Archive for November, 2009

Enjoy your depression

November 16th, 2009

Just when you think they can’t stoop any lower, they manage to pull another flanker and amaze us all.

Not content with trying to remove medical cards from the elderly, the government are now talking about charging us for prescriptions.

Their justification for this, apart from trying to bleed us of every last red cent we have, is to try to reduce the number of prescriptions!

Is there no end to the arrogance and incompetence of that insufferable Harney?  A fucking school teacher is telling us we are taking too many medications?  Who the fuck does she think she is?

Maybe some doctors are a little liberal with their prescribing?  I don’t know.  You don’t know.  The only ones who are qualified to know are doctors.  If Mad Cow Harney is so concerned about it, she should tackle the doctors, not the patients.

The vast majority of people take medication not for fun, but because they need to.  It is not a choice.  In fact, in a lot of cases, failure to take medication can have very serious, if not fatal consequences.  If a person is prescribed medication, then the doctor has done so for a very good reason.  It is not up to anyone, let alone an obese health minister to intervene.

And if this charge is brought in, who is going to hit?  The poorest, of course.  Having been thrown out of their homes and their jobs because of the incompetence of the government, these people are now being told they are taking too much Prozac or whatever.  It’s a case of ‘we have bled you dry, and now we want you to suffer, and enjoy your sleepless nights’.

Words fail me.

The sooner someone removes that Harney the better.

And I don’t care how they do it.

New upgrade announced

November 15th, 2009

Grandad V1.0 was released to the public some seven years ago with the codename of Laughingboy.

Two years later, Grandad V2.0 [Puppychild] came out.

Some of the more astute of you may have noticed that there is an impending release of Grandad V3.0. 

We are currently at the Beta test stage and are ironing out the wrinkles, so to speak.  Final release is expected some time in the Spring of next year.  As yet, the new release is unnamed, and is currently referred to under the code name of “The Bump”.  I would of course like to officially pass on my congratulations to the team who have worked so hard [?] on bringing about this momentous occasion.

Losing it

November 14th, 2009

Has Granny Lost the Plot?

*sigh*

Supply and demand

November 13th, 2009

You have to laugh.

Cancer Society demands €1 hike in price of cigarettes.

What do they want that €1 used for?

Combat cigarette smuggling.

Here, ladies and gentlemen, we have an example of a complete ignorance of the most basic fundamentals of supply and demand.

I am currently smoking pipe tobacco that I bought in France.  It cost me €6.50 a pack. If I were to buy the equivalent quantity here, it would cost me €16 a pack. Now, if I can find someone on a street corner or in a pub who will sell me that tobacco at six or seven yoyos a pop, am I going to refuse?  There is a demand, so there will be a supply.

Trying to combat the sale of cheap imported cigarettes by increasing the price of the local ones is sheer madness.

But then I see that The Irish Cancer Society is one of the main sponsors of ASH.

NOW it makes sense.

The Mary conspiracy

November 12th, 2009

I was trying to read a book the other night, and Herself was watching television.

There was some panel discussion or other on, and I just happened to overhear a line from one of the women there.

“If we had a greater representation of women in the Dail, then maybe we wouldn’t be in our current mess”.

It’s funny how when someone says something like that, you get a mental impression of the Dail being full of people like Mary Robinson or Mary McAleese.  Reality is somewhat different. 

Take for example our Minister for Health.  Here we have an obese teacher who apparently had a vision as to how our health service is to be run. In the space of a few short years, she has ploughed billions into the system, and has managed to utterly destroy a system that had been functioning reasonably well.  Most Irish people would now prefer to fly to Bosnia or Somalia for medical treatment rather than risk the Irish one.  Her other great claim to fame is a complete blind eye when it comes to expenses.  She seems to think that the government jet is her own private taxi.  So much for feminine compassion there.

Then there is our Tainiste, or Deputy Prime Minister.  She is Ireland’s answer to Sarah Palin.  Her qualification for the position is that she’s the daughter of a politician, and a social worker.  Her only real value lies in her persistent ability to amuse us all with her complete and utter ignorance of what is going on.

How about our Bev?  Daughter of another disgraced politician, she is famous for aiding and abetting tax evaders during her time as a bank employee.  In her time, she resigned once in disgrace from government, and has been sacked twice, always managing to inveigle her way back in somehow.  I suppose it’s a case of corruption loving corruption.  She is also famous for her love of expense accounts and allowances.

I nearly forgot Gruppenführer Hannafin!  Again, we have a daughter of a politician and a founder member of SPUC [an extreme right wing anti-abortion, anti-contraception and anti-divorce group].  Somehow she has ended up as Minister for Social and Family Affairs.  Fuck!  She has about as much feminine compassion as a rampant bull on steroids.

I suppose there is a sort of intellectual argument for having more women in the Dail.  But it remains just that – an intellectual argument for debate over a pint.

Women in the Dail are no better and no worse than their male counterparts.

A funny thing strikes me about all the above.  With the exception of our Bev [who is the only one not to get a top job], they are all called Mary.

Is this a conspiracy?

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