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Goalies should be forced to do kickouts with their eyes closed. Bring in an ould bit of excitement for the fans. I know purists love the elegance of systems but Eugene McGee knows 2 retired brothers in Leitrim who have watched everything on RTE for the last 59 years and it is not fair to have Brolly doing all the excitement.

Obama was a great president and I think will rightly go down in history as such. I think he'll be mentioned in the same breath as Kennedy and FDR in years to come. A true compassionate leader.

Pity he didn't get a 20 year term. It's sad so many Americans (and Irish apparently) are so naive and weak minded that they can be brainwashed into thinking he was a poor president. Obamination" is the mutterings of a total utter gobshite.

10 trillion debt in eight years, more than every other president combined makes him an absolute nightmare of a president, how is the country going to recover from that?

Obamacare has been a disaster, the rollout sums up this clampetts presidency, a total clusterfuck!

Black people are worse off now than they were ten years ago.

Great idea to give billions to the banking elite, first thing they did was give themselves big bonuses for losing trillions.

Benghazi was on his watch, he let terrorists go for a traitor, I could go on but can't be bothered.

Only a complete and utter moron would think Obama is a great president, Clinton ran on four more years of Obama and the country said no, that's how great he was.

The man is a decent human being, a far better one than the two arseholes who wanted has job, that said he has been a disaster and I pity the monkeys that cannot see it, so attached are they to their liberal ideals



Who pays the ten trillion back then?

I asked you before stew - what should Obama have done in terms of debt and poverty and jobs and so on, given the hand he was dealt.

The economy was losing 750K jobs a month when he took over, an absolutely extraordinary figure. Tell us what he should have done that he didn't (or what he did do that he shouldn't)?

20 million people have health insurance now that didn't before due to Obamacare (and it would be more if the GOP hadn't tried to stick to him and poor people in a number of states).

What should he have done to address the healthcare issue? The GOP negotiated in bad faith. Obamacare, their idea, is what we ended up with, but it gets the basics right with the mandate, the prohibition on pre-existing conditions penalization, extension of child coverage and so on. There is no addressing the health care problem without a mandate, as you need the buy-in from young people to fund affordable health care for the old and sick. But, a lot of people would rather pay the financial penalty and skip it, so the pool is older and sicker than it should be.

How would the world look now if McCain/Palin had won the White House?

Would it be better? If so, how?

I would cut interest rates even further and kept them low, I would have made the government smaller and I would have penalised American companies that shut up shop and facked off to say Mexico or Ireland etc.

I would have had cut all wasteful spending and I would grow the economy which would help lower the twenty trillion debt.

I would use part of any surplus to reduce the debt and I would lower the legal drinking age to 18 years of age, further I would invest in opening government run pharmacies that sell drugs that are currently illegal, since there are said to be 100 million drug users in the states, the profits could be used to help the addicts, treatment centers would be funded and the surplus government taxes could go to reducing the national debt, you also eliminate the need for drug dealers and you .ca control the quality of the narcotics.

I write the above as a man who has never do much as has a drag of a cigarette!

I know I will get stick for the last paragraph but the vast I look at it is the shit is in the country and the government spend billions in a futile attempt to stop the flow.

Pertaining to Obama care, the French, Swiss and Brita have some of the best healthcare systems in the world, I would have studied the top ten with empasis on the bigger countries and built a healthcare system that works for all.
Obama's team claimed they studied other nations, given the horrendous rollout and implemrotation of Obama care I highly doubt that.

J70 you asked what I would do, that is what I would do.

I wonder how much Clinton spent. The money could have been spent building a grassroots movement.
US healthcare is a catastrophe.

Ambassador Farage, the logical consequence of British Policy

The interim Ukip leader has Trump's ear, writes Gideon Rachman
Nigel Farage as ambassador to Washington — why not?

Donald Trump's suggestion that Mr Farage should be appointed as the next British ambassador to Washington is an unorthodox and outrageous intervention in British foreign policy. But it is also not such a bad idea.
What is the first job of a UK ambassador to Washington? It is to get close to the White House. Mr Farage would have an unprecedented closeness to the US president, the kind of access that other British ambassadors could only dream of. He campaigned alongside the president-elect and, after the election, had a personal meeting with Mr Trump — well before Theresa May (the British prime minister) was given a perfunctory 10 minutes on the phone.
The hard-drinking, outgoing Mr Farage would also stage good parties and receptions, which is also an important part of the diplomatic role. Given Mr Farage's closeness to the president, an invitation to a party at the British embassy would suddenly become one of the hottest tickets in Washington.
Ambassador Farage could also play an important role in securing one of Britain's most important foreign-policy goals: a free-trade deal with the US. Unlike Mr Farage, I believe that Britain's decision to leave the EU is a disastrous mistake which will inflict long-term economic damage on Britain. But we are where we are. Given Britain has got itself into this absurd situation, we need to look for escape routes. Mr Farage is probably one of the few people with a chance of persuading the Trump administration to make a US-UK trade deal a top priority.
Some of the reasons for rejecting a Farage ambassadorship amount to little more than wounded pride. Yes, Mr Trump's suggestion is a humiliating breach of protocol. But, frankly, it is just a foretaste of the indignities that Mr Trump is likely to inflict on Britain over the next four years. (Anyone looking forward to that state visit to London?)
Beyond the immediate media firestorm, the question of a Farage ambassadorship to Washington raises a genuine and crucial question for the May government. How close should Britain get to Mr Trump?
If, like me, you believe that he is a liar and a demagogue who may ultimately pose a threat to liberal democracy in the US, then the answer is clear. It would be a huge mistake for Britain to get into bed with the Trump administration and one that might well eventually go down as a shameful period in British history. Given that, I personally would not appoint Mr Farage as ambassador to Washington since I think Britain should keep its distance from Mr Trump.
But my views on Mr Trump do not seem to be shared by the British government. Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, has suggested that the Trump presidency represents an "opportunity". If the May government believes that, it should make the most of this "opportunity" and appoint Mr Farage as British ambassador to Washington.

