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Thursday July 21, 2005 03:49

by frank hall rip

We Seek Him Here We Seek Him There: Where's The Hip Priest?

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=201957650&p=zxy9586xx&n=201958637&x=

"“The position was that the minister was quite happy to meet General Myers, was he to be in Dublin this afternoon. It was that level of formality,” the spokesman said.
“If he was there Gen Myers would have dropped in, it was no firmer than that. But the minister is visiting troops in the Midlands and has been delayed.”
Mr O’Dea is visiting army units in Longford and Mullingar as part of his nationwide tour around all barracks. A number of troops from both the barracks are serving with the United Nations peace keeping force in Liberia."

http://bestofbothworlds.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_bestofbothworlds_archive.html#112187093279332882

"Now, this has the all the hallmarks of the old Bush trick of suddenly being out of town when a potentially embarrassing ally is in town -- Bush father and son both have a strange proclivity not to be in Washington during pro-life marches, for instance. And how can Minister O'Dea not be aware of the fabulous improvements in Irish roads in recent years, meaning that Mullingar and Longford are just not that far from Dublin anymore -- especially for a ministerial motorcade?

But perhaps Willie is a literary romantic at heart, because being away from Dublin in Mullingar is of course one element in Ulysses:

In silence they drove along Phibsborough road. An empty hearse trotted by, coming from the cemetery: looks relieved.
Crossguns bridge: the royal canal.
Water rushed roaring through the sluices. A man stood on his dropping barge between clamps of turf. On the towpath by the lock a slacktethered horse. Aboard of the Bugabu.
Their eyes watched him. On the slow weedy waterway he had floated on his raft coastward over Ireland drawn by a haulage rope past beds of reeds, over slime, mud-choked bottles, carrion dogs. Athlone, Mullingar, Moyvalley, I could make a walking tour to see Milly by the canal. Or cycle down. Hire some old crock, safety. Wren had one the other day at the auction but a lady's. Developing waterways. James M'Cann's hobby to row me o'er the ferry. Cheaper transit. By easy stages. Houseboats. Camping out. Also hearses. To heaven by water. Perhaps I will without writing. Come as a surprise, Leixlip, Clonsilla. Dropping down, lock by lock to Dublin. With turf from the midland bogs. Salute. He lifted his brown strawhat, saluting Paddy Dignam.

Could it be that the Minister's day trip is by barge along the Royal Canal?"

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Fall/Hip-Priest.html

"He's not appreciated.
He's not appreciated.
He's not appreciated.
Drink the long draught, Dan,
for the Hip Priest.
I said drink the long draught, Dan,
for the Hip Priest!
He's not appreciated
He's not appreciated
White collar hits motorway services
It's the Hip Priest
From the eyes he can see, they know
It's the Hip Priest
He's not appreciated.
It's purple psychology.
Not just an old lady's.
That's hip hip hip hip hit hit hit Hip Priest
That's hip hip hip hip hit hit hit Hip Priest
And he's gonna make an appearance.
He's gonna make an appearance.
Was shown in a freakshow early on.
And drunk from small brown bottles since I was so long.
Cause I'm a Hip Priest
Cause I'm a Hip Priest
People only need me when they're down and gone to seed.
Cause I'm a Hip Priest.
Cause I'm a Hip Priest.
It's appreciation half won.
And they hate their allegiance to hip preacher one.
Hip Priest
I got my last clean dirty shirt outta the wardrobe
I got my last clean dirty shirt outta the wardrobe
And all the good people know
That's hip hip hip hip hit hit hit Hip Priest
All the young groups know
All the young groups know
They can't ever take advantage because I'm a Hip Priest.
I was as clean as a packet of chocolate chips.
That's hip hip hip hip hit hit hit Hip Priest
And if the good people knew they would say
He's not appreciated
He's not appreciated
So drink the long draught, Dan,
for the Hip Priest

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Too Many Moustaches Not Enough Time: We'll Never Find Willie: Not in Kansas Anymore (Texas Maybe)

by Frank Hall RIP

Thu Jul 21, 2005 04:31

http://www.thepost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqid=6524-qqqx=1.asp

"The most senior officer in the US military is to visit Dublin this week. General Richard Myers, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, will be in Dublin on Wednesday and will meet with his Irish counterpart, chief of staff General Jim Sreenan.

He will also meet the Minister for Defence, Willie O'Dea. However, the Taoiseach's office said that there were no plans for Myers to meet Bertie Ahern. A spokesman for the Defence Forces said that the visit of Myers was a “follow-up to our visit last May'‘, when Sreenan and his staff met Myers in Washington.

