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	<description>&#34;I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.&#34; - Charles De Gaulle</description>
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		<title>Congratulations Mr Michael DeSilva</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, okay, I know I&#8217;m a bit late on this one but sincere congratulations to Michael DeSilva on his upcoming appointment to Commissioner of Police upon the retirement of George Jackson. This will be another &#8220;homegrown&#8221; CoP (just been pointed out that Jonathan Smith was bermudian as well, my apologies) and I&#8217;m hopeful that this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alsys31.wordpress.com&blog=4622164&post=168&subd=alsys31&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alsys31.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/congratulations-mr-desilva/</link>
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		<title>Boy Scouts Motto is more than just a kid&#8217;s saying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, two days ago the BDA launched. No, Bermuda hasn&#8217;t created a method by which to propel our tiny island into the air, however cool that sounds. No, the &#8220;third party&#8221; option in Bermuda has come out, the Bermuda Democratic Alliance. They held a short but sweet press conference on the 5th of November on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alsys31.wordpress.com&blog=4622164&post=163&subd=alsys31&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alsys31.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/boy-scouts-motto-is-more-than-just-a-kids-saying/</link>
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		<title>No Search and Rescue?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a big fuss since Hurricane Bill over the Police boat, the MV Guardian. This $1.7m vessel, bought in 2006, has had a long history of criticism from all angles due to perceived issues of underuse, especially considering the price. Minister Burch even, last year, commented that he thought the money could have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alsys31.wordpress.com&blog=4622164&post=156&subd=alsys31&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alsys31.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/no-search-and-rescue/</link>
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		<title>Congrats to Michael Weeks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr Weeks has handily won the Pembroke Central bye-election with approximately 89% of the vote. Voter turnout slumped to 39% from a usual of 65%. This often happens in bye-election when the result will have no bearing over the the actual leadership of the country. I voted myself, because I&#8217;m a firm believer of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alsys31.wordpress.com&blog=4622164&post=154&subd=alsys31&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alsys31.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/congrats-to-michael-weeks/</link>
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		<title>Pembroke Central By-Election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many know, I live in this constituency. In the last week, I have been canvassed by the PLP candidate, Mr. Weeks and his helpers (Jamahl Simmons, Dr. Brown and two others whose names I did not catch) and the UBP candidate, Mr Young (joined by Mrs. Atherden, Kim Swan and Tim, a reporter from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alsys31.wordpress.com&blog=4622164&post=151&subd=alsys31&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alsys31.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/pembroke-central-by-election/</link>
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		<title>Sign of the times?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Stand-offs are situations of mutual and symmetrical threat, wherein the central parties face each other, literally and figuratively, across some key divide. Stand-offs engage committed adversaries in a frozen and exposed moment of interaction.&#8221; Robin Erica Wagner-Pacifici
 
The above definition could be used to describe the &#8220;mexican standoff&#8221; that occurred for 6 hours yesterday in St. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alsys31.wordpress.com&blog=4622164&post=148&subd=alsys31&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alsys31.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/sign-of-the-times/</link>
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		<title>The endgame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you all how this is gonna play out. After leaving the protest today, after seeing the news and the spin that&#8217;s already being put out by the pro-Brown camp online, after writing the post previous to this and reading the statement from the Commissioner online from RG about how basically the premier [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alsys31.wordpress.com&blog=4622164&post=139&subd=alsys31&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alsys31.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/the-endgame/</link>
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		<title>Protest? Not according to the media&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to the protest today. I stood up and was proud to be counted&#8230; literally. Unofficial numbers state that the Anti-Brown protest (of which I was a proud member) was over 2000. The Pro-Brown counter protest (?) numbered at 44. Standing in the hot sun beating down on us surrounded by my friends and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alsys31.wordpress.com&blog=4622164&post=135&subd=alsys31&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alsys31.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/protest-not-according-to-the-media/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;d laugh&#8230; &#8216;cept I wanna cry.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all. Yeah, I know i&#8217;ve been very quiet lately but yeah, not even I could sit this one out.
&#8220;Brown and the Uighurs&#8221; Sounds like a sitcom, init? Except, this isn&#8217;t funny (neither are most sitcoms) and unfortunately it&#8217;s real life. I would go into all the sordid details of how our illustrious premier decided [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alsys31.wordpress.com&blog=4622164&post=132&subd=alsys31&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alsys31.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/id-laugh-cept-i-wanna-cry/</link>
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		<title>Holder is da man&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first black-american Attorney General blew race out of the water yeaterday. During a speech to honour Black History Month, he chose to not take the pithy route. He chose to give a stern talking to America. One which resonates (or should) so loud here too. 


Attorney General Eric Holder: &#8220;Though this nation has proudly thought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alsys31.wordpress.com&blog=4622164&post=125&subd=alsys31&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alsys31.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/holder-is-da-man/</link>
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