Wednesday, December 16, 2009
NUGGETS OF GNOMIC WISDOM
When the roof is falling in, remember we are the architects of our own misfortune.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Peter Mandelson - Labour's Prince (Or Queen) of Darkness.
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
SEEMS EVEN THE ECONOMIST THOUGHT GANLEY WAS A TOSSER.
The Economist
OH OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE - BEING SEEN AS A TOSSER BY THE ECONOMIST MUST HURT THE BESUITED WANNABE BOGMAN - BUT TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY THE PIECE APPEARS IN THE JOURNOS BLOG `CHARLEMAGN'S NOTEBOOK"
Check out the current edition of the Village Magazine where A Libertas insider tells Kevin Barrington that he thought the suggestion that the narcissistic Ganley had a Napoleonic complex was slightly off the maark.
Yes Ganley was driven by ego, he said but added that Charlemagne offered a better insight than Napoleon.
Oh how we laughed!
A blog by the author of our column on the European Union
Charlemagne's notebook
Declan Ganley, demagogue or dilettante?
* May 18th 2009, 22:55 by Charlemagne
I AM in Donegal, on the west coast of Ireland, at the end of a long day following Declan Ganley on the Euro-campaign trail. Mr Ganley, a rich businessman, came from nowhere to become a leading player in last summer’s Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, heading up a slick No campaign that left the government and main opposition parties floundering.
Mr Ganley inspires strong emotions in Brussels: after he helped bring about the Irish No vote, he became a bogey-man for some surprisingly senior European politicians, who accused him of telling outrageous lies about the treaty. Some would brief journalists that he was a man with close links to the Pentagon, and hint that his funding came from forces in America who wished to block Lisbon, for fear Europe would become too powerful a rival. Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the then French Europe minister, said something pretty close to this in public last year.
Now, those same Brussels grandees seem to have decided that Mr Ganley is a joke, as they read opinion polls showing that the Irish are likely to vote to Yes when (not if) they are invited to vote again on Lisbon this autumn. He is also running in the European Parliament elections next month, as the founder of a new outfit, Libertas, which set out to become the first pan-European political party, with candidates in all 27 member countries of the EU. He has not made all 27, but he has 500 candidates signed up to run, some of them sitting members of the parliament.
I heard him tell people on the campaign trail today that he was expecting to win 106 seats, which would make Libertas one of the most powerful blocks in the European Parliament. This is nonsense. Depending on which polls you believe, he is in fact heading for somewhere between a small handful and no seats at all. His own run in Ireland Northwest is not looking good for him: he is polling below 10%, though it is generally reckoned a candidate needs close to 20% of first preference votes to make it (three seats are available in this enormous constituency, and will be elected on a transferable vote system).
I will have more considered thoughts to offer in a column later this week. Here is an immediate impression. Mr Ganley is a puzzling figure: neither a scary demagogue, nor a millionaire dilettante, but with elements of both those ills.
A lot of his hardcore supporters on the trail are conservative Catholics, who volunteer that their top issue is abortion. Other elements of the No campaign last summer were happy to lie, flat out, and say that the Lisbon Treaty might impose abortion on demand in Ireland. Mr Ganley, when asked about this, is more careful, but still pretty cynical. When asked about this, he starts his replies by conceding that abortion is not one of the legal competences of the European Union. If he were playing entirely straight that, really, should be that. No EU treaty will affect abortion laws at the national level, because it has been obvious for years that this is a very sensitive issue. So for years, the EU has steered well clear of it.
But instead Mr Ganley goes on to tell voters that Libertas will have to be “very vigilant” against the “risk” that the European Court of Justice will seek to extend its powers over abortion, euthanasia or other such issues. And the ECJ’s actions cannot be predicted, he says. “Nobody in Brussels should ever get their hands on that decision-making process,” he told a well-attended public meeting tonight, to rousing applause. On this then, and some other issues, he is at the very least a slick populist.
