The wonder of google and youtube!

It's unbelievable, the sun is actually shining in Sligo, and we are told it may even shine tomorrow as well.

We threw a big outdoor party yesterday and had tons of friends round, it was great fun and i think everyone had a great time. The weird thing is that google has the potential to feck up that staple of all parties, the lively debate (we would never call them arguments.

Yesterday both Google and Youtube amazed a few people with thier capabilities, the conversation was about olympics when two of the lads had a difference over what race Dave Wottle won at the Munich Olympics in 1972.. there was no agreement so inside for the computer, a quick google and we had the Wikipedia entry for the bould Dave, which proved that TJ was right.. then he asked was there any pictures of Wootle on the net.. a quick youtube later and i was able to say..."i'll do better than that... would you like to see the race?" and so there were a load of people sitting on the patio watching the 1972 800 metres final.

the world is changing pretty rapid.

Saints and sinners!

That's just the way we like it.... serve it to us fast and quick please....

Delighted for Harrington.... the fact that he cracked and choked on the 18th when he had it in his grasp will barely be remembered... he's now officially a saint.... despite his inperfections.

And what about Joe O'Reilly.. the fact that he murdered his wife will never be forgotten... he's now officially a demon ... despite his apparent successes in life and the emails that show him as a concerned father.

Ah well.....Saints and Sinners...... that's apparently the way we like it....

I'm glad something like the Sopranos came along and challenged even in a small way this type of thinking... my experience of life is that one thing makes you neither either way... one act of evil does not make you a demon... and one big prize does not make you transcendant.

What a strange trade!

There are many things in this life that i have no understanding of, international currency markets, sex trafficking and certainly the drug trade.

Having never touched the white powder i've often wondered what is so special about it that normal people will consume it in massive quantities, but in my maddest imagination i had no idea it was this big... is it possible that someone can be transporting €200 Million of the stuff round for the Irish market, i mean, if a couple of lines costs €20, and that's enough to get one person high, then €200 Million is enough to get 10 million people coked up, this is a better business that selling burgers at closing time, except that we don't have 10 million people so some folks will have to do it twice.

Maybe we should just legitimise the stuff, if it was taxed like drink and cigarettes then the street value would be over a billion euro, we could do wonders with the revenue, i mean if the end users are going to do it anyway, and it appears they are, it would be better to spend the money on new sports pitches for the community rather than equestrian centers and villas in alicante for Gilligan and his likes.

I can hardly believe i'm going to say this, but i'll do it anyway..... I agree with former minister for justice McDowell on this one...... the end users have impunity, and while they do people will always traffic.... a better way of stopping this is to damage the middle class demand (the 10 million)...

A few well timed and very public armed raids on the dinner parties and venues where the social drug is consumed would have a far greater effect than trying to take on the criminal gangs.... cos the middle classes understand shame, and it's one of their greatest fears.

Let's get a few SWAT teams into Rathfarnham or wherever the intelligence tells them they have to be, let's have a few high proflle convictions for possession and use.... then maybe we'll put the traffickers out of business, cos everybody know's the main reason businesses fail (even criminal businesses) it's when there's little or no demand for the product.... and if the spoilt classes want to continue to indulge their habit, let's make sure there are consequences.