The Flour Man
January 15, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
Down and out
It appears that Sase the Flour Man is either down and out or at loose ends. Maybe a Thunderbolt hit him? But whatever the case, the fella seems to have a lot of time on his hands. He has been trolling the internet blogs ever since he was sent back to New York. The poor, deluded little man actually thought the AFC would win the elections and he would become Finance Minister. Seems he figured that keeping accounts to cover his pilfering of flour from the mill made him qualified to run the national accounts. Can you imagine a man applying to the president to become a minister? Maybe that’s how it works in the AFC but not in the PPP or any professional party, Flour Man.
On the blogs, he was distraught that “Uncle Moses” (his words!) didn’t get the Speakership. Maybe as a fallback, if his Uncle became Speaker, he would have become Sergeant at Arms? Then he could have worn those cute little white gloves; bringing back memories of the days he dabbled in flour. We wonder why the AFC didn’t call the Flour Man to be their “expert’ on the budget process? Revealed he was a poseur, during the campaign, Raphael?
In his latest missive to the Muckraker (which had supported the AFC according to the WikiLeaks) Flour Sase revealed that a “column written by David Granger on November 27, 2011 caught (his) eyes”. The Flour Man reading a column from November last year? This man is definitely out of a job. To confirm this surmise, the article was about “The employment crisis”. This is more than a Freudian slip; this is Flour Man ‘half-slip’ showing.
The Flour Man’s desperation can finally be gauged from the tone of his missives to the Muckraker. He’s so conciliatory and placatory to the new administration and especially to President Ramotar, that it can mean only one thing. The man has submitted his application for “Minister Wuk”! Sorry Flour man, only Dog Catcher of Alexander Village is open.
Convenient memories
GTimes threw the AFC onto their back feet with the question as to whether Trotman, leader of the AFC but now the Speaker of the House, will do the right thing and resign as party leader. Point of the matter is that to maintain the impartiality of the Speakership, the incumbent cannot be the leader of a party seeking to influence him in parliament. He would already, ipso facto, be influenced.
Amazingly, as our paper wrote yesterday, “Contacted on the issue on Friday, Trotman said he was pressed with various engagements and could not comment.” This is the answer from a man that accepted a position but would not comment on his fulfillment on the single most important criterion for success in the job? What kind of lawyer is this guy? He shows up in court without a brief and hopes to plead (as in beg) the judge for mercy.
But an even more mind-boggling answer to the question was given by Khemraj Ramjattan. As reported by GTimes, he said he did not know of any conflict of interest for Trotman to be party leader and Speaker of the House. Imagine that! This man held up the nation’s business for one month while he haggled for the Speaker’s job he promised his fellow informer Nagamootoo, and doesn’t know of the tradition surrounding the position?
Ramjattan is either playing the fool or thinks Guyanese are fools.
Pedant
We don’t want to be pedantic but since the editor-in-chief fancies himself as the doyen of journalistic achievement, we must point out an egregious misuse of the word “pedant” in his editorial of yesterday. Referring to the Amaila Falls Road, he claimed that the Muckraker repeatedly pointed to the “pedantic rate of road construction”! FYI, that should be “pedestrian”. Pedantic is to be “nit-picking”.
January 15, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
Down and out
It appears that Sase the Flour Man is either down and out or at loose ends. Maybe a Thunderbolt hit him? But whatever the case, the fella seems to have a lot of time on his hands. He has been trolling the internet blogs ever since he was sent back to New York. The poor, deluded little man actually thought the AFC would win the elections and he would become Finance Minister. Seems he figured that keeping accounts to cover his pilfering of flour from the mill made him qualified to run the national accounts. Can you imagine a man applying to the president to become a minister? Maybe that’s how it works in the AFC but not in the PPP or any professional party, Flour Man.
On the blogs, he was distraught that “Uncle Moses” (his words!) didn’t get the Speakership. Maybe as a fallback, if his Uncle became Speaker, he would have become Sergeant at Arms? Then he could have worn those cute little white gloves; bringing back memories of the days he dabbled in flour. We wonder why the AFC didn’t call the Flour Man to be their “expert’ on the budget process? Revealed he was a poseur, during the campaign, Raphael?
In his latest missive to the Muckraker (which had supported the AFC according to the WikiLeaks) Flour Sase revealed that a “column written by David Granger on November 27, 2011 caught (his) eyes”. The Flour Man reading a column from November last year? This man is definitely out of a job. To confirm this surmise, the article was about “The employment crisis”. This is more than a Freudian slip; this is Flour Man ‘half-slip’ showing.
The Flour Man’s desperation can finally be gauged from the tone of his missives to the Muckraker. He’s so conciliatory and placatory to the new administration and especially to President Ramotar, that it can mean only one thing. The man has submitted his application for “Minister Wuk”! Sorry Flour man, only Dog Catcher of Alexander Village is open.
Convenient memories
GTimes threw the AFC onto their back feet with the question as to whether Trotman, leader of the AFC but now the Speaker of the House, will do the right thing and resign as party leader. Point of the matter is that to maintain the impartiality of the Speakership, the incumbent cannot be the leader of a party seeking to influence him in parliament. He would already, ipso facto, be influenced.
Amazingly, as our paper wrote yesterday, “Contacted on the issue on Friday, Trotman said he was pressed with various engagements and could not comment.” This is the answer from a man that accepted a position but would not comment on his fulfillment on the single most important criterion for success in the job? What kind of lawyer is this guy? He shows up in court without a brief and hopes to plead (as in beg) the judge for mercy.
But an even more mind-boggling answer to the question was given by Khemraj Ramjattan. As reported by GTimes, he said he did not know of any conflict of interest for Trotman to be party leader and Speaker of the House. Imagine that! This man held up the nation’s business for one month while he haggled for the Speaker’s job he promised his fellow informer Nagamootoo, and doesn’t know of the tradition surrounding the position?
Ramjattan is either playing the fool or thinks Guyanese are fools.
Pedant
We don’t want to be pedantic but since the editor-in-chief fancies himself as the doyen of journalistic achievement, we must point out an egregious misuse of the word “pedant” in his editorial of yesterday. Referring to the Amaila Falls Road, he claimed that the Muckraker repeatedly pointed to the “pedantic rate of road construction”! FYI, that should be “pedestrian”. Pedantic is to be “nit-picking”.
