It's funny how you can get yourself worked up for things that in the end just don't pan out. For example, today I was supposed to drive two hours each way to Grand Lake and help replace a roof damaged by the snows earlier this year. Though I knew that by looking at the weather we were supposed to get more snow and I probably wouldn't able to work I still geared myself up mentally. When I did get the call from my friend saying we were called off on account of a white out I wasn't shocked but still felt strangely let down and was off kilter the rest of the day (spent lounging lazily with my lovely fiance).

So Last night before retiring to bed I checked my email and news as I always do and saw that the DUP has agreed to power sharing, in May. Considering the deadline is tomorrow by midnight for an executive this is hardly the historic moment that wee Jeffrey et al are crowing about and while I do loathe Peter Hain with his paunch and his perma tan while he frolics between NI and Wales all the while with his nose half way up Gordon Browns ass just so he can get out of both of those places and become the new deputy Labor Leader when Brown vacates the post in May (hows that for a run on sentence!) I almost feel sorry for him. Either he pulls the plug and flushes Tony's legacy down the toilet or he drops the deadline and allows the DUP to throw egg in his face especially considering all of the tough talk he's thrown around in the months leading up to where we find ourselves.

Actually I should qualify "we". I'm not Irish, I'm not British, hell I'm not even a good American so my interest is purely analytical. Comrade Stalin brought up an interesting point (first comment) pointing out that Republicans had continually delayed progress and so shouldn't we give the same courtesy to the DUP. To me that doesn't really hold water. PSF attempted and to a large degree succeeded in shifting the focus of republicanism to the ballot box exclusively. The DUP for all of the flirtations with para militarism is not linked to any loyalist paramilitary organization. In fact they have shown no inclination to provide leadership in loyalist working class areas other than complain when a UDA show of strength is disrupted.

Well shit there's so much more I wanted to touch on but I do want to get this posted before tomorrow night when it all unfolds (one way or another) so this will have to do for now.