Viking Warrior

Excellent Post Verbal and very informative

Bollixs bollixs bollixs

Come on saints you have 2 minutes

Now fonte booked

Total phish

Well done foster , a world class save

Marsindinho those stats don't make good reading I agree but the Taliban have perpetrated far more hideous crimes both innocent civilians as well as coalition forces . Trouble is you rarely hear about those . Check points are dangerous areas and service personnel and civilians have been killed when cars full of explosives have failed to stop For example Two British soldiers shot dead in Afghanistan by a man wearing an Afghan police uniform have been named by the Ministry of Defence. They were Lt Edward Drummond-Baxter and L/Cpl Siddhanta Kunwar, both of 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, attached to 40 Commando Royal Marines. They were killed at a checkpoint while on patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province on Tuesday. It's very difficult to identify who is Taliban and who isn't over there A very very sad day with all those innocent kids and their teachers being slaughtered

The matter of torture or enhanced questioning techniques is a very emotive subject indeed. The CIA report which is some 6000 pages long so my learned friends above have said. I dont intend to read it but many such reports always appear to focus on the most extreme abuses , bad practices etc what ever report is being published look at the reports in recent days - Such Ofsted is warning that too many secondary schools in England are not making sufficient progress, with almost a third judged not to be good enough. When I saw the banner about the schools it came across as rather negative to all the hard working teachers , Yes its right to focus on these issues but it also need to focus on all the good aspects these schools are achieving . Here is another example Today there is a report on about A&E performance is deteriorating . A&E units across the UK are struggling to hit their waiting time target as winter hits, latest figures show. The mounting problems come as the BBC launches its NHS Winter project, which tracks how the health service is performing down to individual hospital trust level. A number of my former medical staff colleagues who work in A&E. ITU ICU etc are hacked off with this constant negativity , They are all doing a fantastic job MY questions is just to get back on track is Like the CIA report , have the media or the authors of this report given a balanced view of the contents of the report or just focus on the newsworthy bullet points they wish the media to focus on? I dont know but what I do read and see is the most extreme concerns hitting the headlines . I trust this extreme torture was not endemic but is the result of a very small percentage of rogue operators I recall the Camp Breadbasket scandal back in 2005 . The press had a field day . Some of the media suggested every British servicemen was just as guilty as the perpetrators. It wasnt it was just down to a handful of bad apples. I was still serving at the time so know the impact it had on service personnel As I said it is an emotive subject , but equally many other country's carry out far more enhanced interview technigues, than Cia. Look at Russia, China etc etc Time for my kevlar helmet .

I learnt to cook in the field. 24 hour Rats packs is the way to go, amazing what you could conjure up with a few spices especially curry powder. Jamie will confirm this Back to the OP , yes i do like to cook , Im reasonably okay with making curries and chinese, not your tinned or packaged stuff. I make a pretty good Nasi Goreng. my guests always want more, Not so hot on desserts unless it is a fruit crumble of some description I will be doing christmas dinner again this year as I have done for many years. The prep can be a bit of a pain though

Give it a rest fitzhugh , you are becoming very tedious with your anti viking posts . . I am not bigoted let alone a sun reader . I know all about the falls , Shankill road areas you mention But I don't have to justify my experience to you , having done three tours of duty there. I'm glad you were able to visit belfast in more peaceful times . Did you go there in the 70's? Some proddies were equally bad. I had friend who was killed by the bomb at the military wing of musgrave park hospital . I could say more about my experiences . I have family living near belfast as well as medical friends living in belfast . Your the One that is ignorant accusing someone who has no experience of NI . But then you seem to want to have a pop at me at every opportunity .

View from the top , for your information I do have a grasp of what this debate is actually about . Like you I have an opinion .

Bexy said Dad's getting Command and Control by Eric Schlosser. It's about Nuclear Bombs & is v.terrify! Thanks son , I look forward to unwrapping it Love dad

Pap Given your rational on this subject I guess you are totally supportive of the iRA with PIRA, RIRA INLA's use of barbaric technigues they used on informers, sympathisers or cathlolic lasses that went out with soldiers, How many of their vistims have still to be found or are walking round the streets of NI due to the technique of knee capping There were some pretty nasty individuals in the 70's / 80's on both sides , the proddies were nowhere as bad as the republicans are you suggesting they should never have been interned? Perhaps you are one of those lefty types who would like to invite them round for tea and cakes and ask them nicely what they did with Jean McConville, Robert Nairac, Seamus Ruddy, The CIA while wrong in some of their techniques are pussy cats compared to al queda, the Taliban and the likes of Pol Pot.Black September two wrongs dont make a right but.............................

I hear the saints forum is an excellent website You will get many colourful opinions. but if your of a nervous disposition stay away from the saints main forum

I see on the news the met are police are questioning 11 people as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in 2007. One is Robert Murat and others employees of the complex that they stayed at. I wonder if they will be speaking to other members of the McCann party. The met said they are also questioning to Brits At least Murat has said he has nothing to fear having already been cleared

Pap Im one that dosent totally understand the intricacies of finance etc , Yes I understand the fundamentals etc maybe if I research tax credits / allowances . i might be eligible Thanks also to Whitey Grandad for his input

Why do people earning up to £50K entitled to child tax credit? You may have to pay a tax charge, known as the ‘High Income Child Benefit Charge’, if you have an individual income over £50,000 and either: you or your partner get Child Benefit Thats seems perverse. no wonder the country is broke

Lord Duckhunter A good honest post Your comments about employees turning down promotions and O/T employemtn etc is spot on. because they'll be no better off as any extra money comes off their tax credits. Some applicants make it clear at the start of an interview that unless they can only work X hours ( lesst thanthe ft/PT hours being recruited to that they are not interested in the job. as it affects all their benefits, Some jobs you can accomodate those requests, the majority you can't . somehow the atate needs to change peoples mindset about benfits being a life time entitlement. I am more concerned about fuel poerty and those that work Full time but barely take home the living wage , but with travel costs and the price of fuel , they cannot afford to heat their house let afford the 50in state of the art TVs mobile phones etc, They cant even afford a phone

Come on saints get hold of the ball

Despite the moans in here . We have played well apart from the schoolboy howler from Jose

Bloody ref

Manuka time to be the hero

The live game hoodoo strikes again me thinks

Hesketh looks very lightweight

We can still win 3- 2