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KENYATTA DAY: THE KAPENGURIA SIX WERE THIEVES NOT HEROES

2010-03-22T05:09:00.000-07:00

For those of us who do not know how it came about may be we need to shed some light on the so called Kenyatta Day.
On 20th October, 1952 a few men who were accused of belonging to Mau Mau were rounded up by the colonial regime and sent to detention at Manyani detention camp. The victims included Jomo Kenyatta, Kung'u Karumba, Paul Ngei, Achieng Oneko, Fred Kubai and Bildad Kagia. They came to be known as the Kapenguria six.
I find this historical events significant not because some men were arrested and detained for engaging in a struggle to liberate our country from the colonial chains but because history gives us a sense of belonging and appreciating the values that hold us together as a people with common history and destiny. This standpoint therefore calls for historical facts to be put across to us so that we may be fair in rewarding and punishing those values that either kept us together then or those that pulled us apart. That is the second reason history exists. To tell us who we are, why we are here and more so who is responsible for why we are what we are. It is then incumbent upon us to decide who we should reward and who we should punish.
The Mau Mau war was fought for two reasons. One to bring back the land that had been alienated from the black man and two to recapture the freedom that had been taken away from the indigenous people. We shall recall that around 1928 the Kikuyu community had sent Johnstone Kamau ( Later Jomo Kenyatta) to London to take complaints to the royal crown on matters of land by the subjects of the Monarch. Kenyatta instead joined the para military training college in London and served as para military officer until 1945 when he heard that Kwame Nkrumah, Marcus Moziah Garvey, Julius Nyerere among other luminaries were meeting in Manchester to espouse and propound the concept of Panafricanism. He remembered that that is what he had been sent to do and therefore crossed over and joined the luminaries in their meeting. In 1946 he came back to Thogoto and the rest is history for you.
But one thing I have always admitted is that Kenyatta was a man who was at the place at the right time and something always happened just by his mere presence. For example in 1946 when he came back Kenya African Union(KAU) and the members of the a forty group transformed into the radical Mau Mau triggering an unprecedented political force that grabbed global headlines in the world press. People like Franz Fanon died regretting why he never met Dedan Kimathi and help him fight in the forest. Kenyans must, however, be told the fact that Jomo Kenyatta denounced Mau Mau as a retrogressive group that did not stand for what he believed in. His lawyer, Professor Thurgood, cemented this view in the court abroad and locally. That was partly the reason Kenyatta was so angry with the Mau Mau fighters that even after independence he sought to punish them by denying them the chance to recover their lost land. The debate continues to date.
Now other people like Paul Ngei surely, theirs is even more hilarious. Actually Ngei had no role in Mau Mau nor in the struggle for Kenya's liberation. It is believed he was a pick pocket and so when the swoop was carried out the colonialists thought he could fit in that camp. He became a liberation hero in the process and Kenyatta loved him and rewarded him dearly after independence. For Achieng Oneko, it was a case of a man caught in the wrong/right place at the wrong time. After all it was emergency time, anything at sight was being apprehended. Otherwise Oneko had played no role in the struggle for independence. Not even in his homeland, Kavirondo, where the struggle was hot.
The point I am driving home is that our country has fallen in the habit of rewarding the wrong people and punishing the right ones. Why for example did we have to name 20th October as Kenyatta Day and not Kimathi Day? We all know what Kimathi stood for. It is best captured in the immortal dictum, 'I had better die on my feet standing than live on my knees for fear of colonial rule!' Yet to date as a country we do not know where his remains were buried! The least we could demand from the Britons is not actually compensation for their having destroyed our cultural values but that the remains of our hero-Dedan Wachiuru Kimathi be located and given a decent send off.
And this is my plea to those crafting for us a new constitution. We must now confront these lies we have been told for over decades. We must change the name of the 20th October holiday. We must change the name of that University called Kenyatta or Jomo Kenyatta and Moi or even Lord Egerton. First we must ask ourselves whether it is necessary to name those institutions after people's names then ask ourselves whether those are right people to name. If it a must then Kenyatta University should be named Tom Mboya University. Moi University should named Kimathi University and Egerton University should be named Pio Gama Pinto or even Mekatalili University and Jomo Kenyatta University should be named Koitalel Arap Samoie or Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University.
Coming down to other areas like street naming in the city centre for example, why do we have a street like Mama Ngina when there is no street named after J.M Kariuki?
I submit that this Kenyatta Day should teach us a few lessons and more so serve as a reminder to us that we need to get our history right and interrogate the popular views that we have all along been told. We must reward the correct people and identify our heroes right.
I submit that the people we have rewarded as heroes in the country are the thieves who stole such rights from those who deserved it. It is time we gave back those titles to those who rightfully deserved!

An Evil God?: Introduction

2010-03-07T22:27:00.000-08:00

Introduction

“The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction,” says Richard Dawkins, “but it is not the sort of book you should give your children to form their morals.”

Like most Christians, I once thought that the Bible was the only source of morality for humanity. The thought that it could teach immorality would have been blasphemous. It was the most beautiful book in the world, written by God himself.

