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	<title>Narrating the Aberration. &#187; Politics/Law</title>
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	<description>Thermodynamics trumps Economics...and it&#039;s gonna hurt!</description>
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		<title>Another fine mess you&#8217;ve got me into….</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/05/08/another-fine-mess-youve-got-me-into%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/05/08/another-fine-mess-youve-got-me-into%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 15:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For years I have listened to British commentators excuse their unfair and unrepresentative electoral system on the grounds of the &#8217;strong government&#8217; that it facilitated. That argument has always been most loudly promulgated from the &#8216;Right&#8217;.
This time it has delivered a result that is anything but strong.
The Lab/LibDem combination is not sufficient on its own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biting the hand that&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/02/25/biting-the-hand-that/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/02/25/biting-the-hand-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Economics/Finance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=443</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Times are tough and tempers are frayed all around us. But the behaviour of the Greeks (Govt., banks, unions and populace) is making their bad situation worse.
Yes, they can be unhappy that they are not getting much help. However, they are entirely responsible for putting themselves in this situation.
And abusing the only people capable of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adroitly done.</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/02/23/adroitly-done/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/02/23/adroitly-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TSargent]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The lesson today is &#8220;You mess with Fianna Fail and their &#8217;soldiers&#8217; at your peril.&#8221;
I wonder what other &#8216;lessons from history&#8217; await other Green TD&#8217;s. To keep that &#8216;handgrenade&#8217; on ice for two years is the mark of a very skilled and patient political assassin.
I  am sorry to see TSargent go and the manner of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slips &#8216;twixt cups and lips&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/02/20/slips-twixt-cups-and-lips/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/02/20/slips-twixt-cups-and-lips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incompetence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O'Dea]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two great quotes come to mind regarding the O&#8217;Dea debacle.

&#8220;It&#8217;s not the crime that kills you, it&#8217;s the cover-up.&#8221; RM Nixon.
&#8220;They are too busy trying to keep their jobs to have time to do their jobs.&#8221; A Sorkin

None of this episode reflects well on any class of politician in Ireland.
Why would someone of Willie O&#8217;Dea&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking away, whistling.</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2009/11/30/walking-away-whistling/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2009/11/30/walking-away-whistling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Negative Equity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again the issue of ‘duties of care’ of lenders to borrowers has been raised. As usual, it is in the USA where people are both more aware of and assertive of their rights.
In what passes for ‘culture’ in Ireland we have the opposite. In every sphere of our lives (save one) we are craven, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Wonderland</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2009/11/04/winter-wonderland/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2009/11/04/winter-wonderland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics/Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Boyle has admitted that he didn’t know that the biggest financial gamble in the States history wasn’t actually a ‘money bill’ and therefore not actually a Government-dissolving piece of legislation.
This occurred on his F’book page this weekend and comes a few days after he swore blind to the contrary, in front of 600 GP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bile on the Seanad Floor</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2009/10/31/bile-on-the-seanad-floor/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2009/10/31/bile-on-the-seanad-floor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Green Party]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonsense]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. In his Seanad NAMA speech Dan Bile doesn’t even manage that.
In describing the NAMA business plan as “exercise in public confidence” he feels it is acceptable to be vague about the details of a 54Bln gamble. The principle that “money flows in the economy again and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flaky dilettantes</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2009/10/17/369/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2009/10/17/369/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Green Party]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hypocrisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naivete]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Vincent Browne has a piece on the Greens and our recent convention on NAMA. This is the opening paragraph.
The Green Party is different. It does not try to fool the electorate, as other parties do. It fools itself. They actually believe that the morsels they got in the revised programme for government was “transformational”, rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Dues</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2009/08/21/fair-dues/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2009/08/21/fair-dues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr Kenny has had to put up with a fair amount of criticism regarding his leadership style, including repeated assertions that many thought he was not up to the job of Taoiseach.
He has stuck to his game plan which it now seems was to walk softly and carry a very big stick.
During a crisis he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Wrongs</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2009/08/21/two-wrongs/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2009/08/21/two-wrongs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics/Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Party]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delusions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t about your mothers but mine taught me that &#8216;two wrongs do not make a right&#8217;.
The &#8216;Bank Guarantee&#8217; worked in that it temporarily avoided a catatrophic meltdown of the banking system.  The global financial &#8216;tsunami&#8217; caused by everyone realising at the same time that the Property Emperor had no clothes has washed through and [...]]]></description>
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