People hear what they want to hear. When Neil Lennon was asked at a media conference if he was able to spend £6m on one player, as he was last year, he gave the honest answer; “Yes”. He was able to make this type of signing, but that’s not to say he would regard this as the best use of his very finite resources.
Some felt “cheated” when Celtic ultimately didn’t make a £6m signing, they perhaps only read headlines with promises to that effect, without drilling down to the actual quotes. Nothing can be done about this. Dave King is another story.
King desperately wants to do something positive for Newco Rangers, perhaps mindful of his role as a director when Original Rangers were consigned to liquidation. He wants to believe that he can bring influence to bear on the collection of hedge funds and Respectable Local Businessmen who control Newco, but he appears to be indulging in a bit of ‘hearing what he wants to hear’.
Newco accused King of making “untrue” and “disgraceful” comments, which is perhaps polite for “glib and shameless liar”. Based on their public comments, Newco are in the right. After almost two years of over-promising and under-delivering, they have played clever. Specifically, they did not publicly promise to reveal their forward budget plans for the club before season ticket renewal deadline. Why would they?
King met the board and then told the world he won this assurance from them. I’d be amazed if Graham Wallace was sufficiently malleable to be manipulated into making such a commitment to a man who led Oldco into liquidation. Wallace’s 120 day review period was surely chosen not because it takes anything like this long to discover the blatantly obvious, but because it allowed him to kick all this trouble into the long grass of the close season. Wallace’s entire strategy for this season is not to be drawn on discussing the long metaphoric winter that lies ahead.
A few weeks ago I described King as the Pied Piper of Govan. In truth, I don’t expect many fans will sign up to his hair-brained “give me, not them, your money” plan. It’s far more likely that thousands of would-be fans will simply tune out. There are a million more things people can do than watch lower league football; maybe some could back the team their grandchildren will support, I hear they have Champions League qualifiers coming up.
The worst thing for King right now is for Salary McCoist to fluke a cup win today, allowing Newco to flood their support with season ticket renewal notices on Monday on a wave of positivity. Acting on the eve of such a major game will surely have been a well-considered move. Better all-round if United win, momentum is halted and those hedge funds and Respectable Local Businessmen are forced into a humiliating liquidation.
Don’t bet on it, though. The current key holders will have contingency plans of their own.
Seville – The Celtic Movement
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Third time lucky
Especially for SOAL?
Goodnight Tims
Hail Hail
BSR,
Link doesn’t work.
But is it exaggerated? Watching on BBC Hunscene, it was shockingly obvious !
I’m wasting my breath aren’t I?
Expecting equality from the SFA?……uhhhh.
BSR,
Thanks sir .
Bourne
I saw that picture yesterday
BeatlesCSC
Doc
“For those who understand no explanation is necessary. For those who don’t, no explanation is possible”.
FFM
They did it, – you could clearly see where the old lines were.
Hail Hail
ffm,
It was a so called neutral venue. Dundee Utd would have been watching their every move.
TSOAL
Password was funny
Night Night Hail Hail and Mon the Hoops
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/opinion/spiers-on-sport-debate-about-mccoist-s-future-goes-on-as-rangers-are-sunk.1397315652
BSR/ TCR,
Alas, we know amigos :))
And the fuds still got hammered :)))))
My Dear,Dear Kojo…..
Fuggedaboot-The-Jiggin’….
Get Yersel’ An’ Yer Posse Doon Tae The Bundy Ranch…..
Along Wi’ Sarah Palin,Bill O’Reilly,Sean Hannity,Laura Ingram….
An’ Ma Sweetheart,M♥ggie M♥Gill….
Show Obummer’s Marxist Stormtroopers Who’s The BOSS….
The Cows Do Not Harm The Tortoises…
Even A Stampede Of Cattle Will Not Tread Oan A Tortoise…..
As They Regard Them As ‘Rocks’….
And The Same Tortoises Taken To A Nature Reserve In Las Vegas…..
Are Being Euthanized Because There Are So Many Of Them……
No More RUBY RIDGES….!
IMPEACH Obummer,Holder…..
An’ SoapBox Dick Byrne Too….
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(From ‘American Thinker’)
April 12, 2014
Bundy Ranch, the Federal Government, and the Nevada Water Tipping Point
By Monica Morrill
Many Americans have been watching with great consternation the ongoing struggle between the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Marshals against Cliven Bundy and his family. There are no signs of either side relinquishing its position. Many onlookers have been informed that this dispute is over protecting the desert tortoise. But it is nothing of the sort. In fact, the reality of the dispute goes far underneath what is being talked about. The more appropriate source of the dispute is ground water as well as surface water – this is a war over water.
