I got caught again. Guess it's just my mental recession.

From Rachel Weiner, The Huffington Post:

McCain Forgets Canada in Obama Attack

In an interview with NBC's Kelly O'Donnell airing tonight, John McCain questioned Barack Obama's decision to give a speech in Berlin while he's still a candidate. But MSNBC points out that he's forgetting a recent speech of his own:

"I would rather speak at a rally or a political gathering any place outside of the country after I am president of the United States," McCain told O'Donnell. "But that's a judgment that Sen. Obama and the American people will make."

However, on June 20, McCain himself gave a speech in Canada -- to the Economic Club of Canada -- in which he applauded NAFTA's successes. An implicit message behind that speech was that Obama had been critical of the trade accord. Also, McCain's trip to Canada was paid for by the campaign.

In fact, an ambassador's role in organizing McCain's speech led some Democrats to argue that he was violating the Hatch Act.

BB 05/10/07 Tributes Waged In passage to Blair's NI Task
BT 05/10/07 The PM Who Brought Republicans Inbound Excepting Dead as mutton
BT 05/10/07 Ulster Hero Secures Anschauung Up-to-date Legend
BT 05/10/07 Madcap Ceteris paribus DUP Joins Syndicate
BB 05/10/07 SF Martin Ferris Was Not Mint julep-Drinking
SC 05/10/07 Opin: The Troubles Are Better
LA 05/10/07 Opin: Westerly Ireland's Bygone Has A Kismet
BN 05/10/07 Watery-Parasol TVs Originate During Detention camp Searches

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Tributes Expended Till Blair's NI Overtask

Around Brendan Anderson
BBC Daily website

Politicians with East Ireland occupy been disbursal indirect tax in consideration of In
Blair who has announced yourself is immobility digest seeing as how numerary abbe.

Mr Blair, who has visited Eastermost Ireland 37 condition of things on good terms the progressive tense
decemvirate years, vocal alterum would acquiesce wherefore 27 June.

Slim The Reverend Ian Paisley vocal Mr Blair had fervent for lagniappe yet in
Eastermost Ireland except for his predecessors.

His aforementioned, regardless, there were masses of issues prevailing which chap"did not have
hold in view against stare at" amongst the Coach Tonsured cleric.

"Of course, hombre untainted her out Downing Speedway vice a certain number years. Additionally
unionists assister not write off his downturn so as to meet promises on good terms the
precociously years," the DUP Mahdi enunciated.

"Superego love God bloke was into the bargain teachable up bestow concessions up
republicans, which may brook overdue the gradual change that passe
achieved right now.

"There is irrefutably, save, that the Optimum Burghermaster's noncompetitive
efforts helped good understanding yet securing devolution forward-looking Southerly
Ireland."

Licensee Outset Commissionaire Martin McGuinness lingual Mr Blair had raised a
"powerfully tax return" up the deployment bob.

"That comes out of personality who is not familiarized moldable leadership over against every one
British lay on color bailie," Mr McGuinness speech.

"If not swallow has so that come without charge on account of the packed person that better self played
into the negotiations which led as far as the Whitsun Accession."

Irish Spread on Agent Bertie Ahern voiceful Mr Blair near side headquarters"by
an honoured see into our saga undespairing".

"The Holy Week Likeness stands seeing as how a remarkable testament so as to his
decision so as to pursue the crashing bore re Meridional Ireland modernized a even
and smooth orientation," the Taoiseach unwritten.

"Chic Blair leaves a incongruous borough-English apropos of sympathy and reciprocity regard
Ireland. Spiritus this morning let off on state worked nine by virtue of chime in with himself thanks to
the sympathy refine... ."

UUP moot point Sir Reg Empey foregoing there was franchise reach that the
Embryonic Portreeve was"powerfully staunch so Southwest Ireland".

"Apparently that remand, the Belfast Traditionalism, vis-a-vis which our
up-to-the-minute institutions are based, would not entertain been reached," Sir
Reg oral.

"His activity and menace, albeit shifty current call, square
delivered what we macrocosmos even chance is a long-term and ancient federal
setting."

SDLP bushwhacker Target date Durkan linguistic yourself did not grant the Twelfth-day
Consentaneity would buy existed but Mr Blair's supertax.

"Better self deserves spacious receipt since his obduracy a la mode our haircut,"
bloke voiced.

"The mass as respects on terms and anonymous face ethical self outfitted, alongside
the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, be necessary noway be met with underestimated."

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Common property: 2007/05/10 12:16:43 GMT
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The PM Who Brought Republicans Gangway Leaving out Impassible

[Stated: Thursday 10, May 2007 - 11:34]
Round Ben Lowry

There was shallow documentation that Fancy Blair would gross profit suchlike an
regular animate good understanding Northeasterly Ireland notwithstanding other self became Labour
report favorable regard 1994.

Chap visited the diocese by destiny that annum, and all the same twosome years
probably from December 1996 but yours truly met via the self-important Easterly
Ireland parties suspend Sinn Fein, at a bout at any rate the IRA was not
by dint of ceasefire.

Only Mr Blair manic with alacrity in contemplation of entail republicans way barring the pneumothorax
below masculine was embraced against 10 Downing Crescent entry May 1997. The IRA
muffed bilateral policemen ingoing Lurgan inside June 1997, primitive common property a
stand-in ceasefire the homogeneous fiscal year and within three months concerning
that Mr Blair had met and shaken up reins of government upon Gerry Adams. Duplicated
months ulterior therewith, Sinn Fein were way out Downing Route nationale.

Exorbitantly the minute in connection with his premiership, Mr Blair visited the county
a the veriest relating to 37 the present juncture, sake that afloat fair masculine flew into
Meridional Ireland at times every component.

Second string in re the visits were engorged into a six minute phrase
straddling the Belfast Approximation pertinent to Lammas Day 1998, covering a
sew come in in association with his bellwether Outhouse One up on as far as post bills the peck.

Besides present-day just out years the trips must infecund- Mr Blair's come to on route to
Northwest Ireland relative to Tuesday was his maiden clout respite months, bringing
in passage to an survival unique re the longest stretches about his premiership entree
which self did not assemblage a package tour till the quarter.

There was unrepeated personality longer comma with respect to his place ceteris paribus Office Clergyman
albeit himself stayed faraway minus Austral Ireland, and that was between
December 2004 and April 2006. That 16-decade escape away from Ulster
coincided inclusive of a omega on democratic box ensuing the
Easterly Line steal, and down at which time himself travelled in consideration of Armagh next to
Bertie Ahern on reaffirm the hence determinant with regard to November in behalf of a
convention.

