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agus ath-bhliain faoi mhaise duit. From everyone at irishelection.com, have a great time today (or over your holiday-season-amas) as we look forward to a great 2008.
More anon on the priest who decided this morning that tolerance, rights and democracy are the antithesis of church teaching (having caved to pressure to attend this was all we needed). For now, settle for drink, turkey and a link to our cartoons.
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A second Irish referendum? Eurocrats have a better idea
Dan Hannan at the Telegraph reckons the plan in Brussles is not for a second referendum but instead to parachute in sections of the Lisbon Treaty via legislation.
"Are Americans and Europeans simply more compassionate than Asians?" asks Ian Buruma. Asking why it is that Chinese and Malaysian warships are not sitting of the Burmese coast with food. Thought provoking? Or a bit prejudiced?
Jurge Habermas once argued that the EU could provide a model for a new constellation of democratic politics allowing for transcendence of national partisanship. Now he is not so sure - the EU response to Lisbon is tending towards authoritarianism
Did the Commission Lie About its Own Poll?
Openeurope asks whether the commission engaged in a little bit of number fudging in the run up to its poll being released. If it didn’t I am thinking that political leaking took place from elsewhere in the system.
but it will smell awful
as you political bloggers tuck into too much turkey, and cocaine, spare a thought for Him who you persecute and calumniate.
Bartholmew Ahern is a martyr,- a living saint!. Fact: He never cared for money.(He still doesen’t). Not the extra 40 grand he was awarded recently.Not all those digouts forced upon him and pushed into his safe by hard pressing pals..and his best mate Des. He only cares for the common people. Hence his persecution -and eventual crucifixion-at the hands of The Tribunal.
Bertie quote: “A pint of plain in Fagans is your only man”.
He lives a simple life.He has no yachts, palaces,horses or offshore islands. He’s a man of the people.His pals may be all millionaires,and convicted tax dodgers like the Baily Brothers (25 million to Revenue).Coincidence, thats all.! Its the poor and the sick and the dying (Rosie Long’s bereaved family, breast cancer victims etc.) that he truly identifies with. He despised those wealthy builders who are in on every racket going: Building nursing homes: opening toll roads: bribing politicians: constructing co-located hospitals: flying to the Ballybrit races in private helicopters and displaying every conceivable vulgarity and ostentation (Jim Mansfield’s new palatial home costing 20 million euros) and so on..
He despises the things of this world does Saint Bart.He even threw all that filthy lucre forced upon him into two old safes, and let it go mouldy there while he could have gotten 10% interest in a bank account and so on..is that the demeanour of a crook, a miser and a cheat I ask you?
Bertie’s forehead is covered with penitential ashes on Ash Wednsday ,and he is a regular communicant.He flies out to meet the Pope in Rome, and get the Apostolic Blessing from Christ’s representative on earth. (Cost the taxpayer one billion Euros-that did..)
It is widely rumoured that he says Rosaries and wears an Immaculate Medal wherever he goes. This has enabled him to survive many trials and Tribunals completely and miraculously unscathed.
May angels watch over him when he finally goes,and may flights of them carry him to his repose in St Fintans,Sutton, where he will “lie” for eternity beside his spiritual Father, St Charles Haughey, whose eternal soul now reposes in Heavenly Pastures, a fitting reward for his equally unselfish service to the people of the irish nation.Amen.
Happy Christmas,Holy Bart and also blessed is thy handmaid Mary,conceived with conceit: Mary pray for us who have recourse to ye and particularly for those amongst us who have recourse to your “co-located” public hospitals, Accident and Emergency units etc., this Christmas.)