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To me Brand just wrote a load of wordy shite.
He fails to recognize that too many Muslims are being brain washed in the UK and most is happening in the Mosques.

And you have facts that back up your statement?

So where else are they being brain washed then? Maybe you know.

Hating, dosen't come naturally i believe. They are being taught to hate.

So where are the EDL lads being brainwashed? Church on Sunday? Half-time at Milwall games?


Bit of a stretch (to put it mildly) to compare the EDL to Jihadists who cut people's heads off, carry out suicide bombings and attempt to blow airlines out of the sky with bombs in their shoes.

Maybe some of these people should return to their 3rd world hell holes and attempt to assert their right to free speech under Sharia Law!

May 9, 2013 Statement from the Richard Family

Medical Update

Last evening, just 23 days after the bombing attack on Boston, our seven year old daughter Jane underwent her eleventh surgery.  While she has more trips to the O.R. ahead of her, last night's operation marked an important milestone, as doctors were finally able to close the wound created when the bomb took her left leg below the knee.  Part of the procedure involved preparing Jane's injured leg to eventually be fitted for a prosthesis.

By closing the wound, the incredible medical team at Boston Children's Hospital laid the groundwork for Jane to take an important step forward on the long and difficult road ahead of her.  One of the things we have learned through all of this is to not get too high or too low.  We take today's development as positive news and look ahead with guarded optimism.  If things go well, Jane could be ready to transition to the rehabilitation stage of her recovery in the next few weeks.

Getting to this point has not been easy for Jane.  In addition to all of the surgeries, she has also had to fight off infections and other complications.  After not being able to communicate with Jane for the first two weeks, she woke up with difficult questions that needed to be answered.  There are not words to describe how hard sharing this heartbreaking news was on all of us.

As for the rest of the family, Bill and Denise were discharged from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center a week after they were admitted.  While no sight has returned to Denise's injured eye, her doctors have been pleased with how she is healing from her surgeries.  Bill is healing from the shrapnel wounds and burns to his legs, and we remain hopeful there will be improvement over time from the hearing loss he suffered.  It will be several months before we know what, if any improvement Denise or Bill will experience.  Henry is back at school, which gives him a needed sense of routine and normalcy.  We will continue to stay together in the Longwood Medical Area until Jane is discharged.

Our focus as a family remains on healing from our injuries, both physical and emotional.

Thank You to the Community

We would like to take this time to also acknowledge the strength we draw from the community.  The outpouring of support from friends, family and total strangers has been incredible, and it is uplifting to our family in this most painful and difficult time.  Well-wishes reach us, and they help more than anyone can know. 

From the moment of the attack, all of us have been in the hands of well-trained people who are incredibly good at what they do.  We thank the courageous first-responders and Samaritans who stabilized and comforted us on the scene as well as the medical staff at the hospitals for quick action and life-saving care.  We particularly want to thank the people who quickly got to Jane and addressed her injury in the street because they saved her life.  We also salute those who stood guard over Martin's body so he was not alone.  Those officers will never know how comforting that was in our very darkest hour.  The doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, technicians, orderlies, volunteers and administrators at both Boston Children's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have been incredible.  We will recover because of these dedicated and talented people.

People near and far have made loving gestures and poignant remembrances.  We are aware of tributes and vigils across the area and around the world.  Martin was a big sports fan and what has taken place across the sports world – from our local teams to our arch rivals, by teams and by individual players – reminds us why.  Martin was "Boston Strong," and now we must all be for him and for all of the victims of this senseless attack as well as their loved ones who are going through a hell we wish we never had to know.

Many of you feel an incredible need to do more, which is understandable and gracious.  We will need help, as we cannot get through this tragedy on our own.  We know how difficult it is to stand idle when something terrible happens, so we thank you for respecting our privacy and giving us space to not only recuperate and rest, but also to ensure the one thing the attack does not break is our bond as a family.

As hard as it is for us to do so, we ask for your continued patience as we work through something for which there is no roadmap, and there are no instructions.

We look forward to sharing another update when Jane leaves Children's Hospital for rehab in the coming weeks.

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I presume Whitey is a WUM.
If not he's a serious thicko 

Actually Rossfan I am very well informed and am dead serious about what I said.

You didn't repudiate what I said-all you could do is hurl a few insults

Read the link about the Marathon bomber on welfare, staying at home while his wife was out working 80 hours a week.

