When you scratch it, it will smell

Yes. Check the roaches crawling out of the woodwork now. Everybody is endorsing everyone else, but yet no one stands out. Some of our so called political parties (I would rather call them networks of friends) are having trouble with their own mini democracy. It is just that the democracy is what is missing. Conventions are held, primaries held, vetos laid out. I mean some of them cannot even agree in a democratic manner over who to send to the polls.

Well, time alone will tell. As a lawmaker, I would not worry too much about who joins the house, but rather about my own ass. The frequency of death in both houses is alarmingly high when compared to the public in average. But then again, thats Liberia.

Gbarnga in darkness again after 35 days

I have to chuckle here in my slumber, because this is so very Liberian that it almost hurts. It i very common practice in our small country to "fix" things ahead of national and foreign dignitaries.

If it wasn´t for the occasional visit from abroad, the houses along the road from the airport in to town wouldn´t be painted/whitewashed. Now as the case in Gbarnga, pretty much preparation was done ahead of the July 26th festivities there. Now 35 days later, there is no more fuel to run the generator for the street lights.

In the true Liberian way, does anyone care? Not really, because as long as no official is on the way there, nothing will be done about it.

In a way, this mentality reminds me of the old Western movies, where you see a whole town along a high street, but if you enter any of the buildings, you will only find that everything is a prop.