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Cristina Fernandez attends Havana mass and meets with Pope Francis
Argentine president Cristina Fernández took part in Pope Francis' Sunday's mass from Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion, as she watched the pontiff in the company of her Cuban counterpart Raul Castro. Sitting next to the Cuban president, CFK followed Francis' services as he called for society to “protect the most fragile,” in a service witnessed by more than 100,000 worshippers at the Havana landmark. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“We'll always be with Cuba against the economic blockade, trade and financial. There is no democratic country in Latin America or the world that doesn't repudiate this U.S. policy,” Cristina Fernandez said, adding that “the walls and blockades will continue to fall and when they don't fall through our efforts, they end up falling due to the weight of history.”
Sep 21st, 2015 - 08:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0“this U.S.policy” ? I wonder if la Kretina will kindly inform us how the “Argentine policy towards the Falkland Islands” is any different to the U.S.policy towards Cuba?
Furthermore ““the walls and blockades will continue to fall and when they don't fall through our efforts, they end up falling due to the weight of history.”” What a stupid cow!
CFK is acting like a bit of a fan girl. Just last week Pope Francis was complaining in an Argentine publication about being used by people. He stated he has only a few real friends and clearly CFK is not one of them.
Sep 21st, 2015 - 09:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Bahahaha poor old Pope! Everywhere he goes old turkey neck turns up trying to bathe in the reflected glory. Notice she hasnt arrived for the Rugger World Cup an event with far more international significance.
Sep 21st, 2015 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Castro's papal put down - turning up in a crappy Chav like Adidas shell suit, was great, shows total lack of respect. Still, he is an aethiest.
As for blockades, economic war etc KFC and Gollum know all about that stuff. Bring out the pots and the burning tyres!
@3 The Voice
Sep 21st, 2015 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Are you quite with it? How on earth can one compare the Pope's visit to Cuba with the Rugger(?) World Cup? Chalk and cheese!
I am a keen follower of RUGBY UNION Football and, in my experience, only people who know nothing about that sport call it “rugger”!
Gordo, you obviously didnt play Rugger at school or University did you? My position Wing Forward (that dates me!) Until a few years ago I was a coach! I have been to HQ so many times on club tickets I have lost count. To me, a world Rugger tounament has far more significance than any Papal goings on. When the Pope appeared on his balcony the queue at the burger van disappeared and I saw my chance, thats my take on the Pope. I shall be there at a few matches, will you?
Sep 21st, 2015 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0The bitch just can't keep away she's like a bad smell, UNWANTED.
Sep 21st, 2015 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Gollum is still upright!
Sep 21st, 2015 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, it must have been liver-cancer, NOT. Good job he kept away from the laughingly called Cuban “doctors”.
TMBOA is all over The Dope of a Pope like pox on a prostitute. He deserves it though.
Pre Rugger World Cup rituals..1. The New Zealanders will perform the haka
Sep 21st, 2015 - 01:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 02. The England team will chat about the weather, wave hankies in the air and attach bells to their ankles before moaning about how they invented the game and gave it to the world, and how it's not fair that everyone still thinks New Zealand are the best team in the world.
3. The Scotland team will chant “You lookin' at me Jimmy?” before smashing an Iron Bru bottle over their opponents' heads.
4. The Ireland team will split into two, with the Southern half performing a Riverdance, while the Northerners march the Traditional route from their dressing room to the pitch, via their opponents dressing room.
5. Argentina will unexpectedly invade a small part of opposition territory, claim it as their own “Las In-Goals-Areas” and then be forcibly removed by the match stewards.
6. Two members of the South African team will claim to be more important than the other 13 whom they will imprison between the posts whilst they claim the rest of the pitch for themselves.
7. The Americans will not attend until almost full time. In future years they will amend the records to show that they were in fact the most important team in the tournament, won it single handedly and Hollywood will make a film called 'Saving No.8 Lyle'.
8. Five of the Canadian team will sing La Marseillaise and hold the rest of the team to ransom.
9. The Italian team will arrive in Armani gear, sexually harass the female stewards and then run away.
10. The Spanish will sneak into the other half of the pitch, mow it and then claim that it was all in line with European “grass quotas”. They will then curl up under the posts and have a kip until half time, when their appeal for compensation against the UK government will be heard.
11. The Japanese will attempt to strengthen their team by offering good salaries to the key opposition players and then run around the pitch at high speed in a highly efficient manner before buying the grou
#8 Voice, very good. Any thoughts on Tonga, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Namibia, Georgia, Romania and Samoa?????
Sep 21st, 2015 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@8 The Voice
Sep 21st, 2015 - 06:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Very good? Claptrap and totally idiotic, showing total ignorance of the great celebration of Rugby Football taking place currently in England. Spain is not even represented in the current proceedings!