But at other times, he is oddly amateurish. He has been travelling a great deal launching Libertas campaigns in other countries, so has not spent much time campaigning for himself at home. So his time in Ireland today, three weeks out from the elections, was presumably rather precious. I have covered election campaigns on four continents over the past decade, and I can honestly say I have never spent more time watching a party leader fart around to less effect. We canvassed a street in Collooney where there were no voters (eventually ambushing a postman in his van, to give local television a shot of him talking to a voter), then visited a fishing company behind closed doors, then a boatyard and harbour. It was all very friendly, and some extremely polite women supporters with purple sweaters, Virgin Mary brooches and Libertas t-shirts came out to say hello. But the normal business of retail politics was almost ignored: no shopping centres, commuters at a railway station, or even places with crowds. When a nice man offered us a trip on his boat up the harbour to pick up the pilot off an ocean-going ship, off we went for 20 minutes, chugging round the harbour. I do not want to sound churlish, given that the scenery at Killybegs harbour is astonishingly pretty and I was allowed to go along on the boat trip. But most of the people Mr Ganley waved at while we chugged about were Norwegian sailors, who do not have a vote in Ireland as far as I know.
He handled a public meeting tonight pretty well, and he had the crowd really going at some points. As a connoisseur of political cant, I have to confess I did enjoy one moment that went slightly awry. His favourite argument is that the European Commission, which has the exclusive right to propose new EU laws, is staffed by unknown and unknowable “faceless bureaucrats”, who must be made accountable to voters. In a hokey question and answer moment, he challenged the crowd to name a commission official. “Hands up who knows a single one of them,” he said.
To his visible surprise, a tiny old man with a tweed jacket and snowy white hair meekly raised his hand. “There’s that lady Catherine Day, who is the secretary general of the commission, and she was on the radio,” said the old man, correctly identifying the most senior non-political functionary at the commission. “And she was saying these bureaucrats do have to travel around Europe bending ears to get things done.”
Trying to salvage his rhetorical gambit, Mr Ganley demanded: “So where is she from?”
“Well, Ireland somewhere,” the old man said, again correctly.
“I think she’s a Dublin lady,” a woman said from the back, presumably imagining she being helpful.
With only the faintest hint of alarm, Mr Ganley moved to seize back control: “Well, I have heard of Catherine Day,” he said briskly, “but she is not exactly a household name.” Then he slipped back into his stump speech.
He makes much of not being a professional politician. But though I am entirely neutral about whether Mr Ganley deserves a seat in the EP or not, I would modestly suggest two thoughts from my observers’ seat at the back of the room: real politicians are terrifyingly disciplined about campaigning, and real politicians never, ever patronise their audiences.
I AM in Donegal, on the west coast of Ireland, at the end of a long day following Declan Ganley on the Euro-campaign trail. Mr Ganley, a rich businessman, came from nowhere to become a leading player in last summer’s Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, heading up a slick No campaign that left the government and main opposition parties floundering.
Mr Ganley inspires strong emotions in Brussels: after he helped bring about the Irish No vote, he became a bogey-man for some surprisingly senior European politicians, who accused him of telling outrageous lies about the treaty. Some would brief journalists that he was a man with close links to the Pentagon, and hint that his funding came from forces in America who wished to block Lisbon, for fear Europe would become too powerful a rival. Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the then French Europe minister, said something pretty close to this in public last year.
Now, those same Brussels grandees seem to have decided that Mr Ganley is a joke, as they read opinion polls showing that the Irish are likely to vote to Yes when (not if) they are invited to vote again on Lisbon this autumn. He is also running in the European Parliament elections next month, as the founder of a new outfit, Libertas, which set out to become the first pan-European political party, with candidates in all 27 member countries of the EU. He has not made all 27, but he has 500 candidates signed up to run, some of them sitting members of the parliament.
I heard him tell people on the campaign trail today that he was expecting to win 106 seats, which would make Libertas one of the most powerful blocks in the European Parliament. This is nonsense. Depending on which polls you believe, he is in fact heading for somewhere between a small handful and no seats at all. His own run in Ireland Northwest is not looking good for him: he is polling below 10%, though it is generally reckoned a candidate needs close to 20% of first preference votes to make it (three seats are available in this enormous constituency, and will be elected on a transferable vote system).
I will have more considered thoughts to offer in a column later this week. Here is an immediate impression. Mr Ganley is a puzzling figure: neither a scary demagogue, nor a millionaire dilettante, but with elements of both those ills.
A lot of his hardcore supporters on the trail are conservative Catholics, who volunteer that their top issue is abortion. Other elements of the No campaign last summer were happy to lie, flat out, and say that the Lisbon Treaty might impose abortion on demand in Ireland. Mr Ganley, when asked about this, is more careful, but still pretty cynical. When asked about this, he starts his replies by conceding that abortion is not one of the legal competences of the European Union. If he were playing entirely straight that, really, should be that. No EU treaty will affect abortion laws at the national level, because it has been obvious for years that this is a very sensitive issue. So for years, the EU has steered well clear of it.