Obama was a great president and I think will rightly go down in history as such. I think he'll be mentioned in the same breath as Kennedy and FDR in years to come. A true compassionate leader.

Pity he didn't get a 20 year term. It's sad so many Americans (and Irish apparently) are so naive and weak minded that they can be brainwashed into thinking he was a poor president. Obamination" is the mutterings of a total utter gobshite.

10 trillion debt in eight years, more than every other president combined makes him an absolute nightmare of a president, how is the country going to recover from that?

Obamacare has been a disaster, the rollout sums up this clampetts presidency, a total clusterfuck!

Black people are worse off now than they were ten years ago.

Great idea to give billions to the banking elite, first thing they did was give themselves big bonuses for losing trillions.

Benghazi was on his watch, he let terrorists go for a traitor, I could go on but can't be bothered.

Only a complete and utter moron would think Obama is a great president, Clinton ran on four more years of Obama and the country said no, that's how great he was.

The man is a decent human being, a far better one than the two arseholes who wanted has job, that said he has been a disaster and I pity the monkeys that cannot see it, so attached are they to their liberal ideals



Who pays the ten trillion back then?

It won't be paid back.
The Fed has been buying debt since 2009. It will probably cancel it

I don't really understand your agenda Seafoid.

2009 is not the watershed in the disastrous US finances. It was the election of G.W. Bush. You know that better than anyone here.

Obama was left with a rapidly rising mountain of debt, wouldn't cut spending and had a completely belligerent GOP, who wouldn't let him raise taxes. They are all responsible for the $18Tr. 

As for Trump, he wants to 'do a deal', or default on at least some of it. That'll be fun.

Muppet the watershed was 1980.

Bush was a stage on the road.
Thatcherism/neoliberalism is built on debt.
And all the money goes to the rich . That is why the UK is now banjaxed. It is why there is no inflation in the EZ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOuf69G7AQU

58% of new income in the US 1975 to 2007 went to the 0.1%

Obama is a nice guy. He did a few good things like gay marriage and work on climate
But he knew nothing about foreign Policy. So Hillary and the neocons captured him
And he didn't know anything about economics.
So Wall St captured him

Thomas Palley had an article about Obama's economics advisors

"Obama is a politician, not an expert in economics, and as a politician determined to take an intelligent approach to the problems confronting America, he sensibly decided to get his information on these challenges from the very best.
How was he to know that the world's leading economists, the "very best" in this crucial field, actually knew nothing about how the real economy actually functions?
Only after 2 years in office, when the economy is not recovering from the recession as his advisors told him it would, and the remedies that he throws at it (on their advice) turn out to be more damp squibs that the weapons of mass economic reconstruction he was told they would be, must it slowly be dawning on him that may don't understand the economy.
He's learning the hard way the lesson I and many other critical economists acquired as we studied for our economics degrees–mostly by reacting incredulously to weird propositions that our Professors would use to derive their models–that there is something rotten in the state of economic thinking"

Debt can no longer generate economic growth.

It's ludicrous to say growth is over because if everyone on this board got a 10% payrise and that was repeated across the OECD economy you would have loads of ideas.

I have zero faith in anybody in power to fix this. The Dems are just as venal as the GOP.

And now lookit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=1o6-bi3jlxk

Tremenjus

Sieg Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=1o6-bi3jlxk

The music to go with it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-DgRO1SrQ

[If the person could remember something from their "previous life" after having zero brain activity for that length of time, then would this mean that memory ultimately is not a function of the brain? Most neurologists these days reckon there is a degree of brain functionality to memory but of course like most things in our consious experience they cant really pin it down as to where its stored and how we can reacess it.]

Its pretty obvious that the OPs question would leave us with more questions than answers. The most interesting question that could be answered if this was achieved (but its still miles from it) is about memory.....

If the person could remember something from their "previous life" after having zero brain activity for that length of time, then would this mean that memory ultimately is not a function of the brain? Most neurologists these days reckon there is a degree of brain functionality to memory but of course like most things in our consious experience they cant really pin it down as to where its stored and how we can reacess it.

