Monthly Archives: April 2012

So you’re a young gay schoolkid.

And then this happens:

The Roman Catholic church has written to every state-funded Catholic secondary school in England and Wales asking them to encourage pupils to sign a petition against gay marriage. Students at one school in south London were shown a presentation on religious opposition to the government’s plans to let gay couples marry in civil ceremonies.

Catholic Church Urges Pupils To Sign Anti-gay Marriage Petition (The Guardian)

A more aggressive campaign among youngsters in the US has led to a number of teen suicides, documented in this heart-wrenching Rolling Stone article from February.


Miss Travel – a ‘travel dating’ website for pretty girls who want to ‘travel’ for ‘free’ with wealthy men.

We’re out of inverted commas.

From the website:

If you are a beautiful person who wants to travel for free, just signup as a “Attractive Traveler”. Attractive Travelers are adventurous and open minded people who loves to travel, but lacks the budget to do so. As such, you are looking to meet other Generous members who are willing to pay for you to travel.

Related: Meanwhile On The Grand Canal, Dublin

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Serinna Corbett (above with son, Brian), a mother of four young children, told this week’s Limerick Leader of her campaign – across Facebook – to get re-housed.

She currently shares a three-bedroom council house with her four young children in Moyross, Co Limerick.

But, according to blogger Bock the Robber, Serinna is another example he (contentiously) argues of a growing culture of entitlement. The other being a certain couple from Killiney.

What do a millionaire Killiney couple and an unemployed Moyross mother of four have in common?  Not much, you might imagine, until you compare the demands they make and their complete blindness to the notion of personal responsibility.

…Serinna thinks her living conditions are beyond human endurance.  Having a 13 year old, and an 18-month-old sleeping in the same room is just wrong. It’s just not on. She wants a bigger house from the council.

According to Serinna, the 13-year-old has ADHD, which she says causes fits and hallucinations. (It doesn’t).  He might wake up in the middle of the night and attack the baby, she says.  Oddly, the obvious solution doesn’t seem to occur to her: bring the baby into your own bedroom.  No.  The baby must sleep in a place where he faces danger, just as the other children have done for five years now….

…Serinna’s clincher is this: there’s another baby on the way.  You have to stand back and think about this for a minute.  Another child on the way?  Well, how the hell did that happen?  Did a postcard arrive through the letterbox?  Hi, future mother.  See you soon.  Best wishes, Your New Baby.

 

When The World Owes You A Living (Bock the Robber)

Serinna interviewed on this morning’s  ‘Limerick Today’ (95FM) here.

Actually probably just photocopied.

At the National Gallery, Dublin, within the last 30 minutes.

Gerry ‘The Smile’ Adams, Mary Lou McDonald and Padraig Mac Lochlainn at the unveiling of their anti-fiscal compact referendum booklet, ‘Austerity isn’t Working’.

That’s your house tonight that is.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Meanwhile, uh oh:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mc34yvjSB4&feature=player_embedded

“You deliberately misquote them. you selectively represent them.”

Paschal Donohue, Fine Gael

Gerry Adams Challenged On Economists’ Quotes in SF leaflet (The Journal)