Ian O'Doherty: Kids today -- just a bunch of hippies
As regular readers will know, I'm not a big fan of kids.
In fact, they bring out the worst in me -- I get tense, irritable and, quite frankly, irrationally aggressive when I have to spend any amount of time around the little blighters.
Thankfully, however, this seldom happens because most sensible people don't want their kids to spend any time around me either.
So with the exception of air travel, I never have to spend much time around them.
No, Iano and kids just don't get along.
But it would appear that there is a school in England which seems determined to make small humans even more insufferable than they already are.
The Maharishi School in Lancashire is one of Britain's new 'free schools' and they teach their kids the thoughts of that old fraud, the Maharishi, pictured left, as well as Transcendental Meditation and, you're gonna love this one -- "the way of the Beatles."
That's the last thing you need when your kid starts to act up -- you chastise them and then they start complaining that you're bringing negative waves and bad juju into the situation.
After all, what's the only thing that could be worse than a kid? A kid who is a feckin' hippy.
And speaking of kids . . .
Okay -- as you will have gathered from the previous piece, I don't like kids.
And you may have thought that I was being unreasonable; perhaps even a little insane. But I can now bring you proof as to why kids are little shits.
A mother in Chicago has just been sued by her two children -- because they didn't like her parenting style.
Steven Garrity II (23) and his sister Katherine (20) took the case against Kimberley Garrity.
And do you know the crimes against children she committed?
Well, according to the lawsuit, the children were subjected to "extreme emotional distress" when the mother sent her son a birthday card -- without putting any money in it.
On top of that, this monster also once failed to bring her son to a car show that he wanted to see while she apparently once embarrassed the daughter by haggling over the price of a dress while the two of them were out shopping.
The scarred siblings wanted $50,000 in punitive damages to compensate them for years of what they said were "bad mothering".
Now, who in their right mind would sue their ma because she sent them a birthday card with no money in it?
Well, on an entirely coincidental note, their lawyer was Steven Garrity I, who got divorced from Kimberley 16 years ago.
But obviously there is absolutely no connection between the two facts.
Honestly, your honour.Oh dear, he's at it againHis credibility was completely shot when it emerged that his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, contained some pretty serious inaccuracies, and let's not even talk South Park's withering portrayal of him, but it seems Al Gore (pictured) just can't help shooting from the lip. Now, I'm no climatologist (really? You don't say? -- ed), but there are thousands of professionals out there who are in complete disagreement with Gore and those in the climate-change industry.
So, are these dissenting scientists simply engaging in reasonable debate or is there something more sinister?
Well, speaking to a bunch of students over the weekend, Gore said: "I remember, again going back to my early days in the South when the civil rights revolution was unfolding . . . racist comments would come up in the course of the conversation and they were just seen as normal.
"That happened in thousands of conversations and we had to win those conversations. And now, with climate change [deniers] we have to win that conversation as well."
So, let's get this straight -- a scientist who thinks that our climate change isn't actually man-made is the same as someone who opposed the civil rights movement?
Well, as long as he's being reasonable about things . . .
Well, that hardly seems fair
I've always wondered why any country wants to actually host the Olympics.
It's hugely expensive, massively disruptive and seems to be just about the most expensive vanity project in history.
And, given the English talent for cocking things up, we can only imagine some of the fun and games we're going to witness at the forthcoming Olympics.
But, already, Londoners are up in arms over the latest announcement -- there are going to be specifically designated traffic lanes for exclusive use by Olympic officials.
Organisers say that because traffic in London is so bad and will be even worse during the games, they have decided to create these lanes which will reduce an average two-hour journey to 25 minutes.
Adding insult to injury, they say that any normal person who uses the lanes will "face huge fines".
Nice to see the spirit of egalitarianism that the Olympics are always banging on about is alive and well . . .Wow -- they still don't get itAs we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the events of that day are once more on our thoughts. It was our JFK moment and none of us will ever forget where we were when it happened. But 10 years on, the conspiracy theorists are still out there.
In fact, a new survey says that one-in-seven Americans still believe that it was not Muslim terrorism but the American government which was responsible for the attacks.
Now, every single conspiracy theory has been comprehensively refuted, but some of those polled still believe the planes were actually remotely controlled by radio. And radio host and conspiracy nut Alex Jones claims that the intelligence services and governments of America and Israel were behind the attacks.
Of course, the fact that the American government has proved itself so spectacularly incompetent to the point of idiocy and wouldn't be capable of organising such an operation even if they wanted is, to quote Gore, an inconvenient truth.
Or maybe I'm part of the conspiracy as well and I would say that, wouldn't I?
Irish Independent
