Just read this ingenius poem on the http://paisleyties.blogspot.com/ website. It probably reveals everything that needs to be known about Causewaygate. The poet is a genius in the same category as Muhammed Ali or Crawford Howard!
SWING YOUR PARTNER BY THE SASH
ON HIS RETURN HAND HIM SOME CASH..
DON'T BE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD
DARE TO BE A LITTLE BOLD....
BE SURE TO ASK WHAT IS YOUR NAME
IF YOU 'RE IN THE DUP IT'S ALL THE SAME...
IF YOU WANT SOME CASH JUST STAND IN LINE
AND YOU CAN BE A FRIEND OF MINE..
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There is Watergate then Jim and Tammy Fay BakerGate,then Jimmy SwaggertGate. Clinton travel gate.
THen you have your run of the mill gates,fence gate,iron gate ,garden gate.Can anyone think of any other gates ?OLD --NEW OR UPCOMING /
URL: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071006/D8S3MC9G0.html
otob.anonymous
LIARS LIARS ALL PANTS ON FIRE.........
DID HE KNOW ?DID SHE KNOW ? DID THEY KNOW ?DID WE KNOW ?.......
SOUNDS LIKE THE LYRIC'S TO THE NEW LINE DANCE SONG. "DOIN the UKNOW"...
THE DANCE THAT'S SWEEPING THE COUNTRY.............Saw this at Paisley Ties blogspot site
It does not take a genius to "figure out "what is really going on.
otob
Sam while you are watching airplanes in the sky,here is what is happening on the ground,i mean
the causeway ground. What's causing "THIS"
DUP leader urged council to reject developer's rival
[Published: Tuesday 9, October 2007 - 07:24]
By David Gordon
DUP leader Ian Paisley tried to persuade Moyle Council to back away from an alternative to tycoon Seymour Sweeney's centre proposal for the Giant's Causeway, the Belfast Telegraph has learned.
The intervention by Dr Paisley (right) in 2005 could have scuppered the development of plans for a new publicly-funded visitor centre at the north coast attraction.
Moyle Council rejected his plea, but has recently seen the project shelved as a result of actions by DUP Ministers.
The council entered into a partnership in 2005 to deliver a replacement for the Causeway centre that had burned down five years earlier.
This scheme also involved the National Trust, Northern Ireland Tourist Board and the Department of Enterprise.
Mr Paisley, however, preferred an alternative commercial centre blueprint tabled by developer Seymour Sweeney, a DUP member.
In early 2005, the DUP leader issued a statement with his son Ian Paisley Jnr denouncing the Government-backed project as "fool's gold".
It has now been discovered that Mr Paisley followed up with a last-ditch appeal to Moyle Council in September 2005.
He wrote to the council the day it was due to sign up to the joint project, urging it not to take a decision.
A copy of the letter, which was faxed from Mr Paisley's office, has been obtained by this newspaper.
It claimed "hasty action" would damage ratepayers' interests and decisions should not be taken "without exploring all of the commercial, legal and professional options available".
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Now Sam ...........put your airplanes away now ,play with them
later.look up to the skyways and the bi ways and the causeways and give me a FULL REPORT.
WHAT IS GOING ON ?
Another chapter ,another verse.
developing and developing and still developing.
DUPed MEMBERS TAKE NOTE
DUPed MEMBERS TAKE NOTE
As it becomes clearer day by day that the DUP’s Dr Ian Paisley can not nor does not, in his role as First Minister, even sign a letter without McGuinnes’s approval, he (and every member of his party) should reflect upon the words and views of the deputy First Minister’s mentors, Marx, Lenin and Stalin.
In his book ‘Marx & Satan, Richard Wurmbrand, himself imprisoned for 14 years in Europe for his outspoken views on communism urges Christians ‘not to be duped by Marxism’s benevolent disguise as mere political or economic partners’.
Five examples from Wurmbrand’s research will suffice to trumpet the danger of being ‘ unequally yoked’ with the Marxist orientated Sinn Fein/IRA:
Marx: ‘We must make these rogues and here Marx was referring to his comrades partners believe that we continue our relationship with them, until we have the power to sweep them away from our road, in one manner or another’.
MEW, XXV11, P, 292
Stalin: ‘..the greatest joy is to cultivate a person’s friendship until he lays his head confidently on your bosom, then to implant a dagger in his back, a pleasure not to be surpassed’
(Boris Souvarine, Stalin)
>Lenin ‘We have to use any ruse, dodge, trick, cunning, unlawful method, concealment, and veiling of the truth. The basic rule is to exploit the conflicting interests of the capitalist states’
Marx: ‘There is only one method to shorten the murderous pains of death of the old society, the bloody birth pangs of the new society; only one method to simplify and concentrate them, that is revolutionary terrorism’
The Communist Manifesto
and finally for those who are still being deceived by those ‘chuckles’:
Khrushchev: ‘If anyone believes our smiles involve abandonment of the teachings of Marx, Engels and Lenin, he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle’.
