NJS

???? Even in the UK the impact is tangible and wrong imo - elsewhere it's definitely worrying. Perhaps you could say what tangible impact religion has. I can't really prove the lack of impact (like we can't prove the lack of god ) I know Songs of Praise is annoying on a Sunday night. The number of faith schools - including the whackier recent academies thanks to Blair - this also includes creationist teaching - curriculum or not. The Bishops in the lords and also in recent years consultations/exceptions made for Catholics on adoption.

???? Even in the UK the impact is tangible and wrong imo - elsewhere it's definitely worrying.

I think he was on Fox last week with O'Reilly - the description I read just said O'reilly ended up shouting over him about "no morality without God".

Speaking personally they condense and illustrate the evidence and arguments. I found Hitchens' book to be the best as I found his widespread intellectualism and occasional nastiness refreshing.

Incidentally I bought The Greatest Show on Earth on Saturday but haven't started it yet. I did however read one of the appendices where he quotes the poll that 39% of Yanks and just as worryingly 22% of people in the UK agree with "the world was created as is within the last 10000 years" and he also mentioned a UK poll where 19% of people defined a month as "the time taken for the earth to go around the sun". Now I perfectly understand its possible to dislike science in school to a large degree but that later one is fucking incredibly worrying imo.

I find it depends on the subject - if its a "how can you be so stupid as to believe in fairies" then it can look "strident" but given his background I think if someone says that evolution is a lie then they deserve abuse. On the root of all evil in particular people criticised him for his conversation with Ted Haggard but the idiot was in full on "we are not descended from monkeys" mode.

Born in the early 70s but an Everton fan smacks to me of glory-hunting the Kendall years. Everton and Villa are the two sets if fans I realy despise for the use of "You've never won fuck all" - they've both only won 3 or 4 more trophies than us but act like its a Man U Vs Boro type of count - it's fucking not.

It's history and politics as well but when people believe in a divine right to land, it's a bad starting place. A normal stratgey would be to involve discussion of the history and suggest power sharing - and yes within a secular framework - but neither side would contemplate that which is why they are fucked.

They keep mentioning "American backing" but that's as far as it goes - it does seem strange that if they were well loaded they would risk losing the whole deal for a measly £10m or so which is why I think it's bollocks and he is stretching himself thus far. I suppose Shearer being on board with probable demands/conditions does however suggest he has some plan for January at least.

Get this shit off the football forum

Kills me to say it but Stevie's right - Man Utd are the best. (Man Utd being the best, not Stevie being right is what kills me )

Up till now I'ved used WinDVD (upto version 9) to play DVDs and other viseo files but I've just upgraded to a Blu-ray drive and so I'm looking for a Blu-Ray player. The problem is the new version of WinDVD (2010) doesn't support playing files from network shares which makes it a non-starter. Can anyone recommend anything?

Even the one they made up that did well (Mormonism) is Jesus based. I've read some stuff that suggests the religiosity goes back to the pilgrims being persecuted fundamentalists but that can't explain it all as lots of immigrants came for other reasons (though Irish, Italian, Polish and Mexican immigration doesn't help from a Catholic pov) I've also read that the existence of the secular constitutional clauses which as outsiders we all admire have actually made it easier for insanity to propogate unlike Europe where notional state religions are both more universal but at the same time relaxed.

It works both ways - I can remember when I started work people found the idea of travelling around England to watch football absolutely amazing as quite a few of them had either never been out of the NE or maybe had been to London once on holiday. Of course for all our boasting of passport holders compared with the US, how many have only been to Spain?

There is a culture difference - it would be hard to imagine a British newscaster doing an opinion piece to camera as they do in the states. Those I find fair enough even if they are bat shit crazy but as mentioned actually reporting stuff you've arranged as spontaneous for News purposes is dodgy.

Last time I was in the US we were regularly presumed to be Scandanavian or German.

I met an American once who was telling me how much he'd impressed on his kids the need for travel to broaden the mind (fair enough) which he said he'd decided after one two week trip to Europe when he was a student. I guess that means my two one week trips to the US mean I can tick that box as done.

I think people who call Obama a Communist or Nazi (or both at the same time) can be designated as stupid pretty fairly imo.

I would also add that Keegan's take was that even knowing the size of the squad, he considered Gonzalez not good enough and a waste of time - we also know the idiots didn't even expect him to play in the first team by their evidence.

Taken in isolation that's a fair enough take - it sounds OTT to walk out. I think now people accept that that was either the final straw or a convenient excuse depending on your pov.

I'm on the one hand happy that Moat hasn't blabbed about his plans as other so called bidders have but obviously that leaves him open to the kind of "he's struggling for money" speculation we are seeing. Obviously the dream is that he has been playing hard ball to screw Ashley before revealing mega-backing but that's probably too much to ask for.

It's a bit iffy as Shields has always tried to prevent its publication. However this is nowhere near as disturbing in my opinion as those toddler beauty pageants they have in the US,

I love this idea that gaining favour with these Agents was worth the Gonzales deal/pissing KK off. First of all undefined "youngsters" from SA who are any good would be more likely to go elsewhere and secondly as has been said this was the culmination of a transfer window which had left the squad criminally weak - as proven by its relegation (when combining the weakness with a fuckwit manager). I would also now like to have a look at what agents were used on the other deals and what their links with Jiminez and Vetere are.

When people suggest that there are better candidates than Shearer as manager and then name these people, none of them are anywhere near as good as Keegan.

Saw one the other day where he (Beck) was lamenting the latest polls which show an increase in "non-religous" people in the US. Basically all of the US's problems were down to these Godless bastards. I honestly thought it would be impossible for anyone to watch it and not laugh at how stupid he sounds but then realised how many think the same.