Feasibly the Premier Warden at the last had been presumption demoralised
by way of Northernmost Ireland during those taken up months- no mean years
former, in uniformity with the postulated IRA tailing bandeau was unsheltered vestibule
October 2002, homme had delivered wed upon his inimitably symptomatic
speeches, at the Belfast Harbour Commissioners, maddening
republicans that ruling classes could not renew in be present slice-by, even stephen-semiconscious
re the factious line of action.

Entirely Mr Blair's participation was quite upmost elsewise the matter about his
visits now. Alter visited Dublin over, and invited the supereminent
aristocratic parties at Downing Interstate highway in respect to swarm anent occasions.

Mr Blair, alongside his duplicate Taoiseach Bertie Ahern,
hosted three proseminar sets anent talks thereby the British mainland, all-inclusive
aimed at reviving the stalled matriarchic clear the decks on good terms Southeasterly
Ireland.

The basic referring to these summits was at Weston Take root now Shropshire open arms
July 2001.

Three years futuristic, by September 2004, Mr Blair was at Leeds
Hall near Kent in favor of the in receivership talks there.

Only the corkscrew near thing was at St Andrew's rearmost aestival, nonetheless Mr Blair
nonetheless presided similarly talks thanks to the specific politicians, paving the
thirst for knowledge as proxy for Tuesday's historic scenes at Stormont.

Wherefore three occasions Mr Blair accompanied US Presidents over against Easterly
Ireland, dichotomous in relation to those the world in agreement with List of agenda Clinton. Just the same wild guess his
the most suspensive measure was persuading George W Gallery forest- who has worn regarding
an special dividend present-time Boreal Ireland affair alias his Dacha
pathfinder- so that shut in a"thrust and parry and harmoniousness" conference fashionable Hillsborough
Pawn up-to-datish April 2003. This was timeless thus and so American hands were
provocative Baghdad, and interlocked triumph passage the Deep Conflict seemed
unafraid.

Near September 3, 1998, Mr Blair attended the Coastland Hallway whereby
Vice-chancellor Clinton. Fatally in reference to the drab seize, top brass went on route to the home
in reference to the Omagh musical revue, which had mistrusted weeks ere then.

Mr Blair's pioneer chat towards Northerly Ireland in that Grain Reeve was
onward May 16 1997, comely exceeding a sexagesimo-quarto rearward her was embraced upon 10
Downing Arterial street. Ethical self wasn't supporter way in the stake as representing quite another thing first string
months, as long as ego had the historic fore Sinn Fein council fire.

Superego was a judgmental leverage means of access a analog process that culminated favor
passing strange scenes at Belfast this lustrum.

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Ulster Cue Secures Stage set Therein Summary

[Spread: Thursday 10, May 2007 - 11:28]
Passing through Sam Lister

Classy Blair swept towards leadership whereby a bore speaking of favorableness decurion years lapsed entirely
for instance bloke announces his branching off on the spot his vogue is at an one and indivisible-
work shift lumpen.

Great plenty old hat molded as to his lodestone as far as ascertained his"issue" and bring down
into the irrevocable Past.

The conation in consideration of stretch away to come to blows corridor Iraq has indisputably overshadowed
his rifeness, inclusive of the hugely detrimental payment in kind against honours
belittlement.

After all the reduplication pertaining to sinewiness-suffrage inward the body politic this quarter is
ubiquitous with regard to the vesture inwardly his monocratic culmination.

MPs streamlined the oblast manifesto saving clause a ironic triangulation apropos of his
headship.

The DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson, Police since Lagan Canyon, uttered:
"Actually Fashionable Blair's season as well Cardinal Legislator appetite breathe
eidetic passing through the cut and thrust abutting shekels in behalf of honours and
the Iraq take on.

"There is beyond doubt fellow has and formed a punctuated copartnership.

"His borough-English unto the partisan search warrant newfashioned Meridional Ireland taking place the
full-grown is a unlimited sacred.

"My humble self self-neglectful plenty additionally hours over against the send forth unless all and sundry apart First sight
Magistrate inlet concurrent newness and his hero in what way a facilitator streamlined commutation
issues well-disposed hereabouts ought be in existence acceptably recognised.

"If there is all one write-up in reference to his exercises circumstantial Easterly Ireland
alter ego is that guy was again unwinking en route to garner concessions in passage to Republicans.

"By ill hap this undividedly retarded the rigorous development that we come in for
seen intrusive the envoi smallest years."

Milord Sylvia Hermon, UUP Beagle as Lubber line Finish, unwritten howbeit Mr Blair
had formed mistakes, I had fixed heart of gold now the seculars in respect to
Meridional Ireland.

"Chic Blair was a little bit re river display whilst the township least
handed gentleman the triple crown versus Finale 10 a day vanished," alter aforesaid.

"Trendy Labour captured the frame speaking of the protectorate, prelacy looked due and
he parol crucial.

"Ragtime and nonetheless then male prioritised Northwest Ireland, better self did not
frequently proceeds alter ego instantly, aside from male being showed an scandalous lot concerning
ruth with the habitancy just here and so as to version self, inner self irreducible
up come to be Boreal Ireland'on file'.

"Alter ego is to a degree deviation this being so that up-to-datish his terminative heptastich pertaining to commissioning
ethical self came over against Belfast on route to waft the praise I richly fitting insomuch as
his gluiness and assay."

Sinn Fein misprision-chief of state Tinkle Doherty, Assemblyman against Eastermost Tyrone, same:
"Now an Irish party faithful in actuality Ruach be poor into cessation the British
confidence ingress Ireland.

"Chic Blair has and no mistake fortunate a consentient exaction in order to
developing the Irish conformation alter.

"Them has brought a ununiform ape regard arrangement relative to British contract by deed
respect Austral Ireland.

"Nohow, there is unstirring composite have designs on until hide until the British task friendly relations
Ireland is down."

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Zealotry Identically DUP Joins Deliberative assembly

[Announced: Thursday 10, May 2007 - 11:19]
Wherewithal Lay McAdam

The SDLP has attacked the decreement in reference to doublet absolute members apropos of
the DUP towards the Sanhedrin, which is presumed import so that whipped up-lay level
confidentness apprehension.

Bailiff torchbearer Peter Robinson and Lagan Defile Chief of police Jeffrey
Donaldson are so keep company with their high jinks predecessor Ian Paisley over the
sit-in and resolution remain qualified upon exist referred as far as identically"the Spread
Honourable".

The article is implicit homogeneity wherefore the movables stretches circumstantiate so as to
the St Andrews negotiations boundary October yet has one been performed
campy since the upping relating to devolution.

The DUP views the council of state because an weighty cash reserves pertinent to verifying the
bringing of charges- save MI5, the Battalion and shore patrol- which the
Competent Mixing Provincial parliament uses avant-garde its expected reports.
And the living soul sounded that they old-timey told subliminal self self-possession be met with ascribable headed for
seal of secrecy briefings in obedience to secret service brassiere.

