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Chris Rocked the place, the set was beautiful, i actually enjoyed it quite abit. MSM (Mainstream media) has covered the highlights.
Chris Rock looked rather dapper, Morgan Freeman was eloquent and you
know how he oozes absolute cool, i could bathe in his sweat. The comedy
was the best part ofcourse. There was a bit where Chris interviewed
several black people at the magic johnson theatre, and ofcourse most of
them had not watched most of the oscar nominated movies. Why is that? I
really did not even know i would pose that question. On the African
front, a south african movie called Yesterday was nominated. For a
synopsis please click here. The camera spent all of 2 seconds on Don cheadle’s face, i wished i could have seen more. Jamie Fox, awesome ofcourse.

On
the other hand, you do not give an opera type song to someone who sings
‘I need a soldier…and he carries big things if you know what i mean’
and expect it to turn out well. Beyonce does pop very well…Opera..not
so well. IMHO, Denyce Graves would
have been spectacular. At one point Chris Rock referred to ‘chemistry’
between Josh Groban and Beyonce when they were singing ‘believe’. Oh
dear, by the end of the song, i was atheistic or perhaps agnostic…No
it wasnt chemistry it was a major voice mismatch. I may not be much of
a musical person, but it just didnt sound right. Counting Crows sounded
great with the song from ‘Shrek 2′. the producers really tried to funk
it up, in some sense they succeeded, but giving Beyonce 3 songs was
kinda much. (she must have an uber agent). All in all organized and i
just might watch next year…if they get David Chapelle to host!!

the game SSX3. They animated the characters to dance to “Lets get it
Started” Click on Christina Millian’s Mtv2 video mod,When the player
window pops up, click on the one just below Christina Milian’s ‘dip it
low’. Towards the end of the vid, check out the part where the bigfoot looking character does ‘ripala’. The Video Mod for “Shut Up” is also preety cool.

I found the link on one of the blogs from dailykos.I cant seem to find
the bloggers’ name(sorry) Its reprehensible! I almost puked. Its soo
ridiculous.
They have Kwame Nkrumah listed as a radical. Sergio De
Mello was killed in Iraq and he is included there…Apparently you cant
be feminist either. Gloria Steinem? Oh crap. This is nuts. I could go
on for awhile, but i wont. Do people really believe this crap?
It is edited by David Horowitz who is apparently a Fox News buddy buddy, besides other things. Look at all this stuff about him from Media Matters for America.

I remember a conversation i had with bankelele awhile back about tax
breaks for people who use solar energy. He pointed out that some of the
clashes right now and in future will be about water. I cant seem to
find the email. I was still thinking about how solar energy can
help lessen dependence on charcoal and fuel for energy. If you are away
from home and want to really help people at home, set them up with
solar energy. My grandma loves it sana. About 500$ coz you need a
really good battery, luckily my anke and bro did the wiring themselves,
so i dont know how much it would cost to have it installed.
Will post more info later.

The Question:
Roves’ involvement with Gannon seems highly plausible. I wonder if he
will be nabbed for it[leaking identity of Valerie Plame as CIA agent in
retaliation of Joe Wilson's discrediting of the Niger, yellowcake
story], he just seems so powerful, almost invincible right now.The good
thing about America is that there are processes to follow inorder to
get to some measure of the truth, Watergate…Irancontra…etc. Can
that process be counted on or has it been infiltrated by the GOP and
corrupted beyond repair? It makes me think of the case of Tom de lay
and the ethics committee ousters…
The Answer by JJR:
In the case of Watergate, you had a Republican president and a Democrat
controlled house and senate. If at least the Senate were controlled by
Democrats right now, our government would work alot better. You would
have senate committees with subpoena power digging into the Valerie
Plame situation and the Jeff Gannon thing. As it stands, the committee
chairman (who is a republican) has to set the hearings and issue the
subpoenas to investigate any issue, thus, nothing is going to happen
or, if it does, it will be a watered down job. Special prosecutor for
the Valerie Plame case, Patrick Fitzgerald, is from Chicago and has a
reputation of being somewhat independent but, as long as the reporters
involved and all the republicans in the know keep quiet, I’m not sure
how he cracks the case. I give the guy some credit though as he has subpoenaed everybody in sight and has forced at least one reporter to jail for
failing to talk. The republicans are doing so many other things highly
damaging to the country and of questionable legality that this is just
the tip of the iceberg. Recapturing the senate for the democrats would
absolutely huge. The backstop in the American system when the
government does not do its job of policing itself is the independent
press. Right now Bush (with the aid of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his
crowd, and the Jeff Gannons of the world) absolutely have the
mainstream press cowed. Look at the Dan Rather situation. Amazingly,
Jon Stewart at Comedy Central has become something of the standard
carrier for the progressive media. Keith Olbermann
at MSNBC has recently picked fights with Brit Hume and Bill O’Reilly at
Fox so he is in our corner as well. It was the progressive bloggers who
broke the story about Jeff Gannon. The internet is an amazing tool to
aid in struggles such as ours. I really believe that ordinary people
such as ourselves talking about the issues on blogs and messages boards
helps to raise the profile of these important matters. Keep blogging!
Joe

It
is not clear what will happen or what has happened Robert Novak who
broke the story on valerie plame. Explainer in Slate does a great job of explaining.

