The Quality of Mercy

Jury hung in Bodden trial
CNS news article

That is one strict Judge - and all because they couldn't agree a verdict.

No wonder people don't want to do jury service.

I wonder what happened to the defendant?

Glad he wasn't on my case after I got into that fight with the nuns at the zoo.

It was a mistake anyone could have made.

I was standing by the penguin pool and turned around to see what I though was a clutch of escapees so I started tossing 'em back over the fence. It was damp weather and my glasses were misted up,

OK I'd had a couple of drinks, but so had they by the fight they put up - and the language!!

Still got some bitemarks from that one. Sister's of Mercy my eye!

Why people read Blogs

My expectation of hearing 'reality' from realty people isn't that high so I was more amused than surprised to find this website  http://www.caymanluxuryproperty.com/island-lifestyle * still telling it like it isn't.

"The Cayman Islands have for many years enjoyed a thriving economy with literally zero unemployment"

"The cost of living may be about 20% higher here than in the United States (one U.S. dollar is worth only about 80 Cayman cents), but you won't  .... feel afraid to walk around at night. The reason being, it is one of the safest islands in the Caribbean. The crime rate is very low because there are no guns allowed"

 

"Add political and economic stability and you have a secure environment for the whole family."

Is that a class act or a class action, what do you think?

Wake up and smell the cordite!

* Caution - website loads slow as a dog and hogs all your browser resources.

Healthy Eating

MLAs grill Health Minister
CNS news item

Surely things haven't got that bad - have they?

... still a free lunch is a free lunch.

Hands up who want extra dumplin' wit dat?

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The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

If the national symbols were created today ...




National Anthem
1. O land of offshore wheezes
And verdant greenbacks fair
With the Creator's glory
Ripped up 'bout everywhere.
O sea of lies both white and grey
Merging to darkest black.
Our young men heading Northward,
Because of guns and crack


Chorus:


Once welcoming isle, set in blue Caribbean Sea,
I'm leaving, leaving very soon, O dangerous isle, I flee
Although I once roamed widely,
Without hindrance or let,
Dealers, gangstas, pimps and ho's
Soon put and end to that.


2. Away from ghetto blasters,
Their booming cankerous Rap,
Words without shame or decency,
A philosophy of crap.
Like Mount Trashmore's rare aroma,
Which wafts down unto the sea,
Our politics are garbage.
I won't be missing thee.


Chorus


3. When tired of all excitement
And glam'rous worldly care,
I'd fly on down to Cayman
And find a welcome there
But greed and spite and envy
Have claimed most every man
'Tis then I mourn the place that was
Beloved Isle Cayman.

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