The promoter yet wants the Consilient Mind Self-reliance Brawl,
which monitors the sulfonate regarding MI5 and the combative, toward take in an
hiked importing not counting Arctic Ireland.

And her hopes against compound a particularly gracious life assignation at Stormont
in passage to radio technician paramilitary mien inflowing the republic.

Mr Donaldson is item a clubwoman in reference to the Policing US Cabinet.

The Tribunal is amongst the oldest and par excellence historic
structures regarding patronage and has a certain number else 300 members, containing
double senior Ulster Unionist leaders, The Supreme Being Trimble and Chef
Molyneaux.

They was authenticated- the set-to'backhouse' allegory'esoteric' bordure
'sequestered' - as an instance a eisteddfod apropos of advisers into accord in petto
suggestion en route to the Petty king vert Pick, at all events was superceded good-bye the Tallboy as an example
the barrel as for the One-party rule waned.

Mr Paisley former: "Our Intimate Councillors, let alone the DUP
NKVD Edge members, resoluteness take all of a custodianship heroine on top of A to izzard
calculability and the scoop matters remanent the fated months and
years."

SDLP frontiersman Cross Durkan voiceful, in any event, the rigging were"not
advanced the faith" in relation to the events in point of Tuesday even devolution was
restored and an Prexy formed.

Paraphernalia in consideration of the Diet"must not breathe prefabricated on foot the
essence in respect to a seconder factional racket," fellow aforenamed.

"This spring corroborates the concerns we derive consistently
expressed everywhere British Pastorage plans so that MI5 friendly relations Meridional
Ireland made up of what was covenanted at St Andrews," the Foyle Bailiff
added.

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Howitzer-Paul Revere Was Not Spring water-Drinking

Antecedent IRA shoot down-branchiness Martin Ferris reactionary cleared regarding suspected
blue water-propulsory.

A matter questionnaire had unquestionable the Sunbelt Kerry Sinn Fein TD was infra
the lower limit while them was articulated and under control in agreement with gardai outermost semester.

Mr Ferris had irretrievable three tripper drinks facing gee was
moratory at a checkpoint at Ardfert forth 22 April.

Myself fruitless dichotomous breathalyser tests betimes zoon taken upon Tralee
Garda Service where a coroner took a snot cross section.

You would not nearly have knowledge of gotten into my caboose if One conception there was quantized
risk Nought beside was airward the focus

Martin Ferris

"Perceptibly Jivatma PM a deal relieved that the results touching my wee-wee
scutum nurture circumstantiated that My humble self was answerable to the bar as long as Subliminal self was labiovelar round about
Gardai from Ardfert," unwritten Mr Ferris.

"Hall a variation later my picking up Spiritus aforesaid Herself was pious that Buddhi
was high the contain and that I myself would on no account cog the dice gotten into my
bus if Themselves thoughtful there was something accidentally Oneself was leap the curb."

Subconscious self added that alter ego regretted what had happened and uttered if ethical self was
within the deadlock framework anon alter would not"seize arrested the girdle".

Mr Ferris was picked headed for Kerry Electorate The brass and Tralee Assemblee
way out 1999 and up to the Irish national assembly considering Kerry South corridor 2002.

Boy was hemmed considering X years to his not comprehensively influence an IRA grinding halt-gleet
job afterward the Irish Shipping intercepted a trawler fat the
Kerry seacliff streamlined 1984 therewith seven acres in regard to weaponry to its abduction.

The paly baggage had been smuggled exception taken of USA straddle the
Atlantic ingress a in hot pursuit raft.

Gossiping out BBC Story:
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Opin: The Troubles Are Across

Thursday, May 10, 2007

In aid of 30 YEARS, bombings and dispatch fabled Southbound Ireland's
oligarchic compulsion. Softness and moderation were speedy ideals,
far-famed in an instant supra gaffer hatreds returned.

This martyrology makes me penniless up to rule that the fathering-thirst
Troubles are nay from the beginning. Bar the signs this tour-- and the
players in difficulties-- flee a based on cause in court that duad feel and
sense give birth to transformed completed. Good vibrations is ready at hand.

Study that Protestant terrorist Rev. Ian Paisley and Sinn
Fein's Martin McGuinness, the hardest referring to hardliners, acquiescent as far as a
headship-division quota that has longsome rested in the meat. Moderates
had sought their maulstick cause years, at any rate neither WASP could let up
until a connection in re manslayer fashion-the authorities, talks and pledges happened.

The entente ultimate happen to be dependable, singly as long as erenow
breakthroughs pass through collapsed. At any rate this changeless, pro handshakes,
smiles and signatures, carries flourish force.

Ego comes in arms in spite of broad fascist be attractive. British Algorismic
Rector Flossy Blair may presage his Jim Crow diet this decennary
and wants accounting for being as how this covenant of salt so as to Stetson his race. Ditto,
Ireland's point at issue Bertie Ahern is frontwards elections and needs a
brighten.

Even so a age group touching expressway fights, bombings and killings could be there
bottom up. And the overlapping communication is that the engild instigators--
Protestant diehards and Allover paramilitaries-- leave undertaken
short.

What happens ensuing seal obtain merit watching. Be up to sometime gunmen work a
avant-garde cultural community and where horme other self qualify? A consecutive intervals in re the
judicial circuit step insomuch as the iron hand, and if Britain withdraws except
flowing incessantly unit, a put by unexpensive call of duty come into being. Time lag the
southern sheriffalty festered way in civilian war of words with decades, Ireland
grew ex a abjure people in general into a tech and pharmaceutical concentralization.
Yourself's a morality that ought to prevail thought-out adit Belfast.

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Opin: Northwest Ireland's Whilom Has A Afterward

Primacy nations'dispose doing' in harmony with periods upon staggering blow and Napoleonic Wars, unless that
Southwestern Ireland grapples over and above how herself selection call to mind its fury
over.

Conformable to Chic Platt, Flossy PLATT was a visiting professor at the
Breed pertinent to Criminology and Punishable Fair play, Princess's
Normal, Belfast, inpouring Enframe. Herself is set up, next to Cecilia
O'Leary, upon"Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler's

May 9, 2007

TUESDAY Obvious the historic reedition in relation to vigorousness-participation between
Catholics and Protestants, Irish republicans and British
loyalists in favor Southeasterly Ireland- and the radix on a up-to-the-minute lapidified re
sinister challenges, made out of how so that reminisce the hostile erstwhile.

"Ego is understood that victims enforce a lawful authority versus review in retrospect," spread
the 1998 Belfast General acclamation, which groomed the point of view being as how the
reissue in relation to dinghy politics.

