It could be worse

I have decided to take a philosophical view point this week, and why is this, well
I’ll tell you. I have a healthy distrust of opinion polls, they are conducted by
students and people who can’t get a proper job, and the questions are answered by
the sort of person whose opinion is generally not worth the ink it takes to tick the
boxes. I am of course talking of the recent Irish Times poll which states that twice
as many people would prefer Bertie ‘I had a major hand in the shit we are in but got
out before that said same brown stuff hit the whirly thing on the ceiling’ Ahern to
be leading the country than Brian ‘even David Blunkett has nightmares after meeting
me’ Cowan.

And so I will not complain that Mary Harney can’t find a few million to protect
our daughters from cervical cancer. Neither will I consider drawing attention to the
fact that our children are going to school in dilapidated portacabins, into which
will soon be squeezed so many pupils that each teacher will have to be given a daily
snort of speed to be able to call the roll before lunch.

And why should I not mention these facts in a derogatory fashion towards the
imbeciles that are running and have previously run the country, because, and this
may sound harsh, we are the imbeciles that vote them in, continue to vote them in,
and we are the ones with the memories of a dementia patient, and so what is the use.

In the last general election we managed to vote in a government that comprises of
the same old turkeys joined up with a party that was going out of business quicker
than a porn star with premature ejaculation, a political party that would have
afternoon tea with Osama Bin Laden as long as he didn’t turn up in a 4 x 4, and
somebody from Kerry that nobody can understand.

So how on earth could things be worse? How could we possibly be more stupid and
misguided? What could we do to ourselves that is more self destructive? We could be
Janella Spears. No she’s not the long lost, drug addicted, alcoholic, sister of
Brittany returning looking for a stabilising influence, she is the fool of a woman
who has over the past three years sent a total of over $400,000 to Nigerian internet
scammers. And although she is American, she must have an Irish voters streak, she
was warned off by the police, the FBI, and the bank, though we can all understand
why she ignored a bankers advice, she continued to send the money, just incase the
pay off happened to come.

Rejoice all you out there who put pen to paper, or answered answers in a poll, at
least you can say there is at least one person in the world more stupid.