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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  Our Translation Of What Phillip Baidoo Said Into "Ghana-Speak" & Reality:

  Our Translation Of What Phillip Baidoo Said Into "Ghana-Speak" & Reality:

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• binidoski 10 years ago

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• Kwame 10 years ago

  The fact are that in the U.S. a Negro on pension receives less than his Blanco counterpart because of racism, to wit past U.S. racial segregation laws. I have not read from ILO Conventions and Regulations that some races sho ...
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  The fact are that in the U.S. a Negro on pension receives less than his Blanco counterpart because of racism, to wit past U.S. racial segregation laws. I have not read from ILO Conventions and Regulations that some races should be paid less than others so the state fixing the minimum wage does not reduce the wage of one race and increase that of another. The matter lies with state institutions that stand in between law and disorder, the reason why in Barack Obama's presidency Negroes are shot like laying ducks that must be shot and the murderer who is white goes free.

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• YAW 10 years ago

  Biadoo did not become the "cheerleader" he is without marinading himself in capitalist "persemankonya" traditions. He knows absolutely nothing about the real source of the freedom he enjoys today. Can you imagine Baidoo as a ...
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  Biadoo did not become the "cheerleader" he is without marinading himself in capitalist "persemankonya" traditions. He knows absolutely nothing about the real source of the freedom he enjoys today. Can you imagine Baidoo as a leader of a civil liberty organization and steering it to his preferred direction? I shudder to think! He undergoes the daily struggle between churning out insults and foggy statements.I will passionately urge him to take a month off and go out on patrol with the LA/NY Police to boost his "civil liberty" cred.

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• francis kwarteng 10 years ago

  Dear Prof. Lungu,
  
  This is how a Ghanaweb commentator Gorgortudor described Old Libertarian Grandpa Baidoo:
  
  SYMPTOMS: The patient presents with the following: Febrile brain dysfunction, logical displacement, intellectual ...
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  Dear Prof. Lungu,
  
  This is how a Ghanaweb commentator Gorgortudor described Old Libertarian Grandpa Baidoo:
  
  SYMPTOMS: The patient presents with the following: Febrile brain dysfunction, logical displacement, intellectual shallowness, insult as argument and lack of rational amalysis, never mind the profound unwillingness to avail himself of facts and an inability to engage facts and theorems that challenge his world view!!
  DIAGNOSIS: Symptoms indicate subject suffers from :SELF ABASEMENT, RACIAL INFERIORITY COMPLEX, NON- INTELLECTUAL HUBRIS, ARGUMENTAE NON-COGENTA, INSULTIS NON-RATIONAE, AFRICANUS SERVILII & sundry other leading indicators of ACQUIRED NEOCOLONIAL INTELLECTUAL DEPENDENCY SYNDROME aka IMPERIALIST RUNNING DOG COMPLEX or in the vernacular: BRAINWASHED WANNABE WHITEMAN DISEASE aka BLACK/BROWN COCONUT.
  PROGNOSIS: Subject is beyond intellectual assistance as he is constantly ingesting the mental toxins that have resulted in his current state!!
  TREATMENT PROTOCOL: NONE, concerned observers must endeavor to inoculate the general populace as subject is a Stage IV victim where subject feels compelled to attempt to spread the syndrome!! Fortunately he is fast approaching terminal stage."

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  A ha!
  
  The medical-cum-psychological diagnosis by the Ghanaweb resident medical doctor, Gorgortudor:
  
  Febrile brain dysfunction, logical displacement, intellectual shallowness...rational amalysis...lack of rational amalys ...
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  A ha!
  
  The medical-cum-psychological diagnosis by the Ghanaweb resident medical doctor, Gorgortudor:
  
  Febrile brain dysfunction, logical displacement, intellectual shallowness...rational amalysis...lack of rational amalysis...".
  !
  
  Also, just delivered by YAW: The Sociological Ghana Anomie Syndrome Diagnostics by YAW:
  
  TO WIT: Patient Phillip Kobina Baidoo suffers from self-induced "Persemankonya-Libertarian Krachism"
  
  Greetings, this weekend, the 10th Anniversary of the Katrina Hurricane of Destruction in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
  
  On that day, the power of the state of the United States failed to equally protect those among them who were Black, Brown, Poor, Geographically-Isolated.
  
  Imagine, George Bush was riding in the air, in aircrafts everyone bought and paid for, watching that calamity unfold.
  
  Our thanks to YAW, Gorgortudor, and all!
  
  'Nuff respect!

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• francis kwarteng 10 years ago

  Dear Prof. Lungu,
  
  A "krachi" addicted to insults and still boasts he is a libertarian Jesus Christ Christian.
  
