Monthly Archives: July 2011

Jul 17 2011

LEARN HOW TO MAKE HAITIAN HAMBURGER

The Haitian hamburger is juicy and tasty. You are about to learn how to make it in a few minutes. Once you eat it, you will not want to eat again these tasteless hamburgers you are accustomed to. You will be hooked. That is how good it is.

This is just for 1 hamburger. The amount of servings can always vary.

Ingredients:
Burger, vegetable oil, water, lemon juice, a small bag of Con Azafran by Goya, a small bag of Chiken Bouillon by Goya, Grace season, onion, green pepper, red pepper, thyme powder, hamburger roll.

Preparation:
1. Take the onion, green pepper and red pepper; cut them into very small pieces. The amount of the onion and red and green peppers you are going to put in there depends on your taste.

2. Turn your stove on low.

3. Put your pan on the stove and allow some time for it to be heated.

4. With a teaspoon of vegetable oil, grease the inside of the pan so the burger does not stick when it is in there.

5. Put the burger in the pan and let it stay for 5-10 minutes. If dry, add 2 teaspoons of water. After the 5-10 minutes, flip the burger over.

6. Now you have the tender side up. With a knife, you mark (you do not cut) the burger in small squares so the seasonings you are about to add can deeply penetrate it.

7. Add 4 drops of lemon juice on top of the burger.

8. Open the small bags of Con Azafran and Chicken Bouillon and sprinkle them on top of the meat.

9. Take the Grace Season and spread a little bit of it all over the top of the meat.

10. Sprinkle a very small amount of the thyme powder on the meat.

11. Now is the time to add the onions and green and red peppers.

12. Cover the pan for a good 5 minutes. If you suspect the water is drying, add 2 teaspoons of water. And control the fire. Turn it down a little bit if you have to, if the pan is getting too hot.

13. After the 5 minutes, uncover the pan and flip the burger over so you can take care of the other side.

14. Repeat steps 6 through 13.

15. Toast the hamburger roll in the oven. Well, at least, that is how I like my roll toasted. If you have a toaster, of course, you can use it as well.

You can always spread mayonnaise on the roll and add cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles and ketchup if you like. It is all up to you.

Jul 17 2011

LEARN HOW TO MAKE HAITIAN HAMBURGER

The Haitian hamburger is juicy and tasty. You are about to learn how to make it in a few minutes. Once you eat it, you will not want to eat again these tasteless hamburgers you are accustomed to. You will be hooked. That is how good it is.

This is just for 1 hamburger. The amount of servings can always vary.

Ingredients:
Burger, vegetable oil, water, lemon juice, a small bag of Con Azafran by Goya, a small bag of Chiken Bouillon by Goya, Grace season, onion, green pepper, red pepper, thyme powder, hamburger roll.

Preparation:
1. Take the onion, green pepper and red pepper; cut them into very small pieces. The amount of the onion and red and green peppers you are going to put in there depends on your taste.

2. Turn your stove on low.

3. Put your pan on the stove and allow some time for it to be heated.

4. With a teaspoon of vegetable oil, grease the inside of the pan so the burger does not stick when it is in there.

5. Put the burger in the pan and let it stay for 5-10 minutes. If dry, add 2 teaspoons of water. After the 5-10 minutes, flip the burger over.

6. Now you have the tender side up. With a knife, you mark (you do not cut) the burger in small squares so the season you are about to add can deeply penetrate it.

7. Add 4 drops of lemon juice on top of the burger.

8. Open the small bags of Con Azafran and Chicken Bouillon and sprinkle them on top of the meat.

9. Take the Grace Season and spread a little bit of it all over the top of the meat.

10. Sprinkle a very small amount of the thyme powder on the meat.

11. Now is the time to add the onions and green and red peppers.

12. Cover the pan for a good 5 minutes. If you suspect the water is drying, add 2 teaspoons of water. And control the fire. Turn it down a little bit if you have to, if the pan is getting too hot.

