daily Justice

This is just a beautful book.

I'm still reading this book very slowly because I'm enjoying it so much I don't want it to end its by Lisa See, its just so amazing my son out to buy more books by her for me for Mother's day he went to just about every book store in Dublin city centre but they all had none in stock I wonder why?

"A language kept a secret for a thousand years forms the backdrop for an unforgettable novel of two Chinese women whose friendship and love sustains them through their lives.

This absorbing novel – with a storyline unlike anything Lisa See has written before – takes place in 19th century China when girls had their feet bound, then spent the rest of their lives in seclusion with only a single window from which to see. Illiterate and isolated, they were not expected to think, be creative, or have emotions. But in one remote county, women developed their own secret code, nu shu – "women's writing" – the only gender-based written language to have been found in the world. Some girls were paired as "old-sames" in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handkerchiefs, and composed stories, thereby reaching out of their windows to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments.

An old woman tells of her relationship with her "old-same," their arranged marriages, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood—until a terrible misunderstanding written on their secret fan threatens to tear them apart. With the detail and emotional resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha , Snow Flower and the Secret Fan delves into one of the most mysterious and treasured relationships of all time—female friendship."

See this button?
Yeah, you do, don't you? Sorta tempting to push the button, isn't it? Yeah, it is... Kinda feeling that if you pushed this button something interesting might happen, huh? Yeah... it might. Don't wanna just leave this button here all alone, unpushed, when you know that lots of others before have pushed it and they're doing OK now, aren't they? Oh, for crying out loud, JUST PUSH THE BUTTON!!! Especially if you have... a PC! (diabolical laughter!)

Eircom,eircom,eircom......
What the hell is going on its over three weeks now since my broadband splitter broke and when I rang for a new one I was told from a very convincing Technical support who I might add charges 33cent a minute, however I was told that it would be in the post straight away and would be out to me by Wednesday this was Saturday evening,so role on Wednesday but no it was too good to be true by Thursday I rang again and spoke to another tech person and he said no call was logged on Saturday so he ordered a splitter again for me this time it would be out by Tuesday so I waited Tuesday came and went I rang its on the way they said I waited and I rang its on the way they said and still I wait and wait and wait and then I got a letter to say my trial period is over it's not going to cost me 29.99euro a month but 39.99euro let me say that again yes 39.99euro a month what trial period nobody told me about a trial period and then last week I got a call from smart telecom to say they would charge me 35.00euro a month all in no line rental eircom charge 39.96euro every two months or more let one and a half months my bill with eircom this month cost me 89.54euro before I made a phone call the next bill will be 20.00euro more, because the smart deal is so good I thought I will go with them but I have to wait, why lois I hear you ask why do I have to wait BECAUSE I have to wait until my six months with eircom run out then I have to get an unblocking code then I have to disconnect from eircom for over three weeks....So I'm caught in the eircom trap and I'm still waiting for my spiltter and still I ring and still they tell me its on the way so for now when I'm on the internet I have to disconnect the phone and when I need to make a phone call mainly to rang about one missing spiltter I have to disconnect the broadband and its all going to cost me more euro do you think thats why they do it to make money .........they wouldn't not eircom......would they.

Who would have thought that this little black box would not only bring so much joy to my husband life it would also bring joy to mine,little did I think when I bought this for him that I too would learn to love it the way he loves it now I get to watch what I like when I like and in peace so play away husdand play away

AND when you master HALO I think a 360 maybe just around the Conner

LOST the thesaurus years............

departed

misplaced disappeared

feck off (my own)

gone finished washed up over get over

mislaid

missing astray

absent never coming back

dead

vanished

nowhere to be found

My daughter is a kind soul,has a good heart,and I'm not just saying this because she is my daughter,she has this lovely niceness that shines through when you meet her,she's always thinking about other people, making sure the other girls in her class are feeling good and giving them hugs when they need one, she makes sure that nobody is left out of games, she just is nice,she looks out for me, and god help the person who ever dared put me down. I love that she like this I love that she cares.And she looks for nothing in return its just who she is,
However last Friday she came home from school, now on this day they held a cake sale so she bought me a lovely sliver chain and she bought her Dad some bread, When I asked her what did she buy for herself she said that they were selling cup cakes where you could write your name on them with icing

so she bought one for her self putting her name on one, and she bought one for her teacher putting 'T'for Teacher on it, so off she went to find her teacher to give it to her, when she found her my daughter who's only ten said" here Teacher this is for you" and went to give her the cup cake and what do you think her teacher said ........................Yes she said "no I don't want that"and walked away the feckin' bitch walked away, what kind of teacher would do this and it isn't the first time this has happened and not just to my daughter I for one would love if someone gave me a cup cake with my name on it. We live in a world where life is so cheap where very few people really care about what happens to there neighbor,now I try to teach my children to value their life and not to be afraid to be themselves and be true to themselves.so here I am trying to teach this to them, well what that hell is the teacher teaching them,did she think so little off my daughters feelings she could just disgard her,I can asurre you I will be taking this matter up with her, she will not get away with this, and just to show how kind my daughter is yesterday she made us this beautful flan

