Anyone with an elemental knowledge of history,even the sanitised European version,will have heard of the sieges of Limerick,Derry and Stalingrad and remember stories of the besieged having to consume rats to survive.
Sanctions is a nice word for siege.
Now I have seen the gobdaws who are directing the sanctions against Russia and trying to bring that country to its knees.
I'd say they know as much about real war as my arsehole knows about shooting snipe and wouldn't like to be depending on them if they do actually succeed in goading Russia into war with Western Europe ,which actually has no army and would ultimately be dependant on the Yanks.
These are of course so far away that they would be insulated from the immediate effects of conventional warfare .
They would want to stop acting the bollix and sit down and parlay realistically before it is too late.
You can be certain that the people pulling the strings will not be in the front line but as far from it as humanly possible.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Aer Lingus Sale.Dunderrydrumbeat Position
We are an Island nation,dependant on transport to the wider world to facilitate our valuable exports.
Previous Governments have let our naval fleet wither and die.
It would be madness to let our aero fleet into foreign control.
Irrespective of the legalities and the weasel words being bandied about ,Aer Lingus should be retained under Irish control.
Pascal O Donoghue,the responsible Minister, has no problem introducing retrospective legislation to criminalise as many motorists as he can (and in this he is adhering to the blue shirt philosophy of criminalising as many plebs as possible a la his predecessor Leo Varadikar ) so he should have no objection in principle to retrospectively enabling the sale to be stymied by enacting whatever legislation is appropriate.
If the Government haven't the balls to stop the sale they might usefully give a Greek minister the reins for five minutes as these guys really care about their citizens and are not just messenger boys and girls for the Europhobes.
Previous Governments have let our naval fleet wither and die.
It would be madness to let our aero fleet into foreign control.
Irrespective of the legalities and the weasel words being bandied about ,Aer Lingus should be retained under Irish control.
Pascal O Donoghue,the responsible Minister, has no problem introducing retrospective legislation to criminalise as many motorists as he can (and in this he is adhering to the blue shirt philosophy of criminalising as many plebs as possible a la his predecessor Leo Varadikar ) so he should have no objection in principle to retrospectively enabling the sale to be stymied by enacting whatever legislation is appropriate.
If the Government haven't the balls to stop the sale they might usefully give a Greek minister the reins for five minutes as these guys really care about their citizens and are not just messenger boys and girls for the Europhobes.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Suck it up Lorraine Higgins
Two weeks ago our Taoiseach attended the funerals of those people killed because a magazine in France persisted in publishing insulting cartoons of people and religions many millions hold dear.
He and all other Western European leaders endorsed,by their presence at the funeral's ,the right to publish such cartoons as a cornerstone of democracy and as being essential tools of a Free press.
Personally I find this logic absurd and fear for democracy if its existence is bedded in and a cornerstone of the right to grievously and gratitously offend and if an inevitable outcome is the death of many innocent bystaners and if it fosters justifiable protest resulting in death and the fermentation of hatred.
But I swim against the liberal tide of journalism and political correctness which infects the written media and electronic media in this view, who think it great gas to goad Catholics in particular and Muslims more rarely on account of their deeply held convictions.
Now our Lorraine,who is quick to point out that she wears a legal hat as well as being a Labour T.D. in the West and who presumes to advise the Gardai on the public airways on how to do their jobs and investigate protesters against water charges for incitement to hatred because they labelled our President a dwarf and a parasite for refusing to refer the Water Charges Bill to the Supreme Court ,is fuming at the language used in legitimate protest and questions why the protests were not aimed at people who provided their own water schemes in rural Ireland and whom she calms to represent.
No doubt her legal mind can connect the protests against the President with the local providers of their own water ( provided because successive Governments ,including Labour influenced ones failed to cater for rural citizens despite their contributions to general taxation ) and no doubt you take her and her legal mind on if you disagree with her politics.
But I will risk this and point out that the head of the administration she supports considers objectionable commentary and insulting and derogatory behaviour a cornerstone of democracy and suggest she suck it up and stop behaving like a spoilt child that has lost her lollipop.
And try to remember that even Cromwell didn't try to steal the people's water.
But there again the liberal agenda is the most hypocricital of them all.
And Sean O Rourke should wise up and stop resurrecting this policy of condemnation as he tried on with Gerry Beades this morning.It was tried on by the pet media against the Party of another Gerry years ago.It didn't work then and it won't work now,
He and all other Western European leaders endorsed,by their presence at the funeral's ,the right to publish such cartoons as a cornerstone of democracy and as being essential tools of a Free press.
