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#1
GAA Discussion / Re: 2025 GAA season.
September 11, 2024, 01:59:07 AM
Quote from: Easttyrone23 on September 11, 2024, 01:39:41 AMKerry 3/1
Dublin 10/3
Donegal 13/2
Galway 15/2
Derry 8/1
Armagh 9/1
Mayo 12/1
Tyrone 14/1
Bar 33/1
(Boylesports)

In terms of the bookies odds it's the most open championship in a long time.
Won't be easy to predict the two teams to get relegated from Division one next year.
#2
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
September 11, 2024, 01:49:03 AM
Quote from: T24 on September 11, 2024, 12:27:43 AMa few months ago you and mostly everyone on the site would have told me Joe was in tip top form and good to go for 4 more years
The date you registered was August 16th.

#3
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
September 10, 2024, 05:54:16 PM
Quote from: T24 on September 10, 2024, 05:30:24 PMWho's is running the country right now?
We haven't had a president in 3 years .

And you think Trump who you want voted back in will be fit to run the country for the next 4 years?


#4
2-0 Jack Grealish game as contest as good as over after 25 minutes.
#5
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on September 07, 2024, 05:16:31 PMWould have to be. Wouldn't it!
Yes had to be Rice helped by very poor Irish defending.
#6
The choice of picture and who jumps into the water with their runners on?

#7
Quote from: Tony Baloney on September 02, 2024, 09:40:37 PMHow did we end up with Enya before Michael Jackson or Elvis?!
Or before Neil Diamond.

As for man of many faces.

Billie Jean,Ben and Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough.
#8
General discussion / Re: Man Utd Thread:
September 01, 2024, 07:29:45 PM
Quote from: JoG2 on September 01, 2024, 07:14:42 PM
Quote from: Captain Obvious on September 01, 2024, 07:00:23 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on September 01, 2024, 05:58:20 PMETH won't get to xmas

Liverpools to lose  ;D

Casemiro set Liverpool on the road to victory. Too soon to label any team to lose yet however early signs shows it's a smooth transition on replacing Klopp and have recovered from losing the league title that with eight games to play was Liverpool's to lose last season.

Absolute gold

No gold, ended up with a bronze 3rd place finish.

#9
General discussion / Re: Man Utd Thread:
September 01, 2024, 07:00:23 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on September 01, 2024, 05:58:20 PMETH won't get to xmas

Liverpools to lose  ;D

Casemiro set Liverpool on the road to victory. Too soon to label any team to lose yet however early signs shows it's a smooth transition on replacing Klopp and have recovered from losing the league title that with eight games to play was Liverpool's to lose last season.
#10
General discussion / Re: Premier League 2024-2025
August 31, 2024, 07:05:38 PM
Neal Maupay response to leaving Everton a few days ago.

https://x.com/nealmaupay_/status/1829110516242849965
#11
General discussion / Re: Premier League 2024-2025
August 31, 2024, 02:40:18 PM
Decent result for Brighton in the Emirates Stadium. Brighton manager is the first manager to be born after the Premier League started in 1992 and is seven years younger than Brighton midfielder James Milner.
#12
General discussion / Re: Oasis
August 31, 2024, 02:35:05 PM
Touts with their software snapping up tickets while the rest are locked out in long queues again?
#13
Quote from: Itchy on August 30, 2024, 05:21:02 PM
Quote from: Captain Obvious on August 30, 2024, 05:03:57 PMIn August 2019, President Donald Trump declared himself "history's most pro-Israel U.S. president." He also characterised the Democrats as radicals seeking to destroy the special relationship between the US and Israel. "If you vote for a Democrat", he said, "you are very, very disloyal to Israel and to the Jewish people." Prominent American Jewish leaders, mainly Democrats, protested his rebuke.
In January 2020, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Trump as "the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House." 

And It's well known how much Putin and Trump like each other.


Trump will say anything to get a vote, you should know that. The only thing he is "pro" is himself. Are you trying to tell us Genocude Joe is Pro Palestinian? He's watching their children get blown to pieces and all he cares about really us the "jew vote" and money. Harris is just a mini me. I'd spoil my vote if I lived in that shit hole.


Wouldn't live in that place for any amount of money however if I did knowing Trump and Netanyahu could end up in jail would be enough to get me to voting.

An opinion piece from adjunct Professor of Law Menachem Z Rosensaft


QuoteIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shares two important characteristics with former President Donald Trump: like Trump, Netanyahu is narcissistic, incapable of empathy for others who considers his personal interests and political survival to be of paramount importance, and, also like Trump, he desperately wants Trump to win the forthcoming presidential election in order for him to have a hope of staying out of jail.

That is pretty much all we need to know to explain Netanyahu's behavior some months before the said election.

Trump's motivation is hardly breaking news. Most Americans—even hardcore MAGA activists who idolize Trump—understand that Trump's legal difficulties will either increase or decrease exponentially depending on who takes the oath of office next Jan. 21 as the 47th president of the United States. One scenario: he lives in the White House for another four years; the other involves at a minimum heavy fines and quite possibly an orange prison uniform.

What many observers outside Israel don't realize, however, is that Trump's Mini-Me Netanyahu is in the exact same boat. Except that Netanyahu's situation is even more precarious than Trump's.

Netanyahu's present political situation is exemplified by the banana peel syndrome: he has one foot in political oblivion and the other on a banana peel. Like Trump, Netanyahu is under multiple criminal indictments and his various trials are ongoing. These trials would accelerate with bullet train speed were he to be forced out of office anytime soon.


Which brings into play the Nov. 5 presidential election.


Netanyahu has good reason to believe that fellow autocrat Trump will have little interest in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which perforce means bringing the present Israel-Hamas war in Gaza to some sort of end. One of Trump's principal advisers when it comes to Israel is former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman who supports ultranationalist Jewish claims to the West Bank and opposes a two-state solution, that is to say, any form of statehood for the Palestinians, ever.

The financial support of one of Trump's mega-donors, billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Miriam Adelson, the widow of Macau casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, is reportedly conditioned on Trump allowing Israel to annex the West Bank combined with U.S. recognition of Israel's sovereignty over all of that territory. To say that this is the utopian dream of not just Netanyahu but the entire coterie of right-wing extremists propping up his government would be the understatement of the year. Such a development, which goes counter to U.S. policy under multiple Democratic and Republican administrations, would also bring any prospect of not just Israeli-Palestinian peace but of Israeli-Palestinian coexistence to a screeching halt.

All of which explains why Netanyahu does not want an agreement for any kind of ceasefire in the Hamas-Israel war and the return of those hostages taken captive by Hamas on Oct. 7 who are still alive. He knows that the day after such an agreement is reached, he will be unable to withstand calls for new elections, which he could well lose.
#14
General discussion / Re: Oasis
August 30, 2024, 05:12:24 PM
This opinion piece is getting plenty of attention online, no doubt the writers main objective.



#15
In August 2019, President Donald Trump declared himself "history's most pro-Israel U.S. president." He also characterised the Democrats as radicals seeking to destroy the special relationship between the US and Israel. "If you vote for a Democrat", he said, "you are very, very disloyal to Israel and to the Jewish people." Prominent American Jewish leaders, mainly Democrats, protested his rebuke.
In January 2020, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Trump as "the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House." 

And It's well known how much Putin and Trump like each other.