Cliven Bundy and his family claim that they can trace their family ownership back to around the 1870s on their current property in Clark County. This is well before any federal offices such as the EPA, BLM, or water management were created. This corresponds with the Homestead rights that were established during the Lincoln administration in 1862 to entice people to settle the western frontier and expand the U.S. agricultural enterprises. This 19th-century policy was meant to encourage and support settlement by families like the Bundys. Now, over 150 years later, what seemed to be borderless country surrounding small-town Bunkerville in Nevada is an inhospitable petri dish for the experiments of growing federal regulations.

The Bundy Ranch “VO” is now the last large cattle ranch standing in Clark County. According to an anonymous source who has lived in Nevada for thirty-five years, the other major ranches in Clark County have been driven out of existence for one reason or another by the BLM and the Feds. It is claimed that the BLM are masquerading as conservationists, using their federal power to wield the final blow to reclaim the settlement rights they once honored to settlers like the Bundys.
Follow the Money
The real wealth is in the water to support the plush green golf courses, and surrounding housing developments, gleaming swimming pools, and other demands by hotels and households in Las Vegas, Arizona, and Southern California.
The same anonymous source claims that there has been a pattern of behavior: land in Clark County has been targeted as property that the BLM can use; the BLM makes an offer to buy the property from the owner (prices vary, but it can be a very low market price); the BLM purchases the land; the property is then stripped of the water rights; and the land is resold without the right to water resources. But what good is a farm or ranch without water?
In other words, the BLM is not only driving out the cattle, the cattle rancher, and potentially any wildlife that depends on the riparian environment. The BLM is setting up a situation whereby the surrounding small towns will also go extinct. The BLM’s actions are ensuring that no one will return to the area.
Although Nevada Senator Dean Heller has issued a public statement about his concern over the handling of the Bundy family case, he has not elaborated on the water issue.
The author made several attempts to reach Heller’s communications director regarding the importance of water related to this case, but there was no response from Senator Heller’s office.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has kept his official statement simple over the past few days. Senator Reid “hopes that the transpassing of cattle are rounded up safely so the issue can be resolved.” While it is not clear exactly what “transpassing” means, what is more obvious is that some in the media have overlooked the small detail that the head of the Bureau of Land Management, a division of the Department of Interior, is Neil Kornze, who was also the former senior policy advisor to Senator Reid from 2003 to 2011. Mr. Kornze has served as the BLM principal deputy director for a little over a year, until the U.S. Senate confirmed him as the director of the BLM a few days ago.
On April 8, three days ago, Senator Reid posted the following press release on his website:
I’m pleased that the Senate confirmed Neil Kornze as the Director of the Bureau of Land Management today. Neil is just perfect for this position. Raised in Elko, Nevada, Neil really understands the role of public lands in rural America, and natural resources across the West.
Senator Reid continued:
His expertise is going to be invaluable to the Bureau of Land Management. I have every bit of confidence that Neil Kornze will be the best director we have ever had at BLM and I wish him success in this role.
Furthermore, it might be coincidental that the problems with the Bundy cattle ranching began in 1993, the same year Patricia Mulroy began serving as general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. From 1989, Ms. Mulroy was also the general manager of the Las Vegas Valley Water District. The author attempted to contact Ms. Mulroy for a comment, but she retired from both positions a few months ago in February.
It’s also possible the drought in the western states could have been the catalyst to the desperate actions by the federal authorities surrounding the Bundy cattle operation. Currently, water rights in Nevada run anywhere from $7,000 to $50,000 per acre-foot (depending on the time of year and the amount of rainfall or snowfall in the western region). The water in Nevada is then auctioned, as it has been for at least twenty-five years. That same water can be resold in Las Vegas, Arizona, or Southern California.
Bunkerville in Nevada is ensconced between the Virgin River and the main road, Riverside Road. The Virgin River is a tributary to Lake Mead. The river, along with other sources, discharges into Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States. Both the Virgin River and Lake Mead are part of the Colorado River Basin. In fact, Lake Mead is considered the largest surface water collection for the Colorado River. Whoever controls the water controls the vast wealth that is distributed to a network of states at a crucial time during a water shortage.
So why, then, are there rumors of about 5,000 concerned citizens flocking to the aid of a family that seems to have a simple property rights dispute? It appears that it is because it is not just the Bundy Family under threat of threats of regulations – a figurative gun ready to fire at their very existence. Either the citizens of America have long tolerated mounting regulations, or they have not noticed them.
Americans have been surrounded, deliberately corralled, by an increasing code of regulations. Americans have regulations pointed at their health care in the form of ObamaCare, their finances by the mercurial IRS, their communications by the NSA, the future education of young Americans by the newly launched Common Core. When will Americans reach the tipping point? It might all begin in Senator Reid’s home state – the Nevadan Wild West.
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Up The Hoops !
Viva Fat Sally !
The movement of the by lines, the reduction in the width of the pitch, is the most obscene thing I’ve ever scene. But they obv used their rights to do so, playing in the 2nd division.
