I watched Scotland play a more accomplished Wales last night. No one in blue played particularly well but when Charlie Mulgrew prepared to take a corner from the right in first half stoppage time we knew Wales were in danger.
The pace, low trajectory and movement Charlie gets on the ball negates the natural advantage the defending team has. The goal had little to do with the young lad who got on the end of the cross, just as Celtic’s remarkable success from corners has little to do with their ability to attack the ball.
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The whisky was distilled on 13 March 2001, and bottled on 26 June 2009. It has been donated by a very kind CQNer. However, not content with already donating 3 bottles from his share of the cask to raise funds for Wee Oscar , we now have his prized possession:
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Beavis & Butt head – Devo :O)
http://youtu.be/iQdtYd8UJ9g
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
I see your bottle is doing good, magic stuff mi amigo.
Was thinking about the sclaffbaw, it is daft you coming down here, as it’s another hour plus away from me, would be about a 4 hour drive for you, daft.
You should still come and see the place though, there is a cave just a few yards away for sale for 3k, a snip if you have a spare 3k, as my credit cards are maxed, next year for me I fear, but I will be having one or two, my mate bought one a few weeks ago for 2k, will spend about 15 refurbishing it, he will make his money back after two years in rentals just fiesta time alone, well worth a look see.
Alone Again Or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYVDN27CrOo
A Lee
Goodnight
BNL
Freddy C, an excellent link bruv, marc is a much forgotten hero, but you’ve just reminded me of how good T-Rex were.
Geeeza kiss bro:-)
Still the best song I have ever heard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_a0zOLMAfw
Down With Ernesto Guevara..!!
Down With Maggie McGill..!!
Viva El Generalissimo Pinochet..!!
~~~~~~~
Taki’s Magazine/Reconsidering Pinochet..
By Gavin Innes/March’13
—————–
With the passing of Hugo Chávez, we
got a lot of crocodile tears from liberals
claiming we had “ lost a friend” who
“lifted the poor and helped them
realize their dreams.” Jimmy Carter
told us that he “never doubted Hugo
Chávez’s commitment.” The Nation
lamented that “he wasn’t authoritarian
enough.” I haven’t seen this much love
for a Latin American tyrant since Che
Guevara became a T-shirt.
But if we’re going to perform oral sex
on every despot who can’t pronounce
the letter “J,” why not Pinochet?
In 1973, Augusto Pinochet was faced
with a dilemma: Let the communists
control his country or stand and fight.
McCarthyism and the Cold War get a
bad rap these days, but communism
was responsible for millions of deaths
and was spreading all over Central and
South America like a red plague.
Pinochet chose Door #2 and led a
military coup against President
Salvador Allende that was nasty and
brutal but pretty much the norm as far
as coups go. He killed thousands of
people, but so did Che. Where’s
Augusto’s T-shirt? Why did The Nation
call him “murderous” while acting as if
Che and Chávez were the greatest
things since sliced tortillas?
“If we’re going to perform oral sex on
every despot who can’t pronounce the
letter ‘J,’ why not Pinochet?”
Where Allende had taken land from the
rich in a Castro-like redistribution
program, Pinochet gave it back. He
traveled the world talking to
economists, politicians, and academics.
Critics of libertarianism call Milton
Friedman a “Pinochet sympathizer,”
but all Milton did was take a meeting
where he told Pinochet that
dictatorships don’t work in the long
run. He also explained that Chile would
thrive if the market were given free
rein.
He was right. Chile’s GDP is soaring,
and it’s mostly because of the policies
Pinochet enacted in the 80s. When he
met with Margaret Thatcher in 1982,
she told him she’d like to set up a
military base there so Britain could
better protect the Falklands. They
became best pals, and rumors abound
of backroom copper deals made with
Britain due to his cooperation.
Yes, Pinochet enforced curfews where
nobody was allowed to be on the
streets from midnight to 6AM. So what?
This happens in Glasgow every time
there’s a crime spree. Besides, having
a curfew doesn’t mean you can’t party.
All it means is that at 11:30 you have
to decide if it’s worth staying all night
at this party. If the curfew ruined your
party, it wasn’t a good party. And isn’t
that what’s behind all this whining
about Pinochet? People who didn’t
have much going on are blaming the
guy who kicked out a communist
dictator and turned Chile into a
civilized, clean, wealthy, and
prosperous nation. If you wanted to
make money in Chile, the doors were
open. If you didn’t, well, that’s your
fault. He may have started out as a
dictator, but he left voluntarily when he
was voted out of office in 1990. That’s
not a fascist. That’s a great guy.
