Posted in US Election on Aug 29th, 2008 3 Comments »
“Americans never elect policy proposals; they choose the men behind them. What Barack Obama achieved Thursday night was something unimaginable in Martin Luther King’s day or even in the 1990s. In a football stadium at the foot of the Rockies, this product of a marriage between Kenya and Kansas rewrote the history of a nation […]
Posted in dublin, Ireland on Aug 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
This is a strange one for Dublin Opinion. My brother-in-law sent me the link. From what I can gather it’s from an unmarked Garda car doing the rounds in Clondalkin/Neilstown. The clip itself has been doing the rounds via Bluetooth for the last couple of months, but somebody got around to putting it up on […]
Posted in Comedy, Politics on Aug 23rd, 2008 12 Comments »
This came out of a comment inspired by Worldbystorm. I was saying how the right-wing seem to have all the best jokes, and then I got thinking that, well, it’s really the neo-liberals and the anarchists/libertarians (left and right) who get all the laughs, while the Trotskyists are about as funny as an ice-pick to […]
Posted in fuckwits, Fine Gael on Aug 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
I know I’ve been going on about this, but really the first time I heard about Brian Hayes and Fine Gael’s education “portfolio”, this is what came into my head. I’ve only now gotten around to putting it up on the web. It’s taken from Alan Partridge, the final episode of the first series, when […]
Posted in Comedy, music on Aug 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
Language has been somewhat of an issue on this site over the last couple of days which gives me the perfect excuse to put up the following clip from FOTC. My own pedagogic approach has always been that the best way to learn a foreign language was to do your best to manage to sleep […]
Posted in fuckwits, muppets, Fine Gael, Property on Aug 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Enda Kenny was speaking yesterday about the economy. He was at the Humbert Summer School, and although he didn’t mention free laptops for schoolkids, or annual reports, or segregation, or hijabs, he did however criticise the government, calling it “devoid of ideas.”
Now, we all know about Fine Gael and ideas. The average Fine Gaeler has […]
Posted in War, UK Politics, US Politics on Aug 22nd, 2008 7 Comments »
The video below is taken from a stop the war coalition meeting in London, 14 August 2008. Mark Almond gives his analysis of the ongoing conflict. (and before anyone makes the joke, no, it’s not THAT Mark Almond.) This is from stopwar.org.uk:
MARK ALMOND, lecturer in History, Oxford University and expert on the Caucasus, provided the […]
Posted in fuckwits, muppets, Fine Gael on Aug 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
All this talk of Fine Gael and education got me thinking about their manifesto last year. So, I went onto their site and downloaded the thing. And what was the burning issue for Fine Gael with regard to education? Was it overcrowding? Was it underfunding? Was it maybe the deplorable state of assessment? Well, here […]
Posted in fuckwits, muppets, Fine Gael on Aug 22nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Following on from comments by Bryan Hayes on segregation, and Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames on language tests at airports for immigrants, Fine Gael head office has released a video to help the Gaelicly-Gaels spot Johnny Foreigner when they see him - be it in the classroom, or at the airport, or on the train. (Small note […]
Posted in fuckwits, racism, Fine Gael on Aug 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
another classic in a classic series.
Enjoy.
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