Stranraer would struggle in such a hostile environment.
Let’s remind ourselves of how powerful they are with MIB backing:
Steakbake,
“This has just confirmed what I thought all along-I reckon we are a team of top-flight ability”
Nobody knows it but i’ve got a secret smile
the spirit of arthur lee
Your secret smile’s no secret any more.
Dorisdaycsc
tricoloured ribbon 01.35
He is, truly, beyond parody. By all accounts sevco played out of their skins today; The best performance of their season. United served up one of their poorest performances and brushed them aside contemptuously.
Beyond parody.
http://willievass.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Archive-Rangers/G0000Jou5PDmrV_s/I0000ZgW8JeLuF.A
Wattie congratulates Moshni after today’s stunning performance.
doctor whatfor,
The bubble and myth is well and truly burst.
Humped last week by a team out on it’s feet in extra time and grubbed 3-1 today by a very mediocre Dundee United.
Had a great night tonight at the “Celts in Seville” play – Of course Henrik was the KoK but I reckon big bad John Hartson will never have to buy a drink if there’s a Celtic fan in the pub. What a lion of a man he was (and is). I also read his “Please dont go” book as well -an inspirational story that makes you treasure every day.
Good luck to Liverpool tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkpKQnW0blI
Some vidoes being allowed by youtube now that Jack’s influence in waning… this is from a few years ago, and the footage from 1986. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkpKQnW0blI
The internet has been buzzing this week with the vid of the gemmy irish priest singing this song. Brilliant, beautiful and compelling it was, and funny too.
Everyone forgets though that Billy, oor billy, made this song famous long before it was fashionable to have a talented god botherer at your wedding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WxJVr4GuII
Next time I get married, there will be only one song.
Think I was censored earlier on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5-wkcTyFNs
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
01:12 on
13 April, 2014
macjay1 for Neil Lennon @ 00:55
Macjay,
Your determination to demonise “entryists” is one of the most destructive elements CQN has even known.
I think you should ponder on that. And read back if you’re in doubt.
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Sorry,FFM.Out cutting the grass.
First,I didn`t raise this subject.I merely responded to Tom Molach.I made a joke about entryism,but ,as you know,many a true word is spoken in jest.
Entryists,by definition, are self demonising.
I`m flattered that you feel my insignificant contributions could be “destructive”.They could only be destructive if posters feel that there is some truth in them.
While I love C.Q.N.,I have a genuine concern about the welfare of Celtic and the influence of fringe groups which politically in many cases hold the balance of power,thereby skewing the democratic process.
I feel that the Celtic Trust is a damaging and divisive influence and I will continue to criticise ANY group which I feel is acting against the best interests of Celtic F.C.
Re.the oft-used cliche of “reds under the bed”.
Apparently in a podcast, Jeanette Findlay expresses her admiration for Trotsky.Was he a “red?”
It would appear the reds are well and truly IN the C.T. bed.
IMHO the C.T. is,to quote you, “one of the most destructive elements Celtic has even known.”
I’m a traveller who was in a home. An outsider. Belongs nowhere
Mother dead
Father in jail
Father killed mother
I belong nowhere
I belong here
In a Time of Universal Deceit — Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act
ericblaircsc.
Travellerbhoy,
You take care mate.
10th May swally?
tricoloured ribbon
Def phal
I posted something earlier on along the same lines but it’s gone
Censored
No bad language ?
Travellerbhoy, what are you missing? I.e. what has been removed?
tricoloured ribbon
Hiya bhud
I posted earlier on similar to what I posted above but it was removed. No idea why Can’t think why? Only thing I can think Is I mentioned Manchester and thems
macjay1 for Neil Lennon @ 02:21
Total pish amigo. Total pish.
I’m happy to note that your attempt to swing political thinking on this hallowed site to that of your own. You’ll always fail.
You won’t eradicate the thinking and education passed on through several generations of Celtic Supporters. You’re a million miles away, and always will be.
We support the welfare of our friends and neighbours. You don’t like that, and attack it. Up to you. But you’ll always be alone in that approach.
Travellerbhoy 02:21 on 13 April, 2014
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That’s the most brutally honest and open post I’ve read in my time on this blog.
Your last brief line is correct and I look forward to seeing you in May. You’ve made lots of friends here.
Hail Hail bruv
a ceiler gonof rust
Hi bhud
I posted earlier on roughly the same post but longer but it’s disappeared
Can’t think why. Maybe because I mentioned manchester and thems
Travellerbhoy.
Maybe it just didn’t appear on screen mate.
Don’t get upset pal.
All yer buddies are on here
Sorry for the doublike post :-)
Frances Black-what a singer.
http://youtu.be/y2u6oEHv8j0
Another one “undeleted” by youtube. Not pleasant, but important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHaVWI6UV9Q