It takes a lot for me to admit to the existence of St. Patrick’s Day; like virtually everybody else who can legitimately claim full-blooded Irish descent (15/16ths, in my case), I despise this holiday. Drunken non-Celtic buffoons with bad accents vomiting all over the place doesn’t appeal*. So, it requires something special to get me to even acknowledge the iconography.
This’ll do:
As Ed Morrissey notes, this is even topical, thanks to that lovely house in Galway that Chris Dodd owns, courtesy of the partner of the man he got a pardon for. Which is one reason why Rob Simmons is going to go after this seat. Until his website’s finished, here’s the CT GOP site, and of course, here’s the NRSC’s site as well.
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*Don’t smirk, Latinos. Wait until the Anglos get finished adulterating Cinco de Mayo. We’re four, five years away from seeing it being moved to the nearest Friday and making Speedy Gonzales the mascot.
Don’t think that it won’t happen.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Officious Intermeddler (Diary) Tuesday, March 17th at 3:40PM EST (link)We real Irish generally refer to St. Patrick’s Day as “Amateur Night”.
Yeah, pretty awful...
fmaidment (Diary) Tuesday, March 17th at 5:04PM EST (link)I’m about 1/4 Irish, unless there’s some way back of which I’m not aware…
Yeah, St Pat’s isn’t one of my favorites. Didja’ know you’re supposed to wear orange if you’re not Roman Catholic?
Leprechauns are a crude stereotype of Irishmen, similar to the way baboons and apes were once used to portray blacks. If we treated Juneteenth the way we treat St. Pat’s, the Rainbow Coalition, NAACP and every similar group would be holding demonstrations and protests.
I suppose the one saving grace is that most Irish folk in this country have chosen to embrace the stereotype as good fun, instead of an insult…
Oh, and my lady love’s B-Day is today. There’s one reason for me to enjoy this day…
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zarathustra57 Tuesday, March 17th at 5:10PM EST (link)…but this ad is awful.
oh no mr. bill goes leprechaun
Beaglescout (Diary) Tuesday, March 17th at 5:16PM EST (link)I enjoyed it. Highly amusing. But then again, I’m only 1/8 Irish. An octoreilly, to coin a phrase.
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
I have a slight percent of Irish that I know of
wshanshaw (Diary) Tuesday, March 17th at 8:13PM EST (link)A great-grandfather that got off the boat and married a German woman. Go figure. But hey, what can you say? Patrick was from Britain, you know. Interesting that the best thing that happened to Ireland came from Britain.
(The proper response is that he wasn’t English. Still, I’m just saying.)
A bag pipe band was
redneck_hippie (Diary) Tuesday, March 17th at 8:20PM EST (link)marching through the hallways of Roosevelt Univ. today.
I was shocked to see that such a non-PC celebration would be allowed. They played Amazing Grace. I almost couldn’t believe it!
This is an institution that is nothing but hope and change and the new deal 24/7. Guess the PC police must have been on spring break.
Accent....way too annoying...
tankertodd (Diary) Tuesday, March 17th at 9:24PM EST (link)nt
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