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Don’t remember this in the movie.

“Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.”

Margaret Thatcher, at the Conservative Party conference in 1987.

 

She had Jimmy Savile around for Christmas that year.

G0od times.

Margaret Thatcher Delivers Anti-Gay Speech In 1987 (VIDEO) (Huffington Post)

Thomas_Sheridan-2Och here.

Thomas Sheridan.

He was literally high-brow.

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

Further to the dialect post from Friday. This is Thomas Sheridan, born in Capel Street, Dublin, whose Course of Lectures on Elocution, delivered in Edinburgh in 1761 to an audience ‘anxious to cure themselves of a provincial or vicious presentation’, led to the development of the famed Morningside accent.

Sheridan’s subsequent Academy for the Instruction of Young Gentlemen in the Art of Reading and Reciting proved a financial failure, and he returned to Ireland and the management of the Theatre Royal.

His most enduring legacy, the pronunciation of ‘girls’ as ‘gels’, lives on today in the so-refined tones of Maggie Smith as Morningside resident Miss Jean Brodie in her prime…

 

Pics via Ebay

90244252Scapegoat time!

Yay.

It said the repeated errors had been made by a “small team of about four economists” within the department, and said it “failed to predict the sharp economic downturn”.

Also:

“The 2012 exchequer deficit was consistently overestimated by the Department of Finance,” it said…the projection on Budget Day in December still overestimated the deficit by €0.8bn.

 

Anyone name names?

Bodger’s checking with Doheny and Nesbitt’s.

State watchdog savages Department of Finance over ‘failures’ (Independent.ie)

 

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Labour TD Aodhan O Riordain has described the call from some in Fine Gael for a “sunset clause” to be included in the X Case Legislation as a “nonsense.”
“…Talk of floodgates is incredibly irresponsible. This is cowardice from legislators whose responsibility is to protect women’s lives and their constitutional rights,” he added.
The call has been backed by Junior Minister Lucinda Creighton [above with her husband, Fine Gael Senator John Bradford, a pro-life supporter, in 2011] who said it was constructive and sensible and should be considered by Cabinet.

 

Call for ‘sunset clause’ in abortion legislation (RTE)

(Eamon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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