{"id":4637,"date":"2011-05-24T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2011\/05\/12\/"},"modified":"2011-05-24T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T20:34:09","slug":"im-calling-it-a-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=4637","title":{"rendered":"I’m Calling it a Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

As most Magical Buffet readers know, I have a bit of an axe to grind about Zimbabwe. I won\u2019t bog you down with links here. If you don\u2019t know the history, just go to The Buffet\u2019s home page<\/a> and click on politics in the column on the right hand side of your screen. But consider yourself warned, I started all of this way back in July 2008! Goodness I\u2019ve been talking about Zimbabwe for a damned long time!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m here to discuss one of my more recent posts on the subject. In November 2010 I sent a letter \u201cacross the pond\u201d to Matthew Coats and Damian Green about Britain resuming enforced returns of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe.<\/a> I thought I made some pretty eloquent points, if I do say so myself. <\/p>\n

As an aside, that post is particularly special to me because if you look in the comments section you\u2019ll see someone from Britain left a comment that ends with \u201cKeep your nose out of British politics and decisions \u2013 you do not pay for the assorted wandering nomad immigrants who decide to dump themselves in Britain \u2013 I am forced to finance them.\u201d A few years I ago I may have panicked, thinking, oh no, I upset someone. However my immediate response to seeing this comment instead was, oh my God! Someone in Britain is reading my blog? Sweet. For a while I was getting pretty regular visits from the U.K. I just assumed it was that guy looking to see if I responded to his comment. Sorry fella\u2019, this is as close to a response as you\u2019re going to see. And that day was when I realized I must truly be a blogger.<\/p>\n

Where the heck was I? Oh yes, me writing to Britain about enforced returns of failed asylum seeker to Zimbabwe. A country that has the sad fate of possessing no oil, and having no A List celebrities adopting children from there, so the United States will continue to do nothing besides remind the country that we have targeted sanctions on President Mugabe and others. Oh, was that out loud? Good. I\u2019m pretty bitter about it. (By the way, The Daily Show also wonders about America\u2019s \u201cFreedom Packages\u201d<\/a>.) Anyway, here\u2019s where I\u2019m trying to go with this. In that letter to Coats and Green I mention X Factor contestant Gamu Nhengu who was facing deportation<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Well, on May 11, 2011 BBC News published this<\/a>. Yep, \u201cX Factor’s Gamu Nhengu wins right to stay in the UK\u201d<\/a>. In the grand scheme of things, this isn\u2019t much of anything. My letters definitely had nothing to do with it. But you know what? I\u2019m going to just sit back, smile, and call it a win anyway. Some days, you just have to take what you can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"