Posted on 09/10/2016 1:33:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A snowflake begins to see the real world
I just spent a week in southern ireland. it was great. there are many people in ireland who get it. unfortunately ireland is, as the author says, relatively isolated, socially and technologically. their industrial base is small, narrow and fragile. so their self awareness is limited. and they tend to be overly concerned with their own past history, as interesting as that is. i was not there for the politics so it did not bother me much. i had other things to do so most of the time i kept my mouth shut concerning politics and current events. i do however hope that ireland will catch up, and soon.
The Common Market was a good idea. The European Union was a bad idea.
Ireland should put itself forward to the world's entrepreneurs as the low-cost regime. It should eat the lunch of greedier regimes, unable to compete due the stupidity of their voters. Long live Ireland!
F the EU and the $14.5b grab against AAPL. It belongs to Apple's shareholders, not to Eurotrash scum!
As for Ireland, keep your eyes on the ongoing water company dispute. As I understood folks trying to explain it to me, Ireland built a new potable water supply system. Somehow this had been mandated by the EU. Most of the people were against the new system because of the cost. Now the new system is in place and people are starting to receive the bills for it. However, a large percentage of the population is passively revolting by not paying the bills.
I have not had time to get back on the internet to look for articles about this. My information is anecdotal— still, given what I had heard, I would have expected that the article would have mentioned the water controversy, but it does not. Perhaps Irish popular opinion is in transition about Brexit...
What the hell is going on with irish water?
March 3 2016
http://www.thejournal.ie/irish-water-explainer-2639913-Mar2016/
the sorry history of ireland’s water charges
april 26, 2016
No bad for an Irishman. They are usually so steeped in hating America and Israel they can’t see straight.
One thing he leaves out: America’s kindness towards Irish immigrants which has gone on for two centuries now. It is repaid with bile from their institutions and trashed hotel rooms by Irish students.
That’s why Ireland is called the Mississippi of Europe.
The fact of the matter is - and I speak as a descendent of Irish immigrants who went into service in NYC - many Irish were like inner-city people today - the wild Irish they used to be called. Read up on the NYC draft riots. That is why those signs began to appear. The way New Orleans sometimes closes down their bars when the ‘Greek’ festivals break up. They can’t put up signs.
And yet, America keeps taking in Irish immigrants and extending work visas despite, even today, California landlords are often subjected to having their apartment ruined by Irish exchange students.
That does not mean there aren’t plenty of good Irish immigrants into this country.
We are a good and decent country.
Globalism is so chic in Ireland, the political invalid of Europe and soon the world.
Read the bio of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan by Joseph Lash (well worth it - brilliant). Annie’s background and her father’s behavior were so squalid as to defy belief. I simply refuse to romanticize the Irish diaspora at the cost of hating Americans of that period. The Yankees also provided the remarkably intelligent Annie with a good education before sending her out to conquer the world.
The Irish have willingly put on the yoke of the EU. Clinton is a perfect Misstress on the plantation
Not guilty! Very, very, NOT GUILTY!
How ironic that Irish leftists call themselves "nationalists" with reference to the British but identify with the Third World.
Globalism is so chic in Ireland, the political invalid of Europe and soon the world.
Nationalism was left wing before it was right wing. The Old Order was imperial, multi-ethnic, and cosmopolitan. Then came the French Revolution which led directly to Irish Republicanism, the Greek wars of liberation, the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, and national awakenings among Scandinavians, Czechs, Bulgarians, Romanians, Croatians, Armenians, etc. All these nationalisms were originally left wing. Right wing "blood and soil" mystical nationalism was a later development.
Irish nationalism has been left wing since Wolfe Tone.
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