https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgSieJU70BQ
A cockatoo runs around yelling incoherently.
There’s a metaphor here somewhere.
Stop shouting.
An opening casting for screamers of all types for a same sex marriage promo.
From 10am-12pm; Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin
Just ring the yell.
Yell.
Never mind.
Thanks Allyn Quigley
Gull-Be-Gone
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This morning.
Stephen Cass tweetz:
Anti seagull spikes being installed at my building at Mary’s Abbey {Dublin 7]. Flocking unsightly things.
Graphics showing the visibility map/path of an upcoming eclipse
Nothing we can say
There will be a total solar eclipse in Dublin on March 20 at 9.30am.
Retina-scorching yikes.
Total solar eclipses explained here
Eclipse Calculator – Eclipses in Dublin, Ireland (timeanddate.com)
H/T Greg Skerries
A recent CT scan of an 11th century Buddha reliquary by Drents Museum in the Netherlands revealed the mummified remains of a Buddhist monk interred within. Identified as Buddhist master Liuquan of the Chinese Meditation School, his organs had been removed prior to mummification and replaced with scrolls of paper covered in Chinese script.
According to Buddhist experts, Liuquan is not actually dead, but in an ‘advanced state of meditation’
The reliquary will be on show at the Hungarian Natural History Museum until the end of May, if you’re in the area.
Dr John Murray of the Iona Institute
From the Irish Times letters page…
Sir, – Patsy McGarry in his report on a debate on the upcoming marriage referendum has misrepresented two things I said in my 15-minute speech in this debate (“Historic marriage equality debate held at King’s Inns”, February 20th). First, he reports that I said that a Yes vote would lead to marriage being abolished and no longer existing. What I said was that marriage, as it now is, and historically has been understood, as a union of one man and one woman, would no longer exist.
Second, he reports that I said that other relationships, such as civil partnerships and guardianships, “cannot be placed alongside marriage as equally good”. What I actually said was that “other relationships and family forms cannot be placed alongside marriage and the family founded on marriage as always equally good for family and children. No other relationship or family form . . . has the capacity to provide a child with a loving mother and father united in a comprehensive life-long, publicly and legally committed union”.
Right so.
Allegations of a hit-and-run against Fine Gael TD Ray Butler, top, in Finnegan’s Way in Trim, Co. Meath were shared across Facebook and Twitter last night, above, prompting RTE reporter Mícheál Lehane to tweet…
FG TD Ray Butler says his family were traumatised when around 20 anti-austerity protestors demonstrated outside his home in Trim tonight.
— Mícheál Lehane (@MichealLehane) February 23, 2015
This morning, Mr Butler denied the allegations made online.
He told Newstalk Breakfast that around 20 to 30 protesters went to his home last night while he was in his constituency office. He said his wife, his wife’s brother, Andrew, and two of his daughters, aged 9 and 11, were at home at the time before another daughter returned home. He said the protesters eventually moved to his constituency office at around 9.15pm or 9.30pm.
Ray Butler: ‘They came down to my constituency office, there was only 8 of them, 7 or 8 of them arrived at my constituency office. And the same woman that had rang my doorbell, I could see her on CCTV. She was ringing the doorbell of the constituency office and wouldn’t let her finger off it. So basically the [branch] meeting was over at this stage and John Tobin and councillor Noel French went down to her, to talk to her, to say, ‘well, listen, he’ll talk to you, give the office a ring and he’ll meet up with you any time’ and all that. So..”
Chris Donoghue: “So you decided you weren’t going to go out to the 7 or 8 people?”
Butler: “I was, I was, I wasn’t, we were going to leave the office. So as I went down, I went down with a group and I went down to close the door, Chris, and I was locking the door and this lady came up and she said to me, ‘oh Ray, you know me, you know me, you know me, I’m from Kells.’ Now I am originally from Kells. I haven’t lived in Kells for the last 28 years and ‘you know me, you know me’ and I said, ‘listen, there’s no problem’ and she said, ‘I rang, I rang to book an appointment and all of that’ and I said, ‘well listen, you can ring me any time to meet me for anything, anything.”
Donoghue: “OK, Ray, I want to actually talk about the allegation that’s made against you. That you got into your car..”
Butler: “Yes, I’m coming to that Chris…”
Donoghue: “And you reversed..”
Butler: “I’m getting to that Chris, so I locked the door anyway Chris and I said, I’m going up to my wife and kids and all of that so I went over, I walked across the road over to the stockhouse and my son, Noel French and John Tobin came with me. So this lady followed me with her friends. I got into the car, I locked the car, I moved the car two feet, to straighten it, to move out. This lady, the car was stationed. John Tobin was there and Noel French. I could see her in the rearview mirror. She jumped on the back of the car, jumped on the back of the car and a thud and I looked at her, seen her and John Tobin said, ‘she’s after jumping on the back of the car, Ray.'”
Donoghue: “Are you 100% that you didn’t, however gently, hit her as opposed to jumping..”
Butler: “Absolutely, the car was in the one place, Chris. The car was in the one place and John said, ‘Ray you better move off’ because it was so intimidating.”
Donoghue: “Was she on the ground though when you moved off?”
Butler: “No, she was never on the ground. She was standing because John Tobin was right beside her and if I did hit her, I would have also hit John Tobin because he was right beside her. So that is total…”
Donoghue: “So you went home basically?”
Butler: “I went home…”
Later, Mr Butler said he had ‘absolutely no drink’ yesterday.
Listen back in full here
UPDATE:
so aparantly there is video of the ray butler incident being published later today
— squid (@squidlimerick) February 24, 2015
The ‘Girl Against Fluoride’ Aisling Fitzgibbon (right) and Saoire O’Brien, of Direct Democracy Ireland, at the Irish Medicines Board last year
This just in…
From Australia:
Australian health authorities are reviewing the case for fluoride in drinking water amid concerns scientific evidence supporting the benefits and risks to people’s health may have shifted.
While most Australians have been regularly consuming low amounts of fluoride since it was added to drinking water in the 1960s and 1970s to prevent tooth decay, several controversial studies in recent years have suggested the mineral may be linked to low intelligence in children and thyroid problems that can cause weight gain, fatigue and depression.
Today the National Health and Medical Research Council revealed that a 2012 study linking very high levels of fluoride to low IQ among some Chinese children prompted it to commission a new review of the health effects of the celebrated public health intervention.
Oh.
Studies linking fluoride in water to health issues prompt Australian review (Julie Medew, The Age)
Related: Fluoride On
Thanks Mark Geary