Girl Guides, Swan Attack & Drug Wars

Branding the Girl Guides may well be about overhauling the image of that bastion of girlie goodness, but the headline instead prompted my thoughts in the direction of uniformed girls in cattle runs be prodded with branding irons A woman whose wrist was broken when she was beaten to the ground and battered by a swan in the Phoenix Park has failed in a £30,000 personal injuries action against the State — people just never seem to learn that swans are contrary beasts who are not to be messed with Enslave your girls and women, harbour anti US terrorists and destroy every vestige of civilisation in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that the United States still takes seriously