A friend of mine (who once played on the national basketball or volleyball team - can't remember which) once invited me to visit his friend living on Balls Alley. Definitely not a safe place if you are carrying a cell phone or have a gold chain showing. Although Potcake -- the street guy who sells hubcaps, was crashing in a house nearby while he was recuperating from a broken leg when he was hit by a car.
So I met this denizen of Balls Alley, and he was a grifter. He had a broken front tooth, was a school dropout, and tried to get jobs to support himself. He applied at AID - the automotive place on Wulff Rd and said that the application form didn't make sense to him. And he didn't have a previous employment record. And he couldn't think of three references who were employed. That caused him to give up searching for employment. This guy figured that he wouldn't live past the age of 35 and it didn't particularly bother him. He had a P64 handgun -- made in Poland that he traded marijuana for and said that he needed the gun to survive.
This guy wasn't evil. He had no real family so to speak of. His single mother kicked him out of the house when he dropped out of school. He didn't even know his father. He said that he envied people who had to wear a tie to work. He hadn't a decent meal in awhile, and the lady that sells food out of her car trunk near the marina fence takes pity on him and feeds him rice 'n stuff in a Styrofoam container when she is going home after finishing up selling food.
I don't know how you would fix him, unless you had an unskilled job for him that he could work at while he was remediated in his literacy and social skills. There is a generation or more like him -- thousands of them. How do more than 3,000 school leavers each year find jobs in a stagnant economy?
Most Bahamians who post here, do not know the misery and human suffering that exists on the streets. I used to watch mothers in SuperValue have the clerk subtract stuff off their grocery order because they didn't have enough money to pay for everything that went through the checkout. I always paid the amount that they needed when I was behind them in line, but I often wondered "What about next week and the week after?". Guns and knives and cutlasses are real currencies for these people and they see them as important as food. Sometimes I really do despair of the country, and being away from it, makes it easy to not think about it, when everywhere I look here, people are relatively okay compared to my fellow Bahamians.
What an ignorant, illiterate man. He doesn't even know the difference between bated breath and baited breath. Baited breath is fishy, but perhaps that is what he is accustomed to. The solution to crime is not punishment. The problem comes long before the crime is committed. We are sowing what we reap in terms of the unraveling of the societal and moral fabric of the Bahamas, and it started and was fostered by Lyndon Oscar Swindling the drugrunner revered by the likes of the disbarred lawyer Bodie who pens these missives showing his vast ignorance and perfidy. He doesn't have the sense to be ashamed of what he writes and how much of his own stupidity that it demonstrates with each word.
What worries me about religion is that it teaches people to be satisfied with not understanding the world they live in under the cloak of moral rectitude. You say that without suffering, there would be no compassion. That is not true. You can love someone without anyone suffering, and love embraces compassion. You can have compassion without suffering. I saw a colleague try to give a speech, and he failed miserably. He was so nerve-struck, that he forgot the words. He wasn't suffering and the whole room was compassionate and gave him an ovation.
There is a reason for everything as you say, but its not what you think. People get sick because they germs have invaded their bloodstreams and the leucocytes cannot fight it. Hurricanes come because of thermal dynamics in meterological conditions. People have accidents due to a confluence of factors and events that spontaneously meet at one place in time. Cancer may happen because a free radical from something as innocuous as an element in the flour in a slice of bread happens to react with cellular DNA and damage it, causing the cells to grow uncontrollably. Mental illness happens from chemical imbalances in serotonin and dopamines among other brain receptors.
You can choose to have faith and believe in prayer, but its laughable to write it as fact in news article comments, that prayer makes a difference in where people might die or lose everything they have. The hurricane is coming and it can't be prayed away. We learned that with Hurricane Matthew last year. You can't pray anything away - cancer, homosexuality, bad luck, the weather, poverty, ugliness or stupidity. Some will be lucky and be saved and some won't. Things are neither good nor bad in a rational world -- just their perceptions of them on an individual level. What is bad for you might be good for me.
I am sure that you are a very nice person, but faith or belief in God doesn't make you any nicer. What makes you nice is a choice of behaviour. You would be nice if you were an atheist too -- probably nicer because you would realise that gays can't help it, and what religion calls some sins, are intrinisic drives of sexuality, human behaviour, survival behaviour and evolved behaviours from our animal past. The sooner that mankind releases the superstitions of religion, the sooner we will advance towards a totally enlightened society.
That is why the fintech revolution is going on in the world. To disrupt banking. As an insider, I can see the need for it.
In the old days, with loans for operating capital and assets, banks created wealth for people. Now they are in the business of creating wealth for themselves.
He was supposed to transform Eleuthera with Cotton Bay. I am willing to bet that when they clean up all of the PLP mess, he will be a guest of her Majesty for several years.
banker says...
It doesn't work.
A friend of mine (who once played on the national basketball or volleyball team - can't remember which) once invited me to visit his friend living on Balls Alley. Definitely not a safe place if you are carrying a cell phone or have a gold chain showing. Although Potcake -- the street guy who sells hubcaps, was crashing in a house nearby while he was recuperating from a broken leg when he was hit by a car.
So I met this denizen of Balls Alley, and he was a grifter. He had a broken front tooth, was a school dropout, and tried to get jobs to support himself. He applied at AID - the automotive place on Wulff Rd and said that the application form didn't make sense to him. And he didn't have a previous employment record. And he couldn't think of three references who were employed. That caused him to give up searching for employment. This guy figured that he wouldn't live past the age of 35 and it didn't particularly bother him. He had a P64 handgun -- made in Poland that he traded marijuana for and said that he needed the gun to survive.
