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Archive for March, 2008

Ghost everything

Kazini:
I thought justice in this country was as good as a candle in the wind,but it has redeemed itself.Mbu Kazini had “ghost soldiers” added to the Gov’t payroll and apparently,the dead guys’ money went to his bank account.Now he has to serve a 3 year jail term.

Taxi accidents:
Am not sure how many people die on our roads everyday but i know that some of those accidents can be avoided in ways you may have never imagined.For example,making sure that whoever seats closest to the driver is not a woman.Am serious!I’ve sat in that position many times and whenever the driver shifts gears,his had more than brushes my thigh.Remove me and replace me with a woman and see what happens!

Just Thinking

Akon:
Huh,so Akon is coming to Kampala for real!For the guys who mind their pockets,we’ll have to part with 30,000.That could buy me some airtime,take me out and some friends.But I don’t want to think about it coz it’s AKON we’re talking about here!

Oneuganda.com:
Some creative guy thought it’d be good to have our own social networking site,just us Ugandans.Too bad the site doesn’t have much to show for all the fuss that’s been flying around about it.

Nicholas Sarkozy:
Tit for tat must be a fair game,i think.Just after divorcing his wife,His Excellency hooked up and hitched Bruna.Not to be left out,his ex wife waited just long enough for her ex husband to settle,before she also got married.Now am not really a believer in love(falling in love) and that’s why.if you stumble and fall in love,next time you instinctively watch your step.fall in and fall out of love.

Liverpool Vs Man-u:
The last time i felt like killing a supporter of a rival team was when Arsenal humiliated Livrpool,not once but thrice!Just as i was starting to come to terms with such dangerous emotions,Man-U thrashed us 3-0.Never mind that we were one man less for most to the game,thanks to Xavier Mascherano who for all the player he is,he lacks in manners.After such matches,I wish the coach lived somewhere in Uganda or at least in Africa.

A.W.O.L

I got to be off for a while…

The end of the world

 I got this from paranormal.about.com.If I believed a word of the stuff,I’d probably be out there enjoying the last of my time on earth.

Where Is Nibiru and When Will It Arrive?

Even mainstream astronomers have long speculated that there may be an unknown planet – a Planet X – somewhere out beyond the orbit of Pluto that would account for the anomalies they were detecting in the orbits of Neptune and Uranus. Some unseen body seems to be tugging at them. The finding was reported in the June 19, 1982 edition of the New York Times:

Something out there beyond the furthest reaches of the known solar system is tugging at Uranus and Neptune. A gravitational force keeps perturbing the two giant planets, causing irregularities in their orbits. The force suggests a presence far away and unseen, a large object, the long-sought Planet X. Astronomers are so certain of this planet’s existence that they have already named it “Planet X – the 10th Planet.”
The anomalous body was first spotted in 1983 by IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite), according to news stories. The Washington Post reported: “A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical satellite. So mysterious is the object that astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby ‘protostar’ that never got hot enough to become a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in the process of forming its first stars or a galaxy so shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its stars ever gets through.”

Nibiru supporters contend that IRAS has, in fact, spotted the wandering planet.

“A Mystery Revolves Around the Sun,” an article posted by MSNBC on October 7, 1999 said: “Two teams of researchers have proposed the existence of an unseen planet or a failed star circling the sun at a distance of more than 2 trillion miles, far beyond the orbits of the nine known planets… Planetary scientist at Britain’s Open University, speculates that the object could be a planet larger than Jupiter.” And in December, 2000, SpaceDaily reported on “Another Candidate For ‘Planet X’ Spotted.”

Another article and photo appeared in Discovery News: “Large Object Discovered Orbiting Sun.” The article, published in July, 2001, says, “The discovery of a large reddish chunk of something orbiting in Pluto’s neighborhood has re-ignited the idea that there may be more than nine planets in the solar system.” Naming it 2001 KX76. the discoverers estimate that it is smaller than our Moon and might have an elongated orbit, but they gave no indication that it was heading this way.

Mark Hazelwood, who has a large website warning about the impending arrival of Nibiru and how we should prepare for it, suggests that all of these news stories lend credence to the existence of the Anunnaki’s Nibiru (although none of the articles said the celestial body was heading toward Earth). But Hazelwood says his research indicates that Nibiru will be here in the Spring of 2003, though he isn’t specific about how he arrived at that precise time period. This website about Planet X narrows it down even further to “late Spring or early Summer of 2003, probably May or June,” although they don’t specify their reasoning either.

Andy Lloyd isn’t as pessimistic – or at least his calculations are different. Since he speculates that Nibiru was actually the Star of Bethlehem seen about 2,000 years ago, “the problem faced by humanity as Nibiru again enters the planetary zone will fall to our descendants 50 generations hence.”

But Kent Steadman at the Sentinal section of Cyberspaceorbit.com is tracking Nibiru based on the Spring/Summer 2003 scenario and offers several star charts, timetables and other illustrations that show where Planet X will supposedly cross the inner solar system.

What Will Be the Effects on Earth?

As stated before, the gravitational pull of a planet entering the inner solar system would have profound effects on the other orbiting bodies, including Earth. In fact, the Anunnaki story says that a previous appearance of Nibiru was responsible for the “Great Flood” recorded in Genesis, in which nearly all life on our planet was extinguished (but saved, thanks to Noah). Going even further back, some researchers into this topic suspect that Nibiru once even collided with Earth millions of years ago, creating the asteroid belt and resulting in the enormous gouges in our planet that the oceans now fill.

