Hello world!
Sorry it has been three weeks since I left the States and have yet to email/post any personal updates. Gosh. This has just been a crazy trip into a new adventure, but I am constantly being blessed and loving it.
For those of you who do not know, here are some fun facts:
- I graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2007, with a BA in Theology
- After graduation, I returned home to work as a Contract Engineer, which lasted two years.
- In June 2009 I became the first american to be accepted into the Public Affairs and Political Communication Master's Program at DIT in Dublin, Ireland.
- On September 7th, 2009, I arrived in Dublin and so the adventure began....
I am living in Dublin and loving it. It was a bit of a rough transition, but I have recovered and am loving it. It was stressful to find housing in a good area, at a decent price, but I was able to find a beautiful flat in Dublin for my roommates and I. I am living with a friend from my home Parish in Michigan for the year, as well as a French girl who was a friend of a friend. God is good.
Since arriving in Dublin, I have been involved in a campaign against the upcoming Lisbon Treaty vote in Ireland (which takes place Friday Oct 2nd). I spent the past few weeks canvassing door to door and also doing street sessions in the Dublin City Center (passing out leaflets to walkers-by and talking to them about the Treaty). God is blessing that work and I am praying for the Irish people, that they protect their democratic rights in the vote on Friday!!! Please keep the Irish people in your prayers!
Public Affairs and Political Communication: Ahhh! I am loving the program! I am only less than a week in and am a bit obsessed! I have always loved a great debate, but rarely find the opportunity to debate anymore. It seems to be because most people don't know how to debate, nor do they enjoy debating. But... in this program, there are constant debates breaking out in class, outside of class, and everywhere else! It is awesome!!! Obviously, the fact that I haven't grown up in Ireland could be seen as a negative in a course that studies Irish politics mainly, and American/UK politics secondarily, but I am turning it into a positive. I figure that if I can debate Irish people on Irish politics, I can debate anyone on any things. The Irish have been known to be fighters and great debaters and here I am debating them (outside of my comfort zone) on their policies. I have also been able to bring alot of interesting comparisons from America, which I think the course administrators are loving.
Here are some things that are on my itinerary for the week:
- Internship assignment. I will be assigned a Senator here, with whom I will intern with for the whole year. I met with the Chair of my department and have a good idea of who I want to be placed with, but I will wait until I find out and then I will post some info on the Senator that I've been placed with.
- Tonight I am attending a debate at UCD here in Dublin on the Lisbon Treaty. I am really excited and it should be a great debate. My friend Kati is going with me, as well as some of the members of Youth Defence.
- Debate on Friday: I am Debating another team in my course on Friday, on the NO side of the Lisbon Treaty. I will post some notes on my findings once it's over (and possibly the video of it), but I don't want to squeal the interesting points I'll be making just yet.
- Friday is also the Lisbon Treaty voting day and Saturday is the Count. I will be doing more No to Lisbon work throughout the week and then meeting up with the group on Saturday to find out the results. Pray for Ireland!!!
Just havin' a Laugh.... Here is a funny story to leave you with.
The first day that we had moved into the flat, we couldn't get the door of our flat opened. I had seen a few guys going to the upstairs flat and I was convinced that they were pulling some prank on us and jammed the door. Gah! So, I knocked on their door and asked one of the lads to open the door. Of course, the door opened right away for him and we looked like total eejits!!! Haha! The best part of the story is, because of our interaction with them, they realized we had american accents. That night they returned from the pub and serenaded us (outside of our door) until 2am, singing 'American Woman' (by Lenny Kravitz). Gosh! It was hilarious! We have since met them and found them to be quite upstanding Irish lads, but we did have a hilarious introduction.
God bless you all. Know that you are all in my prayers. I will write more later, but I wanted to write a bit of an update while I was thinking about it.
xoxo
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
B.L.O.G.
Hello everyone!
