Waylander

They struggled before Nuno to get a top manager. Will Levy now break the bank or his rules to do that? I heard some of the Spurs fans booing Kane too. Will be interesting to see their next move.

I thought Havetz played well as the No.9 yesterday would like to see him play there for a spell. Thought he showed energy, good movement and linked well. If he plays there against better opposition we should know more if he is the real deal. Personally not overly impressed with Lukaku.

Shame about Kovacic.

I think the SNP wanted to switch from the UK and move straight into the EU zone. This was scuppered by Spain who has it's own problems with Catalonia and previously the Basques. Spain was one of the early members and so they influenced the decision, IMO. Spain are consistent on this, they won't even recognise Kosovo.

Ironic isn't it they may vote SNP to get independence yet post independence most would vote either to the Left or Right. Reminds me a little of Churchill post end of WWII he was voted out at the first chance.

Agree with the above and like your 1/5 analogy, I might have gone 1/4 yet close enough for me.

They were lots of change in public statements yet I believe the subsequent vaccines did not contain a synthetic protein and went back to a normal one using animal cells to hold the vaccine which is why most people said the second vaccine was better as they did not react.

Talking to my brother at the weekend. He wasn't keen on the vaccine yet said as his wife is foreign and frequently abroad he did not want to risk not being unable to cross borders. I looked at the death figures going back 20 years and before 2005 we were losing more people per thousand than we lost last year. There were some years I recall when some people very close to the NHS were saying hundreds of thousands were dying from the flu yet it was not being reported on. The first vaccine (experimental) carried a synthetic protein and this was why people got reactions like Bell's Pausy. What happens is the vaccine is directed straight into the blood system which flows unlike say a graze or cut where the platelets and white blood cells know where to go. With a vaccine and especially this synthetic one it was a lottery where the platelets would try and engage it. In the wrong place and you can get a stroke or heart problem. Initially the news reported on this and then they stopped and it changed to a mantra of everyone had to have the vaccine. I used to have vaccines until I had problems in my mid 20s after this i went to a number of different practitioners and have since helped a number of people with digestive complaints, back pain, infertility, knee problem, chest infections and chest pain. I was thinking of using these skills professionally yet mid way through the courses the govt stopped them meaning I would have to do a four year full time course, I was not happy as I was renting at the time in my late thirties. When I was talking to practitioners a number of years ago they were petitioning the government about vaccine damage in children and thought it was widespread. Happy Blue is the first i have personally known to have a child seriously impacted by it. Even better he got some compensation. I believe this does not get wider coverage because of vested interests and the huge amounts of money involved.

This link is from the US where they tried to force all ICU staff to have the vaccine, 250 walked out and they had to close the ICU. https://flagandcross.com/maine-hospital-fired-so-many-unvaxed-employees-they-had-to-close-the-icu/ This is also a risk for our NHS depending on the stance that is taken. Now look at this comment from a Californian nurse: “Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that did not protect the protected in the first place?” I'm please to see Rick De Santis stand up to Biden and say there should be freedom, let the people decide for themselves on vaccination.

Yes yet he was playing wide back for a spell not just in attack. Mount recently has been up and down though before that was consistently good for me. Werner consistently making good runs just not finishing. Havertz, Ziyech and Pulisic have not been that great and would agree are inconsistent. Now seems to be a good time for CHO to stake his place.

I wouldn't say there is hate for CHO just disappointment he has been mostly poor since his injury. He has the odd good game mostly followed by mediocrity. Personally felt Tuchel should have said consistency over 10 games rather than 250. Still if he starts delivering now the CFC faithful will get behind him.

You have to laugh at some of those names............ I have wondered a couple of times whether someone at Utd close to the team are leaking to the press when they get a manager that does not fit with their expectations. I recall Mourinho finding his plans for the City match on-line and the poor treatment of Van Gaal after winning the FA Cup. I think a lot of those names would not touch Utd, though Zidane might he needs another crack at the top. Whether he can bring back the glory days is another question.

