Oct
20
2008
-
-
-
"Athlone town clerk John Walsh said some people had been "frightened" by the placing of names on the coffins. "We obviously wanted it terminated so we served a notice to quit and demand for possession," he said. "
-
-
-
"There is an acceptance that the wealthier must pay more tax - this is simply no longer in dispute. No one is protesting about the cut in the ceiling for tax relief on private pensions or the 2% levy for higher earners. Higher earners themselves would probably support even more progressive taxation if it was clear that good public services and universal education and health care would be provided. And the entire population seems to be unified in its outrage by, not just the threat to the universality of the medical card for the over 70’s, but also the application of the 1% levy to even the lowest earners."
-
-
-
Tags:
autumninternationals08,
biograph,
Brian O'Driscoll,
Budget 2008,
da budget,
feminism,
Halloween,
hamser,
health cuts,
injury,
Irish politics,
John Williams,
Leinster,
LeinsterVWasps,
Mary Harney,
Munster,
MunsterVSale,
Ronan O'Gara,
rugby,
social welfare,
Stoner,
thats just taking the piss,
The Road,
The Road(film),
wtf!
Related posts
Oct
25
2007
Author: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9780330447546 DDC: 813.54
Read for the RIP Challenge
See also: LibaryThing ; Darryl’s Library ; Skewed Perspectives ; Cynical Opimitsm ; Bookwomon
When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.
This is a novel set at some unidentified point in the future when the world has pretty much come to an end. Something, we don’t know what, has brought society down. There is little food and little shelter left, and for our two main protagonists there is always the danger that they might meet someone on the road, someone who might kill them in order to take what little they have, or maybe someone who might kill them in order to eat them. They travel on, this unnamed man and unnamed boy, constantly on the road, moving trying to find something.
Continue Reading »
Tags:
7 Stars,
813.54,
apocolyptic future,
Cormac McCarthy,
dystopian future,
end of the world,
future,
humanity,
Pulitzer Prize Winner,
RIP Challenge,
sff,
The Road
Related posts
