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G

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

All that glitters may not be gold, but everything there in those photos which appears to be gold, is.

Another word for all this: disgusting.

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Madhuri Katti

Madhuri Katti — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Totally Obscene!

G

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hi. Obscene, that’s a good one. It certainly is.

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;)

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve read some news items saying that Mugabe didn’t spend a single cent on this (costing to the hoot of 30+ mil USD). The cost was shared by the Chinese and Koreans, in cash and kind such as timber and other construction materials. There are only debts of gratitude to pay (good as cash via Mugabe’s ways).

There was rumor that this mansion actually belongs to a Mugabe relative, since (as one Mugabe aide says), no one but no one outside of Mugabe’s close circle can get a glimpse of Mugabe’s home. Maybe, that makes sense...

Grace Mugabe, btw, has other mansions in and around Harare, on landgrabbed land.

So, if I may add another applicable word, I’d say SHREWD.

G

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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I have a friend from Harare. Apparently if you go anywhere near this mansion at the wrong time of day you will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.

*sigh*

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Mercy

Mercy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Goosebumped and appalled

G

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The sheer poetry of receiving comments from both Grace and Mercy is an awesome thing... both cathartic and symbolic.

Goosebumped and appalled

Good call.

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;)

DonaldJ

DonaldJ — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It’s called ”government”... It’s a few scums parasitizing the masses to fuel their pathetic useless lives...

Humanity needs to boot out government, and redefine humanity, and build a governance system conducive with life, love, and living.. because now all we’ve got is a den of thieves, everywhere, sucking the life out of us, just cuz they can, cuz we let them.. Same goes for ”democracy”...

Democracy is more interested in our money than our lives... Democracy is the experiment that failed us.. and now democracy is slaughtering humans all around the planet, to prevent them from harming themselves with herbal drugs, and to rob their natural resources...

What we’ve got now is Christianity building its proverbial ”hell on earth”, from dismantling ”heaven on earth, just to prove to us that there really is a ”hell”... America is in process of the second Inquisition, slaughtering humans who refuse to believe in Christinsanity...

G

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

An interesting perspective.

Mugabe, of course, has slightly misinterpreted the notion of democracy, whatever flaws democracy may in fact exhibit. Democracy is meant to be the rule of people chose by the ”demos”, the people... not the rule of some rich [first link in article]...

The King of Gabon has a mansion which more closely approximates to the Palace of Versailles... this ostentatiousness is apparently a recurring theme.

Simple

Simple — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

yuck!!! well that is what came to my mind first.. then some @#%%#*& :D

G

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Yuck. Short and sweet and totally accurate. There is an art in simplicity. Thank you.

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