Utd had a couple of chances before Liverpool became rampant yet did not take them. Although Utd were poor today I think they will be better against Spurs who also are not playing that well.

Let's remember the SNP in Scotland reduced the voting age to 16. Some might suggest an almost gerrymandering tactic. Although they have fossil fuels and a decent chance of making tidal power work they will still need investment for the latter and also lose the economics of scale to pay for a generous welfare and state job system. Then their is the question of their share of UK debt and how they service that. Now in terms of the EU, the EU will need to see them stand on their own feet economically to judge whether they will receive EU aid or be a contributor. That is likley to be a few years. I've nothing personally against the Scots though think there will be pain ahead should they choose to separate.

Viruses mutate faster than new vaccines can be created and delivered. They mutate even faster here due to us having such a cosmopolitan population with comings and goings. Most people taking the vaccine probably don't need it yet just follow govt guidelines to be PC. I went to London in the week, train and tube most not wearing masks. I didn't for a spell on the overground as just about the only one in the carriage. Kind of surprised no adverts for mask wearing on the overland.

Aha Man on Fire II, III, IV, V......... I think they got it right and so created a cult movie.

Saw Den of Thieves last night. Found it enjoyable though Gerard Butler's LA cop seemed so unlikable and out of control I kind of wanted the bad guys to win. Liked the story as it twists around and the shootout towards the end was good. One thing I couldn't work out was how one of the guys got away with the money. Assuming that is explained and I missed it would conclude a good ending.

I was reading Marc Morris's book about the Normans which I found interesting as it gave a lot of history around 1066 that is not necessarily public knowledge. Like the Norwegian invasion of 220+ boats. After the battle just 20 were allowed to return with promises not to invade again. Harold returned to London to learn of the Norman invasion and against the advice of his family decided to march straight against William even though he would need to raise a new army as most of his first army was still marching back from York. Part of his motivation was his home county had been invaded and Williams forces were ravaging the land and torturing his men on the South Coast. William was goading him. Now although Harold was itching to fight he was wise to the tactics of the Normans which included their cavalry and so chose the battle site carefully. Now this is where it gets interesting (not Morris here) an independent group has gone back to the source documents of the tapestry and Bishop Odo's account and claim to have found the battle site, several miles from battle at a place called Crowhurst. They claim the walls, yew tree and other features match up with the first hand accounts. Furthermore the small chapel there from the early Norman period ties up with William's promise to build a church immediately following the victory to commemorate the site. The building at Battle was built over a century later in the later Norman style. The group paid for magnetic imaging and found what looks like a mass of buried bodies. English Heritage did not want to comment and the local council were itching to build a by-pass - 2017. As for the battle a 9 hour slug-fest with Norman cavalry unable to flank the Anglo Saxons due to Harold's choice of site with ditches and woods and so had to do a direct attack. William lost three horses in trying to break the Anglo-Saxon shield wall. At one point the Normans panicked thinking William was dead, he even had to remove his helmet to reassure his man. The decisive moment came when the shield wall decide to charge, now it seems Harold was in this charge yet not all the wall followed him. This is when fighting then became mixed with bands of Anglo-Saxons fighting Norman Knights with their huge axes. Now the Bayeaux tapestry knitted by English seamstresses shows two deaths one by arrow and another by being hacked to death. The one with the arrow shows signs of a repair. Morris says William could have been excommunicated if it was believed he sent a specific team out to hunt and kill Harold on the battlefield as in those times you were not meant to murder a king. Yet darkness was descending. The battle went on into the early evening as Normans hunted the retreating Anglo-Saxons yet losing more cavalry in the ditches. The Normans went straight to London only to find Harold's men holding the bridges. They had to go 40 miles West to cross at Reading. Morris says Harold's Mum later offered gold for the weight of her son's body. This was refused. She came back with a force to take Exeter in 1068. Yet unlike Alfred the Great was unable to raise the country. It is believed her force went to Dublin and interestingly later the Normans went to Ireland.

The way I heard it was the delta force that supposedly took out OBL had their helicopter shot down shortly afterwards. It looks very suspicious. I personally think he died some time ago in the Afghan caves as the US were moving in and blowing things up.