Previously, my blog has been mostly covering articles that I found interesting or things going on in the world. Although I will still be posting things of that nature, I have decided to also add a bit of personal updates/information as well. I hope you will find this interesting, but since I am currently on a bit of a life adventure and constantly learning a great many things, this could bring another level of interest and possibly hilarity to my blog. So, here is goes.
Previously, my blog has been mostly covering articles that I found interesting or things going on in the world. Although I will still be posting things of that nature, I have decided to also add a bit of personal updates/information as well. I hope you will find this interesting, but since I am currently on a bit of a life adventure and constantly learning a great many things, this could bring another level of interest and possibly hilarity to my blog. So, here is goes.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Just a bit of silliness, really...
Ireland celebrates 250 years of Guinness
By Andrew Bushe (AFP)
DUBLIN — Ireland toasts the 250th birthday this week of Guinness, the country's unofficial national drink, as the iconic brand battles to hold its own in the global economic downturn.
The company is celebrating the decision by Arthur Guinness, the son of a land steward, to sign a 9,000-year lease on a run-down brewery in Dublin's St. James' Gate in 1759.
It was the birth of a drinks legend and the start of one of Ireland's biggest success stories: the consumption of the dark ale spread around the world and some 10 million pints are now downed every day in 150 countries.
The birthday marketing hype will peak at 17:59 pm (1659 GMT) Thursday not just in Ireland but also in New York, Lagos and Kuala Lumpur with the toast "To Arthur!" to be followed by big name concerts and gigs.
The celebrations come as Ireland is being hammered by recession and overall drink consumption is down four percent -- though Guinness says its sales held up and were "flat" last year.
Social changes are leading to more wine drinking and entertaining at home, while sales are also hit by tougher drink-driving laws, a smoking ban in public places and rising unemployment.
The Vintners Federation of Ireland (VFI), representing pubs outside Dublin, say 4,800 jobs have been lost in the last year.
Diageo, which employs 2,200 people in Ireland, says that as a result of the economic downturn a 670 million-euro (990 million-dollar) restructuring plan announced last year is "under review".
Arthur Guinness, who married an heiress and had 21 children, originally used a 100-pound inheritance from his godfather, an archbishop, to get into the brewing business in Leixlip, just outside Dublin, before moving to the capital.
Having a job with "Uncle Arthur", as the firm was known in Ireland, came to mean security, a two pints a day free beer allowance, staff picnics and company health care and sports facilities, including a sports field and swimming pool.
Now owned by the Diageo drinks company since a merger in 1997, the Guinness family only retains a small shareholding.
"It is ironic that as it has become less and less owned by an Irish family, it identifies itself more and more as a feature of what it means to be Irish," said Tanya Cassidy, a sociologist at the National University of Ireland.
The "black stuff" is now firmly entangled in the stereotype of boozy Irishness, a love of pubs, a huge capacity for pints and always being ready for a bit of craic (a party).
Like the shamrock, the traditional Guinness harp is inextricably linked to the Emerald Isle and is both the company's trademark and a national emblem.
Visitors regard the Guinness "experience" as symbolic of the country.
The company's Storehouse visitor centre in Dublin -- with its top-floor 360-degree bar and free pint included in the 15 euro entrance fee -- attracts over a million visitors a year making it the country's top tourist attraction.
Cassidy is researching how drinking is linked to Irish culture and creativity, from writer Brendan Behan to film star Colin Farrell.
"It was understood that you could be drunk and Irish and creative. That link to a notion of creativity is not just Irish, but we seem to have made it an art form," Cassidy told AFP.
The original boozy Irish stereotype involved whiskey at a time when ales like Guinness were seen as a healthy alternative to spirits, says Cassidy.
The stereotype grew in the late 18th and early 19th century and was linked with working class emigrants in the US and Britain.
"One of the key employments for emigrants was to run pubs. And this was where the emigrant populations met. The general populace would see the Irish in the pub."
The boozy stereotype grew despite the fact that the Irish didn't drink as much as people in countries like France and Italy. But the arrival of the Celtic Tiger boom in the 1990s changed that.
