Saviola wrote:

Didn't make a lot of sense when he claimed - on no less than three separate occasions a couple of weeks ago - that al-Qaeda was receiving training in Iran (eventually having to be corrected on the spot by Joe Lieberman). As Chuck Todd pointed out on MSNBC, a mistake of that kind from Clinton or Obama would have been played on a loop and done them serious political damage.

We all mis-speak from time to time.

I assume you're an Obama fan, right? Well, Obama said last August he would call "the president of Canada" about a trade deal. Canada has a prime minister - not a president.

McCain said "sunnis" instead of "extremists" by accident. It is actually demonstrably true that Iran sponsors Shiite extremists in Iraq.

Sorry, forgot to reply to the rest....

Saviola wrote:

Also, how is someone with an 83% rating from the ACU "essentially a liberal"?

Because in the US, if you believe in evolution, believe humans are responsible for climate change, believe in legalazing up to 20 million illegal Mexicans, support stem cell research, you're essentially a liberal. These are the reasons the Reps hate McCain - because he's not Right Wing enough. Yes, that's how terrifying the American Right are!

saviola wrote:

On the issue of abortion, for instance, last year (eight years after he gave the quotes that you used) McCain said "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."

I must say, McCain's position on abortion is contradictory, but since I couldn't care less....

Actually, McCain said he supports overthrowing Roe V Wade with the sole exceptions of offspring the result of rape, incest and when the mother's life is in danger.

I personally don't agree, since I am fundamentally against governments dictating what one can and cannot do with one's own body and life. Needless to say McCain and I also differ on the war on drugs. However, in America, women use abortion as a form of birth control and it's gotten vastly out of hand. It's totally unsurprising to see reactionary forces in affront to this. Really though, abortion isn't dear to me at all. The environment and energy policy are. McCain knows how to fix it. The Dems (and so-called environmentalists) not only are clueless but also parasitic.

The conflict of overturing Roe vs. Wade is whether it should be a federal law or go back to the states to vote on.

I would consider myself more of a constituionalist.   Smaller centralized gov't and more state and local authority[like it was originally intended.]

I also am not one for interventionalist action in other countries due to the hypocrisies involved.  Ex.   Why Iraq and not Sudan?  or Zimbabwe?

Although it is hard to agree with any politician on all issues, I agree generally with a lot of McCain's.


As for good things making me happy,   BEER!

GTTMUH:

I'm going up to Edinburgh tomorrow, first trip home for nearly six years.

Last time I was there, I was on the verge of putting myself in to the ground rather early thanks to a particularly unhealthy penchant with Colombia's other export after Shakira.

The fact that I'm alive to revisit after all this time is a victory in it's own right.

Yay me!
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Too much coffee can be dangerous, eh, Mezz?  

Has anything been posted about Ronaldo and the sluts with nuts?

At long last, an independent (even if it is the Torygraph) source verifies a story that I told Gio which (for perhaps understandable reasons) he's never fully believed...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1...agnificent-men-of-the-RAF....html

But Dave how can I be sure you just haven't given that cock and bull story to the book's author or the journalist and they are just repeating it for the newspaper? Not convinced.

No idea who the author is, old boy. I assumed that the author got it from the Imperial War Museum; I know that the pilot was one of the legion of veterans interviewed during the 1960s to make sure that their recollections were recorded for posterity, but I've never listened to the recording of his interview, and the catalogue entry doesn't mention the specific incident.

http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/...mp;SV=0&BG=0&FG=0&QS=

I shall have to toddle along to the department of sound archives to see if the story checks out, I suppose.

What are you claiming Dave?  That this cock and bull story actually happened or that there is some loony out there who has said it happened to him?  There are enough crack pots in the world to make the latter eminently believable, but even in the account given there is no suggestion that the fairytale was corroborated by a third party.  A passing seagull perhaps?

Or were you talking about something else entirely?  If so, sincere and heartfelt apologies.  I'd hope you were talking about something else.

Il Be happy to go home on Wednesday... first time il be back since Christmas... Im supposed to have about 3 months at home this summer!!
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GTTMMH:

Rangers fans showing their true colours in Manchester last night.

Pride of Belfast!  

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1316114,00.html
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Scumbags. I don't understand quite why they need to be in Manchester anyway, for God's sake. Just because the game is being played in the same city, surely it doesn't make it any more enjoyable than watching it back home?

Good on Zenith for putting that shabby lot in their place. Forza Celtic!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/7402495.stm

Fair enough, but surely the main reason for not having a parade is that they didn't won the bloody game, and still have crucial games to play?

George, for clarity, I was pointing out that the story exists. Years ago, in bar far, far away, an acquaintance of Gio and I asked whether or not anyone had ever fallen out of his aeroplane doing a loop.

I said that there was a story out there, but never claimed that it was true - a nuance somewhat lost on my audience (and, thinking about it, me as well) at that point.

As I recall, there was some evidence to suggest that the tale might - astonishingly - be true (witnessed from the ground), but I've not seen the 'proof', so remain uncommitted.

Michael La Viola wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/7402495.stm Fair enough, but surely the main reason for not having a parade is that they didn't won the bloody game, and still have crucial games to play?

I couldn't believe it when I read they having a parade when they lost.  Even Wose than the Leicester players doing a "lap of honour" year after year despite being shit, although they skipped it this year.  Why in Britain do we celebrate losers so much?
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That is right or nearly right Dave. It was an evening of many beers and either myself or the good Dr. D. Smith were thinking of silly things to ask about your thesis and came up with the loop the loop falling out and falling back in suggestion. Happy days in Staff House.

Michael La Viola wrote:

Scumbags. I don't understand quite why they need to be in Manchester anyway, for God's sake. Just because the game is being played in the same city, surely it doesn't make it any more enjoyable than watching it back home? Good on Zenith for putting that shabby lot in their place. Forza Celtic!

Fair point, but people go on the off-chance that they may get a ticket.

My Dad went to the final and said that the Rangers fans were impeccably behaved both in the ground and around the city. He mingled with them and said that they were good-natured. Out of an estimated 100,000 travelling fans, fewer than 50 made arseholes of themselves. Not bad, really.

Forza Celtic! Great fans indeed, dispensing copies of the Republican News at a home game just one week after the Warrington bombing. Point is, it's not fair to make generalisations about supporters of a certain club, because as we know, there are good and bad elements in every fanbase.

Mezz wrote:

GTTMMH: Rangers fans showing their true colours in Manchester last night. Pride of Belfast!   http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1316114,00.html

haha! Yes. I don't take sides in the Rangers/Celtic thing since I'm a fanatical anti-theist. But really, those miserably drunk and ugly Rangers fans should be sterilized with fire. All football hooligans, of which Italy is a massive contributor, should be compassionately euthanized - and this is very much in accordance with any conception of decency.

A 'Good Thing That Makes Me Happy': I got engaged to my other half last week . She will officially be named MRS Blackandblue some time next summer, if all goes to plan. Thanking you all in advance for all your good wishes
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