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#19876
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 20, 2016, 04:09:48 PM
Quote from: whitey on November 20, 2016, 03:42:15 PM
Quote from: seafoid on November 20, 2016, 03:34:45 PM
A good few fruitcake Irish Americans in the cabinet

It just shows the importance of the wider culture in the development of the individual

And Kelly Ann Conway was a Fitzpatrick before she got married-lol

Her interview with Bill Tipperary Maher is a keeper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maL6-l3DdHk
#19877
General discussion / Re: Brexit.
November 20, 2016, 04:08:19 PM
Quote from: muppet on November 20, 2016, 03:41:30 PM
Quote from: trileacman on November 20, 2016, 12:09:46 PM
Quote from: muppet on November 20, 2016, 10:17:45 AM
Quote from: seafoid on November 20, 2016, 09:56:33 AM
Pour encourager les autres

It is like something out of the Middle Ages that would happen to Ireland. The great game.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/19/europes-leaders-force-uk-hard-brexit-farage-le-pen

This is the thinking that brought the people a decade of austerity. Austerity has brought us Brexit, Trump and maybe Le Pen. So they decide on more austerity.

Bitching about austerity is grand and popular muppet but when your spending is X and your income is 1 billion less than that then you have no option but to cut your cloth to fit.

All these f**kers bitching about austerity, you can't spend money you don't have. Syrzia tried it and they're going down in a ball of flames.

Funnily enough I agree to a point.

But austerity in Ireland was imposed on us because of the failure of private banks. I know we had a deficit, especially when stamp duty dried up, but the bank guarantee and the ECB's insistence on no bank being allowed to fail screwed us.



The EZ doesn't have a bank recapitalisation system or agreed rules on how to wind down a failed bank at least cost. Because the galacticos who devised the Euro didn't think it would be needed.

The bank guarantee was a mistake but it wasn't the main reason the sovereign took on all that debt.
When Cyprus got into trouble the ECB stuck depositors with the losses.
#19878
Canice got a belt to the head in a Junior C match in Ballyragget a month ago. His wife Jocelyn says he hasn't really been the same since .

Things came to a head when he launched into a foul mouthed tirade against Gaelic football on FACEBOOK last night following a visit to Dublin

Jocelyn said it started off innocently enough when Canice returned home from a session with the all Blacks .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEFdb7XMGJQ
He watched the rugby match and the news before heading to bed.
But at 12 midnight he was up again and typing madly.
He drank 2 bottles of Amaretto by 1 am and in foul mouthed tirade which was completely out of character ATTACKED

- The black card rule
- the gracelessness of the scoring process
- the fact the rules are all over the place
- the definition of the tackle
- Why did AIG not show Steve Hansen how to defend in packs against a non scoring forward with a big ball. Picklington insists it is because the concept of the non scoring forward is too shameful to explain to foreigners
- The defensive mentality which inhibits the freedom of expression given free reign in hurling under Brian Cody who was influenced by Johan Cruyff after a chance meeting in Langtons in 1994
-the general absence of manliness

Glanbia were unavailable for comment.
#19879
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 20, 2016, 03:37:04 PM
Quote from: muppet on November 20, 2016, 03:35:41 PM
Quote from: whitey on November 20, 2016, 01:46:19 PM
Quote from: seafoid on November 19, 2016, 11:00:41 PM
Bob the Builder has never been involved in politics so he doesn't really know how to do it. Can we fix it ? Yes we can. But that was an Obama phrase, wasn't it? This week Bob has to drain the swamp.

He has drafted in a number of heavy hitters. Noddy will be in charge of national insecurity. Big Ears is not going to do anything about Climate change. The 3 bears will dismantle Financial regulation to make the system safer. Goldlilocks will leave her job at Breitbart and tell lies to everyone. Dora the explorer will be interned. The little matchgirl was one of Bob's biggest constituencies but she is a loser. She doesn't need a tax cut like Scrooge McDuck does.  The ugly duckling is a warmonger just like his father, Mr Potato Head. Aladdin and Sindbad will have to register.
Bob has the attention span of a gnat. He has been groping  Miss Pink Cat all night.

His cabinet picks look like they could be Villians in an Austin Powers movie....Flynn looks particularly scary.....wonder where in Ireland his people are from?  Maybe the local councillor should invite him over for tea and some locally sourced brown bread with blackberry jam

They look like they are building a team for a smackdown.
It looks like the end of empire when the elites start looting everything and nobody gives a f**k
#19881
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 20, 2016, 03:34:45 PM
A good few fruitcake Irish Americans in the cabinet

It just shows the importance of the wider culture in the development of the individual
#19883
General discussion / Re: Cryogenics
November 20, 2016, 03:09:45 PM
Will Facebook be able to connect with the brains of frozen evangelicals and get them to vote in their own economic interest?

Do you get your money back if the Rapture happens while you are frozen?

Can you be raptured up if you are still frozen?

