Rubes of the World - Update

Irish government bans Asian cripples from Special Olympics

Rubewatch hopes the Irish people can relax now that the spectre of hundreds of disease ridden spastics (as I'm sure Clonmel residents would describe them) turning up in their towns has been averted.

This is a stunning example of the long reach of the Rube in Office phenomenon (see GWB et al.). The Irish Government has this week excelled itself in its petty self-serving politics. Recently they justified refueling US warplanes heading to Iraq despite their constitutional neutrality by admitting that it was in national economic interest. They allow hospital waste to be dumped in the Dublin mountains yet describe incineration as polluting. Now they have banned 5 Asian countries (but not the Canadians) from sending their athletes to the Special Olympics in case they give some backwater bogmen a dose of SARs. Lets put this into perspective. For a professional athlete this would be a serious disappointment, but ultimately something they'd get over. For someone who has nothing else in the world, perhaps not even limbs for fuck's sake, this is a blow on a scale us able-bodied wasters can't comprehend. (Well, perhaps Matt hears us). This decision is truly the mark of a super-Rube. A cunt even. Therefore, it is health minister Micheal Martin who is the first Irish Government minister to grace the Hall of Rubes.