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Listed below are comments made by GAberdeen between Saturday, 28th November 2009 and Tuesday, 1st December 2009 (16 Hours Ago) .

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Soft landing 10:09pm on 01 Dec 2009 #90 Online Ed

That actually makes a lot of sense and when I heard that Mike Russel was getting a shuffle up to the top table I knew it was planned.

Mike was Salmonds big opponent for the party leadership a few years back - he's a remarkably smart and capable man. He was given the independence / constitution brief a few years ago by salmond - a sort of do or die - and really - I think no-one was better prepared to construct that document better than Mike.

Now that the jobs done, as you say - his tenacity and force of character been given Purcell and his cronies to deal with. Russel is a heavyweight by holyrood standards - I don't see much of anything getting by him on the run up to the referendum / election - which is exacttly the strategy you'll see from now until hustings.
Soft landing 9:55pm on 01 Dec 2009 On Nuclear Weapons;

The single greatest evil we as a race have ever committed.

I care not for the argument of some that Japan deserved it, or it somehow saved lives in the long run. I've seen the extent to which the Hiroshima bomb left its impression on Japan and it's people.

It was slaughter, and not even clean slaughter. Children cooked alive in thier beds, Men and women disintegrating into dust - and why? and for what? Revenge? Scientific Curiosity? Someone tell me - but don't justify it by saying it saved lives.

War is War - The Japanese attacked a military installation at the height of diplomtic tensions with America. What possible reason would a country have to drop atomic bombs on civilian cities - and then have the audacity to tell the world they deserved it?

America is the only country who stands out as evil and self centred enough to justify the murderous, brutal way that it carried out those attacks, and then for decades after refuse to ackowledge it as an act of pure, unadulterated evil.
Soft landing 9:42pm on 01 Dec 2009 I see call me Dave has been hitting the headlines.

He'd chose to scale back health and safety practices at work - because the Mail ran a few stories about kids not being allowed to use conkers and cancelling school trips because of bad weather.

Is this man for real? Are any of the HYS posters who are complaining so bitterly about this for real either? Health and Safety isn't the culture creating jobsworths - it's local authorities and overzealous parents.

I mean seriously... The legislation is there to be applied - but how it's applied is left to the discretion of the enforcers.

We all know how toilet paper works, does David Cameron propose to create a government body that can advise us how to do it properly - in case we don't understand it ourselves?

Hundreds of ordinary people - some I knew personally - have died in disasters like the Alexander Keilland, the Piper Alpha and more recently the Bond helicopter crash, each snuffing out the lives of people that David Cameron, with his priviliged life would never deign to meet.

No, this man is a prize fool... with an attitude like his, when the Tory's get in - I'll give the union a month.
Talking drink 07:10am on 30 Nov 2009 365#

Quim?
Talking drink 07:09am on 30 Nov 2009 #383

You obviously have no idea what lies in that body of water.

http://www.acorn-ps.com/web/page/oilgas/nsfields/nnsmap.htm

From the Judy, Joanne and Jade (philips condensate fields and south) they send gas and condensate through the CATS pipelines to Seal Sands Terminal in Middlesborough. They are also tied to the Britannia (one of the largest gas condensate feils in the UK) some 100 miles north.

Can you see my concern yet?
Talking drink 10:53pm on 29 Nov 2009 #373

if the Tories are serious about treating Scotland with respect they'll pick a Scottish secretary from whichever party forms the Holyrood government. Then it would really be Scotland's voice at Westminster rather than Westminsters voice in Scotland.

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That is a wonderful idea. I do not think the Tory party are pragmatic enough to agree to that though. Most likely we'll see a return to the bad old Thatcher years. Cameron has no intention of leaving Scotland alone. He couldn't keep his trap shut regarding al-Megrahi & George Osbourne isn't up in Aberdeen every 3 months for the good of his health.

They plan on doing a number on us just the same as Bliar did when he stole 60000 miles of Scotlands waters and gave it to England.
Talking drink 10:19pm on 29 Nov 2009 #369

Jim Murphy IS a disgrace to Scotland. He's little more than a mongrel pup being ordered to heel, attack and defend his benefactor - the Union.

This man is the epitome of the treacherous swine who sold our kin and country into bondage with the English all those years ago. To call the SNP or anyone who favours giving Scotland back it's pride unpatriotic is a cheap, baseless remark by a cheap and useless politican.

The man will stoop lower than a rat to prevent Scotland realising it's destiny - to stop us all from breaking free of the overbearing, anonymous influence of arrogant, self important and concieted miscreants. Those cheats and swindlers, who have been lying you, your parents and your grandparents your entire lives - teaching you nothing about your country - your heritage or your rights to live a free men and women in a country that is free to make it's own choices.
Talking drink 9:56pm on 29 Nov 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8384927.stm

Malcolm Chisholm... The last decent Labour MSP?