I WANT TO SAY THAKYOU FOR BEING MY DAUGHTER

EVERY LITTLE THING YOU DO IS MAGIC

, we shouldn't foget His Honour judge Curtin who in any other country in the world would be found dead in a hotel room wearing a red pair of high heals and a dunnes bag over his head but not in Ireland no in this country we pay him 500.000euro for the last 4 years because his job is protected by the Constitution which gives him the freedom to do what he likes and get away with it.Here's a question how much more is all this going to cost the state , and how much does a dunnes bag cost yes 15cent now wouldn't that be money better spent,"better value"

An Irishman's Diary .... MARCH 9 2006

So the Minister for Justice considers the murder of poor Donna Cleary a "watershed" in our sentencing policy, does he? But with due respect, Minister, some of us had thought we had reached that point a long, long time ago, writes Kevin Myers - Irish Times Consider Stephen Phelan of Kimmage in Dublin. Armed with various knives, one night three years ago he went on a rampage through the city, variously waking 13 people from their beds. Most victims were beaten, stabbed, bitten or slashed. Phelan threatened one victim with beheading, another with castration. A woman was told her nipples would be cut off. Yet another victim, a male student, was stabbed nine times. The night's entertainment finished when he made one woman strip naked, cutting off her pants himself, and then made her simulate sex with a male victim. In the course of his trial on this charge of sexual assault - to which he pled not guilty - he head-butted a prison officer. In all, he faced 17 charges. He was found guilty of the sexual assault on the woman - he had pled guilty on most of the others. The court was told that a psychiatrist was seriously concerned about him ever being released while he remained a drug addict. He had 30 previous convictions. What sentence did he get? Go on. Guess how much time he got. With various sentences being made to run concurrently, in effect he was given a total of nine years. Guilty on 17 charges on top of 30 previous convictions, and out in six years, when he will be just 26. What a delightful thought. The judges who are so judicious and measured with their sentences do not live in the same estates as such savages. Nor, I suspect, does the RTÉ broadcaster Joe Duffy, who 10 years ago challenged bailiffs who had arrived to evict the Cunningham family from their Mulhuddart council home for rent arrears. Faced with an on-air confrontation, the bailiffs withdrew. Well done Duffo, another triumph for your witless brand of bawled populism. At that time, one Cunningham brother, Gary (16), was one of three boys who had been killed at Ratoath, Co Meath, when the stolen car they were in went out of control. Another brother was stabbed to death in 2000. And a third, Paul, became a criminal terrorist, involved in many shootings. At the time he was himself shot-gunned to death in 2004, he was on bail facing firearms charges, and had already racked up 20 previous convictions. That such a creature was still at large, and on bail, is ludicrous; utterly, manifestly, grotesquely ludicrous. The foregoing crimes were by men involved in narcotics. But we have also seen excessive leniency towards sexual crime. It is two years since I wrote - in disbelief - of the rape and murder of Bettina Poeschel by the serial killer and rapist Michael Murphy of Rathmullen Park, Drogheda, Co Louth. In 1984, when he was 22, Murphy deliberately choked 65-year-old Catherine Carroll on a street in Drogheda. Bizarrely, he was found guilty merely of manslaughter and served just eight years in jail. Five years after his release, he attacked two more women. For this he was given just six months' imprisonment. Think about it: six months for an assault on two women by an already convicted killer. So not even a suspended sentence hung over him when he attacked, raped and murdered Bettina Poeschel in 2001. In effect, the State had become a passive accomplice to this creature's violent sexual crimes against women. More recently, Kevin Healy of Gort na Fludaigh, Beal Átha 'n Ghaorthaigh, Cork, raped an American woman in the city. He then overpowered a garda trying to arrest him and stole his radio. He was finally cornered by the garda and two civilians and arrested. His trial heard how his victim's life had been ruined. Even going to the grocery store, church or a mailbox had become "terrifying tasks" for which she needed the assistance of a friend. At Healy's trial, Det Sgt Murphy agreed with Patrick MacEntee SC, defending, that the accused did not get treated for a fractured arm as a result of a baton strike in the course of the arrest until the following morning. To which I can only say, good. The rapist Healy - naturally - told defending counsel that he had been abused as a child by a distant family member. (Does anyone ever appear in court these days who was not abused in childhood?) He also said he had been bullied in school. Ah wuzzums. Even more tragic, the court heard that Healy had not completed his thesis for a master's degree in UCC because he had been suffering from depression and was not able to concentrate. Lord above, I am moved to tears. What sentence did this creature get for orally raping a young woman, and then violently attacking and robbing a garda? A total of six years' imprisonment - but stay! The last 18 months of the concurrent terms were then, blessedly, suspended. In effect, four-and-a-half years - which means he will be out in three, when maybe he can finish his master's at UCC, the poor lamb. No, Minister: anyone who has had the melancholy distinction of studying our courts will know how dangerous professional criminals and sexual deviants over the years have been the beneficiaries of an endless diet of lawyerly babble and judicial clemency. And if the courts had done their duty long ago, maybe Bettina Poeschel would still be alive, and probably, so too would Donna Cleary.