The Saga of Irish Rover And The Crew(censorshoipped edition)

[irish hillbilly]

"OI rebel, therefoire OI am"

Wow. I not only admit it's good, I wish I'd thought of it.

[Brian Boru]

Don't worry, he is plaigiarising Descartes.
Still, it's one of his more lucid moments and goes some way towards proving that despite what some of us may think, yer man is not a total eejit afterall!!

[DzM]

[It] goes some way towards proving that despite what some of us may think, yer man is not a total eejit afterall!!

Come on people. Lay off the guy. If you don't like what he writes, use the Foe feature to ignore him. There's no reason for any of us to go out of our way to confront him about his situation or complain about his writing style (and yes, before anyone points it out, I recognize that I have to work at this too).

Thanks.

[Doktor Avalanche]

Come on MacRua and the rest, you have to admit that is good!!! OI rebel, therefore OI am. Love it!~

"My Name Is MacRua And I Don't Give A Fuck About Your Rules"

-MacRua

[CraigBatty]

"OI rebel, therefoire OI am"

Wow. I not only admit it's good, I wish I'd thought of it.

Mise freisin. Me too.

[IrishRover]

hundred thousand thanks & greetoings me froiends

[jennylois]

"My Name Is MacRua And I Don't Give A Fuck About Your Rules"
-MacRua

Wrong thread, this should be in Philosopher's Song.

[Noel Kenny]

Serbia's president prepares for loss of Kosovo

The pro-western Boris Tadic was sworn in for a second term as Serbia's president yesterday, and immediately began preparing his people for the impact of Kosovo's likely declaration of independence tomorrow. Daniel McLaughlin reports.

In the region's capital, Pristina, prime minister Hashim Thaci refused to confirm the timing of the proclamation, as European Union diplomats laboured over the details of how to recognise the new state and dispatch a mission to oversee its first years of sovereignty.

As excitement grew among Kosovo's 90 per cent ethnic-Albanian majority, Serb officials in the province pledged to ignore any declaration of independence, remain part of Serbia and hold elections to a Kosovo-Serb parliament in May.

"I will never give up fighting for our Kosovo and I will, with all my might, fight for Serbia to join the European Union," said Mr Tadic, who is under pressure from political rivals to cut ties with the EU if member states recognise Kosovo's independence.

"I am opposed to cutting off diplomatic relations with states that are inclined to recognise the supposed independence of Kosovo," he said.

A vast majority of Serbs oppose independence for Kosovo, which is the cultural and spiritual heartland of the nation, and home to several important medieval Orthodox churches.

But in private many officials admit that Belgrade has no chance of retaining a region where Serb troops launched a brutal crackdown against separatist rebels in 1998-99. The conflict accounted for some 10,000 ethnic-Albanian civilian deaths, and was only ended by Nato air strikes against Serb targets.

In Pristina, as posters celebrating independence appeared around the city, Mr Thaci promised to make sovereign Kosovo a safe place for all its people, including about 100,000 Serbs and smaller communities of Roma, Croat, Bosnian and other groups.

"In independent Kosovo, not one citizen will feel discriminated against or neglected . . . Kosovo is the homeland of all citizens," said the former guerrilla leader, who was convicted for alleged atrocities in absentia in Serbia.

"I invite all those who want to, to return to their homes and their property, including displaced Serbs living outside Kosovo," Mr Thaci said, referring to the 200,000 Serbs who fled reprisal attacks by Albanian mobs in 1999.

While anticipation grew in Pristina and other Albanian-dominated parts of Kosovo, tension was mounting in isolated Serb enclaves and the northern town of Mitrovica, where the Ibar river divides the Serb half of the town from the Albanian half. It has been a flashpoint for ethnic clashes, including riots in 2004, and a small bomb exploded outside the local EU mission office on Thursday night. No one was injured.

"We call all Serbs to ignore this provocation and realise we remain part of the Serbian state," Kosovo Serb leader Marko Jaksic said of the independence announcement.

The US, Britain, Germany and France are expected to be among the first to recognise Kosovo's independence. Most EU states will follow, but talks were continuing in Brussels last night over the wording of a statement on Kosovo's new status.

