The man from the Clapham Omnibus

Adam and me traveled to Vancouver B.C. to see the Seattle Sounders F.C. play the Vancouver Whitecaps . We met the bus at the aptly named Northgate in North  Seattle . It was an excellent though intense experience .! We stated on a keg of their own brew before 10 AM and the party began !  There were a good selection of folks including two great kids who had wonderfully been brought up to be polite and respectful generally but to also be passionate about their team even to the point of swearing in the right company - I kid you not ! . There was a British EX-pat family just near us at the back of the bus and they as well as everyone else were really welcoming .  The community atmosphere was perfect - everybody shared what they had - including beer spirits and Razberitas - ( Courtesey of Razzle ) . All the ECS trip Virgins inc me and Adam took it in turns to go to Tom at the front of the bus , introduce ourselves - Name our fav. player and sing a song . ...

I hold some unusual views which I am often forced to defend . I do sometimes change my opinions after being shown that I am in error . I am pleased to do so as I am pretty pessimistic about the direction of the world and being proved wrong gives me more hope for the future of my ( our )  planet . I am also a little miffed at how often people use tricks not logic in an attempt to justify their own arguments or attack others positions . It is as if they believe that by wining an argument in the mind of most observers by tricks really does prove its actual worth .  Democracy somehow trumps facts in their minds . This is a fair summary of those tricks and what they are called .

Bloody Sunday Where Mutual Hostility Exploded Into Massacre   Bloody Sunday was a tragedy for the bereaved and the wounded, and a catastrophe for the people of Northern Ireland. What came to be known as Bloody Sunday was a demonstration in Londonderry in Northern Ireland on Sunday, January 30, 1972, by Catholic supporters of civil rights that turned violent when British paratroopers opened fire, killing 13 and injuring 14 others (one of the injured later died). Bloody Sunday caused an upsurge in support for the IRA which advocated violence against the United Kingdom to force it to withdraw from Northern Ireland. The incident remained a source of controversy for decades, with competing accounts of the events. In June 2010 the Saville Report, the final pronouncement of a government inquiry initiated by British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998, concluded that none of the victims had posed any immediate threat to the soldiers and that their shooting was therefore ...