london days part deux

Still London.
Sitting in the library at Charing Cross.
The homeless girl in the corner has just shot me a smile.
She's the most beautiful girl in the place.
A veritable ingenue.
If you were casting a play or a film she'd be the one.
The hardship of her lifestyle is plain to see.
Her clothes fairly ragged.
Her house lying beside her.
That is to say everything she owns in the world is stowed in a carrier bag at her feet.
But nothing diminishes her inner light.
Her eyes are pure soul.
I will never know her story.
I wander outside.
Back at the hotel news comes through that the Irish government has fallen.
The Taoiseach (our prime minister) has resigned.
Bloody hell.
I can't take a few days in England without the wheels coming off the wagon in the green Republic.
Really though.
Those people can't manage without me for five minutes.
Anyway Mr Bertie Aherne has resigned and there's nothing more to be done about it.
For the record I didn't support the ongoing enquiry into his personal finances which has led to this resignation.
You don't throw away your Churchill in the middle of World War Two.
What I mean is that for the first time in 800 years, Ireland has a semblance of peace and much of it is down to Mr Aherne.
He created and sustained a personal relationship of mutual respect with the Reverend Ian Paisley leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. He enjoyed a similar rapport with David Trimble of the Official Unionist Party. He developed a relationship of mutual respect with the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair. He fostered and sustained dialogue with the terrorist leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.
My own opinion is that Bertram delivered the peace process. (By the grace of God.)
Nope I wouldn't have fired him.
The peace isn't so assured that we can throw away the main player just yet.
Anyhoo.
I'm on holiday.
Hopefully the Paddy Whacks won't make any more momentous decisions till I get back.
Got to try not to worry.
Surely there's a limit to the damage they can do without my supervision. Isn't there? How bad could it get?
I suppose if they declared an Irish political union with Iran and Syria, that would be fairly bad.
Otherwise I'm not going to worry.
I wonder where my homeless girl is tonight...

london days

London welcomed me with all the indifference she reserves for her favoured sons.
I am sitting at Trafalgar Square in warm sunshine.
A magnificent tide of humanity swirls past.
Behind me is the National Art Gallery.
Big Ben and the houses of parliament can be seen straight ahead.
The news is full of stories about the splicing of human and animal embryos.
I am sitting here at the cultural heart of the free world, the temporal and spiritual realm I once dreamed of conquering with my art, and I am shaking my head gently.
If we offend God, if he withdraws his favour from us, the barbarians will win this war.

an open letter to time magazine

Dear Time Magazine.
Last week you printed an article about Barak Hussein Obama's supposed former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
You set aside a certain section of the article to delineate Jeremiah Wright's most controversial statements.
You cited his "God damn America" speech.
You cited his "America is the United States of the KKK" speech.
You even cited his miserable and treacherous diminishment of the Nine Eleven murders when he compared the Muslim atrocities in New York to America's heroism in liberating the world from Nazi and Japanese imperialism.
But you left something out.
From your highlighted section devoted to Jeremiah Wright's most controversial remarks, you omitted any mention of Jeremiah Wright's assertion that the United States government designed the Aids virus to kill black men.
That is to say you omitted to include in your section set aside for salient quotes, the most salient quote, which was in fact Jeremiah Wright's most controversial insane psychotic and bigotted remark ever.
At least his most controversial insane psychotic and bigotted remark that we know about.
Barak Obama could no doubt cite a few more such remarks having attended Jeremiah Wright's church continuously for twenty years, having had his children baptised by him, and indeed having been married by him.
I'd say the speeches at that wedding must have been worth listening to. I'd say they reached the parts other wedding speeches seem to miss.
Hoo boy.
But I digress.
Tell me.
Why would Time Magazine omit a controversial statement like Jeremiah Wright's assertion that the United States government created the Aids virus to murder black people, from a summary of Jeremiah Wright's most controversial statements?
Who were you trying to protect?
What agenda were you seeking to advance?
I note that during the past seven years of Muslim terror, you at Time Magazine have featured an inexhaustible stream of articles attempting to discredit President Bush.
The damage you have done has been lasting, notwithstanding the fact that in the free world you have barely any readers and survive only on corporate advertising. (cf The Irish Times and Independent Newspapers in Ireland.)
Notwithstanding that fact.
Because you do have plenty of readers among Muslim terrorists.
Just as Michael Moore has plenty of viewers.
And just like Michael Moore, Time Magazine has for the past seven years, shamelessly trafficked in the worst pseudo intellectual defeatism.
You have given succour to the enemy.
We will all pay for it.
We will all pay in blown up aeroplanes, burnt out trains, and desolated cities.
Fond regards always.
James Healy