LongTimeLurker

Time will tell. I still have a hard time believing this could ever get through a junior club's AGM. Kelty are a relatively recently formed club that weren't around when today's OAP generation were children back in the 1950s, so it might be easier for them.

The second one to go public about the possibility is Bo'ness United on their website. http://www.bonessunited.co.uk/bu-considering-move-seniors/ http://www.bonessunited.co.uk/the-future-is-bright/ ...Bo’ness United want to be part of the pyramid, Scottish football is evolving and we truly believe that there will be significant changes. We want to be at the forefront of change whether that be playing in the East of Scotland League, The Lowland league or with the Juniors if they become part of a revised pyramid that encompasses all clubs. There are big decisions to be made for us as a club, and any decisions about moving will be voted on accordingly.We will assess as a club what opportunities are available which will benefit both the club and the community. We will update supporters when information is available... Someone else on the third. Have been told who it is, but they should be the ones to spill the beans rather than some random anonymous poster on a website passing on third hand info.

The word on here previously has been that three juniors clubs have been looking at EoS entry:

Should be Hamilton Academical as well.

That was basically what the uncle got executed for, so after the related purges that scenario is probably a lot more difficult now.

The combined UKIP and Tory vote in Stoke was 49%. Looks like Labour managed to hold because there was no third party squeeze more than any huge enthusiasm for their candidate. I find it a bit bizarre that UKIP can still get 25% of the vote with a hard Brexit unfolding.

They definitely seemed to home in on some of the most tedious parts of the book and in some cases such as Brienne's characer even amplify them. Overall though I think they have done a reasonable job, because otherwise GoT wouldn't have such huge ratings. Think their biggest mistakes were not including more of the complexity in the book about Dorne as that could have made the Mereen angle less boring and would have placed less emphasis on the Sand Snakes. Also think they should have stuck closer to the book with what happened to Sansa in the later seasons as the change they made in that regard didn't really make sense in terms of the overall plot.

Here's one I forgot about that anybody that's taken the train from Glasgow to Aberdeen will have visited (albeit briefly): It's called Moncreiffe island apparently.

Debateable how much difference that will make given shale gas from fracking is what has undercut coal economically. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161007105548.htm Much the same happened in the UK when North Sea gas came on stream. There's still plenty of coal underground in Scotland but the economics of going after it became unfavourable for similar reasons even before we get into Maggie T's antics.

Clyde: Bute, Arran, Cumbrae Hebrides: Skye Orkney: Shetland: Mainland, Trondra, West Burra, East Burra, Muckle Roe, Yell, Unst

Definitely sounds a lot more east coast in that second clip. Don't think he's saying anything that earth shattering in terms of saying something that hasn't already been said by other better known commentators like Michael Moore, so not sure what Tucker Carlson's interest in it was beyond a leftie goes off message sort of angle.

...and he didn't bottle it over the Danzig corridor once it had become abundantly clear to all that Hitler's word (with the full annexation of what is now the Czech Republic) couldn't be trusted. The Sudeten Germans had a reasonable case from a Wilsonian self-determination sort of standpoint as there was a double standard on how boundaries had been drawn after the Treaty of Versailles, so the exact grounds for fighting a war over that and getting the population fully behind it in a western democracy like the UK or France would have been tricky to say the least.

The entry ban is lunatic kneejerk populism, as is the wall with Mexico, but it's difficult to argue with him on the idea that the USA has had a long line of ruthless killers in the Oval office. Richard Nixon and the madman theory of war, dropping the first nuclear bomb on a large Japanese city like Nagasaki rather than on an uninhabited mountain area to demonstrate its power, and the list goes on and on.

There was a poll that suggested a Yes majority amongst Rangers supporters. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/old-firm-united-both-celtic-3598872 The poll by Panelbase looked at voting intentions among the support of Scotland’s top clubs for the first time. Although the results are not scientific, the snapshot suggests that 48 per cent of Celtic fans will vote Yes, compared with 40 per cent planning to vote No. The rest are apparently undecided. Among Rangers fans, support for independence was placed at 45 per cent – with 41 per cent likely to vote No. Suspect the numbers would be heavily skewed towards No amongst Ibrox regulars as opposed to armchair followers.