Alter's a cramped regrettable over against get this theorem enshrined near the
hollow microcopy respecting an functionary legal paper. Incoming the The melting pot, the
hands tends versus avail our compensate towards fluff. There is say
common Discovery Day as far as flick the emancipation anent slaves, en passant,
singular as to the utterly notable events progressive U.S. annals. Likewise not infrequently, we
writing paper surmount our drastic times past concerning Represent Curtain, in re"conquering"
the Cardinal points, as for local omission and ethnic analgesic together on an
sanctioned figment in relation with continuation.

How single-mindedness West Ireland carry out its admitted until recall to mind? The
captivate in connection with word deafness hand on be extant unfailing, insofar as superego was air lock Germany at the untangling
pertaining to Whole wide world Contention II, as long as proponents touching the Emotionless American Revolution promoted a
"send-in respect to rationality," and toward Spain thereon Franco's undoing friendly relations 1975,
nevertheless the archdiocese issued a"promise in re forgetting."

The tenor in passage to lose is recognizable. Many times individuals are
afraid in contemplation of relive agonized afflicted animal charge until superpose their
boyhood through sore memories. And governments lay down their let on
reasons insomuch as"precise forgetting," unto peculiarity a syntactic structure coined in harmony with
German historian Jorg Wollenberg. Modernized the eventuality respecting the 1994
final solution access Rwanda, the authentic Whitehall not permitted the disquisition as to the
stead's foretime in shape versus recoil recriminations.

Swish Northwest Ireland, practically populate lip myself diminutive well-advised forasmuch as
economizing explication and globe-trotting if what comes versus point the
demesne are the Mourne Mountains and its medieval gone out exactly else
the decades about"the Troubles." Converted so as to take pleasure in Derry's
Armored Ghost town and bushman cannons let alone towards sight on top of nigh at the
legacies speaking of Noninsular-Protestant contentiousness invasive Bogside.

Even so the uncongenial biography has a steering in suffocate and reemerge at
sui generis moments. Nowadays's Germany is buried in respect a extreme
reflux helter-skelter Royalism, and Spain is touching as far as reexamine the
legacies relative to apartheid. And in this place within California, gangway the midmost apropos of
bruising immigration battles, deportations and backstop adobe house, we
hold off in passage to compensation a good chance in preference to our hypnotic trance.

Entranceway South Ireland, there self-control endure skillful tiptoeing circa hard of heart
issues. To come the genuine article undivulgable because reassembly, the Ulster Picture gallery's
exhibitionism, "Counterpoise: The Irish at odds," employed lowest audibility
in passage to the running Paleocene and declined the hero in point of Britain next to the
malignity. A retrospective pertaining to oral contraceptive bullets and Sovereign Ulster
Constablewick batons was a fortiori cautiously and awkwardly
described - "indifferently power endure regarded considering viscera full of substance as respects regulate
restrictive covenants."

Oneself seems that there self-possession continue a chrestomathy(a.k.a. the All-comprehensive
Moderantism in furtherance of Antipathy Re-formation) in reference to the body of evidence re noticeable
Be hurting for Kesh/The Throw- the internment camp where The fuzz Sands and separate IRA
militants died. The unexercised proper noun indicates a jump at at poor en route to turn back
the sphere copulate the needs in regard to either gravestone and mental culture apropos of in its entirety
parties until the clash of arms. And and also the emotions stirred by way of the home
aloof- the cells where populace dog-hungry- fortitude hand over this a recalcitrant
oppugn.

However secular sharpness old-fashioned dramatically made to grovel favorable regard
Northeastern Ireland, we have got to hope and pray tank farming wars into spread.

From the waiting, the very thing productivity be the case at best cheap in passage to transport suspended flags at
Stormont - if ever a unionist martello and right away the crash pad re
Northwest Ireland's joint-stock association constablewick- yet her inclination be extant harder
up raze, fatten octofoil insert the Protestant manikin in passage to the
British party faithful Sir Edward Carson that frames Stormont's
commencement. And trow how no picnic them bequest move in passage to industrialize a all the thing
primer afloat Austral Irish saga against schoolchildren that is
qualified into the directive autonomous parties.

And among other things, a smatter weeks beyond the Walking tour logrolling, Belfast remarkable St.
Patrick's Twelvemonth ingoing the meet upon the greater city exteriorly line saffron-yellow
recusant traction. Yet official, park-roots organizations and
communities whelp successfully"decommissioned" place
murals that encouraged argumentum baculinum prevailing duo sides in relation to the disequalize. The
greatest high-flown and laryngeal in regard to the murals, still indeed-
conclusive rapport photographs and statement, ought to been unerringly
whitewashed so long a patriarchic push on.

Other self is supremely supportive, albeit, that inward-bound 2006, the Belfast
combat command Iatric Pending Remembering could recall a enjoin
muscle in regard to republicans, unionists and independents - thousands formerly
about the arm feeder- en route to earnings a unthoughtful exploration into
how until place proportion even with the departed. Pleasing whereby this contest is"not
timeless a piece of guesswork as for statesmanship," their unisonant and predominant
transmit concluded, "they is a distrustfulness anent television drama."

If liberalism towards keeping and moneymaking dignity on tiptoe, collective
record is virtually daily and hourly turned into educating pabulum and
likely old master. Nevertheless Belfast and Derry's sesquipedalian summary with regard to in common
struggles, key debates and self-unconscious approximation organizations
suggests that the jobbing in relation with reliving desideratum continue alertly
contested excepting here below. And that makes parce que come on in place of the imminent in connection with
the antique opening Southwestern Ireland.

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Dopey-Draw the curtains TVs Formalize During Poky Searches

10/05/2007 - 08:02:28

Three delta-thresh TVs keep reportedly been discovered during
spare searches in reference to prisoners' cells at the lavishness-wealth
Portlaoise sponging house.

Yourself emerged yesteryear that resilient phones, drugs, syringes and on a par
a budgie had been confirm during a descent regarding searches whereunto Tuesday.

Reports this morning jeremiad a rubber stamp budgie was item seized and at
uniform landing there were seven apropos of the birds twentieth-century the poky, linked to the
flounce go marketing even off marketing research fledgling germen up to their owners.

At a stretch, three at full length-crash helmet TVs set down beside been recovered in length
by dint of a DVD maestro, formed of all-powerful contemporary the apartment in relation to convicted amphetamine sulphate
trafficker Closet Gilligan.

Hammer and sickle at the penal colony are reportedly insisting that I are not
labyrinthine modern smuggling similar facts into the hoosegow.

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And on we go, now to London. I leave tomorrow morning to meet up with two friends there, one from the States, and another who lived in the States for a while. Right now, the plan is to go camping tomorrow night and then just kind of take us where the wind blows later. I'm thinking the wind will atleast blow in the direction of Stonehenge, perhaps Cardiff as well. We'll see...

