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Be careful when you say the Irish were "dumped" somewhere. They were voluntarily fleeing Ireland due to the Great Famine.

Irish Americans have since thrived in the U.S. as shown in this article Where are the most Irish cities and towns in the USA and they're not just in New England, but have since migrated all the way across the bible belt and beyond.

Since everyone from the 1800's has passed on, you're really just shitting on today's Americans with Irish ancestry, and I assure you, we're fully integrated, and probably living next door.

The embargo was a reaction to Fidel's involvement with the Kennedy assassination, that's the reason all Presidents until Obama maintained it. Perhaps now the truth can come out. ;-)

That's quite a claim as JFK was the president who signed the embargo into law

President John F. Kennedy secured for himself 1,200 Cuban cigars just hours before enacting the Cuban trade embargo in 1962. Before signing the embargo, Kennedy requested his head of press, Pierre Salinger, to get him “1,000 Petit Upmanns.”

Salinger first made the revelation to Cigar Aficiando magazine in 1992.

Salinger recalled Kennedy summoning him into his office to see if he could provide "some help" in securing "a lot of cigars" by the following morning. In hindsight, it is evident that Kennedy wanted to stockpile the Cuban products before he banned their import.

http://www.irishcentral.com/ro...

I have a friend in a prominent university in Ireland, where Guinness (I shit you not...) sponsored the funding of the universities research into the societal effects of alcohol - and where research published by this branch of the university, has to be presented to the sponsor for approval, before publishing.

"Guinness is good for you", remember...

When Muslims acted as a political bloc, the overwhelming majority of political interactions were positive. Political leaders were well known as the place of last resort for Jews escaping persecution in Europe. In fact a Muslim leader saved Jews from the Spanish Inquisition. They were famed for their willingness to send aid, no strings attached in an era when foreign aid was virtually unknown.

An honest and comprehensive reading of history simply does not support the proposition that Muslims are a sleeping mass of West-hating, xenophobic barbarians, waiting for the right moment to cleanse the world of infidels. There just isn't any real evidence to support this proposition.

Your numbers sound pretty made up, especially anything that's 99% and 100%, or "in no cases." Let me guess, they were "not intended as a factual statement"?

http://www.irishcentral.com/ne...

And of course the ratio of male to female suicides locally is higher than even the normal 4:1, it's 5:1.

In the same article, they make the point that the wife is usually poorer and has a worse employment situation, a correlation that explains most or all of this imbalance. Judges are going to award more financial support to the poorer party, and if you don't correct for that, you're presenting very misleading stats. Though given the totally made-up numbers you scattered throughout your entire post, I guess you don't care.

Now if only those judgements were accompanied by genuine shared parenting legislation rather than a weekend every fortnight or what have you, and few penalties for making even that much harder. This is often accompanied by something known as "parental alienation", you should look it up.

And who bitterly and relentlessly opposes shared parenting legislation?

Every gov knows what Russia, the UK and US do with their "Consulate" floors

Oh come now A., the club is bigger than that! The majority of countries get in on the spy game at some level.
The Germans: The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy
Very involved in the current crisis: Assad did not order Syria chemical weapons attack, says German press
The Finns and Swedes can't be left out: Supo wants expanded net surveillance powers
Nor the French: France 'runs vast electronic spying operation using NSA-style methods'
The club is bigger still: Think US snooping is bad? Try Italy, India orCanada
Thousands of Russian spies in US: ex-CIA agent
Gordievsky: Russia has as many spies in Britain now as the USSR ever did
Chinese Spies Targeting U.K., MI5 Warns
But of course! Chinese use honeytraps to spy on French companies, intelligence report claims
Germany accuses China of industrial espionage
Germany targets Russian, Chinese spies
Spies in Sweden mostly from China, Russia, Iran
Number of Foreign Spies on the Rise in Finland
Austrian capital ‘filled with Iranian spies’
Foreign spies targeting Polish shale - Natural Gas Europe
Spain arrests three suspected of spying for Iran
Russia warns Ireland it will retaliate in spy row
FBI releases papers on Russian Irish spies in US - ‘Ghost Stories’

Sometimes the trails can get very complicated.

For some reason this video comes to mind: Its a Small World

Devotees of Ireland's 12th century Saint Malachy believe that he predicted back then that the new Pope will be the very last one:

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/St-Malachy-predicted-Pope-Benedicts-successor-will-be-last-pope-190715001.html

But, then Jesus said "Nobody knows the time or the place except for the Father." So they can't both be correct, unless they are in a box you haven't opened, yet.

Devotees of Ireland's 12th century Saint Malachy believe that he predicted back then that the new Pope will be the very last one:

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/St-Malachy-predicted-Pope-Benedicts-successor-will-be-last-pope-190715001.html

After all, the next pope will be the last one. http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/St-Malachy-predicted-Pope-Benedicts-successor-will-be-last-pope-190715001.html

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/400-Irish-Facebook-staff-set-for-windfall-several-hundred-thousand-euro-each-as-stocks-go-public---VIDEO-152143895.html?mob-ua=Y

The country goes by the name of Ireland, it's part of the UK.

you might think that but life of brian was banned in a few places

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Top-ten-movies-banned-in-Ireland-124842519.html

surprisingly the meaning of life got banned as well!

