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Iran has no detectable nuclear weapons program and the International Atomic Energy Agency has repeatedly certified (again this spring) that no nuclear material at the Natanz plant has been diverted for non-civilian purposes. You take the right wing US propaganda as fact without any evidence to back it up. I accept what the US intelligence actually says on the matter and what the IAEA say, after all, they police this stuff around the globe. So who's more gullible?

Stallone Statham Li Lundgren

How do these first time directors get such massive budgets? He's not done so much as a TV commercial. Canny trailer though.

Plenty of stuff out that looks better... Four Lions American: The Bill Hicks Story The Ghost How to Train Your Dragon Or go next week and see one of Lebanon Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans

Did no lose either. We did.

It was class like. Mark Lawson shit his pants. "What were you thinking of?" He had a pop at Kermode about an interview from 20 years ago too. Proper tart.

The Coen's are currently filming a remake of True Grit. Tarantino's working on the script for Kill Bill vol. 3

Limited release, but.... Gateshead Odeon Metrocentre Mon 17 May 2010 Tue 18 May 2010 Wed 19 May 2010 Thu 20 May 2010 Newcastle upon Tyne Empire Mon 17 May 2010

I still think mixing with them is healthier than a Stevie style Apartheid - doesn't mean you have to like them of course. We get that derby atmosphere every day.

Unless its changed, the manager (Colin) is a huge Leeds fan - hard little twat who takes no shit from the Mackems if they act up. Makes sense then. Fantastic bar staff too. Always top totty on at busy times and the fella with the tache for sports talk on quiet weekday afternoons.

Mackem pub. Definitely - when we first started drinking there in about 81 we got a bit of grief but my mate was a minier who knew the lads who got in there so we got over it and had some good crack with them. Not exactly a theme but we migrated from there to The Westoe and then onto The County, the latter being pretty much Mackem central. With a small Leeds flag behind the bar for some reason I'm yet to find out. Those three plus the Fountain (another pointedly mackem pub) and The Bamburgh were pretty much my pubs of choice ten years back. The lad who runs the New Crown now is a Geordie....but he uses the coach from the Ashley for games.

Mackem pub.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8681919.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8685930.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8685846.stm More reasonable behaviour from those dangerous Iranians. Being spun as Machialvellian tactics by the actual most dangerous country in the region... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8685846.stm

Match Day heaven.

Hurricane season is looming.