hamid		Stephen Cadiz
West			Ronald Heera
Couva North			Nal Ramsingh		Ramona Ramdial
Couva South			Anthony Khan		Rudy Indarsingh
Manzanilla			Darryl Mahabir		Colin Partap
D’Abadie/O’Meara	Anil Roberts		Karen Nunez-Tesheira
Central	Nicole Dyer-Griffith	Melissa Ochoa	Dr Amery Browne
Diego Martin North/East					Garvin Nicholas
Diego Martin West	Rocky Garcia	Zawadi Abu Bakr	Keith Rowley
			Joel Primus		Chandresh Sharma
La Brea			Fitzgerald Jeffrey		Ernesto Kesar
La Horquetta/Talparo			Nadra Nathai-Gyan		Jairam Seemungal
Laventille East/Morvant		Umar Khan	Donna Cox
Laventille West	Kwasi Mutema		NiLeung Hypolite
Lopinot/Bon Air West	Lincoln Douglas		Neil Parsanlal
			Clifford Campbell
Moruga/Tableland			Augustus Thomas		Clifton De Coteau
Naparima			Faiz Ramjohn		Nizam Baksh
Oropouche East			Christin Ramdial		Roodal Moonilal
Oropouche West			Heather Sedeno		Stacy Roopnarine
Pt Fortin	Nyahuma Obika		Paula Gopee-Scoon
Pointe-à-Pierre			Christine Kangaloo		Errol McLeod
Port-of-Spain North/St Ann's West		Fuad Abu Bakr	Patricia McIntosh		Annabelle Davis
Port-of-Spain South	Gisselle Russel	Travis Mulraine	Marlene McDonald
Princes Town			Anwarie Ramkissoon		Nela Khan
San Fernando East	Carol Cuffy-Dowlat
San Fernando West	Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan	Indrani Abu Bakr	Junia Regrello
Siparia			Vidya Deokiesingh
St Ann's East		Christian Dookie	Joanne Thomas		Annabelle Davis
St Augustine	Prakash Ramadhar		Balchandra Sharma
St Joseph			Kennedy Swaratsingh		Herbert Volney
Tabaquite			Farouk Mohammed		Suruj Rambachan
Tobago East			Gizel Thomas-Roberts	Vernella Alleyne-Toppin
Tobago West			Terrence Williams	Delmon Baker
Toco/ Sangre Grande		Neil De Silva	Eric "Pink Panther" Taylor		Rupert Griffith
Tunapuna			Esther Le Gendre

Meanwhile the PNM is in it process of imploding, as predicted. There is no doubt in my mind that Keith Rowley will stay as Opposition leader, but the fall out from that may be that the PNM as a party will have to find itself on life support for a good few months. However as one commentator put it: Chnage is good and for teh PNM its even better, they will be a party that will evolve, they have no choice, eveolve or become a footnote in history.

On another serious note. This new government must be very careful. It MUST not do the old ways of providing "work for the boys" in the ministries. More on that later. Let's see how the first 120 days go.

Life goes on. Now start cleaning up all those posters on the walls and T&TEC poles!

The Magic Number 24

I am realising that the number 24 figured prominently for this entire campaign. Not withstanding that the political observers pointed out that Kamla won the internal election on the 24th of January and that the Election was called on the 24th and there were a bunch of other 24 numbers bandied about. But the FINAL count in this election kinda surprised even me. No it isn't 24. But as of today, the 25th, the count is 29-12!

My God. When I asked you guys to get registered and vote, I didn't think you would DESTROY the PNM. You mangled them. You handed them  their WORST defeat since 1986! You've made them so irrelevant to the politics that it will take some time for them to recover.

And recover they will. I predict, as I had said before, that Rowley will become the new Political Leader of the PNM, and that's NOT a bad thing. We NEED someone like Mr Rowley, wether you like it or not, to keep the opposition strong. I make no bones about this situation. This new Coalition Government has made a LOT of promises and they must keep ALL of them. Rowley will see to that.

