Won this from The Ray D’Arcy Show last week… it arrived in the post today.

It’s the (famous!) O’Neill’s Odd-1-Out Hoodie! My street-cred will totally shoot up now!

I took part in the quiz on the day when they were looking for people who named after someone famous. (My confirmation name is “Phillip” after, erm… this guy…)

By all means, draw your own conclusions, – but it would seem to me that Jim Corr, guitarist with Dundalk based band “The Corrs”, has far too much time, money and Internet access on his hands.

In a radio interview on Today FM’s “The Last Word” yesterday, he went on a well rehearsed rant about the Lisbon Treaty and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Apparently, he got on the air thanks to his buddy Tony Fenton (pictured with him here).

During his rant, he claimed that:

The Bush administration, with the help of the intelligence community – the CIA, etc., carried out the atrocities in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania

Explosives were planted in the WTC towers in order to ensure that they “collapsed neatly into their own footprint”

Rudolph Guiliani, then mayor of New York, covered it up by shipping evidence (including steel from the towers) abroad

None of the hi-jackers were actually on the airline passenger manifests and at least eight are still alive and free today

We are headed towards a “new world order” culminating in a single world government which he said would be a “scientific dictatorship” – starting with Mexico, Canada and the US merging (and using one currency, the “Amero“) – and those later merging with Europe and Asia.

It all smacks quite clearly of some very well known conspiracy theories which have been circulating on the Internet for the past 6 years (including one in a Google Video which he referenced) – most of which a lot of us have heard (and laughed at, in fairness) before and most if not all of which have been comprehensively debunked.

Oh!- and he also claimed, in a roundabout way, that the Lisbon Treaty will mean the eventual introduction of the death penalty in the E.U.

They’re also talking about this on boards.ie and Damien blogged about this earlier today (but the YouTube video he referenced doesn’t have the full interview)…

So here’s the full interview now:

Oh and Jim’s not alone either…! Won’t we all be kicking ourselves if 10 or 20 years down the line, he’s found out to have been correct all along? Ray D’Arcy said on air today that if that does happen, he’ll publicly apologise to Jim Corr for not believing him but added that he didn’t think at that stage anyone would care about the Louth man’s opinion.

Do we care now? Whatever about Jim’s “sensational” outburst – everyone should get themselves properly informed – there’s only two weeks left before the country goes to the polls in the Lisbon Treaty Referendum.

I know it’s been a week, but I’ve not had much writing in me to be honest. Also, as this is my 400th blog entry (Jaysus..!), I wanted to wait until I had something to say. Not sure it’s going to live up to the hype now…

Today, I’ve to bring my brother to the airport as he’s flying back “home” to England after visiting for the long weekend. My parents are away until Thursday and we’ve had the place to ourselves. I’ve no job (although I’m waiting to hear back on a few things), no girlfriend/fiancèe (and still utterly heart-broken) and don’t really know anyone around here, so most of the past couple of weeks have consisted of long drawn-out days where I’ve had little to do but think. And I’ve done a lot of thinking. Too much, probably.

Anyway, I’ve to bring the brother to the airport. While there, I’ll probably day-dream about escaping this island for a while and doing some travelling/living/discovering/etc. myself. I dunno. Before dropping him in there, I decided to go finish off my unemployment claim (had to bring in a few more things to them – proof of address, P45, the usual), but didn’t realise the local office (2 prefabs behind a Garda station, basically) doesn’t open on Tuesdays (WHY?) so I went and wandered around a bit.

I went down the main street and into a shop to buy a paper and some m&m’s and there was a man in there almost blocking the entrance lying on the floor having some sort of fit. Epileptic, probably – I’m not sure. Most of the staff were completely ignoring him, apart from one who was trying to get him into a chair and saying “You’re alright, Alan, you’re alright” over and over. A crowd of customers (at least twelve of them) were standing around – keeping their distance, but watching intently, like motorists who slow down to stare at a car crash.

I hate those people.

I paid for my paper (the Sun with the mildly attractive Irish Page 3 girl, Claire) and my m&m’s and asked the staff member if anyone had called an ambulance. “No” came the slightly surprising reply. “For fucks sake, do it then!” I said. She did. I left.

On the way home, listening to the radio in the car, I heard Claire, the Page 3 girl, who was on Ray D’arcy’s programme on Today FM. That show just keeps getting better and better, eh?

So, how’s your day going?