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With St Patrick’s Day quickly approaching, I want to remind everyone that you can post your public and private events here for free at the Official St Patrick’s Day website. You just sign up for a free IrishMail email account, then sign in the Event Application and start adding events. You can even promote your event using your IrishMail email account.

In addition, we offer a free Events widget. Publish once here, and it automatically updates your site with your events. It’s a great way to get twice the exposure for your event.

Here’s a link to one of the best pieces of satire that I’ve seen in a long time regarding the current spending orgy the government is going on. The actual satire isn’t so much in the words said, but the fact that one of Washington’s own big spenders is doing the talking… yep…  our own actor turned Senator, turned failed Presidential candidate …. Fred Thompson.

http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/12.08/goodnewa.html

Below is a great little funny story today that I thought I’d share. Seems the Irish Police may need a bit more training on reading licenses. Here’s the link, but I’ve also posted the story below.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090219/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_ireland_police_polish

“DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish police have solved the mystery of a Polish recidivist who clocked up 50 traffic offences on different addresses and who was never caught, after one officer noticed his name meant driving licence in Polish.

An internal police memo cited by Irish papers on Thursday said officers taking details of Polish traffic offenders had been mistakenly using “Prawo Jazdy,” printed in the top right corner of the driving licence, as the holder’s name.

“Prawo Jazdy is actually the Polish for driving licence and not the first and surname on the licence,” the police memo dated June 2007 said. “It is quite embarrassing to see the system has created Prawo Jazdy as a person with over 50 identities.”

A police spokesman declined to comment on the reports.

About 200,000 Polish people flocked to Ireland during the boom years of its “Celtic Tiger” economy but a poll in November indicated a third of them planned to leave due to recession.

(Reporting by Andras Gergely; Editing by Carmel Crimmins and Peter Millership)”