Hey Remember Michael Dwyer, this sweaty, misunderstood Irish gun nut who ran off to Bolivia last year with his neo-fascist Hungarian boyfriend to free the country from its terrible electoral decisions, yet ended up tragically dead before his dream of a Croatian Homeland in the Andes could be realized?
Apparently his death remains "controversial" in some circles (Ireland), and now the Irish teevee Program "PrimeTime" has investigated, and it turns out he is pretty much the shitbag you thought he was, the end.
Comments (13)
I cant watch that clip. What does it say actually?
Posted by Utpal
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December 21, 2009 4:03 PM
Posted on December 21, 2009 16:03
That band always intrigued me, especially the fact that they are from Yorba Linda, OC; it's sooo frikkin anomalous. (For our non-US friends -- Yorba Linda is a city in Orange County, the birthplace of Tricky Dick which used to be *very* rightwing, and to a large extent still is, although the new Hispanic population has shifted the balance somewhat).
Posted by Utpal
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December 20, 2009 4:40 PM
Posted on December 20, 2009 16:40
YAY!:
Rage Against the Machine take Christmas No.1 slot
Sunday, 20 December 2009
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/rage-against-the-machine-take-christmas-no1-slot-1846247.html
Rock band Rage Against the Machine ended Simon Cowell’s four year domination of the Christmas charts tonight after a hugely popular Facebook campaign helped the Los Angeles nu-metallers snatch the Christmas number one slot from X-factor’s Joe McEdlerry.
For the past four years the Christmas number one has effectively been a forgone conclusion and this year was expected to be no different when McElderry won the latest series of X-Factor.
But a Facebook group called “Rage Against the Machine for Christmas No 1” quickly transformed itself into a major grassroots protest against the X-Factor attracting more than 980,000 followers. The campaign took on an increasingly anti-corporate and pro-social justice tone with followers encouraging each other to donate to the homeless charity Shelter which received £65,000 in public donations. Rage Against the Machine also lent their support to the campaign, promising to donate their royalties to Shelter and to play a thank you gig in the UK next year if the campaign was successful.
Bookies are set to make a major loss from the Rage victory. Rupert Adams, from William Hill, said. “We’ll probably take quite a hit, quite possibly a six or seven figure hit. The last time we had such an unpredictable Christmas number one was with Mr Blobby which badly stung bookies because no-one expected that track to win.”
A BBC spokesperson said Radio 1 and Radio 6 would continue to play the clean edit of “Killing in the Name” which cuts out the 17 swearwords at the end of the song. Radio Two will not play the Rage track but will play McElderry.
Posted by Paul Escobar
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December 20, 2009 4:28 PM
Posted on December 20, 2009 16:28
@ ceti: Steve Jobs, I think (and he definitely needs to eat more pie).
Posted by otto
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December 20, 2009 4:18 PM
Posted on December 20, 2009 16:18
No, it's not "chasqui"--this one's clearly Hungarian. It even cursed me out in that language. Good thing I don't understand a word of it that doesn't have to do with food or folk dancing...
Posted by QueenBina
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December 20, 2009 4:06 PM
Posted on December 20, 2009 16:06
Is that Buda Pest the same as the "chasqui" person? He plays "liberal" from time to time.
Posted by Utpal
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December 20, 2009 3:54 PM
Posted on December 20, 2009 15:54
Whoah, people still use RealPlayer??
Posted by ceti_alpha
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December 20, 2009 3:24 PM
Posted on December 20, 2009 15:24
And by "shit", I mean they scream about how Evo's trying to kill all the white people.
I had to laugh at the tattooist who did Dwyer's shoulder, claiming it was a "tribal" design. No it wasn't--unless the tribe happens to be the Neo-Nazis, and their emblem a stylized SS lightning bolt, hidden oh-so-cleverly among butt-ugly random shit, poorly inked...
Posted by QueenBina
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December 20, 2009 3:20 PM
Posted on December 20, 2009 15:20
@Utpal, #1: No, it's brought them screeching out of the woodwork already long before this. Remember the Buda Pest who shat on my blog? It was on Gav's, too. Same shit, same asshole...
Posted by QueenBina
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December 20, 2009 3:17 PM
Posted on December 20, 2009 15:17
There's no way to watch that clip on Windows media, right?
Posted by Utpal
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December 20, 2009 3:04 PM
Posted on December 20, 2009 15:04
Hey, why didn't the NRA freak out when the Honduran coup regime started to take every citizen's guns away? Don't they normally whine about that sort of stuff?
Posted by El Cid
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December 20, 2009 1:59 PM
Posted on December 20, 2009 13:59
Too bad not sad. Lie down with dogs - get up with fleas ... if you get up that is.
Posted by Bosque
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December 20, 2009 1:50 PM
Posted on December 20, 2009 13:50
Is this gonna shut up the Bolivian escualidos for a while?
Posted by Utpal
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December 20, 2009 12:54 PM
Posted on December 20, 2009 12:54