His younger brother was flunking out of most of his classes at UMASS while being subsidized by the taxpayer.


http://abcnews.go.com/news/t/blogEntry?id=19030814

The reason everyone in Ireland said the yanks asked for "9/11" - should be 11/9 by the way  - due to their non critical support for the rogue Israeli State is because it's true.
Nothing to do with some Dagestani immigrants to the US living on welfare.
We have 400,000 unemployed in the 26 Cos and many thousands more in the North not to mention the 300,000 young people who left -  Are they all just a bunch of layabouts?
Grand way of avoiding the real causes of "terrorism" - "ah they're all layabouts"
Ignore the disgusting US/Brit and other less enthusiastic Western support for Israel, the bombing of civilians in Afghanistan, the countless thousands dead in Iraq due to the US/Brit illegal immoral invasion of that Country, the selective support for rebel movements ( in Syria/Libya) while conttinuing to support despotic Islamist regimes ( Bahrain, Saudi) etc etc.
Much easier to home in on one event (Boston) and declare that all opposed to US/Brit latter day Crusades are just layabouts.

Now fcuk off back the land of B movies where the goodies wear the white hats and the baddies wear the black hats and leave us adults to our discussion.
By the way it's SUBSIDISED 


I thought up of a good one this afternoon.....whey don't we call the Ballagh Rossies the Ballastinians.

They're oppressed, their land was stolen, their young are brainwashed, they're forced to bow down to a superior power, their border crossings are restricted, history has abandoned them etc.

I was in Ireland right after September 11 as well, I found people to be very sympathetic to the U.S. Unfortunately the U.S government squandered the good will away pretty quickly within the next couple of years.

Couldn't agree more. What surprised me however was the number of people who qualified their condolences with a "you had it coming" type comment

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I presume Whitey is a WUM.
If not he's a serious thicko 

Actually Rossfan I am very well informed and am dead serious about what I said.

You didn't repudiate what I said-all you could do is hurl a few insults

Read the link about the Marathon bomber on welfare, staying at home while his wife was out working 80 hours a week.

His younger brother was flunking out of most of his classes at UMASS while being subsidized by the taxpayer.


http://abcnews.go.com/news/t/blogEntry?id=19030814

The reason everyone in Ireland said the yanks asked for "9/11" - should be 11/9 by the way  - due to their non critical support for the rogue Israeli State is because it's true.
Nothing to do with some Dagestani immigrants to the US living on welfare.
We have 400,000 unemployed in the 26 Cos and many thousands more in the North not to mention the 300,000 young people who left -  Are they all just a bunch of layabouts?
Grand way of avoiding the real causes of "terrorism" - "ah they're all layabouts"
Ignore the disgusting US/Brit and other less enthusiastic Western support for Israel, the bombing of civilians in Afghanistan, the countless thousands dead in Iraq due to the US/Brit illegal immoral invasion of that Country, the selective support for rebel movements ( in Syria/Libya) while conttinuing to support despotic Islamist regimes ( Bahrain, Saudi) etc etc.
Much easier to home in on one event (Boston) and declare that all opposed to US/Brit latter day Crusades are just layabouts.

Now fcuk off back the land of B movies where the goodies wear the white hats and the baddies wear the black hats and leave us adults to our discussion.
By the way it's SUBSIDISED 



LOL.... Good man Rossfan.  Why don't we all just hold hands and sing Cum Ba Ya.  Did you actually read that before you posted.....You made my day

I presume Whitey is a WUM.
If not he's a serious thicko 

Actually Rossfan I am very well informed and am dead serious about what I said.

You didn't repudiate what I said-all you could do is hurl a few insults

Read the link about the Marathon bomber on welfare, staying at home while his wife was out working 80 hours a week.

His younger brother was flunking out of most of his classes at UMASS while being subsidized by the taxpayer.


http://abcnews.go.com/news/t/blogEntry?id=19030814

I was in Ireland right after the 9/11 attacks and the general consensus was that the US got what it deserved for supporting Israel over the Palestinians.

Why don't people just call this for what it is-a bunch of layabouts who never worked a day in their lives, playing the perpetual victim card looking for something to be outraged about.

If there's nothing real-lets invent something!

My guess is that given their tax exempt status they have to be seen to be upholding the terms of the visa to the letter of the law. if they didn't act, there could have been wide ranging consequences for the entire organisation and the great work that they do in the Boston Irish community

They helped me find my first apartment in Boston and also helped my wife get her Irish citizenship-they do great work and I feel Mr O Dowd is out of line in his criticism

The responses here are just so predictable.   The big bad Brits and Yanks invading other countries only have themselves to blame, blah, blah, blah.  You guys are a frickin joke

Botton line is these animals are looking for a reason to be offended.

