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Renewed Programme for Government, 10.10.09

Tags: fianna fail, green party, politics by Allan
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John O’Donoghue, get out.
You’ve brought disrepute to this non-political office you say you care so much about, and you’ve massively ripped the taxpayer off. Pay for your own races you greedy, sausage-fingered buffoon. Get the hell out of the office of Ceann Comhairle and get the hell out of Dáil Éireann.
Join the campaign to get John gone on Facebook.

Tags: John O'Donoghue, fianna fail, politics, scandal by Allan
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I did the RTE Electoral Compass to see where I stand in the US political landscape. Based on my answers I practically am Barack Obama, although apparently I’m 5% “more progressive” than him on social issues.
I’m not getting excited about this election. I hate George Bush and I think the McCai/Palin ticket is a terrifying prospect, but I think the messianic part of the Obama act is going to be a huge anti-climax for a lot of people when he turns out to be a fallible, toe-stubbing human being. And I speak from experience as someone who stayed up all night in ’97 watching the New Labour landslide as if I were watching the Return of the Jedi. Look where that got the world. Thanks Tony.

Tags: politics by Allan
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Well damn and blast it The Daily Show has blocked Irish viewers (and I assume everyone else) from watching full episodes on their website. I don’t have a television so the site was the only place I could watch it. I’ve been kicked out of the Colbert Nation too.

That’s not funny.

Tags: colbert report, comedy, daily show, intertubes, politics, satire by Allan
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Anthony Baggett, the developer of my lovely Darkwater WP theme, has had one of his themes ripped off by none other than Gordon Brown, Prime Minister.
If you look at the bottom of my blog you’ll see a link to Anthony’s website. This is part of the Creative Commons 3.0 licence, which means that under the terms of use that link has to be there whether I modify the theme or not (I have as it happens). This attribution has been removed from the No 10 site.

Anthony’s been in touch with the developers, New Media Maze, but he says “it hasn’t gone well”.

EDIT 21/08/08: The developers have responded to the allegations here.

Tags: blogging, news, politics, wordpress by Allan
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