Diplomats were also putting the finishing touches to a plan to send to the region a 2,000-strong police and judicial mission and a political oversight team led by Dutchman Peter Feith.
© 2008 The Irish Times

[jennylois]

So what does this mean to you OIrish?

[Irishbookish]

Serbia's president prepares for loss of Kosovo...

Can we ever really complain about people fantasising of wanting a better life? How terrible that so many people in our world live in fear and have so little control over their safety. I can only just begin to imagine what that feels like, and yet we hear about these things every day in so many different parts of the world. They'll be getting my prayers.
'There but for the Grace of God go I.'

[Nemanjic]

So what does this mean to you OIrish?

heh, knowing oirish and his ways he's probably getting pissed somewhere celebrating kosovo independance day

[IrishRover]

So what does this mean to you OIrish?

heres an oimage froim Kosovo, free froim Serboia


tois' a grand freedoim day foir people of Kosovo, oi coingratulate em' oindependence froim Serboia & woish to be oin theoir poisoition to foinally break free as well ! the waste majoiroity of coivoiloized woirld, USA & EU accepts the new oindependent state; on the oither hand, oinly several EU countroies(due to theoir oiwn ointerests) and 3rd woirld countroies are agoinst thois; oinstead Serboian, people celebratoin' oin Kosovo noiw wave USA, EU, Albanoian flags;

froim Ex Yugoislavoia.. thois ois the foinal point of all nations oin the region to break free froim Serboia's ointerests and rules; Kosovo had oits voice and autoinoimy even then, but doictatoiroial regoimes oincludoin' Milosevic's kept oit foirced to be a part of Serboia;

as oi very well knoiw what means the neglectoin' of human roights 'n' freedoims, and to be chaoinded by the system thats unwoirthy, oi can knoiw what joy must be oin hearts of Kosovo people toiday

but, at the end of the day, oi aoin't noir part of Serboian noir Albanoian soicoiety.. me culture ois way beyoind these countroies 'n' regions.. me feedoim woill coime oin a moire persoinal level.. breakoin' free froim jaoil of Serboia and startoin' me essence road toiwards Eroin

[jennylois]

and startoin' me essence road toiwards Eroin

The Green Brick Road.

[IrishRover]

and startoin' me essence road toiwards Eroin

The Green Brick Road.

oi loike the expression !
oi'll feel loike walkoin' on green broicks when oi reach OIreland.. here tois' oither materoial

[IrishRover]

Bad noight here oin land of hells..
Serb hooloigans attacked embassoies of USA, Slovenoia, Albanoia..
McDoinald's restaurants were stoined as well..
they attacked oiffoices of Loiberal Party.. journaloists too..
(to put oit soimple, everythoing western oiroiented was attacked
oits loike poictures coimoin' froim Afroican or Moiddle East countroies;)

Heres the oimage froim attacked USA embassy oin Belgrade last noight..

Heres a voideo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVGNY8a3NNc

Riots in several cities, scores injured
18 February 2008 | 10:13 | Source: B92
BELGRADE -- The night in Belgrade and Novi Sad was dramatic after yesterday's unilateral secession decision in Kosovo.

Police block streets in Belgrade last night (FoNet)

Several hundred people, described as mostly "football hooligans", rioted for more than six hours in the capital, attacking several embassies and foreign companies' offices.

Their anger was mostly directed at the United States and the EU rotating chair, Slovenia, embassies.

MUP officers were out in force, both riot police and Gendarmerie, setting up cordons as the protestors moved from one part of the city to another, wreaking havoc in their way, demolishing cars, traffic signs and turning over garbage dumpsters blocking traffic.

The demonstrators also attacked police, which charged back at them, at one point using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd.

When the day dawned and the rioters were finally off the streets, the doctors at the emergency center in Belgrade said that their hospital treated a total of 47 policemen and civilians, one of them with serious head injuries.

Journalists who reported from the streets, including a B92 television crew, but also those from Studio B, RTS, and FoNet news agency, also came under attack.

The Liberal-Democrats (LDP) headquarters were also targeted, when windows were broken, but with no injuries reported.

The demonstrations in Novi Sad were also violent, but no one was wounded. A window was broken in a Subotica McDonald's restaurant in northern Vojvodina. Minor trouble was reported in some other Vojvodina towns. Elsewhere protests were organized but with no violence.