On the back of the success of Manchester United‘s TV Channel MUTV.
And Chelsea’s Station CFC TV.
Liverpool have introduced their own station to, its called the HISTORY channel.
Monday 30 November 2009
Tiger Crash
I listened to the recording of the 911 emergency call made by Tiger Woods neighbour in response to his accident on Friday night, and the thing that struck me , bearing in mind that this accident happened in a exclusive and very expensive part of Florida within a gated compound that even has its own security force was, how could the bloke making the call be rich enough to live there.
It must be inherited money the guy was so stupid it defied belief, I was getting frustrated listening to him trying to string a sentence together, god knows how the operator on the line did not hang up on the idiot. whatever money this moron has, he did not earn it he was given it.
Woods should be grateful his injuries were not life threatening and speed was not of the essence, Tiger could have played 9 holes in the time it took his neighbour to tell the emergency services that a car had crashed outside his house and that someone was laying on the floor.
Listen to it yourselves at the link below, and decide if I have been to harsh with his intellectually challenged neighbour.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2750619/Tiger-Woods-911-crash-tape-is-released.html
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Sunday 29 November 2009
Crouching Tiger, hidden Hydrant
Now that more details are emerging about the Tiger Woods car crash it’s looking likely that Tiger will be losing half his estimated 600 million pound fortune in a divorce.
The respected TMZ site has reported that Tiger was chased out of his house by an enraged wife Elin angered at reports he had been cheating on her with Rachael Uchitel, Rachael came to prominence after the 9/11 attacks in New York when the Iconic picture of her in tears at Ground Zero holding a picture of her missing (later to be confirmed dead Fiancé) was flashed around the world.
Tiger through his attorneys has strenuously denied the allegations, though it must be said that TMZ who believe Tiger has been playing away are rarely wrong.
From piecing together reports it appears this was the sequence of events, Woods and his wife row about Tigers alleged infidelity, his wife grabs a golf club and goes for Tiger who runs and jumps into his car possibly already taking one blow, once tiger is in the car and attempts to drive of Elin runs down the drive attempting to cut him of, Tiger swerves to avoid her and hits the hydrant she opens the door landing one more blow at which point Tiger accelerates away hitting a tree, as he climbs out of the car Elin attacks him again knocking him unconscious, she then tries to revive him as the police arrive.
The police report Tiger was unconscious for up to six minutes, at which point the ambulance arrives and takes Woods of to hospital.
I counted three blows, classing Tiger as a par four it looks like Elin Birdied him. The clubs she used are still to be determined but as the club did not travel that far I would put my money on a nine iron.
Saturday 28 November 2009
Uganda Outlaw Gays
Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed.
Gordon Brown followed Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, in telling Uganda that the legislation was unacceptable.
Homosexuality remains criminalised in many Commonwealth countries, but the more liberal countries have been horrified by the new legislation.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 is going through Uganda’s Parliament after receiving its first reading last month. According to Clause 2 of the Bill, a person who is convicted of gay sex is liable to life imprisonment. But if that person is also HIV positive the penalty — under the heading “aggravated homosexuality” — is death.
What strikes me as peculiar here apart from the obvious which is that this is so barbaric it defies belief is how come no other Countries other than Britain and Canada have complained, does this mean other nations agree with it or may even be planning to adopt it, unlikely I know even impossible, but I do ask this, albeit tongue in cheek, I wonder how many people slept peacefully in Hollywood last night.
Iran Isolated
World powers united in condemnation of Iran’s nuclear activities yesterday in a rare show of international consensus on the threat posed by Tehran’s continued nuclear defiance.
China and Russia joined the United States, Britain, France and Germany in backing an International Atomic Energy Agency resolution censuring Iran and ordering it to halt construction of a secret uranium enrichment plant.
This looks like the green light albeit covertly that Israel was looking for to begin preparation to destroy as much of the Iranian nuclear infrastructure as it is able to. Though Ahmadinajad is making his usual threats about retaliation he appears to lack the conviction of earlier rants, my opinion is he has bluffed and blustered believing that Russia and China would stay onside, thus watering down any proposed US sanctions. now that his two former allies have shifted their stance the writing looks on the wall.
I did think that and have stated on these pages previously that I believed Israel would be in a position to attack installations by years end, I see no reason to change my opinion.
Tiger Woods
Obviously not the first time he's driven into a tree.
But at 2am?! That's dedication for you.
No wonder he is the best ever.
Wednesday 25 November 2009
Chinese Justice
Two men have been executed in China for selling hundreds of tonnes of contaminated milk that killed six babies and made 300,000 ill. Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping were put to death after their appeals were turned down.
Theoretically their could have been 300,000 dead babies after all the tainted milk did make them ill, it was a miracle only six died.
