Well, I decided to bless you all with some more of my witty writing, so, hang onto your hats ladies and gents ...here goes.

Actually, I heard a good one the other day from a friend of mine down at the local "grog shop".
He told me that the great man himself, Winston Churchill , once said something like this:"Democracy is the worse form of government there is...except for all the rest of them".
I've been thinking about that and, you know, I think he was right.
Now...I'm no great fan of your man Churchill mind you, but you got to give the devil his due, as they say. Heres what I'm sitting here thinking:
Everyone gripes and complains about their taxes and their thises and their thats but it should be duely noted that we all have the right to complain. We have the freedom to stand up and tell the politicians and the government officials what we don't like and that is a right a lot of other folks around the world would give anything to have now...isn't it?
I'm getting older..(nothing special there 'cause so is everyone else I know)...and I'm reflecting back on a lot of things that I have taken for granted in my life up till now.
I can walk out my door and go anywhere I choose to go.
I have the right to vote for whoever I want to vote for.
I have the freedom to go down to O'Connors pub whenever I want and to talk about anything I want and to whoever I want to talk to. The devil be shamed as the old folks say.
Try that in some other countries...like Iran or Burma or Saudia Arabia.
You'll get your head handed to you..or worse!
I've even heard that you better not be caught with a thirst for the grape in Saudia Arabia...they'll cut your head right off of your neck.

OK...enough of that.
Besides, I can't go down to the pub too much or my darling wife will be complaining.
She's a lovely lady but the softest part of her (sometimes) is her teeth.
Ahha now...I hope she isn't about somewhere reading this...

Anyway...God Bless the Queen...'cause nobody else here in Ireland ever will!! haha.
(An OLD joke). Thought you'd like it.

I've been saying some prayers for those men and women over in Iraq.
Its bad, isn't it?
Somebody said that there have been over 500 Americans killed so far.
There are more than a few Brits killed also and other troops from other countries also.
There have been a lot of Iraqi people killed too.
God give them all rest.

The price of freedom is always high, isn't it?

All right now...more news you might like to hear.
No one other than my own best friend told me that there was an uproar at the "SuperFootball Game" over in the States.
He said that people started taking their clothes off all over the place. And this was while it was all on the television he said!!
Haha...I got to move to Texas. See what we're all missing???

Speaking of which I put up some links to a couple of great internet sites that you might just like.
There is a link to the GAA Football site. One of my favorites!
There is a link to an organization here that is out to preserve traditional Irish music and to provide educational resources to teach the traditional music to the kids. Try that one out. You'll think its grand.
Oh...there is a few more links up there as well.
Tell them I sent you. I don't think they'll hold that against you.

Speaking of teams...do you know which team is my favorite?
Well, I'll tell you.
I'm very partial to that team of men who come out from the Guiness Brewery in Dublin and check that the local drinking establishments have their spickets and stuff "up to their demanding standards". God bless 'em. I mean it.
I make few demands in this life but I do demand that my brew has a nice full and frothy head on it.
Enough of that now I'm building up a powerful thirst all too soon and, besides my wife wants us to go to a movie show tonight.
If you're reading this dearie I didn't mean that crack about you being so hard as your teeth. You know I'll love you madly till we're pushing up the sod...

Well...I'd like to thank all of you for the time you're kind enough to spend with an old geezer like me.
I got this computer a while back and I'm hooked on this web thing.
My lovely bride (did you read that darling?) tells me not to waste my time writing all this down. She says nobody is reading this anyway.
I don't know.
Know what laddies...I don't care either.
I go around reading a lot of the blogs on here. Ahha...some of them are great reading for sure!
There is one blog written by a woman who writes poems made up of the first word of every piece of spam email she gets!!! Imagine that.
Anyway...I'd better go.

Email me if anybody out there is reading this..ok?

Slainte!