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I made the obligatory trip to 'the old sod' and met my distant cousins in the 2nd Belfast provisionals. I'm looking at Falls road, the murals, the barricade walls, the stifling stupidity of a people with more in common than differences. I had this overwhelming desire to be in a few less than ideal nieghborhoods back in Los Angeles. I watched a riot, picked up a plastic bullet souvenier and suddenly they said 'time to leave.'  I'm like huh? I don't see any paras or UDF? No, you fool, It's TEA TIME and I could see orangemen walking to their homes for the same.
I know  the history- intimately, the language and thank God I'm in California and not that Celtic Twilight Zone.

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I as born in Hinsdale, revisited 90 days on a training mission on the USCGC Mackinaw and interviewed for the university, it and UCB being #1 in my degree field. We get Chitown news on my T.V.- a PITA since my mther thinks their lottery numbers are for Califonia.
But back to these gunboats; I suggest they are Nancy Sinatra ' These Boots Are Made for Walking.' My car broke down last year and I had to walk 4 miles ( dead cellphone area) to a landline. Park Avenues stop being boring and start hurting when they get real use!

I was struck with a deep irony. The 6 counties and Israel/Palestine could easilly be relocated to L.A. county with room left over for our blacks, latinos, iranians ( largest expat population) native americans ( largest off rez population) various european ethnicities lumped under a russian mountain checkbox, samoans, japanese, vietnamese,  virtually every other group AND the downtown Wilshire district where EVERYBODY goes to protest events back home.
It seems the meaner in relative acreage the meaner the fight.

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I apologize, point taken Sir. I have a 26 page essay i wrote on the relative merits of the various types of charcoal-impregnated foam used to make odor-combatting insoles, but i did not want to crash the server. Ill try to get it down to a workable length.

Apologies Shooman, I was Tboned by a drunk SUV a few days ago, damned near killed. I'm on codiene and my brain is oozing out conversations like lava on the wierdest stuff.

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Ever see a landmine go off Reggie? Usually a large animal or human is involved. I guess tht exempts you on both counts.

One of my brothers plays in The Brogues - a Pogues tribute band

http://www.myspace.com/thebroguesuk

Hows that for getting back on track with a smooth segue - The Troubles - > The Pogues-> The Brogues