My only problem with the results is that BOTH Marlene and Tattoo have remained behind to grace us with their unintelligent ways. But they can't do a thing. The Government has the majority and you know what THAT means! Yes folks. Constitutional Reform, AT LAST, and with Prakash Ramadhar and Winston Dookeran in the government, this will be done PROPERLY!

The swearing in ceremony is hours away as of this post.

I look forward to the next few weeks. Don't feel that since the PNM got booted out, I am going to rest. No Its time to face NEW challenges and to be honest its time to start thinking about Mr Warner, as we have said before, what's the price we paid for his help in getting the Coalition Elected?

I will be publishing the FINAL results when they become available.

Till then I would like to congratulate all our Representatives (even Jabba and Tattoo) for winning and especially to Mrs Persad-Bissesar, congrats to you Madame Prime Minster. Don't let us down.

NACTA's results

I give a LOT of credence to NACTA (North American Caribbean Teachers Association) and according to NACTA, Mr Bishram has basically reinforced what I've said from the first day the candidates were announced. In the end its the COP who will save this country and the UNC knows it. But then there is the TOP. Can they pull it off? We'll see.

You can read the synopsis from CANA here:

IN POLL POSITION: NACTA poll says coalition has edge to win Monday's election

Sun, 23 May 2010 13:51:00

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The latest opinion tracking poll conducted by the North American Caribbean Teachers’ Association (NACTA) shows the United National Congress (UNC-led) Peoples Partnership leading the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) by 10 per cent in popular support giving the coalition the edge to win Monday’s general elections.  The survey also found that Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar leads Patrick Manning by 11per cent for the post of Prime Minister. This is DEFINITELY my last post until the results start coming in. Good night and Good luck.

We stand at the crossroads

If I have anything to say at this point is to say: PRAY. The fear in the country is VERY VERY prevalent and its fear from those who shouldn't be feeling fearful. Those that clamor for change are fearful that they are taking too big a risk. I say NUTS to that. There is ALWAYS risk. Hell there is risk crossing the fucking road these days. Decisions you make informed or not are only just that ,decisions. If you live by a code and believe that you have the power to see the change YOU want to see in the country in yourself, you would not hesitate. You will not think twice. You would not consider the consequences. The decision you make can only do two things and you cannot predict the future.

I for one welcome change. Change in myself. Do you know how hard it is to write this blog? When I started this blog I thought no one was going to read it. lol No one did, but then a funny thing happened. I wrote about Marlene being like Jabba the Hutt and all of a sudden every Tom, Dick and Harry started reading this thing! lol

BTW Who is Stacy Roopnarine? and WHY is her name in a Google search and why does MY blog come up when you search her name?

I digress.

So now I've been getting over 200 hits a day on this blog and suddenly I regarded this thing not so much as a risk anymore, but a duty. I HAD to keep writing. People needed to hear what I had to say, and THAT was encouraging. If I didn't take the decision to start writing, then my thoughts would have been wasted, for bad or for good SOMEBODY out there learned a few things, absorbed some new information, broadened their minds and started thinking for themselves.

I am glad. So when you go out tomorrow to vote. The results will be two ways, the way you want it and the way you DON'T want it, but in the end you made a decision and THAT cannot be taken away from you. You now have a power beyond reason, for you can stand up and say:

I did or didn't vote for this.

Whether its GOOD or BAD. I believe that we have a destiny, we do not know what it is, but it is there and one day, maybe at the end, we will suddenly realise, this is what I am here for! For those who like "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" The answer to the ultimate question is 42.

The question is "What number do u have?" In the line of life, you're just biding your time before the decision you make makes you more than you are.

Now stop thinking and go do.

There may be a message. . . after.

Crowds a Government not Make

Or better yet, "Crowds an ELECTION not make" After observing both rallies on TV I can safely say that we are at status quo. The PNM will hold all their seats and the UNC will hold all their seats. Its now up to the TOP and the COP to pull off the seemingly impossible. Win all the marginals.

