An 'emotional' Statesman

Ahh sure, gawd luv him. Wasn't he a daycent ould skin, all the same . . . . yis are all just feckin' begrudgers, trying to bring down a dedicated follower of businessmen . . .

In light of the long-overdue recent events . . .

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced this morning that he would be stepping down as leader of the Irish nation and Fianna Fail on May 6th.

Mr. Ahern stated his intention following the ongoing revelations from the Mahon Tribunal’s inquiry into corruption.

Pic courtesy of Citizen John

In an emotional statement from government buildings the Irish Leader announced his intention to step down, following allegations in mainstream Irish media of perjury. “Never, in all the time I’ve served in public life, have I put my personal interests ahead of the public good.”

I figured I'd repost a comment I left elsewhere (shame to waste it:) . . .

Oh he’s good at the ‘ould ‘emotional’ statements, alright. Hasn’t he had plenty of practice with the help of RTE over the past year. Remember his crocodile tears when he did his RTE news interview with Brian Dobson? The one where he pretended to be nearly on the verge of a mental breakdown due to the media ‘intrusion’ into his separation from his wife?



Jaysus wept!

Takes some neck to do that considering he was the one brought up his marital difficulties in a sad attempt to put the media off the scent.

After that, he was waving his dead mother around the place, like some voodoo charm, in a similar attempt to ward of the evhullll spirits of 'meejah intrusion’ into other dodgy bank lodgements.

‘Me dead mudder gave it to me! How could yis bring me dead mudder into it! Oh, the shame, she’d be turning in her grave!’

. . . and other such nonsense. Indeed the idiot brudder, Noel, went on RTE's Jo Duffy/Pat Kenny show (can't remember off-hand which it was but I assure you it was one of those two) to say exactly that. I'm paraphrasing a little but not much, trust me.

He told the tribunal his mother Julia, who died in 1998, gave him IR£7,000, which he lodged to his savings account in March 1993.

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Will the Village Idiot be next try to bolster the lies of Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern? So far, Ahern has dragged his dead mother, his former wife, his former girlfriend and now his former employee into his quagmire of lies which he is trying to spin to the Mahon Tribunal.

Having said all that, I shudder at the thought of the likes of Enda Kenny, the ball-less-wonder from ‘de Whesth’, winning an election and being in charge of the country. At least Bertie had the confidence of ‘de peepil’, sadly something Enda could never aspire to

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has denied that he has questions to answer in relation to a report in today's Irish Times that he received money from businessmen......He told journalists that it was 'none of their business' if he got something from somebody as a present.He said today's allegation that he had received payments of between €50,000 and €100,000 was 'off the wall' and 'an unfair, unjust leak'......Mr Ahern added that he was not answering what he got for his Holy Communion money, his confirmation money, or his birthday.

Luckily for An Taioseach, a lot of the people he claimed to have received money from are now dead. Dead men tell no Tribunals . . . .

a photo of a lovely young girl just after recieving her first communion money

Well Celia, do you feel safe now? :)



I knew those photo's would come in handy . . . . someday :)

No One Expects . . The Scott-Lee Inquisition!

Pic Stolen here
Does anyone need this spelled out for them? Oh, well I'll do it anyway . . .

S. M. E. A. R. . . . . J. O. B.

Michael Todd inquiry to focus on 'affairs'
Courtesy of Lord Patel (once again!)

The inquiry into the tangled love life of Chief Constable Michael Todd will focus on alleged affairs with five of his staff at Greater Manchester Police, it has emerged.
Michael Todd had a three-year affair with Angie Robinson
Investigators will trawl through hundreds of his text messages and emails, as well as examining the finances of the former police chief, who was found dead on a Welsh mountainside earlier this month in a suspected suicide.
The formal inquiry into his conduct has been launched to see whether Mr Todd's private life had any impact on his duties.
The Chief Constable had affairs with three civilian staff and two officers at Greater Manchester, it is claimed.
Two women with whom he allegedly had a relationship were said to have been promoted ahead of others who were said to be better qualified.

blah deblahdeblahblah . . . . smoke and mirrors . . . . more blah blah blah

The 50-year-old, who was nicknamed "Hot Toddy", is believed to have committed suicide in a mountain range at Snowdon.

eehhhhmmm, 'believed' by whom exactly?

Meanwhile, an inquest has opened and adjourned to a date yet to be fixed.

The North Wales coroner, Dewi Pritchard Jones, revealed that Mr Todd was twice the drink-drive limit in the hours before his death and his body showed signs of hypothermia.

Now that's a complete lie.

See what they did there?

There is absolutely NO evidence that Todd's blood/alcohol level was 'twice the drink-drive limit in the hours before his death'

There is, however, evidence that Todd was

"found to have 105 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood in his system, Caslin said. The legal limit for driving is 80 milligrams per 100 millilitres."
http://hubriticanomaly.blogspot.com/2008/03/third-policeman.html

Sooo, let's 'do the math(s)' . . . . 80 multipled by 2 = 160

. . . . NOT 105.

and as I said in an earlier post:

I mention the difference in reporting on the blood alcohol level because I find it hard to understand how someone with less than one and a half times the legal blood/alcohol limit for driving could be described as having a 'high blood-alcohol level' especially when one considers the fact that he was on foot and in Britain a blood/alcohol level of 105 mil per 100 could not possibly be considered above average given the high level of alcohol consumption prevalent amongst the population at large.

Nor was he driving at the time, so how the level of alcohol in his blood has any relevance to the legal blood/alcohol limit whilst driving a motor vehicle is beyond me.

That said, the level of blood/alcohol in his blood was, as I said less than one and a half times the legal driving limit.

As many are no doubt aware, the legal limit is purposely set at a very low level so as to ensure that any one driving a vehicle could not legally do so if their alcohol intake was sufficient to impair their driving ability.

Hence, to say that Mr Todd had a high blood-alcohol level, when the level was a mere 105 mil per 100, is quite misleading. Why The Guardian sub-editor that wrote the headline wished to mislead us is a question open to debate...

So the Telegraph's defence for this outright lie would be that they extrapolated backwards, using as a base the low level found in his blood, to arrive at the much larger figure of a higher level which they would claim must have earlier been in his system, since we are suppossed to believe that the dead policeman drank half a bottle of spirits before he died.

All complete poppycock of course.

I wonder if any of the 'journalists' or editors working at the Telegraph are members of any apron wearing rather secretive fraternities ubiqutious throughout the British establishment?

See also:
Rescue Services ask: 'Why didn't they call us earlier?'

• Mountain rescue chief says they could have saved top policeman on Snowdon
  
• Mystery of dark suited 'spooks' waiting at bottom of mountain
  
• Chinook helicopter appeared above body - but could not land
  
• 'Champagne was in police chief's rucksack'
  

The police chief who died on a blizzard-swept mountain might have survived if rescue services had been alerted earlier, according to the expert who masterminded the recovery of his body.
Peter Walker has provided the first detailed account of the hunt on Snowdon for Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Michael Todd.
His claims raise a series of disturbing questions about the death of Mr Todd, who was tipped as a future Scotland Yard Commissioner.
Mr Walker, 52, a veteran of hundreds of rescue operations, alleges that mountain rescue services were not called in to search for the police chief, who had been linked with a number of women, until hours after he was first reported missing.

See what they did there, once again? They made sure we knew that the dead policeman

. . . had been linked with a number of women , . .(Shock, Horror!!!)

Just in case you didn't get it the other 100 times they made sure to mention it. We should at least be grateful they're not accusing him of kiddy fiddling. . . . yet


No One expects the Spanish Inquisition!!