Today’s Ireland Bashing
Erin’s Gone, Bruh.
Irish Government Freezes Christian Teacher’s Bank Account After He Refused to Use Gender-Neutral Pronouns
Caldron Pool | Mar 31, 2025The Irish government has frozen the bank account of an Irish teacher after his continued refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns for a student at Wilson’s Hospital School. Enoch Burke, who has spent more than 500 days in jail for refusing to comply with a court order, also had his salary payments halted.
Burke attempted to withdraw funds from his Bank of Ireland account last week but found that he was unable to access his money. The account reportedly holds over €40,000—his personal savings from years of work. The Irish government and courts have frozen these funds and are set to seize them next week.
Burke was previously jailed for contempt of court after refusing to comply with an injunction barring him from entering Wilson’s Hospital School, where he had been suspended following a dispute over the use of transgender pronouns.
The freezing of his bank account marks an unprecedented escalation in the legal battle. Burke maintains that he was upholding the Christian ethos of his school and acting according to his beliefs. The Irish courts have ruled against him at multiple stages, leading to fines, jail time, and now the freezing of his assets.
“What this is all about is an attempt to change the face of our country and to exalt LGBTQ+ ideology above Christian belief–to do away with religious belief altogether,” Burke said in a video update posted on X. “Children are being told they decide their gender. That is an anti-Christian belief.
“It’s not me that should be criminalised today, it’s any teacher that will stand in front of a class and will encourage young children to accept a belief that is anti-Christian…”
While this could just be the Irish government enforcing fines that have already been adjudicated, I doubt they would fine and jail a Muslim teacher for refusing to espouse ideas counter to their religious beliefs. There has to be accommodation for cases like this.
Local Man Arrested for Threatening To Shoot the Breeze, Shoot the Works, and Shoot the Rapids
C You, Now Thursday
Your challenge: to create a new word or phrase that begins with C.
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Cloney, George: About half the guys on Hollywood Boulevard.
— See also: Tom crews
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Correction: An insult. When an institution, an institution that corrects nothing.
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Anyone getting one of these into the online Urban Dictionary wins an automatic Harvey Award.
Maybe the Stones Were Prescient?
Federal Judges Must Stop Easter From Coming — But How?
Straight Line of the Day: If They Defund PBS and NPR, the Result Will Be…
GOP Bill Seeks to Cut Off NPR and PBS: “Taxpayers Shouldn’t Fund Propaganda”
Daily Fetched | March 29, 2025 | Jason WalshRep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) introduced a bill to fully defund NPR and PBS during a viral congressional hearing this week, calling the taxpayer-funded outlets “propaganda machines for the radical left.”
The move came after a House Subcommittee on Government Efficiency hearing Wednesday, where NPR CEO Katherine Maher was brutally grilled by GOP lawmakers for the outlet’s deep-seated liberal bias while taking taxpayers’ money.
Jackson’s bill—titled the “No Partisan Radio and Partisan Broadcasting Services Act” or the “NPR and PBS Act”—seeks to eliminate federal funding for both NPR and PBS.
“Hardworking Americans are sick of footing the bill,” Jackson told Fox News Digital.
“It’s time to cut them off and stop forcing taxpayers to pay for their liberal lies!”
“Though NPR and PBS were originally founded to produce non-biased, informational, and educational content, the outlets have since turned into taxpayer-funded propaganda machines for the radical left,” he added.
It’s April: Man Continues To Write “2024” on Checks
Bond Girlathon Friday : Results from 3/28/2025 : New Matches for 4/4/2025
I hope you stretched properly for this week’s matches.
| Kim Basinger | No Preference | Karen Dor |
|---|---|---|
| 154 | 0 | 64 |
| Jacqueline Bisset | No Preference | Jill St. John |
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| 165 | 0 | 93 |
Week of 4/4/2025
Match 1
Ursula Andress (Honey Ryder) vs Eunice Gayson (Sylvia Trench)
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
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| Ursula Andress | 1 – 0 – 0 | 194 – 0 – 110 |
Actress: Ursula Andress Nationality: Swiss Bond Movie: Dr. No (1962) Synopsis:
Honey Ryder dazzled cinema audiences, stepping out of the Caribbean sea wearing a white bikini with a large hunting knife at her side. She proved to be immensely popular with fans and set the tone for all Bond girls to come.
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| Contestant | Record | Total scores |
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| Eunice Gayson | 1 – 0 – 0 | 113 – 7 – 57 |
Actress: Eunice Gayson Nationality: English Bond Movie: Dr. No (1962) From Russia With Love (1963) Synopsis:
Sylvia Trench introduced herself in the opening scene of Dr. No as “Trench. Sylvia Trench”, which Bond then mimicked with his now trademark “Bond. James Bond”. Trench was Bond’s girlfriend for the first two films, with a running joke that Bond was called away on a mission just as things were heating up.
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Match 2
Zena Marshall (Miss Taro) vs Lana Wood (Plenty O’Toole)
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
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| Zena Marshall | 1 – 0 – 0 | 194 – 3 – 12 |
Zena Marshall Nationality: English Bond Movie: Dr. No (1962) Synopsis:
Miss Taro was a spy working for the villainous Dr. No. She got herself a job at government house in Kingston, Jamaica, so that she could steal secret files detailing Dr. No and Crab Key Island. She invited Bond to her house for dinner, where she laid a trap for his assassination. However, Bond smelled something was fishy and got his men to arrest Miss Taro so he could lay a trap for the assassin.