Surely the DUP Leader(s) must awaken to the realisation of the serpent it has taken into its bosom – Marxist Sinn Fein/IRA
BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE – COME OUT FROM AMONGST THEM - NOW
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Mr.Paisley Prints thinks you should leave comment both here and there.
Now Sam ,if you just put your airplnes away for a little whileand put your thinking cap on you could bring back VAUDVILLE all you need do is add some tap dance music a few songs and a few look-a like actors male /female you have all the materia; right here in front of you .DINNER THEATERS WATCH OUT SAM IS ON THE WAY.
THE SAM AND THE TRAVLIN ROAD SHOW.
ACT 1 SMELLY FINGERS...........
Arlene, get off your high horse and just accept you were duped
(Bimpe Fatogun, Irish News)
It smells fishy, doesn't it? No, not the lobsters Ian Og tried to drag up with Seymour Sweeney, the man he 'knew of' in, ahm, when was it he was out in his boat, 2004 he thinks it might have been.
No, it's the general impression that a lot of people have been, as Tory minister Alan Clark put it, 'economical with the actualité'. Bit by bit, drip by drip, each little extra piece of information emerges so as to convince the public there's a lot more lurking behind what is already known.
More remarkable perhaps is what you sense is an embarrassed silence from senior figures in the other parties in the executive.
The charge has been led by Sinn Féin's Daithi McKay, the youngest MLA. Fair enough you might think: he's the MLA for the Causeway coast. Fair enough if it was an issue confined to the development of the North Antrim area but it isn't. There are wider issues of planning and allegations of cronyism and of that good old Irish political tradition, clientilism.
The latest revelation, that Ian Paisley snr claimed to the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2003 that Unesco backed Mr Sweeney's bid to develop a visitors' centre when Unesco couldn't have backed him since they don't deal with individuals, merits more than a complaint from Daithi McKay. If even Paisley's assertion in his letter signed by Ian Og had been true, what did he think was doing anyway advocating Sweeney's plan in 2003 when the NIO had just that year presented Unesco with plans for the Causeway's development by government, the National Trust and two local councils? Who exactly is the local MP loyal to, eh?
Yet, in the midst of all this, silence from the deputy first minister and all other Sinn Féin ministers. Silence too from Mark Durkan.
Is it not extraordinary that almost all the revelations of the connections between the Paisleys and Seymour Sweeney have emerged as a result of media investigation, not questions in the assembly? Why are the other parties satisfied with Arlene Foster's meaningless phrase, a 'minded decision'? Sounds grand, means nothing.
You either have a planning decision or you don't – and we don't. Why does no-one ask her what is the legal status of her phrase? There ain't one.
Arlene Foster is prancing around on her high horse threatening all and sundry with writs even though no-one has accused her of anything. Would it not be smarter to accept that she knew nothing about the links between Mr Sweeney and her party but rather that she has been exposed as a naive and inexperienced minister, duped and now hung out to dry? She's not exactly getting rock-solid support from other DUP ministers.
On the evidence of the past couple of months the parties here are failing the public who elected them to administer the north. It's not only the Causeway controversy that reveals the assembly's weakness.
It's clear the executive is very fragile. No decision on a victims' commissioner, on a stadium location, on the replacement for the 11-plus, on local government reform, on anything of importance in fact. Unionist nonsense about the Irish language and shamateur dramatics in Belfast parades simply shows the real issues are being avoided.
What is glaringly obvious is that neither the assembly nor the executive can face the sort of row any democratic forum requires. The consequence is that we have no way of calling any minister to account. Compare the Republic where the taoiseach has just spent three gruelling days at the Mahon tribunal which has exposed the wrongdoing of several ministers and sent two TDs to jail. Isn't it amazing that no party has called for the resignation of either Paisley or even tabled a no confidence motion in either of them?
Alan Clark's remark about the actualité was under pressure at the Scott inquiry into arms for Iraq. At the very least there needs to be a public inquiry into the Causeway controversy.
One outcome would be to exonerate the poor fall-girl Arlene.
The trouble is that the political structures at Stormont are so weak, not only can ministers not be called to account, they can't even vindicate themselves, so the fishy smell lingers.
October 8, 2007
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Now Sam .....this appears to be heading for a novel status .please start putting part 1 part 2 etc
might be a great idea,
Controversy giving DUP a Causeway for concern
[Published: Wednesday 10, October 2007 - 07:43]
No-one who stood at the charred wreckage of the Giant's Causeway visitor centre in April 2000 could have imagined that it would still not be replaced seven years later.
Or that the issue would somehow develop into the first big policy-bust up of a fledgling devolved Assembly.
It has become complicated over the years but the basics are straightforward enough.
The aim is to replace the premises that were burnt down in 2000 with a centre that enhances the visitor experience at Northern Ireland's top tourist attraction.
It's agreed that it must not harm the environmental setting or jeopardise the Causeway's status as the province's only Unesco World Heritage site.
There are three main players in the locality.
The National Trust owns the famous Causeway stones themselves. It also runs a tea room and shop on the temporary visitor centre site, above the stones.
Moyle Council, meanwhile, owns the car-park plus a shop and an audio-visual theatre.
