In March. And not the type of snow we should be seeing at this time of year. The type that is something to look at before it melts when it hits the warmer March ground.
Oh no. This stuff is inches thick on the deck and drifting where it can, causing all sorts of chaos.
I won't be the only one who can remember reading ridiculous articles written by global warming fanatics who foresaw winters by now that would have no snow at all. I imagine they are all busy now constructing some bogus explanation for this unfortunate blow to their theories.
One thing we can be certain of; it's all our fault for driving cars, heating our homes, switching the lights on and eating beef. The great tragedy is that governments here and in the US and elsewhere are peopled by they type of suggestible, stupid lunatics who really believe this rubbish.
Saturday, 23 March 2013
Shocking public subsidy of West Ham Utd.
I have no gripe with West Ham. They are a club similar in size and ambition to my own, with similar support base and expectations, (although recent history tells us that they are a tad more entitled to these expectations than we at Sunderland are!).
But the sight of them basically being given a publicly funded football ground worth about £600m+, (perhaps a lot more actually) is mind boggling. This is so obviously wrong it beggars belief
Assuming West Ham stay in the Premier League for the next, say ten years, which is not ridiculous given all the circumstances, it is safe to count on their annual turn over being on average £80m+ and rising over that period. And they are to pay it seems all of £2m a year of that whacking sum each year in rent! They will also have to pay what seems like 10% (£15m) of the conversion costs of the Olympic Stadium.
At the same time Everton are in financial limbo as they seek to find huge sums for a new stadium. Liverpool are committing to spending £150m + on improving Anfield. Arsenal had to find £200m+ to build the Emirates. Clubs up and down the country have had to take on the cost of building or improving their stadia. For some it has resulted in chaos as they could not, in the end, afford the scope of their ambitions.
For West Ham there appears to be no such risk in upgrading. This amounts to a public subsidy of a football club, who will enjoy into the future a huge competitive advantage on the back of the tax payer.
I, like many I know, have never had a gripe with West Ham. We all have one now.
But the sight of them basically being given a publicly funded football ground worth about £600m+, (perhaps a lot more actually) is mind boggling. This is so obviously wrong it beggars belief
Assuming West Ham stay in the Premier League for the next, say ten years, which is not ridiculous given all the circumstances, it is safe to count on their annual turn over being on average £80m+ and rising over that period. And they are to pay it seems all of £2m a year of that whacking sum each year in rent! They will also have to pay what seems like 10% (£15m) of the conversion costs of the Olympic Stadium.
At the same time Everton are in financial limbo as they seek to find huge sums for a new stadium. Liverpool are committing to spending £150m + on improving Anfield. Arsenal had to find £200m+ to build the Emirates. Clubs up and down the country have had to take on the cost of building or improving their stadia. For some it has resulted in chaos as they could not, in the end, afford the scope of their ambitions.
For West Ham there appears to be no such risk in upgrading. This amounts to a public subsidy of a football club, who will enjoy into the future a huge competitive advantage on the back of the tax payer.
I, like many I know, have never had a gripe with West Ham. We all have one now.
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Budget Bollocks.
The usual peripheral rubbish from a cornered chancellor who is not prepared to take brave enough decisions.
£10k allowance long overdue, but paid for by taxing some working people at over 50% of their earnings when you include NI. Insane and immoral that a normal guy who might decide to work harder or longer to try and help his family should be slaughtered for doing so. The price I suppose for a "Tory" government collaborating with left wing fanatics. Better if it, and any other measure , were to be paid for by less spending; that after all is what normal people must do when they are faced with diminishing income and rising bills.
All three parties here pretend that we can swim along forever without an adult debate about how to avert the bankruptcy of the country. The House of Commons is now in complete disrepute. With a few honourable exceptions, it is peopled by craven and complacent time servers.
A vile pox on all their houses.
