Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

lol :-)

she was very fond of Paddy , and i don't mean Pantsdown

WASHINGTON — The Senate's top two leaders announced a bipartisan deal Wednesday to reopen the federal government after a 16-day partial shutdown as well as avert an unprecedented debt default.

"The compromise we reached will provide our economy with the stability it desperately needs," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who reached the agreement with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

"This has been a long, challenging few weeks for Congress and for the country. It is my hope that today we can put some of those most urgent issues behind us," McConnell said.

House and Senate leaders were still negotiating how to maneuver the legislation through both chambers and get it to President Obama's desk before the Oct. 17 deadline to raise the debt ceiling. However, there was an air of certainty on Capitol Hill now that a formal deal is at hand and votes were expected first in the Senate on Wednesday.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the House would not block a vote on the Senate deal. "The House has fought with everything it has" against the health care law, but he would not allow the risk of default to occur tomorrow. Boehner said Republicans were committed to keeping up the healthcare fight, but would use "smart, targeted strikes" and aggressive oversight in the future. Republicans remain opposed to new taxes, he said.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president "looks forward to Congress acting so that he can sign legislation that will reopen the government and remove this threat from our economy."

Prompt Senate passage appeared all but certain after Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said he would not filibuster the deal. "There's nothing to be gained from delaying this vote one day or two days, the outcome will be same," said Cruz, who gained national attention for his 21-hour filibuster-style speech during a budget debate on his opposition to President Obama's health care law.

The narrow package includes a stopgap measure that would fund the government through Jan. 15, suspend the debt ceiling until Feb. 7 and establish a framework for formal budget negotiations to begin. Negotiators would be tasked with reporting out by Dec. 13 recommendations for longer-term spending levels and deficit reduction. It does not include any significant provisions affecting the Affordable Care Act.

Senate leaders reasserted control of negotiations after Boehner failed Tuesday to corral GOP lawmakers behind a competing budget proposal. House GOP leaders will probably have to rely on House Democrats to pass the Senate package.

"You're going to see a lot of Democrats vote for it, and you might get a few Republicans to vote for it, but I don't think you'll see a wide swath of our conservative caucus vote for what comes over from the Senate," Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., said on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

Conservative outside groups railed against the Senate deal as a "complete surrender" to Democrats, according to FreedomWorks. The group joined a trio that includes Club for Growth and Heritage Action in advising lawmakers to oppose the plan because they will use it to rank Republicans in their annual scorecards.

The shutdown and debt ceiling fight have been politically bruising for the GOP, but Carney declined to say the end result was a victory for Democrats. "There are no winners here," he said. "We said that from the beginning, and we're going to say it right up to the end because it's true. The American people have paid a price for this. And nobody who's sent here to Washington by the American people can call themselves a winner if the American people have paid a price for what's happened. And the economy has suffered because of it, and it was wholly unnecessary."

I ment the Paddy she was living with in a caravan on that tv program

Hello :-))

Gosh she does look very attractive on the photos.

Hope finally this will show doodlebug4 Im of the hetro camp and he stops trolling me all over the place although I have him filtered.

No doubts he will also like the photo but he'l have his eyes fixed on PADDY if his form over the last few days is anything to go by.

Dreamy.

Your seem a little jealous.

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The Republicans are almost as split as the con party and UKIppers.

No he is not my type Fred. :-))

8-))

Is ?

Mind you Rod Stewart gets up to far worse in public, lol.

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What's behind two copies all the time. I can see your point in the FtSE comp. :-))

You knew what was coming.lol

Hi Aldwickk,

I received your email via MoneyAm, but I can't reply as you are not set up on the MoneyAm system, (User doesn't have the internal messaging set up) so hope you see this.

I have not posted on his thread because there was so much dross, mainly answering F**d who I presume is still posting just to wind people up, which is a pity because I enjoyed the banter and discussions with the vast majority who post on here including yourself.

As to the Hay v Tyson fight, I think Hay is just that too good for Tyson.
My reason being is that Tyson still leaves himself open and sometimes has a bit of difficulty stopping himself from 'frailing' and Hay has the power to take him. Mind you if Tyson covers up just that bit more, he could just edge it.
Either way it won't go the distance. I predict no more than 7 rounds.

Note.....Became involved in a violent incident the other day when a shop lifter had a go at a female shop assistant.

I went to intervene and he decided to have a go at me, 5'11" 65 year old light heavy (12.2) v 6'2" 23 year old heavy, result knock down first round to the pensioner in the red corner.

Mind you I can't decide which annoyed me most, the assault on the shop assistant or the yob telling me to "Get out of the way old man, or I'll deck you", I think it was the old man comment, although it actually made me smile.

By it did feel good.

"The Tory chairman of the Commons Treasury Select Committee challenged the Chancellor yesterday, questioning whether he might be improperly favouring Chinese banks over other foreign financial institutions and putting undue pressure on the Bank of England to approve the policy change. Just 24 hours after George Osborne, on a visit to China, promised to help Chinese banks scale up their London operations by lightening the regulatory burden on them, Andrew Tyrie expressed his concern in a letter to Andrew Bailey, head of the Prudential Regulation Authority, the bank supervision arm of the Bank of England, writes The Times."

Told last night "Osborne is back after pimping in Beijing for banks London, suggesting that they the government would turn a blind eye. "

Hey Ho,

i take it you would almost discourage closer collaboration with china then, or is this just another of your nonsenses?

The BBC produced a factsheet a few days ago showing where Chinese investment has been going over recent years.

Last year, Chinese investment in the UK was quite impressive compared to previous years but, in the 6 months to end of June this year, Chinese UK investment hadn't reached 50% of last year's total. Clearly Osborne and BoJo are looking to redress that situation and hopefully see an increase on last year's number by the end of the year.

If London can benefit at the expense of other financial centres such as Frankfurt, it's gotta be a good thing imo.