13. After the 5 minutes, uncover the pan and flip the burger over so you can take care of the other side.

14. After the 5 minutes, repeat steps 6 through 13.

15. Toast the hamburger roll in the oven. Well, at least, that is how I like my roll toasted. If you have a toaster, of course, you can use it as well.

You can always spread mayonnaise on the roll and add cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles and catch up if you like. It is all up to you.

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Jul 16 2011

PRESIDENT MARTELLY IS RAISING THE HEAT, EVALLIERE BEAUPLAN IS SCARED

PRESIDENT MARTELLY should have done this long ago -raising the heat by a) campaigning across the country selling his choice for Prime Minister to the people and b) exposing the tactics of the GPR-INITE parliamentarians wanting to literally torpedo his administration. Now EVALLIERE BEAUPLAN, one of the 16 senators hostile to GOUSSE, the president’s pick for Prime Minister, is feeling the heat, according to this article on Radiokiskeya.com. http://bit.ly/pyvik1

BEAUPLAN is so scared now that he is making false threats to PRESIDENT MARTELLY. He made it clear that if the president dissolves the legislature, his presidency will not last 24 hours; Martelly did not say a word about dissolving the Congress. This is proof that BEAUPLAN is feeling the heat. That’s a good sign.

This is a battle the president should fight and win by using a clear battle strategy -keep making the case for GOUSSE and exposing the strategy of the GPR-INITE guys as you are multiplying the talks and consultations. As I said before, you don’t “negotiate” from a position of weakness.

PRESIDENT MARTELLY must keep dragging his feet. Time is his best weapon right about now. He needs to keep slowing the process of sending GOUSSE before the Parliament; the longer the process lasts, the more the heat will mount on the GPR-INITE lawmakers. And he must not stop blaming them for the worsening of the people’s situation.

While the pressure is mounting on the GPR-INITE bloc, he needs to intensify the talks and consultations so that the people and the international community could see that he is trying his very best to “negotiate” with the legislature to pass the congressional gridlock and start solving the people’s problems.

In the logic of keeping the talks and consultations going, he needs to have a meeting with PREVAL and the leadership of the GPR-INITE group to attempt to find a solution to the crisis. PREVAL owns these slaves; therefore, he must have a talk with the master.

Time is on the president’s side of the spectrum. The longer this lasts, the better it is for him politically. He must not capitulate and be quick to raise the white flag. I foresee he will win this fight and come out of it politically stronger than ever before.

This is a psychological warfare; therefore, it must be fought and won psychologically. As long as he keeps selling his guy to the people across the country, denouncing the strategy of the GPR-INITE group and multiplying the consultations, he will be alright.

Jul 15 2011

My REFLECTION OF THE DAY 07/15/2011

The Republicans want to solve the deficit equation solely by cutting spending. They believe that doing so will keep more money in the treasury, which will eventually balance the equation.

The Democrats, on the other hand, believe otherwise. They finally agree to cut spending, which will negatively affect medicare and medicaid, but opt to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

Raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans is not something the Republicans would support; it goes against their core ideological value. They argue that these people are job creators in the economy; therefore, taxing them will undermine their ability to create jobs, which will slow down the economy.

But we have a problem, though. The republicans’ argument for not wanting to raise taxes on the rich does not seem to make much sense to me; I refuse to buy it. We had tried this trickle-down economic philosophy during the Bush administration; unfortunately, it failed to solve the equation; the economy had gotten worse.

These wealthiest Americans were not creating jobs when they were getting tax cuts after tax cuts under Bush. Instead of seeing jobs being created in the economy, we witnessed the opposite -jobs fleeing the economy to go overseas, causing the recession in the first place.

So I wholeheartedly am in agreement with the approach proposed by the democrats to solve the deficit equation. We had tried the Republican way before; unfortunately, it worsened the situation. We have got to be really stupid to be wanting to keep doing the same ineffective thing expecting different results. It is time that we try something else.

