Slugger O'Toole

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1. Comment on Cleveland rescue: “I barbecued with this dude, we ate ribs and listened to salsa music…”
   on 12 May 2013 at 3:59 pm

   Desmond,

   ‘At least, the US judicial system knows how to deal with this type of perpetrator.’

   If you mean the death penalty, I’m not entirely sure whether the law in Ohio for aggravated murder where the forced termination of a pregnancy falls under the remit of the death penalty is actually constitutional.

   The death penalty stems from the 8th amendment and the two main cases on this punishment that are oft cited are Coker v Georgia, 433 US 584 (1977) and Kennedy v Louisiana, 554 US 407 (2008) , both had rape involved, both noted that a life has to be taken in order for the death penalty not to be deemed a cruel or unusual punishment. A life needs to be taken so that the courts may mandate that an assailant’s life is taken. I will not get into an argument about whether a foetus is a life or not, for the purposes of the law it is not.

   I am not a US constitutional lawyer, however, I would expect it to play out in such a way whereby the Public Prosecutor will go for the death penalty in the initial trial, the court will find in its favor and Castro will not only appeal the decision but contest the legality of the Ohio Revised Code 2903.01 and it’s general constitutionality in relation to the previously mentioned Amendment and case law.

   Nonetheless, a fascinating story and now possibly some fascinating legal theory and arguments ahead. Either way, Castro will rot in the US penal system for the rest of his life, on and off death row.

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2. Comment on Death of CSI: If we can’t have a strategy what about asking better questions?
   on 12 May 2013 at 5:54 am

   FJH,

   ‘As was pointed out to me yesterday neither Nesbitt or Robinson seem enthused about the Irish language.’

   Thanks for the shout out. As I have highlighted before, it is not that I am against integrated education, when I was younger and lived in the US it was integrated, it’s that the people all of a sudden for it in the North just happen to pour scorn on expressions of Irish culture, what Chris Donnelly has noted to be political unionism’s problem with respecting the other. I’ve noted that before a while ago and we did discuss. It then begs the question, what does an integrated education actually mean as what I think it is must surely be a whole lot different from TV Mike and Robbo et al.

   CS

   ‘I don’t think SF are wedded to the idea of Catholic church controlled schools, as long as the kids have the option of playing GAA and being taught Irish and Irish history.’

   Nail on the head. For a lot of Nats an RC education is really an education with an Irish flavor and one where, for instance, my mum knew my siblings and I would have the chance to play GAA, learn Irish to a very high standard and basically have the chance to be immersed in Irish cultural goings somewhere where our Irish identity was respected, that and the schools we went to were excellent with their results.

   To kind of underscore your point, a lot of the Irish medium schools that have been springing up either side of the border would be non-religious in their outlook.

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3. Comment on John McCallister: Our politics has collapsed and retreated behind old barriers
   on 7 April 2013 at 2:07 am

   ‘interesting outake’

   Nope, it’s fairly run of the mill stuff I’ve read a hundred times before and until he decides to tell us the nuts and bolts of what he’s actually for, ye know, the stuff behind sound bites like the above, I won’t be taking him particularly serious in anyway, but the rest of you can of course coo away.

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4. Comment on What Northern Ireland really needs is a REAL debate on its economic future…
   on 31 March 2013 at 4:16 am

   ‘Well if there is a rush on to clamp down on trafficking in NI (framed to clamp down on all prostitution) why not beef up immigration management in the process tackling the above kind of people too?’

   Clamp down? On what, about 200 people? Because this is the biggest problem facing us at the moment or because of us putting some scrutiny on what you say you’re having some kind of incoherent melt down whilst listening to Kate Bush? Something tells me this idea of yours is one you’d always come up with, in good times and ill, only you know why of course, that’s if you’re not lost somewhere in the recess of your own subconscious like in Inception say? Go get Saito DC, don’t lose yourself!!

   ‘Anyway i did say it was an aside to the local economy debate, as the powers for this belong elsewhere but it was just an idea, probably more relevant to certain cities in Britain.’

   Yeah, you just wanted to wheel out your usual shopping list of blaming immigrants and give yourself the chance to mouth off nonsense with adults. You go back to the kids table DC or you’re not getting any Easter eggs today, ok?

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5. Comment on Robinson tells Cameron he’s playing a ‘powerless-inside-the-union card’ on Scotland…
   on 31 March 2013 at 3:12 am

   FDM

   “One of the guys on Slugger is about to have a meltdown”.

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   It’s reminiscent of when my brother’s class gave there form teacher a nervous break down by humming constantly, sadistic little shits.

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6. Comment on What Northern Ireland really needs is a REAL debate on its economic future…
   on 29 March 2013 at 10:03 pm

   DC,

   ‘Only really committed local people would qualify – and that’s what you want in that line of work, not lazy detached bureaucrats’

   And then this gem:

   ‘You wouldn’t really have little hitlers running about’

   Note the caveat or use of the word ‘really’. You might have some goose stepping fascist pig running around picking on brown skinned people but we’ll pay out of the public purse for that so they have ‘exams’ and a crash course on how to manage them in detention. I imagine this course would be akin to say, what a bouncer does and how they’re prepared to treat people with respect seconds before a punter’s face smashes by sheer coincidence into their fist, right?

   Of course, that ‘massive’ illegal black market we have here is the real problem in the North, not chronic under investment, not a skills base that’s out moded and not fit for purpose, it’s a few Chinese guys in a take away off the Lisburn Road whose visa may not be up to scratch or they stayed here after uni, have a local business, pay taxes and generally try and stay out of the system due to that grey area they inhabit.

   In the words of Bender, ‘see you at the cross burning Adolf’.

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7. Comment on What Northern Ireland really needs is a REAL debate on its economic future…
   on 29 March 2013 at 1:41 pm

   A PhD, an idea close to my heart as I contemplate one on the North and business…

   There’s a definite PhD in there re the numbers and figures regionally throughout the uk but ultimately aside from guesstimates you’re going to need HMRC or the Treasury on board and they’re not going to rock the boat with business, or at least the current regime won’t.

   Best you can do, IMHO is vat recents, barcodes, bank account oversight of some kind and projections. I’m a financial services kind of lawyer, not a numbers guy, unfortunately, so I defer to others and the best and most technically efficient way to proceed…

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8. Comment on What Northern Ireland really needs is a REAL debate on its economic future…
   on 29 March 2013 at 1:12 pm

   Probably is the simple answer but I was thinking more of the organisation that runs bar codes, someone keeps records of what is sold by way of barcode. Now, I know other organisations like IT companies etc dont sell there wares by way of a bar code but there are ways we could figure this out.

   I’m not saying it’ll be simple, but it would e in everyone’s interests if we had some transparency as to what is sold and where, you know, numbers and figures.

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9. Comment on Robinson tells Cameron he’s playing a ‘powerless-inside-the-union card’ on Scotland…
   on 29 March 2013 at 1:06 pm

   DC,

   You said something above, what it is, I don’t know or care as its indecipherable. I’ve a mate from Kilkeel, if you want I can send him round to help untangle you mate, ok?

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10. Comment on What Northern Ireland really needs is a REAL debate on its economic future…
    on 29 March 2013 at 11:58 am

    Barnshee,

    I think this matter is one where the public’s perception or belief in the power of its elites is so much greater than there actual purview, kudos to them for fooling us into thinking they may have a grasp of the figures when they’re pissing in the wind just like the rest of us.

    All kidding aside, most items at tescos have a bar code, we should be able to figure out how much they sell in NI from that, right? That could give us a grasp on the figures, no? Others may be more difficult due to accounting chicanery but where there’s a will..

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