1871 President of the French Republic flees to Versailles as rebel Commundards declare the Paris Commune for a "democratic and social republic"
10:10To estimate the weight of your skin, divide your weight by 16.
16:21
Dear Mammy,
Hope you and Daddy are keepin' well and the priest is not still taking too long with the sermons in mass. Did you have a nice St. Pats? Everything here in Dublin is grand. I have a nice job and nice friends and I have a lovely girlfriend, Jenny, who I'll bring home at Christmas (if we last that long) to meet you all for a few days and see the farm.
I hope you're finding it all right with the little expresso coffee maker I brought you the last time. I know you've gotten to like coffee in the past few years and you never used to like it only the tay. Anyway, if you need any help, I can ring you one of the days.
I've got my new one as I said to you when I gave you my old one, and right now I have it so that I crack the coffee beans myself in a grinder, pack it into the expresso maker filled with Evian, put it on low heat, put on a bit of Omega-3 semi skimmed milk in the microwave to heat it up for a few seconds, froth the milk with a battery-powered frother and it tastes lovely, mammy, lovely!
I'm in a good place with coffee right now.
All the best, I'll email you again next week. Love from the city, hi to daddy and love to the dogs,
Mick
16:45
Traditional St. Paddy's day riot-cum-parade:
A total of 17 people were arrested yesterday during disturbances in Finglas, Dublin. Seven cars were burned out, in violence involving up to 200 people. It is understood alcohol-related trouble started early and culminated with motorists being dragged from their cars by youths.18:29
Every grain of sand:
NEW YORK - Athletes who take human growth hormone may not be getting the boost they expected. While growth hormone adds some muscle, it doesn't appear to improve strength or exercise capacity, according to a review of studies that tested the hormone in mostly athletic young men.- All the effort of lies to parents and fake autopsy reports, surreptitious surgery and everything wasted, youths are just wasted on the youth.
18:32
Anyone who tells you it's for research is lying and anybody not telling you it's not for research (Minister?) is lying by omission. It's a form of cannibalism at the end of the day.
Although banned for other uses, growth hormone has been used by a variety of athletes and was cited along with steroids as one of the performance-enhancing drugs abused by baseball players in the report in December by former Senate majority leader George Mitchell. Several athletes, including Pettitte, have said they used HGH while recovering from an injury, an issue not covered in the review.17:44
"There are a lot of claims that it's this wonder drug," said Liu.
You'd have to love the smell of shite to love a horse. I love the smell of shite. But only animal shite. Horse shite, specifically. No dogs. Not their shite, anyway.