But instead Mr Ganley goes on to tell voters that Libertas will have to be “very vigilant” against the “risk” that the European Court of Justice will seek to extend its powers over abortion, euthanasia or other such issues. And the ECJ’s actions cannot be predicted, he says. “Nobody in Brussels should ever get their hands on that decision-making process,” he told a well-attended public meeting tonight, to rousing applause. On this then, and some other issues, he is at the very least a slick populist.
But at other times, he is oddly amateurish. He has been travelling a great deal launching Libertas campaigns in other countries, so has not spent much time campaigning for himself at home. So his time in Ireland today, three weeks out from the elections, was presumably rather precious. I have covered election campaigns on four continents over the past decade, and I can honestly say I have never spent more time watching a party leader fart around to less effect. We canvassed a street in Collooney where there were no voters (eventually ambushing a postman in his van, to give local television a shot of him talking to a voter), then visited a fishing company behind closed doors, then a boatyard and harbour. It was all very friendly, and some extremely polite women supporters with purple sweaters, Virgin Mary brooches and Libertas t-shirts came out to say hello. But the normal business of retail politics was almost ignored: no shopping centres, commuters at a railway station, or even places with crowds. When a nice man offered us a trip on his boat up the harbour to pick up the pilot off an ocean-going ship, off we went for 20 minutes, chugging round the harbour. I do not want to sound churlish, given that the scenery at Killybegs harbour is astonishingly pretty and I was allowed to go along on the boat trip. But most of the people Mr Ganley waved at while we chugged about were Norwegian sailors, who do not have a vote in Ireland as far as I know.
He handled a public meeting tonight pretty well, and he had the crowd really going at some points. As a connoisseur of political cant, I have to confess I did enjoy one moment that went slightly awry. His favourite argument is that the European Commission, which has the exclusive right to propose new EU laws, is staffed by unknown and unknowable “faceless bureaucrats”, who must be made accountable to voters. In a hokey question and answer moment, he challenged the crowd to name a commission official. “Hands up who knows a single one of them,” he said.
To his visible surprise, a tiny old man with a tweed jacket and snowy white hair meekly raised his hand. “There’s that lady Catherine Day, who is the secretary general of the commission, and she was on the radio,” said the old man, correctly identifying the most senior non-political functionary at the commission. “And she was saying these bureaucrats do have to travel around Europe bending ears to get things done.”
Trying to salvage his rhetorical gambit, Mr Ganley demanded: “So where is she from?”
“Well, Ireland somewhere,” the old man said, again correctly.
“I think she’s a Dublin lady,” a woman said from the back, presumably imagining she being helpful.
With only the faintest hint of alarm, Mr Ganley moved to seize back control: “Well, I have heard of Catherine Day,” he said briskly, “but she is not exactly a household name.” Then he slipped back into his stump speech.
He makes much of not being a professional politician. But though I am entirely neutral about whether Mr Ganley deserves a seat in the EP or not, I would modestly suggest two thoughts from my observers’ seat at the back of the room: real politicians are terrifyingly disciplined about campaigning, and real politicians never, ever patronise their audiences.
OH OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE - BEING SEEN AS A TOSSER BY THE ECONOMIST MUST HURT THE BESUITED WANNABE BOGMAN - BUT TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY THE PIECE APPEARS IN THE JOURNOS BLOG `CHARLEMAGN'S NOTEBOOK"
Check out the current edition of the Village Magazine where A Libertas insider tells Kevin Barrington that he thought the suggestion that the narcissistic Ganley had a Napoleonic complex was slightly off the maark.
Yes Ganley was driven by ego, he said but added that Charlemagne offered a better insight than Napoleon.
Oh how we laughed!
A blog by the author of our column on the European Union
Charlemagne's notebook
Declan Ganley, demagogue or dilettante?
* May 18th 2009, 22:55 by Charlemagne
I AM in Donegal, on the west coast of Ireland, at the end of a long day following Declan Ganley on the Euro-campaign trail. Mr Ganley, a rich businessman, came from nowhere to become a leading player in last summer’s Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, heading up a slick No campaign that left the government and main opposition parties floundering.
