NJS

I know there are some human rights issues in Cuba but I also know that Cuba compares favourably with the other "beacons of democracy" (US Style) in the region in terms of education and healthcare despite 50 years of a "cold war" attitude by the Yanks. I remember admiring Clinton as a decent liberal in his early days before seeing him discussing Cuba in the same nasty, petty terms that Reagan and Bush had.

Sage must be fairly well off. I can remember one of the founders being linked with a takeover a while back. It's all balls anyway. There was talk of him buying out FF for about £25m before Ashley appeared - a long way from £250m

Don't think this is allowed under EU law - the backing via the treasury was given temporary approval but state guaranteed banks are on dodgy ground.

With NR effectively gone are there any businesses left in the NE with a spare £250m between them? Thought not.

When it comes to art in general I'm a philistine but I do find it striking and worthy of landmark status.

My Dad and my uncles certainly did go to both - this was up until the early 70s. On the question I still consider SAFC to be the enemy - I get really wound up at derbies but this is contrasted by the fact I do have a few SAFC fans as mates. I certainly do "hate" them in the football sense a lot more than anyone else. I think this is coming from a mixed town (S. Shields) and growing up seeing both sets of fans around (with the usual sprinkling of glory hunting scum thrown in).

Signing Woodgate could have been the making of him but left to learn on his own I don't see him becoming that good.

White/geordie Titus - uses the geordie card to get away with murder. Like Titus there is some talent there but I always find myself waiting for the train crashes to happen - and they do.

Clutching at straws but I hope this two week "break" will somehow change things - at least let keegan see them more on a daily basis to get a feel for who should and shouldn't play and how to get the best out of them.

Obviously we are shit but what compounds the crime is that Villa are 5th in the "best league in the world". Allardyce should be shot.

What I find ironic is how much aligned with your views on justice sharia law is. predictable response of the do gooder type. Advocating shooting some scumbag who is a rapist, child killer or terrorist [most of who seem to be muslims these days unless I'm very much mistaken] means someone is aligned with Sharia Law is it ? Absolutely - common theme: barbaric thirst for revenge. What is the difference between your enthusiasm for the death penalty and corporal punishment and the tenets of Sharia? Take away the foreign element and the cores are identical. not revenge. How can it be revenge when you don't know the victim. Believe it or not, its because I see it as justice, a deterrent, making certain they won't do it again to someone else and so ensuring that some do-gooder won't in future get them released. As I said, typical response really. What do you think of my comment that the one way to ensure Sharia Law will come here is to continue allowing people into the country who would like to implement it, as you didn't clip it ? Or do you think they will have an attack of conscience or something ? Justice/revenge its all semantics - boils down to the same thing. Do you honestly think someone as fucked up as the bloke who raped the dying/dead model would stop and think about a deterrent? I abhor all religious bollocks - I wouldn't necessarily oppose muslim immigration but what I would do is completely disestablish the state then we could more easily laugh at fuckwits like Williams and the other apologits for judaism,islam and christianity - they have no place in politics. Just because I'm a "do gooder" doen't mean I have any respect for the nastier sides of multiculturism like sharia.

What I find ironic is how much aligned with your views on justice sharia law is. predictable response of the do gooder type. Advocating shooting some scumbag who is a rapist, child killer or terrorist [most of who seem to be muslims these days unless I'm very much mistaken] means someone is aligned with Sharia Law is it ? Absolutely - common theme: barbaric thirst for revenge. What is the difference between your enthusiasm for the death penalty and corporal punishment and the tenets of Sharia? Take away the foreign element and the cores are identical.

Sunderland's recent history suggest that if they were doing well, the answer is quite a few.

His actual motive is something more sinister than being PC imo. He mentioned "consience" in the context of believers being able to "opt out" of laws which went against their creed. I think he wants this to be accepted so him and the other fuckwits can express their bigotry for example on gay adoption which they tried last year without falling foul of the law. On the other hand I'm happy for the idiot to spout crap as its another nail in coffin of organised religion.

I think football has exploded at a grass roots level in the USA but I'm not sure how much the WC triggered that.

This is where the mentality is fundamentally different and thats what I was getting at. I support NUFC. I don't care where any of the players come from. I also don't care who geordie or ex-Newcastle or English players play for. Club before players, club before country, players are nothing in comparison - this is by and large the way English and European football fans think. If that means there is a culture clash then I accept that but I don't want to see us pander to what I think is alien.

Every epic journey is made up of many small steps. Man who goes to bed with itchy hole wakes up with smelly finger. Pretty sure that is un-islamic. Depends which hand he uses.

What I find ironic is how much aligned with your views on justice sharia law is.

NFL is a whole different game - franchises are moved at will and its completely setup for TV - there is no travelling support. I'd also say that people who went to the NFL game at wembley would be "sky boy" type sports fans - completely at home with the franchise mentality and that of picking a random team in another continent to "support". If someone in Singapore wants to pay to watch games on TV I have no objection - but if they want to prevent my "right" to see my team play if I so choose then they can fuck off. I say all this knowing I would probably be daft enough to go to a game there.

Setting aside English fans some of whom do have a thing about not missing games, this is a complete fucking joke. Man U and Liverpool games would get high crowds - as for the rest - can you imagine Fulham Vs Blackburn played in Singapore? - absolutely no crowd whatsoever. I would quite seriously be happy to see the people whose idea this is being shot.

The excuses are that his mother and sister live in London, he must be gutted that they don't love him enough to move to Newcastle. This really pisses me off - as I said about Nobby wanting to move, pandering to families who will earn next to nothing compared to footballers is a shit excuse. He's what 22 or 23? how many other young men "need" to have their monther and sister with them? If they have sparking careers as city traders then fair enough they have to live in london (yeah, right) but WTF has that got to do with him? Also would it prevent him going to Madrid or Milan? If he wants to leve then fair enough - fuck off - but don't give me this family shit.

I'd agree as a teaching tool for a newbie but I wouldn't want anyone who was serious to consider Access as a "professional" choice in terms of career. Even then SQL tools create the basic queries when you open a table or create views which have that drag and drop functionality you mentioned.

Of course. Major series I want to see I download but I think Sky One (and Two) hit a gap in my casual viewing with things like SG-1 and The Simpsons that I'd miss.

Sky HD + multiroom = £60 Virgin XL phone + 20Mb = £37 If Virgin regained Sky One I'd probably get their TV

Sorry I don't know any sites but my advice would be forget Access - you can get desktop SQL servers from MS which would be infinitely better for you to learn in the long run.