Head Rambles Reborn
Grandad August 25th, 2007
Well, I did it.
Head Rambles has had a facelift.
If Joan Rivers can do it so can I.
Well?
What do you think???
Archive for August, 2007
My apologies
Grandad August 25th, 2007
I would like to apologise to my Irish readers for the current spell of unseasonable fine weather.
I know Irish summers should be cold and damp with frequent showers with the occasional flash flood, tornado or hurricane. But for the last few days, it has been warm [some might even say hot?] and sunny. I’m sorry about this.
You see, I’m to blame.
I have always had this weird knack of being able to control the weather. If I buy a pair of sunglasses, we don’t see the sun for months. If I buy a new pair of windscreen wipers for the car, then the rain vanishes. They have to introduce hosepipe bans and the entire population of Galway dies of thirst.
I have thought about hiring myself out. If you are suffering from severe flooding, I will move there and buy a boat. You are guaranteed to be gasping for water within days. If you are suffering from severe heat, I will move there and buy some sun tan lotion. You will soon forget what the sun looks like.
This latest strange sunny weather is caused by my old flooring. I wanted to break up the mountain of scrap timber into kindling, and I discovered that if it is damp, then the laminate peels off easily [it is, after all, extremely high quality flooring!]. So I put the whole lot into the garden to get damp.
And that is when the fine weather started.
If this goes on much longer, I may throw the floor into the pond and let it get damp that way.
Then we can get back to the miserable grey damp weather that we know and love so well.
Irish Blogs reinvents the wheel
Grandad August 24th, 2007
What the hell is going on at IrishBlogs.ie?
They had a great site and now they have f*cked it up.
I notice Twenty had a go at them the other day [in his usual style] and so did Colm is ainm dom.
It used to be an up to date aggregate of blog posts. Now it’s…. well, I don’t know what it is. The actual blog posts have been relegated to a narrow column that disappears down through the bottom of my screen, through the floor and seems to end up somewhere in the Magma Layer.
The blog posts have been replaced with posts that seem to be more or less taken at random. They are classed as ‘Popular Topics’, but how are they chosen? The prime location is currently taken by “Marley Park Concerts”. Why? Is the whole world talking about those concerts?
To see anything on the site, I now have to scroll like the clappers, and squint at a tiny area of the screen.
I could sue them for permanent disability.
At least it’s one link less on my bookmark list.
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The rise of the Libertarians
Grandad August 24th, 2007
So Pat Rabbitte has gone.
That is a pity. He was one of the few in Leinster House with a quick mind and a sense of humour.
There will be the usual speculation as to who is to take over from Pat. Will it make a difference?
Sarah Carey over at GUBU suggests what we need is a new political party. How right she is.
Our choices at the moment ..
Fianna Fail – think they have a God given right to govern. Their policies are driven by vested interests and a greed for power. Corrupt as hell.
Fine Gael – Too scared of Fianna Fail and afraid to speak up. Their policies are almost the same as Fianna Fail anyway.
Labour – Again, they follow the mainstream line of policies with some differences, but they are too small to make a difference.
Progressive Democrats – Hah! They crawled so far up the arses of Fianna Fail that they vanished.
The Greens – see under Progressive Democrats.
The Irish political system is like a building. It is built on good foundations, but it is being built in the wrong way. If a wall is out of alignment, all the parties argue about is where exactly the next brick should be laid. What we need is a party that is not afraid to tear down that wall and start again.
Just as one example, one of the main agendas in the last election was the health system [or lack of]. All the parties fought over was public versus private. They can’t seem to see that there is nothing inherently wrong with our hospital system, apart from lack of funding. Billions are being poured in, but that money is all being absorbed by the sponge called the HSE. So tear down the HSE. It isn’t working. Rebuild a leaner more efficient HSE. The health system is being run by accountants and not the health professionals.
What we need is a party that is not afraid to question the current policies and systems, and that is not afraid to rebuild these systems if they are not working. We need lateral thinking. We need a party who’s only vested interest is that of the country and not big business and the building industry. We need fresh ideas, and people who aren’t afraid to implement them.
Incidentally, if you need a new Taoiseach, I suppose I could be persuaded.
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