Here are the Marginals:

1. Barataria/SanJuan
2. Chaguanas East
3. Lopinot/Bon Air West
4. Mayaro
5. Pointe-a-Pierre
6. Moruga/Tableland
7. San Fernando West
8. St. Joseph
9. Tobago East
10. Tunapuna

The ones marked in red are the ones I feel will SURELY go to the COP/UNC/TOP. The Orange denotes those that can swing close. So in the end it comes down as we had said in the beginning to San Fernando West. Moruga/Tableland is also a toss-up.

But we shall have to wait and see. In the end it really depends on voter turn out. So far the special electors have gone to vote and the EBC are already reporting a higher than normal voter turn out in some constituencies. Is this a sign? We have already been told by the EBC that the list of electors is about 1 million, MORE than in 2007. If the rallies were an indicator of the upcoming election then we may see a VERY close race in favour of the Partnership.

It is inevitable. BUT the major question remains: Will the Partnership be able to hold with just 21 seats? The PNM Opposition will make ANY attempt at constitutional reform difficult. That is why Moruga and San Fernando West become so important. The People's Partnership MUST win at LEAST 25 to be safe.

Meanwhile the PNM will implode after this election. It is inevitable. Manning would have lost and Rowley looks like he will retain his seat (even though talk on the ground is that this time around its going to be close as they have declared all the Diego Martin seats as "marginals." I am not willing to go THAT far!) When he does retain his seat he and Manning will be in open warfare. (Even though you will not see it) and come the end of 2010 we may see a new leader of the opposition.

Only time will tell. Today is a day of rest and reflection.

Reflect on this. Now go vote.

Finally, Someone Told Me Who to Vote For

I found this in my inbox yesterday. I was not only flabbergasted I was saddened. This is the desperation of a party that knows it has lost. Its own people are torpedoing their own campaign. Remember what I said about voter turn out. Please read an disseminate.

"Finally, Someone Told Me Who to Vote For…..

This is my fist time voting in a national election in Trinidad and Tobago, so you could say I am a bit of an election virgin.

I have taken on the responsibility very seriously though and I am, no let me correct that, I was, an undecided voter, that is, until yesterday afternoon.

I was at my desk working around lunchtime when I received a call on my business line. It was a PNM constituency representative who was inquiring if I was happy with the way my neighborhood or constituency was being run under the PNM administration.  “Gosh”, I thought to myself, “this is wonderfully pro-active of them. The timing is a little bit obvious but still the intent is there”. I told my interviewer that to be honest I was quite happy with the manner in which my area was being run. I could not speak for other neighborhoods but we were quite happy, we have a constant flow of water, an uninterrupted supply of electricity, good and regular sanitation and a tolerable level of localized crime. “So we can count on your vote then on the 24^th?”, she asked with anticipation. My response was simple, “No, I am sorry m’am but unfortunately I don’t think so as I have some serious concerns on the national level.”  

My interviewer was now audibly perturbed and asked if I would rather vote for particular persons on the side of the People’s Partnership (here she began to name individuals one by one and make an unflattering remark on each). I asked her to refrain from doing so and if she wanted to discuss the matter perhaps we could discuss the issues rather than the personalities to begin with. The conversation got a lot better at this point and we discussed areas such as education, water and housing which seem to be popular PNM platforms. I congratulated her on the PNM’s performance in these areas but also mentioned to her that there was no evidence that the People’s Partnership would discard any of these successful endeavors but rather there was actually debate on enhancing their framework.

“Hold on a minute”. I held as instructed, I think I even held my breath.  “I am looking at your last name here and it is Indian. Are you an Indian?” This question of race truly sent me into a tailspin. Had she found my Achilles heel? Was I being combative just because I was against any race other than my own, did I believe that under the PNM, Indians would put amongst the cane once again or subdued with offers of rum and river limes and then while incapacitated be quietly forced onto the steamers heading back to the motherland? My answer – “I am partially Indian m’am but I also have Caucasian, African and Chinese in me and I am very proud to be a true brown son of our multi-racial nation.” Well maybe I didn’t sound that enigmatic but you get the just of it.

