The Irish

[J. Walter Weatherman]

A thread that's probably long overdue.

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/16/irish-gentleman-attempts-to-dr.html

[Chuck to Chuck]

"WE DON'T WANT THE IRISH!" - Olson Johnson

[flannj]

Big mouth, small dick, job with the county.


(Huey being the flyer)

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

"I'll pay it.  Never."

[flannj]

"I'll pay it.  Never."

Jaysus, she was a good looking woman.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

"I'll pay it.  Never."

Jaysus, she was a good looking woman.

Woman!  Whar's mah taye?

[R-V]

30 Rock had an excellent tribute to the lousy, stinking Irish last night.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

30 Rock had an excellent tribute to the lousy, stinking Irish last night.

Yes. That was definitely on my mind.

And Archer offered some choice Hibernian hate a few weeks back, too.

[Bort]

Ugh. The Irish.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

30 Rock had an excellent tribute to the lousy, stinking Irish last night.

[CT III]

Ugh. The Irish.

But what of the CHIRISH?

[Bort]

Ugh. The Irish.

But what of the CHIRISH?

The Chibernian Race is a blot on this great nation.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/catholic-league-president-jews-had-better-not-ma

Catholic League president Bill Donohue, a vocal conservative voice who recently warred with The Daily Show over a "vagina manger," has infuriated prominent Jewish leaders with a private email last week to Philadelphia Rabbi Arthur Waskow.

Waskow, a progressive rabbi involved in the Jewish Renewal movement, had criticized the Vatican and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in a Huffington Post op-ed for "attacking the religious freedom of millions of American women and the religious freedom of American nuns" over contraception.

Donohue responded with a note to Waskow that launched an email exchange that ended with a warning, forwarded to BuzzFeed by a source close to the rabbi, that "Jews had better not make enemies of their Catholic friends since they have so few of them" (Donohue writes that this is a saying of Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York). Donohue also includes a postscript saying, "I do not have a long nose."

Donahue also raised a recent child abuse scandal in Orthodox Jewish communities.

"You need to do something about this epidemic right now," he told Waskow, who is not Orthodox, suggesting that Jews follow the Catholic Church's reforms in dealing with clerical abuse.

In an interview with BuzzFeed, Donohue defended his words.

"Waskow is a man full of hate," he said, calling Waskow's op-ed "the kind of thing I'd expect from Bill Maher, not from a rabbi."

"Who the hell is he?" Donohue said. "I don't tell Jews what to do when they have people who are miscreants in their community."

Donohue's "long nose" comment was in reference to something Waskow said in the previous email: "Would you also suggest I keep my long Jewish nose out of some Catholic priests' rape of Catholic children and some Catholic bishops' protection of those priests from the law, because I'm not a Catholic? Perhaps you would." (Donohue had told him "you have stuck your nose in where you don't belong.")

Koch, the former mayor of New York, said that he never said the quote Donohue attributes to him.

...

[Quality Start Machine]

Wait, we got the sane Donohue???

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Wait, we got the sane Donohue???

I've made it clear in the past that the spelling of our last name is the ONLY thing I'll admit to having in common with this asshat.  

I also noticed that the writer mis-spelled it "DonAhue" at one point in the article, a mistake that I'd catch quicker than others, considering I've been suffering under such carelessness for years.