People and Politics

Donald; Sarah, try the steak and the strawberry cheesecake, they are the best in the world, like everything else I do

Sarah: Why thank you, The Donald, I figured you'd be a beef eating guy.

Donald: Sure am, The Donald has the best manners in New York and America and Trump cutlery was forged in a steel mill for 100 years --nothing but the best for you Sarah baby.

Gay Irish senator David Norris is now in the cross hairs of the Westboro Baptist Church run by fanatic minister Fred Phelps which pickets US soldiers funerals and claims 'God hates fags' on their website.

Norris made the revelation on Irish radio today.

Norris, is favorite to become Ireland's president but now faces a major challenge after a controversial interview with him from ten years ago about his views on sexuality was broadcast.

Conservative columnist and commentator George Will has slammed Sarah Palin saying she should not be trusted with nuclear weapons.

Will was speaking on ABC yesterday and his damning words,coming from the right, may give many people pause.

Here is what he said:

Continuing the remarkable number of Irish Americans in key positions in the Obama administration, Irish New Yorker General Martin Dempsey will shortly be appointed head of the Joint Chief of Staffs according to The New York Times.

Dempsey from Goshen, New York about 40 miles from Manhattan will replace another Irishman Admiral Mike Mullen.

He is currently Commanding General of the Army.He will take up his new post in September.

In Ireland political correctness has just run amok.

The Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan has announced he will institute a rule that 30 per cent of all election candidates must be women.

Parties who refuse to follow that edict will lose half of their state funding.

I see today is being advertised as the day the world ends or was it yesterday - I can't remember.

Anyway it got me to thinking of how I'd spend the last day on earth if I had advance warning.

Here's what it looks like.

As a member of the extended Kennedy clan Maria Shriver was well used to tales of infidelity and skirt chasing but she seems to have landed a doozy with her marriage to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The revelation that he had fathered a child with an employee and kept it secret both from the public and apparently his wife, during his time as governor of California reveals a peculiar kind of love rat that puts him in the John Edwards category.

Edwards you might remember fathered a child with another woman as his wife lay dying of cancer. Arnie apparently kept his woman in his employment and his kids played with her kid growing up, never knowing they had a half sibling. Worse his wife worked alongside her never knowing the truth of her husband's affair.

Mike Huckabee's expected departure from the Republican race for president opens the door for Sarah Palin again.

Palin has gone quiet after the media sizzle around her died and transferred to Donald Trump.

The end of days is upon us on May 21st according to the Reverend Harold Campling of Family Bible Network a TV evangelist who is all of 89 years old but only looks 899.

I realized when I saw a picture of him I had often seen his show while flicking through the channels. He's got big potato spud ears and a thin reedy figure and he looks like he will croak at any time.

Well he might on May 21 which would be his End of Days but I doubt if the rest of us will.

The end of days is upon us on May 21st according to the Reverend Harold Campling of Family Bible Network a TV evangelist who is all of 89 years old but only looks 899.

I realized when I saw a picture of him I had often seen his show while flicking through the channels. He's got big potato spud ears and a thin reedy figure and he looks like he will croak at any time.

Well he might on May 21 which would be his End of Days but I doubt if the rest of us will.

Are Republicans intent on committing electoral suicide in 2012?

The news that the ancient war horse Gingrich is about to leave the stable for one more go-round is almost laughable.

The Newt Gingrich of the early 1990s would have been a formidable candidate,a fresh face with a fresh idea called the Contract with America and Speaker of the House to boot.

So Bin Laden dyed his hair and beard and obsessively watched home videos of himself.

He sounds like the Donald Trump of the Muslim world.

It is pretty obvious by now that Bin Laden could have been taken alive by the SEALs which would have been a better outcome.

I think Bin Laden on trial would have been a marvelous opportunity to showcase the best values of America for the following reasons.

President Obama is correct not to release the pictures of a dead Osama bin Laden.

Chances are, given that so many people say they have already seen them, that they will leak to some news organizations somewhere along the line

No one with any intelligence seriously doubts that it was Osama who was killed in Sunday night's raids.

I am delighted to see that Barack Obama got down off his high horse for once to slam Donald Trump last night.

For weeks the loud and profane Trump has been hammering away at Obama. Last night he had to sit and take it

It was at the White House Correspondent's annual dinner and Obama was in fine fettle skewering Trump who was present.