  And yes, Margaret Thatcher was a libertarian and preached limited government, yet the state spent £3.6milli ...
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  Dear Prof. Lungu,
  
  A "krachi" addicted to insults and still boasts he is a libertarian Jesus Christ Christian.
  
  And yes, Margaret Thatcher was a libertarian and preached limited government, yet the state spent £3.6million on her funeral (The Guardian).
  
  I wonder why her free-market political supporters did not fight state intervention in her funeral expenditure (a whopping £3.6million?).
  
  She should left a Will categorically stating her objection to state intervention in her funeral, not to talk about the whopping £3.6million? What this whopping sum could have done for the living poor?
  
  Hypocrites. Even in the grip of death these shameless and confused libertarian hypocrites clamor for full government intervention. YAW's "Persemankonya-Libertarian Krachism" and Gorgortudor's diagnosis and prognosis are in order.
  
  Thanks.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  YAW,
  
  YOUR: "...Biadoo did not become the 'cheerleader' he is without marinading himself in capitalist "persemankonya" traditions.
  
  WE SAY: Now, that is a good one there, "...capitalist 'persemankonya' traditions..."!
  
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  YAW,
  
  YOUR: "...Biadoo did not become the 'cheerleader' he is without marinading himself in capitalist "persemankonya" traditions.
  
  WE SAY: Now, that is a good one there, "...capitalist 'persemankonya' traditions..."!
  
  (We will make sure to save that one!)
  
  Further, we will even ask why Baidoo needs capitalism at all, which itself is an organized economic system, with state control and ownership of economic sectors. (On this score alone, we've won the discourse!).
  
  All our essays have spoken to that point, and will continue to educate!
  
  THEN THIS: "...He (Baidoo) knows absolutely nothing about the real source of the freedom he enjoys today..."
  
  WE SAY: Imagine those who fought for freedom, equality, racial justice, including those who gave their lives for those goals, asked themselves this question and stopped before they even started:
  
  What is the point, I am persemankonya-libertarian krachi!
  
  Imagine, Gold Coast would still be Gold Coast, even today!
  
  The international implications are not difficult to fathom, except perhaps by Mr. Baidoo who lately has been specializing more in hurling invectives and hollow talk, than ideas on which any self-respecting thinker could base public policy.
  
  To condemn the minimum wage, any minimum wage at all, is after all, to support slavery, TODAY! There is no economics behind that - except Baidoo-Voodoo-Economics of the solitary individual afflicted with the persemankonya syndrome that only sees the power of government as his to take, limit, and re-define.
  
  In short, Mr. Baidoo's libertarian ideas have no core, heart, or substance! In fact, we must with deep hesitation say that Mr. Phillip Kobina Baidoo is one ignorant krachi, to assume that the US is the same as the UK, is the same as Sweden, is the same as Brazil, is the same as Germany, is the same as Ghana, etc.
  
  Greetings!

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  As we mentioned elsewhere, this weekend is the 10th Anniversary of the Katrina Hurricane that wiped out much of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and exposed the libertarian streak in Republican George Bush.
  
  And it all started ...
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  As we mentioned elsewhere, this weekend is the 10th Anniversary of the Katrina Hurricane that wiped out much of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and exposed the libertarian streak in Republican George Bush.
  
  And it all started with the US Army Corps of Engineers, and still rests with them!
  
  Talking about using government!
  
  READ: "...George Washington appointed the first engineer officers of the Army on June 16, 1775, during the American Revolution, and engineers have served in combat in all subsequent American wars. The Army established the Corps of Engineers as a separate, permanent branch on March 16, 1802, and gave the engineers responsibility for founding and operating the U.S. Military Academy at West Point..."
  
  THEN THIS: "...Washington (March 4, 2014) - The President’s Budget for fiscal year 2015 (FY15) includes $4.561 billion in gross discretionary funding for the Civil Works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), which is offset in part by a proposal to cancel $28 million in unobligated carryover of funds previously appropriated..."
  
  WE SAY TO ALL OF THAT: Where should all of that fit in the Ghana situation?
  
  Imagine, back in 1775, despite all the talk about individualism, the US had common sense to setup the US Army Corps of Engineers. The work of the USACE is all over the US, and even overseas, where the US has programs - building buildings, bridges, power plants, clearing ditches, and yes, providing storm/river/sea/weather protections systems for the People of the United States, wherever they are.
  
  Libertarian, capitalist?
  
  Right!

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• francis kwarteng 10 years ago

  Prof. Lungu,
  
  Thanks for this information.

  Prof. Lungu,
  
  Thanks for this information.

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