The Dalai Lama gets told to go eat a fat one

So I think by now we all know that the Dalai Lama was denied entry into SA for a peace conference or something like that and the officials that denied him a visa gave the weak excuse that at the time they didn’t want him taking attention away from the world cup (yeah right its next year)... Now the guy is actually a Nobel peace prize winner, which kind of puts him up there on the same level as Nelson Mandela. Apparently our “new” government has said that the Dalai Lama is welcome here anytime he’d like to come and visit SA. You see this is what I hate about politics, one minute they have such and such a goal and the next minute they have changed their tune completely. Stay tuned if you want to hear exactly what I think the motivation behind all this was. So basically my opinion on this whole thing is that the ANC didn’t want the Dalai Lama taking attention away from the election, or exposing any particular parties’ violations of human rights or certain parties’ support for China’s communist vibe. I mean if we are the country with the biggest appreciation for freedom then let the man have his say!

JZ selected Mulder ???

So we've all heard by now that Dr. Pieter Mulder has been selected as the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. I don’t know what to think about all this ? I mean he is the leader of the VF+ which is one of the biggest oppositions to the ANC's rule. But you know if I think back Zuma has always been a big supporter of the Afrikaners (I remember how much I laughed and thought that he was just trying to win votes) but maybe just maybe he really and truly is a legitimate good guy. what if we have all had the wrong impression of him from the beginning ? let’s think about that: It was found that the evidence against him was not gathered in a lawful manner, and that ex pres. Thabo Mbeki had a hand in all of it. So maybe Zuma was being conspired against. Who knows? and I’m not saying that appointing Mulder makes all the JZ controversy go away I’m just saying give the guy a chance.

Swine Flu "Eppidemic" aka Media flu

So what I don’t get is why these days everyone has to completely freak out if like a person gets a potentially fatal disease. Lets be real how long have humans been eating pigs.. Thousands of years right? So if swine flu is such a hardcore and scary problem then why are we still around? And what’s more its treatable and preventable with this crazy thing us idealists call MODERN MEDACINE. I think the media just needs to stop over reacting all the time... first meningitis (and we know they got that wrong since stats show meningitis cases are down this year from last) and now swine flu. You people are causing panic for no reason... Not to be insensitive but weak people die from illnesses, that’s how it works so go on diet and start exercising and you won’t have to worry about all this kind of stuff.