This guy wasn't evil. He had no real family so to speak of. His single mother kicked him out of the house when he dropped out of school. He didn't even know his father. He said that he envied people who had to wear a tie to work. He hadn't a decent meal in awhile, and the lady that sells food out of her car trunk near the marina fence takes pity on him and feeds him rice 'n stuff in a Styrofoam container when she is going home after finishing up selling food.
I don't know how you would fix him, unless you had an unskilled job for him that he could work at while he was remediated in his literacy and social skills. There is a generation or more like him -- thousands of them. How do more than 3,000 school leavers each year find jobs in a stagnant economy?
Most Bahamians who post here, do not know the misery and human suffering that exists on the streets. I used to watch mothers in SuperValue have the clerk subtract stuff off their grocery order because they didn't have enough money to pay for everything that went through the checkout. I always paid the amount that they needed when I was behind them in line, but I often wondered "What about next week and the week after?". Guns and knives and cutlasses are real currencies for these people and they see them as important as food. Sometimes I really do despair of the country, and being away from it, makes it easy to not think about it, when everywhere I look here, people are relatively okay compared to my fellow Bahamians.
On Police beg public: Name the shooters
Posted 6 September 2017, 11:35 a.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
What an ignorant, illiterate man. He doesn't even know the difference between bated breath and baited breath. Baited breath is fishy, but perhaps that is what he is accustomed to. The solution to crime is not punishment. The problem comes long before the crime is committed. We are sowing what we reap in terms of the unraveling of the societal and moral fabric of the Bahamas, and it started and was fostered by Lyndon Oscar Swindling the drugrunner revered by the likes of the disbarred lawyer Bodie who pens these missives showing his vast ignorance and perfidy. He doesn't have the sense to be ashamed of what he writes and how much of his own stupidity that it demonstrates with each word.
On Apocalypse of crime
Posted 5 September 2017, 10:40 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
What worries me about religion is that it teaches people to be satisfied with not understanding the world they live in under the cloak of moral rectitude. You say that without suffering, there would be no compassion. That is not true. You can love someone without anyone suffering, and love embraces compassion. You can have compassion without suffering. I saw a colleague try to give a speech, and he failed miserably. He was so nerve-struck, that he forgot the words. He wasn't suffering and the whole room was compassionate and gave him an ovation.
There is a reason for everything as you say, but its not what you think. People get sick because they germs have invaded their bloodstreams and the leucocytes cannot fight it. Hurricanes come because of thermal dynamics in meterological conditions. People have accidents due to a confluence of factors and events that spontaneously meet at one place in time. Cancer may happen because a free radical from something as innocuous as an element in the flour in a slice of bread happens to react with cellular DNA and damage it, causing the cells to grow uncontrollably. Mental illness happens from chemical imbalances in serotonin and dopamines among other brain receptors.
You can choose to have faith and believe in prayer, but its laughable to write it as fact in news article comments, that prayer makes a difference in where people might die or lose everything they have. The hurricane is coming and it can't be prayed away. We learned that with Hurricane Matthew last year. You can't pray anything away - cancer, homosexuality, bad luck, the weather, poverty, ugliness or stupidity. Some will be lucky and be saved and some won't. Things are neither good nor bad in a rational world -- just their perceptions of them on an individual level. What is bad for you might be good for me.
I am sure that you are a very nice person, but faith or belief in God doesn't make you any nicer. What makes you nice is a choice of behaviour. You would be nice if you were an atheist too -- probably nicer because you would realise that gays can't help it, and what religion calls some sins, are intrinisic drives of sexuality, human behaviour, survival behaviour and evolved behaviours from our animal past. The sooner that mankind releases the superstitions of religion, the sooner we will advance towards a totally enlightened society.
On Hurricane Irma: Four days to get ready; new map shows storm further south
Posted 4 September 2017, 5:21 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
I'm just hoping that she turns northward soon.
On Hurricane Irma: Four days to get ready; new map shows storm further south
Posted 3 September 2017, 10:37 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
If god is so good, why do you need prayers and why is he going to kill people or destroy their lives?
On Hurricane Irma: Four days to get ready; new map shows storm further south
Posted 3 September 2017, 9:13 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
LOL -- land of Nod. Can you please point that out a map. I need a good nap.
On Female dies in Long Island cutlass attack, man shot dead on Blue Hill Road
Posted 3 September 2017, 12:33 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2017…
On Female dies in Long Island cutlass attack, man shot dead on Blue Hill Road
Posted 3 September 2017, 8:09 a.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Nice!
On Praise for Bamboo Shack
Posted 2 September 2017, 10:06 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
That is why the fintech revolution is going on in the world. To disrupt banking. As an insider, I can see the need for it.
In the old days, with loans for operating capital and assets, banks created wealth for people. Now they are in the business of creating wealth for themselves.
On Governor: ‘No persuasive case’ price controls work
Posted 2 September 2017, 12:18 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
He was supposed to transform Eleuthera with Cotton Bay. I am willing to bet that when they clean up all of the PLP mess, he will be a guest of her Majesty for several years.
On Sir Franklyn targeting $10m Jack’s Bay raise
Posted 2 September 2017, 12:15 p.m. Suggest removal