Jul 12 2011

MARTELLY NEEDS TO PUT ON SOME WEIGHT

Politics is a weight game; if you are politically weak, do not get on the field trying to play it. Otherwise, you are going to get badly and shamefully injured.

As it stands now, President Martelly is politically weak and frail; his political base is totally unstructured and unorganized. He needs to work on putting on some political weight (in parallel) as he is tackling many things at once.

If I were to advise him, I would tell him to put in place a committee of political strategists and experts to work on the formation of a structured political party to solidify and strengthen his political base. That party should be heavily active and represented in the country and in the Diaspora.

If you take a glance at the makeup of the Parliament, you will quickly realize that President Martelly has no real political weight in there. So that is bad business for him. He needs to work on changing the makeup of that body as soon as possible.

The only democratic way the makeup of our legislature can be changed is through democratic elections. And the only way he can have people sharing his philosophy of change in that body is if and only if he has a solid political party that could get them elected in the next elections.

President Martelly ran a campaign on the promise to change our politics, develop our economy and revolutionize our society. All these things he promised could be just empty rhetoric if he does not have a political structure in place.

Revolutions (political, economic and social) take time to mature. In other words, you do not see the results of a revolutionary movement in five years -the presidential term of service in Haiti. This is something that could take a quarter of a century before you start seeing results.

So President Martelly needs to have that structure in place that could carry the spirit and philosophy of that vision of change beyond his term in office. That is what you call durable and sustainable change.

It is going to be very difficult for the President to advance his political agenda without a majority in the legislature to back him up. That is how politics works. So he must sit down with the GPR-Inite concentration in the Parliament to see how they can work out their differences and arrive at a consensus on the choice of the Prime Minister to pass this congressional gridlock.

Let us face it. After President Obama lost the House of Representatives to the Republicans last November, the game has changed; the political calculus has shifted. So he had to put on hold some elements of his ambitious progressive agenda to deal with the conservative leadership in Congress. That’s exactly what President Martelly is going to have to do for the time being -until he strengthens his ranks and gets his troops in the chambers of Congress.

My political instinct tells me that more than likely Gousse is not going to be ratified. If my prediction is right, President Martelly is going to have to designate someone else to be his Prime Minister. This time, he should ask the GPR-Inite elements to do two things:

1) Write down the profile of someone they would ratify without a doubt (hopefully, this is something all the parties would agree upon)

2) Send over to him a list of five names of people they would ratify, which he could choose the Prime Minister from.

Once he secures these two things from the Parliament, he will form an independent team of trusted experts/advisers to thoroughly vet each and every single one of them. Once the vetting process is over, they will recommend the best and most suitable person for the job to him. Then that is the name he will send forth to Senator Joazil -the President of the General Assembly.

The GPR-Inite guys cannot continue to play their game for long. Eventually, that game they are playing will get old; they will be running out of options. The President needs to play with a winning state of mind that game these guys are playing. He needs to be patient and stay focused on getting the head of his government ratified, solidifying his political base and changing the makeup of the Parliament so he could get his political, economic and social reforms on the way.

Jul 11 2011

THE HAITIAN LEGISLATURE: A CASE STUDY FOR ALL POLITICAL JUNKIES

I understand democracy can be hard, but it is poised to get harder when you have people in political positions with no clue whatsoever of how democracy works and what it means to be public servant.

As we speak, we have a serious crisis in Haiti, and it has nothing to do with our democratic experience; rather, it has to do with the people we have in our political institutions, especially the legislature, to represent us. So solving this crisis requires that we take bolt and unpopular measures.

I strongly believe we need to find a way to get rid of this legislature we currently have in Haiti and start over with a new and functional body –if we really aspire to a new and better Haiti.