The US Embassy in Dublin said that the two officers would “continue to discuss issues of mutual concern.”

Myers is the principal military adviser to George W Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the National Security Council.

An Air Force general, he has been chairman of the joint chiefs of staff since 2001, and was the country's top military officer during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is due to retire in September.

When interviewed recently on CBS, Myers was asked if he regarded the action in Iraq as a success. “I do now, I do,” he said. “I mean, I don't know why I said ‘now'. I do, absolutely. I think it's a success.”

http://disillusionedlefty.blogspot.com/2005/07/subtle-bias.html

"I don't know about the other papers, but the London Independent's front page today runs with a new figure on civilian death in Iraq. Listed in big font are such statistics as: 0.1% of the Iraqi population has been killed, 10% were under 18 and a further 10% are women - all horrible figures, I'm sure you'll agree. However, it was two different figures that caught my eye.

* Allied forces were the sole killers of 9,270 of the victims.
* 70% of these deaths occured after President Bush declared major combat over.
In the use of the word "sole", the first sentence suggests that Allied forces went in with the aim of killing the 9,270 civilians they are reported to have killed, that they did so at their will and without provocation. It goes on to say that anti-occupation forces have killed 2,353."

http://www.bananarepublic.nu/errant/?postid=42

"Minister for Guns, Tanks and The Lebanon, wee Dilly O'Wee, has seen some sense and cancelled his would-be meeting with the Chief of Staff of the Uncle Sham Imperialist War Machine who is currently here at the invitation of the Chief of Staff of de Supreme Armed Forces of de Banana Regime. No doubt the expected presence of hundreds of nasty leftist pinko-commie anti-war protestors made wee Dilly's moustache twitch a bit too much for his own liking.

Now if only wee Dilly would really see the light and stop aiding and abetting Uncle Sham in his campaign of murder and mayhem in the Middle East, by stopping the continued illegal (unconstitutional) use of Shannon Airport by the Uncle Sham Imperialist War Machine."

Anti War Vigil As US Joint Chief of Staff And Minister of Defence Miss meeting Each Other

Thu Jul 21, 2005 04:35

The great ones of the earth
Approve, with smiles and bland salutes, the rage
And monstrous tyranny they have brought to birth.
The great ones of the earth
Are much concerned about the wars they wage,
And quite aware of what those wars are worth.

- Siegfried Sassoon

Willie in Wonderland? Oz? Texas? Longford?

Thu Jul 21, 2005 04:47

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=25679

". . . I think it is a bit disingenuous to say that Oil has nothing at all to do with it . ...I mean Oil has a lot to do with it . . . oil has quite a lot to with it because as has been said . .by 2025 America will be importing 70% . . . 70% of American imports will consist of Oil . . . now the reality . . this is a vital . . a vital strategic interest and america should'nt be ashamed or afraid . . and the Bush Administration shouldn't be ashamed or afraid to admit that . . .but the mistake I think that a lot of people are making is that when you say that it's all about oil people imag . . conjure up an image of a few cigar chompin texans sitting around in Dallas style ranch houses who support George W. Bush and that they're going to be the only beneficiaries . . . The price of oil . . . and the control of the oil supply has a vital impact on the economies of all the western world . . It has a vital impact on your jobs . . . on my job . . . . . . There are supplementary reasons of course for a military adventure in Iraq . . ."

QANDA RTE 1 - Mon 27th Jan 03

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69811

"According to the current issue of Village Magazine (p17) our Minister for Defence, Willie O’Dea bought shares in an oil company operating in Iraq in 2003, and sold them ‘very recently’. The article is well worth a read, and there’s more on Liz O’Donnell and other TD’s shareholdings.

The company is named as Petrel resources, registered in Clontarf, and operating in oil exploration and production in Iraq. According to the Village, the directors of Petrel are well known to Minister O’Dea, as he provided seed capital for another of their ventures, West African Diamonds.

According to the statement of the company chairman on the Petrel website the war has been good for Petrel.
Before the shock and awe started, Petrel’s shares were trading at an all time low of 3 pence (sterling). By the end of June 2003 they had risen more then 400%
Today they are trading at 38.5p each, more than 10 times the pre-invasion price.That’s one whopping return for an investor who knew when to get in."

I bought the moustache....

Thu Jul 21, 2005 04:56

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67862

I bought the moustache....
by Willie O'Dea Friday, Dec 10 2004, 1:03am
"I'm very happy with it. Fits like a glove. A nice velvet glove... with an iron fist inside! Ha ha ha ha har har har."

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