Here is what Dr Dennis Waitley has to say on this.

It means you don’t base your decisions on being politically correct. You do what’s right, not fashionable. You know that truth is absolute, not a device for manipulating others. And you win in the long run, when the stakes are highest.

Read more on this subject: http://www.mypureprofit.com/integrity.html or watch this http://www.candogo.com/search/insight?i=1960

live debate stream on http://idhaa.kenic.or.ke:8001/

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The debate is calculated to ensure that ICT issues are put on the
pedestal during the campaign period and in the process hold the future
leaders accountable given the commitments they will give that day.

More details here.

here’s another

If you have read George Orwell’s 1984 and have watched 24, you will probably find this article interesting

http://www.mises.org/story/2465

‘As enjoyable as 24 is on the surface, a more than cursory glance makes it obvious that the show is attempting to justify and even celebrate an ever-expanding Orwellian state. It almost makes me want to root for the bad guys.’

24 Time Warp

Apparently 24 Season 6 is set in the not-too-distant future – 2012 … read more

One of the better fictions of Democracy is that you get to choose the candidate you want to represent you in “Bunge”, “Kanjo”, the Chiefs Baraza etc. This, depending on the context, may be presented as:

The truth is it is multiple choice.
You can choose cancer or stage three Diarhoea (To be fair this is an exagaration)

You get to choose the least worst tomatoes, as the market is about to close rather than the best fish from a sea of plenty.

The Reason

There is such thing as a good candidate.

A person who would use the least resources (money,mercedes) to get the most results (like the many who get by on under $1/= per day).

A person with great intelligence and political cunning (like the many who survive ghetto life, unemployed but somehow get to eat — without resorting to crime)

A person with great maturity and wisdom.

The problem is she does not present herself for nominations by (INSERT YOUR CHAMA HERE) .
Think about it,
By standing to be elected I am esentially saying, “VOTE FOR ME I AM BETTER THAN BABA TOI” . How many good people do you know who behave like that?

Most capable people are busy building their families, careers, writing emails to their University mailing lists to complain about politicians and saving/investing for their “Retirement”.

I propose we come out of the fiction of the Great Leader(tm). True it is possible that somewhere there is a Gandhi with a Vision of what Kenya can become, a Patrice Lumumba who is incorruptible, an Abraham Lincoln who will keep Kenya United no matter what.

But even though this Kenyan Exists, I am afraid, unless we find a way to coax him to stand for elections, we will be forced to make do with a George Bush with his NUKULAR weapons, Dan Quayle with his POTATOE ‘s, Museveni with his Kisanja (third term) and Boris Yeltsin with his partying …. and you know the most anoying part? They will all win their elections – with a landslide.

Challenge

As engineers you get to solve human problems, providing stable solutions utilising imperfect materials.

• Bridges from stone and sand
• Cars from baby Rust (iron as you all know grows up to become rust)
• Aeroplanes from scrap Sufurias (Aluminium, I know nowadays they use Stainless steel but bear with me)
• Electricity from River Tana
• Blackouts from Kengen, Kenya Power, Government, International lenders and Civil Society (You see, you need to form a committee to prepare an action plan so that you can mess up)
• Communications….. mainly by Guess work and Magic

Surely we can design a system, using the appropriate sensors, controls, feed back and actuating subsystems so that once deployed, it can be operated by even the most common housefl… I mean the stupidest politician* to produce acceptable results.
P.S.
* I know saying stupid politician is repeating myself. I apologise

Now i wonder if we could actually appraise them on a yearly basis… maybe waiting for five years is too long…

w, x, z are all variables
y – total public offence

x out of y ‘public offences’ you must issue a public apology.

w out of y, you must issue a public apology and step down at the end of your term in office of whatever position you hold

If there is sufficient evidence that you commited or abetted a offence z out of y, you must issue a public apology and step down and aside from office… to ‘pave way’ for an inquest into your conduct pertaining to issue z.

however in most cases we find that z >> y. This can result in a divide by zero operation since the person responsible actually never bothers to resign.. nah.. (s)he doesn’t even know that did z out of y (where z >> y ‘public offences’) . Hence as in any software program, an exception is thrown…

Kind of what is happening to Kenya currently..

Let’s hope that some good programming (a/k/a) structures prevent divide by 0 operations.