Between him taking a non political standpoint with al-Megrahi and a non political standpoint with the Minimum pricing... I think our biggest threat come the Holyrood election is if the rest of the Labour Party take a leave out of his book.

A thoroughly respectable man who clearly thinks before he acts.
Talking drink 1:26pm on 29 Nov 2009 #342

If that article is true, it means that there is unequivocal proof that the UK and the USA are in direct violation of the nuclear non proliferation treaty which regards the transfer of nuclear materials or weapons - even between states who possess the technology - as a breach of the NPT agreement.

I expect nothing to happen with regards to this, as Israel has secretly possessed nuclear weapons for almost 20 years - yet the UN and NATO have never even censured Israel for this - let alone passed sanctions as punitive measures.

Compare this with the treatment of Aparthide South Africa that had at least 5 Nuclear warheads during the 80's and you will see how hypocrisy and double standards apply to everything the UK and the US are party to.
Talking drink 8:36pm on 28 Nov 2009 I love this poem!

"The Unionists" by Matt O'Neill

Are you the man ah'm lookin' for - the proud, unconquered Scot?
The man who hauds his heid up high regaredless o' his lot?
D' ye believe in "Wha daur mess wi' me?" The Declaration o' Arbroath?
If ye'r country wis in danger, wid ye rise tae swear that Oath?

Does ye'r heart fair swell wi' pride when the piper fill the bag,
or when ye see the Saltire or the Lion Rampant flag?
Dae ye raide a glass in honour tae oor heroes o' the past
who fought tae win oor liberty an' defend it tae the last?

If ye answer "Aye" tae aw these things, ye might jist be the man -
but dae ye know abbot oor history since the Union began?
There's maybe things ye dinnae know that should be brought tae mind;
some pointed facts - the battleaxe - tae cut the ties that bind.

For the past three-hundred years we've aw been subject tae the south;
cosseted an' humoured, tricked along by slight o' mouth.
Noo we're Anglicised, institutionalised, absorbed intae their state -
did ye never wonder why that is? Did we really earn this fate?

The truth is aye, it's aw oor fault, we did it tae oorsel's.
We didnae pay attention while the fly-men wove their spells.
We've lost oor independence, oor honour an' oor pride,
by handin' power tae Unionists who court the ither side.

For centuries the English tried tae drive us tae defeat;
they won some an' they lost some - but they never had us beat.
Then the Union took oor rights away, wi' the help o' traitor -Scots,
an' the Unionists have held us since while London calls the shots.

For years oor Scottish history wis "discouraged" in oor schools -
a policy o' dumbin'-doon tae turn us intae fools.
The teachers taught o' Hastings, King John n' Runnymeade,
while oor weak-kneed Scottish Unionists thought no' tae intercede.

When Thatcher harried Scotland, her war went unopposed;
oor Unionists, they aw stood back while industry wis closed.T
hey muttered fae the shadows, but widnae brave the light,
their jobs were too important tae be riskin' in a fight.

How can they be proud Scots when England tells them how tae act?
Ye cannae serve two masters - it's a plain an' simple fact.
Oor parliament in Holyrood wis wrung fae them through fear -
the fear that we wid break away - wi' Independence near.

When the Unionists rule in Holyrood, they're no' concerned wi' you;
they make it nae mair than a branch o' the Westminster HQ.
Aye, it's business there as usual - busy arguin' the toss -
but when somethin' major comes along, they check it wi' the boss.

The lies they've spread, the fear they've bred, tae keep the Union hail;
like border guards an' passports - lies that still prevail.
They lie, come Independence, we'll be livin' hand-tae-mouth,
an' oor kin will be like foreigners if they're livin' in the south.

They'll smile at ye sincerely, they'll gie ye'r haun a shake,
they'll warn that Independence could be Scotland's big mistake.
But jist remember how they think, the surest antidote -
it's England before Scotland, an' themsel's that they promote.

There's nae end tae their treachery, nae end tae their lies,
nae end tae the depths they'll stoop tae keep their Union ties.
They'll sell themsel's for coppers, an' their nation cheaper still,
they'll infect ye wi' their cowardice an' shackle ye'r free-will.

So when next time ye go tae vote, remember who tae blame,
the Unionists are waitin' for ye, confident ye're tame.
Remember that ye're jist a pawn in their bogus bon accord;
so become the proudest Scotsman - an' put them tae the sword!

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