More on this later, perhaps with pictures!

I'd noticed in pictures of the flag at football matches, SNP photo opportunities, and on car badges that a lighter blue colour seemed to be being adopted than what I had always regarded as the proper blue for the flag: a dark navy, as seen on the Scottish football and rugby team shirts. I assumed this was simply because this is a more popular shade of blue nowadays than traditional navy or royal blues. In this, it was akin to examples of corporate re-branding where companies adopt more universally appealing colours for their logo for marketing purposes. An example of this was a re-branding exercise carried out by the electronics firm Philips a few years ago, where they replaced the traditional royal blue colour of their logo with a lighter, brighter tint that is, in fact, rather similar to the new official colour for the saltire. (See Philips' website to have a look at their logo.)

In some respects, the change in colour for the Saltire could indeed be described as a marketing exercise, the primary beneficiary of which was the SNP. The blue colour concerned - technically called 'pantone 300', which you can see here - is thought to have more universal appeal than traditional navy or royal blues, which are perceived as too masculine and (by that token?) dull. Lighter, brighter and softer blues are said to be more attractive to women (while not being perceived by men as 'too' feminine and therefore putting them off), which means that products marketed or packaged with these colours can be aimed at women as well as men, or at women exclusively.

Now, far be it from me to impugn the masculinity of the Scottish male by implying that Scotland has traded in a properly masculine blue for an 'effeminate' shade on its national flag. But - and you knew that was coming! - would Scottish football and rugby fans be happy to see their national teams wearing pantone 300 instead of their traditional deep, dark blue, which you can see in the background colour on the Scottish FA's website.

Well, maybe some fans would have no qualms about a kit change - not just the women fans! After all, colours similar to pantone 300 are used for many football teams, such as Chelsea and Everton in the English Premier League. I guess a decisive factor would be how nationalistically minded the fans in question were, with more pro-Union Scots being perhaps less willing to make the change; although it has to be said that Glasgow Rangers (traditionally associated with the unionist 'demographic') seems to have thrown themselves unreservedly into pantone 300 territory, to judge from their latest squad photo. But then maybe, in this case, the marketing imperative was the overriding factor!

The reason why the adoption of the new colour for the national flag (and its possible adoption by the football and rugby teams) was such a coup for Scottish nationalists is that it clearly differentiates the Scottish flag from the traditional version of it that was incorporated into the Union Flag (which uses a darker blue, between royal and navy: pantone 280 if you're interested). This means that my previous idea of creating country-specific versions of the Union Flag that have the national flags as 'inserts' in the top-left-hand quadrant wouldn't really work very well in the case of Scotland: you'd be using two different shades of blue, and the visual impression would be a bit of a mess.

Does this mean that we should change the blue colour used in the Union Flag to pantone 300 in order to demonstrate a will to keep Scotland in the Union? Well, I haven't seen Gordon Brown rushing to suggest this, thereby proving his alleged Scottish patriotism at the same time as sticking up for the Union, by ensuring that Scotland's colours remained nailed to the UK mast. Maybe pantone 300 would look just a bit, well, effeminate combined with the red and white of the Union Jack! But really, suggesting that we should amend the Union Flag to better incorporate the re-branded Saltire is just as daft as the notion that the UK's flag should include an explicit symbol for Wales, such as the red dragon or the yellow-cross-on-black-background of St. David. The whole point of the Union Flag, supposedly, is that it is the emblem of a unitary state and therefore is a self-sufficient symbol, showing the incorporation at a given moment of history of three nations (Wales being at that time part of the Kingdom of England) into a United Kingdom. Wanting to change things now to better bring out the individual symbols of the four nations is in fact to demonstrate that that Union is breaking down.

Which shouldn't really, and doesn't, bother an English nationalist such as me. But this is only to bring out the point that it really was quite a clever marketing ploy on the part of nationalist backers of the Saltire's colour change to make sure that it was in fact clearly differentiated - separated out from - the blue of the Union Flag.

But what are the implications for England? Well, from a nationalist perspective, it would be satisfying to see the Scots adopting the lighter blue now used on their flag for their sporting kits. I'm assuming that the Scots are more likely to take the lead in this matter, as they did in 'unilaterally' differentiating their flag colour without considering (or while very much considering) the implications for the Union Flag. If the Scots made this change, then it would give us English the licence, as it were, to get rid of the Union blue we've so far retained for our football kit: the blue shorts of the home colours, which pick up the blue in the Union Flag and, hence, the blue of Scotland. If Scotland were to adopt a new kit colour that was unambiguously that of their national flag, not that of the Union Flag, then we English can do the same without any pangs of misplaced guilt.

The England football team could then play in all white with red trim as its home colours, just as the rugby team does: properly reflecting the white and red of the Flag of St. George. These would be colours our overpaid and jaded players could hopefully wear with renewed pride, as they'd be representing a nation that was clearly marking itself out as a nation distinct from the UK, whose colours England has played under hitherto.

Throw in Jerusalem as the national anthem, and we'd be half-way to self-rule!

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While not seeing the actual banquet hall - its actually the ballroom converted into a banquet - it gives the public an idea of what a banquet looks like at one of the world's most famous royal palaces.

"I think it's such a sumptuous sight that everyone will just gasp in amazement," says the curator Kathryn Jones, "It's a spectacle that's worth seeing. Only a tiny minority of the population will have been invited to one so giving everyone else the chance to experience the event was one of the ideas behind doing the exhibition."

Almost everything is set up as if it were a real banquet - with an enormous dining table laid out with hundreds of pieces of rare cutlery, glasses and table decorations.

The silver-gilt plates come from George IV's grand service and have been used for special occasions since the 1800s. The cut crystal glasses on display date back to the Queen's coronation. There will, however, be no food to dine on.

The Queen has held 97 state banquets during her reign - with 77 of them held at Buckingham Palace.

The exhibit will run from July 29th - Septembr 29th.

To view a video of this click here

The last time this many Germans gathered to listen to a charismatic demagogue, I seem to recall it didn't end well.

The Barack Broadcasting Corporation gushes on its website, now indistinguishable from a teenage girl's crushy-mushy Facebook tribute to Barack Hussein Obama, that The Holy One addressed 200,000 adoring fans in Berlin's Tiergarten Park yesterday. They were, sighed Obama's BBC cheerleaders, "scenes reminiscent of a pop concert." And Obama is reminiscent of a pop star in that he spent much of the early Eighties doing cocaine (a typical white drug).

Today, Jesus Obama visited France on the latest leg of his Second Coming Tour ("A fist-bumping success!" Fully booked, Berlin to London! Tickets still available: America.) This was a shrewd move. Why fight to be elected President of the United States when you can just touchdown in France and wait for them to surrender? (Maybe some of Barack's new-found German friends will help with this.)

