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BUJU'S LAST STAND?

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Good Monday morning!!! While the Reggae world watches and hopes, Buju Banton sits in a lonely holding cell in Federal Court in Tampa while a jury decides his fate. You know what they say: "You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."Good luck to Buju and Mr. Markus. We have high hopes now that they dodged the dreaded Friday verdict curse. Not to be a downer, but here's why we are in real trouble: NY Time columnist Thomas Friedman points out five "Moon Shot" type programs the Chinese are engaged in: Transportation- from modern airports to high speed rail to electric batteries (with US investors); Genetic sequencing (with the 128 DNA sequencers ordered from the USA)....and several others. Meanwhile, the US has it's own "Moon Shot" type project: Afghanistan...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on September 27, 2010 (boomark / email).