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Dear Sir

I have read that the Irish Government proposes legislation that will make it compulsory for every single male in the country over the age of 18 to attend the Lisdoornvarna match-making festival every year that they remain single.

I am appalled and disgusted at the sheer audacity of a government that will move to inflict over 900,000 individuals over one weekend on a small town that only has half a dozen or so bars. I for one would not with to join a queue of about 120,000 waiting for a beer.

It is time that the government awoke to reality and simply gave all of these individuals €5million each that they (the government) have stolen from the people and salted away for personal benefits.

That way these individuals could then go wherever they wanted to in Ireland and spend their money in bars without causing such a problem for the good folk of Lisdoornvarna.

Your sincerely
Mephsto O'Mconnoment
London (Ireland)

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28 March, 2008
An open letter to the Irish people
I'm very upset with Irish attitude with Brazilian visitors last week.

I´m writing to declare my indignation on it. How can Ireland tolerate an attitude against Brazilian students by immigration department?

Three Brazilian students who live in Portugal and Spain were doing a tour and they were not allowed to enter Ireland. But this is not the entire story. They were locked in a house of detention with thieves, killers, rapists and all kind of criminals. Where are the Human Rights? Who has rights in Ireland? The white ones? The blue eyed ones? The European ones?

World goes beyond UK, beyond Europe. World is too small nowadays. World goes around every day.

It's time to know a little more about Brazil and other coutries. The European has to know that Brazil speaks Portuguese, not Spanish. That Brazil has great intelectuals, politicals, economics AND HUMANITY capacity. Irish Immigration Department needs to know Irish people are very welcome to Brazil.

How can a "First World" nation like Ireland can be so unfair? World is for all just like global economy, global heating. In Brazil we have so many Europeans, North Americans, Australians, and many other ethnics that compose our people. I´m a jude German descendent and I recently have discovered a neonazi group living in my neighborood.

UNTIL WHEN shall we have these intolerance levels? Berlin Wall has fallen down, but we still have many other ridiculous walls between each one of us, unfortunately.

("Imagine there‘s no country" - John Lennon)

Best regards
Fabio Riesemberg
Brazilian journalist

From: rbnwills@hotmail.com [Connecting IP: 203.172.35.220], on Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 06:20:50
NatWest bank
NatWest … it may be the ‘Listening Bank’ but it sure aint taking much notice! I am a British subject and live in Thailand. I’ve banked with NatWest (formerly National Provincial) for 46 years. I retain an account in Cheltenham & 2 Thai accounts and before leaving the UK I made an arrangement to fax documents bi-monthly to the UK in order to transfer funds to Bangkok. The 1st signs that my ‘useful life’ as a customer was over, came when they refused to renew my NatWest MasterCard. After many e-mails, in which they stated that Thailand was unsafe to send replacement cards to, they finally admitted that they made little profit from me. So much for my belief that early repayment of debts made good sense! More serious though is the fact that NatWest, in spite of those advertisements showing that ‘little old lady’, couldn’t care less about a customer of such long standing, who has always conducted his affairs with propriety. On at least 3 occasions out of 18 on which I’ve requested transfers of funds from the UK, the bank has ‘cocked up’ the transfer with no funds transferred until I, from 6,000 miles away, have pointed out their omission. This has resulted in ‘urgent’ transfers (expensive!) and repayment of fees. On the last transfer this situation arose again and I’ve had to make 3 long-distance calls to rectify the bank’s error. At the time of writing, nearly six weeks on, I still await repayment. The reasons for such an uncaring attitude to customers I can only guess at but insufficient staff, inadequate training, lack of customer care and too much concentration on profitability must surely all play a part.
Mr Robin Wills (Pattaya)
P.S. Suggestions as to how I might acquire a credit card here without having to ‘deposit’ a large sum first would be most welcome. I am retired but have adequate pension funds!
Sent - on Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 06:20:50

Editor‘s note:
Mr Wills has written a book for British people (mainly men) who are settled in Thailand or who are thinking of doing so. This book, available on CD in the UK has a section on finances, which is a major concern of those thinking of moving here. He is currently rewriting this section and has informed NatWest that the “bank’s performance in this respect will not make pretty reading”. A letter from Mr Wills to the bank can be viewed on request by clicking here. Relevant document name is Robin Wills. There is no charge.