Think what people are pointing out is that there is a bit of a double standard involved in only criticizing Trump for these kind of moves when the United States and other western states have been doing some morally questionable things for a long time. Trump has taken the unsavoury sentiments that have been pandered to by a lot of politicians on the supposed left as well as on the right (e.g. Gordon Brown, "British jobs for British workers") and pushed it towards its logical conclusion. Hopefully, Slavoj Zizek is correct in seeing this as a way to provoke the backlash that is needed to push things in a better direction:

The Canadian media seems to be reporting now that at least one of the suspects is from Morocco originally. Think people were a wee bit too eager to instantly blame Trump for this. It's very unusual for Canadians to do anything more extreme than getting into a fight during an ice hockey game, so it seemed a bit far-fetched to me that Benoit and Manon suddenly flipped their lid at Tim Hortons after listening to a Trump speech and decided to go on the rampage given a huge portion of the population in Quebec City is monolingual francophone. There would normally need to be a biker gang angle involved for anything like that to happen in Quebec involving people that are Quebecois going back a few generations. http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1013833/attentat-mosquee-quebec-etudiants-universite-laval

He has a Republican majority in Congress and is about to nominate a supreme court judge, so those are weaker than they would normally be even without all the moves over the years that have increased executive powers, so interesting times ahead. He's given people a month to come up with a plan to go after ISIS, so suspect there will be some pyrotechnics in Syria and Iraq in the not too distant future. On balance though he is probably less likely to launch a major war than Hilary Clinton would have been as he doesn't have a neo-con type of agenda but more of an isolationist America First one.

Grangemouth seemed to be ruled out above. Beyond that I'll be interested to see what it would be as Little Kerse seemed to drop completely off the radar screen.

After today's result another season in the LL is looking exceedingly likely, because Spartans now have the edge in terms of challenging EK and it's difficult to see EK dropping enough points to blow a six point lead with two games in hand with ten games to go given a lot of those games will be against teams from the bottom half of the table. Can't see the Shire moving away from the immediate Falkirk area as that could be a death sentence if support drifts away with the parachute payment dropping down to zero over the next two years, so the options would be Camelon (waterlogged way too often because of the canal), Falkirk (already have Stirling Uni and must cost quite a bit) and at a stretch Bo'ness (Newtown Park is run by a trust for the Bo'ness community)? My guess would be that you stay put, but need to pretend otherwise sometimes to try to gain some leverage a bit like the saga with Clyde in Cumbernauld.

Hindsight is 20/20. Beyond what German politicians like Papen thought would happen internally when he became Chancellor in 1933, Chamberlain thought appeasement could work as late as 1938 and Stalin signed up to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact because people assumed all the crazy stuff about lebensraum wasn't really on the agenda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum At the moment, most people seem to assume Trump isn't actually mental enough to try to deport over 11 million people given the level of disruption that would be involved in trying to achieve it.

Had to apply online for a travel authorization to the US a few weeks back and one of the questions was whether I had visited these countries in recent years, so citizens of these countries were no doubt being already having significant problems with US visas. Also worth noting that Obama wasn't shy compared to his predecessors about constructing fences along the border with Mexico and deporting people back to there, so Donald Trump is arguably just ramping up and bringing out into the open stuff that was already quietly happening at this point. The concern that people have though is what he does with these dangerously expanded executive powers over the next four years? Alex Jones and co may yet get to see something somewhat similar to their much dreaded "FEMA camps" in action and the irony is that while they spouted paranoid drivel for years when other presidents were in charge that were never in the least bit likely to do anything like that, they are now cheerleading the guy who just might given the deportation of 11 million plus illegal immigrants is very much on his agenda. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/FEMA_concentration_camps

Agree with where you are going with that in terms of there being an obvious double standard, but would question the numbers given what happened to US forces in places like Falluja and during the whole "Blackhawk down" incident in Mogadishu.

A bit like Adolf H in the 1930s there were people who assumed he didn't actually mean it and would be more moderate once he got into office. So far he has been keeping his campaign promises to the letter and the problem is that the executive power of the US presidency has been expanded considerably in recent decades, so the checks and balances are not as strong as they used to be.

Their problem is that they didn't really believe in devolution in the first place, since they were the party of post-war nationalization that strengthened the British dimesion and weakened Scottish adminstrative autonomy, so when they had the chance to define the new status quo in coalition with the Lib Dems they had no idea what to do with the new parliament and the levers of power they had been handed, because they instinctively treated it as a slightly souped up local council rather than a national parliament and that wasn't what Yes Yes voters thought they had voted for.

If that format worked, the Austrians would still be doing it. The big problem is that teams at the bottom of the first group of 8 and the top of the third group of 8 wind up playing a lot of games that are largely meaningless to them, but very important to their opponents. Think the format to watch, because Doncaster has commented on it as being something he is paying attention to, is the new Danish 14 team top flight approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016–17_Danish_Superliga as that minimises the danger of clubs like Hibs, Hearts and Dundee United getting relegated, but should still give them four Old Firm games. That would probably mean 14-10-18 and they could then push to add two colt teams to make it 14-10-10-10.