In my best Winston Churchill impression I told her that I have never made any decision in my life based on race and I never will.

I don’t think that she believed me so I tried to explain to her the methodology I was utilizing to make a voting decision. I have decided to break down the evaluation process into 3 distinct parts (now this might not work for everyone so you find a recipe that suits you). The 1^st two parts incorporate evaluating each party on an individual basis and what it stands for as well as what it hopes to accomplish over the next term. To do this effectively I have gotten hold of both manifestos and I have looked through them at length, comparing, contrasting and trying to make fair judgments.

Thus far my impression is that the manifesto for the People’s Partnership offers far more granularity for the upcoming term while the manifesto of the PNM contains much detail of what has already been achieved. I think that although many may disagree, the PNM is in a unique situation having been in power for the last seven years, as they have a track record from which they can draw. The challenge I have with this is that generally the PNM, as it has done in the manifesto, does not communicate a reference point when it describes the litany of its achievements. What I mean by this is that, did the PNM achieve what it planned, as a matter of fact what was the plan and how does the execution compare to that of the plan? Only with two points of reference can anyone make a fair and objective judgment. Over the last decade, due to the exploitation of our hydrocarbons and the overheating of the international economy, the commodity price of oil and gas (until the financial crisis) rose dramatically and so any government in place would have had a large purse to play with but the real and absolutely critical question one has to ask oneself is whether or not theses funds that belong to the people of Trinidad and Tobago were expended in a manner that added value to the people of Trinidad and Tobago and at all times. In other words, for every dollar spent (whether Yankee or Trinbagonian) are we the country and the people getting more than dollar in return.

To help me understand this better I have even attended a PNM cottage meeting in my constituency as well as a youth meeting for the People’s Partnership and afforded both parties an opportunity to express their views.

So we return to the saga that is my interview and the fact that I was never allowed to explain the first two steps of my methodology as described so eloquently above. What my interviewer did hear was that although I thought her candidate was a very strong option I could not vote for her in good conscience, as I did not agree with her leader. So now she was forced to momentarily listen to the 3^rd and final component of my evaluation - the leadership of the party and specifically the PNM.

This offered an easy segue into the area of crime and corruption. I told my now phone buddy that I could not condone much of the PM’s (this means Prime Minister by the way not Project Manager-I just want to make that clear) actions and attacks that have hurt or jeopardized the population. The foremost of these of course was the Udecott debacle and the failure thus far for the authorities to press charges on counts of perjury or otherwise but there are many others such as: the crime rate, interference in the choice of Police Commissioner, the Integrity Commission fiasco, Clico, insider trading, the construction sector war, illegal demonstrations, discrimination against the Maha Saba, emasculation of the EMA, a TT$2M flag of hubris, Tarouba, NAPA, the scholarships of shame, the devastation of the Grand Stand with no replacement, President’s House or what’s left of it, the mansion, the complete neglect of the health facilities, the abandonment of our current plethora of stadia, a licensing office from the dark ages, police stations where officers still write on scrap paper, no digital crime data-basing or local DNA testing, Guanapo religion, a 2 year wait for a new passport, cricket bacchanal, fixed deposits for the Minster of Finance, assault on the independence of the judiciary, empty skyscrapers, unwanted smelters and the Executive Presidency.

Unlike Mr. Rowley and Mr. London, I do not agree that you can vote for a party without voting for its leader; our system of government does not allow it. Mr. Manning has commandeered the party and makes decisions without the involvement of the people’s voice and in many cases contrary to public opinion. The PNM as a party has failed over the last seven years to remove Mr. Manning or control his flagrant disregard for the will of the people. I am not sure how they intend to do this if they win. To me it would seem impossible.

Well you can imagine how my telephone BFF reacted to this one. Although I only mentioned Udecott and not everything else she said that we should give the police service time, as they should not be announcing their findings during an election. I tried to explain that the two should be mutually exclusive but by now I was just saying “Yes m’am” to everything like a chastised school child.

