Slugger O'Toole

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Organized Rage has commented 24 times (0 in the last month).

1. Comment on Euro crisis: “For good or ill, she is perceived to set policy, pace and tone at every turn.”
   on 30 December 2010 at 5:02 pm

   I wonder if out of fear of the answer, no one is asking the real question. ‘ Is capitalism such a flawed system with its inbuilt booms and busts’ that throwing billions of currency at it in the hope of shoring it up, whether Euro.s pounds or dollars, is a pointless exercise similar to a small boy with his finger in the dyke.

   it is becoming increasingly clear the bankers believe governments are engaged in a pointless exercise as their answer is make hay whilst the sun shines.

   Within the next 50 years the worlds economy will be totally globalised, before we get there, perhaps it is time to look at a more civilised way to manage our economies, less anarchistic, one that does not penalises the masses and reward the wealthy for being wealthy.

   I am not arguing for a socialist planned economy, although it is worth considering, (not least because what be have got is a planned economy based of chaos) but simply raising the question if we do not move beyond what is nonsensically called the ‘free market’, we will will our great grandchildren a world based on economic chaos and barbarism.

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2. Comment on #Cablegate: Caption competition…
   on 22 December 2010 at 11:10 pm

   All this shit for AV, pleeeze.

   or

   If only I had read the ‘orange book’ instead of pontificating endlessly on TV.

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3. Comment on Coalition cracks appearing towards the end of a long hard term…
   on 22 December 2010 at 11:04 pm

   Brian,

   Finally you have liberated your pen, good stuff.

   mh

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4. Comment on Ray Davies, imaginary man. A true one off.
   on 22 December 2010 at 5:26 pm

   Mick

   We agree on something, it must be christmas, as you say the Ray Davies documentary was classy and querky, although Yentob was not the films maker just a talking head topping up his pension, Julien Temple’s name stands above the film. (http://is.gd/jeOU2) Still no matter, good stuff.

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5. Comment on Coalition cracks appearing towards the end of a long hard term…
   on 22 December 2010 at 5:01 pm

   “You miss the point. English folk like yourself do not seem to understand the ‘organised hypocrisy’ that is coalition politics.”

   Mick

   Perhaps Irish folk like yourself, who choose to live amongst us could enlighten us?

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6. Comment on The State versus Thomas Murphy – redux
   on 22 December 2010 at 12:20 pm

   If Tom Murphy had been born into an earlier generation of Irish republicans, in all probability he would have become a national hero, had the odd railway station, street or Town Hall named after him.

   It’s a funny old world.

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7. Comment on Coalition cracks appearing towards the end of a long hard term…
   on 22 December 2010 at 12:03 pm

   These are good old fashioned English Tory values,

   Mick

   Out of interest, what is good about them?

   On tuition fees there is absolutely no real evidence that Clegg fought against signing up to the Lib Dem pledge to abolish them and lost, indeed, if there is a shred of truth in this newly created legend, it means Clegg is one of the most dishonourable individual to have held high office, for it would mean he not only lied when making the pledge, but new dam well if events flowed his way, his words in the infamous election broadcast, where lies dam lies.

   By the way, you should give yourself a yellow card for passing on guido type gossip, what a nasty slur.

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8. Comment on Now or never to reveal the truth about Sinn Fein’s past
   on 21 December 2010 at 4:59 pm

   John,

   If a state(let) is first established by dire threats of violence against the will of the majority of Irish people; and is then cast in stone by sectarian shenanigans, what you get is a political swamp of a place, and no amount of gerrymandering or democratic cant will alter that fact.

   The rule of law is treated with contempt in the north east of Ireland because it deserves to be, not least because the law makers for nine decades built ‘their’ rule of law on sand and continue to up to this day.

   There are now only two places in Europe where no matter who you vote for the administration will not change, the six counties and Belarus.

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9. Comment on Now or never to reveal the truth about Sinn Fein’s past
   on 21 December 2010 at 1:51 pm

   Hey lets follow Brians lead and get upset about what SF ‘might’ have been up to. As Ó Néill all but points out, lets get ourselves into a rage over 0.1% of the ‘supposed’ property portfolio of SF, so we turn the other cheek and overlook what the major criminals have lifted.

   Brian have you ever wondered why some of us have such contempt for journalists whose major scopes are of the type where a journalist stands waving a union jack, on an aircraft carrier engaged in yet another unnecessary war, to count planes as the fly off and fly back again.

   To suggest a party like FF would sit stum whilst another ‘republican’ party attempts to steal its constituency is ludicrous. The only way this would happen is if the current leadership of FF have waded in corrupt shit up to their necks and they have become terrified UK intel will spill the beans if they act against their wishes.

   Surely not Brian, such things could never happen in your well ordered world in which a gentleman’s word is his bond?

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10. Comment on The deaths of Anthony Howard and Brian Hanrahan are great losses to journalism
    on 20 December 2010 at 4:43 pm

    Did Hanrahan end up as some sort of royal hack?

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