From: freedominnh@aol.com [Connecting IP: 64.12.116.134]
To kill a Disabled Veteran
I have been ignored by President Bush. The New Hampshire newspapers censor the truth because as they say “My facts hurt people with good reputation”. NH Senators Gregg and Sununu and Congressmen Bass and Bradley state “helping me is not to their political advantage”. The NH Governors believe that I am a Terrorist because that is what the courts labeled me. I have pleaded with the newspapers but the newspapers refuse to print the facts. I now plead with America to tell my facts and let the ball fall where it will. This is a true article.
      Carle Drega a few years ago in Colebrook NH had a similar event. I heard the town government attempt to steel his property. The selectmen did not think this man fit the town norm for it’s residents. A judge wanted his 30 acre property for her new home. The newspapers refused to tell the facts to the public. A state trooper was having an affair with the Judge. One day this state trooper stopped this man for a broken tail light. The trooper broke the light. Carle shot the trooper plus an innocent trooper with him. Then Carle shot the judge and government officials whom was violating his Constitutional rights. This is the right guaranteed in our Constitution. War is hell but innocent people get hurt in a war. These are the facts that I heard.
      The Madbury NH selectmen wanted to run a family out of Madbury for personal revenge. Selectman Hodsdon bragged this fact in public. Selectman Hodsdon did not deny this fact under oath. The selectmen spot zoned this families property single family when it was completely surrounded by commercial property. The selectmen used the courts to attempt to bankrupt this family. Judge Peter Fauver committed 29 + or - Constitutional crimes knowingly or allowed other to knowingly with intent to cause harm. The facts are document in the court case file. These facts I know to be true. How does a citizen fight a corrupt court and government?
      This family read my zoning letters in the paper and asked me for help. They just wanted to under stand the zoning issues. I had never met this family before. Judge Fauver informed by exparta communication with the town attorney (Wyskiel) appointed me as an attorney. I told Fauver that I was 100% mentally and Physically disabled and that I dropped out of high school in the 12 grade to join the Marine Corps. I am not an Attorney. I represented this family and with (Wyskiel) help proved with out a doubt the facts. Judge Fauver allowed the town to use the courts for personal revenge. He allowed 29 Constitutional crimes knowingly with intent to cause harm. These are true facts. How does a citizen expose corrupt government actions when the court is biased?
      Judge Fauver found me guilty of a crime with no facts, witnesses, evidence or charges. I demanded a jury trial. Judge Fauver stated that I did not have this right.   I to this day do not know what the crime was. I was fined twenty thousand dollars. I appealed the case to the NH Supreme Court. They ruled the case “Moot” to protect the character of a brother judge. I wrote a Redress of wrongs to the governor. NH Governor Benson sent the state police to my home to tell me to stop helping this family. I wrote a second redress of wrongs. The state police arrested me under the Patriot act. I lost my freedom for 6 months. 4 days before the trial the charges were dropped. The government did not want the facts to be public. The newspapers refuse to print the facts. I continued my efforts to help this Madbury family. How does a volunteer expose this crime?
      I filed in Federal Court discrimination charges against the NH government and judges. The governor informed the Veterans Hospital that I was a Terrorist to have my VA medical benefits stopped. They could not stop me legally so they will destroy my health. I wrote the governor to ask why he would do such a thing. I was arrested for writing the NH governor. I lost my freedom again. I was find and was given two years probation. I did not stop helping this Madbury NH family. The Federal court judge McAuliffe ruled judges are immune from Constitutional crimes. I appealed the case to the First Circuit court of appeals. This court ruled judges are immune case dismissed. I appealed it the United States Supreme Court they ruled that I did not follow proper procedure. Case Dismissed. I explained to the court in the beginning my mental and physical Disabilities and they accepted them. The courts knowingly with intent to cause harm is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. The courts committed Discrimination knowingly with intent to cause harm. The court took advantage of my disabilities. How does a 100% disabled veteran expose such a crime?
      I try to bring this case to the public. In December 05 Governor Lynch sent the NH state police go to my wife’s work place in police uniform. Their job was to scare my wife to get me to stop helping this family.   My wife did not talk to me for two weeks. In January 06 the NH state police called me from the governors office. The job is to order me to stop from helping this Madbury NH family. NH Governor Lynch believe that I am a Terrorist. The newspapers only print what the government wants. The NH government has destroyed my character in the public eye. How do you fight a corrupt court?
      I volunteered at least 1000 hours each year helping in schools, hospitals, community, for state and local programs and for federal sponsored programs. I had done this for thirty plus years. I am no longer allowed to volunteer because the people believe that I am a Terrorist. Destroy the disabled veteran to protect criminal acts committed by judges and the government. This is Discrimination. These are true facts.
      I served my time in hell. I am a United States Marine. I will not let the respect and honor of what all that have given their lives to protect and defend the United States of America be dishonored. I believe as our Constitution states that every individual is guaranteed equal protection and quit enjoyment of their property. President Bush can ignore me, my NH government can persecute me, the NH state police can harass me, the courts can torture me, but the only way to stop me is for them to KILL me. We have people that never served in our military like Bush, Benson, Lynch, Gregg, Sununu, Bass and Bradley destroying people because we do not fit their norm. I do not believe in violence so I have to fight with facts. I will be heard some day. The government has to violate the law to attempt to stop me because the truth will cause their castle to fall down. “The truth is a powerful weapon” but as long as these trusted government officials refuse to accept it, their number that will fall grows bigger. The truth is this article.
      The Newspaper can censor this news but the word will be heard. I plead with ever person that reads this article to tell your friends and family to e-mail it to the newspapers and Governorlynch@nh.gov
   Keep America Strong help me protect her.
Peter Macdonald Sgt
USMC “Semper Fi”

