"just because something might be illegal, doesn't make it unethical. In fact sometimes ethics would dictate that individuals should break the law

Thanks for putting my worldview succinctly into a single sentence.
Post of the year!

Could-a been the whisky, might-a been the gin.
Could-a been the three or four six packs, I don't know, But won't you look at the mess I'm in?
A head like a football, I think I'm going to die.
But tell me, a-me oh, me oh my,
Wasn't that a Party?

Someone took a grapefruit, wore it like a hat.
I saw someone under my kitchen table, talking to an old tomcat. They were talking about football. The cat was talking back,
Along about then everything went black.
Wasn't that a party

It sure it's just my memory, Playing tricks on me, but I believe I saw my buddy, Sittin' up in my neighbours tree.

He was singin' a folk song; Sounded pretty good. Woulda sounded better if his wife hadn't made such a racket Choppin' up my neighbor's wood. It coulda been his wood pile.
It mighta been his door.
I know she musta got three or four,
But wasn't that a party?

Bill, and Joe and Tommy, Went a little far.
They were sitting in the front yard, Blowing on the siren, Of somebody's police car.

And so you see, Your Honour,
It was all in fun. That little bitty track meet down on main street, Was just to see if the cops could run. Well they run us down to see you, In an alcoholic haze,
And I sure can use those thirty days.
But wasn't that a party?

Damn, sounds like a fun time.

Great post in the "Senator liken soldiers to nazis" thread.

Good job yourself today with all the cows
like better mild support for terrorism goes
to sleep "NEWS?" item at SG.

I just took my shot right to the door.
Not strange, actually, from the man from Ennis,
great friends all, P J Curtis, and and a bunch,
Eddie Stack, my ancestral home and heart not
very far from there. Old Matt Molloy, those many
years.

Drago

Hey, man, long time no talk. Just thought I'd let you know that I'm going to be participating in SWAP Ireland in November, and was planning on travelling around, but my work visa will only be good for the Republic. I'm not sure where you live or haunt, but it's not like I'm going to stay in dublin the entire time, plus I have a friend in England I'm planning to visit anyway. Give me a shout and maybe we can meet.

Akrasia,

Here's the rundown: my friend Annalise and I will be landing in Dublin on the 8th of November. After that it's pretty much my call, and we don't leave til June, at least that's the plan. I will let you know of my plans in more details once I know, but that may not be until I get to ireland.

Ireland seems interesting right now...

...the protestants throwing petrol bombs, and using live ammo agains the cops.

what's the story, your over their?

the jist of your comment is kind of what I gathered from all of it. but thank you for the depth. i kind of figured it was rightwing.

oh sorry Monastrell, I only just noticed your comment about the 9/11 thread.

To be honest, I hadn't been paying much attention to it because it was started by albion and started off only mentioning the obviously stupid conspiracies and ignoring the real genuine questions about what could have really happened.

I have largely stayed away from this discussion because my knowledge of engineering is limited enough to mean that I would have to rely on trusting the information people give me without the ability to properly test it myself, But a lot of what you were saying in the later pages do seem to make good sense if your sources are accurate