In other words, I was delusional. Even though I had read the Bible many times, I could only see it through the lens of faith. If anything was confusing or seemed out of place, it only spoke of my unfaithfulness and ignorance — it couldn’t be anything wrong with the Bible itself.

With that perspective, the Bible cannot be proven wrong. The Bible doesn’t contain contradictions, only paradoxes. God isn’t schizophrenic, he’s mysterious and beyond our understanding. And if your prayers don’t work, well, it’s because you don’t have enough faith.

It’s amazing that anyone can escape the cult of Christianity after using that kind of circular logic for so long.
The Bible Can Support Anything

As history attests, the Bible can be cited to support almost anything. It can inspire both good and evil, for it contains both.

It can be used to support pacifism (Jesus says “do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.”) and war and genocide (God commands Saul to “strike Amalek and [destroy] all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant…”).

It can be used to support slavery (Paul says “slaves, obey your masters with fear and trembling … as you would Christ”) and human dignity (Jesus says “love your neighbor as yourself”); misogynism (Paul says “women are not permitted to speak [in church], but should be in submission,”) and equality (Paul says “there is no male or female … you are all one”); in obeying government (Paul says “let every person be subject to the governing authorities”) and disobeying government (The apostles refused to obey the Roman authorities saying they “must obey God rather than man”).

It can support killing those who disagree with you (God said “you shall not permit a sorceress to live”) or to love and pray for them (Jesus said “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”).

It can support intellectualism and reason (God said “come, let us reason together”) and blind faith (Jesus said “blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed”); family values (Paul says, “if anyone does not provide for his relatives … he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever”) and family hatred (Jesus says, “[whoever] does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters … cannot be my disciple.”); monogamy (Paul said “each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband”) and polygamy (God said “if [a man] takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food or her clothes…”).

It is the same with God. He is a forgiving God who “forgives iniquity, transgression and sin” and an unforgiving God who sends a flood to destroy everyone on earth and banishes anyone who does not believe in Jesus to everlasting torment in hell. He insists he is a just God, yet to prove his justice he cites his unjust practice of “visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” He is love itself, yet hated Esau from birth. This can go on.

Is it any wonder there are so many sects of Christianity that all disagree?
Because It was Written by Men

The Bible can support all these positions because it was written and changed by men throughout thousands of years. It is not, as Christians often claim, a cohesive, peaceful, loving, perfect, God-written treatise.

I am not denying that the Bible has many inspiring and morally uplifting stories and teachings — it does. But I also think we too often ignore or forget the dark side of the Bible.

I’m going to show you that side by looking at some of the stories from a different perspective. As we will see, Yahweh is not just the God of love and justice, but a God full of wrath and jealousy, who delights in acts that most of us — without the blinders of faith — would consider the height of evil.

MALE VS FEMALE ATM PROCDURES

2009-11-30T06:26:00.000-08:00

MALE PROCEDURE:
1. Drive up to the cash machine
2. Put down your car window.
3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN.
4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.
5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt.
6. Put window up.
7. Drive off.

FEMALE PROCEDURE
1. Drive up to cash machine.
2. Reverse and back up the required amount to align car window with the machine.
3. Set parking brake, put the window down.
4. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card.
5. Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up.
6. Attempt to insert card into machine
7. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car.
8. Insert card
9. Reinsert card the right way.
10. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.
11. Enter PIN.
12. Press cancel and reenter correct PIN.
13. Enter amount of cash required.
14. Check makeup in rear view mirror.
15. Retrieve cash and receipt.
16. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside.
17. Write debit amount in cheque register and place receipt in back of chequebook.
18. Recheck makeup.
19. Drive forward 2 feet
20. Reverse back to cash machine.
21. Retrieve card.
22. Re-empty handbag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided.
23. Give dirty look to irate male driver waiting behind you.
24. Restart stalled engine and pull off.
25. Redial person on cell phone.
26. Drive for 2 to 3 miles.
27. Release Parking Brake

15 GOOD REASONS WHY ALCOHOL SHOULD BE SERVED IN OFFICES

2009-11-30T06:14:00.001-08:00

1. It's an incentive to show up.
2. It leads to more honest communications.
3. It reduces complaints about low pay.
4. Employees tell management what they think, not what they want to hear.
5. It reduces accidents caused by bar-hoping and encourages car pooling.
6. Increase job satisfaction because if you have a bad job, you don't care.
7. It eliminates vacations because people would rather come to work.
8. It makes fellow employees look and sound better.
9. It makes the cafeteria food taste better.
10. Bosses are more likely to hand out raises when they are wasted.
11. Salary negotiations are a lot more profitable.
12. Employees work later since there's no longer a need to relax at the bar.
13. It makes everyone more open with their ideas.
14. Eliminates the need for employees to get drunk on their lunch break.
15. Employees no longer need coffee to sober up thus helps the company cut down on excessive employees such as the tea girl.

Black Man's Prayer...

