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#1
General discussion / Re: New York
December 02, 2022, 02:20:12 PM
Although there are some fantastic eating experiences. I'd highly recommend Keens Chophouse - an old steakhouse dating back to late 1800s and full of history.
#2
General discussion / Re: New York
December 02, 2022, 11:57:39 AM
That's Jersey Gardens. Nearer and cheaper because no tax in New Jersey. But a shithole. I'd say if you are coming to NYC don't waste your time in these soulless suburban outlets when you could be doing something authentic.
#3
General discussion / Re: New York
November 30, 2022, 11:29:07 PM
If you are looking for hip and near nightlife The Standard, near High Line, if you are looking more Times Square, the AC is a nice new boutique hotel with good rooftop bar. Westin in Times Square also sometimes has good rates.
#4
General discussion / Re: American Sports Thread
January 24, 2022, 03:27:55 AM
Brilliant game but a shocker for Buffalo to let Chiefs down the field with 13 seconds left. Their tackling was awful all night. It's a terrible overtime rule. Chiefs should win from here.
#5
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 06, 2020, 12:54:17 AM
Crazy stuff but unfortunately he has a lot of followers who are mad and believe all this stuff. When Biden gets to 270, they could unleash a lot of violence. And he's egging them on.
#6
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 04, 2020, 05:33:29 AM
NYT now leaning Biden for GA. Have been pretty accurate. Makes sense as so many urban votes left. Huge if Biden takes GA and Arizona. Can afford a slip up in North.
#7
Quote from: michaelg on August 25, 2020, 12:36:01 PM
Quote from: rodney trotter on August 24, 2020, 06:40:21 PM
Kenny approached Sykes to declare. That might have given him hope, he's paying League 1 so will have a bit to do.
There has been other Northern players in the past who switched, and were never capped by the Republicx like Daniel Kearns
He's no chance of a call-up for forseeable.  From a caeer / money point of view, seems a bad move as he's unlikely to follow same trajectory of Gavin Whyte without having international football to help boost his profile.  As another poster said though, I guess his heart wasn't in it.  Fair enough, but as with Grealish and Rice, just a shame it took him 7 years to work that out and at same time took away potential opportunity for development from someone else.

Must say I don't get the taking away the development of someone else used a lot by NI supporters. Nationalists and those of nationalist backgrounds are entitled to whatever sporting facilities are available to them in NI. They pay tax - in fact latest tax show the nationalist population as the largest tax contributors - and this tax funds much of this. Many sports stars also develop as athletes through the GAA before switching codes to soccer and rugby - and people like Gerry Armstrong have gone this route. Same thing happens in South and that is okay. It's the way of the world. No one is missing out, if they are good enough they will rise to the top.

#8
General discussion / Re: Maddie McCann
July 31, 2020, 08:36:14 PM
Quote from: Main Street on July 31, 2020, 07:36:43 PM
Quote from: NetNitrate on July 31, 2020, 06:38:11 PM
Main Street - agreed if you don't accept the reliability of the dogs, then Amaral had no case.
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The evidence of the dogs is irrelevant, it doesnt support Amaral's theory in the least that the McCanns were complicit, either in the killing or/and  the removal of the corpse. Amaral's theory or anybody's theory that the McCanns were complicit is beyond the realms of  human possibility, beyond the realm of rationality.

The  (unreliable)  evidence of the dogs only adds some fuel to conspiracy theorists that the McCanns were complicit, a conspiracy theory that conveniently ignores the stone wall of evidence that renders their theory worthless.