This Congress, it is sad to say, is bringing nothing but shame and deception to the land of Dessalines, Toussaint, Christophe and Petion. So, by any means necessary, democratic or otherwise, we need to retire it urgently before it is too late. Retiring this Congress is just as urgent as unclogging a clogged artery so that the tissues of a specific organ it is there to irrigate can be perfused before the undesirable occurs.

These two chambers of the legislative branch of our government are instruments put in place by ARISTIDE and PREVAL to destroy the country. They are saturated with their vassals -criminals, drug dealers, thieves, crooks, ignorant and unqualified heads, etc. Their only qualification to accede to these respectable chambers was to pledge allegiance to their bosses, ARISTIDE and PREVAL, not to the republic and the people that elected them.

So basically, These two LAVALAS guys, ARISTIDE and PREVAL, during their twenty years in power, have done to the country the same thing they had been blaming the Duvaliers for, which is vasalizing all the institutions. That’s why they do not have the moral authority and political leverage to take legal actions against Jean Claude Duvalier curently living peacefully in his country. To prosecute Duvalier is to prosecute the two of them.

Institutions are made of people, and they are the reflection of the people inside them. A better way to look at it is like this: Tell me who you have to body your institutions, I will tell you how effective and functional they are.

Some of these people in our legislature can barely read, let alone comprehending the wording of and logic embedded in the articles of the Constitution, how can you expect them to legislate in total knowledge of the law? Haitians, seriously, are these folks the best you have to offer? Where are the highly qualified and honest Haitians? How did we end up with these guys as our representatives?

Well, I don’t know. Maybe I am expecting too much from a group of people for whom the mess seems to be working and to whom the filth seems to be beneficial.

It is not my fault that I am holding these guys to such higher standards; it is that the little bit I know in politics, I have acquired that in the United States. In other words, the only model I have of how government institutions work and are structured and staffed, I have obtained that in the country where everything seems to be working for its people, and that is the United States of America.

The lesson all political junkies like myself have to learn from observing the Haitian legislature is this: When you have crooks, thieves, drug dealers and politically illiterate folks in your political institutions, you have the Haitian model, you have what is happening now in Haiti -a case study of a politically, economically and socially dead country due to its lifeless institutions.

Jul 7 2011

WE DO NOT NEED A PRIME MINISTER IN HAITI

This article 137 of the Haitian Constitution of 1987 is an article of political crisis. It stipulates:

“The President of the Republic shall choose a Prime Minister from among the members of the majority party of the Parliament. In the absence of such a majority, the President of the Republic shall choose his Prime Minister in consultation with the President of the Senate and the President of the House of Deputies.”

Who are the geniuses that crafted this article? I would love to meet them simply to shake their hands for such a job well done. They really know how to mess things up for the country.

I want someone to answer me this question: Why do we even have a Prime Minister when we have a head of state elected by the people through a national election?

Listen to this idiocy: the Prime Minister, after being ratified by the Parliament, must receive an up or down vote in a joint session of Congress, depending on his or her declaration of “politique generale.”

How do we vote the president in Haiti, folks? Don’t we vote him or her based on his or her political agenda or “politique generale?” If so, what sense does it make to have a Prime Minister repeat the same process before the members of Congress?

The way it is now, this article 137 is a Constitutional provision for these thieves, drug dealers, crooks, birdbrained, traitors sitting in the Parliament to take the country in hostage, making it extremely difficult for President Martelly to get started with solving the people’s problems. Logically, these guys are getting paid to worsen every single day that goes by the situation of the country.

I said it before and I am going it again: we do not need a Prime Minister in Haiti. It is a waste of time.

The Prime Minister position is one created to get one more corrupted person in the government of the country to steal and further perpetuate the system of corruption.

We need a President and a Vice President on a ticket together -just like it is done here in the States. When the people vote, they vote the ticket containing the President and the Vice President. Like that, you will only have the different ministers, chosen by the President (after they have been vetted, of course), to be approved by the members of Congress. It makes more sense to me like that.