Castros not as bad as we in Neoliberal World think. Big ego but genuinely loves people, principalled, consistent, very smart, charming, brave but he always had an impossible mission.
Sep 21st, 2015 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Castro and Cristina couldnt be more different. She has no integrity assuming her idealogy as a ticket to power. A career politician and opportunist who read some 'how to be a politician/salesman' books, went to drama classes and is probably worse than we imagine.
Pope Francis and his ideology are silly at the least and should be irrellevant in this day and age.
Apparently CFK is to become the popes official stalker,
Sep 21st, 2015 - 07:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0everywhere you see him,
CFK will not be far behind,
still,
A good obedient puppy serves his master well..
… continued to annoy Gordo. (I know the Dons dont play and arent included..)
Sep 21st, 2015 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 011. The Japanese will attempt to strengthen their team by offering good salaries to the key opposition players and then run around the pitch at high speed in a highly efficient manner before buying the ground (with a subsidy from the UK Government).
12. The French will declare they have new scientific evidence that the opposition are in fact all mad. They will then park lorries across the halfway line, let sheep loose in the opposition half and burn the officials.
13. The Australians will have a bar-b before negotiating lucrative singing and TV contracts in the UK. They will then invite all their mates to come and live with them in Shepherds Bush.
13. Unfortunately the Committee were unable to accept the Welsh suggestion following complaints from the RSPCA.
The Argies and especially the Uruguays have done quite well so far. Much more significant than the Popes visit to Cuba. I thought Gollum had snuffed it… must be topping up his cigar collection?
Gordo1 - don't be a party pooper, just an amusing laugh being offered by The Voice. C'mon fella rugby's a team game.....
Sep 21st, 2015 - 09:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 05
Sep 21st, 2015 - 10:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“you obviously didnt play Rugger at school or University did you? ”
University...UNIVERSITY!!...
Are you implying that you attended University...?
Studying what..?
....are you having a laugh..?
You do realise that you are an idiot...surely...if you don't, you must be the only one..
The only way you ever attended Uni... is to clean it....
...you lookin' at me, wee man...?
@15
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 04:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0“University...UNIVERSITY!!... ” yatter.. yatter... yatter....
yeah, yeah...
Got a chip on your shoulder, wee man?
@13 The Voice
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 06:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0You don't annoy me - I find your stupid prattle quite risible! Pathetic and immature! Especially for a man who played “wing forward” - you really must be one of Will Carling's “old farts”!
By the way, the “Dons” are a soccer team - Wimbledon, I believe!
Such a great day in Cuba...things I would not even dream about only 30 years ago. The world is progressing. Bravo Francisco, Rafael, Fidel and Cristina.
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 06:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Bahahaha, touched a raw nerve with auld Snr Voice! Obviously never been educated. Never played Rugger, dresses up in a skirt and blows his own bagpipes all the time… drone drone drone. Jealousy on show, IT knuckle dragger. Never adds anything to discussions, lives in a sink town, - what a sad person. Wednesday could be fun, thats one match I dont have a ticket for, the Scotch vs the Japenese Giant Killers. How embarrasing for the Scotch? BTW flankers have to be fast and very tough cookies. We jump on little men like yourself.
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 10:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0...are you talking to me...?
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0...anytime you feel like jumping, you know where to find me, I will always make make myself available for Southern fannies....
Now...because you constantly keep displaying your ignorance in almost every post and it does annoy me, I'm going to have to give you an English lesson...
An apostrophe is placed when abbreviating do not...“don't”...and if you also want to shorten....“ that is” an apostrophe is necessary like this...“that's....
Also used here... ”Its“....:It's”
Remember the rule is, if you can add “is” after the word then it's apostrophe followed by the plural “s”
Of course. with your “University” education, you probably already know this....
;-)))))))
oh my....
;-))))))))))
My University education was in Engineering, we didnt study English spellings and I am not going to bother with putting in apostrophies just to satisfy a twat like yourself. Unfortunately your fixation with irrelavent trivia clearly demonstrates your lack of confidence and inferiority complex. You seem to constantly want to display a superior lifestyle to all and sundry which is laughable because you have been caught our so many times and have been made to look a complete buffoon so many times. Good luck with that!
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0@20 Voice
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He doesn't even deny being one of the “old farts” that Will Carling complained about! (Maybe he doesn't even “remember” who Will Carling is or was!)
I have just been told that Rugby Union is called “rugger” ONLY in Scotland - in the civilised countries of the UK it is called “Rugby” - also in all the the rugby playing nations of the world(and also by soccer players everywhere!).
...yeah, I thought so...a southern fanny...
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Most Universities require applicants whose first language is English, the equivalent of GCSE English Language at grade C or above....