"As we became wealthier we drank more alcohol. The reality is, we now hold our own," said Cassidy.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Fear and Loathing in Dublin - Wall Street Journal Article
Fear and Loathing in Dublin
Ireland has no reason to fear the consequences of a No vote on Lisbon.
Irish voters are due to vote again on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty in two weeks, and the campaigns for and against the accord have only just begun in earnest. The latest polls suggest that the Irish are leaning toward ratification, but the Irish government, to judge by its stridency, is taking nothing for granted.
It is a measure of the desperation of the supporters of the treaty that they have resorted to patent absurdities in their efforts to secure a Yes vote from the Irish people the second time around. Last Friday, Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan told a press conference that "a 'No' vote will signal to the rest of the world that Ireland has retreated into economic isolation." This in turn would lead to capital flight from Ireland and higher interest rates and borrowing costs for the Irish economy.
Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan is afraid of “economic isolation” if Ireland votes No to Lisbon.
It should hardly need stating that Mr. Lenihan is peddling phantom terrors to scare the Irish people into voting Yes. But in a world made skittish by last year's global credit panic, it's just possible that someone might, at least in the absence of thought, take them seriously. Preying on those fears, in fact, seems to be the chief strategy of the Yes campaign.
The truth about the Irish economy, however, is closer to the opposite of what Mr. Lenihan pretends. It is popular in Brussels to attribute Ireland's remarkable decade-long growth spurt to EU largesse. The Irish themselves know better, or ought to. Ireland sucked on the teat of EU regional aid for two and a half decades without discernible effect. By the mid-1980s, it was still a poor country by European standards, but it was also facing a budgetary and debt crisis. It was only when it started on a campaign of supply-side tax cuts slashing marginal rates along with capital gains and corporate income-tax rates that the economy took off.
The financial crisis has certainly taken its toll on Ireland, which has returned to sizable deficits and double-digit unemployment. But it faces its current difficulties from a position of economic strength that is the result of those sound decisions in the past.
The euro played its role in supercharging the Irish economy at the time, imposing sound-money discipline and bringing extortionate interest rates into line with the rest of the developed world. The euro helped in another way too: By tethering Irish prices to those in the rest of Euroland, the single currency gave multinational corporations the confidence to invest in the Republic and use it as a base from which to export to the rest of the euro zone.
But none of these accomplishments would be jeopardized by voting down the Lisbon Treaty. Ireland cannot and will not be kicked out of Euroland for voting down a treaty that, for all practical purposes, has already been rejected by the voters of France and the Netherlands, and would likely have met the same fate elsewhere if voters had been given a say.
The days of the Celtic Tiger are gone for the moment, but they have given Ireland an economic base on which to build that is in no way dependent on the benediction of Brussels bureaucrats. Quite the reverse: Brussels always treated Ireland's fantastically successful tax policies with rank suspicion, accusing it throughout its boom years of "tax dumping" and "unfair tax competition." There are plenty of governments on the Continent, not least France's, that would love to rein in Ireland's ability to attract investment through supply-side tax policy. Handing Brussels greater potential power to influence Irish tax policy would be tantamount to surrendering the keys to Irish prosperity to Brussels for all time.
As for Irish interest rates, those are now set in Frankfurt, and Ireland has benefited from the arrangement. But no sane businessman is going to mistake a No vote on Lisbon with a decision to pull out of Europe or the euro. That kind of apocalyptic talk is symptomatic of the great plague of what passes for European politics: the strident declarations that you are either with us or against us. In Europe today , it sometimes seems that no possibility of a loyal opposition is countenanced.
***
It is up to the people of Ireland to decide for themselves how to vote come Oct. 2. We will not join the chorus of those who claim to know what's best for them. But it is regrettable that they are, once more, being forced to vote again, as if their first answer has been disallowed.
