Dave’s Rants

Richard’s Quiz on how ‘Republican’ you are has resulted in me being about 81% republican.

1. Are taxes too high?
I’m somewhere in the middle on this one, but more on the ‘yes’ side than on the ‘no’ side. I’m not too pushed about the Income Tax but I do think I’m screwed in other aspects of […]

Simon posted yesterday on changing the presidency. I kind of started to mouth off in the comments.
How about we actually have an election, I’ll be 28 before I’ll have voted in a Presidential election and even then we could just have another agreed candidate. Some bloody democracy.
But seriously, next year we’ll have an election and […]

While I believe the American media is overly pro-Israel the rest of the world, especially ourselves, this is more than cancelled out by the anti-Israeli balance of almost everyone else. Simon at The Dossing Times linked me to this excellent article on FIFA’s bias.
It all reminds me of last year when Ireland were playing Israel […]

Last night my girlfriend’s sister pointed out that it’s never just bird ‘flu, or it’s never just H5N1, it’s always the “deadly H5N1 strain”. Of course all strains are potentially deadly just this one is more deadly. However that doesn’t fit the hysteria model at all so we get hundreds and hundreds of articles where […]

Thought this letter to the editor in today’s Examiner was fantastic.
ON RTÉ’s Prime Time on April 4, Sinn Féin’s Pat Doherty said he wished to ‘condemn unreservedly’ the murder of Denis Donaldson in Co Donegal.
However, in June 1996, Mr Doherty refused to condemn the killing of Det Garda Jerry McCabe, saying: ‘I abhor the politics […]

Firstly I want road deaths to be reduced. Who wouldn’t? What I do want to point out is how we compare internationally Take a look at the graph below.

You see that? We’re in the middle! In fact we’ve even had a reduction since the mid 1990s.
Also note how far up that graph the Americans are. […]

From RTE

The [high] court has found that Limerick County Council has failed in its statutory duty to provide for the accommodation needs of two Co Limerick Traveller families who are seeking halting site accommodation in Kilmallock.
For nearly two years William O’Reilly, his wife and three children, and Arthur Conway, his partner and two children, have […]

I meant to write about this for ages and ages, I didn’t thus I’ve probably missed out on a huge barrage of negative comments from Cork people who have `invested’ in the `Liberty’ scheme and are now worried about their `investment’. Anyway I’ll recap the story for those who haven’t heard about it or who […]