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Help a DAV
3_3_06
To the editor
I write this letter to a lady in Calif whom wants to write a book on abusive acts to hurt disabled people. I should think the newspapers would want to cover a story of how the NH governor and government criminally hurts disabled service connected United States Marines. I was contacted for this story. why because the "Truth is a powerful weapon" send this e-mail to governorlynch@nh.gov tell your friends to e-mail the more the better written by Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 Marsha Saxton Cape World Institute on Disability 510 16th St. Oakland CA 94612

Dear Marsha
I am 120% rated service connected mental and physical disabled United States Marine. I served during the Vietnam Conflict. (1970-74) I was injured twice in seperate combat support missions and once having fun. I volunteer well over 1000 hours a year since my discharge in 74 to help fellow American citizens. I volunteer because I came back alive, I owe the men and women that gave their lives the respect and honor to do what I can to make this a better place to live. I enclose a picture of a carving that I did as an example for my volunteer art classes in schools around the state of NH. This carving was done to encourage students to get involved in the DARE program. My abuse is (was) inflicted by the State of NH. I was asked by strangers to help them with a zoning issue. The state government did not like the way that I proved 29 Constitutional crimes committed by judges, Madbury NH town officials and state government officials. They wanted to cover the crimes up. The governor Benson at the time sent the state police to my house to order me to stop helping this family. I filed a second Redress of Grievances. The state police came to my house to arrest me under the Patriot Act. The state could not shut me up so they locked me up. I was now a terrorist. The state well aware of my service connected disabilities took my freedom for 6 months. I continued to help this Madbury NH family so the governor wrote the Veterans Hospital to have my VA medical benefits stopped. I wrote the governor to ask why he would do such a thing. To destroy a 100% service connected disabled veterans health to stop his free speech. I was locked up again. I got jail time, fined and 2 years probation. Now Governor Lynch sends the state police to my wife’s work to scare her to get me to stop volunteering helping this Madbury family. I continue so Lynch has the state police call me to scare me to stop. I am 100% service connected disabled. Our government and courts are trying to intentionally destroy me. This is abuse. The NH disabilities has been notified of these criminal actions to inflict pain and suffering on a 100% service connected disabled United States Marine. They refuse to help. I believe because they do not want to upset the government. I believe they see it as If the government can do this to me they can eliminate them. I ask you only to make this story known across the United States. I have notified my senators Sununu and Gregg and Congressmen Bass and Bradley. I was told it was not to their political advantage to help me. The newspaper refuse to print the truth because I am mentally disabled person. I guess this one individual is expendable. I will continue my efforts because I believe even the rights of one Madbury NH family is worth my total commitment. The future of the United States is in our hands. Thank You Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC “Semper Fi” 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217
Sent - on Friday, March 03, 2006 at 15:28:46

