Thoughts & Questions
If you’re enough lucky to be Irish, you’re lucky enough! ~Irish Saying
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Happy St Patrick’s day to all and I hope it is one that can be taken in the spirit it is meant to be.
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! – Mackenzie Astin
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Guns, I will never understand the need to have them in the family home.
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“Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.” – Philip Crosby
Monday, March 9th, 2009
I have often wondered why there is a need for political party conferences.
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Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you. – Paul Wilkinson
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Terrorism is almost like celebrity in that some will do anything to make a name for themselves. That is the only reason I can think of to even consider attacking cricketers.
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“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road – they get run over.” [Aneurin Bevan]
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
A recent poll by Millward Brown/IMS shows that 63% of decided voters would vote yes in a second referendum for the Lisbon Treaty.
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“It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.” – French Proverb
Friday, February 27th, 2009
There’s never a dull week really but this one seems to become more interesting as it goes along.
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The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
For once I do not disagree with celebrity and before the news of Jade Goody’s cancer being terminal, I didn’t think I would say that.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. – Plato
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Could you do it? If it came down to protecting your child from prison could you lie for them? That was the dilemma for Janette Mercer.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ~Benjamin Spock
Monday, February 16th, 2009
The world of Alfie Patten may never be the same again. The pictures of the 13 year old may look like he is cradling his baby sister,but yet it is his daughter or at least that is what we were told last week.
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“Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself”
Monday, February 9th, 2009
171 people have died in bushfires in Southeast Australia, one of the more shocking theories is that some of the fires were started by arsonists.
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