Europe had a record setting winter, where they shattered many records for both snow and cold, and 112 people died, but it still rather a rather minor rate of change compared to what the world saw in the 1500's.

I really think that people have begun to freak out lately, just because we keep such careful records today. When they had abnormally warm or cold days in the U.S. in the 1800's, no one knew for sure how abnormal they were. Now we have data to compare, and we've become hypochondriacs.

Today, there's zero tolerance, formal processes, and a much greater awareness.

That may be true in the U.S. thanks to our court system actively pursuing abusers, but that's not what I have seen around the world. Irelend has supposedly not received cooperation for criminal investigations and cover-ups may still be going on in Asia.

I believe the Vatican is making the changes that were made in the US the norm for all diocese. As for Ireland, it was church officials who reported it to the authorities and a number of bishops actually resigned over it.

The problem with other parts of the world deal with social norms. When young boys and girls are getting married at the age of 14, sometimes to a significantly older spouse, is that abuse or not. By western standards, it is abuse, but it is not seen that way locally. Granted this occurs mainly in 2nd and 3rd world countries, but it wasn't that long ago that even in the US, people were married by the time they were 15.

Today, there's zero tolerance, formal processes, and a much greater awareness.

That may be true in the U.S. thanks to our court system actively pursuing abusers, but that's not what I have seen around the world. Irelend has supposedly not received cooperation for criminal investigations and cover-ups may still be going on in Asia.

The fiber just got laid 10-15 years ago, we've barely managed to start rolling out IPv6 (I'd equate IPv4 to square rigging...), piracy will be around for quite awhile, but it will eventually be marginalized just Jean Lafitte and his like have been."

That was the single most foolish statement ever made on Slashdot.

Fixed that for you, you're easily topping it with:

The reason Sea "pirates" dont have a chance is because they dont have Trillions of dollars to have massive balttleships built and they typically are low IQ types. If they had any brains they would get their hands on some old WW-II submarines and utterly own the US navy. a WW-II torpedo will take out a US ship easily. We are just lucky that the pirates out there are simply opportunists that are nothing more than petty thieves and muggers of the sea.

On the internet, a 13 year old kid has as much technology and power as the entire US government has. This scares the shit out of the governments of the world and big business. Even after IPv8 has been in place for 20 years and quantum processors have been in the iPad 12 and iPhone 47 a 13 year old that has been studying technology and the internet will STILL have as much power as any government on this planet when on the internet.

The internet is nothing like the physical world where it takes a lot of money and resources to build something.

If WW-II submarines ever became a problem for the US Navy, how many hours do you think it would be before the Pentagon had a report on the location and capability of every WW-II submarine operating in the world? Do you think that one could surface and operate its diesel engines long enough to recharge the batteries before being spotted by satellite? How about refueling? And where do you get the torpedoes? Sure, anybody _could_ make a WW-II torpedo in an average warehouse space, but could you build a number of them and deliver them to the subs without being noticed? I find SPECTRE more believable than your proposed fantasy.

200 years ago, Privateers were not exactly on-par with national navies, but they were a force to be reckoned with in individual encounters. Today, the kids on the internet are in a similar position with government intelligence agencies, but that's not a situation that's going to last for centuries - it might continue for 50 or 100 years, but eventually ideas like Echelon will be workable, and deployed, and (more) effectively policing internet traffic, and, yes, they will take enormous resources to create and operate, resources unavailable to your average 13 year old suburbanite punk.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Ryanairs-OLeary-Greek-passengers-can-pay-in-mountain-goats-133292018.html

Another example: Ryanair (Europe's lowest cost and most profitable airline) boss O'Leary started his own taxi company, which provides services exclusively to himself, so that he can use the taxi lanes to zoom past traffic towards work.

Can you imagine what would happen if, say, British Intelligence flew a chopper into Washington D.C., across the river from the Pentagon, riddled some retired IRA operative with bullets and dumped his body in the Chesapeake Bay? Do you think the Pentagon would give back their helicoptor?

Yeah, they would. And they'd probably invite the British SAS agents who killed the guy over for beer. The IRA has killed at least one American during the peak of its operations. They're a terror group like any other, and being a part of civilized society (I know, hard to imagine!), the US would likely do nothing, assuming all else is equal.

I think you may have missed the point I was making - factually, the Irish population exploded due to potatoes, and they were healthier and better fed than on any sort of grain. Japanese soldiers could not survive on that amount of rice per day, they had to supplement it with all sorts of other food, rice is not "potatoes but smaller and harder". The lack of vitamin A was why I mentioned milk. Here's an interesting site:

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Ancient-Irish-secret--Potatoes-are-the-original-super-food--SEE-RECIPES-107437443.html

You could feed a family of four from an acre. Most of Asia uses rice because they've been doing it that way for a long, long time, and the spud has only relatively recently entered into eastern/western civilisation.