This theory looks great on paper, but it
behooves a writer to do a last-minute
check with “the people” before sending
his essay off to the editor.
I started talking to Chilean expats here
in New York. Raving homosexual
Mauricio Santelice is an executive
pastry chef at the Dream Hotel in
Chelsea. He came here in the 1990s
after spending his entire childhood and
adolescence under Pinochet’s rule.
When I told him my theory about the
parties, he told me to go fuck myself.
“If they caught you on the street at
night they would beat you bad,” he
told me angrily. “They’d knock out your
teeth and break your bones. They’d
even pull your hair out. And if they
caught you more than once it would
count as a felony and you’d be off to
jail without a trial.” Mauricio said that
the curfew also meant no nightlife,
which ultimately meant no youth
culture. I told him Pinochet had to be
strict because he was up against the
communists, and Mauricio looked at me
like I just took a shit inside his head.
“My sister would protest him a lot
growing up,” he said. “They would
spray the protestors with water
cannons filled with sewage that had
permanent blue dye in it. When the
police saw someone on the street who
was blue, they would beat them worse
than someone out past curfew.”
Hmm, maybe Pinochet’s Chile wasn’t
as Smurfy as I’d first thought.
Patricia Marandio came here with her
family during the coup. She runs a
cleaning company in Manhattan and
was mortified to hear me defend
Pinochet. “We had our own September
11th,” she told me, referring to the day
in 1973 when troops took over the
country and bombed Santiago. She
talked about a writer named Pablo
Neruda whom Pinochet killed, adding
that murders were spread throughout
his 17-year reign. Apparently they’d
throw the bodies out of a helicopter
over the Pacific Ocean so there’d be no
evidence. All right, but Obama is
responsible for the deaths of 1,521
Americans and he had a coup-free
election.
Finally, I spoke to an ad exec named
Edgardo who insisted I only use his first
name. His family was forced out shortly
after Pinochet came into power.
Edgardo’s father was a Social Democrat
who had become blacklisted under the
regime and was unable to find work.
His parents were both in theater and
were part of a massive exodus in the
early 70s that included so many of
Chile’s educated class, the country
suffered an immediate brain drain.
When I offered up Chile as a great
example of free-market capitalism I was
reminded that copper, the very engine
of Chile’s economy, has been
nationalized since 1969. Edgardo said
Chile’s business elite had trouble
getting international investment
because other countries are wary of
dictatorships. “Many European
countries were embargoing Chilean
products,” he added.
Edgardo’s family is divided on Pinochet.
Some of them like what he did and all
of the ones who were in exile moved
back in the early 2000s. I asked him if
support for Pinochet was as simple as
liberals v. conservatives, and he said
no. “What people don’t understand
about Chile,” he said “is that it is
fundamentally a very conservative
country. It’s a very Catholic country.
And it’s quite likely Allende would have
been pushed out of office
democratically, without a coup.” He
told me many Chileans continue to
support the coup but don’t support the
Pinochet regime. “You don’t have to
brutally torture your countrymen to
fight communism,” he said. I wasn’t
totally convinced but then he added,
“Your career wouldn’t exist in
Pinochet’s Chile. Your comedy, your
writing, even this article would be
banned.”
And with that, I changed my mind
about Pinochet. When my livelihood
gets caught up in the mix, I’m out.
That’s the problem with talking to “the
people.” They have a tendency to
destroy the silly theories you dream up
while sitting on a barstool in a free
country. Opinions about dictatorships
make for amusing banter and great T-
shirts, but they don’t take into account
the victims of the totalitarianism
involved. Whether you’re on the side of
Chávez and Che or that of Pinochet, the
truth is that choosing sides and having
these discussions is a luxury that
wouldn’t be possible under any of
those regimes. They are all oppressive.
I judge a culture on its ability to handle
ridicule, and by those standards the
West is still the best.
And Communism remains the very antithesis of Christianity.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust ,
Disney make ye a bad person XXX :O).
Forget all the pish, this lassies voice is something else, probably up there with the best I have ever heard, pure quality so she is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaWLsgxDzuw
Fun Fun Fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IZ9feKpJkk
Scary stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0
Wakey wakey
Pirates – Johnny B Goode
A wee prayer from me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUA3RU4B8E
I remember on election day in Clydebank, a few years ago, passing the town hall.
