The Random Thoughts About Anything, except VAR, Thread [R]

This is pretty amazing....

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...g-water-crisis-in-the-high-desert-of-himalaya

 

This is near my Daughters school, she passes it every day and watches it grow.



Description: Pudong Football Stadium

Temporarily called simply Pudong Football Stadium, from the Shanghai district name, this football-specific venue will become Shanghai's largest stadium without a running track when it opens. This means passing the famous Hongkou, China's first football-only stadium and home to derby rivals Shenhua.

Shanghai SIPG FC are the investor and manager of this stadium. When they announced this project in late 2017, they were just celebrating vice-championship of the country. Early announcements suggest groundbreaking in 2018 and delivery as soon as 2019.

The stadium will be joined by two training fields and surrounded by a wide plinth filled with commercial outlets. Fans enter both tiers of seating from the plinth, entering the sleek and modern arena designed by HPP Architects.


without a running track

 

probably 1 of about 20 being built across China.

 

I posted this I'm the politics board yesterday. It might look good here.


THIS was an excellent opening from Swalwell yesteday. Loved the way he put it over.

SWALWELL: During Watergate, the famous phrase from Senator Howard Baker was asked: "What did the President know and when did he know it?" There is a reason that no one here has repeated those questions during these hearings. We know what the President did. And we know when he knew it. Mr. Goldman, who sent Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to smear Joe Biden?
GOLDMAN: President* Trump.

SWALWELL: Who fired the anti-corruption Ambassador in Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch?

GOLDMAN: President* Trump.

SWALWELL: Who told Ambassador Sondland and Ambassador Volker to work with Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine?

GOLDMAN: President* Trump.

SWALWELL: Who told Vice President Pence to not go to President Zelensky's inauguration?

GOLDMAN: President* Trump.

SWALWELL: Who ordered his own Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney to withhold critical military assistance for Ukraine?

GOLDMAN: President* Trump.

SWALWELL: Who refused to meet with President Zelensky in the Oval Office?

GOLDMAN: President* Trump.

SWALWELL: Who ignored on July 25his own national security council anti-corruption talking points?

GOLDMAN: President* Trump.

SWALWELL: Who asked President Zelensky for a favor?

GOLDMAN: President* Trump.

SWALWELL: Who personally asked President Zelensky to investigate his political rival Joe Biden?

GOLDMAN: President* Trump.

SWALWELL: Who stood on the White House lawn and confirmed that he wanted Ukraine to investigate Vice President Biden?

GOLDMAN: President* Trump.

SWALWELL: Who stood on that same lawn and said that China should also investigate Vice President Biden?

GOLDMAN: President* Trump.

SWALWELL: As to anything that we do not know in this investigation, who has blocked us from knowing it?

GOLDMAN: President* Trump and the White House.

SWALWELL: So as it relates to President Trump, is he an incidental player or a central player in this scheme.

GOLDMAN: President Trump is the central player in this scheme.

SWALWELL: There is a reason that no one has said "what did the President know and when did he know it?" From the evidence that you have presented, Mr. Goldman, and the Intelligence Committee findings, we know one thing and one thing is clear. As it related to this scheme, the President* of the United States, Donald J. Trump, knew everything.

Donald Trump knew everything because he orchestrated it, pushed for it, checked up on it and continues to encourage it. He is a criminal.
And more.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending...nel-livestream-for-mondays-hearing/1016121090

 

Fascinating, but what was the crime? Be specific.

 

No crime, he's never done any thing wrong. Obama tried to blame the Russians for everything but really Ukraine attacked our voting system and are planning on doing it again with Clinton's help.
Don't be an arse.

 

"Crime" isn't relevant in an impeachment.

What he did was abuse his power and since then he's ben obstructing every attempt to get the full details.

Abuse of Power isn't a crime, but it sure as shit is and should be impeachable.

Obstruction of Congress isn't a crime, but it sure as shit is and should be impeachable.

 

The most stunning thing is that practically everybody on the planet used to intuitively know and agree to those not exactly radical concepts.....
Now it's only practically everybody on Earth minus the Republican Party and it's official State Media Organization.....