But I take my hat of to the Chinese for executing these two barbarians, death was the only punishment they deserved for so heinous a crime.
But it does make me think what would have happened to those to child murderers had they committed their crime in England, with the right representation they may have got away with as little as about 5 years, after all with an expensive legal team it would have not been murder they faced here but manslaughter.
Every day new and depressing crime figures are released, violent crime is at an all time high, random killings, drug murders, robbery with violence, the list is endless, a pipe dream I know in this new and liberal age that we live in, but I would love to see capital punishment in this country for certain crimes.
One of the defendants in the baby P case was also convicted of raping a two year old girl, raping a child of that age at the very least should be punishable by death, and of course there have been many cases of children that aged being murdered and also raped then murdered, and the perpetrators after serving their sentences have been free to resume their lives.
Look at how low we have sunk that I am now admiring the Chinese Justice system.
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Tuesday 24 November 2009
Woe is Liverpool
As a Manchester Utd fan I take great pleasure from Liverpool's misfortunes, I know that all teams have bad patches, but its hard to feel sorry for the scousers when their problems are self inflicted and by that I mean their failure to dump their manager.
How much more humiliation can this once great club take, its only November and their season is already a mess, they are relying tonight on another team to make sure they have a chance to stay in the Champions league.
Should Lyon fail to take any points from their meeting with Fiorentina tonight, Liverpool will be out of Europe’s most prestigious club competition, regardless of how they fare away to Debrecen. They will then be left to try to improve their position in the Barclays Premier League, in which they lie seventh, 13 points behind Chelsea, the leaders, after 13 matches.
This after their hapless manager Benitez yet again claimed “this was their year” he does still appear to have some support from the Liverpool fans I think its about a 50/50 split on whether they want him to stay, it wont be 50/50 tomorrow if they crash out of Europe tonight.
Come on Fiorentina
Rom Houben
A man presumed to have been in a deep coma for 23 years has hailed his “second birth” after doctors realised that he had been fully conscious all along but unable to communicate.
Rom Houben, 46, was paralysed in a car accident and declared to be in a persistent vegetative state, while in fact he remained aware of his surroundings and could hear his doctors gradually give up hope on him.
Mr Houben had been written off as being in an extinct state after the athletic former martial arts enthusiast, keen wind-surfer and engineering student was gravely wounded in a car crash in 1983 when aged only 23.
Rom, who is still paralysed and dependent upon carers around the clock, recalled the terrifying realisation after he came round from his accident when he knew that he had lost complete control of his body — and no one knew that he was fully conscious. “I screamed, but there was nothing to be heard,” he said.
This is the most horrible story I have heard all year, it is the stuff nightmares are made of, I am claustrophobic to the extent that I wont even be buried when I die, instead I want to be cremated, just to make doubly sure I’m dead.
As unlikely as it is the thought of suddenly waking up in a coffin, six feet under petrifies me, before anyone tells me its impossible, because of medical advances embalming fluid etc, well I know all that it it still terrifies me.
What Mr Houben suffered is a 23 year old version of that feeling, I am a little confused to the circumstances though of the erroneous diagnosis, I thought that the brain gave of electrical impulses that showed when it was active, I’m certain that in all that time he would have had numerous brain scans.
Looking for someone to blame will serve no purpose now and monetary compensation is of no use to Mr Houben, but it has bought about new diagnostic techniques that hopefully will ensure this cant happen again.
Stand by for the film which is probably already in the pipeline, Hollywood is notoriously quick at this type of thing, I for one though wont be going to see it.
DurdensView Tags: Rom Houben, Coma
Saturday 21 November 2009
It’s War
The pirates holding the British couple hostage have threatened to kill them in one week if a ransom is not paid. A video was released yesterday in which Paul and Rachel Chandler pleaded for their lives in the harrowing footage, and begged the Government to pay a bounty to save them while surrounded by at least four kidnappers armed with machine guns trained at their heads, and rocket launchers.
The machine guns were scary enough did the savages really need to point rocket launchers at their heads to.
The Government has repeatedly said it will not negotiate with terrorists, though behind the scenes talks will be taking place, now this threat with a deadline has been made if the Chandlers are released we will know that ransom has been paid, this in turn will encourage more hostage taking, as brutal as this sounds the Government should stand tough.
If the Pirates carry out their threat then we should go in all guns blazing and wipe them off the map we know where their hideouts are, also their so called strongholds, we should determine the cold blooded execution against a defenceless British couple an act of war against our citizens and take appropriate steps in retaliation.
This strong action would serve as a warning to future pirates and wipe out in one swoop the scum that have been plaguing the seas for the last few years. We have the Fire power and we have one of the best if not the best fighting forces in the world lets use them.
