tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post61861779042926171..comments2023-11-05T09:37:36.840+01:00Comments on A View From Rural Wales: Hello from CobhGlyn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442114752573417252noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-51015871964045171522009-10-29T17:52:29.756+01:002009-10-29T17:52:29.756+01:00Alan - My son, who works in Cork cannot wait for i...Alan - My son, who works in Cork cannot wait for it to begin. He thought it was March 1st.<br /><br />Scaltu - I see that the US has emerged from recession. Only the UK left now with a shrinking economy.<br /><br />Anon - surprised there was no interest in rugby. There are signatures of Munster players on balls and shirts all over the place.Glyn Davieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344589217554138315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-69852947859037533692009-10-29T15:59:15.920+01:002009-10-29T15:59:15.920+01:00I once watched England play Ireland in the 6Nation...I once watched England play Ireland in the 6Nations while making a BBC programme in lovely Cobe for BBC Radio Wales. The tiny bar was crammed full of elderly locals with little or no interest in rugby and around 30 US Boston Police Officers from the Boston Police Band in kilts... a good time was had by all. Fond memories... though a terrible programme. Too much guinness at every turn unfortunately.... hence annonymity!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-25205359341030960492009-10-28T02:05:56.350+01:002009-10-28T02:05:56.350+01:00Well come back with some Irish in you! To fight w...Well come back with some Irish in you! To fight with! Roll on the election. <br /><br />Funny thing here, the Obama 'team' is already blaming the Democratic candidate ahead of the Virginia (VA) governorship election - the Democratic candidate is 10 or 11 points down. In NJ the unthinkable might happen, the Democratic incumbent might get kicked out. If this happens that will be much harder for team Obama to brush off. <br /><br />Obama's poll ratings have fallen so deeply and so fast one has to go back several presidents to see such fast falls. People are waking up to the awful Obama policies - his team are Marxist - left of center/centre, and are very much set in the Chicago machine politics mode which most Americans find abhorrent (including many Chicagoans of which I still count myself as one as I was an Illinois resident and lived/studied and worked in Chicago for some five years on entering the USA with a GC). <br /><br />I'm not actually a republican, I'm a socialist, but I don't see why destroying the small business sector which Obama is doing right now (his flowery words about how important the American small business sector is for job creation are just that: flowery words) ... Obama neither understands nor cares about small businesses. His policies are killing small businesses in America, the backbone of America. <br /><br />I am wondering if Obama is doing this on purpose - whether he is adopting the boiling frog model, wherein the water is heated up in stages fooling the frog that doesn't try to jump out until it's too late. <br /><br />Obama wants the US economy to fail, his team is against free enterprise, they want a government planned economy on the old Soviet model, and they would like to lock up those that disagree. Since under the US Constitution the government can't lock people up absent a full declaration of an emergency - Obama wants to create such an emergency where the public begs for a government take over of everything. It is frightening - the USA is moving towards a single party state under Obama, and then it will be the world under Obama. <br /><br />Sound the Alarm.Scaltunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-56529351716760816742009-10-28T00:58:15.359+01:002009-10-28T00:58:15.359+01:00You will be pleased to know that the new Fastnet S...You will be pleased to know that the new Fastnet Swansea-Cork ferry - the "Julia" - will begin operation in April 2010 (see my blog entry). You can see it berthed there.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16258854366964329334noreply@blogger.com