£10k allowance long overdue, but paid for by taxing some working people at over 50% of their earnings when you include NI. Insane and immoral that a normal guy who might decide to work harder or longer to try and help his family should be slaughtered for doing so. The price I suppose for a "Tory" government collaborating with left wing fanatics. Better if it, and any other measure , were to be paid for by less spending; that after all is what normal people must do when they are faced with diminishing income and rising bills.
All three parties here pretend that we can swim along forever without an adult debate about how to avert the bankruptcy of the country. The House of Commons is now in complete disrepute. With a few honourable exceptions, it is peopled by craven and complacent time servers.
A vile pox on all their houses.
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
New Nuclear Plant!!??
EDF are it seems ready to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in the south of England.
I've only heard the headline story and have missed any details of what guarantees EDF have been given regarding the price they will be able to charge for electricity, which has apparently been a bone of contention up to now.
No doubt this will be another poke in the eye for us consumers.
But these things take ages to build anyway, (I'm sure the latest attempt by EDF to build a reactor in France is late and over original budget). I'd far rather a new swathe of gas power stations were built. There is plenty of the stuff, they are relatively simple and quick to build, and it might even mean there are less of those ridiculous, part time generating, bird killing windmill eyesores that blight the land right now.
Nuclear won't do it. Buy a generator is my advice.
I've only heard the headline story and have missed any details of what guarantees EDF have been given regarding the price they will be able to charge for electricity, which has apparently been a bone of contention up to now.
No doubt this will be another poke in the eye for us consumers.
But these things take ages to build anyway, (I'm sure the latest attempt by EDF to build a reactor in France is late and over original budget). I'd far rather a new swathe of gas power stations were built. There is plenty of the stuff, they are relatively simple and quick to build, and it might even mean there are less of those ridiculous, part time generating, bird killing windmill eyesores that blight the land right now.
Nuclear won't do it. Buy a generator is my advice.
Monday, 18 March 2013
EU theft on the Grand Scale
More disgusting evidence is emerging of the insatiable appetite of un-elected Eurocrats' desire to put themselves before the people they are supposed to be serving.
This disgusting mob of gangsters, in their various guises, are attempting a raid on people's personal wealth in crisis hit Cyprus, basically to shore up the Euro.
Cyprus is more or less bust after allowing it's economy to get wildly out of kilter, and be dominated by it's banking sector. Cyprus needs a bail out , so the EU say. But the Germans who will pay for all this are getting edgy and want to see some strict conditions attached, and who better to bully than little Cyprus?
Well it looks like a spectacular mistake to me. If there was anyone left who ever believed a single word uttered by an EU official, they will be thinking again now. Who would leave their money unguarded in a Portugese, Italian, Irish or Spanish bank now, when it could be pillaged by this lot? No not me either.
There will be blood over this me thinks, whatever happens. I just hope the Cypriots have it them to shove it to the EU, default, de-couple, devalue and get on with it's future.
This disgusting mob of gangsters, in their various guises, are attempting a raid on people's personal wealth in crisis hit Cyprus, basically to shore up the Euro.
Cyprus is more or less bust after allowing it's economy to get wildly out of kilter, and be dominated by it's banking sector. Cyprus needs a bail out , so the EU say. But the Germans who will pay for all this are getting edgy and want to see some strict conditions attached, and who better to bully than little Cyprus?
Well it looks like a spectacular mistake to me. If there was anyone left who ever believed a single word uttered by an EU official, they will be thinking again now. Who would leave their money unguarded in a Portugese, Italian, Irish or Spanish bank now, when it could be pillaged by this lot? No not me either.
There will be blood over this me thinks, whatever happens. I just hope the Cypriots have it them to shove it to the EU, default, de-couple, devalue and get on with it's future.
Sunday, 17 March 2013
My last Relegation.
That's what this will be, and I have no doubt at all that we are now down.
I think this will be the ninth for me, and that is quite enough for one man, although I realise there might be a few on here who have witnessed the one I missed. I have been going for 47 years and so I reckon I can allow myself this fatalism about our lack of prospects. Maybe it's all my fault ; I was born in 1957 and a few months later we were relegated for the first time in our history.