It should never have come to this at all. When they do vote in two weeks, however, we hope that vote is an informed one, and not based on unfounded fear-mongering or dark threats. To that end, we will be publishing excerpts from the Lisbon Treaty on these pages over the next two weeks. The first of these appears below. We apologize in advance if some of them are incomprehensible, but we urge you to direct any correspondence on that subject to the treaty's authors.
Wall Street Journal
Ireland has no reason to fear the consequences of a No vote on Lisbon.
Irish voters are due to vote again on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty in two weeks, and the campaigns for and against the accord have only just begun in earnest. The latest polls suggest that the Irish are leaning toward ratification, but the Irish government, to judge by its stridency, is taking nothing for granted.
It is a measure of the desperation of the supporters of the treaty that they have resorted to patent absurdities in their efforts to secure a Yes vote from the Irish people the second time around. Last Friday, Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan told a press conference that "a 'No' vote will signal to the rest of the world that Ireland has retreated into economic isolation." This in turn would lead to capital flight from Ireland and higher interest rates and borrowing costs for the Irish economy.
Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan is afraid of “economic isolation” if Ireland votes No to Lisbon.
It should hardly need stating that Mr. Lenihan is peddling phantom terrors to scare the Irish people into voting Yes. But in a world made skittish by last year's global credit panic, it's just possible that someone might, at least in the absence of thought, take them seriously. Preying on those fears, in fact, seems to be the chief strategy of the Yes campaign.
The truth about the Irish economy, however, is closer to the opposite of what Mr. Lenihan pretends. It is popular in Brussels to attribute Ireland's remarkable decade-long growth spurt to EU largesse. The Irish themselves know better, or ought to. Ireland sucked on the teat of EU regional aid for two and a half decades without discernible effect. By the mid-1980s, it was still a poor country by European standards, but it was also facing a budgetary and debt crisis. It was only when it started on a campaign of supply-side tax cuts slashing marginal rates along with capital gains and corporate income-tax rates that the economy took off.
The financial crisis has certainly taken its toll on Ireland, which has returned to sizable deficits and double-digit unemployment. But it faces its current difficulties from a position of economic strength that is the result of those sound decisions in the past.
The euro played its role in supercharging the Irish economy at the time, imposing sound-money discipline and bringing extortionate interest rates into line with the rest of the developed world. The euro helped in another way too: By tethering Irish prices to those in the rest of Euroland, the single currency gave multinational corporations the confidence to invest in the Republic and use it as a base from which to export to the rest of the euro zone.
But none of these accomplishments would be jeopardized by voting down the Lisbon Treaty. Ireland cannot and will not be kicked out of Euroland for voting down a treaty that, for all practical purposes, has already been rejected by the voters of France and the Netherlands, and would likely have met the same fate elsewhere if voters had been given a say.
The days of the Celtic Tiger are gone for the moment, but they have given Ireland an economic base on which to build that is in no way dependent on the benediction of Brussels bureaucrats. Quite the reverse: Brussels always treated Ireland's fantastically successful tax policies with rank suspicion, accusing it throughout its boom years of "tax dumping" and "unfair tax competition." There are plenty of governments on the Continent, not least France's, that would love to rein in Ireland's ability to attract investment through supply-side tax policy. Handing Brussels greater potential power to influence Irish tax policy would be tantamount to surrendering the keys to Irish prosperity to Brussels for all time.
As for Irish interest rates, those are now set in Frankfurt, and Ireland has benefited from the arrangement. But no sane businessman is going to mistake a No vote on Lisbon with a decision to pull out of Europe or the euro. That kind of apocalyptic talk is symptomatic of the great plague of what passes for European politics: the strident declarations that you are either with us or against us. In Europe today , it sometimes seems that no possibility of a loyal opposition is countenanced.
***
It is up to the people of Ireland to decide for themselves how to vote come Oct. 2. We will not join the chorus of those who claim to know what's best for them. But it is regrettable that they are, once more, being forced to vote again, as if their first answer has been disallowed.
