Monthly Archives: May 2009

Let’s have a 24 hour media ban on Susan Boyle and give the poor woman a break!

Posted by Wendy on May 29, 2009 No comments

susanboyle3Things have gone from bad to worse for Susan Boyle this past week and the poor woman has been so harrassed she has even considered retiring from the final of Britain’s Got Talent tomorrow night.

This poor woman has been built up so much that she is having trouble coping with the pressure; now ‘Ms Plastic-Fantastic’ Demi Moore is jumping on the bandwagon and will be a guest in the audience tomorrow night in support of Susan. ” The world is rooting for you! ” she is reported to have told Susan – I am sure she needed to hear that like she needed an extra set of eyebrows. And I am pretty darn sure the other contestants – who have every right to believe they have just as much chance of winning – will be feeling a little anxious about how much public support there is left for them…

Susan Boyle is not a ‘one-off’; just visit any church hall on choir practice night in any village around the UK and you will meet thousands of Susan Boyles’. But there are no Simon Cowell’s wandering around rural England offering  to make any of them a star. The feeling I have is that tomorrow night’s ‘Susan Boyle Show’ could be just that; she will have the public sympathy – a very patronising public sympathy in my view – and they will vote for her in droves. The trouble is with all this pressure and public tantrums this week her performance could go either way. Most other contestants would thrive on such intense media and public scrutiny, for someone like Susan it is too much.

I suggest there be a total 24 hour media-blackout on reporting anything about Susan prior to the Final tomorrow night, just to give the woman a break. A break for her from reading who is saying what about her and from those scum journalist hacks who have been deliberately needling her in public just to see how quickly she cracks.

Because the cracks in this sweet woman have already started to show…

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Tough enough for tactical clothing…?

Posted by Wendy on May 28, 2009 No comments

My son goes through phases when it comes to clothing; a while ago it was all things military – khaki pants, khaki vest – in Australia we have army disposal stores which cater to such tastes. The clothes are cheap and surprisingly good quality.

Now he is into tactical clothing and actually it is not too bad; the site he asked me to look at has an astounding range of items including Blackhawk Holsters and police gear as well which don’t exactly go with my son’s status as a high school student…

His birthday is coming up so I have agreed to some trousers, a cap and some shirts. It’ll keep him happy – the iPhone will be harder to organise…

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When it was open-season on children in Ireland

Posted by Wendy on May 28, 2009 No comments

The most confronting issue for any Roman Catholic has been the revelation that members of our church clergy were responsible for the horrendous and systematic sexual and physical abuse of children on a scale that is almost impossible to comprehend. The exact figures revealing just how many victims there were will never be known because this behaviour has been going on for not years or decades but certainly centuries. We have to come to terms with the fact that the Catholic Church has been the largest paedophile ring in the world with the crimes of these men not restricted to merely Ireland. I prefer not to think of these bastards as priests – they never joined the church to administer the sacraments or serve God and spread his word – they joined simply to have access to innocent children. They were paedophiles first and foremost, never true members of the clergy.

I was lucky though; I had a positive experience in my catholic upbringing being educated by nuns who were kind, caring and highly educated women. I saw the excellent educational results they helped us achieve in school and I also witnessed the benevolent side of those women who were truly devoted to serving God through their vocation.  If only other children were as lucky as I was…

But they were not – and there have been millions of them. Ireland – that nation where the Roman Catholic Church has enjoyed such influence and privilege over the centuries – is only now starting to acknowledge the appalling crimes committed by it’s clergy against it’s own children. It is still not enough and those victims – now grown up – are still fighting for justice for the cruelty they suffered at the hands of sadistic and paedophilic clergy while The State ignored what was going on.

One of the many victims, former mayor Micheal O’Brien 72, makes this heartbreaking speech to some clueless Ministers during a recent episode of RTE’s ‘Questions and Answers’…

What a brave and courageous man – but can Mr O’Brien and all those who also suffered ever be fully compensated for what happened to them? and why has it taken so long for the Irish Government – and The Church – to acknowledge and apologise for the fact that for many, many years it was open season on children in Ireland and all over the world…?

But hopefully now the hunting season is over…

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