All common sense leaped out of the window. I was told that I should not have ever attended the PNM cottage meeting as that was for loyal PNM supporters and not for people like me. I explained that I actually asked two friends who are PNM supporters if it was appropriate for me to attend and that they encouraged me to do so. They were obviously wrong according to my telephone sweet heart. I had insulted the PNM by going.

She also again expressed her disbelief that I was voting “party” and according to race. All that I could take from this was that she was not listening to anything I had said.

She then told me in no uncertain terms that I was an idealist who was chasing after rainbows, which I would never find, or happiness in life for that matter. Who knew she was my own personal prophetess. “Everyone makes mistakes.”, she said. “You are chasing after fairies”. Of course in hindsight I wish I had the quickness of mind to mention some other idealists like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Gandhi and President Obama. I didn’t - I suck!

“Are you married?” she demanded. “No m’am, not yet.” was my honest reply. “Well you will never get married. You will have to find yourself a virgin!”. Well we all know that those only exist in storybooks and Disney movies so it looks like I am doomed.

Her parting shot was, “I can’t believe you would vote for a drug addict”. Now I am not sure who she meant but I am pretty sure that if anyone who is reading this has family who are braving the difficult road of recovery, you should probably abandon them as according to her, that person is useless.

After all of this and after I found a way to dislodge my battered ego from the crater in the floor I started to become incensed with anger. How can someone who is hoping to illicit your support speak to you that way one you have very politely declined to give it? Is everyone not entitled to his or her own opinion? Do we really now live in a dictatorship where once you don’t agree or acquiesce to the PNM ideology you are castigated, attacked and cast out until you submit or disappear.

My telephone Nazi left me robbed and empty. I was robbed of one of the most basic and most vital covenants of any democracy, the ability to express one’s opinions without fear of recrimination, persecution or discrimination. Are the people of this land no longer considered sovereign and sacred? Do they not realize that whoever wins this race will form a government, which is supposed to represent and be the servants of ALL the citizens of sweet T&T and not just those who voted for them?

It seems that this crucial tenant means nothing to our current administration and the people who support them. This is the most personal and intimate experience that I have had that has proven to me that we are indeed moving towards the acceptance of tyranny.

But surely, even as disillusioned as I was there must be a guiding light, a person to help me throw off this horrendous experience and place faith back in my heart for the PNM. I decided to call the PNM candidate for my constituency and whom I met at the cottage meeting. This is going to change things I said to myself. She can fix this, right?

Well once she realized why I was calling the conversation was short lived. She promised to investigate the matter but also blamed me for engaging the lady on the phone. WHAT?? That can’t be right. This person called me and I was polite and demure the entire time, how in the world, the whole wide world, from the volcano in Iceland to the Points Lisas Estate, is this MY fault? But it was. I was wrong to listen, to be accommodating, to be polite and mannerly as my parents taught me, to allow someone else to put across their point of view and give it due consideration. I guess they are right.

For the rest of our conversation she related to me how she was being attacked by the People’s Partnership on the hustings and told me they were MY people. I don’t think she was really listening.  Maybe I should go and live in a marginal constituency.

Now what should you do? Well, my experience aside, I encourage each and every person to become informed on the stances of the different parties, to learn as much as you can about the issues and become well educated on the proposed policies and plans. Ask hard questions, on both sides. If you want more attend some of the meetings and rallies and listen to the speakers. Satisfy yourself that you have learnt enough and have given BOTH parties a fair shake.

Then and only then make a choice based on sound judgment and logical thinking and for what you believe to be in the best interest of our country. Whatever that decision turns out to be, I stand behind you.

As for me and only for me, I CYAH VOTE FOR DAT!

Signed.

An insignificant and inconsequential single voter"

Father Kenndy "Rambo" Swaratsingh

I've just been reading this article in the Express and I have to make a comment here. For the record I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mr Swartsingh is capable, I said CAPABLE of doing skullduggery. He did it before as a Roman Catholic priest. Mr Swaratsingh used the Catholic Church as a spring board to get him where he is now. The man is the ULTIMATE oppurtunist. Mind you he cannot give a sermon worth a damn as he has always been told he reads the scriputres wrong consistently. But I digress. While a Catholic Priest, and I have been told this is a well known fact, he APPLIED as member of the defense force. Not as a CHAPLIN mind you, but as a full fledged gun toting Army Man, trained to kill.