It should never have come to this at all. When they do vote in two weeks, however, we hope that vote is an informed one, and not based on unfounded fear-mongering or dark threats. To that end, we will be publishing excerpts from the Lisbon Treaty on these pages over the next two weeks. The first of these appears below. We apologize in advance if some of them are incomprehensible, but we urge you to direct any correspondence on that subject to the treaty's authors.
Wall Street Journal
Monday, September 21, 2009
Women on Waves *celebrates* 10th anniversary...
... I mourn for all of the innocent lives that have been taken through their 10 years of activity.
I am currently sitting in a Country where abortion is illegal. What a beautiful place it is. I am currently in Dublin, Ireland, and I can honestly say that I have never seen more children, families, and pregnant women, in my life. In the States, abortion has become so widely accepted, that is almost seems a rarity to see pregnant women and young families. But, here in Ireland, it's weird when you walk 2 minutes and don't see a pregnant woman or a parent pushing a stroller. Erin Go Bragh!
Even though abortion is illegal here in Ireland (and a few other places in the world) there was a group called Women on Waves that would still provide abortions to women in this Country. They would take a boat into the countries where abortion was illegal, pick women up and take them into international waters for the actual abortion- calling these "abortion ships". Now, after 10 years, they have been facing some legal issues and have been grounded, as they *celebrate* their 10th Anniversary. I hope this trickery of theirs comes to an end. Abortion is illegal here for a reason; because the Irish people understand simple human rights and do not want the blood of abortion on their hands. Keep abortion out of Ireland, all throughout the world, and off of these ships!!! Erin Go Bragh!!!
Read the Full Article Here.
***Note the hilarious comment by MDWhite at the bottom of the article. :)
I am currently sitting in a Country where abortion is illegal. What a beautiful place it is. I am currently in Dublin, Ireland, and I can honestly say that I have never seen more children, families, and pregnant women, in my life. In the States, abortion has become so widely accepted, that is almost seems a rarity to see pregnant women and young families. But, here in Ireland, it's weird when you walk 2 minutes and don't see a pregnant woman or a parent pushing a stroller. Erin Go Bragh!
Even though abortion is illegal here in Ireland (and a few other places in the world) there was a group called Women on Waves that would still provide abortions to women in this Country. They would take a boat into the countries where abortion was illegal, pick women up and take them into international waters for the actual abortion- calling these "abortion ships". Now, after 10 years, they have been facing some legal issues and have been grounded, as they *celebrate* their 10th Anniversary. I hope this trickery of theirs comes to an end. Abortion is illegal here for a reason; because the Irish people understand simple human rights and do not want the blood of abortion on their hands. Keep abortion out of Ireland, all throughout the world, and off of these ships!!! Erin Go Bragh!!!
Read the Full Article Here.
***Note the hilarious comment by MDWhite at the bottom of the article. :)
Disturbing Abortion Clinic in Rockford, Illinois
Throughout my involvement in the pro-life movement, I have visited this clinic in Rockford, IL, numerous times.
This building was built for a school and now has become an abortion clinic. To know that children used to play here and now they are murdered here, is disturbing. Here is a video that shows how disgusting the pro-aborts have become...
Watch the Rockford, IL Clinic Video
This building was built for a school and now has become an abortion clinic. To know that children used to play here and now they are murdered here, is disturbing. Here is a video that shows how disgusting the pro-aborts have become...
Watch the Rockford, IL Clinic Video
Do You Trust Gardasil to Save Lives?
Gardasil Causes 400 Percent More Deaths than Other Common Vaccine
"A federal report has concluded that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine
Gardasil has a 400 percent higher rate of adverse effects than another
comparable vaccine, the Menactra anti-meningitis shot.
'It is unusual for there to be such a big discrepancy between two vaccines
used in similar populations involving serious and relatively rare life
threatening adverse events and autoimmune disorders,' the researchers from the
federal Vaccine Events Reporting System wrote.
Gardasil, marketed by Merck, prevents againt the strains of HPV believed to be responsible
for 70 percent of cervical cancer cases and 90 percent of
genital warts cases. GlaxoSmithKline's competing Cervarix vaccine protects
against the same cervical cancer-causing strains.
