Paradise Chased

Governed

June 18, 2007

Ireland has a government.  We didn't have one for awhile.  Not for three weeks, since the election, or possibly seven weeks, from when the election was called.  I'm not entirely sure.  I didn't want to mention it previously because it seemed like it might be a good time for an outside power with nothing else on its schedule to invade the Celtic Tiger.  Might be a nice acquisition for some militarized country with a rotten economy, like North Korea, or Burma.  But too late, we've got a government now; we're safe.

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