Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Farewell then to Dale Robertson, the "beeg man"
If anybody can get the Stagecoach through he can
In many movies he was A.N.Other
and he got his break through writing to his mother
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/28/dale-robertsonIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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He was good in the westerns.always the good cowboy.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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R.I.P. 'beeg man'
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Farewell Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela
muffle the drum mute the vuvuzela
scorched by mega-media might
he surely must have done something right
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/05/hugo-chavez-dies-cubaIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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He even had his own tv show 'Alo Presidente', Bye Presidente R.I.P
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I suspect that there will be additional viewpoints to add to, or expand upon, what is written in the obituary.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Chávez's legacy
"Having lived and worked in Nicaragua for the best part of 25 years, I'm pleased you report the sad death of Hugo Chávez so well (Report, 6 March). The support Venezuela under Chávez gave to countries like Nicaragua is immense and has set the region on a path to growth, stability and unity. The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) is just the latest of many initiatives aimed at unifying Latin America. Alba, Petro-Caribe and Unasur are all well established and bearing fruit. I am so pleased that in death Chávez is getting the recognition denied to him by a biased western media, obsessed with painting him in a negative light. I can vouch firsthand of the benefits to Nicaragua of Venezuela under Chávez. I'm sure there are many in Bolivia, Ecuador and Cuba who can do the same. One of the great Latin American leaders has passed away, but I hope that the seeds sewn, which he saw develop into young, strong shoots, will continue to flourish.
Nicholas Hoskyns
London "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/06/chavez-legacy-venezuela-nicaragua Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 718- Registered: 28 Jun 2011
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Sad to hear that the legendary jazzman Kenny Ball has died, aged 82. Here he is at Dover Cruise Terminal in 2009.
Guest 744- Registered: 20 Mar 2012
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So sad. Anyone remember the concert he gave at Lyn and Trevor Vince's Marley Farm Nurseries many years ago? It was excellent.
Guest 744- Registered: 20 Mar 2012
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Correction: it was not at the nursery but at the pub nearby. Can't remember the name.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Sad indeed, KB and the Jazzmen give a good show.
http://www.kennyball.co.uk/Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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The White Horse at Finglesham Carole , burnt down?
Watty
Guest 744- Registered: 20 Mar 2012
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That's the one Paul. Great sprawling Victorian pub run by a landlord called Joe and I seem to remember the food was very good.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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In addition to #s 7&8...
"I was very disappointed with the obituary of Hugo Chávez (6 March). It was mealy mouthed and mean-spirited. Nowhere does it mention his erudition. He was extraordinarily well-read and was able to quote from classical literature and philosophy at will. This is in deep contrast to his antagonist, the appallingly ignorant George Bush
Nowhere does it mention his achievement in bringing down rates of poverty, raising standards of healthcare and education. Nowhere does it mention the increase in GDP in Venezuela. Nowhere does it mention that the part nationalisation of the oil industry was a reasonable and just way of trying to keep the vast profits being made by the American oil companies in Venezuela for the people of Venezuela. Nowhere does it mention the movement for the states of South and Latin America to form their own independent group outside the influence of the United States.
It belittled his coup attempt of 1992 and made little of the old corrupt regime where power and wealth was concentrated in the hands of very few. It almost implied that these factors were a figment of his imagination. It belittles his constitutional reforms that neutered that concentrated power of the rich and allowed the poor to have a say. It talks of General Romero somehow provoking a crisis but no mention of the covert and overt attempts by the US to remove an elected leader. It totally misrepresents his ideas of socialism. It does not mention that rightwing TV stations were actively encouraging revolution and sedition before being closed down.
What is the reference to class hatred? From the beginning he was threatened by the US and the rich. Instead of working with him (as with Fidel Castro), they drove him further to the left and into the arms of some rather unsavoury international politicians. Talk of seizure of land rather than land reform to allow a more just society shows how tilted this obituary was.
One has to read the articles by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, and a letter from Nicholas Hoskyns to get a more balanced view of a great revolutionary figure who did more to reduce poverty and enfranchise the people than any western leader could ever do.
Dr Rupert Gud
Tavistock, Devon"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/08/assessing-legacy-hugo-chavezIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Tom - interesting reading.
Roger
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Perhaps of interest to a few here...
Farewell Bob Bushaway, big talker
writer and Pilgrimage walker
a noted expert on World War One
and upon how English 'folk' was done
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2013/mar/10/bob-bushaway-obituaryIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I hear that there is a TV programme called Dancing On Ice. You may know that already, sad news then...
Legendary broadcaster Tony Gubba dies at 69
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/football-gubba-dies-69-132911927.html
[Too soon yet for further info.]
P.S.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/11/tony-gubbaIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Jan Higgins
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