February 13, 2013.
MG writes:
Guess who’s driving his left hand drive BMW making an illegal turn into one-way street?
Use your discretion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDxDEjDMreA
1. File Under: No, Seriously.
2. Vin Diesel is still a movie star.
3. Dungeons & Dragons fan Diesel is using whatever juice the Fast & Furious flicks afford him to complete his trilogy of sci-fi epics, after splendid b-movie Pitch Black (2000) and its disastrous sequel, The Chronicles Of Riddick (2004). We admire his total commitment to Vin.
5. Vin Diesel isn’t his real name. That would be ridiculous. His real name is Des Diesel*.
6. Fast & Furious 6 (2013) is out now. It’s not as bonkers genius as the last one, but worth a trip for the ongoing homo-erotic tension between Vin and The Rock, plus a genuine WTF! moment during the closing credits.
7. Yes, he’s doing a Kojak movie next.
Release Date: September
* joke
Ratoath, Co Meath, this afternoon
Sandyford Industrial Centre, Sandyford, Co Dublin, this morning.
Tyrrelstown, Dublin, at 1pm.
Curragh, Co Kildare, this afternoon.
Thanks Brian Lynch, Frank Grimes and Daire Hooper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITuV2nNg8HU
Do you care for the recently-ended The (American) Office at all?
Do you favour the out-takes genre?
Do you have the guts of two hours to spare for all the bloopers from series 2-8?
Boing Boing
atWho says the Civil Service isn’t innovative? Biro security measures. twitter.com/Tupp_Ed/status…
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) May 20, 2013
Yesterday’s Irish Mail on Sunday on the latest controversy surrounding Health Minister Dr James Reilly’s funding priorities.
Dr Reilly granted €190,000 for new dementia services at a daycare centre in Clarecastle, Co.Clare – despite the same service being provided two miles away, in Ennis, and despite the fact the HSE was ‘strongly opposed’ to the move.
The centre is in the constituency of Dr Reilly’s fellow Fine Gael TD Joe Carey.
Previously: Dr James Reilly, Cllr Anne Devitt and the Airside Clinic
Elaine Byrne has some of her own points to raise with the Justice Mininster:
1. The Taoiseach told the IrishTimes that Mr Shatter has his “100 per cent support” for disclosing the information.
2. Enda Kenny had a different view in the Dail on 13 Dec 2005 during the Michael McDowell / Frank Connelly episode.
3.To quote from Enda Kenny’s questioning of the then Taoiseach about leaking of confidental info by then Minister for Justice.
4. “Were the Taoiseach & other members of the Cabinet & Gov made aware that the Minister for Justice intended to leak information deliberately..”
5. It should not be necessary for a Minister, particularly Minister for Justice, to deliberately leak information to a sole journalist…”
6. “Does the Taoiseach agree that… the method chosen by the Minister for Justice, is not in keeping with the integrity of his office?”
7. Hypocrisy is the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behaviour does not conform.
8. From that same Dail debate in 2005, Labour’s Pat Rabbitte’s contribution is worth repeating. Has the Minister made any comment, yet?
9. Rabbitte: “What I want to know is whether the Taoiseach stands over the untrammelled & unreviewable use of executive power… to leak a document”
More here.
Previously: Shatter Proof
(TV3)
When anti-marriage equality teenagers at a rally made handwritten cards that went viral, I simply had to respond. buzzfeed.com/mjs538/george-…
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) May 17, 2013
Buzzfeed’s Matt Stopera asked teens outside the Supreme Court in Washington at the March Prop 8/DOMA hearings to express their traditionalist position on handwritten signs.
Last week, the adorably non-traditional George Takei exercised his right to reply.