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Listed below are comments made by Chattermac between Tuesday, 9th June 2009 and Wednesday, 25th November 2009.

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Getting on with it 4:52pm on 25 Nov 2009 Further to my hushed-up URL pointing to the hushed-up McCrone Report of '75, google "The First McCrone report" to get the same PDF.
Please circulate widely, everyone in Scotland should have a neb at this, best to wind down and pour a stiff dram before reading..
Getting on with it 3:09pm on 25 Nov 2009 Would agree that any extra powers are good for Scotland, so why the delay and not included in the Queen's speech of a few days ago?
This has the pawmarks of New Labour's incompetent election strategists, electoral blackmail, the secret weapon, and about as useful as Trident at that..
The above Calman inspired electoral wheeze reminds me that it is time for a visit to the hushed up McCrone Report of 1975 -
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A timely reminder of just how desperate Labour politicians can become as their beloved union approaches it final breath..
Religious pitch to US audience 5:28pm on 20 Aug 2009 Compassionate release for Megrahi was the right decision by a focused and compassionate Kenny MacAskill, accurately reflecting the feelings of the majority of Scots.
On the wider issue of what actually happened to the Pan Am flight listen to Tam Dalyell on Radio Scotland's Newsweek Scotland programme - interview starts around 10 mins into BBC iPlayer recording.
As Dalyell suggests - the US Government, for all their posturing on the prisoner release issue, are lying to their own people.
I'm putting you on hold 4:56pm on 17 Aug 2009 Please, don't get me started on BT, oh too late.. BT are a broken company, it is impossible to find anyone who really cares, suspect that even the well protected (from customers) upper management don't. Had to stump up dosh I did not owe to avoid going on a black list.
Now happily connecting with another provider, yet BT have the audacity to slip notes through my door saying "We have changed.., come back please.."
Shipyard closure threat 1:06pm on 01 Jul 2009 A visit to Ulsteinvik in Norway would show our business innovators and policy making movers and shakers what can be done outwith the gnawing dependency culture that is continued reliance on defence work in support of a spent (in more ways than one) empire.
In a harbour on a small island far from Oslo, Bergen & Stavanger - all aspects of commercial ship construction are there to be seen, including the world HQ of Roll Royce Marine, which encompasses companies like Bergen Diesel(engines)and the Edinburgh innovators, Brown Brothers (stabilisers).
It really does show what independent states of approximately 5 million folk can get up to when given their head and full access to their natural resources, and intellectual assets of course. I think you should take a look Douglas.
Plugged in to green targets 3:31pm on 30 Jun 2009 "Splash and Dash" sounds suspiciously like the average politician's approach to anything requiring some scientific analysis - who said slap-dash.. If the undergrounding of cables at Drumochter (and elsewhere in Scotland)will be costly then so be it, we (and our offspring) are all in this for the the long pull, even though big business and some politicians appear not to be..
"Peak-lopping" is another good Power Engineering term which I haven't used for 30 years, sorry about that..
Newsnight neologisms needed 9:08pm on 09 Jun 2009 memeblog - this is a blog that is very author oriented and is exclusively about self promotion. Comes from the image of a blogger furiously tapping in me me me me me me....

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