Comments on: BANGING ON WITH DAVID MCWILLIAMS http://dublinopinion.com/2009/11/03/banging-on-with-david-mcwilliams/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Thu, 24 May 2012 02:07:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Irish Left Review · Minister Throws Everything into the Pot, But Only Ever Draws One Conclusion http://dublinopinion.com/2009/11/03/banging-on-with-david-mcwilliams/#comment-71242 Irish Left Review · Minister Throws Everything into the Pot, But Only Ever Draws One Conclusion Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:07:21 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/11/03/banging-on-with-david-mcwilliams/#comment-71242 [...] Blanchflower’s argument is right of course, and necessary and important for any government to understand. But I doubt that Brian Lenihan would even cock an ear, never mind stay up late to listen to it. The photo of David McWilliams posing at the Potsdam Conference with Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin is courtesy of Conor McCabe at Dublin Opinion. [...] […] Blanchflower’s argument is right of course, and necessary and important for any government to understand. But I doubt that Brian Lenihan would even cock an ear, never mind stay up late to listen to it. The photo of David McWilliams posing at the Potsdam Conference with Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin is courtesy of Conor McCabe at Dublin Opinion. […]

]]> By: Gar http://dublinopinion.com/2009/11/03/banging-on-with-david-mcwilliams/#comment-71240 Gar Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:53:44 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/11/03/banging-on-with-david-mcwilliams/#comment-71240 In the top picture that green velvet table at the Paris peace talks looks suitable for card playing. Did McWilliams think to take out a pack from his wallet pocket and suggest a game of poker? Let's hope McWilliams follows the good example of Le Duc Tho by gracefully refusing the Nobel Prize. In the Potsdam photo Roosevelt is seen whispering to Uncle Joe: "Do you smell a rat here? I'm not referring to Churchill's stale cigars." In the film still Max von Sydow bears an uncanny resemblance to Bill Clinton. Ingmar Bergman was on to something. So are the bank executives that agreed to the NAMA launch. They resemble Churchill's stale cigars, or the alternative. In the top picture that green velvet table at the Paris peace talks looks suitable for card playing. Did McWilliams think to take out a pack from his wallet pocket and suggest a game of poker? Let’s hope McWilliams follows the good example of Le Duc Tho by gracefully refusing the Nobel Prize.
In the Potsdam photo Roosevelt is seen whispering to Uncle Joe: “Do you smell a rat here? I’m not referring to Churchill’s stale cigars.”

In the film still Max von Sydow bears an uncanny resemblance to Bill Clinton. Ingmar Bergman was on to something. So are the bank executives that agreed to the NAMA launch. They resemble Churchill’s stale cigars, or the alternative.

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