Monthly Archives: March 2011

THE NATIONAL Asset Management Agency (Nama) may have to consider lending to property buyers to kick-start the flagging market, according to Steven Seelig, one of its board members.

Mr Seelig, a former senior official at the IMF, said Nama might have to offer loans to property buyers, including residential homes, to stimulate sales as the banks are not lending on property.

Nama May Need To Lend To Property Developers (Irish Times)

France is facing severe political embarrassment after carmaker Renault said the three top executives it sacked for industrial espionage in January might not be spies after all.

French finance minister Christine Lagarde said the country’s second-biggest car group must face “all the consequences” now that it thinks it might have been tricked.

Doubts Emerge Over ‘Renault’ Spies (Irish Times)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtqt8zM12pw

Obama talks to the crew of the Discovery.

Conversation both weighty and weightless.

He asks about the robot ‘R2‘  but is told it’s still in packing foam (go to 3.40).

Obama; “He’s still in packing foam? That’s a shame, man. Come on guys, unpack the guy. He flew all that way and you guys aren’t upacking him?”

Now close your eyes and imagine how Enda Kenny would have handled a similar call.

“His appeal is that, while most guys — especially post-college — must reign in their ids and demure to society’s expectations to advance rung by rung up the soul-crushing ladder of corporate mediocrity, Sheen has reached the ultimate apex of manhood eternal: doing whatever he wants and speaking the complete truth, consequences be damned. (Even if the complete truth, as he perceives it, is “I got tiger blood,” “I have a 10,000-year-old brain,” and “I’m an F-18, bro.”).”

(Guyism.com)

While women and, you know, men with their ids intact, don’t much:

“I hold no torch for Sheen. Part of his problem, no doubt, is that he is arrogant, spoiled and self-indulgent. But far from being given chance after chance after chance, ordinary people who get into mental health difficulties, usually with much better reason, most often find themselves economically and socially isolated.”