Kenyan
Blog Meme. I had to look up the definition of meme! - apparently its an
idea, behaviour or usage that spreads from one person to another within
a culture. now that i know…

1. Favourite Kenyan food:
(a) Any Meal prepared by any kenyan mum visiting anyone. And i do mean anyone
(b) Nyama choma
(c) Goat from

2.
Favourite drink:Malibu with Red Bull, or any kind of rum for that
matter I have heard of some people drinking ‘Thangaray” as in Tanqueray
gin.

3. Favourite TV programme: Daily Show with Jon stewart.
Hands down the best fake news tv show ever! fave segment ‘This week in
God’. I love the sound effect of the ‘god machine’. Chapelle show is
another, though they’ve repeated the old seasons so much we know
tyrone’s words by heart..’I smoke rocks’ etc.

4. Top Four Kenyan away from home hang outs: I dont hang out much…

5. Top holiday destination: Kenya Rondo Retreat Centre in Kakamega.

6. 3 ____ phrases you use a lot
(a) Ha lala! (is that arabic? I use it alot though)
(b) Oh Crap!
(c) aargh (typically when i happen to watch fox news.) check out this inauguration bit from ifilm..

7. Three/ Four things about Kenya/kenyans that make you go ‘hmmm’
(a)
Asking each other how long they’ve been here, (whichever place they are
at the time) and running out of things to talk about within 5 uhh make
it 2 minutes, then proceed to look at each other with empty silence.
(b)
The weng/shrub rolled into one. Nothing like it. Especially a Kamba
weng/shrub…and a kale pronouncing ‘thirty’ but trying to sound
American. It ends sounding like “Thurdee”.
(c) The obsession with luxury cars we can ill afford.

8.Three things non-Kenyans say about Kenya/Kenyans that make you go ‘hmmm’
(a) You are so articulate!

9. Three things about Kenya/Kenyans, which non-Kenyans ought to know.
(a)
Africa is not just about animals and stuff you see on discovery channel
or those commercials of Save the children. We need help yeah, but we
also have urban cities with people and a rich culture! If you are in
the US there is a great series on PBS that chronicles real lives in Africa. It includes the animals too.
(b)
Please enunciate! sometimes we cant figure out what you are saying, and
some of us will just nod and say “yes” rather hesitantly yet you did
not pose a question.
(c) The media here sucks. Fox news resembles
KBC during the KANU years when Kenya had a dictatorship. Really, its
uncanny!Please read other international media too! *note that we know
some of you already do…
(d)We drink- Alot

Complete this
sentence: I am Kenyan because…i have 2 pairs of bata bullets, i wear
them proudly and well the kenyan thing is fundamentally genetic.
And finally list 3 members of the Kenyan Blog Ring you would like to see complete this quiz. Chanuka, Kenyanpundit, and Mshairi.

*i
edited some identifying info…(i might be getting kidogo paranoid but
the whole point of blogging is to remain anonymous. plus i did the meme
in haste and inadvartently included some answers from bankele. sowwy! .)

premiered Thursday at the Berlin Film Festival. “Sometimes in April” full article from reuters. It is more graphic than hotel rwanda.

whose penises were cut, allegedly for a portion to cure AIDS. The story in Reuters…
“The adolescent boys, from a remote region near the border with Uganda,
were mutilated after being given drugged food or drink by strangers.
“They
had attacked them to cut off their penises to sell … for making a
type of potion which according to a local belief cures AIDS,” Doctor
Pedro Cavadas, from the Levante Rehabilitation Center told radio
station Cadena Ser.”

I am at a loss for words.
The outcome…
“Cavadas, who noted this type of attack was rare in Kenya, said the boys had been transformed by their surgery.
“They
are fantastic, happy, their faces have changed and their lives have
changed. They don’t have to use a catheter … and they can live like
children, messing around and being naughty.”

roidy
. The book by canseco, summarized. If you are a chiefs’ fan and
especially like Tony Gonzalez (Gonzalez is not implicated in the
juicing)
“When his daughter Josie was still an infant, Canseco’s
estranged second wife Jessica, the Hooters girl, disappeared. He called
a friend at “one of the airlines,” who managed to track Jessica to
Kansas City. When Canseco finally reached her, Jessica said she had
left him for another jock: Tony Gonzalez, tight end for the Kansas City
Chiefs. Canseco was grief-stricken. He walked to his bedroom closet and
pulled out a Street Sweeper machine gun.”

Article
in Allafrica from standard.Hmm Now we have a former minister who bought
the land then leased it to the ‘oil exploration company’. Follow the
money. It will be interesting to know who this minister is. Anyone have
a clue? Its so aggravating when reportage is so mysterious. Again, no
pictures.

He said the lobby was also investigating claims
that a former minister in the Kanu regime bought the land and leased it
to the Americans for dumping purposes.

www.xinhua.net of china covered the story. Surprised? Its actually a decent news org, it reports on stuff some media here wont.