Garlic is not a perfume
That garlic reeking cheat Thierry Henry in a pathetic attempt to deflect some of the anger towards him over the cheating row has said that he believes in the interest of fair play the game against the Republic of Ireland should be replayed.
Interesting that the frog only suggested this after the games Governing body emphatically stated a replay is impossible as the rules of the game do not allow it, I suppose this two faced behaviour from a Frenchman is to be expected, last season after the Champions league final against Barcelona Henry called the Catalans cheats and said he could never play for a side that cheated, a season later he signed for them.
Eric Cantona has today said if he had been an Irishman he would have hit Henry after the match for his nerve in sitting with a distraught Richard Dunne after the match and trying to comfort him after he himself through cheating had put Ireland out.
I stated in an earlier post that I did not expect anything to come out of this in terms of a replay and it would be forgotten in a couple of days, but there are no signs of the fuss dying down, I hope France get stick between now and the World cup next year and then jeered and booed at every match they play in South Africa, The garlic munchers have in my opinion dropped a massive PR clanger by not insisting the game be replayed in a one of circumstance bypassing the rules, any victory’s they have now in the competition will be hollow and meaningless.
Friday 20 November 2009
He’s a nutcase Get him out of there
In ITV’s excellent I’m a celebrity get me out of here show Joe Bugner the former world heavyweight champion has claimed that the CIA had created aids, he offered no explanation as to why they would have done this but assured everyone it was fact.
If I thought he was joking it would be funny but I have a horrible feeling he was serious, if he did mean it that means our friend Joe is unstable and at 6ft 4 inches and from the look of him around 18/20 stone, that guy is dangerous, forget about creepy crawlies and snakes he is the biggest danger to the other “celebs”.
Bugner has this wild eyed look about him that makes him look like he is permanently surprised, this look is usually associated with nut job’s, so as soon as its time to start evicting I suggest we vote him out, he was already scaring the camp’s gay couple Colin and Justin and this latest offering will not make things better.
Incidentally on the show, this years look to be as good as previous offerings, in my humble opinion the best reality show on offer, its short sharp and hugely entertaining and for some reason I take a perverse pleasure in watching others suffer, though I do admit to having a sneaking admiration for anyone who can eat a live cockroach.
My tip for this years winner and I do have a good record in this particular show is a toss up between Samantha Fox and Gino the Italian chef, with Sam maybe just edging it.
Fat
This from the pages of that old favourite “you couldn’t make it up”
Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing around 60 people to sell their fat on the black market for cosmetic use in Europe. Three suspects who were arrested in central Peru this month have confessed to killing five people for their fat, arresting officer Colonel Mejia said the suspects, two of whom were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat, told police it was worth $60,000 a gallon.
Since reading this story I have gone into hiding to protect my assets, at current fat prices I am worth a small fortune.
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Thursday 19 November 2009
Thierry Henry-Cheat
Ireland miss out on going to the World cup finals after Thierry Henry got away with the most blatant handball you can imagine, Henry admits it was a handball and agrees the goal should not have stood, but because of the rules as they are the result will stand.
This is not good enough I am not Irish and have no Irish connection but am fuming mad at this, the Irish players were within minutes of being able to play at a World cup and that was snatched away, nothing will be done and after a few days everyone will forget about it except for the Irish of course.
Fifa did not want Ireland and their likes anywhere near South Africa, anyway. That was made quite clear when, at the last moment, the sport’s world governing body announced that the draw for the play-offs would be seeded, meaning that the “bigger” nations could not be drawn against each other.
Having fought through ten matches unbeaten in group eight, in which they finished runners-up to Italy, Ireland deserved to be there, an excuse being made for the decision is that “the referee and linesman did not have a clear view and missed it” but that is not good enough, video technology is available and has been for years but Fifa or more specifically their President Michel Platini does not want it, God only knows why.
With Video technology in a matter of seconds the fourth official would have reported a blatant handball in fact Henry actually handled it twice, the goal would not have stood and Ireland would be on their way to South Africa.
Decisions like this happen every week in our Premier League and yet still we do nothing, Platini needs to be over ruled, it’s time our premier league got tough, I’m not sure how we can threaten Fifa but I’m sure Fifa need us more than we need them, maybe its time we started to talk about a alternate Governing body other sports have two body’s Darts and wrestling for example Boxing has 5 .
Maybe my anger is making me blow hot air and the two body solution is nonsense, but I believe something needs to be done, it’s possible next years World cup final could be settled on a decision like last night and that wont do.
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Bribe the Taliban
British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of gold”, according to a new army field manual published yesterday. The Taliban pays ten dollars a day to fighters, that equals £5.95 a day. the thinking being if we gave them say 15 dollars a day that’s £8.92 to you and me they would switch sides.
