The whole point, is that it doesn't matter if they gay and like or dislike ....... (fill in the blank with your particular predilection). They are just folks who can't help what or who they are. And they, like the rest of us, are just trying to get along in this world, the best the can, with the cognitive toolset that they have.

It is really unenlightened to judge them based on archaic religious beliefs. It's just awfully enlightened to not discriminate against them. It is awfully enlightened to wish for the constitutional equality of women as well. It is awfully enlightened to not like or support a corrupt political party because of the fact that they are corrupt and living a lie.

I would hurl projectile vomit at the thought of sex with a man, but that is not unique to men. A jungliss once stopped her car at Goodman's Bay and asked me if I wanted to 'pay her to party with me'. She looked like she had the entire compendium of STD's, with a whole flora and fauna of frontal love crickets and cockroaches, and I got the same feeling.

Now, I must admit, to my shame, that I have participated in homophobic talk and thrown a few homophobic slurs at specific politicians, but that was to hurt them because of their inexcusable criminality and behaviour. I'm not really proud of it, but I fail as a human because my anger at what they are doing to my country overtakes me.

If we had enlightenment and sexual orientation equality, maybe the Happiness minister would be happier, the Globetrotter minister would be less foreign, the Prime Minister could listen to his favourite band AC/DC in public and the Bahamas would be a much gayer, richer, happier and stylish place.

Union leaders join the union because they are lazy and collect a bigger salary than if they were working. Unions are the entire reason why the Bahamas is noncompetitive in terms of price and productivity in the number one pillar of the economy. Carry on union boyz, you will finish the job that crime started. Bahamians will be eating pigeon and coconut again.

Yes. Jamaican-crab-loving booger boy is named as co-inventor of "country-is-for-sale" paradigm.

It's funny how the best plan that they can come up with, is to piggyback off someone else's success. We have always done that (eg "Financial Services" - we will hide your money for you) and it hasn't served us well. It is crumbs from other people's table.

The government has pissed away millions trying to entice tourists and they have failed miserably. Right from the Hotel Corporation to the Ministry of Tourism.

And yet, I bet you that if it were in the hands of a foreign entrepreneur we would have a smashing tourist attraction -- for example a symphony orchestra playing for Ardastra Gardens Flamingo Ballet. We just haven't seen the opportunities or exploited them because the stakeholders are too timid, too dumb or too secure with their pay cheques.

I did some some public mortification when his brother was locked up in Fox Hill prison a few years back.

Might I point out the "impulse traveler" and multi-destination tourism are sort-of polar opposites. On impulse, I may want to spend 4 days in Cuba. I don't want 2 days in Nassau and 2 days in Cuba.

Consider this. Why do only 25% of cruise passengers docking in Nassau bother to get off the ship. The word is out. There is nothing for them here.

At one time, John Bull could offer luxury goods at duty free prices. However better luxury goods are available in Miami and you don't have to pay duty on them as you do when you get off the boat back in Miami.

Our beaches are just so-so. The idea of sun, sand and sea is outmoded. There are casinos on the ship.

If we want a plan, it would require a massive overhaul of our infrastructure of what we have to offer, and then a massive marketing campaign. The Ministry of Tourism has had several marketing fiascos (the New York Subway fiasco comes to mind) and they have shown themselves incapable of putting lipstick on a pig and getting interest in the marketplace.

I believe that re-branding the Bahamas can be done, but not with the current crop of broke, mental midgets who are the national stakeholders.

Swift justice.

There are a few missing paragraphs out of the Tribune account of Fred's bio. He did quit the PLP and start another party when he had a falling out with Swindling that went nowhere. And then there was the time that he burnt the constitution.

He was once Lynden Oscar Swindling's Blue-Eyed-Boy and yes that means all of the innuendo that it implies. He threatened Swindling with revealing all, and learned quickly that you can't threaten a man more powerful than yourself.

The trouble is with Fred, is that he really is smarter than the lot of them. And it is trouble, because it doesn't engender humility that comes with a great gift, but quite the opposite. We know from his public pronouncements that he knows that the average Bahamian voter is a rather simplistic, malleable piece of humanity that is much lower than he on the scale of human development. So it has created a hypocritical, supercilious person who has no regard for the truth, because he weaves in just enough of the truth to make the less discerning believe in him.

He chose Foreign Affairs because he gets to travel the world, experience the different flavours of ...... (fill in the blank) and being intelligent, he gets intellectual stimulation from travel as most would. He is a frustrated human being. He is intelligent enough to know that if this country were a meritocracy, he has the mental machinery to have his name indelibly inscribed in our history. Currently he will be a footnote, and that must be galling. John Marquis had Fred's number, and that was another irritant. Marquis was the last editor of the Tribune who knew that the barrels of ink that the Tribune bought could trump anything that Fred said. The current staff of the Tribune is missing the royal jelly that Marquis had, except for Neil Hartnell's Baha Mar speculation that showed a flash of real journalism.

So all in all, I think that it would be Fred's dream to lead the PLP and country. But even he knows, with the cabal of corruption in the Christie regime, he is an outsider, and only a deus ex machina would change that. His fate is being pensioned off, opining and pontificating on spreading his own agenda, and swearing that he still has nothing to do with the Bahamas Uncircumcised column.

I was once in the Anglican cathedral by accident. The woman that I was with, wanted to see if she could convert the heathenish me into God-fearing man suitable for marriage. We tried to sit in the far left at the back, but that didn't work. The celebrant, noticing the fresh meat, pointed us out to the sparse crowd and made a point to velcome us. And thank goodness just at that moment, Obie pops in. Late. Enough of a distraction to make the priest forget about us. He takes a seat in pews across from us. Looks at me and sorta nods.

Then came the part of the service where God wants your money. The ushers come by, and Obie pulls out a wad of cash big enough to choke a horse -- maybe three of the pathetic surrey horses. He drops what looks like a hundred into the plate, or basket or whatever. I'm thinking "Dayum -- a salary of $28,000 a year and he can afford to drop a C note to impress Jesus". However, that wasn't the disturbing part. I swear that the man was wearing lip gloss.

It was a little disturbing.