Mr Ganley inspires strong emotions in Brussels: after he helped bring about the Irish No vote, he became a bogey-man for some surprisingly senior European politicians, who accused him of telling outrageous lies about the treaty. Some would brief journalists that he was a man with close links to the Pentagon, and hint that his funding came from forces in America who wished to block Lisbon, for fear Europe would become too powerful a rival. Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the then French Europe minister, said something pretty close to this in public last year.
Now, those same Brussels grandees seem to have decided that Mr Ganley is a joke, as they read opinion polls showing that the Irish are likely to vote to Yes when (not if) they are invited to vote again on Lisbon this autumn. He is also running in the European Parliament elections next month, as the founder of a new outfit, Libertas, which set out to become the first pan-European political party, with candidates in all 27 member countries of the EU. He has not made all 27, but he has 500 candidates signed up to run, some of them sitting members of the parliament.
I heard him tell people on the campaign trail today that he was expecting to win 106 seats, which would make Libertas one of the most powerful blocks in the European Parliament. This is nonsense. Depending on which polls you believe, he is in fact heading for somewhere between a small handful and no seats at all. His own run in Ireland Northwest is not looking good for him: he is polling below 10%, though it is generally reckoned a candidate needs close to 20% of first preference votes to make it (three seats are available in this enormous constituency, and will be elected on a transferable vote system).
I will have more considered thoughts to offer in a column later this week. Here is an immediate impression. Mr Ganley is a puzzling figure: neither a scary demagogue, nor a millionaire dilettante, but with elements of both those ills.
A lot of his hardcore supporters on the trail are conservative Catholics, who volunteer that their top issue is abortion. Other elements of the No campaign last summer were happy to lie, flat out, and say that the Lisbon Treaty might impose abortion on demand in Ireland. Mr Ganley, when asked about this, is more careful, but still pretty cynical. When asked about this, he starts his replies by conceding that abortion is not one of the legal competences of the European Union. If he were playing entirely straight that, really, should be that. No EU treaty will affect abortion laws at the national level, because it has been obvious for years that this is a very sensitive issue. So for years, the EU has steered well clear of it.
But instead Mr Ganley goes on to tell voters that Libertas will have to be “very vigilant” against the “risk” that the European Court of Justice will seek to extend its powers over abortion, euthanasia or other such issues. And the ECJ’s actions cannot be predicted, he says. “Nobody in Brussels should ever get their hands on that decision-making process,” he told a well-attended public meeting tonight, to rousing applause. On this then, and some other issues, he is at the very least a slick populist.
But at other times, he is oddly amateurish. He has been travelling a great deal launching Libertas campaigns in other countries, so has not spent much time campaigning for himself at home. So his time in Ireland today, three weeks out from the elections, was presumably rather precious. I have covered election campaigns on four continents over the past decade, and I can honestly say I have never spent more time watching a party leader fart around to less effect. We canvassed a street in Collooney where there were no voters (eventually ambushing a postman in his van, to give local television a shot of him talking to a voter), then visited a fishing company behind closed doors, then a boatyard and harbour. It was all very friendly, and some extremely polite women supporters with purple sweaters, Virgin Mary brooches and Libertas t-shirts came out to say hello. But the normal business of retail politics was almost ignored: no shopping centres, commuters at a railway station, or even places with crowds. When a nice man offered us a trip on his boat up the harbour to pick up the pilot off an ocean-going ship, off we went for 20 minutes, chugging round the harbour. I do not want to sound churlish, given that the scenery at Killybegs harbour is astonishingly pretty and I was allowed to go along on the boat trip. But most of the people Mr Ganley waved at while we chugged about were Norwegian sailors, who do not have a vote in Ireland as far as I know.
He handled a public meeting tonight pretty well, and he had the crowd really going at some points. As a connoisseur of political cant, I have to confess I did enjoy one moment that went slightly awry. His favourite argument is that the European Commission, which has the exclusive right to propose new EU laws, is staffed by unknown and unknowable “faceless bureaucrats”, who must be made accountable to voters. In a hokey question and answer moment, he challenged the crowd to name a commission official. “Hands up who knows a single one of them,” he said.
To his visible surprise, a tiny old man with a tweed jacket and snowy white hair meekly raised his hand. “There’s that lady Catherine Day, who is the secretary general of the commission, and she was on the radio,” said the old man, correctly identifying the most senior non-political functionary at the commission. “And she was saying these bureaucrats do have to travel around Europe bending ears to get things done.”
Trying to salvage his rhetorical gambit, Mr Ganley demanded: “So where is she from?”
