Here they come, those sultry, hot, dog days of summer. I write this wearing a wooly sweater and just took yogi out in the drizzle in the back yard to take this picture.
Journalist refer to the dog days as the Silly Season as our poor hard working politicians head off on their long summer holidays and there is little real news. Not much silly about the news in Ireland this morning, apart from another gangster killing the main news was how one property developer has managed to run up debts of €1.2 billion to a group of Irish banks and building societies, and now the poor man can't pay it back. He's not the only one, not by a long shot.
So what? You might ask. Well these same banks and building societies are also close to ruin due to their greedy, reckless lending to greedy, reckless property developers and our hard working Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Brian Cowen has kindly agreed to "write whatever cheques are needed" to keep these financial institutions going. Which was nice, considering it's OUR FUCKING MONEY FATSO!!!
Here's a picture of Cowen that recently and mysteriously ended up hanging in the national gallery...
Yes, he really is that good looking!
Anyway, we have all suffered pay cuts, welfare cuts, tax increases and loss of services and according to a report commissioned by the government there is much worse to come.
Ireland has gone inside a year from being one of the richest happiest countries in the world to being stone broke and miserable. Of course those of us old enough to remember the 1980's have seen it all before and can live with it, but pity the latte sucking, BMW driving children of the 'Celtic Tiger Economy' who have known nothing but good times. There will be much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth!
Silly season my arse!
