Archive for May, 2008
What’s got 4 feet and no body?
The Canadian police! Well, it's a mystery that the Canadian police are trying to figure out. Reading my gmail one of their news snippets along the top caught my eye. Seemingly over the past 10 months in Canada 4 severed human feet have washed up on different islands in the one area. Truly bizarre is not the term for it. Police are baffled by this and so far there is no explanation being offered up. It's odd the things that pop up when you're reading mail. source: Reuters
Reasons to reject Lisbon, 1, 2, 3
There is a lot of talk about the vote on the Lisbon treaty and we are fast approaching the time of voting. I have been speaking to a lot of people about this matter and the opinions are greatly varied. However, it is very worrying that the proportion of people who still do not know what they are voting on is so large, and more worrying again is those who have selected their vote purely on party allegiance or anti-party politics. I can vaguely recall a time in my life when all major political parties in Ireland were united on a single issue and the only snipes between them was that [...]
“Ring those f**kers!”
Those were the words of our newly appointed leader Brian Cowen, only a couple of days ago when he didn't realise that his microphone was still switched on in the Dail after leader's questions. To what or whom he was referring we may never really know but there are plenty of interpretations out there. What I found most unusual about it all was that I had heard reports earlier in the day (the day it happened) whereby a clear soundbite was aired on the radio. However, when I tuned into the 9 o'clock news to get the full story the most bizarre thing happened. Initially the video clip was being [...]
