Monday, July 31, 2006

My Dad

Though in what seems like a different world
My Dad sounds like your dad.
He took me and my brother aside one day,
Which was a big thing.
What was he going to say?

“Drop the odd ‘Sir’ now and then”
Well, I have ignored that.

“Keep in touch with the lads”
By this he meant keep going to the pub
Even after you have married/settled down
- This was something HE didn’t do.

“Look after Number One”
Which was good coming from HIM
- He looked after our Mammy,
Though she sometimes forgot that

He also looked after numbers
Four, Three, Two – and me.
So ‘Thank You’, Dad
For looking after ‘numero uno’

Yo Blair

UN delays peacekeeping action
....
A Downing Street spokesman, travelling with the prime minister in California, said Mr Blair was "disappointed" by the UN decision.
Guardian, 31st July 2006

Well, how would you like it, Mr Blair, if you were shelled all day and then bombed into oblivion.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1831067,00.html

Israel & Middle East

A clear and powerful piece by Gerald Kaufman today. He refers to "ultimate buffoons like Ehud Olmert and George Bush" - he could have added Tony Yo-Yo Blair to the list.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/gerald_kaufman/2006/07/kaufman.html