The Heelers Diaries

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Sunday, August 12, 2018

how many nazis does it take to put in a light bulb

(or "How many Baineses does it take to completely screw a country out of its ancient respect for the sanctity of life?")

My cousin Hector ( known to scholars of my work as the Phantom of the Organ Loft for his maniacal playing in Kilcullen church) sailed up Main Street, his beige gaberdine cloak billowing dramatically behind him.
Spotting me he hove about and dropped anchor.
"Maisie Baines gave your Uncle some shellacking in the Bridge magazine last week," he opined. "Did you read it?"
My face was a study.
"I am familiar with the works of the great Baines," I said which was a cautious enough response by my usual standards.
Some background for you gentle readers.
Hector's obscure hail arose because one of my Uncles had written an article in the Bridge magazine, about the slew of constant media interviews featuring former residents of Catholic Church run orphanages slandering the Church for the supposedly poor standard of care it had given them at a time when no one else in Ireland gave a toss about such people. The Uncle had posed the question as to how many of the human beings soon to be aborted following the recent referendum to legalise the killing of unborn children in Ireland would be in a position in forty years time to complain about their treatment.
Maisie Baines wrote a reply the following month, criticising the Uncle for his tone or lack thereof and expressing dismay about his article on every conceivable ground.
The only thing she ignored was the whole point of the article, ie the question at the end.
Back to Main Street.
Me n Hector n the cloak billowing.
"It was a shellacking," crowed Hector with a good deal more relish than was required.
"But what did you think of the points raised?" I ventured still quite cautious.
"It was a shellacking," grinned Hector again and I realised this was as much as I would get from him.
He saluted jauntily, upped anchor and set off into the evening.
For some reason Turner's Fighting Temeraire flashed into my mind.
I watched him go.
The answer to the question at the end of the Uncle's article, to wit how many people being aborted today because of the referendum on abortion championed by Maisie Baines and her ilk, will be around in forty years time to complain about the way they were treated, is of course none of them. because they will all have been murdered by Maisie Baines and her ilk who have just voted by referendum to legalise their slaughter.

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