This is not unlike Molyneaux's problem.... which was actually solved in recent years

For a change I think I will side with the empiricists on this one, I would put my money on the person being a blank slate and thus having no memory or knowledge of their previous identity.

This is an interesting question and the straight answer is I haven't a clue.

Do people who are in a coma have brain activity? Or who drown, apparently die and are then revived? Do they temporarily lose brain activity and then have it somehow restored? If the latter happens is there a rough time limit, after which memory loss is permanent?

Schumi will never be the same person according to some doctor who was quoted in the paper. The brain is fragile. Nobody knows how it really works either. We don't know how to stop Alzheimers for example.

Cryogenics is very American.

Trump being accused of using his new found power to get the Argies to pass one of his planning applications in Buenos Aires and the daughter using the meeting with the Japanese lads to show off a new jewelry collection ala QVC.

Stay classy USA, stay classy!

Never forget his last ad . Global special interest partners with political people who don't have your good in mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vST61W4bGm8

Alt right is bullshit. It's about maintaining a white majority
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/21/alt-right-conference-richard-spencer-white-nationalists

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum expressed alarm on Monday over "hateful speech" at a white nationalist meeting over the weekend, and a restaurant apologized for hosting the group after a woman tweeted a picture of herself making a Nazi salute.    The National Policy Institute, a think tank that is part of the alt-right movement that includes neo-Nazis, white supremacists and anti-Semites, held a gathering at the federally owned Ronald Reagan Building on Saturday.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.754493

The GOP is the immigration party. It drives wages down and means higher corporate profits. See Eamonn's chart.

It's going to be Bannon vs the GOP.
There is no way to please the poor voters, the rich funders and the Nazis at the same time.

The coalition will tear itself apart.

The mark is daft. Another utterly stupid attempt to address a problem without first addressing the symptoms.

Jimmy McGuinness and co might have identified that possession restarts are generally a win-win situation. Steven Cluxton might have perfected the art.

But the only reason why they had this opportunity is because keepers are now allowed to take immediate restarts from anywhere inside their 13m line.

If we want to see teams kicking the ball out to centre field we need to make it the least worst option again. To do this is quite simple. Make keepers kick all kick outs from the 21, and all receivers must be at least 13m when taking the ball.

With this change, quick kick outs are gone and short kick outs become less appealing.

It won't necessarily encourage "the art of high fielding" but it will signal a return to having strong ball winners at midfield who might get a chance to show off that skill.

It's not that complicated.

You also need forwards who can score from distance


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25x0vpb350
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCkVYgljVyw

Obama was a great president and I think will rightly go down in history as such. I think he'll be mentioned in the same breath as Kennedy and FDR in years to come. A true compassionate leader.

Pity he didn't get a 20 year term. It's sad so many Americans (and Irish apparently) are so naive and weak minded that they can be brainwashed into thinking he was a poor president. Obamination" is the mutterings of a total utter gobshite.

10 trillion debt in eight years, more than every other president combined makes him an absolute nightmare of a president, how is the country going to recover from that?

Obamacare has been a disaster, the rollout sums up this clampetts presidency, a total clusterfuck!

Black people are worse off now than they were ten years ago.

Great idea to give billions to the banking elite, first thing they did was give themselves big bonuses for losing trillions.

Benghazi was on his watch, he let terrorists go for a traitor, I could go on but can't be bothered.

Only a complete and utter moron would think Obama is a great president, Clinton ran on four more years of Obama and the country said no, that's how great he was.

The man is a decent human being, a far better one than the two arseholes who wanted has job, that said he has been a disaster and I pity the monkeys that cannot see it, so attached are they to their liberal ideals



Who pays the ten trillion back then?

It won't be paid back.
The Fed has been buying debt since 2009. It will probably cancel it

Hello Muddah, hello faddah - Allan Sherman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jjiWS__Mp0

Offaly had Brian Carroll. Galway have Joseph Cooney. The Rossies have one of the Ó Garas.
Which retired player would you like replicated for the 2017 championship ?

And are the Dubs likely to start a breeding programme with the help of Kildare know how?

Time to go back to having two monsters centre-field.
Leave the running to the small fellas.

How is operation McDermott 2.0 coming on, Jinxy?

The champions league began in 1993 it has produced fourteen different winners. The wins per country has been France 1,Italy 5,Netherlands 1,Germany 3,Spain 9,England 4 and Portugal 1.

In comparison with our own elite or be amateur competitions since 1993 eleven different teams has won the senior football All Ireland and only six Kilkenny,Cork,Offaly,Wexford,Clare,Tipperary has won the small ball hurling.

How many teams started?
You can't compare the bare stats. Soccer has a few Kerrys eg Bayern Milan Inter Real Barca Man U

Take out their wins and see what is left.

Who would be the saccar equivalent of Tyrone?   Red Star Belgrade maybe. They only won once
Down would be Ajax

Lovely chart but rural and post industrial USA didn't buy it cos they can't see it

I was addressing Stew's bizarre claim that Obama has been a financial disaster for the country.

Corporate profits plus 144%, SnP plus 167%
In the real ecopnomy median income pls 2%, home ownership minus 4.6%

Those 4 stats explain why Trump won