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About LinkBacksHeard this on Newstalk just now. Why would he refuse a reasonable request when the whole country is up in arms about this? What gives?
Heard this on Newstalk just now. Why would he refuse a reasonable request when the whole country is up in arms about this? What gives?
There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.
- General George S. Patton, Jr
he would because he is a caricature of a BIFFO at this stage. All that man is good at is roaring shouting and dictatorial statements like ' i'll run this country as I see fit' for that read into the ground.
Posturing by all sides. Nothing to see here……….now all please move along
Slip! Slop! Slap! Seek! Slide!
Perhaps it's honour amongst thieves?Originally Posted by imsopeedoff
hes the man who wanted jod,can you imagine the stories jod could tell!!
Indeed the only thing more staggering than the size of the expenses is the silence and complicity by FG and Lab who seem afraid of opening an enormous can of worms ..........
True - Kenny and Gilmore would do better to continue to call for his resignation. Are they trying to keep the gravy train on the rails for when it's their turn to jump on board??
This guff about leaders talks is a smokescreen.
In fairness to the opposition, I don't think they are being 'silent' or attempting to hop on a future gravy train. They have opened the door and asked JOD to step through it. He is a constitutional office holder, and a little bit of decorum isn't the worst thing in the world. If he fails to treat his office with dignity and resign, I think FG and Labour will turn up the heat and demand a resignation.
Have you read my blog?
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You are joking me. How low can Fianna Fail go to protect one of their own.
Kenny & Gilmore should have walked out on the dail today.
Fianna Fail Arrogance -
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This is far more interesting and entertaining than the current phoney war. A comeback of similar proportions on 'phoney war' has been anticipated.
World Wide Words: Can of wormsTo open a metaphorical can of worms is to examine some complicated state of affairs, the investigation of which is likely to cause trouble or scandal and which you would much prefer was left alone. A recent example appeared in the Washington Times: “Uncovering past ownership, however, can open its own legal can of worms in exposing art theft.”
It has long since become an overused and overrated journalistic cliché, which rather lends itself to mixed metaphors: “Africa is a huge can of worms and we can no longer stick our heads in the sand” (from the Daily Record of Glasgow of 17 March 2006). The earliest example I’ve found is from a syndicated article in the Ironwood Daily Globe of Michigan in 1951: “The question of command for Middle East defense against Soviet aggression is still regarded as ‘a can of worms’ at General Eisenhower’s SHAPE headquarters here.”
The evidence suggests that the original cans of worms were real cans with actual worms in them, collected as bait for fishing. (The can in this case being a smallish metal container with a handle and a lid.) Here’s one in a largely forgotten work of 1914, Diane of the Green Van, by Leona Dalrymple: “There are times, alas, when even fish are perverse! Thoroughly out of patience, Diane presently unjointed her rod, emptied the can of worms upon the bank, and returned to camp.” Fishermen have told me that the most annoying aspect of opening a can of worms is that, being live bait, they crawl out and are difficult to put back. So there may well be an association with the idea of Pandora's Box, as you suspect.
It’s easy to see how an angler — more probably a non-fishing friend or relative of an angler — who opened a can containing a wriggling mass of worms would see it as something that was best left closed and unexamined.
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