Personally I find this logic absurd and fear for democracy if its existence is bedded in and a cornerstone of the right to grievously and gratitously offend and if an inevitable outcome is the death of many innocent bystaners and if it fosters justifiable protest resulting in death and the fermentation of hatred.
But I swim against the liberal tide of journalism and political correctness which infects the written media and electronic media in this view, who think it great gas to goad Catholics in particular and Muslims more rarely on account of their deeply held convictions.
Now our Lorraine,who is quick to point out that she wears a legal hat as well as being a Labour T.D. in the West and who presumes to advise the Gardai on the public airways on how to do their jobs and investigate protesters against water charges for incitement to hatred because they labelled our President a dwarf and a parasite for refusing to refer the Water Charges Bill to the Supreme Court ,is fuming at the language used in legitimate protest and questions why the protests were not aimed at people who provided their own water schemes in rural Ireland and whom she calms to represent.
No doubt her legal mind can connect the protests against the President with the local providers of their own water ( provided because successive Governments ,including Labour influenced ones failed to cater for rural citizens despite their contributions to general taxation ) and no doubt you take her and her legal mind on if you disagree with her politics.
But I will risk this and point out that the head of the administration she supports considers objectionable commentary and insulting and derogatory behaviour a cornerstone of democracy and suggest she suck it up and stop behaving like a spoilt child that has lost her lollipop.
And try to remember that even Cromwell didn't try to steal the people's water.
But there again the liberal agenda is the most hypocricital of them all.
And Sean O Rourke should wise up and stop resurrecting this policy of condemnation as he tried on with Gerry Beades this morning.It was tried on by the pet media against the Party of another Gerry years ago.It didn't work then and it won't work now,
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Ireland's elite stand shoulder to shoulder
Assuming that reports that the PAC cannot even take evidence from civil servant Gerry Ryan relating to alleged tax dodging by the cream of Irish society are correct and I have no doubt but that they are,I am not in the least surprised,
I predicted this last November in my article "Tax dodging by the political classes "where I outlined the multiple scenarios that would result in any such investigation running into the sand.
Anmybody who cares about these things can only surmise that the powerful and mighty totally cover each others backs and that it is only the small people who are subject to the repeated full rigours of the law.
Shameful behaviour in a democracy.
Would make you puke.
I predicted this last November in my article "Tax dodging by the political classes "where I outlined the multiple scenarios that would result in any such investigation running into the sand.
Anmybody who cares about these things can only surmise that the powerful and mighty totally cover each others backs and that it is only the small people who are subject to the repeated full rigours of the law.
Shameful behaviour in a democracy.
Would make you puke.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Appeal Court and Criminal Fraternity ad idem O Brien judgement/
The recent decision of the Appeal Court relating to advanced age and infirmity i.e. that neither advanced age nor serious illness nor infirmity are reasons for avoidance of long prison sentences places the administration of justice as a matter of principle on a par with the modus operandi of those vicious criminals who by the same measure rob, intimidate and beat up their elderly and infirm victims irrespective of their age and infirmity.
Consistency .
Is justice now about revenge solely.
Have victims of these atrocities the right to insist on castration ,for example.
Or the amputation of hands for thieves.
Consistency .
Is justice now about revenge solely.
Have victims of these atrocities the right to insist on castration ,for example.
Or the amputation of hands for thieves.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Nil me Chartlie
I for one do not buy into the wave of hysteria emanating from the liberal secularist media centering on the so called fundamental right of people who selectively hate religion and religious beliefs to denigrate ,belittle ,disrespect ,debunk ,insult and stir hate against people who hold religious beliefs of any sort and to represent this right as a cornerstone of democracy.
It is not that long ago since such reprehensible behaviour ,aimed at the Jewish faith ,orchestrated by Goebbels a communicator ,led to the acceptance of most of Europe ,including a large part of France ,to the dehumanising of that race and the attempted elimination of them entirely.
Caricature of their faith and its adherents by the production of belittling sketches by so called artists ,who misused their talents for the forces of evil played a big part in this process .
When the Brits misruled this country Punch magazine sketched the Papists of Ireland as apes in human form as the Brits stood idly by and let between a million and two million people die of starvation and many more die on the coffin ships as they fled the country in desperation and despair.
