On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:00:09 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:27:59 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:05:57 -0500, Harry Krause wrote:


Hall, Herring, Hertvik, and the rest of the right-wing simpies are
xenophobic in the extreme, and want to blame all our ills on immigrants,
rather than our own failures as a society.

Must have been a major influx of illegal aliens this past year. The new
rankings are in, and we are not even in the top ten.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4020523.stm

I wouldn't live in Ireland if you paid me.

The food sucks, the weather sucks, you have to pay sixteen different
agencies to get a freakin' fishing license (remind me to tell the
story about Liam Neeson), the roads suck, you can't get a decent hotel
room in Dublin, bums living in travel trailers along the sides of the
major roads, TV is ridiculously lame, not to mention that they drive
on the wrong side of the road in little teeny cars that are unfit for
human use, everything is taxed twelve times over and all there is to
see are wet green fields and big old stone buildings falling down all
over the place.

Oh, and the people talk funny.

The herding dogs were cool though.

You've not spent enough fine soft days in Ireland. It's a lovely
country. My Irish bride and I stay in B&Bs, and find them a great way to
not only get a nice room, but to meet nice people and pick up local
color.

And a good case of St. Patrick's Revenge which is was happened to me -
twice. I'd never stay in a B&B ever again.

No offense to your lovely bride.

I've only watched a bit of the telly while in Ireland...no time
or reason to spend time in front of the Boob Tube. And I did get to meet
some great writers, include one or two that are almost famous.

And I met a movie actor who actually is famous. :)

There was nothing in Ireland that I would go back for on purpose
except for the lovely, beautiful Border Collies.

Later,

Tom