<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/66d21d5d-91b3-44e8-94f0-5fa8ca0bd44b/A5DA65B6-BEC9-4873-A895-0A241A4531A0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/mad-poisonous-bilge--pours-from-his-mouth-like--dung-from-an-incontinent-crocodiles-bowels-1896493.html" href="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/mad-poisonous-bilge--pours-from-his-mouth-like--dung-from-an-incontinent-crocodiles-bowels-1896493.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.independent.ie</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/mad-poisonous-bilge--pours-from-his-mouth-like--dung-from-an-incontinent-crocodiles-bowels-1896493.html"><P>What struck me most forcibly watching the Brotherly Leader and Guide of the September Revolution of the <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Libya" title="Libya">Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya</A> -- better known as the dingbat Gadaffi -- was not that he was a certifiable lunatic, though this of course would have been borne in upon any sensate observer. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/mad-poisonous-bilge--pours-from-his-mouth-like--dung-from-an-incontinent-crocodiles-bowels-1896493.html"><P>Nor was it the certainty that this evil scum caused both <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Lockerbie" title="Lockerbie">Lockerbie</A>, and prolonged the Irish Troubles by 20 years. Nor was it the revelation that he is now <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Gordon+Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</A>'s first, best and perhaps only friend (and how sad is that?). </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/mad-poisonous-bilge--pours-from-his-mouth-like--dung-from-an-incontinent-crocodiles-bowels-1896493.html"><P>No, what struck me most of all, as he addressed the <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/United+Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</A> for an hour and a quarter more than he was invited to, was this: the fellow's had plastic surgery! And what's more, by a Libyan!</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/mad-poisonous-bilge--pours-from-his-mouth-like--dung-from-an-incontinent-crocodiles-bowels-1896493.html">Thus the worshipful face of the Brotherly Leader and Guide (and so on) now looks like the love-child between <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Mickey+Rourke" title="Mickey Rourke">Mickey Rourke</A> and a baseball that got into a knife-fight in <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Tallinn" title="Tallinn">Tallinn</A> and is now on life-support. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/mad-poisonous-bilge--pours-from-his-mouth-like--dung-from-an-incontinent-crocodiles-bowels-1896493.html"><H1 class="size-a">Kevin Myers</H1></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A5DA65B6-BEC9-4873-A895-0A241A4531A0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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