We like a bit of underground here at the rabble dungeon but we’d no idea about this until we slid across it this morning on t’internet. It seems the yanks abandoned a CERN-like super collider only after pumping $2bn into the ground in Texas. After building 14 miles of tunnels the projected expenditure was topping out at $12bn and the govt. pulled the plug, deciding instead to invest in … Read More
Lern too right gud
No doubt many of you rabble are awaiting acceptance letters from City Colleges, having jumped at the opportunity to study Journalism under the cultured hand of John Waters.
We will marry your boyfriends
A new video from the Unsolicited Project pokes fun at women voters in the USA whose states haven’t approved gay marriage. “We Will Marry Your Boyfriends”
Life on the Edge
The Premier League’s favourite Spanish manager, Rafa ‘Fact’ Benitez, arrived at Chelsea to tumultuous applause. Applause that his for Di Matteo his predecessor, while fans held signs ‘Rafa Out’ just 15 minutes into his tenure. Now thanks to this site you can check if Rafa has been fired yet. It joins a host of sites that monitor the lives or careers of celebrities to war criminals Perhaps the most … Read More
Expert Group Report on Abortion
The expert group charged with reporting on the abortion issue in Ireland has returned it’s findings. Read them below. Clare Daly, who has led the rallying cry for legislation and change says ‘The expert group says we must provide for life-saving abortions where suicide is affected. So really the personal opinions of Fine Gael TDs shouldn’t really come into it.”
OutFoxed
We love it when FOX ‘News’ gets bitten by one of it’s contributors. Here’s a classic, Thomas Ricks a respected military historian declares that ‘this network was operating as a wing of the Republican Party’. Nice.
Indoctrination. Have you had yours?
A hot Reddit post today asks ‘is the Pledge a harmless affirmation of patriotism or a daily dosage of propaganda?’ An American studying for a Master’s degree in Ireland asks the question following her recital of the Pledge in front of her new classmates. ‘Littlespark88’ goes on – I’m getting my master’s degree at a university here (Ireland), and was completely startled by a lecturer’s comments about the daily American pledge. … Read More
Gombeen #5: Dermot Desmond
Out there among the clusterfucks of wholesale financial “products”, Desmond broods over his €1.35 billion fortune and laughs in the face
of the now deceased “Robin Hood Tax” which Consigliere Noonan sorted out recently, ensuring speculative behaviour on the markets will not be be reasonably taxed.. No! That cold, hard cash has to come from Household Charges, Water Taxes and Civil Service Pensions.
A Mix For Mongos
We had the pleasure of having Fran Hartnett down to play at one of our parish fundraisers nearly a year ago. Sweatbox. That is all need to say. The more miscreant among you might be familiar with Mongo. A regular all dayer event that pops up on Bank Holiday weekends. The past wee while has seen it take over the Grand Social. To get around our obnoxious licensing laws it … Read More
UN concerned for Shell protestors
“credible reports indicating the existence of a pattern of criminalization of what has mostly been a peaceful protest movement, including acts of non-compliance and passive resistance”, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Margaret Sekaggya