Tangent over, sorry.

I think Mark was closer with Bunnahabhain, but would choose Laphraoig myself.

There are probably lots of reasons why people don’t call the country Eire any more – it was suggested to me years ago by someone who knew his history that “Eire” was used by BBC commentators so they didn’t have to acknowledge the fact that we were a republic. Don’t know how true that is. And to be honest, when I lived in England nobody cared very much about where I was from except that they like my accent!

I went to college with her and like any artist, I enjoyed looking at sketchbooks from my friends. I learned not to ask what she was drawing, though she does lovely work and does do material that isn’t yaoi related.

1) You must never learn about anything that happens outside your local community, nor about anything that requires more math than it takes to balance a checkbook.

2) You must respond with threat of violence to anyone who looks or acts different from you. This rule may sometimes be relaxed if your particular upbringing exposed you to immigrants, gays, or some other normally hated group from your earliest memories.

If those two statements don’t apply to you, you aren’t a redneck. You’re just an American Worker in the Agricultural Field, and thank you for supplying me with my daily cheeseburger!

Sorry if I gave you something to google that you might have preferred not to see.

And I do feel that government should have a minimal role in education. I like the American decentralized system of education. Individual counties and towns look after their own educational needs. Unfortunately, the imperial federal government intrudes more and more into this system, making our schools absolutely horrific in academic terms.

American children are incredibly ignorant when they graduate from high school-top o’ the line when it comes to such things as self-esteem, multi-cultural propaganda, anti-drug programs, “climate change”…etc. But lamentably lacking in such esoterica as basic reading, math, geography, history, economics, critical thinking and so forth.

Keep the government out. Let the natural laws of competition between both public and private schools take place-this will solve the problem far more quickly than throwing money randomly at bureaucrats.

Eire is a republic, which comprises the majority of the land area of an island called Ireland (or occasiionally Erin); the rest being called “Northern Ireland”, and part of another nation entirely. I use the word Eire to specify that I mean the republic, and not the island. I suggest you learn more physical geography before hassling people about using a correct word as disambiguation as to their meaning!

It’s the kind of lame approach that has this country where it is today.

And yes, with things the way they are, the main party here should be referred to as Fianna FAIL on every occasion. Their election candidates for the upcoming local elections have the party logo in the small print, things are that bad. Canvassers are resorting to posting spam through the letterbox and running off in case people would throw things at them Even other parties canvassers have a rough time – they have to identify themselves quickly as not being Fianna Fáil – sometimes they barely have the chance to before getting an earful.