Harvesting public anger is an old trick in politics and it is common for angry people to gullibly bank their hopes on the proverbial snake oil salesmen.

WHO SAID THOSE WORDS?

Hint: s/he comments here infrequently.

I sympathize. The man is out of his depth. So lies proliferate from shills and spokesmen. He clearly needs a long holiday…

Someone put him out of our misery.

Since the real world has defeated all the economists, except P Krugman and Ben Burnalotmoney…….

I miss you too.

http://www.politics.ie/political-humour/121834-dempseys-hideaway-discovered-2.html

Anyone who has never seen it before will be interested to see shots of the national emergency control room from which Brian Cowen is managing the crisis. It’s comment number three.

Otherwise fairly consistent level of criticism (almost total) of government throughout thread.

http://www.politics.ie/current-affairs/121762-anyone-seen-heard-noel-dempsey-13.html

From the above thread, courtesy of poster WTTR:

“Mr Gilmore’s sustained attacks on Nama designed to undermine the agency is playing into the hands of the many powerful vested interests who are working hard to scupper this solution to our banking crisis,” said Mr Dempsey.

Ignorance on Nama damaging, says Dempsey - The Irish Times - Thu, May 21, 2009
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0521/1224247041074.html

http://www.politics.ie/environment/121781-john-gormley-said-only-roads-footpaths-dangerous-followed-traffic-report-3.html
http://www.politics.ie/current-affairs/121811-gormley-prime-time-tonight-3.html

This threas is worth looking at too:
http://www.politics.ie/current-affairs/121790-government-finally-shakes-off-its-lethargy-kicks-ass-4.html

i would hope my monomania (a) isnt mono - i do talk about other stuff! and (b) isnt as manical as AFKAE - i have yet to post 6 posts in a row about him! I do worry about Greg though, hope he’s ok in this harsh weather. If he starts posting again as soon as Minister Dempsey is back in country than the conspiracy theorists are gonna have a field day…

Humour has its place, and essential at times within the ‘dismal particularity’ known as Irish economics past, present and future. It is one of our most valuable intangible assets and absolutely priceless. Smiling also uses less energy than frowning, reduces stress, and most wonderful of all - it is tax free.

Hey, did you hear the one about ……………..?

E65 - I refuse to look at politics.ie. It is beneath me.

Indeed. I wonder is Eoin missing Greg?

“Irish bankers are purely evil” in his opinion. Not at all unhinged.

http://www.politics.ie/elections/68891-brian-cowen-election-posters-binned-2.html

What’s your problem with bankers?

“The minister said the problem was one of reckless endangerment of a nation.”
Now we know the punishment for that - a big payoff.

“The fact is that a small number of sophisticated money manipulators endangered the economic survival of our people.”
Very small. Zero in fact. Or maybe he is referring to their stature. The investigators haven’t interviewed the greedy almost as bad as Cromwells…because they are too tiny to catch.

“There’s no parallel in history for the damage they have done to this nation — except perhaps Cromwell.”
“And even Cromwell was motivated by reasons other than personal gain,” he added.

So we’ll give them all generous pensions.
He didn’t mean any of this when he said it, did he? Literally none of it.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/damage-by-bankers-comparable-only-to-cromwell-1658217.html

It comes with the territory indeed. Don’t worry though; you’re towards the back of the queue for the gibbet. You should be able to change your identity before they get through all the politicians, bankers, developers, lawyers, hospital consultants, semi-state employees etc. etc.

Speaking of Salt looks like the banana or should that be mushroom republic is about to run out of road salt. Wont that be fun. Almost as much fun as when the flooding swamped half the country or when Galway could not drink water because of excrement.

And some would have the temerity to get narky when its pointed out to them that a certain party is responsible for this rather than the faries.

Plus ca change.

Maybe the reason why the Fungi loved the Galway tent was the highly nutritious horse droppings.

And of not talking to witnesses at early stages of investigations:

“The Garda investigation is at an early stage.However, …. neither of them has been contacted by a member of the Garda investigating team.”

http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2003/11/30/story696790211.asp

back to the salt mines with the lot of ye…

That said, I’m afraid that even if we did go out and grit the roads we’d still have people criticising us as useless wasters and spreading baseless claims that professors make 200k+. Comes with the territory I’m afraid.

Dead right - how dare a lecturer take 45 seconds out at 11.00pm to write this. They should be out gritting the roads if they don’t have anything better to do before they go to bed.

Even a much needed comic relief is not safe from the Artist Formerly Known As E65bn….

It also stands for”Nasty Ass Military Area” - Camp Nama in Baghdad, Iraq. See dozens more more definitions and references to Nama(s) at
http://www.planware.org/briansblog/banks/nama/

More additons welcome!