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Tbf, I meant to say, no TOP manager

Cheers. Didn't think fullmatchesandshows would have it up so soon.

Yeah, sure. Wait for the one match I have to miss and play youngsters and win 4-0! Goals, anyone?

Is it bad that I don't even remember what he was actually banned for?

Yeah, of course Conte wants him to stay. No manager in the world would not. The club saying that they were waiting for the new manager to decide was clearly just an excuse and a lie. The board doesn't want to give him an extension and I don't think Conte 'making him a priority' would change that.

Yeah, of course you can't promise anyone an indefinite starting spot, but he should at least be promised a run in the team and a real chance of becoming a nailed on starter.

Atheism for the vast majority of atheist (or at least to me!) is simply saying that there is no evidence for the existence of god or an after life or heaven or hell. It's not the belief that any of those things definitely don't exist. The burden of proof is on you, not me..

I already do doubt and second guess everything about life and 'after life'. That's called atheism...

I was one of the first people to criticize Thibaut when he started making regular mistakes, and I sure as hell don't like his 'honesty' talking to the media. BUT this whole debate will look so petty and knee-jerk when Thiabut returns to his usual world-class form next season. He's objectively one of the best young keepers in the world. There is absolutely no reason he won't get over this bad spell and come out stronger from all of this.

If we have any sort of vision and long term planning from the board, someone should go to Andreas, offer him a starting position at least for the first couple of months for next season, and talk him into cutting the loan short.

Let me ask YOU a question: What if god loves science and only sends to hell those who refuse to acknowledge evolution? What if the real son of god is Nickleback and anyone who ever said anything bad about him goes to hell? What if god's real religion is Scientology? WHAT IF?! There are quite literally an infinite number of hypotheses, with zero evidence for, which you can come up with; a lot of which would be contradictory. Imagine trying to consider if every single one of them is true when trying to live your life!

It's always funny when someone decides to use a whole bunch of semiconductor material assembled as processors and logic gates. be it a computer or a phone, connected to a global network of fiber optics that links almost everyone on the planet together, to doubt the entire scientific method

Well we do say that all is fair in love and war....but fucking hell! On a related note, I just heard that Sam Harris just called for the profiling of all divorced historians

http://hasalexandrepatoplayedforchelsea.com/ Just hit the 60 days mark!

So a guy just hijacked a plane to deliver a love letter to his ex-wife... I know if you are involved in any way in the debacle, you won't find this funny, but lmfao!

And I was talking about people on the right only bringing up costs when it comes to services to the actual communities when NO ONE ever asks about where the funding for wars and tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% can come from. Where can you get money for schools? From cutting military spending and closing tax loop wholes.

A small fraction of the US's military budget and less than what the corporations get in tax cuts right before they go hire 9 year olds in China...

Even in Lebanon, basically a failed state, we have 'free' higher education (about $200 per year iirc) @Sir Mikel OBE the question about free colleges goes down to whether or not you see higher education as a luxury or a right and necessity. Most of the world views it as the latter and I think if you are concerned about the advancement of your nation and communities you have to see it that way as well. The argument about your tax money is a valid concern, but honestly lacks perspective. More than half of your tax money goes to imperialistic wars, billions go into 'corporate welfare', not to mention foreign 'aid' to some of the most hideous regimes on the planet. In worrying about where your tax money, you might want to stat there...

No it doesn't. Or at least it shouldn't. Basic healthcare, money out of politics and free education, the things you are calling Sanders extreme left wing for, are objectively good things and considered by most of the globe to be basic citizens rights. It shouldn't depend on your political views whether or not you want to stop thousands of people from dying because they can't afford treatment...

Sanders, by global standards, is center left on most issues, except foreign policies where he is at best a centrist. Hillary Clinton is all ranges of right wing on most issues, a centrist on a few. The republican party in the US is so far off the charts it can't even be considered a traditional party anymore but rather a radical insurgency as Chomsky labels it.

Your own belief or inside info?

Probably this: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/opinion/transgender-law-makes-north-carolina-pioneer-in-bigotry.html?_r=0

And there in lies the root of the issue. In western media, terror committed by the west has all sorts of sophisticated political reasons while terrorism against the west is just pure barbarism and that boils down to the belief that victims in the west are people while victims not in the west are just not that important. Even though, in terms of damage and devastation, terror committed by the west is many many folds that committed against it. I'm sorry, I don't mean to take just one sentence out of context, but the other points you made are easily refuted by facts such as by the very definition of terrorism, that is the deliberate targeting of civilians for political reasons, both the US and Russia have committed terrorism, unless you mean that US and Russian bombs are intrinsically 'civil'. You might be happy to make a distinction between them and 'conventional' terror, but I assure you that the victims of those bombs would certainly not. Bush said many times that his faith was involved in the decision making on Iraq and it actually had an impact. Modern Israel was created because 'God' promised them the land and majority of settlers are religious fanatics. And you can make a quick google search about Myanmar Buddhist monks. Right there is another proof of how people fail to overview the issue and how bigoted it is view all Muslims as similar to the current extremists in the middle east. All the Muslims in the middle east barely make up 20% of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. India alone has more Muslims than all of the middle east combine. The largest Muslim majority state is by far Indonesia. And you are including them in your views about Muslims.

George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq' But THAT is exactly the difference. In western media and mainstream discussion, you talk about the economic and geopolitical motives behind the apparent religious extremist reasoning that, in these cases, Bush and the Russian church give. But you never talk about the underlying economic and geopolitical causes of the rise of extremists groups likes ISIS like the Nato invasion of Iraq and dismantling of its army, like the Nato intervention in Lybia, like the global drone terror campaign, like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, like Western bias on Israel/Palestine...etc. If you actually ask people in the middle east why they view the US and western European countries, particularly France and UK, unfavorably, you will get those exact answers. In some extreme cases, that unfavorable view pushes people to joining religious extremist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda. In these cases, religion is a tool used to channel the hate and enable this kind of violence. But even without religion that hate would still exist. This, btw, is no way to excuse any of the members of these groups or justify their actions, but if you want to stop this kind of terrorism, you'll have to address its root causes.

Okay, I get that the Christian extremists on here are letting out all of their bigotry and irrational fear mongering, but please tell me YOU don't actually believe that bullshit?! Only Muslim extremists have committed mass murder in recent history?! Christian extremists? To give just one example, by far the biggest atrocity of this century is the Iraq invasion. George Bush said that God told him to do it. And that wasn't just some bullshit he said in public to get the religious extremists in the US behind him, he actually believed it. Proof? In a private conversation with then French president Jaques Chirac, he had told him that he wanted to invade Iraq because he saw 'Gog and Magog' are at work there. Go ahead, google that. Eastern Christian extremists? Russian church called the intervention in Syria a 'holy war'. Buddhist extremists? There are Buddhist monks who have been committing nothing short of genocide against Muslims in Myanmar. Jewish extremists? Israeli atrocities against Palestinians... And we can go on and on and on... So why does there seem to be a difference between all of these and Islamic extremist terror? That is because in the media and the mainstream discussion of terror by religious extremists that aren't Muslim are either complete ignored and swept under the rug or all the context and every single possible justification is given to distract from the religious extremists aspects.