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Hamilton Saint

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  1. Just passing on the warning I got from AVG!
  2. Yes. (Straight to penalties)
  3. Very sad news. He was a real gent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL614PU-EQE
  4. Well, that silences all the doom merchants. I wasn't too happy with the team selection, but Ralph adjusting things appropriately today. Good effort from the team. Very encouraging.
  5. Oscar Peterson received an honorary degree from McMaster University in 1981, the year I got my first undergraduate degree. He played during the ceremony. Wonderful!
  6. Literally? With sticks and clubs? Or just fists and feet?
  7. Or you could let loose your anima.
  8. There is no excuse for online abuse. The anonymity of social media provides some lowlifes, unfortunately, with the opportunity to engage in vile and disgusting communications. They seem to believe that they should be able to post whatever they want, and not have to face any accountability.
  9. It's not criticism she objects to, it is online abuse. One can imagine the vile kind of misogynistic messages that have been sent. Would you tell Black players that they shouldn't complain about racist abuse they have suffered--that they should just learn to put up with it? And why do you think she is out of her depth? Because she's a woman? She had a long professional career in club and international football. Do all the other TV pundits who are former players get their jobs only because they used to play professionally? Or does their experience give them a special insight into the game? If so, doesn't that apply also to her?
  10. No, off the top of his head.
  11. Against Tottenham. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gpid0FYvHk
  12. Paul Telfer Rory Delap Gaston Ramirez
  13. Nonsense. Harris dropped out of the contest voluntarily. She did so very early (Dec 3, 2019)--the third candidate out of the top eighteen to drop out. Biden was not selected "out of desperation". He lost the first three primaries/caucuses. But then he won South Carolina and Super Tuesday decisively. After that he won all but three of some thirty-eight votes. Trump knew that Biden was the candidate most likely to defeat him--that's why he tried to bribe President Zelensky of Ukraine. Clinton was by far a better candidate than Trump. She was defeated for five main reasons: 1) Russian interference in the election; 2) FBI Director James Comey's letter to Congress on October 28, right before the election, about Clinton's emails (an obsession with the GOP campaign); 3) the peculiarities of the Electoral College sysytem; 4) Clinton taking for granted Democratic support in the key mid-Western states and failing to campaign there sufficiently (not to mention her comment about "the deplorables"); and 5) the bulk of the media giving Trump a relatively free ride during the campaign.
  14. Just found this. Mea maxima culpa!
  15. Agreed. Although Spector was brought in after the fact (I think Lennon was the instigator on that decision) to put together an album from the mountain of recordings (and given a completely free hand)--despite the fact that Glyn Johns pulled together two different versions of a proposed album, both of which were rejected. What Johns did was pretty much what the Let It Be--Naked album became. Lindsay-Hogg's mistake was to use too much of the dispirited performance footage done at Twickenham--rather than the cinema verite, behind-the-scene footage that Jackson seems to be favouring. From what I saw in the 'sneak-peek' footage, Jackson's film should be awesome!
  16. The Kinks from "Something Else".
  17. Spector's best production, IMO, was the Righteous Brothers single "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling". It was first released in the U.K. in January, 1965 (reaching #1 for two weeks). It was re-released in early 1969 (reaching #10). I was prompted by the re-release to buy The Righteous Brothers Greatest Hits LP at Edwin Jones in Southampton. I was living in Blackfield at the time (on the Lepe Road, between Holbury and Langley). The single came out a third time in 1990, climbing to #3. I agree with LD's criticism of Spector's Beatles productions. They were awful.
  18. Impeachment is a certainty. They can then attempt to convict 100 days from now, after Biden has established himself and his administration. I'm sure by then a lot more incredible stuff will be revealed about Trump's unending campaign of crimes and misdemeanours. Perhaps it will sway enough Republican senators to change their minds (17 are required--with two already in the bag). It's not 'overreach' to attempt to convict Trump for his criminal behaviour. It's necessary for Congress to hold the president accountable. If the Republicans are too corrupt and supine to do anything, then it is left to the Democrats to do what they can, whether it is achievable or not. To do nothing, surely, is inconceivable. [Oh, how different it is now, when compared with the Watergate era, when a group of Republican leaders from Congress paid a visit to Nixon in the White House and persusdaded him to resign.]
  19. Honestly, I don't see the point of prosecuting a murderer. Seems like a waste of time. It's not going to bring the dead person back, is it? It's such an effort and costs a lot of money.
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