Mark Hazelwood and others say that Earth is in for some massive and catastrophic changes as Nibiru approaches. Floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, a pole shift and other natural disasters will be so severe, Hazelwood says, that “only a few hundred million people will survive.” Another site says the gravitational pull of Nibiru might even stop the Earth’s rotation for three days, citing the “three days of darkness” predicted in the Bible.

Some of the Nibiru researchers also cite the prophecies of Edgar Cayce who predicted that we would soon suffer monumental Earth changes and a pole shift, even though he did not attribute them to anything as specific as a visiting planet. And, of course, the much-analyzed Mayan calendar is said to set the “end of world” in December, 2012.

Astronomers and other scientists who would seem to be in a position to know such things have made no announcements about the approach of any planet-sized body. Apparently, they have not detected anything of the kind. Those who believe Nibiru is approaching, however, say that scientists do know all about it and are just covering it up.

As with any such predictions, time will tell.

They say that time is a healer,so we’ll just have to wait and see.

February,March…the beginning of every year is my worst nightmare.Whaat with being broke after spending all the most of the money you’d saved through out the year.That’s why starting next year,I going to be very anti-new year.The benefits of that decision are quite many.Namely;enough sleep so as to wake up fresher in the new year than i was in the old and…

Today we make history.Liverpool will play Intermilan at the San Siro and we will win.No one should remind me that the last time we met them at this stage,they went on to knock us out of the tournament.Then we had a 3-1 cushion from the first leg tie at Anfield.The last time we won the Champions League,the Pope John Paul II  died.Our fourth Champs League tropghy was also won under similar circumstances.No,i don’t want to hear any of it.After all,history is also rewritten,right?

Fernando Torres ‘EL Nino’ is on fire.He’s scored 7  goals in our last 3 or so matches and a back to back hat-trick.Mascherano will be back while Xabi Alonso we’ll be attending to his pregnant wife.The rest of the team is in good shape.So what can stop us?Nothing. 

Obama Vs Clinton;McCain wins

It had to be the biggest story of the day for me.Hillary Rodman Clinton,who until recently seemed to be losing the race,surprises all of us and clinches victories in Texas,Ohio and Rhode island!Now that is newsworthy.Obama could only manage a win in Vermont as Senator Clinton took the lion’s share.I watched her victory speech on CNN.She hit at Senator Obama when she talked about that 3 a.m call to the White House saying that people needed action and not “speeches” or “promises”.Obama,who has been riding on the back of 11 straight wins,congraculated Clinton and consoled his supporters,telling them that they were still in the race.While the Democrat nominees planned their next moves,John McCain was celebrating and may be later on,he’ll sit down and lay down a strategy.Afterall,he has all the time in the world now to straighten out this and that.

Liverpool finally did it.A hat-trick for Fernando Torres and one lone strike from the captain Steven Gerrard summing up the thrashing of WestHam.It means we’re back in fourth position,with the same points as our Mersey side rival,Everton,but better on goal aggregate.We can now think about our second leg clash with Inter Milan.We go in with a 2-0 aggregate.

The story behind the word(part 1)

Have you ever wondered how certain words evolved?Take an example of the word butterfly.A butterfly doesn’t look like butter and neither is it a fly!Well,I was as curious as you,so I set out to find the origins of some words and the stories behind those words.Presenting Part 1 in our series:

AMAZON:The Amazon is the longest river in the Western Hemisphere.It got its name from a mythical race of Scythian female warriors.They are said to have burnt their right breast in order to improve their accuracy with the bow.Actually,the word is a composite of 2 Greek words: ‘a’ which means ‘without’ and ‘mazos’ which means ‘breast’.So literally,’amazon’ would mean ‘without a breast’.The female warriors were fierce.Their leader Penthesilea was killed by the Greek hero Achilles when the female warriors were aiding the besieged Trojans.Today,the word in its lower case refers to a strong woman.

BIKINI:Show me a man who doesn’t know what a bikini is and I will show you Newton’s grave.You know that a bikini is the skimpiest two-piece bathing suit a woman can wear and still feign a sense of decency and morality.They were first worn on the shores of the French Riviera in 1947,a year after Atomic tests were held on the Bikini Atoll.It’s origin is a mystery but there’s a belief that it was named after the Bikini Atoll,on the Marshall Islands.It’s believed that it’s effect on the men was atomic…

BUS:A bus was originally called by it’s full name “omnibus”.’omni” Latin for ‘all’.The French went ahead to call it ‘voiture omnibus”,meaning ‘vehicle for all’. But that was before its name was clipped by users who were in a hurry….

TAXI:Related to the above,a taxi’s full name was clipped.It was then called taximetercabriolet.The English language is of course in that light indebted to the French.Taxi form taxe which means a charge;meter from metre which means to measure.So taximeter would mean to measure a charge.Cabriolet is pure French for a two-wheeled carriage

PETTICOAT:It’s incredible that the petticoat was originally worn by men!But then,so were trousers.After the Norman victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066,soldiers wore full body armour.As expected,the weight of the armour caused chafing of shoulders.Some ingenious tailor set out and made a padded garment that could be worn under the armour to act as a cushion.Since the garment was smaller than the outercoat,he called it a pettycoat.As in petty money.Women found the garment quite appropriate,so they also started wearing it even after the soldiers stopped wearing it.That pettycoat has come to be known as petticoat,the i replacing the y.

I could go on forever but you know one must have some sleep.It’s a luxury everyone must afford.yawn……..