2009-09-23T05:57:00.000-07:00

Oh Lord we humble ourselves to you this day and ask you to forgive us our sins, although we have none. This is because it is not us who killed Jesus Christ, it was the whites. He was betrayed by white man, and they sold Him to another white man who ordered that He be beaten. It was the whites who even voted that He be crucified.

The name of the betrayer was Judas Iscariot. We do not even have such names.

We have the likes of: TIBAGWA, BYARUGABA, OGBANJE, OBAMA, MATHENGE, OWITI, KIBAKI, OYOMBO, MATAKWEI, MUKHULULI, MUGISHA, MARIGA, etc.

We don't even know where Golgotha is, where He was Crucified. We only know how to go from MASINDI to KAMPALA and back. We have never been to any of the Bible cities. So, we could not in anyway be involved in the crucifixion of our Lord. if you do not believe us you could even watch the movie "PASSION OF CHRIST". There is no African there.

Please Lord: Let Africans be rich and the white man work for them.

AMEN.

Another Day Another .50 cents

2009-09-15T02:17:00.000-07:00

Q: Why are condoms transparent?
A: So that sperms can at least enjoy the scene even if their entry is Restricted!

Signboard outside a prostitute's house:Married MEN not allowed. We serve the needy, not the greedy...

New AIDS awareness slogan:Try different positions with the same woman instead of same position with different women.

Why is $ex like shaving?Well, because no matter how well you do it today... tomorrow you'll have to do it again...

Q: What will happen if earth rotates 30 times faster?
A: Men will get their salary everyday and women will bleed to death.

Q: Why do 90% gals have left boob bigger than right?
A: Bcoz 90% boys are right handed.

Q: What is the difference between a PANTY & a STAGE CURTAIN?
A: When you pull down the STAGE CURTAIN, the show is over, but when you pull down the PANTY..... it is SHOWTIME!

Q: What is the similarity between a wife and a chewing gum?
A: Both are sweet in the beginning but become tasteless and shapeless laterAdvantages of having an affair with a married woman.They give like hell.They do not yell.They do not tell.They do not swell and there is no wedding bell!

My dad told me that if Adam and Eve were Chinese, we would be still in Paradise .
Why?Because they would have eaten the snake instead of the bloody apple!

USA 2- Spain 0

2009-06-25T23:15:00.000-07:00

USA 2- Spain 0 that was shoking defeat to the spanish !
who would have thought about that moreso we are waiting on the final against Brazil..
My Money is on Brazil...

Micheal Jackson is dead this YES for REAL.
At the age 50,

I feel so BAD. I want to SCREAM. It's like I lost ANOTHER PART OF ME. Why did you have to BEAT IT so soon? Just another sign that stress is DANGEROUS. Someone needs to HEAL THE WORLD. WHO IS IT going to take to fill your shoes? You kept on saying LEAVE ME ALONE and we gave you hell, forgive us but that's HUMAN NATURE. R.I.P Michael you Rocked MY WORLD.

On the local scene Today's mbuzi is on me so if you can make it to Nyahururu Sports Club..See You there lol

Enuff said TGIF...

Big Business e.g. EABL & Keroche

2009-06-24T00:49:00.000-07:00

But let's start with the real rot in the society ergo the product of the current parliament !

Personally I don't consume alcohol after 20 years..
(personal preference)but I'm big on independence of business in Kenya in general. As Businessman I believe strongly in diversity for strength.
EABL has products like alvaro,malta-guiness which my family consume in volumes. Don't forget next to Safaricom, EABL remits a lot to the Exchequer. This is an industry we cannot overlook or underestimate..
Keroche on the other hand is an equal partner in the development of Kenyan owned business (s) also a contributor to the Exchequer.
My final point is the more the merrier..be blessed.

Have A Great Friday & wknd....read on.

2009-04-17T07:23:00.000-07:00

In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexualRelations with a male animal is punishable by death.

(Like THAT makes sense.)
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In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman's genitals, but is prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.

(Do they look different reversed?)
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Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers. The sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times.

(A brick?)
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The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation. .

(Much worse than 'going blind!')
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There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time.

Reason: under Guam Law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry.

(Let's just think for a minute; is there any job anywhere else in the world that even comes close to this?)
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In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband's illicit lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.

(Ah! Justice!)
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Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England but only in tropical fish stores.

(???)
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In Cali, Colombia , a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens, her mother must be in the room to witness the act.

(A kali law????)
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In Santa Cruz , Bolivia , it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.

(I presume this was such a huge problem that they had to pass this law?)
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In Maryland , it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: Prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises.'

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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

(Who volunteers for these tests?)
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The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

(From drinking little bottles of?)

(Did our government pay for this research?)
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Butterflies taste with their feet

(Ah, geez.)
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that.)
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Starfish don't have brains.

(I know some people like that, too.)
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And, the best for last?

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

(And I thought I had bad breath in the morning!)

Welcome Folks

2009-04-10T00:59:00.000-07:00

Welcome Folks