The Catholic Church has a set of rules (some may say that are broken daily, I am not here to dispute that) called Canon law that control the actions of the clergy, one such law cleary states that 

289 §1. Since military service is hardly in keeping with the clerical state, clerics and candidates for sacred orders are not to volunteer for military service except with the permission of their ordinary.

WTF Kennedy!? You disobeyed your OWN churches law and joined the Army as a gun toting solider WHILE STILL A PRIEST?! He was told repeatedly by the then new Archbishop Gilbert to choose, Military Service or Priesthood. He chose NEITHER he went into politics! This man can't take pressure you know, that's why he was bamboozling the Army (saying it was ok for a Chaplin to be trained as an army man in full service so he can get "special treatment") and the the Catholic Church (Its ok to take arms against the oppressors and the Godless, so don't mess wit me, I'm a bad ass) AND get PAID BY BOTH the church (Priests receive a stipend) AND the ARMY (they get paid like any normal civil servant.

This man seems to have no respect for the rule of law and sees it fit to use any means necessary to further his own personal ambitions. I have met Mr Swaratsingh when he was a priest, he was patronising and arrogant then and I'm sure being a government Minister in the PNM hasn't made that any better.

So when Jack buss the mark on Kennedy I was reminded of the above story. I was also reminded of the quote from Othello. "She hath betrayed her father and may you. . ."

Kennedy, all I can say is, "You so crazy!" lol Not.

The Campaign growls on.

I'm making my list and checking it twice

Its like Christmas for the People's Partnership. All around signs of the impending collapse of the PNM campaign is evident. Collapsing as painfully as the collapse of the President's House roof. Now if you ask me THAT is more symbolic that anything. Not only does it show the rot that is occurring on the insides of our PNM held government, its also showing how the PNM's priorities are so screwed up. All the billions and the HEAD OF STATE HAS NO HOUSE!?

The collapse of the roof is not only the death knell, its the bell that tolls, who does it toll for? It tools for thee Patrick.

I read with interest that all the political pundits are predicting a coalition win, BUT not a landslide. I want to make it clear that I am by no means a pollster but I do hear what the people are saying. The ONLY thing that is keeping the people voting for the PNM is fear. I had promised to write about fear but there is no point at this stage the fear has overcome the PNM, even Rowley's starting to acknowledge that they will lose. Manning has been VERY quiet since his last Trinidad & Tobago sponsored PNM "Address to the Nation" TTTI has already sounded off on this, saying that in no uncertain terms must the ruling party EVER do what the PM did that night. Use the office to plug his party's wares and preempt ALL the stations programming to do so.

This is desperation.

So what will be the final figures?

My official results are as follows: PNM 19 TOP 2 UNC/COP 20. I will publish a before and after table, my list as it were, to show which constituencies went where. I will be checking it twice.

I realised with joy that hundreds of you read my previous article on the state of the campaign thus far. I hope you learned a lot. Thanks for reading my little blog. :) Please do return. Things are going to get interesting.

While I leave you to comment on this latest prediction, you might consider this little clip from the movie 2010, the year we kicked out Manning, I mean, the year we made Contact. Enjoy.

BWTMC!?

Yeah. I'm seeing it too. Is that a bottle of WHISKEY in that youth's hand?? But What The Mudder ¢ü~†?! THIS is the youth that is going to take the country forward? THIS is the people that will be voting in on Monday and beyond?

The PNM has a lot to answer for. This picture is the straw, forget the Guanapo church! Forget the alphabet soups of UDECOTT, THIS image alone will destroy the PNM.

But there are other WTMC's to come. I will list them out:

Colm Imbert, otherwise known as Tattoo and the Court Jester is trying to use his Napoleon complex to remove an electronic billboard in Maraval. WTMC Colm, you can't lift that by yourself! You too small! Call the police they will move it for you, because like the Ariapita Incident, you can make the Police do ANYTHING but catch the criminals in your constituency.