I don't think the evidence of the dogs is irrelevant. Such dogs play a vital role in solving crimes, detecting things beyond the capability of humans or machines. However, the evidence is of little use if the DNA on the blood samples is inconclusive. It does not mean more advanced technology will not solve that in years to come. Dogs are also being used by the German police in the digs being carried out. Until the Germans reveal what their "concrete" evidence is, there remains little to no other evidence in this case - beyond the sighting of the Smith family of a man carrying a child who looked asleep that night (their efit was suppressed for many years by the McCann detectives for some strange reason). The Jane Tanner (friend of family) sighting and eFit, promoted by the McCann detectives, has been eliminated by both the British police and PJ.
#9
General discussion / Re: Maddie McCann
July 31, 2020, 06:38:11 PM
Main Street - agreed if you don't accept the reliability of the dogs, then Amaral had no case. I think the claim of the Irish family is unreliable due to the amount of time it took them to come forward. That said, it is curious that a dog trained in only picking up the scent of death only found it in 3 locations: apartment behind the sofa, on the child's toy in the families new place of residence, and on the keys of hire car. It is also curious that a second dog trained to detect blood samples and back up the cadaver odor dog, only found blood samples behind the sofa, apartment bedroom, and in the back of the hire car. It is further curious that the blood samples had a close resemblance to the poor child's DNA, but were ruled inconclusive by the English lab because she also shared the same DNA with her parents, and they could not be certain it was her blood. Further, DNA experts are saying the type of testing used by English police could never have proved conclusive with the technology there were using. That lab has since been closed down due to their faulty practices. But if you discard this evidence, the PJ had nothing. But it is not just Amaral that believed the child died in the apartment; it was also one of the conclusions by the police that replaced him. Even the German prosecutor who believes he has the real killer accused the Portuguese police of still believing the parents were responsible. You now have 3 police forces with different views, as the Met (Operation Grange) say she may still be alive. At least two of those police forces are wrong; indeed they might be all wrong. But one of them may be right. Time will tell, and hopefully the poor child will get justice.
#10
General discussion / Re: Maddie McCann
July 30, 2020, 09:11:35 PM
The holiday friends were never accused by PJ. Ironically the British ex-pat Murat was made a suspect because of the accusations of holiday friends who thought him suspicious (must have been glass eye), and the McCann private detectives (who later turned out to be big crooks) had nailed it on an African paedophile ring and promised to have the poor child home by Christmas. Keep in mind that the scent of death was only found on keys of car hired, so it does not translate that body was transported in a car hired after the death/abduction  of poor child. Amaral made parents suspects because police felt the child died in apartment, likely from accident being left alone, due to evidence of sniffer dogs and they found no evidence of an abduction. They also refused to cooperate or answer questions. As of yet, while the German appears scum of hugest order, German police say they have evidence poor child is dead but not enough to pin it in this person. The German digs seem to have unearthed nothing.  I think this will end same as the long line of suspects: no evidence to press charges. Meanwhile the PJ have blood samples from apartment that await better DNA testing. I think that will eventually crack the case.
#11
Quote from: macdanger2 on June 10, 2020, 03:08:05 PM
Quote from: general_lee on June 10, 2020, 02:43:47 PM
So in short, the GAA is wrong to examine the naming of clubs after a colossal racist because he did his bit for Catholics back in the day?

I wouldn't summarise it exactly in those words (esp. the part about Catholics as noted by trueblue) but given that most people are a mixture of good and bad, something like this is a matter of weighing up the bad and the good and determining which was a more significant part of that person's life.

Mitchell held extremely racists views which were wrong by any measure but as far as I know (and I'm open to correction on this), he wasn't a leading figure in the pro-slavery movement - would American history books on the subject reference anything of his? I think it can be reasonably argued that he was more influential in the course of Irish nationalism and that it made up more of his life than the slavery movement.

Someone earlier mentioned Eoin O'Duffy, he might make a more interesting study - he was a prominent figure in the fight for Irish independence but does his later involvement with fascism completely obliterate his earlier contributions? According to Wiki, the terrace in Clones is named after him

Eoin O'Duffy is a good example. He was a hero in the Irish War of Independence and Chief of Staff of IRA. But he is remembered as a Blueshirt and you would never see a statue to him, or a GAA club named after him. He comes in for pretty harsh abuse from Shinners on Twitter - probably not knowing he was a Sinn Fein TD, too. If the same rule was followed for the others, they should not be commemorated in anyway. One problem with Thomas Francis Meagher (who was pretty brutal to Native Americans) is that he designed the Irish tri-colour.
#12
General discussion / Re: Maddie McCann
June 06, 2020, 12:17:04 AM
Quote from: trailer on June 05, 2020, 09:42:50 PM
Quote from: NetNitrate on June 05, 2020, 08:54:07 PM
Quote from: trailer on June 05, 2020, 08:39:19 PM
Quote from: NetNitrate on June 05, 2020, 04:24:37 PM
Quote from: balladmaker on June 05, 2020, 01:19:26 PM
Quote from: trailer on June 05, 2020, 01:10:48 PM
Quote from: An Watcher on June 05, 2020, 10:19:42 AM
I'm not so sure now. Talk of him being released so is this an attempt to hold onto him.

Is he not serving a sentence for other sex offences? He's in prison in Germany was what I understood not that he'd been arrested.

It's a truly harrowing story and when I think about it I can't stop thinking about that wee girls last few hours. Afraid, alone, most probably crying looking help or her parents, not knowing what was happening. It really, really gets me.

Does not bare thinking about, harrowing stuff.  This suspect is eligible for parole from his current sentence from this Sunday onwards, can't see that happening. 

It's not beyond the realms of possibility that the child died in the holiday apartment at the hand of the intruder, and then the intruder took the body with them.  This might add some credence to the cadaver dogs picking up a scent of death in the apartment.