Militant atheists and secularists worldwide are totally bent on debunking religion and by the use of weasel words and using their baleful influence never miss an opportunity to put religious belief down.
I am a night owl and well remember from night time television the secularist support in the overthrow of Morsi,the democratically elected leader of Egypt by a military dictator.Of course these guys and gals voiced their support from afar in the bosom of liberal European and American academic shelter ,safe from the effects of the murder and mayhem they supported.
IN this country too the existing Jesus haters immediately seized on the misbehaviour of certain evil so called Catholics to attack all Catholics and institutions associated with them and stoke and fan a wave of anti Catholic hate .
The Taoiseach and then Tanaiste bought into this hysteria by withdrawing diplomatic representation to the Vatican for spurious reasons and took to lecturing them on morality and proper administration.
This from an administration which governs a country where families are evicted onto the streets in all weathers despite the pre election lies of the top men that evictions would not be tolerated and where ,according to one top medic,over 350 per annum people die because of administrative neglect in our hospital accident and emergency areas.
Is there a case to bring these people before the International Courts for overseeing such a level of neglectful death in a relatively rich country ?
I ,as a very imperfect Catholic ,am sick in the stomach of the incessant assault on my faith by a coterie of male and female journalists and opportunist politicians whose pens and lips drip poison against me and mine at every opportunity and whose aim in life seems to be to see how many notches of the murdered un born they can rack up in their belts .
Of course these hateful bigots know full well that the Catholic faith forbids retribution and this suits their cowardly ,disrespectful and odious comments and pronouncements.
I took the trouble to look up the baleful magazine, which with malice and full knowledge of the probable fracture of society resulting aforethought , to see first hand its belittling depiction of Religious leaders .
Knowing how sacred the belief in the Trinity is to Catholics they have portrayed this belief as a son mounting his father doggy style from behind with e triangle emanating from the son's hole which in turn contains a spirit ,a sneer and denigration of the Holy Ghost.This as art and this is satire ?And this is the cornerstone of democracy.?
Could the devil do any better ?
And this is the a essence of atheism ,secularism and democracy.And this is Charlie and worth fighting for ?
You must be joking !!
I know very little about Muslims nor their beliefs.I do however know that they share certain core beliefs with our Government in that both abhor the right of educated people to smoke and drink.These pastimes are forbidden in ISIS and we are well on the way here.
Our very own anti smoking and drinking Taliban think nothing of forcing dying people in our hospitals to crawl out of our grounds to the public road to have maybe their last smoke.In times past a dying man was allowed his last smoke before execution.Maybe it is a cunning plan to keep smokers from our hospitals and free up beds for those who are in agreement with the Taliban.
Methinks that a spell fighting with or against ISIS would do our legislators a bit of good and expose them to real danger.
It seems certain that certain Muslims regard Christians as infidels to be put to the sword and there is evidence that this has and is happening,This is reprehensible but where have the democratic upholders of free speech that are EU and France organised mass demonstrations in their memory and to prevent a recurrence?
No they would prefer to support those sneer at their Faith.
The war that is going on in Europe is one between Secularists and Religion,make no mistake about it..Cowardly secularists shit from a height on Christians knowing full well that their religion forbids retaliation,Cetain Muslims do reply with force and regard it as their duty to defend disrespectful attacks on their beliefs.
France and Europe need to start to show respect to people's religious beliefs and stop putting the lives of their citizens at risk by protecting those who chose to belittle and sneer at those beliefs.
Encouraging those whose life's works seems to be to offend the Muslim and Catholic believers at every turn by financing five million copies of the magazine instead of 60,000 per week is not the way to go about this.
It is interesting to note that when Russia entered the second world war the communist and arch secularist Stalin had sapped the spirit of his people so much by persecuting religion that the army was not prepared to fight seriously for their Country.It was only by reinstating religious fervour that they emerged from their stupor and that belief was restored.
When push comes to shove and matters come to a head on this issue it will be found that the secularist's will run for cover and away as always and expect those who they sneer at to protect them.
Don't expect the Religious turkeys to vote for Christmas ,as it were,in this instance.
It is not that long ago since such reprehensible behaviour ,aimed at the Jewish faith ,orchestrated by Goebbels a communicator ,led to the acceptance of most of Europe ,including a large part of France ,to the dehumanising of that race and the attempted elimination of them entirely.