Usually on the flagpole there is the Clydebank flag, a red saltire on a white background, with symbols appropriate to the town.
On the day there was just a red flag.
I looked at it and my heart warmed.
Not because I was voting for them (I wusnae).
But because the dream had not yet died.
And I found that beautiful.
but
The bully taunts the brave
Singing Detective,
Christ was a communist. You are a facist! ……..and that’s me being kind to you.
but?
now for something completely different
A French take on things
I am a student of history.
I know of the disaster of communism, and the wealth of the west.
Why I am so drawn to the socialist model?
I had a client who was Russian/Moldovan.
He said, with feeling, nobody was poor.
Now I know they were, but its a relative thing.
“Greed is the knife and the scars run deep.”
Which 3 people would you have dinner with……”? Living or Dead?
At this moment…
Tommy Burns, JP McBride & Peter Lawell! Now that would be fascinating conversation!
And while we ate, and talked, the music would be playing….
Forging the Future….?
And Changel, although occassionally painful….. is always good….. in the long term!
Roll on The Future (Farce)…,,,,
Sorry.. The link to the Future was lost in Space…
Try again…
This is the Modern World”
Artur Boruc.James McCarthy.Victor to stay.Seamus Coleman.Aiden McGeady.James McClean.And a top class striker.It wouldn’t take that much money to make us kings of Europe once again,with Lenny at the helm.You can’t take it with you Dermot Desond.
Bring back Petec & FFM. Over & out.
Reading back…
There is one thing that is Self Evident.
Scottish Tims are talking and passionate about something that is not going to be seriously discussed until a year from now… Even then, it will be debated overpaochial mattered. And as any physicist with their salt knows… Matter does not exist…..
And in a Global World such debates are.not only pointless wastes of energy… They are also the paragon of Divide and Rule….
And….
HOPE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIe5mBqIB4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Signing off with a Sign of the Times…
Discombobulated Blue Noses & Stupid Huns, Media, Judges…& Politicians too…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJX7SxlVz7k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
ItGoesWayBeyondSportBhoys CSC
Roll On The Drums of …..
G’Night
Just dropped in to say….
The Cellic have been p#sh since Martin O’Neill left. imo
When Martin left – so did awe the Cellicness.
The attendances have been slowly but surely falling since
Martin left and, despite WGS’s success…the park began
to empty as that O’Neill connection with the fans was broken.
I’m no want to mention anything aboot Neil’s time in charge but
the empty seats tell their own story. imo
Hail Hail n God Bless
Off oot
KevJ away back tae yer humourless hun hing oot.
Good morning from a cold and snowy north staffs -grandaughter (18months) had her first sleep over up at 5.30 – oh the joy
gordybhoy64…
Don’t know if you seen my earlier post re politics, is it reasonable that there hasn’t been a catholic in a cabinet position in an Snp government?, mnot looking for an argument, I don’t know enough about it
Firstly, don’t listen to Ernie Lynch’s nonsense. Yes there has. Roseanna Cunningham was in the SNP shadow cabinet. Something Ernie can’t bring himself to admit he was wrong about. Now, you can say “that was the Shadow cabinet”, but the fact remains the SNP had to name a cabinet and she was in it. She was also deputy leader of the party.
You can introduce caveats and ifs buts and maybes, but the overarching question here is – why the obsession with knowing people’s religion?
/p
hpgall
22:26 on
23 March, 2013
We still have around 30 to 40 years of oil and gas reserves left. Just now the benefits of that are shared by 65 million people. After we get independence it will be shared by around 5.5 million people. It’s yes from me.
Be careful!! If the Scandinavian descendants of Orkney and Shetland think as you it will only be shared by thousands, sounds like some happy millionairs (or multi)!! LOL
This point always reminds me of the Congo’s independence and breakaway Katanga (rich mining) resulting (after war) in starving Biaffrans. Over the top comparison?Nowadays- Bolivia, rich mining (again) south want away from poorer rest!!
The only independence point anywhere that I have been against. Greed!!
tusker
Morning Celts,
Jobo dry but windy along the Fylde coast amigo.
V
Away to walk wee Riley along the beach.
V
!!bada bing!!
Cheers for that info..good advice from cqn’rs as per h.h
has something happened to the blog since friday? it doesnt show up properly on my phone anymore.
or is it user error?
kevjungle
the falling attendances since Neil became manager dont ‘tell their own story’.
there are a load of things that contribute to that, and i dont reckon any of them are to do with the manager.