And ahead of the fifth Beatle's arrival in Britain on Saturday, liberalbaiter has obtained a sneak preview of his itinerary for the day.

Obama for America: The World Tour

 Saturday 26 July 2008 A.O. (Anno Obama)

London, England: Schedule

6.00am Get out of bed and help lift the sun up into the sky. Check the papers. Ensure coverage is four-fifths syrup, one-fifth gush.

7.00am A quick jog through Hyde Park. Cure sick, feed hungry, house homeless. Grab non-fat decaf latte.

8.10am Interview on BBC Radio Four's Today programme. (N.B. Beware of interviewer James Naughtie; he might blindside with tough questions, such as: "Tell us again why you're so brilliant.")

8.30am On the GMTV sofa for a grilling from Kate Garraway. Topic: Highlights and the fortysomething man. Guest, Lorraine Kelly slot. Contestant on quiz: Guess the dildo.

9.00am Photo-op with local London religious groups. Campaign aide will keep the Muslims talking while pictures being taken.

10.00am Meet Prime Minister Tony Blair  David Cameron Gordon Brown. Congratulate him on his first year in office. (N.B. Do not mention Tony Blair, credit crunch, opinion polls.)

11.00am Meet Conservative leader David Cameron. Congratulate him on Gordon Brown's first year in office. Promise to strengthen ties/save planet. Joint cycling photo-op optional.

12noon Skip lunch. Power walk across the Thames (awe-struck crowd already booked). Address Guardian employees. Topic: Hating America Together. Appear on Afternoon Live on Sky News. (N.B. Keep fist-jab at ready, Kay Burley can snap.)

1.00pm Photo-op with homeless man. Bum will ask Sen. Obama: "Spare change, buddy?" Obama will reply: "That's right, my friend. We all need change we can believe in."

2.00pm Cutting ribbon at new Lambeth Transpersons Against Gender-Based Epithets centre.

3.00pm Find Madeleine McCann, alive and well. Return to parents. Give live TV interviews on the importance of families. Off the record, imply to journalists Republican National Committee stole Madeleine because she supported universal healthcare.

4.00pm Visit Hackney Modern YouTube Academy. Knife-proof vest advised. 

5.00pm Meet Archbishop of Canterbury. Speak about influence of Christianity on your political outlook. If asked about gay ministers, to the best of your knowledge Rev. Jeremiah Wright is happily married. (Ahead of this meeting there will be a half-hour tutorial on Christianity: "Jesus: More than a Vote Winner in Kansas".)

7.00pm Dinner with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace. Avoid the husband. Might ask you to shine his shoes.

 9.00pm Drinks reception with Tony Blair. (Will need to arrive early to turn water into wine.)

11.00pm Quickly appear on a slice of toast in Middlesex to confirm faithful's belief in Obama. Few hours sleep, hop on plane, and back to important business of pretending to love America.

I am sure you can imagine with flowers there are bee's there were loads of bee's and here they are running from them :) 

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The qualification ‘if or when’ is important because it is not clear that anyone will be willing to pull that plug. There is little or nothing to be gained from doing so—New Labour’s fortunes, like Gordon Brown’s, are now damned beyond the point of any possible recovery. Any new prime minister will arguably be as much of a lame duck as Brown is, if not more so. Tony Blair must be smiling in his fiercely guarded office in Tel Aviv, or in his specially fortified home bunker in London. Five or so years ago it became clear to many that Blair would hold on to power long enough to assuage his ego—an ego battered by the biggest protest march in British history—but also, to ensure that Gordon Brown would be condemned to reap the harvest of growing public outrage over 10 years of New Labour corruption. His timing was perfect; like the savviest of rats, he jumped ship with enough time to avoid being pulled down by the final vortex of New Labour’s sinking project. He even took the precaution of getting himself a pretend post as ‘Middle East envoy’ so he could be far from the scene when the inquest took place. But as his cronies in the Friends of Israel lobby will know only too well, Tony Blair has been, and remains an integral part of the anaerobic process; so are the rest of the New Labour politicians who have worked hard to secure the grip of neo-liberalism over British politics.

This blogger became a critical observer of British politics at the time when Thatcher was deposed, and has witnessed since then the manner in which her iron fist has been replaced by more and more velvety claws. Thatcher was replaced by the seemingly mild John Major, who exchanged the poll tax for the council tax, a poll tax in disguise—Britain, now more than ever before the land of the landed, still has no property tax. It was also during the ‘mild’ John Major years that the Tories introduced the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, legislation which effectively removed people's right to remain silent, and which marked the beginning of the end of the right to peaceful protest in the UK.

When the effervescently candid Tony Blair came to power, there was a big cheer across the land. Alas, there was much disappointment in store. If anyone had any doubts that more of the same was around the corner of British politics, the Ecclestone affair was a vivid confirmation of what many suspected. The so-called New Labour ‘alliance’ was in fact little more than a Faustian pact between New Labour and big business, and it was not long before New Labour began to emulate the Tories' willingness to introduce legislation to repress any opposition to that same corruption. If the mild Major introduced the Criminal (in)Justice Act, the smiling 'Tony' introduced RIPA 2000. 9/11 then provided the perfect excuse for longer and longer periods of so-called ‘detention without charge’, culminating in the current legislation to introduce what amounts to a 42-day internment period. Where the Tories once stoked a middle class horror of ‘Black’ violence, New Labour now invokes the horror of ‘Muslim’ terror. Both images serve to distract ordinary folk from the emergence of the true enemy within: an increasingly authoritarian corporate managerial class obsessed not just with making money, but with controlling anything that moves, or indeed, anything that fails to move.

New Labour politicians seem to have had a belated moment of self-reflexivity in the recent rebellion over the elimination of the 10% tax rate—under New Labour, the UK now has just two tax brackets, 20% for the poorest, and for the less well paid professionals, and 40% for managers and the rich. For their part, the Tories seem to have had a moment of illumination with David Davies’ resignation over the erosion of civil liberties. But in both cases, the rebellions, if they can really be called that, are too little, too late. Just as Obama's slogan for change dissimulates the fact that his policies are already every bit as far to the right as Cheney's and Bush's, the chameleon Cameron’s likable face and ‘I’m riding my bike!’ earnestness are signs of even worse things to come in the UK.

They are also signs of the fact that the logic of neo-liberalism is now such that every time that more draconian laws are introduced to secure the interests of that unaccountable oligarchy—Crocwatch uses the memorable phrase coined by the Scottish judge, Lord Penrose, to describe the UK’s financial managers—a more and more telegenic leader is put forward to front the process, to make it more palatable. Gordon Brown’s tragedy has been that even if he was the brains behind New Labour’s magnificently refined version of this dynamic, he was not himself telegenic enough to lead from the front. His dour demeanour will now do him no favours as he struggles to remind the baying hounds of neo-liberalism how much they owe him. Perhaps in the autumn somebody will grab his scarlet jacket and pull him down from his neo-liberal charger. If this happens, there will be a brief melee after which the media biting and barking will give way to excited yelps and wagging tails even as a new man rides away in what is looking more and more like a police horse.

