Hamilton Saint

Clyne ball-watching, says DM.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?40834-Streams

Whispering DM: "cracking game to watch ... both sides playing with width."

Saints finally clear it - under some pressure.

Dangerous free kick for Spurs.

Saints playing well. Lots of possession and moving forward.

Crowd in great voice!

Here?!

Time for a game thread!

Good news!

Hope so; the tweet came from someone seated near the incident - physio was treating him, apparently.

Fox injured in the warm-up? Someone has tweeted that to Adam.

"Spring forward; Fall back". For the information of posters living outside GMT - the clocks changed last night in the UK. For us residing in North America, therefore, the game today starts an hour later than usual. This may be the case elsewhere in the World, depending on whether or not clocks change on the same day as the UK.

Really? I spoke to a salesman in an electronics store about six months ago. He told me that, in the previous year, their shop had sold more turntables than CD players. Yound kids are either downloading their favourite music as digital files, or discovering the joys of analogue sound on vinyl LPs. ME? I still have my Dual turntable, and I bought a new turntable about a year ago - a Rega P3 - and still have my entire LP collection (about 1000 LPs). Do you have children, or grandchildren to bequeath them to? Do that. Don't throw those LPs away!

In the "swing" state of Ohio alone, Obama has spent $57 million; Romney has spent $34 million. In one month (Sep 24 - Oct 24), there have been 58,235 presidential-race TV ads broadcast in Ohio. That's about 2,000 per day! Ohio has 18 votes in the Electoral College. The last time the winner was elected President without winning in Ohio was 1960 - hence the candidates' interest in that state.

Feel better now that you've put the OP down?

How a man treats his dog says a lot about the man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney_dog_incident

He tried to establish a new sense of bipartisanship. He wanted to raise the tone of debate and establish a reasonable consensus on some of the more contentious issues. The ultra-right-wingers in the Republican Party (Tea Party types) had absolutely no interest in that approach. In hindsight, Obama's hope for compromise seems naive (given the attitude he was faced with), but you can't balme him for trying, can you? Or must politics always be a highly adversarial enterprise?

You're not familiar with the way Republicans campaign then? In North America, right-wingers claim the moral high-ground, but behave in the most sleazy, underhanded way. And these sorts of Republican tactics are being imported into Canada by our Republican-loving Prime Minister. One example: during the last federal election here in Canada people working for the Conservative party on election day used automated phone systems to call people and tell them that their polling station had been moved to another location. They were hoping that when these people arrived at the wrong place and found out they'd been misdirected, they would give up in frustration and not bother to vote. These sorts of right-wingers think that any means justify their ends. To them it's all part of the all-out-war that is modern politics.

Yes. But there is an extra element at work here. The US has always considered ALL of North and South America (including the Caribbean) as its sphere of influence. It has never tolerated communist governments within that sphere. Thus, the continuing embargo against Cuba. They invaded Grenada when Maurice Bishop (a Marxist) took over. They engaged in a long covert war (funding and training the "contras") against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. They also covertly toppled the elected governnent in Chile because Allende was a Marxist. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a double whammy - inside the zone the US considered "its own" (cold-war thinking) AND being pushed by Castro (a Marxist).

In the Guardian! Bit of fun? Or bit of drivel? [i came out as teutonic! Jawohl!]

So, your objection to two particular columnists makes the entire paper drivel. Interesting logic.

Who I Am by Pete Townshend. Excellent (he really knows how to write) autobiography. Searingly honest. Very informative. A must-read for any Who fan.

New Van Morrison CD - Born To Sing: No Plan B. Very jazzy. Three-piece horn section. Lots of improvising. Morrison fully engaged this time. Best album by him in many a year. If you're a fan, don't miss this one!

Silly comment. Just because you don't agree with the political stance doesn't make it drivel.