Then there's Seymour Sweeney, the leading north coast property tycoon, who has amassed a sizeable landholding in the district.
He owns both the Giant's Causeway steam train service which runs from nearby Bushmills, and the Nook pub/restaurant close to the Causeway car park.
Mr Sweeney has been bidding for years to build a new profit-making visitor centre on his land.
The Trust and Moyle Council have both signed up to an alternative publicly-funded scheme that was backed by Government and also involved the Northern Ireland Tourist Board.
However, this is not a simple public sector versus private sector debate.
Even Mr Sweeney's admirers would probably agree that he is a controversial developer.
Housing development is itself contentious on the north coast.
There are general concerns - echoed round the province - about the risk of over-development, with the swelling number of new apartments and other new buildings.
Added to this is the fear of 'holiday home blight' - when increasing numbers of properties in a neighbourhood are only occupied on a part-time basis, and shops and community life in general suffer as a result.
Taking full advantage of house-building opportunities is what developers do, and Mr Sweeney has certainly been good at it.
But it has not won him any popularity contests. He's been involved in bitter planning and right-of-way disputes with resident groups over the years.
He's been victorious in a large share of them too, but that has not earned him many more admirers.
The businessman has enjoyed the backing of DUP leader Ian Paisley and his politician son, but is certainly not universally loved in the party.
East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell has strongly opposed his developments in a string of cases.
Mr Sweeney's interest in the Causeway area has gone beyond the visitor centre issue.
He has tabled previous proposals for a hotel, tea-room and craft centre.
A month ago today, the businessman received a massive boost that caught many by surprise when DUP Environment Minister Arlene Foster announced that she was "of a mind" to approve his long-standing planning application for a visitor centre.
Her party colleague, Enterprise Minister Nigel Dodds, then swiftly shelved the Government scheme for a centre, involving the National Trust and Moyle Council.
A huge row erupted that must surely have taken Mrs Foster aback.
It centred, firstly, on the fact that Mr Sweeney was a DUP member and that the Paisleys had been among his strongest supporters.
The Environment Minister has stressed that she had no knowledge of the developer's party ties, and had not been approached on his application by her party leader or his son.
She has nevertheless remained under fire over her provisional planning decision, particularly since the Belfast Telegraph revealed that environment chiefs in her own department recommended a refusal.
It is also known that Planning Service officials working on Mr Sweeney's application had started preparing official grounds for turning it down.
The final recommendations made to the minister by the Planning Service's top-level Management Board remain under wraps.
Mrs Foster is adamant that this advice should stay confidential until she has made her final decision.
That puts her on a collision course with the Assembly's Environment Committee, which has requested the documentation, citing its right to seek Government papers.
Meanwhile, the extent to which Dr Paisley and his son have lobbied for Mr Sweeney is becoming clearer day by day.
Ian Paisley jnr did not help himself with his "I know of him" answer, when asked on BBC Radio Ulster if he supported the developer.
Quite a few people spluttered in disbelief on hearing that - among them this journalist.
In 2001, when I first started reporting on the Causeway centre story, I was invited to a private briefing with Mr Sweeney and his PR adviser.
Ian Paisley jnr attended as well - as an enthusiastic supporter of the developer rather than a neutral observer.
The DUP MLA has backed other business projects of Mr Sweeney's in recent years including the Nook pub redevelopment at the Causeway - despite Mr Paisley's snr's well-known views on alcohol.
It was also learned last month that Mr Paisley jnr and his in-laws have second homes in Bushmills that were built by the developer. Mr Sweeney confirmed this, stressing that the two properties had been sold at full market value.
Last week, this newspaper discovered that Mr Paisley snr had written to the Heritage Lottery Fund in January 2003, lobbying for a grant for the businessman's visitor centre plans.
The letter claimed that Mr Sweeney's scheme had the support of world heritage body Unesco. This assertion has been flatly rejected by Unesco, but defended as "fair" by Mr Paisley jnr.
Unesco meanwhile represents one of the main hurdles in the way of planning permission for the developer.
It sent a mission team to the Causeway in February 2003 to draw up recommendations for a new visitor centre.
Its conclusions remain its official policy to this day, and they would rule out Mr Sweeney's plans as being too big and in the wrong place.
Unesco has asked the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in London - its main link to UK Government authorities - for a report on the Causeway centre situation.
Its requirements will be one of the key factors on Mrs Foster's mind when she makes her final decision.
The minister clearly has some thinking to do yet.
So what caused a change of heart?
July 31, 2007 First Minister Ian Paisley hails freedom of information disclosures in Northern Ireland and declares that Stormont departments are "making considerable strides towards achieving our goal of more open government"
October 4, 2007 The Belfast Telegraph, using the Freedom of Information Act, reveals that DUP leader Ian Paisley made highly questionable claims while lobbying for a grant for would-be Giant's Causeway centre developer Seymour Sweeney
October 8, 2007 First Minister Ian Paisley threatens to curtail Freedom of Information provisions, while slamming use of the Act by " lazy journalists who will do not any work"
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