Caricature of their faith and its adherents by the production of belittling sketches by so called artists ,who misused their talents for the forces of evil played a big part in this process .
When the Brits misruled this country Punch magazine sketched the Papists of Ireland as apes in human form as the Brits stood idly by and let between a million and two million people die of starvation and many more die on the coffin ships as they fled the country in desperation and despair.
Militant atheists and secularists worldwide are totally bent on debunking religion and by the use of weasel words and using their baleful influence never miss an opportunity to put religious belief down.
I am a night owl and well remember from night time television the secularist support in the overthrow of Morsi,the democratically elected leader of Egypt by a military dictator.Of course these guys and gals voiced their support from afar in the bosom of liberal European and American academic shelter ,safe from the effects of the murder and mayhem they supported.
IN this country too the existing Jesus haters immediately seized on the misbehaviour of certain evil so called Catholics to attack all Catholics and institutions associated with them and stoke and fan a wave of anti Catholic hate .
The Taoiseach and then Tanaiste bought into this hysteria by withdrawing diplomatic representation to the Vatican for spurious reasons and took to lecturing them on morality and proper administration.
This from an administration which governs a country where families are evicted onto the streets in all weathers despite the pre election lies of the top men that evictions would not be tolerated and where ,according to one top medic,over 350 per annum people die because of administrative neglect in our hospital accident and emergency areas.
Is there a case to bring these people before the International Courts for overseeing such a level of neglectful death in a relatively rich country ?
I ,as a very imperfect Catholic ,am sick in the stomach of the incessant assault on my faith by a coterie of male and female journalists and opportunist politicians whose pens and lips drip poison against me and mine at every opportunity and whose aim in life seems to be to see how many notches of the murdered un born they can rack up in their belts .
Of course these hateful bigots know full well that the Catholic faith forbids retribution and this suits their cowardly ,disrespectful and odious comments and pronouncements.
I took the trouble to look up the baleful magazine, which with malice and full knowledge of the probable fracture of society resulting aforethought , to see first hand its belittling depiction of Religious leaders .
Knowing how sacred the belief in the Trinity is to Catholics they have portrayed this belief as a son mounting his father doggy style from behind with e triangle emanating from the son's hole which in turn contains a spirit ,a sneer and denigration of the Holy Ghost.This as art and this is satire ?And this is the cornerstone of democracy.?
Could the devil do any better ?
And this is the a essence of atheism ,secularism and democracy.And this is Charlie and worth fighting for ?
You must be joking !!
I know very little about Muslims nor their beliefs.I do however know that they share certain core beliefs with our Government in that both abhor the right of educated people to smoke and drink.These pastimes are forbidden in ISIS and we are well on the way here.
Our very own anti smoking and drinking Taliban think nothing of forcing dying people in our hospitals to crawl out of our grounds to the public road to have maybe their last smoke.In times past a dying man was allowed his last smoke before execution.Maybe it is a cunning plan to keep smokers from our hospitals and free up beds for those who are in agreement with the Taliban.
Methinks that a spell fighting with or against ISIS would do our legislators a bit of good and expose them to real danger.
It seems certain that certain Muslims regard Christians as infidels to be put to the sword and there is evidence that this has and is happening,This is reprehensible but where have the democratic upholders of free speech that are EU and France organised mass demonstrations in their memory and to prevent a recurrence?
No they would prefer to support those sneer at their Faith.
The war that is going on in Europe is one between Secularists and Religion,make no mistake about it..Cowardly secularists shit from a height on Christians knowing full well that their religion forbids retaliation,Cetain Muslims do reply with force and regard it as their duty to defend disrespectful attacks on their beliefs.
France and Europe need to start to show respect to people's religious beliefs and stop putting the lives of their citizens at risk by protecting those who chose to belittle and sneer at those beliefs.
Encouraging those whose life's works seems to be to offend the Muslim and Catholic believers at every turn by financing five million copies of the magazine instead of 60,000 per week is not the way to go about this.
It is interesting to note that when Russia entered the second world war the communist and arch secularist Stalin had sapped the spirit of his people so much by persecuting religion that the army was not prepared to fight seriously for their Country.It was only by reinstating religious fervour that they emerged from their stupor and that belief was restored.
When push comes to shove and matters come to a head on this issue it will be found that the secularist's will run for cover and away as always and expect those who they sneer at to protect them.
Don't expect the Religious turkeys to vote for Christmas ,as it were,in this instance.
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