The dog handler - Martin Grime - who is highly accomplished and solved many cases with Cadaver dogs has stated a body needs to be in place for 2 hrs before a scent of death develops. So the above would not be possible if the parents and friends were checking every half hour as they stated. It also still does not explain the perplexing fact that scent of death was also discovered in the McCann's hire car, a car they hired after the abduction took place, which led the original detective to believe that they transported the body later and concealed it, after she died from an accident in apartment after being left alone. His theory, not mine. Hopefully the family get closure but this latest suspect seems to be similar to the pedophlle who confessed in the Jo Benet Ramsay case (where parents were also suspects), and it turned out he was someone just looking for attention. There seems to be very little hard evidence other that he boasted to a friend. The original detected also predicted a year ago that this person would be made a scapegoat to close the case.

Pretty mad rant that in fairness.
The dog man would appear to have all the credibility of a palm reader.

I'm sorry but that is simply not true. These same dogs have brought many murderers to justice, including in Ireland.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/strabane-murder-sniffer-dog-on-netflix-maddie-series-37938452.html

In America:
https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/152001/06202019---Virginia-Court-of-Appeals-Affirmed-the-Convictions-Against-Braulio-Castillo

Did the murderer use the McCann's hire car to move the body and then leave it back? Whatever about Rex being a good boy, he ain't solved any murders. He can pick up a scent but after that you need evidence. Never seen Rex take the stand yet. May as well consult the daily horoscopes.

Dogs provide all kinds of tasks that can find missing people, sniff out drug smuggling, scent death, well beyond the capabilities of humans.

The dogs did their job and found samples that the police/humans missed. It's up to experts to examine that evidence. The British Lab found them inconclusive. An expert from US has developed new forensic technology that he says might solve the DNA puzzle, and has offered his services for free. So far to my knowledge his technology has not been used.

https://www.cybgen.com/information/newsroom/2019/apr/Cybergenetics-expert-Mark-Perlin-discusses-inconclusive-DNA-mixture-evidence-in-Madeleine-McCann-missing-child-case-on-Australia-Sunrise-on-7-television-breakfast-news-program.shtml

Anyway this is all on the Australian news podcast for anyone who wants to learn more. Not my theories, but I thought it a very well researched series.
#13
General discussion / Re: Maddie McCann
June 05, 2020, 08:54:07 PM
Quote from: trailer on June 05, 2020, 08:39:19 PM
Quote from: NetNitrate on June 05, 2020, 04:24:37 PM
Quote from: balladmaker on June 05, 2020, 01:19:26 PM
Quote from: trailer on June 05, 2020, 01:10:48 PM
Quote from: An Watcher on June 05, 2020, 10:19:42 AM
I'm not so sure now. Talk of him being released so is this an attempt to hold onto him.

Is he not serving a sentence for other sex offences? He's in prison in Germany was what I understood not that he'd been arrested.

It's a truly harrowing story and when I think about it I can't stop thinking about that wee girls last few hours. Afraid, alone, most probably crying looking help or her parents, not knowing what was happening. It really, really gets me.

Does not bare thinking about, harrowing stuff.  This suspect is eligible for parole from his current sentence from this Sunday onwards, can't see that happening. 

It's not beyond the realms of possibility that the child died in the holiday apartment at the hand of the intruder, and then the intruder took the body with them.  This might add some credence to the cadaver dogs picking up a scent of death in the apartment.


The dog handler - Martin Grime - who is highly accomplished and solved many cases with Cadaver dogs has stated a body needs to be in place for 2 hrs before a scent of death develops. So the above would not be possible if the parents and friends were checking every half hour as they stated. It also still does not explain the perplexing fact that scent of death was also discovered in the McCann's hire car, a car they hired after the abduction took place, which led the original detective to believe that they transported the body later and concealed it, after she died from an accident in apartment after being left alone. His theory, not mine. Hopefully the family get closure but this latest suspect seems to be similar to the pedophlle who confessed in the Jo Benet Ramsay case (where parents were also suspects), and it turned out he was someone just looking for attention. There seems to be very little hard evidence other that he boasted to a friend. The original detected also predicted a year ago that this person would be made a scapegoat to close the case.

Pretty mad rant that in fairness.
The dog man would appear to have all the credibility of a palm reader.

I'm sorry but that is simply not true. These same dogs have brought many murderers to justice, including in Ireland.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/strabane-murder-sniffer-dog-on-netflix-maddie-series-37938452.html

In America:
https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/152001/06202019---Virginia-Court-of-Appeals-Affirmed-the-Convictions-Against-Braulio-Castillo



#14
General discussion / Re: Maddie McCann
June 05, 2020, 04:52:49 PM
Quote from: Jeepers Creepers on June 05, 2020, 04:45:57 PM
Quote from: NetNitrate on June 05, 2020, 04:24:37 PM
Quote from: balladmaker on June 05, 2020, 01:19:26 PM
Quote from: trailer on June 05, 2020, 01:10:48 PM
Quote from: An Watcher on June 05, 2020, 10:19:42 AM
I'm not so sure now. Talk of him being released so is this an attempt to hold onto him.

