Political shenanigans

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Well, that’s a bit of a turnip for the books?

Who would have thunk that Carrot Man could pull it off? But then America is full of surprises.

Trump looking quite pleased with himself?

I’m not exactly a paid up member of the Trump Appreciation Society but then I didn’t have much time for Harris either. Maybe I’m biassed against any politician called Harris but you can blame our Simple Simon for that.

Frankly I couldn’t really care less who runs America but at least having Trump ensconced in the White House should liven things up a bit. In fact I would go so far as to say that anything that upsets the old apple cart is a good thing. Americans have spoken and I respect that even if I haven’t a clue how their election process works.

One aspect of the whole circus that amuses me is the reaction of the various leaders to the news. For some time now we have been hearing all the pronouncements that electing Trump would be a disaster for various countries around the world, but now that the result has been announced those same leaders are queuing at the gates to congratulate Trump and how they are all looking forward to wonderful relationships across the Atlantic. It must be hard swallowing all those bitter pills?

Unfortunately the media frenzy has somewhat obscured a little gem from our own Lords and Masters.

Yes, politics can be interesting.

 

Election fever

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There are two elections on the horizon.

Of course there is the American one. I confess I am looking forward to this one as the outcome is bound to be interesting. The outcome is really a foregone conclusion – whichever side wins there are going to be calls of foul, Russian interference, vote rigging and whatever else they can throw in. Trump has already declared himself the winner on the grounds that if Harris gets the vote, that it will all have been rigged by the Deep State.

Here in little old Ireland we have an election looming too. This promises to be about as exciting as watching raindrops on a window. Again the result is a foregone conclusion.

There re three main parties here. The Greens and Labour have been almost wiped out as they were never forgiven for propping up coalitions in the past, leaving just Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin. The latter were leading the polls but after a series of scandals [no doubt orchestrated by FF/FG] have dropped way down. This means that either FF or FG will come out on top. Whichever tops the table is irrelevant as the winner will immediately form a coalition with the other and we’ll end up precisely where we are now. The only question is who they will choose to finalise the coalitions numbers to form a gubmint. Please God, not the Greens.

I saw an interesting item recently. It was on the pensions and allowances to be paid to retired politicians here. They reckon this to be in the region of €4 million in the first year alone. Who wouldn’t fancy an annual pension of €70,000 a year for doing nothing?

It’s no wonder they crawl over each others’ backs to get into gubmint?

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Q: When did you last hold an election?

A: Just before bleakfast.

 

It’s a rap

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I ave noticed a phenomenon over in the States recently.

Every now and then an item appears about some “rap artist” being done for gang membership, drugs or some other gun related crime.

Now I have a problem with the term “rap artist”. It appears that anyone can stand on a stage and spout this assault on the ears. All you need is a coat with a hood and the ability to point aimlessly at the floor. It helps if you can drawl along sounding like you are from the Bronx slums and also skin pigmentation can play a large part. Rap is no more an art form that the skid marks in my undies. In fact I would consider my skid marks to be vastly more artistic.

The saving grace in all of this is the desire of the “artist” to sound like he’s a gang member from the slums. It gives the police carte blanche if they want an arrest, so arrest they do, in ever increasing numbers. The “rappers” have it coming to them. I really have to hand it to any police force who are willing to clean our streets of talent-less oiks who actually see themselves as artists. If they want to sound like gangsters then treat ‘m like gangsters.

Wouldn’t you love your daughter to bring this specimen home?

 

Dis-appontments

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My hospital is determined to confuse me.

During the week I got two letters. One was cancelling an appointment that I didn’t have anyway and the other was creating a new appointment next Monday.

I put hospital appointments in on my phone as handy reminders. Except that the hospital repeatedly sends me these letters cancelling stuff and creating new stuff.

Next week, for example I now have an appointment on Monday [at 8:15 AM] for a CT scan. And I have an appointment on Tuesday for a blood test [at 10:30 AM] and another on Wednesday [at 8:30 AM] for a dose of immunotherapy, both of which were confirmed by a letter a few weeks ago. So this begs the question – if I am in the hospital on Monday why not have my blood test then? They seem to like separating the blood test and the immunotherapy for some reason so a day extra couldn’t make much difference?

Please note also their delight in slamming the appointments into the middle of the morning rush hour? This isn’t out of badness incidentally, it’s to get me in nice and early so that I have a full day to wait for whatever it is I’m in for. They at least were honest about this in this week’s letter saying that CT scans were much in demand and that I mustn’t be surprised if others, for any reason whatsoever, may jump the queue and get in ahead of me. This presumably means that I can expect my scan somewhere around tea-time, or at least until the middle of the evening rush hour.

Or maybe I’ll get a letter tomorrow cancelling everything?