 

I don't know if these things can be equated. Brexit is a real Shambles and has created a real incapacity for large swathes of poor British to see where their best interests lie. Their best interests would most certainly be better served with Jeremy Corbyn in power than Boris Johnson.

Its debatable as to whether any US government has ever tried to service the best interests of the most people. Or even if it could be attempted. It is called Socialism, after all......

 

I just checked with my lawyer and he tells me that if I tried to knowingly impede or mislead the workings of a Justice Department or FBI investigation I would be committing crimes. One therefore has to assume that so was Trump.....

The man is a rotten b@stard, and the near-dead fact that you people can't wake yourselves enough to see that he is at his core just a rotten b@stard is a sad barometer on the state of the country..... In a way I sort of pity the creature, because of his pyschology he is incapable of being anything other than a rotten b@stard....

People can be politically against the likes of Hilary Clinton, George W. and Obama, etc... and blame them for a bunch of things (some of the blame overdone) but what any outside (and sane) observer would see is that it is largely just politics and its good and bad decisions mixed with human like and dislike.
An outside (of the bubble) observer would not look at any of the actions or inactions of Trump and see this. They would see a rancid vile vituperative liar swine.
And they are, of course, right. As Roger Waters said; "Trump is a Pig!"

 

Mitch McConnell was on Fox last night settling everyone's nerves. Not to worry -- he is coordinating with Trump's lawyers to work out how to proceed.

Nothing wrong with that now is there? Oh hang on ... that's kinda like the prosecution asking the defendant's lawyer how the trial should go, isn't it?

doesn't that Constitution thingee say that Congress is separate from the Executive? dearie me, how awkward ..... Mitch must have missed that Civics 101 lesson.

what a bunch of hypocritical bastards.

 

If Trump had committed what amounts to an actual crime, this sham impeachment charade would have been over months ago. The Dems keep fumbling around with specious accusations. Bribery? No. Nothing of value was exchanged or promised. Extortion. Nah. Nice try, though. Quid pro quo? Yeah, right. Same as bribery.

I think Trump is a post-adolescent, arrogant, narcissistic blowhard. You can call him a swine, but that's typical left-wing vituperative claptrap. The fact is that the Dems cannot get over the reality that he won the election, when they thought the Harpy they had nominated was a shoe-in. She is a real piece of work, a dame who savaged the women her husband was plonking. Real nice.

Bill Clinton was an effective and generally memorable president. As a man, though, weasel through and through. Runs in the family.

 

un
fukking
believable

 

Another armpit keeping us from a goal = bad.

Jason Bournemouth getting their goal correctly ruled in the Chavs game = good.

 

This F'kn ridicules abomination of anything factual is on a par when stilts and I had an exchange about Bush's illegal Iraqi WMD War.

I asked was it worth the lives of 5,000+ US soldiers and approx 100k Iraqi's

His reply was Afordable Health Care would cost so many more lives than that.

A bunch of lying shit with nothing to do with the issue. Typical Repugnant response.

 

What th e******** does Bill Clinton being a weasel have to do with Trump being one of the worst creatures to ever approach public office??
Incidentally you can train a weasal... you can't train a bacteria....

A woman trying to blacken/besmirch the woman who were wronged by her husband is (I agree) hardly the most edifying behaviour one could ask for of a prospective holder of very high office. But it is quite a-ways down from trying to make lying into the fundamental working principle of governance.
(He doesn't have that right. You people want to gift him that right..)
It is also a-ways down from deliberately appointing people to government departments whose urge is to wreck those departments' functioning. These are quite simple truths.... for anyone willing to ask themselves a question and give themselves a straight answer.

 

good news - gary larson has gone online.

https://www.thefarside.com/about

 

Meet Bryan from Ashington and Stewie from Barrow supporting Cologne rather than EPL. Atmosphere in stadiums and clubs are owned by the people. Safe standing ticket costs 16 EUR and you can drink beer and smoke in the stadium

 

Trump is Impeached.

 

What a day.

I lost my phone and potentially a lot of money as a result.
Donald Trump was impeached.
I got divorce papers in my email inbox (long expected, though still mourned).
Liverpool won.

Needless to say, I'm feeling things today.

 

Someone at the V.A. clinic found my phone.

Whew, that was close. Now I can truly celebrate the impeachment of a racist sexual predator.