My friend Eagle Eye Jeremy sent me this gem he spotted on breakingnews.ie, it seems Fianna Fail’s Pat Carey will be having a party to celebrate his recent appointment.

So there’s a chain letter-ish kind of thing going on where someone tags you and you have to list some Irish charities and add your own. I normally don’t do this kind of thing, but that’s because nobody ever asks me to. Sniff.

But Tom involved me in this one so I’m in with the in crowd now!!! And it does some good for charities maybe so that’s an added bonus.

I have to list the charities so far, add my own and pass it on. Here’s the list so far:

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Only spotted this now - a quote from Sarah Carey on why she is cheerful despite Fianna Fail being back in government…

So why am I cheerful? Because I’ve decided to stop feeling guilty about the children’s allowance bonanza and the SSIA windfall. I used to look at that money and think - I don’t deserve this - poor people should have this. But the poor people don’t want it! So I’m going to enjoy it. Cheers!

I bought a few papers while travelling yesterday and kept reading about how Trevor Sergant was “honouring” his promise to the people that he would resign as leader of the Green Party rather than lead them into government with Fianna Fail.

There’s a big difference between resigning rather than leading your party into Government with Fianna Fail and resigning after merrily leading them into government with Fianna Fail, and yet nobody in the media seemed remotely concernd with the distinction.

I hate it when the media feed you a line that is obviously horseshit and expect you to accept it.

Are they worried about offending the souce of the line by challenging it? Are they just that stupid? Do they think we’re that stupid?

Check out this extract from a somewhat rambling article by William Blum on CounterPunch.org, it contains a classic quote from Donald Rumsfeld:

If Chávez wins repeated democratic elections … here’s the recent Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld: “I mean, we’ve got Chávez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money. He’s a person who was elected legally just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others.”

There you have it folks.
Chavez -> Democratically Elected.
Hitler -> Democratically Elected.
Therefore Chavez = Hitler.
How could we have not seen it before?

The quote is an old one, from 2006, but I thought it was too good not to share, it reminded me of this old cartoon a bit too. The article I took it from is current, and worth a read - even if it is a bit disjointed and rambly!

William Blum is the author of Rogue State, an extremely readable (if lefty) look at American foreign policy.