Wednesday 7 February: Nothing but shite on telly anyway

 00:00
"Baaaaa. Ugh."
Before you die of hemlock poisoning you hallucinate that you have turned into an animal of some description:

Socrates appears to have been a critic of democracy, and his trial is interpreted by some scholars to be an expression of political infighting. Socrates was in any case a scapegoat, a man who willingly or not, pays for the sins of his society with his own blood.

09:00
1962 BORN: Eddie Izzard, British comic, actor,<i> Ocean's Twelve</i> (2004)

 10.10 
Trivia: When someone dies, hearing is the last sense to go. First is sight then taste, smell and touch. 
11:15
Patsy gets an Imiricin accint when he meets a yank off the plane. I spent a summer in Atlanna once. All this shite. The texters are calling him out on his bias against the Shell protesters in Mayo. He wasn't aware of it, he says.
16:06
Good job a democracy is not run by public opinion:

And according to the MRBI poll in The Irish Times tomorrow, in the event of unilateral American action without a UN mandate, the use of Shannon is opposed by a three to one margin.

19:45

The Lord Mayor's Commission on Crime said there is a sense of intimidation in many areas of the capital due to persistent exposure to low level crime.
Residents described people vomiting on streets, drug addicts injecting in public and a lack of any visible garda presence in their areas.

20:45
Nothing but shite on telly anyway:

Gardai were called to the site of an illegal dump on the borders of Galway and Roscommon this afternoon after {An} RTE cameraman was attacked by a man and his camera was taken from him and thrown into a 10ft sludge pit.

http://bit.ly/VWlaLc 

20:47
Midget would-be dictator has to brain the animals into understanding how it "works":
The [Minister in charge of elections] has launched an advertising campaign to explain the new electronic voting system to the public.
"There's only a couple of very minor changes to your traditional form of democracy using this system, which is much faster."
20:53 
Cherish the children of the nation:

A woman who claims she was raped and sexually abused by her father from the age of six to 14 has told a jury that she thought such abuse was part of every childhood.