I’ve always had a bit of a laugh at Mark Wahlberg (and Donnie too, for that matter). From his days in NKOTB to his little white rapper stint, he’s always been a kinda jokester to me.
The idea that Marky Mark of the Funky Bunch could become a serious Hollywood action star, with the clout to even produce a TV show based on his own experience (Entourage, you reprobate); far-fetched, you’d think.
But nope. He’s there, oh-look-at-me I’m-an-Irish-American-action-character check-out-my-scowl I’ll-shoot-you Mark Wahlberg, doing his thing. And I haven’t really been taking him seriously.
Until now. Minnie and I went to see We Own The Night on the weekend, and it’s was a pretty good flick. Marky’s a cop (ya think?) with a junkie brother and police chief dad. I won’t lay it all out for ya but this flick is hard, ek se.
And the opening scene helped (Eva Mendes flashes a titty).
Justice will prevail.
That’s what gives me comfort.
So no matter how tired we feel, no matter how much stress you put on my back, no matter how hard they make my life … justice will prevail.
Even if the rest of Africa forsakes us, and notwithstanding how deep Thabo Mbeki shoves his head up his ass. We don’t mind.
Because we’re Zimbabweans. We can handle the pressure. We’ve seen it all before. This is all basically Gukurahundi writ large. So it’s nothing new. And in a largely Christian nation, we hold onto one of the basic tenets of that belief.
That someday your just desserts will come to you. And you’ll get what you’ve paid for. The tax-man cometh, and he’s not bringing fucking chocolates.
Justice will prevail.
I have just been watching some balding Zimbabwean British-based ‘political analyst’ offering his punditry on the BBC.
This guy was asked how the community was responding to “Tsvangirai’s move” to quit the election, and he went off on how people were disappointed because they were preparing to celebrate that “come Friday, Mugabe would be out of office”.
He seemed a little pissed that MT spoilt his party. Well, sorry dude.
Aside: credit to the producer for playing the clip from Sunday’s abandoned rally in the background, with people being chased down and whipped.
Look, chum. It may be fine feeling betrayed from your cushy couch over there, but it’s not sunshine and fucking roses back home. The terror is palpable, and people are in real big shit.
Also, consider this. MT and them weren’t ready to concede, but after getting input from the people on the ground, those being chased around and terrorised, the MDC leadership appears to have taken the high road.
How do you ask a young student to go act as a polling agent at some remote school in Chinosviramakudo North, knowing full well there’s a huge chance he’ll have his balls cut off and mailed home in the back of a police Defender?
It’s one thing to advocate for change, another to die for it.
Not that I count the New York Times as one of my trusted news sources. Lately, I tend to filter from a wide variety of sources and make up my own mind. But this breaking article was definitely worth quoting. An excerpt.
Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.
Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP … are in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq’s largest fields.
Yeah, I think I’ve just had my “Ah HA!” moment. More follows (if you have the stomach for it).
The no-bid contracts are unusual for the industry, and the offers prevailed over others by more than 40 companies, including companies in Russia, China and India.
Oh, of course. No-one else can get a look in now, and it appears that “suspicion among many in the Arab world” was justified, innit? War for oil? Ya think?
The Bush administration has said that the war was necessary to combat terrorism. It is not clear what role the United States played in awarding the contracts; there are still American advisers to Iraq’s Oil Ministry.
Oh gosh, they’re not even pretending, are they? At this point, it’s also worth remembering George W. Bush’s many family, business and personal ties to the U.S. oil industry.
As the altar-boy said to the priest … are we done yet?
Eddie Mambo says fuck off and leave Joe alone.
Joe agrees.