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| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
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| Lana Wood | 0 – 1 – 0 | 119 – 0 – 194 |
Actress: Lana Wood Nationality: American Bond Movie: Diamonds Are Forever (1971) Synopsis:
Plenty O’Toole was a gold digger from Las Vegas. She helped a man gamble at the craps table, but when he lost all of his money, she lost interest. She turned to leave, but went back after hearing James Bond ask for $10,000 in chips. She helped Bond play craps, and after winning $50,000, she went back to Bond’s suite. Bond girl Tiffany Case was waiting there for Bond, and some mobsters threw Plenty out of the window into the pool below.
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Cartoons and Memes
Today’s UK Bashing
UK businesses leaving and moving to the US
Sky News Australia | 3.25.2025 | Sky News AustraliaStrelmark President Hilary Fordwich says politicians should know “how to run a business” before coming into power.
UK Labour has been accused of being anti-business after reports of more than 200,000 businesses have folded since they took power.
Ms Fordwich told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power that businesses are “leaving” the UK and moving to the US.
Politicians should also know “how to run basic freedoms of expression” before coming into power.
Parents arrested by Hertfordshire police for complaining about daughter’s school
The Guardian | March 29, 2025 | Daniel LavelleThe parents of a nine-year-old girl have said they were held at a police station for 11 hours because they complained about their daughter’s primary school.
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Allen, a Times Radio producer, said six police officers turned up at his home on 29 January.
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Allen had reportedly communicated to the school in May 2024 regarding the recruitment of a new headteacher but his queries were rejected.
The school’s governors then reportedly wrote to the parent body about “inflammatory and defamatory” comments on social media, warning that the school would take action against anyone who caused “disharmony”.
B Itch Needs To Be Scratched
Straight Line of the Day: As Scotty T Has Pointed Out, Someday This Internet Thing Is Going To End. What Will Replace It?
Bond Girlathon Wednesday : Results from 3/26/2025 : New Matches for 4/2/2025
I hope everyone is up for some more hot Bond Girlathon action.
Results
| Gemma Arterton | No Preference | Lois Chiles |
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| 131 | 1 | 49 |
| Corinne Clery | No Preference | Berenice Marlohe |
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| 113 | 1 | 55 |
Week of 4/2/2025
Match 1
Leila Shenna (Private Jet Hostess) vs Lea Seydoux (Madelaine Swann)
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
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| Leila Shenna | 0 – 2 – 0 | 63 – 13 – 256 |
Actress: Leila Shenna Nationality: Moroccan Bond Movie: Moonraker (1979) Synopsis:
James Bond was aboard a private jet, enjoying his “last leg” of the mission with the hostess. Bond stated “I don’t think I’m ever going to fly with anyone else”, to which the hostess responded “You’re so right, Mr Bond” as she pulled a gun on him. Bond was then thrown out of the plane without a parachute, and was left to steal another mans, mid air. The fate of the hostess was unknown.
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| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
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| Lea Seydoux | 1 – 1 – 0 | 170 – 4 – 190 |
First appearance Spectre (2015) Last appearance No Time to Die (2021) Portrayed by Léa Seydoux Madeleine Swann is a complex character introduced in the James Bond film Spectre. Madeline Swann is the daughter of Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), a member of the criminal organization SPECTRE.
Swann studied at the University of Oxford and at Sorbonne University, and later worked with Doctors Without Borders.[1] By the time of Spectre she is working as a psychiatrist at a private clinic in the Austrian Alps.
Dying of thallium poisoning, White tells James Bond (Daniel Craig) to protect his daughter from SPECTRE, so Bond goes to see her at the clinic. Although Swann is initially hesitant to trust Bond, she agrees to share information about SPECTRE and help Bond take the organization down. The two gradually fall in love, and Bond ultimately leaves MI6 to be with her after arresting Blofeld.
Match 2
Carole Bouquet (Melina Havelock) vs Monica Bellucci (Lucia Sciara)
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
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| Carole Bouquet | 1 – 1 – 0 | 226 – 2 – 168 |
Actress: Carole Bouquet Nationality: French Bond Movie: For Your Eyes Only (1981) Synopsis:
Melina Havelock was the daughter of two marine explorers who did salvage work for the British Secret Service. After her parents were assassinated by henchman Hector Gonzales, Melina found the hitman and killed him with a crossbow. She and Bond were both trying to uncover the man who ordered the attacks, and they worked well together, eventually finding him.
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| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
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| Monica Bellucci | 1 – 1 – 0 | 173 – 8 – 187 |
Born Monica Anna Maria Bellucci
30 September 1964 (age 60)
Città di Castello, Umbria, ItalyOccupations Actressfashion model Instructed by his former superior M, James Bond is assigned to trace notorious assassin Marco Sciarra, kill him, and attend his funeral, knowing his womanizing ways will get him the answers he needs there rather from the assassin himself. Bond travels to Mexico and successfully kills Sciarra, failing his plan of targeting a stadium for a terrorist attack.
Science Thoughts
Gravity: mysterious, attractive, always available. Like Ginger. Always pulling in one direction. I’ll leave this PG.
I think that scientists posited “gravitons” as conveying this force . . . and they’re weightless, like photons.
Then they posited “anti-gravitons.” Maybe even made some out of quarks in a lab. It’s evident I don’t follow this stuff enough for a guy who writes about science thoughts.
The point is, I’d love to have a tankful of those anti-gravitons to power a George Jetson car.
The problem, as I see it:
How do you turn them off? I mean, do you go off through the universe anti-gravitying your way away from matter?
It’s similar to time travel: if you move through time, do you leave the Earth behind after two seconds and end up in space?
I’m going to leave these problems to the science guys. I’ve got enough to worry about.