“Well, Ireland somewhere,” the old man said, again correctly.
“I think she’s a Dublin lady,” a woman said from the back, presumably imagining she being helpful.
With only the faintest hint of alarm, Mr Ganley moved to seize back control: “Well, I have heard of Catherine Day,” he said briskly, “but she is not exactly a household name.” Then he slipped back into his stump speech.
He makes much of not being a professional politician. But though I am entirely neutral about whether Mr Ganley deserves a seat in the EP or not, I would modestly suggest two thoughts from my observers’ seat at the back of the room: real politicians are terrifyingly disciplined about campaigning, and real politicians never, ever patronise their audiences.
I AM in Donegal, on the west coast of Ireland, at the end of a long day following Declan Ganley on the Euro-campaign trail. Mr Ganley, a rich businessman, came from nowhere to become a leading player in last summer’s Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, heading up a slick No campaign that left the government and main opposition parties floundering.
Mr Ganley inspires strong emotions in Brussels: after he helped bring about the Irish No vote, he became a bogey-man for some surprisingly senior European politicians, who accused him of telling outrageous lies about the treaty. Some would brief journalists that he was a man with close links to the Pentagon, and hint that his funding came from forces in America who wished to block Lisbon, for fear Europe would become too powerful a rival. Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the then French Europe minister, said something pretty close to this in public last year.
Now, those same Brussels grandees seem to have decided that Mr Ganley is a joke, as they read opinion polls showing that the Irish are likely to vote to Yes when (not if) they are invited to vote again on Lisbon this autumn. He is also running in the European Parliament elections next month, as the founder of a new outfit, Libertas, which set out to become the first pan-European political party, with candidates in all 27 member countries of the EU. He has not made all 27, but he has 500 candidates signed up to run, some of them sitting members of the parliament.
I heard him tell people on the campaign trail today that he was expecting to win 106 seats, which would make Libertas one of the most powerful blocks in the European Parliament. This is nonsense. Depending on which polls you believe, he is in fact heading for somewhere between a small handful and no seats at all. His own run in Ireland Northwest is not looking good for him: he is polling below 10%, though it is generally reckoned a candidate needs close to 20% of first preference votes to make it (three seats are available in this enormous constituency, and will be elected on a transferable vote system).
I will have more considered thoughts to offer in a column later this week. Here is an immediate impression. Mr Ganley is a puzzling figure: neither a scary demagogue, nor a millionaire dilettante, but with elements of both those ills.
A lot of his hardcore supporters on the trail are conservative Catholics, who volunteer that their top issue is abortion. Other elements of the No campaign last summer were happy to lie, flat out, and say that the Lisbon Treaty might impose abortion on demand in Ireland. Mr Ganley, when asked about this, is more careful, but still pretty cynical. When asked about this, he starts his replies by conceding that abortion is not one of the legal competences of the European Union. If he were playing entirely straight that, really, should be that. No EU treaty will affect abortion laws at the national level, because it has been obvious for years that this is a very sensitive issue. So for years, the EU has steered well clear of it.
But instead Mr Ganley goes on to tell voters that Libertas will have to be “very vigilant” against the “risk” that the European Court of Justice will seek to extend its powers over abortion, euthanasia or other such issues. And the ECJ’s actions cannot be predicted, he says. “Nobody in Brussels should ever get their hands on that decision-making process,” he told a well-attended public meeting tonight, to rousing applause. On this then, and some other issues, he is at the very least a slick populist.
But at other times, he is oddly amateurish. He has been travelling a great deal launching Libertas campaigns in other countries, so has not spent much time campaigning for himself at home. So his time in Ireland today, three weeks out from the elections, was presumably rather precious. I have covered election campaigns on four continents over the past decade, and I can honestly say I have never spent more time watching a party leader fart around to less effect. We canvassed a street in Collooney where there were no voters (eventually ambushing a postman in his van, to give local television a shot of him talking to a voter), then visited a fishing company behind closed doors, then a boatyard and harbour. It was all very friendly, and some extremely polite women supporters with purple sweaters, Virgin Mary brooches and Libertas t-shirts came out to say hello. But the normal business of retail politics was almost ignored: no shopping centres, commuters at a railway station, or even places with crowds. When a nice man offered us a trip on his boat up the harbour to pick up the pilot off an ocean-going ship, off we went for 20 minutes, chugging round the harbour. I do not want to sound churlish, given that the scenery at Killybegs harbour is astonishingly pretty and I was allowed to go along on the boat trip. But most of the people Mr Ganley waved at while we chugged about were Norwegian sailors, who do not have a vote in Ireland as far as I know.