Is he not serving a sentence for other sex offences? He's in prison in Germany was what I understood not that he'd been arrested.

It's a truly harrowing story and when I think about it I can't stop thinking about that wee girls last few hours. Afraid, alone, most probably crying looking help or her parents, not knowing what was happening. It really, really gets me.

Does not bare thinking about, harrowing stuff.  This suspect is eligible for parole from his current sentence from this Sunday onwards, can't see that happening. 

It's not beyond the realms of possibility that the child died in the holiday apartment at the hand of the intruder, and then the intruder took the body with them.  This might add some credence to the cadaver dogs picking up a scent of death in the apartment.


The dog handler - Martin Grime - who is highly accomplished and solved many cases with Cadaver dogs has stated a body needs to be in place for 2 hrs before a scent of death develops. So the above would not be possible if the parents and friends were checking every half hour as they stated. It also still does not explain the perplexing fact that scent of death was also discovered in the McCann's hire car, a car they hired after the abduction took place, which led the original detective to believe that they transported the body later and concealed it, after she died from an accident in apartment after being left alone. His theory, not mine. Hopefully the family get closure but this latest suspect seems to be similar to the pedophlle who confessed in the Jo Benet Ramsay case (where parents were also suspects), and it turned out he was someone just looking for attention. There seems to be very little hard evidence other that he boasted to a friend. The original detected also predicted a year ago that this person would be made a scapegoat to close the case.

He 'boasted to whoever' and phone records place him in the town an hour before abduction. I aint a dectective but if thats not something to go on then dont know what is. More perplexing is that he is a sex offender that lived in the area at that time. Why has has it taken this long to question/link him?

According to the original detective, he was investigated at the time by the police.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/madeleine-mccann-german-suspect-a-scapegoat-portugal-detective-goncalo-amaral-claims-maddie-podcast/0ea5ef10-8717-4cfb-adea-a1c8baf2d357
#15
General discussion / Re: Maddie McCann
June 05, 2020, 04:47:19 PM
Quote from: Main Street on June 05, 2020, 04:37:14 PM
Quote from: NetNitrate on June 05, 2020, 04:24:37 PM
Quote from: balladmaker on June 05, 2020, 01:19:26 PM
Quote from: trailer on June 05, 2020, 01:10:48 PM
Quote from: An Watcher on June 05, 2020, 10:19:42 AM
I'm not so sure now. Talk of him being released so is this an attempt to hold onto him.

Is he not serving a sentence for other sex offences? He's in prison in Germany was what I understood not that he'd been arrested.

It's a truly harrowing story and when I think about it I can't stop thinking about that wee girls last few hours. Afraid, alone, most probably crying looking help or her parents, not knowing what was happening. It really, really gets me.

Does not bare thinking about, harrowing stuff.  This suspect is eligible for parole from his current sentence from this Sunday onwards, can't see that happening. 

It's not beyond the realms of possibility that the child died in the holiday apartment at the hand of the intruder, and then the intruder took the body with them.  This might add some credence to the cadaver dogs picking up a scent of death in the apartment.


The dog handler - Martin Grime - who is highly accomplished and solved many cases with Cadaver dogs has stated a body needs to be in place for 2 hrs before a scent of death develops. So the above would not be possible if the parents and friends were checking every half hour as they stated. It also still does not explain the perplexing fact that scent of death was also discovered in the McCann's hire car, a car they hired after the abduction took place, which led the original detective to believe that they transported the body later and concealed it, after she died from an accident in apartment after being left alone. His theory, not mine. Hopefully the family get closure but this latest suspect seems to be similar to the pedophlle who confessed in the Jo Benet Ramsay case (where parents were also suspects), and it turned out he was someone just looking for attention. There seems to be very little hard evidence other that he boasted to a friend. The original detected also predicted a year ago that this person would be made a scapegoat to close the case.

The only perplexing thing is that  this nonsense is repeated  year in year out. That car was rented some 24 days after Madddie was abducted, cue conspiracy theorists  doing gymastics to explain that one.

How about the obvious simple explanation that the cadaver sniffer dogs got it wrong,  such dogs get it wrong most of the time.


Yes, they could have got it wrong. However, they don't get it wrong most of the time. They have a 90%+ accuracy. And there were two dogs. One detected scent, then the second recovered blood samples where the scent was found, which proved the dogs was onto something. The DNA proved inconclusive - some say because of poor testing methods from a lab that is now closed down. This is not nonsense. It is in the police files. And I did point out the car was rented afterwards, which is why I mentioned what the police detectives theory was.