impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
I used to hate twitter but now I follow it for news. I do read some things from other people but most of the time I don’t see what they say unless I am in the mood for a diversion. I want to point out that I am not really into it for the celebrity [...]
The French like to get involved. At a national level they claimed there were no WMD’s in Iraq. They were called cheese eating surrender monkeys because of it and tragically French fries became freedom fries. I think it was initially on some French websites that people became suspicious about the wreckage on the lawn of [...]
‘Give me your name and address or I’ll rape you’: the reality of Corrib policing http://vimeo.com/21952231 Excerpt from recording by confiscated video camera in a Garda vehicle on March 31st, 2011, after the arrest of two women at Aughoose for public order-related offences relating to the Corrib gas project. “Crusty camp” is a reference to [...]
An intern at facebook.com: It is interesting to see where facebook users live – note the almost total blackout of russia/china/middle east. I am a bit concerned about this from a privacy perspective, most likely because I watched Tron Legacy last night. What if someone steals the database and puts it on the internet like [...]
irishtimes.com: The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission has received 28 complaints about the behaviour of gardaí following a protest organised by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) last week. Some 25,000 people participated. If you thought the behaviour of the Gardai was about to change, think again. In this video there are beatings of people [...]
The running of the bulls comes to Ireland. Anything is possible even wearing bacon on your clothes and running away from people trying to eat you. The only time I recall seeing a village decorated like this was Ballyporeen when Ronald O’Reagan ‘found his roots’ and came to visit in 1984.
“Ummm it was international factors, it was the Lehman brothers“. From blogs.wsj.com Who does Ireland’s befuddled Prime Minister Brian Cowen think he’s kidding? In the same day as two seminal reports into Ireland’s banking crisis emerged — a catastrophic event of historic proportions that has brought this small, open economy to its knees — Cowen [...]
We are no longer at war with Eurasia as the gubberment have closed the headshops : Several head shops closed their doors to the public with immediate effect as the Taoiseach declared the high-street stores “closed until further notice”. “Hopefully that practical effect will be seen right around the country,” Brian Cowen said. “We are [...]
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? Yeats in Easter 1916. Brian Cowen wants economic sacrifice and needs the place looking great as if 2016 is some sort of tidy towns parade: TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen last night invoked the centenary of the Easter Rising in five [...]
I watched with amazement at tonight’s primetime program talking about the legal highs available in headshops in Ireland. They first mentioned mushrooms and then interviewed drug addicts on the street who prefer Mephedrone to Cocaine. According to skanger Jim: “they say they are bath salts and you put them into water but after taking it [...]
