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Books
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A New Vision for the Catholic Church – Book Review
Tweet The oft-quoted verse from the book of Proverbs, ‘where there is no vision, the people perish,’ (chapter 29, verse 18) opens a new book by Gerry O’Hanlon, A New Vision for the Catholic Church: A View from Ireland (Columba Press, 2011). That verse could be considered an apt summary of the current state of [...] read our review »
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“Unionism Decayed 1997-2007″ by David Vance: book review
Tweet I initially wrote this when the book was first published three years ago; whilst certain elements of it now sound dated, its basic premise that the period of 1997-2007 was a period of irreversible decay for Northern Irish Unionism can still be argued as a valid opinion. My own feeling is that it did [...] read our review » -
Trimble: Biography of an enigma
Tweet Just finished reading Henry McDonald’s biog of Trimble (US). One of those last minute impulse buys waiting for an early morning flight out of Aldergrove. And still Trimble largely remains the enigmatic creature he was before. However the book is a useful reference for some of the action we’ve had since April 1998 (though [...] read our review »
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Are you in the US by any chance?
Comedy Central don’t allow their videos to be played by us in Europe.
Yep, irritatingly that is so Ruarai… Shame…
Dammit! Sorry guys!
Suffice to say that if there is a War on Christmas Jon Stewart wants to know why “Santa’s balls have exploded all over Time Sqaure” and why the omnipresence of Christmas programming is so pervasive that it now includes cartoons featuring celebrations of the birth of Christ – thousands of years before the birth. And so on…
Watched it through a VPN proxy.
Quality stuff from Jon as usual, loved the Flintstones bit.
argh!! How do you DOOO that??
you can watch it here:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-tears-into-fox-news-and-bill-o%E2%80%99reilly-for-outrage-over-the-war-on-christmas%E2%84%A2/
Thank you for this Ruarai & SK for the link. Very funny guy most entertaining. Perhaps for their money our politicions should be forced to act in a pantomime each Christmas.(as opposed to the rest of the year) I would enjoy seeing May McFetridge chasing them around a stage for two hours.John Snow & Jeremy Paxman could question them on real issues whilst May catches her breath.
Thank you lots, SK. I couldn’t even see the original link here in Canada.
‘Perhaps for their money our politicians should be forced to act in a pantomime each Christmas.(‘
Duh?
Force unnecessary alas -They’re a year round pantomime as it is -not always funny ha ha though-sometimes they can be funny ‘peculiar’ like yer man with the 6,000 year old Earth etc and the Hey Presto school of Creationism .
Not as many as in the USA thank Christ .I read all those Mayan End of the Worlders are approaching the climax of their Earthly residences and are preparing for the End of Ages in a couple of weeks .
assuming there’s anything left in them at this stage .
Hold on to their wallets somebody
A fool and his money are easily parted they say -the really difficult question this sad fact does not answer is how do they ever get together in the first place
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Thanks SK – Stewart is hilarious . Orally O’Reilly has once again put his foot where his mouth is and exchanged his thinking organ for his excretory parts .
Still if I catch a glimpse of that red and white bedecked white bearded fraudster anytime before the 24th and I have my shotgun with me there’ll be an empty seat on the reindeer sled and it won’t be an empty elf’s seat either
Mammonalia or Bacchanalia or a Mid Winter’s shopping binge . It makes one almost wish to be Jewish like Jesus well not exactly like Jesus -just the being adored as a God part -scratch that crucifixion deal -no fun there at all at all ;(