He handled a public meeting tonight pretty well, and he had the crowd really going at some points. As a connoisseur of political cant, I have to confess I did enjoy one moment that went slightly awry. His favourite argument is that the European Commission, which has the exclusive right to propose new EU laws, is staffed by unknown and unknowable “faceless bureaucrats”, who must be made accountable to voters. In a hokey question and answer moment, he challenged the crowd to name a commission official. “Hands up who knows a single one of them,” he said.
To his visible surprise, a tiny old man with a tweed jacket and snowy white hair meekly raised his hand. “There’s that lady Catherine Day, who is the secretary general of the commission, and she was on the radio,” said the old man, correctly identifying the most senior non-political functionary at the commission. “And she was saying these bureaucrats do have to travel around Europe bending ears to get things done.”
Trying to salvage his rhetorical gambit, Mr Ganley demanded: “So where is she from?”
“Well, Ireland somewhere,” the old man said, again correctly.
“I think she’s a Dublin lady,” a woman said from the back, presumably imagining she being helpful.
With only the faintest hint of alarm, Mr Ganley moved to seize back control: “Well, I have heard of Catherine Day,” he said briskly, “but she is not exactly a household name.” Then he slipped back into his stump speech.
He makes much of not being a professional politician. But though I am entirely neutral about whether Mr Ganley deserves a seat in the EP or not, I would modestly suggest two thoughts from my observers’ seat at the back of the room: real politicians are terrifyingly disciplined about campaigning, and real politicians never, ever patronise their audiences.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
LISBON'S SIGNED, THE CHURCH IS FURTHER DISGRACED AND FAREWELL TO THE LATE GREAT LIAM
So it's finally here. Lisbon. And guess what? The blue eyed boys are not being trained to dismantle an AK-47 bindfolded. Mass buggery is not taking place on O' Connell St ... mmm mass buggery. There it was underneath the eyes of the Holy Joes and Rosary Rosies, all the time.
"Well your holiness, did you have sexual relations with children?"
"No I didn't" the bishop said to the fawning cop.
The "mental reservation" was that alhtough he had sex with hundreds of children, being a decent man of the cloth, he sodomised and rape on a singular basis.
Never with children! Never."
But he did have sex with a child and another child and another child and another child.
Now on the subject of sexual deviants, check out these scum: http://www.renewcampaign.com/RENEWOpposesCivilPartnershipBill.
If ever there was an argument for the continued use of ECT- did you know that this primitive form of medical treatment is actually still in common use useretention.
It's the medical equvalent of of a kid throwing his lego box into the air hoping it will fall down as a perfect dinasaur.
YEP.
Up the voltage. Up your junta. And kiss the ring.
For those of you sickened by the whole debacle, the work of Gerard Mannix Flynn is always worth following. Gerard has aesthetically put the state on trial for its crimes against innocent children.
So apart from spewing disgust, what can you do?
Well there is Grainne O Sullivan's website www.countmeout.ie
An impressive site that assists and simplifies your formal departure from the Catholic Church.
Check it out.
And by the way if you, like me, are thinking an arsenic/plutonium cocktail dropped into the Blessiington resevoir would be the best thing for this country, you remember there's the odd pearl amongst the swine.
Sadly one such jewel shines no more. But let's a raise a jug of bunch to the last of the ballad mohicans:
"Well your holiness, did you have sexual relations with children?"
"No I didn't" the bishop said to the fawning cop.
The "mental reservation" was that alhtough he had sex with hundreds of children, being a decent man of the cloth, he sodomised and rape on a singular basis.
Never with children! Never."
But he did have sex with a child and another child and another child and another child.
Now on the subject of sexual deviants, check out these scum: http://www.renewcampaign.com/RENEWOpposesCivilPartnershipBill.
If ever there was an argument for the continued use of ECT- did you know that this primitive form of medical treatment is actually still in common use useretention.
It's the medical equvalent of of a kid throwing his lego box into the air hoping it will fall down as a perfect dinasaur.
YEP.
Up the voltage. Up your junta. And kiss the ring.
For those of you sickened by the whole debacle, the work of Gerard Mannix Flynn is always worth following. Gerard has aesthetically put the state on trial for its crimes against innocent children.
So apart from spewing disgust, what can you do?
