daisycutter

after all this time......still clear as mud surely there has been enough time to establish a yes/no and if necessary to bring about legislative change easy to understand why the public gets so exasperated and why asada/wada's modus operandi gets criticised sometimes it just seems to be like a kindergarden. danks still hasn't been interviewed or submitted a statement there is an obvious course of action being spelt out here for future miscreants to avoid sanction, virtually a roadmap

you don't need to scrap the academies. they are vital in developing a new market in rugby (league and union) territory you could just make them run and financed by the afl, then available to all

catastrophic, eh? surely we could all survive a minor improvement with more relevance

is it over yet?

too hard, ht

i reckon there's at least half a dozen on the cusp of taking a big step up (which is a good sign) but i'm not going to stick my neck out and say who. i don't care, just happy for once there is a good choice of talent i'll be happy if/when half of them do have a breakout year the best part is that we now a good number of genuine (i think) contenders and choice i might be deluding myself and getting a dose of pre-season euphoria but i'm feeling good that we are finally building something

and i'v never ever heard the crowd sing the second verse so let's stop all nonsense talk about the second verse - it's a non issue - either way

14th includes academy players if you include academy players in draft our first pick won't be 3. will be 5 or 6

according to the hun today, potential witnesses such as alavi, dank etc will not be giving evidence if so, this is a pity and a lost opportunity. whether they would have told the truth, refused to answer certain questions on the the grounds of self-incrimination or just perjured themselves we will never know (assuming hun article is accurate) also claims essendon were assured (by afl) that the afl has made a submission to wada that if players were found guilty they shouldn't have to lose any game time because of time delays and some self imposed stand downs. can the afl really make any assurances? and why would essendon believe them?

according to our countdown maestro, on monday

tend to agree although i'd say grossly over-rated rather than useless, at least as a means to grade players

probably not, but then toumpas wasn't going to be available at 4 either

omac up forward wouldn't surprise me

and wiedeman, curnow at 20, 22

i suspect you are right and she brings out her phantom draft a few days before the draft when she's collected all the clubs last minute leaks, so naturally gets pretty close (a la toumpas couple of years ago) i'd be more impressed if her last phantom draft was say 2 weeks before draft

uh oh! "godwins law" or "reductio ad hitlerum" take your pick

let's have a short break from all this ot stuff for your edification......... A guy enters a bar carrying an alligator. Says to the patrons, "Here’s a deal. I'll open this alligator's mouth and place my genitals inside. The gator will close his mouth for one minute, then open it, and I'll remove my unit unscathed. If it works, everyone buys me drinks." The crowd agrees. The guy drops his pants and puts his privates in the gator's mouth. Gator closes mouth. After a minute, the guy grabs a beer bottle and bangs the gator on the top of its head. The gator opens wide, and he removes his genitals unscathed. Everyone buys him drinks. Then he says: "I'll pay anyone $100 who's willing to give it a try." After a while, a hand goes up in the back of the bar. It's a woman. "I'll give it a try," she says, "but you have to promise not to hit me on the head with the beer bottle."

A guy has a talking dog. He brings it to a talent scout. "This dog can speak English," he claims to the unimpressed agent. "Okay, Sport," the guys says to the dog, "what’s on the top of a house?" "Roof!" the dog replies. "Oh, come on..." the talent agent responds. "All dogs go ‘roof’." "No, wait," the guy says. He asks the dog "what does sandpaper feel like?" "Rough!" the dog answers. The talent agent gives a condescending blank stare. He is losing his patience. "No, hang on," the guy says. "This one will amaze you. " He turns and asks the dog: "Who, in your opinion, was the greatest baseball player of all time?" "Ruth!" goes the dog. And the talent scout, having seen enough, boots them out of his office onto the street. And the dog turns to the guy and says "Maybe I shoulda said DiMaggio?"

The term "discussing on its merits" is a common enough term and you knew exactly what i meant and that is what i said was disingenuous however.....i concede that the term "merits" in the context of a discussion on terrorism was inappropriate, even though there was no intention of using that word in one of its other meanings. merit [mer-it] Spell Syllables Synonyms Examples Word Origin noun1. claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth. 2. something that deserves or justifies a reward or commendation; acommendable quality, act, etc.: The book's only merit is its sincerity. 3. merits, the inherent rights and wrongs of a matter, as a lawsuit,unobscured by procedural details, technicalities, personal feelings,etc.: The case will be decided on its merits alone. 4. Often, merits. the state or fact of deserving; desert: to treat people according to their merits. 5. Roman Catholic Church. worthiness of spiritual reward, acquired by righteous acts made under the influence of grace. 6. Obsolete. something that is deserved, whether good or bad.

that's just not completely true, stuie there have been many muslim teachers and leaders who have defended and supported islamic jihardists over last few decades including some very prominent muslim leaders just where do you think they get their billions to finance their terror?

stuie, if the terrorists say they are followers of islam, then they are. they believe they will be rewarded in heaven as martyrs for allah. they quote passages of holy text to justify their actions. they are even prepared to sacrifice their lives just for their beliefs. just because other more moderate followers of islam have a different view-point doesnt mean they can't be legitimately described as islamic-extremists or islamic-terrorists the term islamic-terrorists doesn't mean all followers of islam, but the extremists do live and worship among the moderates. i wonder if you remember the joyous dancing in the streets of the middle east when 9/11 was perpetrated. were they just extremists and not islamic?

oliver has been likened to dustin martin i see him as more a potential dane swan type and like him he might take a few years to settle in i don't think he's a top 10 pick (excl academy players)

so, how do you determine christian beliefs? from the bible, from the catholics, from the presbyterians, the anglicans, the mormons, the pilgrims, the greek orthodoxes, jim bakker, jim jones etc etc etc? they all have their own interpretations and contradictions similarly for islam, you have the quran, the hadiths, the shiites, the sunnis, the sufis, the hanifa, shafi, hanibal or malik schools, the twelve-imam, zaydis or ismailis sects, etc again contradictions and interpretations there is no all agreed xxxxxxx beliefs. it's not an absolute both islam and christianity cover a wide spectrum of beliefs

personally, i'm not totally wedded to the words of the theme song we don't even have a grand old flag, and there are other oddities i'd be conducive to minor improvements to the wording

so in the world of stuie a christian who commits a christian sin is no longer a christian and cannot be referred to as one so, there are no sinners in the christian population yet catholicism tells us they are all sinners nice logic stuie. i hope you didn't pay too much for the course