Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Via Politico.com - A recent study at NYU has shown that a majority of students there would be willing to sell their vote at the next US Presidential election.
Prices for a vote included
One Year's Tuition
an iPod Touch
A lift to college
Some polled even offered to give their right to vote entirely ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Let me get something straight from the outset. Robert Mugabe is an evil dictator who deserves to be ousted. A literal headcase who managed to get his grubby little hands on a country. Literally.
But, given his lunacy, he is in a mildly unique position. His country, being outside "the gang", ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
So Brian Cowen gave a few words up at John Cooney's Humbert Summer School today, one section of his speech discussed the Media's treatment of Bertie Ahern coming up to the General Election. One section stood out to me -
"after 10 years, the public know him pretty well by now ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Herr McDowell quit, then Sargent, now Pat*..
So it's official, Pat Rabbitte has stood down as leader of the Labour Party. Whilst not unexpected, it is, as one person I know put it, "Weird". I like to think I'm quite informed on the politics front, but I didn't really get into ...
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Yeah, that's some good taking care of the country lads.
Gobshites.
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
They say that the first sign of madness is when your start talking to yourself. I'm prone to making mental notes to myself out loud, so I've never really subscribed to this theory. Although I do draw the line at arguing with myself and issuing instructions to myself. If you're ...
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Seriously, Ian Paisley, whilst being a looney bigot by times, certainly makes me laugh.
From today's Irish Times - "The North's First Minister, the Rev Ian Paisley, said he is prepared to engage in worldwide lobbying to prove Northern Ireland's meat products are safe amid concern that Northern meat is being ...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Via That's Ireland , comes the disturbing revelation that the spirit of Haughey is alive and well in JK Rowling's Harry Potter series.
Don't believe me? Follow the link and be amazed.
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
So, the Teflon Taoiseach lives to bullshit another day.
I was really looking forward to seeing what kind of nonsense he'd come out with this time, but I guess his Ex-Girlfriend's nonsense will have to do instead.
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Right, so, eh, this is weird.
Turns out that next year, March 17th will fall on the first day of Holy Week, so Rome has decreed that Official celebrations be moved. They had suggested that it be moved to April 1st, but the Irish Diocese (or whatever the term is), were ...
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