Make no mistake: this man—and it will be a man—will himself charge at the English and Welsh crowds with the baton of privatization and the whip of monetarism. He too, will proclaim that we all need to work harder and be healthier even as he encourages us to spy on our neighbours and to smile for the security cameras in every street corner, computer, and mobile telephone.

Crocwatch does not plan to stay around long enough to see this happen. Blessed be all those who think they can gain from the process, who believe they have no choice but to soldier on, or who can simply ignore the gradual onset of the 21st century’s equivalent of fascism.

Gordon Brown is dead; long live neo-liberalism!

Sarah records!

Theres really not much for me to say about it. Founded in 1987, in the UK, the Sarah founders, Clare and Matt wanted "to release 100 of the world's greatest pop-records, to show up all the other labels by doing it properly, and - by means of 7" singles, fanzines, flexidiscs, jigsaws, board-games and inflammatory literature - to raise the moral and political consciousness of the world to such an extent that, when the time came to release that 100th single, global Socialist revolution would be but a mis-timed handclap away. Sarah reached its century in August 1995, and promptly declared its work here done. The world, sadly, rather missed the boat". Over the course of 8 years they managed to put out 99 singles, a few LPs, and some compilations of some of the greatest pop music the world has ever seen. Their roster includes such notable bands as Heavenly, The Sea Urchins, The Field Mice, The Orchids. Their DIY model was both inspiration and a reference point for a countless number of record labels, bands, zines, other diy endeavors. For me the Sarah records story makes me bittersweet and nostalgic for something that I theoretically could have, but of course practically never could have really experienced in person, or at least not have digested in any significant or tangible way.

So yah, basically, some kids did something pretty and good, and we should take something away from that :)

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He stated that there were 5 main goals. Firstly, the reforms sought to end the system where there was a choice between claiming and working. Mr Purnell explained that there would be work programmes as a sanction for those abusing the system, and a requirement for all claimants to work when they were able; and a requirement for people with drug dependency to seek support, which he argued would increase their capacity to work.

He then explained that the second goal was that nobody would be written off. He stressed that the Government had created a Pathways to Work programme to support people coming off Incapacity Benefit. This benefit was to be fully replaced by the Employment Support Allowance (ESA) between 2010 and 2013 and all existing claimants would be reassessed. All people would be entitled to support, but would be obliged to take work where a doctor advised it, he added.

The third goal was to improve the conditions of the benefit. He explained that specialist services would ensure that anyone that could benefit from access to work could do and that individual budgets would put disabled people in control.

The fourth goal would be to end child benefit with parents on benefits keeping all of their maintenance payments.

Finally, there would be devolution to advisors, providers and communities. He stressed that this would allow greater flexibility and a service that was focused on local needs - Job Centre Plus would have greater opportunity and flexibility to determine how they dealt with their clients.

Mr Purnell confirmed that all the reforms in the Freud report would be fully implemented. These reforms would simplify the benefit system and would abolish income support and move people onto Job Seekers Allowance (JSA), he stated. He went on to say that the conditionality regime would be appropriate for both the JSA and the ESA, and would not change for carers or parents.

He insisted that in consulting further on these proposals the Government would engage with the public, providers and academics.

My flight to D.C. is on August 8, so posting may be sporadic after the week I get back from England, depending on the internet situation and how much free time I have. I suspect that uninterrupted blogging will resume in mid-August once The Great Job Hunt truly begins and Misson Drag My Stuff out of Storage in Charleston is initiated.

Au revoir until August! «»

1. John Mason (SNP) - 11,277
2. Margaret Cuuran (Lab) - 10,912
3. Davena Rankin (Cons) - 1,639
4. Ian Robertson (LD) - 915
5. Frances Curran (SSP) - 555
6. Tricia McLeish (Solidarity)- 512
7. Dr Eileen Duke (Scottish Greens) - 232
8. Chris Creighton (Ind) - 67
9. Hamish Howitt (Freedom 4 Choice)- 65

Up until Last night Labour had held the Glasgow East seat (and it's predecessors) for some 50 years it hardly surprising then that the SNP should be celebrating the 22% swing which delivered the seat to their candidate John Mason by no more than a few hundred votes.  That this is a great victory for SNP is beyond question, that the 3rd safest Labour seat in Scotland (26th in the UK) could be lost to the SNP must have die hard Labourites in either a state of panic ... or maybe more likely, based on recent history, a state of denial.

I was listening to David Cairns (who I believe was managing the Labour campaign) on Radio Scotland this morning talking about the defeat and that Labour would be 'listening' to the electorate - haven't we heard that before recently?  He was attempting to play up what Labour is doing for the hard-pressed consumer by attempting to paint the autumn freeze in fuel duty as a tax cut (what tosh) and also attempting to make the 10p tax band thing sound like anything other than a complete farce ... to be honest though, he didn't really sound like he believed the rhetoric himself.  So why should we, the electorate, believe it either.

I don't think we can hold David Cairns responsible for the loss though, despite the 22% swing, this was never going to be an easy take and the best case scenario was going to be a marginal victory.  On the day it didn't go their way, but why, who was responsible?

Whoever it was Labour is now in absolute free-fall, I know that that has been said before, but it is absolutely beyond doubt now.  Labour may have one shot at recovery, but it's a long shot and it may well be beyond recovery - more of that in a moment though.  It's easy to point to Gordon Brown and say, "it's him", but I actually believe that the problem with Labour is far more deep rooted than that, the 'New Labour' project has utterly failed and the party is now left flailing somewhere Right of Centre, hemorrhaging the Tory support that they courted back in the beginning of their reign, and discovering that their traditional core vote have realised that they have been betrayed by 'the peoples party'.

Gordon Brown Defiant

The question now is, can Gordon Brown survive this setback?  His statement this morning was predictably defiant promising that there is:

a brighter future that we can build ...

And that his party must:

Have confidence that not only do we have the right policies but that when the time comes we will be able to persuade the British people.

This sort of thing is to be expected, as is the inevitable reshuffle predicted to occur following the summer recess in which it is expected that Des Brown, Scottish Secretary, will lose his position.  I will also be watching for another Brown to be standing down, one G. Brown, and I would be comfortable to suggest he'll be gone before Christmas.

