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Fuck yeah! Bring on the cheap fuel.

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All this evening’s radio news shows and the RTE Six-one news are talking about how one of the Fianna Fail backbenchers has quit the party over the over 70’s medical card fiasco. Now a few other TDs are sticking their oar in and the greens are making noises about putting an ultimatum to their coalition “partners”, i.e. reverse the decision on the medical cards or they walk.

I would love to see the current shower in government take a fall, but there’s a small part of me that would also be sad to see it, because whoever takes over from them is going to inherit their shitstorm. It would be nice to see them take some punishment for their utter mismanagement of the country.

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I don’t hate America or anything but some pretty stupid things come out of court cases there. Such as this.

Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.

wtf?
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Brian Cowen has announced that the infamous Fianna Fail tent at the Galway Races is no more.

Some of the posters over at The Property Pin had some amusing comments to make on it:

daltonr

Brian’s no fool.

Scraps the tent.
Avoids having to face the builders.
And comes accross as cleaner than Bertie, clean slate, no more FF tied to the builders.

Nice one BC.

kerrynorth

They’re downsizing to a telephone box - they are not expecting many solvent builders at Galway this year.

verbatim

He knows that being seen to be cosy with builders when the full scale of the mugging of young Irish people becomes apparent over the next couple of years won’t be a wise move.

conor_mc

I disagree, in the 70’s they were probably the farmers party with the IFA pulling the strings. In the 80’s, it was the industrialists like Goodman, Smurfit and co.

They’ll move on to the next profitable donor-industry now - this is as sure a sign as you’ll get that property has had it day. BC is cutting the apron-strings, the CIF are on their own now.

I have to say I agree with most of them. As anyone who knows me already knows, I’m no fan of Fianna Fail but its refreshing to see the new Taoiseach making some changes that appear to be for the greater good, even if there are possible ulterior motives that can explain them.

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Don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out.

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Remember the Danish Mohammed cartoons controversy of 2006? These fuckwits sure do!
According to the BBC News article, several fundamentalist shitheads were arrested for plotting the murder of one of the cartoonists involved. Eh, I may have paraphrased that somewhat.
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George Bush sure has a great talent for saying stupid things. From today’s BBC News:

Mr Bush said he told Gen Musharraf it was not right to continue as both president and head of the military.

“My message was that we believe strongly in elections and that you ought to have elections soon and you need to take off your uniform,” Mr Bush told reporters.

“You can’t be the president and the head of the military at the same time, so I had a very frank discussion with him.”

Guess who the commander-in-chief of the US military is?

Epic.

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With today’s news that the government are finally going to crack down on the 400,000 provisional driving licence holders in Ireland there has been some hilarious angry ranting from those who believe it is their right to drive on public roads without sitting any test. Apparently over 300,000 of our provisional licence holders have not applied for a test. Check it out:

• One of those utterly worthless online petitions (with some rather humorous comments left)
• A call-to-arms on boards.ie to get people to sign the aforementioned petition
• A lengthy thread about the situation on boards.ie (152 posts and counting)
• Another lengthy thread about it on politics.ie (149 posts and counting)

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Today is the 6th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. This is a thread that was being posted to on boards.ie as events unfolded on the day. Its quite fascinating the read peoples’ first reactions to the planes hitting the towers and then the collapse of the towers.
There are even comments about how “some country somewhere is gonna get some serious sh17 kicking in the next few weeks methinks….” - How correct they were.

Three cheers for Belgium! According to the Associated Press, Belgian prosecutors are recommending that a case be brought against a number of high level officials of the Church of Scientology in Belgium on charges of fraud, extortion, unlawful practice of medicine, violations of privacy and … being a criminal organisation!

Oh how delicious. Clearly this is the work of the evil Lord Xenu!

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