Well there is Grainne O Sullivan's website www.countmeout.ie
An impressive site that assists and simplifies your formal departure from the Catholic Church.
Check it out.
And by the way if you, like me, are thinking an arsenic/plutonium cocktail dropped into the Blessiington resevoir would be the best thing for this country, you remember there's the odd pearl amongst the swine.
Sadly one such jewel shines no more. But let's a raise a jug of bunch to the last of the ballad mohicans:
Monday, December 7, 2009
THE SMELL OF SULPHUR - IT MUST BE DECLAN.
Thankfully we have seen the back of the scuzzbucket Declan Ganley, howevzer, as the Irish Times story below informs us, there is a lingering smell of rodent.
Oh dear Declan, how we miss your rants on accountability and transparency.
Although if Ganley was up to his usual skulldugery, you would think the Gormless Green would liketo dine out on it.
Ombudsman seeks garda poll inquiry
THE GARDA Ombudsman is to ask the Garda Commissioner to investigate a complaint about the handling of a previous Garda investigation into the misallocation of 3,000 votes during the European Parliament election count in Castlebar last June.
The Garda Ombudsman has upheld, in part, a complaint by former North West Independent candidate Fiachra Ó Luain.
Mr Ó Luain has claimed that a Garda investigation of a complaint he made on June 7th was inadequate. He has also alleged the garda involved in the investigation forwarded an inadequate file on the matter to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Mr Ó Luain made a formal complaint to gardaí about the misallocation of ballots during the counting of European election votes in Castlebar last June. At the time, Libertas candidate Declan Ganley requested a recheck, during which it was discovered that Mr Ganley had been credited with 3,000 of Mr Ó Luain’s first preference votes in error.
In his letter of complaint to the Garda Ombudsman, Mr Ó Luain claimed that a named garda “completed an inadequate investigation, declining to interview various witnesses, and that he forwarded an inadequate file to the DPP”.
This part of Mr Ó Luain’s complaint is what will now be investigated by the Garda Commissioner.
The ombudsman’s office has now confirmed to Mr Ó Luain: “The Garda Ombudsman has considered the allegations of misbehaviour made in your complaint and has determined that your complaint is part admissible.”
The ombudsman has also informed Mr Ó Luain that depending on the result of the investigation, disciplinary proceedings may be taken. He can also have the matter reviewed by the ombudsman if he is not satisfied with that investigation.
Mr Ó Luain said he welcomed the ombudsman’s review of his complaint. “Like any citizen I would like to think that the law is on my side; however, since June, I have felt that certain gardaí as well as the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, John Gormley, have been determined to do as little as possible, despite my repeated requests for full investigations.
“Although I feel a sense of cautious optimism, relief and vindication by this Garda Ombudsman decision, I am still baffled that those in Government and the opposition have not made more of an issue of this. A source within Leinster House told me that it is because I am an Independent that so little is being done about this misallocation. What does this tell us about the integrity of our elected representatives and the electoral process?” he asked.
Monday, November 30, 2009
"BAN INTOLERANCE!" - THE SWISS GO CUCKOO FASCIST
Sweet mother of divine fuck, there I was all happy to grant the Xmas Amnesty but THEY keep on attacking.
Now it's the fucking Swiss. Yodelo Yodelo Yodelo- Behold a Purple Moo Cow.
There's holes in the cheese cos what have this wonderful "fence" nation done now?
Something that now even Bush would have thought of; they have banned minarets.
Sensible move, perfect sniper nest. But, hang on, that's Iraq.
The only projectiles you are likely to face in Switzerland are cuckoos shooting out at you.
So why ban minarets?
The poor downtrodden Muslim underclass are using them to plunge to their deaths?
No, the Swiss are banning them because Islam is "intolerant"
BAN INTOLERANCE.
CU-FUCKINING-KOO.
Now it's the fucking Swiss. Yodelo Yodelo Yodelo- Behold a Purple Moo Cow.
There's holes in the cheese cos what have this wonderful "fence" nation done now?
Something that now even Bush would have thought of; they have banned minarets.
Sensible move, perfect sniper nest. But, hang on, that's Iraq.
The only projectiles you are likely to face in Switzerland are cuckoos shooting out at you.
So why ban minarets?
The poor downtrodden Muslim underclass are using them to plunge to their deaths?
No, the Swiss are banning them because Islam is "intolerant"
BAN INTOLERANCE.
CU-FUCKINING-KOO.
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