On which holiday will he invite the family of a murdered Iraqi to the White House? A murdered Palestinian? Lavalas member?Several U.S. senators offered their support Wednesday to five Belfast sisters who blame the Irish Republican Army for the killing of their brother, increasing American pressure on the outlawed paramilitary group to disband and identify the alleged killers.
"No political party can also have an armed unit that continues the violence and criminality in today's world," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., part of a growing chorus of Irish-American leaders who have rebuked the IRA over the Jan. 30 murder of Robert McCartney.[...]
The sisters have been invited to the White House on St. Patrick's Day. President Bush said Wednesday he was looking forward "to meeting these very brave souls," adding, "Hopefully some good will come out of the evil perpetuated on this family."
ABC News article
And what do you suppose that will be?Kennedy stood shoulder to shoulder on Wednesday with the McCartney sisters and Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and John McCain, R-Ariz.
The senators plan to offer a Senate resolution in support of the sisters.
The Mark Twain random quote in the sidebar is doubly appropriate today: Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Two Irishmen were sitting at a pub having beer and watching the brothel across the street.
They saw a Baptist minister walk into the brothel, and one of them said, "Aye,'tis a shame to see a man of the cloth goin' bad."
Then they saw a rabbi enter the brothel, and the other Irishman said, "Aye,'tis a shame to see that the Jews are fallin' victim to temptation as well."
Then they see a catholic priest enter the brothel, and one of the Irishmen said, "What a terrible pity...one of the girls must be dying.
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