I imagine a version of, Make America Great Again. I think the US is becoming much like the late Republics of Rome before the Ceasars took over.

This report comes from a Biden meeting in Scranton Joe Biden Frustrated in Scranton: ‘This Is the United States of America Dammit!’ President Joe Biden appeared frustrated Wednesday that his agenda was stalled in Congress, raising his voice during a speech in Scranton, Pennsylvania. “What are we doing?” Biden asked after telling a story about parents driving their cars to McDonalds to get internet access during the coronavirus pandemic to do online schooling. “This is the United States of America, dammit!” Biden shouted. “What are we doing?” Biden spoke about a number of his priorities, admitting that it was a struggle to get his agenda passed through Congress, where Democrats control both houses. During his speech, Biden acknowledged the pessimistic tone of his media coverage from the national media about his multitrillion-dollar agenda. “They have understandably believed there is no possibility of my getting this done. This has been declared dead on arrival the moment I introduced it,” he said. But Biden appeared confident he could get some bill passed, despite several weeks of stalled negotiations. The president mocked former President Donald Trump for failing to pass infrastructure spending. “Last four years you’d hear every month is, you know, infrastructure month,” Biden says. “Didn’t do a single damn thing. Nothing. I mean, nothing for four years.” Biden faces ongoing frustration as he struggles to break the logjam in Congress, putting the future of his radical agenda in question. The president has already cut his $3.5 trillion funding proposals to $1.9 trillion in an effort to convince Senate moderates to support it. Biden appeared nostalgic for the old days of bipartisanship in the Senate, recalling when he was friends with Republicans. “I got on pretty well in the Senate for all those years. A lot of Republicans friends as well as Democratic friends. For real. … We used to travel a lot,” Biden recalled. Biden also appeared nostalgic for the old days, appearing at an electric trolley museum to promote the future of America’s infrastructure. “I remember riding the trolly,” he said, recalling his childhood before his family moved to Delaware. “I lived at the end of the line.” Biden also boasted of his history riding Amtrak, promising massive investments into the rail system to get more cars off of the road and more passengers on trains. “We will take, literally, millions of automobiles off the road,” he said. He acknowledged that Scranton, Pennsylvania was “built on coal” but that it was time to shift to green energy like solar and wind. “Coal built this town, but we gotta provide other avenues to make the same kind of living…” he said. Biden repeatedly insisted that his multitrillion-dollar bills would not add to the federal deficit or add to the national debt. “It does. not. increase. The debt.,” he emphasized slowly, despite widespread skepticism that both bills will be able to pay for his radical tax and spend agenda. He admitted that he avoided even talking about the spending numbers. “When you talk about the number, we shouldn’t even talk about the numbers because it’s all paid for,” he said. https://www.cracknewz.com/2021/10/joe-biden-frustrated-in-scranton-this.html

It was a strange election with a lot of claims and some results that in other elections would have got a lot of Republican candidates elected, though not this one. There was also that embarassing vote in one of the Northern states perhaps Wisonsin where the result was overturned due to machine tabling error. The Republican candidate was shocked they got it wrong and went on camera saying this was the 21st Century how could this go wrong in America, (wonder what the Dem candidate felt too after being overturned). This was early in the election. With the money surely if that amount of money was going to Trump someone would have outed it, they were not slow with Russian claims, or were his companies providing 'services' so it was over charging?

I agree with corruption in US politics. I agree on previous US policy in the Middle East. I know Trump has used chapter 5 bankruptcy several times in his business past though not aware of any corruption say like Watergate while he was in office. Was there any?

Do you think this happening as the last election was so close meaning the government has to fight for every decision to get it passed and in this instance even some of the Democrats think the budget is too large?

My reading of it is one side wants to increase spending substantially and the other side won't approve that level of borrowing and somehow this is tied in with federal employees getting paid. Surprised they do not find a way to take that out of the issue as I am sure the federal employees are not getting that money it is more down to the political pet projects.