What we should be offering are Tax credits and child benefit plus a free house with garden, that should seal the deal, if any terrorists are still undecided then chuck in a car an i phone and membership to the local golf club.
This is a brilliant idea in theory, after all the cost of running a war like this runs into the billions, not to mention the cost in human life,
But can anyone seriously believe that this would work, I would love to spend a day in Whitehall watching the way the “Genius’s” that come up with theses ideas work and also to enquire which planet they originally came from.
Everybody knows that terrorists are the most trustworthy of people and no way would they consider taking the money and still shoot at us. any suggestion that the money we give them could in turn be used to buy more bullets and explosives to be used against us is preposterous.
Thursday 12 November 2009
Afghans-Let’s Leave them to it
The fortnightly free sheet “ The Voice of Freedom” magazine is packed full of pro-Nato stories about school openings and new wells, printed in full colour, in three languages, and distributed across the country. But it rarely reaches its key target audience.
Instead the locals use it in their restaurants to wrap kebabs, chips and glistening jalebi sweets, it is sold by the kilo, for 25p a restaurateur can buy 3kg. The Voice of Freedom is particularly favoured by restaurateurs because they claim the premium white paper is more absorbent than ordinary Afghan newsprint.
Maybe its time to leave these heathens to their own devices and bring our troops home, I know I have advocated staying and finishing the job many times in the past and I still believe the mission needs to be finished, but as our troops are being killed now by so called friendly fire inside their own barracks as well as in conflict its time to revaluate our position.
A possible solution is this, later this month a further 40,000 troops will be announced by President Obama as part of a surge strategy, let us take this opportunity to bring our troops home letting the Americans take up the slack we leave, our 9000 troops can do our defending at home, by becoming a Border Army, we surround our selves with troops who are better trained and better equipped than customs officials to keep undesirables out , this also helps with our immigration problem.
After all if we can stop the bad guys getting in that’s part of the problem solved, I know it sounds a bit simplistic but with little tweaking I think we have a workable plan, David Cameron has talked about border guards before, here is a fully trained army ready for him to use.
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Execution
John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the sniper attacks that terrorised the US capital region for three weeks in 2002, was executed earlier this morning.
Muhammad was not heard to utter any words during the execution.
WHO CARES.
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Modern Warfare 2
The debut of the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 looks sure to become the most successful product launch in the history of entertainment, with global first-day sales estimated at £250million.
Less than 24 hours after launch, first day sales of the controversial and violent new game are set to exceed the previous record set by Grand Theft Auto IV in 2008 by £100 million.
And people wonder why we are such a violent species, human beings are the only species on the planet that kill for “fun” we produce serial killers by the dozen. I cant blame this game alone but take a look in your local Game shop and look at the titles on offer, I dread to think what the next generation of kids will become.
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Tuesday 10 November 2009
The Washington Sniper
Seven years after he and his teenage sidekick terrorised the Washington area with a three-week killing spree using a high-powered rifle, John Allen Muhammad — the “Beltway sniper” — is due to be executed tonight by lethal injection.
The terror this caused in and around the Washington area was immeasurable, made worse because of the unique nature of the crime, bearing in mind also that this was not long after 9/11 with America still reeling from that horror.
He should not have been allowed 7 years, He should have been put to death immediately he was convicted, 10 people lost their lives in that killing spree and if they hadn’t have been caught that number would have grown there was no indication that they had finished.
When arrested he claimed Jihad (holy war) then changed his story to say he was trying to win his ex wife back, surely flowers and chocolates would have been more appropriate.
Under Virginia law, an inmate is allowed to choose the method by which he or she will be put to death -- either lethal injection or the electric chair. Because Muhammad declined to select a method, by law he will receive a lethal injection. I would prefer to see him beheaded an injection is to easy.
Monday 9 November 2009
Lay Off Brown
Gordon Brown today said he was "mortified" after spelling the name of a fallen soldier incorrectly in a letter of condolence but pledged to continue writing the messages himself.
Far be it for me to defend the Prime Minister but in this instance the criticism is not justified and way over the top, yes he did make a mistake with the spelling of the lads name and also there appeared to be spelling mistakes, but it is widely acknowledged that Brown has terrible eyesight, he is blind in one eye, and he has notoriously bad handwriting.
People should perhaps look at the fact that he does write a handwritten note to the family of every fallen serviceman and I am sure his sentiments are heartfelt, lets find things to attack him about lets not look for sticks to beat him with where none exist.
He has personally apologised to the family, lets let the matter rest now, some critics have called for him to resign and as appealing as that sounds this is not a resigning matter.
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