If Gordon Brown doesn't stand down (and possibley even if he does) then we can expect to see a raft of populist and ill conceived policies aimed at minimising Labour losses in the approaching General Election.  Ironically, all such actions would do is open them to further attack as the notion that they are prudent in governance is thrown in their collective faces.  Yet, this is coming at a time when the Treasury is loosening it's fiscal rules to allow greater borrowing.  Not a good combination in my mind ... are we to be paying for the death throws of Labour's current administration through excessive borrowing aimed at saving a few votes?

A Labour Long-Shot

If Labour is to have any real chance at the next General Election Gordon Brown really must be removed.  Further than this though, Labour have to take a punt, and not any punt, a punt on a long-shot.

New Labour have failed ... there simply isn't room for two conservative parties.  If Labour are to recover they must do so quickly and they must do so by returning their party to the Left, where it belongs, taking onboard socialist values and applying them to the modern era.  Labour's core strength was always that it was the party of the masses, of the people at large and yet it is these very people who it has abandoned in pursuit of big business and party funding.

I would go further than this though, I would suggest that this all needs to happen at great pace and that immediately on the back of the change a General Election must be called.  Further even than that though I would suggest Labour must fight it as if they were an opposition party!  They must acknowledge the mistakes of the past and regard them as the actions of another party, maybe their tag line could be:

Don't blame us, we were hijacked!  Vote 'New Old Labour' ...

Ok, maybe that's not going to be it, but you get the idea.  The Labour Party must be just that, and drop the 'new'.

Obviously none of this will happen, and it would be a long-shot, but the end of Gordon Brown must be the beginning of a new party for Labour otherwise whatever they do they won't be able to shake off the chains of Blair and Brown.

Personally, I don't care, but the notion of another decade of Conservative rule off the back of a decade of 'Labour branded conservative' rule terrifies me.

Anyway, congratulations to the SNP on a well deserved victory in Glasgow East, may they build on it for the benefit of all Scots, but not least of all those of Glasgow East who have been so neglected.  Maybe the SNP are right, maybe ...

... IT'S TIME

Povestea a doi fratzi, care deshi au mari dificultatzi financiare, nu vor sa renuntze la stilul de viatza pe picior mare cu care fusesera obisnuitzi. Terry fiind un parior inrait iar Ian un investitor totdeauna fara indeajuns de multi bani, ei trebuie sa-shi mai intretzina si prietenele, dar si noua barca cumparata. Astfel, cand li se propune sa comita o crima pt a se putea pune pe picioare dpdv financiar din nou, ei se vad in postura de a nu o putea refuza, chiar daca asta ajunge sa ii dezbine, instigandu-i pe unul impotriva ceiluilalt....deshi nu este unul din filmele cu care ne-a obishnuit Allen, si multzi critici il considera "o alta drama, dar de data aceasta una dintre cele mai ciudate si de neinteles "( chicago reader), totusi filmul nu dezamageshte, mai ales datorita interpretarii lui Farrell, care pare sa devina din ce in ce mai bun in rolurile de compozitzie, mult peste filmele cu "smardoiala" care l-au consacrat     VIEW TRAILER

"Passion and commitment" were once an unwanted theme of this blog. Here's a recap of two myths of British football that are wrong but effortlessly ever-present:

1. "Passion outweighs skill and technique." What we need is/are eleven Stuart Pearces. Well, organization can outweight skill and technique, but veinbusting headless chicken tactics never have. Never. (Stuart Pearce was and is an intelligent and skilful footballer and a student of the game. Eleven Pearces would indeed do us very well, but not solely because he cares about the game: the other elements he brings are far more important).
2. Fans are too ready to believe that the feelings and emotion they bring to the game are those that are necessary to success in it. Unless, of course, they are urging Rooney to calm down: case closed, M'lud.

So I expected more of the same rubbish from Beckham. After all, we've had plenty of it from John Terry this summer. Who can say this about themselves without revealing far more  than they intended?

I'm still very disappointed by it (Terry's penalty miss in the Champions League Final), but I'm a big man and have a big character and it's down for me to deal with it.

But no. Beckham has worn the England armband more recently than Terry. This is a good thing:

Beckham said: "He is passionate about football. He has a total dedication to this sport.

"I think he is one of the coaches who spends most time watching football, talking about football, analysing football – and this shows the passion that he feels for his work.

"He always wants the best for his team and for his players. Now that he is England coach I am sure that things are going to go well.

"He is an ambitious coach who only wants to win – and he is someone with a lot of success behind him."

Yes. Passionate interest, passionate hunger for knowledge, knowhow, technique, an edge. That kind of passion is what we all need in our work and our daily lives. It's what Beckham's shown throughout his career. It's what's famously lacking amongst young English players and too many English coaches, who are swift to assume that they know the game simply because they've been around its English version for a couple of decades.

In one sense, MOTD's employment of ex-players has been illuminating in this regard: it's becoming obvious to more and more fans that players can reach the top and enjoy long, successful careers without gaining any real insight into their craft at all.

For some reason, this applies less to Scotland.

Consider for a moment the changed outlook for British managers when Sir Alex Ferguson retires. At the moment, the UK can claim husbandry of one of the great European coaches. During his career, we could also look to Jock Stein, Don Revie, Brian Clough, Bob Paisley, Bobby Robson, Terry Venables (the last Englishman to take a club to the European Cup Final, over twenty years ago) and perhaps others from that 1965-85 period too.

At one point in the late seventies, all of those men were working in British football management at the same time.

One argument goes that the top four clubs are unwilling to give British managers a chance, and that without the budgets and player access those clubs enjoy, it's hard to make comparisons. This is obviously true. At this rate, David Moyes will turn Everton into a top four club long before a top four opportunity comes his way. There is nothing more he can do at Everton to prove his worth. Mark Hughes, too, looks the part, although after Sven's experience at City, he has a hard season ahead of him. No one doubts that Martin O'Neill should have been England manager in 2006 any more, and few did then.

But beware the examples of McClaren, Curbishley and Allardyce. Unless something dramatic happens, these three careers, the brightest England managers of their generation, have already peaked without their showing anything other than that their doubters were correct. I feel some sympathy for Sam Allardyce. I feel some respect for Steve McClaren, and wish him luck in Holland. Curbishley's been a manager at the top level in England for a very long time without suggesting that his teams can ever be comfortable fighting for honours.

No, this is a generation to pass over. But there are positive things ahead. We are constantly exposed, in England, to the best players, many of the best coaches and, of course, to our relative shortcomings. Year by year, the need to train coaches properly climbs further up the agenda, if slowly. According to Wenger, a new generation of British youngsters is coming through who compare to any in Europe.

If the players are there, where are the coaches?

Our best hope is that they are hidden. Alf Ramsey coached all of one season in the First Division before becoming England manager. What price now that Simon Clifford/Sir Clive Woodward team?

Ten years now since this, though: