My Take on A United Ireland...

I'm probably going to get a lot of heat about this and I'm only going to say this once and once only because this subject frankly bores me to tears! This was my response to the recent CNN article, "Irish police arrest 5 suspected IRA dissidents, release 1":

A "United Ireland" is never going to happen. The Republic of Ireland is in a financial quagmire, gone are the days of the Celtic Tiger. And guess who is bailing them out, the United Kingdom! Think about it. If the 6 counties of Ulster ever rejoin the South, how is the Republic going to support 1.8m people? I doubt that the Northern Irish want to join a near bankrupt country. Polls have shown, Norn Irish Catholic and Protestants alike, a large majority want to remain in the United Kingdom. I don't blame them since the UK has a stronger economy! In the end, they are thinking about their own welfare and their families, not some pipedream united republic.

A United Ireland...nice in theory, shit in reality!

IRA vs. Taliban?

When Craig and I visited the states last April, we got totally hooked on a show called the Deadliest Warrior. Reality tv shows don't come any goofier than this, it's beyond ridiculous. The Deadliest Warrior pits two historical warriors together to see who wins. I found the last episode of the season on youtube and to my surprise, it was the IRA vs. Taliban! Wow, they were really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one...LOL!

This is Not on Seriously!

A policeman was shot in the head yesterday at Craigavon 20 miles outside of Belfast. As if the 2 soldiers weren't enough? Remember the post about what I said about PSNI? This is a prime example.

And why the heck did it take Sinn Fein 12 hours to release a statement after the first shooting?

I'm so done with this shit.

Senator Ted Kennedy Recieves Honorary Knighthood

Gerry Adams (left) with Senator Ted Kennedy.

It was announced yesterday that Queen Elizabeth II will award Ted Kennedy knighthood for his "services to strengthen British-American relationships and his involvment in the Northern Ireland peace process. Excuse me for my ignorance, but how has he contributed to the peace process by expressing sympathies for the IRA (they say allegedly but give me a break it was so obvious)and pissing off many Protestants when "he called for the immediate withdrawal of the Army, claiming that Protestants who could not accept a united Ireland should be given a decent opportunity to go back to Britain"? The only redeeming thing he's done was diss Gerry Adams when he visited the States "for St Patrick's Day in 2005 in protest at the IRA murder of Catholic Robert McCartney who was brutally beaten in a Belfast pub." Ted found this the perfect opportunity to demonstrate to the world that, "No I don't support the IRA or Sinn Fein" when it is a well known fact that the Kennedy family has a long history of supporting IRA terrorism. Public 'assumption' believes that he backed the IRA with his financial support, but no evidence to prove this.

In my opinion, considering his stellar track record, he's not exactly a prime candidate to be honored anything or as far as Northern Ireland is concerned.

Lets look at Ted Kennedy's legacy:

1) Caught twice for cheating in college.

2) Led a lifetime of selfishness- adultery, alcoholism and hard drug use.

3) Committed felony manslaughter & then bullied the victim's family and the local authorities, escaping justice and 20 years in prison that anyone else would have been punished, never going to prison for his crime- abandoning a young lady to drown so he could sober up and try to claim he was not there...

4) Ted's senate legacy is raising the minimum wage for high school students.

5) Father, Joe, the Irish mafia racketeer betrayed the U.K. to the nazi movement, when he was UK diplomat, during WWII.

6) Lived off of his criminal father's blood-money, never earning a dime by hard work.

But, Ted Kennedy has always carried the socialist flag, SO, all his human failures, his lifetime of cheating, lying and abuse of power, his legacy of supporting socialism, his shameful arrogance as one of the biggest hypocrites of our political lifetime doesn't matter, BUT Teddy carries the socialist flag! Therefore, everything negative he has ever done is over-looked if he kneels at the altar of socialism and kiss Hollywood's brown ring! -Politics Forum, Yahoo

Has the Queen lost her mind?