Guan 2.0

Well at least... uh no, can't see a positive from this performance. Except that Koeman may change his tactics after this game.

So different from my younger days, when the only joy to be found on the day of a homegame against Chelsea was within the Xeroxed pages of 'The Beautiful South'. 2-1 to the mighty Saints (sorry FF)

84% Bloomberg 82% Sanders 82% Clinton 80% Stein 57%Trump

Ron holding the ball once the five minutes were up was a nice touch.

On the subject of Corbyn's 'Britain can take it mantra', that we are a wealthy western country and and service or money we provide essentially cost us nothing in terms of monetary value or manpower, there is this from today's Times: "British children are being sent to care homes outside their county because social services are overwhelmed with unaccompanied child asylum seekers. Council officials in Kent say that they have no choice but to place local children elsewhere as a result of the large influx of migrant children. The council has 924 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) aged under 18 in its care, up from about 630 at the start of last August."

Worrying confirmation of what has been speculated for some time, and the migrant crisis is being used to mask the arrival of terrorists in Europe http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12123333/Refugee-routes-main-tactic-for-Isil-terrorists-to-get-in-to-Europe-and-launch-attacks-British-intelligence-officials-fear.html And the fact that that most of the arrivals are most likely economic migrants, not Asylum seekers - how many threats have snuck in with them? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/12123684/Six-in-ten-migrants-not-entitled-to-asylum-says-EU-chief.html (You can open links in incognito mode if you have gone over your free article limit)

Good ball from Mane. Darmian got Schlonged though.

If we win today, Expect to see Bertrand being played at LCB in the next England game.

The President gives them areas to avoid. Both the Washington post and the New York Times have quoted Daniel Benjamin, U.S. State Department coordinator, on the policy from the Commander in Chief not to mention radical Islamic terrorism, in fact, 'religious extremism' was given as the term to be used instead. It wasn't hard to find this information from reputable sources, as it's not a big secret. I've watched thousands. Hundreds a as part of my degree, and hundreds since. Also been behind the scenes on Parliamentary Placement. But thanks for the advice. The formula is most certainly not always the same. Look at Alistair Campbell and his Lobby system, dragging Journalists to Whitehall basements to sit on the floor 9 times a week, compared to the modern conservative strategy, and In the case of Matthew Lee, labelling him a hack is a lazy as it is dismissive. A Veteran Journalist from multiple wars, who was also lauded for his work in exposing lack of Local government transparency In Charlottesville, and now the diplomatic correspondent for the Associated Press. Also a meticulous researcher, who actually prepares for conferences by looking a US policy in international relationships, rather than trying to trip someone up on the day. More of the Nick Davies methodology. http://bigstory.ap.org/content/matthew-lee Again, your generalisation doesn't apply. Lee tends to use direct quotes from the source in his headlines, and also the aims of that person. If there is any contradiction in the stated aims with regular policy, he will include it in his reporting. I'm not trying to pretend anything. Again, as I was trying to fathom what possible appeal Trump had to certain Americans, I came across several news sites with analysis, (The aforementioned Washington Post and New York Times, along with the Chicago Sun_Times and Boston Globe) and many listed Trumps perceived 'plain speaking' (or I suppose now, that should be 'Palin speaking'?) compared to Obama and linked to earlier articles where Obama had been noted for 'speaking around issues' and downplaying instability. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/us/politics/a-president-whose-assurances-have-come-back-to-haunt-him.html. The link I posted earlier came from these articles. Of course the 'Double talk' narrative from the News Corp-owned outlets doesn't help but analysis from elsewhere helps to clear the rhetoric from the debate https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/03/16/has-obama-delivered-the-most-transparent-administration-in-history/ while also looking at Obama's record on credibility with the issue of terrorism https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-and-putin-meet-for-talks-in-aftermath-of-paris-attacks/2015/11/16/c38a137a-8c51-11e5-acff-673ae92ddd2b_story.html and how Trump is attempting to conflate plain speaking and national security http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/18/donald-trump-runs-radio-ads-criticizing-obama-on-paris-attacks/ While it may be a joke to the rest of us, given Palin's blustered attempt at rational discourse, her endorsement allows him a genuine shot of winning Iowa. Whereas Obama's preference for inconsistent foreign policy may harm Clinton and Sanders (not enough to land the Whitehouse for the Republicans, IMHO)

Did you watch the follow up? I broadly agree with your point on the first video, but instead of just admitting he misspoke, Obama briefed his Press department to deny and obfuscate into parody. Incredible.

Indeed, luckily they are used to speeches full of nonsense over there. Good to see that whomever gets the keys to the Whitehouse, speaking without engaging the brain will continue... With the follow up: [video=youtube;NDF-oN3B1PA]

Indeed. The perception is just as deadly to the Pro-EU argument as the reality.

No transfer request + He'll earn less money on his new contract.

Except if the move goes ahead, we'll be paying off most of Gaston's...

German women, Austrian women, Danish Women, and Swedish women, being raped and sexually abused. That's just the crimes that have come out in the last week. It's a bit more than 'having their arses groped'. The choice to do that has nothing to do with us living comfortable or 'Cushty' lives as you put it, and they, nor do we bear not encourage the blaming of victims for the for the crimes of others.

FootballItalia posted that story 5 minutes after I did! The info didn't stay in the club very long at all!

Don't be surprised to see part of the money we've saved on Caulker go into his pay off (it's been hinted at to me)

The kind of result that warms you on a wet and cold night!

If you are going to use the numbers provided by Rape crisis, you should also list the criticisms of their methodology they use in coming to their collusions. They don't actually count the numbers of rape victims in the UK, so saying that approx 85,00 and 12000 men are raped is just a best guess. They in fact use the accounts of women who have been raped, and often those who have supported them through therapy and recuperation, and extrapolate the numbers of women raped across the population from there. The problem with this is that they are tainting their results by using a biased (statistically speaking) source, and then presenting it as the everyday experience of all women. Asking a Rape victim if she has ever been raped, and her support network if they know of any woman who has ever been raped, is only ever going to provide one answer, and it presents a distorted view when submitted as a blanket conclusion. Also, counting individual rapes as rape victims. If a woman is raped by a violent male figure (who she feels unable to escape) 30 times in a week, then she has been raped 30 times, that is not 30 victims that need to be extrapolated up across the study. And while the statistics on reported rapes used by Rape Crisis were from 2013, a number of the papers used to provide evidence for attitudes towards rape were published in 2005 and earlier. Given that these studies can take 2-6 years to complete before publishing we are talking about studies that may not have even been conducted this side of the millennium, and therefore would not pass modern scholastic standards on Confirmation bias and illusory correlation. Looking closer, some of the sources used from 2007 onwards are little more than review papers of others much earlier work. These are just some of the reasons that the Rape Crisis numbers are not given more attention by the Public, Media, and Government, and unfortunately, is also used by some to diminish the traumatic process that many rape survivors go through. I also support those who argue that the Government should fund a full study under academic standards, rather than an NGO with little accountability. But the new issue facing Northern and Western Europe today is the willingness of some from Asia and Africa to become part of organised gangs that prey on young European woman, looking to Rape and abuse them, at the same time as robbing them of their valuables and self-worth. And unfortunately it was not inevitable, as the Finnish Police force's proactive approach proved. This could have been averted, and it is strange that when discussing this, the fact that the culture of some of the offenders host nation posits that a women and her testimony are worth 1/2 or 1/4 of a man's (depending if you prefer the Qur'an or Hadith) and that unaccompanied women are seen as incapable of being raped, is never mentioned by policy makers.

(Information that has been passed on starts) Not just Les Reed. We are a club with multiple departments, all of which are talented in collating and reviewing information, and making recommendations based on that information. In the past, how much attention players pay to their reviews has been a good indicator to the expected level of future commitment (Lallana). At the moment, our reviews are pointing to a number of worrying factors. We are not playing to the clubs preferred formation, despite purchasing players identified as being able to do so. Our training regimes are very segregated, and our post match analysis software is pointing to mistakes being repeated time after time. The path from the youth team to the first has been apparently shut, and those parents who advised their children to choose SFC over other suitors for reasons of development and who were already angry being misled, are now furious over Koeman's public statement on the subject. SFC is not an unfeeling corporate machine, and in times of goals aplenty and top eight places there is leeway on our methods, but given that most departments have voiced concerns over the direction and atmosphere of the first team, and those who are seemingly barred from joining it, adding to Koeman's unwillingness to commit and our horrific run of results (Information that has been passed on end) I would not be surprised if anything less than 6 points in the next 2 games sees Ronald stay until the summer. I am waiting on confirmation, but i enquired as to whether feelers have been put out over a new manager as of yet.

I can't speak for anyone else on this thread, but I that borders should not be shut completely unless there is a national crisis in place. Instead, I would prefer conditionally open or controlled borders, as is the norm in this country. I wish we had the infrastructure to lift more from the shelter zones, as one thing i agree with the Government on is helping those individuals who are most at risk and in the greatest peril. However, as someone who is left of centre socially an politically, it was not hard to see problems arising. Preliminary reports by the UN and the EU into the origin and demographics of the 2015 migration showed that a fair proportion of those entering Europe (and others, such as Slavs from inside Europe), were not from Syria, or indeed from active areas of conflict. It also showed a skewed proportion of young men without a higher education. But the message Promoted by Western and Northern Europe leaders was one of weel educated, helpless refugees fleeing conflict, in contradiction to their own evidence, and this was treated as dogma when engaging with the Press and existing population of Europe. The first major schism from the fabricated reality arose when these peaceful refugees started using violence (inwardly and outwardly) to regularly break the rule of law (including the same law they were seeking shelter under), destroying documents, and demanding access to countries with the best benefit package. I have every sympathy with those in Syria living under fear of death, and those who have made it to safety. I have nothing but contempt for those who have used abuse, intimidation and extortion to break into Europe, and now seek to visit every kind of violence upon its citizens, nor those who would mask their crimes. P.S. I am not suggesting you are the one masking any crime!

Nope, not sore about anything, as you have already shown you don't care for precedents or real world examples. Never let it be said you aren't a special case SOG, so just for you, and assuming you cannot fathom even base material, here is a breakdown of posts, just for you. Exhaustive in every sense of the word. P.S. Before i forget, congrats on derailing the thread again. Feel good about yourself. How are we getting closer to the 'Trump' question? Do you questioning the current policies wants to Ban all Muslims? Do you think this is a binary choice? As in a border is either open or closed with no measure in-between? Where does Batman say all countries should close their borders? Where does he go on to say borders should be closed to everyone? So as you see SOG, there are many 'False positions' above which you project on to batman as if they were his own. They were in fact, imagined by you, seemingly in response to questions never asked. So in my post, I answered those questions on batman's behalf, albeit in a sardonic manner, using the only examples of reply he could give which would slightly match the implied position. I know you find it hard to keep up SOG, so we'll recap. Batman was bemoaning the abuses visited upon young woman in Cologne, you then posted a reply that implied he was nearing Donald Trump's Idealogical policy sphere, and that he wanted to close all borders to everyone, and then I provided the only quotes that would make sense of your reply in any way, admittedly with an air of acerbic flourish. Oh and the Straw refers to the idea of the Strawman fallacy, but let's play along and pretend you can't comprehend that. So, now we have the previous posts in context, on to your most recent diatribe. More fun for all on this thread. It's strange, for all the others on this thread, no matter their viewpoint, there is only a general of confusion coming from you. It's almost as if you deliberately misunderstand world-views, and ignore or alter those opinions that do not agree with you. Well the paragraphs above are a breakdown of all the posts, so even you can go one line at a time and catch up. And here we have it, the crux of your online persona, which so closely resembles that of a troll. . Nothing is nuanced, there are no shades of Grey, just one of two options. If you disagree with the manner in which SOG assumes something, you must be in sympathy of the most extreme option. Why do you guess? Why not pick up on cues in the text (primary level stuff btw, and that's a fact, not an insult). When I wrote about "Controlled borders and conditionally open borders" in the very reply you are mentioning, did you even consider it, for a second? You say you've read it twice, which can only mean you filter out multifaceted approaches to situations at hand. Basic knowledge of differing solutions to a problem are key to any discussion, and if you want to debate someone on their stance, it's best to have rudimentry awareness beyond a two-choice paradigm. It's nice of to to couch your language as one who is offended. Yes, despite your best efforts to spam the board in your little war of attrition with misconceptions and false assumptions, quite literally boring people off, I will continue to post when you pull 'facts' from nowhere. How very dare I! Again, no. You asked for other examples of atrocities that have had such media coverage, I listed Spanish civil war, Vietnam war, Rwanda, former Yugoslavia, First World War and 'The falling man' on September 11th just off the top of my head as historical precedent, and provided images. You ignored their validity and just made the bizarre complaint that we hadn't talked about them on the thread, unwilling to admit the fact that had those subject been the topics of discussion, then doubtless they would have been brought up. Enjoy your night. And my regrets to the rest of the posters who had to read this.

Just going over yet another one of your posts, where you've invented a position to argue against, and claimed someone is proposing something they haven't actually given backing to, and given the quotes which would justify it as anywhere near your interpretation. It's a simple device to show how ludicrous your post was. Most people would comprehend this, but I know you like to play dumb(er?) in situations like this. P.S. "What is it you're are talking Guan? You might want to review the dosage" makes no sense. Did you mean taking? If so, ironic from a man who sees non-existent arguments everywhere.

Yes that's exactly what he said. Exactly that. Batman stated (and I'm sure you can quote him) "There is a binary choice when it comes to borders. Open or closed. Those are the only two options. Controlled borders and conditionally open borders are concepts which no global organisations have recognised as a concept or term and have been around since the the introduction of borders as we understand them today. I love Donald Trump and agree with everything he says. One thing I can't grasp is that I sometimes feel like I'm made of straw". Doomed by his own words.