I have now come to the firm conclusion that we will always be a shite team, no matter what is done to try and change things. Not good enough for the top flight but a bit too good for the next one down. Nothing seems to make any difference.
We can win the cup and manage to lose the best players soon after and throw a good team away.
We can have bigger crowds than many, (including in the days when this really was a vital statistic), and still be out performed by the likes of Coventry, Southampton and so on.
We can put together a strong team, an aberration we now know, finish a good seventh twice in a row and within two seasons collapse to a pathetic 19 point relegation.
We can attract new owners who throw tens of millions at the team, and then when they run short find another who does the same, and we are still utter rubbish.
We can go and appoint a manager with an outstanding record of working with money and without it, the only time in our history we have actually done this, and still gravity pulls us back to our natural place. Down among the dead men.
I genuinely believe that this will never change.
That showing today was so bad, every team that still has us to play will be licking their lips in anticipation. I should be utterly baffled how a team managed by Martin O'Neill can be like this one. It does not begin to resemble one of his previous teams. It has no pace, no urgency or bite in midfield, hardly any craft, very little courage and no leadership. We are appalling at set pieces and are ridiculously easy to play against. But I am not baffled, it is just the way it is with us.
I imagine if Martin O'Neill had went somewhere else, say West Ham or Blackburn, then that team would be showing great signs of improvement and probably in the semis of the cup. It's just that his old feelings helped to drag him here. I bet he bitterly regrets it, but it is no good us saying the same as it doesn't matter. We are due a relegation, the football gods have said so, and it's coming, and with timing that could not be more agonisingly exquisite, it's going to come at just the right time to leave us marooned .
We are shite and I can live with that fact, but I don't see me being there to see much more of it with my own eyes, they have suffered enough.
Read more: http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=767421#ixzz2NpZoWT7N
I think this will be the ninth for me, and that is quite enough for one man, although I realise there might be a few on here who have witnessed the one I missed. I have been going for 47 years and so I reckon I can allow myself this fatalism about our lack of prospects. Maybe it's all my fault ; I was born in 1957 and a few months later we were relegated for the first time in our history.
I have now come to the firm conclusion that we will always be a shite team, no matter what is done to try and change things. Not good enough for the top flight but a bit too good for the next one down. Nothing seems to make any difference.
We can win the cup and manage to lose the best players soon after and throw a good team away.
We can have bigger crowds than many, (including in the days when this really was a vital statistic), and still be out performed by the likes of Coventry, Southampton and so on.
We can put together a strong team, an aberration we now know, finish a good seventh twice in a row and within two seasons collapse to a pathetic 19 point relegation.
We can attract new owners who throw tens of millions at the team, and then when they run short find another who does the same, and we are still utter rubbish.
We can go and appoint a manager with an outstanding record of working with money and without it, the only time in our history we have actually done this, and still gravity pulls us back to our natural place. Down among the dead men.
I genuinely believe that this will never change.
That showing today was so bad, every team that still has us to play will be licking their lips in anticipation. I should be utterly baffled how a team managed by Martin O'Neill can be like this one. It does not begin to resemble one of his previous teams. It has no pace, no urgency or bite in midfield, hardly any craft, very little courage and no leadership. We are appalling at set pieces and are ridiculously easy to play against. But I am not baffled, it is just the way it is with us.
I imagine if Martin O'Neill had went somewhere else, say West Ham or Blackburn, then that team would be showing great signs of improvement and probably in the semis of the cup. It's just that his old feelings helped to drag him here. I bet he bitterly regrets it, but it is no good us saying the same as it doesn't matter. We are due a relegation, the football gods have said so, and it's coming, and with timing that could not be more agonisingly exquisite, it's going to come at just the right time to leave us marooned .
We are shite and I can live with that fact, but I don't see me being there to see much more of it with my own eyes, they have suffered enough.
Read more: http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=767421#ixzz2NpZoWT7N
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