Anyone remember the affront that precipitated the 9/11 attacks-US Military presence in Saudi Arabia.

How convenient is it for them to forget that the US were only invited in by the Saudis who were afraid Sadam was going to Annex them after he was done in Kuwait.

The US faced down the Nazis, it faced down the Japs, it faced down Communism and it sure as hell isn't going to be dictated to by a monkey religion.

I will never, ever complain about the commentary on Mid West again!  Those guys from Shannonside would give Eddie Moroney a run for his money.

Playing for Castlebar Juniors in Kelly Cup versus Kilmeena in Kilmeena. Ref brother in law of opposition manager. Every single call going to the home side for obvious reasons.

A dubious 50 was moved in to the 14 yard line for dissent.

In an attempt to calm the situation down, Castlebar Captain told the dissenter to "don't worry about the ref, just focus on your man".

Unfortunately, he said this within earshot of referee who sent him off for using "foul and abusive language towards an official"

http://www.nrawinningteam.com/scotttext.html

Thought this might give some context to the dialogue.  Not saying I agree or disagree with him. I am in favor of gun control, even though my initial post may not have expressed that. But additional laws are not the only answer to a terrible dilemma we have found ourselves in

Oh FFS, we have a shooting and this gun control shite starts up again. CT has probably the strictest gun control laws in the flicking country. I know, I lived there for 5 years. (BTW I don't own a gun and don't want to either)

This lady has a mentally unstable adult son living under her roof, yet she chooses to (1) keep guns on the premises and (2) obviously keep them in such a manner that he can gain access to them.


Why didn't she get them the Fvck out of the house and get her son the help he so obviously needed.

If he had stolen her car and ploughed into a group of school kids at a bus stop do you think we should ban cars.

How strict can the gun controls be if she can own 5 and also take her son with a mental disability to the shooting range to practice?

I have a mate over here with two sons that have the same illness as the animal that killed these children, he wouldnt have a gun about the place and when he came to our place to do some work he insisted I get the gun offside before he would start (the older boy was with him) My point is that he keeps his kids as safe as possible regarding the use of guns and yer mans ma actually had him practicing with one at a shooting gallery, the mind boggles!




Many years ago, one of my siblings went off the rails with drink. Then he fell in with the wrong crowd. Then that crowd got into a big beef with another shower of wamkers to the point of a shotgun (not ours) being produced. The oul fella got wind of what was going on, and his own shotgun was summarily deposited up to the Guards barracks-where for all I know it still resides today-and that was almost 20 years ago. In fact it's a big joke at family gatherings

Point is, all the laws in the land can legislate for stupidity.

Oh FFS, we have a shooting and this gun control shite starts up again. CT has probably the strictest gun control laws in the flicking country. I know, I lived there for 5 years. (BTW I don't own a gun and don't want to either)

This lady has a mentally unstable adult son living under her roof, yet she chooses to (1) keep guns on the premises and (2) obviously keep them in such a manner that he can gain access to them.

Why didn't she get them the Fvck out of the house and get her son the help he so obviously needed.




If he had stolen her car and ploughed into a group of school kids at a bus stop do you think we should ban cars.

Are cars built to kill and maim people?

Some people are too deranged and/or stupid to be allowed access to guns, yet the US right wing will not countenance any attempt to restrict access and or encourage background checking and waiting periods. And that's before you even get into the assault weapons stuff. Why the f**k does someone outside law enforcement or the military need a weapon that can carry 30+ bullets in a clip and fire them all in seconds?

And how about planes, if we're going to make stupid comparisons? They're lethal when things go wrong, but after 9/11, when it finally hit home in the US that psychopaths really could cause havoc in their own back yard, American people acceded to having to walk through all kinds of security hoops so that they could travel safely.

Let's hope no one belonging to you is ever killed by some nut in the next mass murder. You might lose your blase attitude.

Agree with most of what you say, but I think you are missing my point.

If this can happen in a state that already has some of the strictest laws in the country, how would more gun laws have prevented this tragedy from happening?

Oh FFS, we have a shooting and this gun control shite starts up again. CT has probably the strictest gun control laws in the flicking country. I know, I lived there for 5 years. (BTW I don't own a gun and don't want to either)

This lady has a mentally unstable adult son living under her roof, yet she chooses to (1) keep guns on the premises and (2) obviously keep them in such a manner that he can gain access to them.

Why didn't she get them the Fvck out of the house and get her son the help he so obviously needed.

If he had stolen her car and ploughed into a group of school kids at a bus stop do you think we should ban cars.