I mean WTMC!? They carjack Kamla's car, that was bad enough, but they going and BURN down this poor guy's house?! WTMC I seeing in this country?! We REALLY are getting bad. Its time people to fight and fight hard. Get out there and get the people who are undecided to vote!

BUT WTMC is this!? Sylwyn Ryan stop being a PNM stooge and is saying the Coalition is the ONLY answer!? This is unheard of! Patrick not going anywhere but Jail at this point. . . we going to have a by election in San Fernando East even if the PNM wins, because if Kamla and Co don't get him, the Rowley Faction will! He will meet hard concrete when they throw that Captain off the ship when it dock (if it ever does!)

Its the silly season! And its not silly anymore. Its downright scary!

The Home Stretch

One week. In one week's time, we vote. I have been a bit remiss in my duties. My plan was really to get soundings and publish them here, unfortunately time and carpal tunnel have made it difficult. Yes DeepThought's arthritis is back and its hard for me to type these days. I can't afford the fancy keyboards that help with alleviating wrist pains, so pain killers, Iodex and grinning through the pain is all I can do. It takes me twice as long to write now as I did before.

Oh well that said. Here's what I think.

The official results: 20 in favour of the Oppostiion, 21 in favour of the PNM. Manning going back.

Now before you all get upset (or cheer as the case may be) I will tell you why this election is going to be unlike any other election we've had before. Never in the history of our nation has blogging and sharing of information become so relevant. The Coalition was the first out of the gate to blitz the "New Media" with ads on ANY single page. Deepthought was actually remiss. . . I should have put in advertising onto this page and become an "unofficial" conduit to the People's Partnership to click to join Kamla's Facebook Fanpage. (I am not a fan, to be honest, on Facebook I mean. I have yet to put my thoughts onto there as yet) The PNM seemed to have played "catch up" to the Coaltion in EVERY way. But what they do have is the Grassroots but THAT group is shrinking rapidly as more down market citizens get access to Facebook and the internet.

This is why I have said that voter turn out is key. We shall see if the internet HAS indeed played a role in shifting the focus from an uninformed electorate voting on tribal lines, to an electorate fed numerous different ideas through simple social media that it makes them think twice about either not voting, or voting. We shall see.

I can tell you one thing. Safely. Lots of you have been reading this page. Ahhh how do I know that? Deep thought has his ways.

But back to the results. It comes down to the three marginals. San Fernando West is the seat that the Coalition has the greatest margin to lose. Dookeran will win his seat. As well as TOP winning one side of Tobago, they say East. I will not dispute that. Where things MIGHT get sticky is in Lopinot Bon/Air but I have a feeling that will go the Coalition's way.

Some have said 19-23 in favour of the Coalition. This is becasue the general feeling on the ground is that its like 1986. What happened in 1986? In 1986 the PNM was routed by the then "Coalition" of the ONR and the ULF forming the NAR. But that didn't cause the PNM to lose. What caused the PNM to only get 3 seats out of 36 was the mere fact that the PNM supporters were so angry with the choices made by the then PNM party (internally) that they just decided. "Fuck 'em, we going to send a message." I have serious doubts that this will EVER happen again my lifetime. But then again, stranger things have happened.

Some are talking about Rocky beating Rowley in Diego West. It will be close. But no. This election is a PNM internal election and the PNM WANT Rowley to take over from Manning, so in some "alternate universe" Manning loses his deposit in San Fernando East and Rowley becomes head of the PNM.

Regardless of the outcome on Monday. I do believe that we will be back in this same position in 2 years time, maybe 3. If the Coalition has its way (according to the Manifesto) the instituting of recall and referendum may mean we're going back to the polls every two years. If Manning DOES "go back" we may NEVER see elections again. lol That's also a fact.

Strange Days of Uncle "Jack" (and I am not talking about Warner)

We're down to the wire. More to come.