Tuesday, 31 January, 2006
Letter from Braintree, Essex, UK
Dear Postbag..
I believe that the passing of time is meant to improve life and circumstances for those who participate in and belong to our social world.

When I was a teenager living in Shropshire in the mid 1960s, there was a youth club where I and my friends and those I didn't know could go, could be off the streets at an almost next to nothing price, could sit in the club's cafe, could play pool or snooker, could visit the well equipped gym, could sit in the library or tv rooms, could practice mountain climbing on the gymnasium climbing wall ... could go on excursions if the money was available from home for the tickets...

A hunt on the Internet for any similar facilities in Braintree, Essex draws a big BLANK. Nothing.

Where do our youngsters go? Where are they supposed to go? Where do we want them to go? Why are there no publicly available facilities? Do any of our county or local councillors care about this? Surely if they don't they should. Lack of funds is no excuse - if there are no funds, what are they doing to obtain them?

A skateboard park in the town centre park here in Braintree is good and laudable, but it is not so good and laudable enough as to to permit those who are in the position of developing our social infrastructure to sit on their laurels and think all is OK, because, quite simply and obviously it isn't. There are no facilities to accommodate young people, unless they are the offspring of parents in the upper earning crust.

Is this the way we wish society to develop? You don't have the money, oh, sorry, you'll just have to hang around on street corners and ....

So, what is being done to improve this omission in our social infrastructure? Or am I simply hearing the dying echoes of my voice bounce from the walls of empty rooms?

Keith Harris
editor
www.newsmedianews.com

YOUR PARACHUTE
Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience! One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said: “You’re Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk! . You were shot down!” “How in the world did you know that?” asked Plumb.

“I packed your parachute,” the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said: “I guess it worked!” Plumb assured him: “It sure did. If your chute hadn’t worked, I wouldn’t be here today.” Plumb couldn’t sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb says: “I kept wondering what he had looked like in a Navy uniform: a white hat; a bib in the back; and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said ‘Good morning, how are you?’ or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a sailor.” Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent at a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn’t know.

Now, Plumb asks his audience: “Who’s packing your parachute?” Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day. He also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory -- he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports before reaching safety.

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason. As you go through this week, this month, this year, recognize people who pack your parachutes.

I am sending you this as my way of thanking you for your part in packing my parachute. And I hope you will send it on to those who have helped pack yours! Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep forwarding jokes to us without writing a word. Maybe this could explain it: When you are very busy, but still want to keep in touch, guess what you do -- you forward jokes. And to let you know that you are still remembered, you are still important, you are still loved, you are still cared for, guess what you get? A forwarded joke.

So my friend, next time when you get a joke, don’t think that you’ve been sent just another forwarded joke, but that you’ve been thought of today and your friend on the other end of your computer wanted to send you a smile, just helping you pack your parachute.
Thank you!
Virginia M. Bottorff Specialist-Work/Life
PSE Phone: 616-787-5333
Fax: 616-787-4195
Mail Code 78-1M

GEORGE CARLIN — POST 9-11
A Message by George Carlin:
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbour. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.

Remember, spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak, and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

George Carlin

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