Can the father let it go ?

Is Hans also frozen? 

What about the snowman?
#19884
General discussion / Re: Corny One for Friday
November 20, 2016, 01:46:50 PM
Peter Cook on Clive Anderson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjE7XlYIAIY
#19885
General discussion / Re: Brexit.
November 20, 2016, 12:08:50 PM
Quote from: muppet on November 20, 2016, 10:17:45 AM
Quote from: seafoid on November 20, 2016, 09:56:33 AM
Pour encourager les autres

It is like something out of the Middle Ages that would happen to Ireland. The great game.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/19/europes-leaders-force-uk-hard-brexit-farage-le-pen

This is the thinking that brought the people a decade of austerity. Austerity has brought us Brexit, Trump and maybe Le Pen. So they decide on more austerity.
I remember in 2010 Miriam O Callaghan was interviewing someone from LSE and he said the solution to Anglo and AIB was debt for equity. Some things never make it into the narrative. Everybody takes the piss out of Labour's way or Frankfurt's way but they were right
Debt won. And delivered deflation

The only way to stop what is happening is to generate enough political power to kill debt.

Last year $6tn in new debt was issued globally. Same the year before and the year before.
There is around $26 tn in money in the system doing nothing.  7tn in cash. $11.7 tn in negative yield bonds. $7 tn in passive

And nobody is getting payrises. 

Detroit got to the point where the nonsense couldn't continue any longer and they had to cancel debt.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/11903b18-f603-11e2-a55d-00144feabdc0.html
The decision undermines long-held assumptions that GO bonds will be put ahead of other liabilities, such as employee pension and healthcare promises, investors and rating agencies say. In turn, that could lead to lower assessments of the bonds' creditworthiness and higher funding costs, at least in Michigan if Detroit's bonds are found to be unsecured under state law.
Mr Snyder laughed off such concerns as suggestions that he would "destroy the modern world".
Such jockeying is an inevitable part of the bankruptcy process, the two men said. "Some of this is bad theatre. This is off-Broadway stuff," Mr Orr said. Creditors and other claimants, including city employees' unions, "have to do this for their own constituencies".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10pmPiK8pi8
#19886
General discussion / Re: Brexit.
November 20, 2016, 09:56:33 AM
Pour encourager les autres

It is like something out of the Middle Ages that would happen to Ireland. The great game.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/19/europes-leaders-force-uk-hard-brexit-farage-le-pen
#19887
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 20, 2016, 07:02:15 AM
Quote from: stew on November 20, 2016, 01:38:22 AM
Quote from: seafoid on November 19, 2016, 11:00:41 PM
Bob the Builder has never been involved in politics so he doesn't really know how to do it. Can we fix it ? Yes we can. But that was an Obama phrase, wasn't it? This week Bob has to drain the swamp.

He has drafted in a number of heavy hitters. Noddy will be in charge of national insecurity. Big Ears is not going to do anything about Climate change. The 3 bears will dismantle Financial regulation to make the system safer. Goldlilocks will leave her job at Breitbart and tell lies to everyone. Dora the explorer will be interned. The little matchgirl was one of Bob's biggest constituencies but she is a loser. She doesn't need a tax cut like Scrooge McDuck does.  The ugly duckling is a warmonger just like his father, Mr Potato Head. Aladdin and Sindbad will have to register.
Bob has the attention span of a gnat. He has been groping  Miss Pink Cat all night.

The man has not spent one second in office but a lot of you have him wrecking the world.

I have no use for him but I will reserve judgement on him until he, ya know, does shit in office.

100 days, the first hundred days will be enough time to figure out if he is another useless dog like Obama or if he could be decent.

Stew I'll save you the effort
He'll be worse than Obama
#19888
Laois.  How does that look to English people, I wonder

Clontuskert outside Ballinashloe
All the locals say Cluain Tuaisceart

Skeheenarinky in Tipp
#19889
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 19, 2016, 11:00:41 PM
Bob the Builder has never been involved in politics so he doesn't really know how to do it. Can we fix it ? Yes we can. But that was an Obama phrase, wasn't it? This week Bob has to drain the swamp.

He has drafted in a number of heavy hitters. Noddy will be in charge of national insecurity. Big Ears is not going to do anything about Climate change. The 3 bears will dismantle Financial regulation to make the system safer. Goldlilocks will leave her job at Breitbart and tell lies to everyone. Dora the explorer will be interned. The little matchgirl was one of Bob's biggest constituencies but she is a loser. She doesn't need a tax cut like Scrooge McDuck does.  The ugly duckling is a warmonger just like his father, Mr Potato Head. Aladdin and Sindbad will have to register.
Bob has the attention span of a gnat. He has been groping  Miss Pink Cat all night.
#19890
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 19, 2016, 10:57:49 PM
The Swedish Chef graduated first in his class at West Point and is being mentioned for Department of Defense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCRwA93GZwQ