The researchers considered Gardasil and Menactra
equivalent for the purposes of comparison because they are given to similar age
groups at similar frequencies. Their study concluded that Gardasil was
associated with twice as many emergency room visits, four times as many deaths,
four times as many heart
attacks, seven times as many "disabled" reports and 15 times as many
strokes. All reported cases of blood clots and heart attacks associated with
Gardasil occurred when the vaccine was given alone, not in conjunction with
other drugs.
'Fainting, which has been attributed by doctors and health officials as
'fear' of needles in teenage girls, is reported six times as often ... after
receipt of Gardasil than Menactra even though Menactra is also given to girls in
the same age group,' the researchers noted.
The report recommends that the government more thoroughly investigate
reports of dangerous side effects from the HPV vaccine, that research be
conducted into mechanisms by which the vaccine might cause these effects, and
that patients and parents be more adequately warned of the risks before
vaccination. It also recommends that Congress investigate how the vaccine was
fast-tracked for approval in the absence of safety data on girls younger than
17."
Doubts Continue to be Raised Regarding the Effects of the Lisbon Treaty on Abortion and Euthanasia
"Philosopher Fr Brendan Purcell still has misgivings about the potential
impact of the Lisbon Treaty concerning abortion, experiments on human embryos
and euthanasia, if the Irish people ratify it on October 2.
Stressing that he was pro-Europe and had voted “yes” in several previous
European referenda, the scholar pointed to the Charter of Fundamental Rights,
which is part of the Lisbon Treaty, and how the European Court of Justice might
interpret the Charter, as grounds for concern."
Read the Full story and listen to the RTE news broadcast here.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Will Obamacare cover Abortions?!?!
A huge question on the minds of every pro-lifer in the United States is, 'Will my tax-dollars be funding abortions through the new Healthcare plan?'
Check out this video with Americans United for Life 's, Charmaine Yoest, after she met with President Obama's top officials to discuss the specifics of the Healthcare bill and abortion.
VIDEO
Check out this video with Americans United for Life 's, Charmaine Yoest, after she met with President Obama's top officials to discuss the specifics of the Healthcare bill and abortion.
VIDEO
Friday, September 18, 2009
How the Irish Can Save Civilization (again)
Two weeks from today, the people of Ireland will vote either 'Yes' or 'No' on the Lisbon Treaty.
Declan Ganley, Irish entreprenuer, businessman, and political activist, was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal. He is hugely against the Lisbon Treaty and offers great insight into the effects of the this vote and the need for all to understand the tremendous weight this vote has.
Declan Ganley, Irish entreprenuer, businessman, and political activist, was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal. He is hugely against the Lisbon Treaty and offers great insight into the effects of the this vote and the need for all to understand the tremendous weight this vote has.
'In 2005, France and the Netherlands each rejected the proposed EU Constitution in referendums. Lisbon, Mr. Ganley contends, "is the same treaty." What is the evidence for that? "Well, first of all, the people who drafted the European Constitution say it is. Like [former French President Valéry] Giscard d'Estaing. He called it the same document in a different envelope. And having chaired the presidium that drafted the Constitution, he would know." There's more. "He also said in respect of the Lisbon Treaty that public opinion would be led to adopt, without knowing it, policies that we would never dare to present to them directly. All of the earlier proposals for the new Constitution will be in the new text, the Lisbon Treaty, but will be hidden or disguised in some way. That's what he said. And he's absolutely right. There is no law that could be made under the European Constitution that cannot be made under the Lisbon Treaty. None." '
Read the Full Article.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Powerful Video by Stand True Ministries
On Tuesday October 22nd, 2009, students from thousands of schools across America will participate in a pro-life day of silent solidarity.
Will you stand up?
Video
Will you stand up?
Video
No to Lisbon Videos
Here are two 'No' to Lisbon videos done by a group called Coir.
Definitely take a few moments to view the videos because they are both entertaining and very informative.
