Expert called in amid fears for O' Connell Bridge

Sunday, 31 August 2008

Concerns are being expressed about the future of Dublin's O'Connell Bridge.

An independent expert has been called in to examine the landmark over fears it is falling apart because of global warming.

Dublin City Council insists the bridge is structurally sound after routine repairs last week.

The National Conservation and Heritage Group believe higher tides caused by climate change are eroding the bridge's structure and may have dangerously weakened its foundations.

That's the entire text of the article. It's hard to just quote part of it without posting a vast majority.

So this is what passes for journalism in Ireland? All I see is a fear mongering, gratuitous statement without corroboration.

Who's the "expert"? Where is a link to a study showing significantly rising tides?

This is really all there is to the "Climate Change" hype, no substance, only fear mongering and money-making.

I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat. I'm not affiliated with any political party.

But when it comes to moral proselytizing, the Republicans and their media apologists really take the cake with stupidity and hypocrisy.

Case in Point: Republican Vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

Palin and Republicans in general deem it necessary to tell you what you can and cannot do sexually. They rail against abortion, even in the case of rape or maternal health issues. They tell us homosexuals are the root of all evil. And of course they think teen pregnancy is a bad thing, since it basically means sex out of wedlock.

So, perhaps a Republican can tell me why Sarah Palin is a good role model with a pregnant teen daughter? The daughter in question is 17 and about to have her baby. So there's a good chance she actually had sex when she was 16, maybe even before that. And where's her husband? Is she not married? You mean the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee will have a bastard grandchild?? How can this be?

Now, I know John McCain didn't used to be your average Repub, but recently he's been leaning further and further right, especially with his endorsement of Falwell's Liberty University, a bane of rational thought everywhere. And of course his irrational support for a failed policy in Iraq. But he had to know that choosing a running mate with such obvious "moral" skeletons in her closet would be a detriment. I guess his judgement has lapsed in recent years, to say the least.

And the media apologists, O'Reilly in particular. He'll call other people pinheads when their teens get pregnant, but when it's a Republican, oh, they're just picking on them because they're Republicans, riiiight. O'Reilly is one of the biggest pinheads in existence, right up there with Limbaugh and Olbermann (on the other side of the fence).

It will be interesting to see how much support McCain/Palin gets from the religious idiots out there. Will they be hypocrites too? Well, we already know the answer to that one, don't we.

Idiots

Revenant