See them Here!
Thank you for your patience as I sorted the issue of FB and YouTube not allowing them to post.
Definitely take a few moments to view the videos because they are both entertaining and very informative.
See them Here!
Thank you for your patience as I sorted the issue of FB and YouTube not allowing them to post.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Further information on the ongoing fight against the Lisbon Treaty
As many of you know, this is a historic time for Ireland.
In June 2008, Ireland voted 'No' against the Lisbon Treaty.
Now, it's up for Vote again on October 2nd, 2009.
3 weeks and counting...
If you'd like more information regarding the Lisbon Treaty and why a 'No' vote is so important, read more here.
In June 2008, Ireland voted 'No' against the Lisbon Treaty.
Now, it's up for Vote again on October 2nd, 2009.
3 weeks and counting...
If you'd like more information regarding the Lisbon Treaty and why a 'No' vote is so important, read more here.
Facebook is taking my Rights away...
So, I'd say that FB is taking my First ammendment rights away, but since I am currently living in Ireland- maybe that's not the case. I still think as a human person, I have the right to my own opinion and as long as it's not disturbing or distasteful, I should be able to speak out on anything that I like.
This morning I tried to post a No to Lisbon music video and Facebook wouldn't allow me to post it as my 'status'. Apparently, a few people reported it as 'abusive content' and therefore I am not allowed to post it as my status. Gah! Facebook should come with it's own dictionary, because obviously some people have no idea what the definition of the word 'abusive' is.
So, for those of you who don't know:
a⋅bu⋅sive –adjective
1.
using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
2.
treating badly or injuriously; mistreating, esp. physically: his abusive handling of the horse.
3.
wrongly used; corrupt: an abusive exercise of power.
(Further definitions)
*Drum Roll Please*
Here is the 'abusive' video... I'd love to hear your thoughts.
*** Update: Sorry the video was removed from YouTube and banned from FB... I will post it above in a new post. Thanks.
This morning I tried to post a No to Lisbon music video and Facebook wouldn't allow me to post it as my 'status'. Apparently, a few people reported it as 'abusive content' and therefore I am not allowed to post it as my status. Gah! Facebook should come with it's own dictionary, because obviously some people have no idea what the definition of the word 'abusive' is.
So, for those of you who don't know:
a⋅bu⋅sive –adjective
1.
using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
2.
treating badly or injuriously; mistreating, esp. physically: his abusive handling of the horse.
3.
wrongly used; corrupt: an abusive exercise of power.
(Further definitions)
*Drum Roll Please*
Here is the 'abusive' video... I'd love to hear your thoughts.
*** Update: Sorry the video was removed from YouTube and banned from FB... I will post it above in a new post. Thanks.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Ireland... The battle for freedom continues.
Dia Dhuit ('hello' or 'God be with you' in Irish)!
To those of you who know me well will know that I have just moved myself to Dublin, Ireland. I am the first American to be accepted into the MA in Public Affairs and Political Communications program at the Dublin Institute of Technology. I will also have an internship with Parliment during my stay here, which is also very exciting. I am extremely excited to have this opportunity and am honored to be representing the United States.
I intend to post little tidbits of the culture here and things that I am experiencing in my day-to-day routine. As well as interesting discussions and information that comes up in my classes, my internship, and in everyday living here in Europe.
Thank you so much for reading and once I get settled here, I will be more persistant in my postings.
To those of you who know me well will know that I have just moved myself to Dublin, Ireland. I am the first American to be accepted into the MA in Public Affairs and Political Communications program at the Dublin Institute of Technology. I will also have an internship with Parliment during my stay here, which is also very exciting. I am extremely excited to have this opportunity and am honored to be representing the United States.
I intend to post little tidbits of the culture here and things that I am experiencing in my day-to-day routine. As well as interesting discussions and information that comes up in my classes, my internship, and in everyday living here in Europe.
Thank you so much for reading and once I get settled here, I will be more persistant in my postings.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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