...there is no way you have that.....;-)))))
...for example....“apostrophies ”.....hahahaha...it's apostrophes....
...also an A level in physics and mathematics.....you can't even spell them....
What a liar....
I know when I'm conversing with a village idiot....or a university graduate....
What a plonker....;-))))
ChrisR...where are you...?...test this idiot that claims he has a degree in Engineering...;-)
Gordo, Dons = Spaniards, not Wimbledon FC .
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Voice, I do live in an idylic home counties village, but I am not the idiot, thats you as you repeatedly demonstrate :-) Do try to keep up.. You have been outed again and again by the Yanks :-) How is Billys favourite town, wet again? Enjoy Wednesday!
@24 The Voice
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think you should know that ONLY you must utilize “DONS” to describe Spaniards. “Don”, in fact, means “A courtesy title placed before the first name of an older or more senior man/woman as a way of showing them your respect when talking to them or about them.” The word/address is used throughout the Spanish speaking world NOT just Spain. I have been addressed as “don Gordo” in all the Spanish speaking countries where I have lived and worked. Spanish citizens are not know as “Dons” - except in your tiny mind!
By the way, are you one of Will Carling's old farts?
65 degrees yesterday a touch cooler today but sunny....;-))))
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 01:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now that folk are replying to you as The Voice...do you think it's time I alternated between The Voice and Voice to post as you and make you look like a right idiot...?
As you know I can post as you...but you cannot post as me...;-))))
What an idiot...imagine the conversations I could have...
...it's tempting...is it me or is it him...;-)))))
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?
Voicy, I think people here would be able to tell. Your beligerant style and dumb content would soon make it obvious.
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is Gordo one of those Johny come lately Rugger bores that clog up the corporate boxes at HQ and debentures at the Millenium, certainly sounds like one? Does he even know who the Pontypool front row, JPR and Merve the Swerve were? Was he present when Mountain Ash beat California. He talks about Dianas lover but doesnt know anything before that? Probably never played?
At a stretch I'm sure I can emulate an idiot....
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Shall we put it to the test..I'm sure folk will tire of having to guess who they are replying to...
Would have to be complete with all your basic grammatical errors...
I could spin the conversation for a few posts, lead them down the garden path, then reveal myself....
How soon before you are completely ignored....;-))))))
I like it...let's see how many I can dupe....
Play on Voicy, or is it me? Or him? Whadya think of that?
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 01:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did it work....
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 01:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...yeah that was me...;-))))
Nah! Wasnt it was him…
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@27 The Voice
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremayne_Rodd,_3rd_Baron_Rennell?
What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremayne_Rodd,_3rd_Baron_Rennell?
Played with both of them - in fact, used to keep the latter out of 1st team US Portsmouth in the long ago days when it was a first class club. Also played for several seasons with Con Griffin, Irish international against France and England 1951 - he was captain of the civilian club I played for after leaving the Royal Navy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremayne_Rodd,_3rd_Baron_Rennell? is also a contemporary of mine.
Gordo, I must confess I have not heard of them. My first game of Rugby was in 1954 whilst at Grammar School. But… I was married in Portchester Castle to a beautiful Pompey Lass and we celebrated our Golden Wedding very recently. At school Rugby Football was Rugger. For more than 20 years we kept our yacht at various Marinas in the Solent. For a few years at Camper and Nicholsons. My wifes grandpa was at the battle of the Falklands in the RN.
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@33 The Voice
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You must have married at a very young age if 1) you played rugby for the first time in 1954 at Grammar School(Portsmouth?) and 2)you have recently celebrated your Golden Wedding. I was already in the Royal Navy in 1955 and we have not yet celebrated our Golden Wedding.
You were married at the Church within the walls of Portchester Castle? A beautiful church which I used to attend as a young child - we were “bombed out” in Portchester in early April 1944 just before the Allied landings in northern France.
Gordo, we were very young by todays standards. The vicar had his cricket boots on under his cassock :- ) You must know the Cormarant, our local. You must have converted to Catholicism then?
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh no it's Grandpa..The Voice....
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 11:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Steady on Gramps..if I'd known you were an old timer I'd have been a little easier on you...
I take back all my remarks...don't want you having a stroke or something...
You do remember me ?....it's Voice from a few posts back....;-))))
36 wee man
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 12:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0”You do remember me ?....it's Voice from a few posts back....;-))))”
Yeah, people remember you - they're just not interested.
have you NO
dignity ?
@35 the Voice
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 06:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.thecormorant.co.uk
We left Portchester years before I would have been allowed to go to pubs. Does the Cormorant have anything to do with Catholicism?
Haha Voicy, can you tackle 3 Munros in a day? Ride an Audax every couple of weeks, chimney up Sgùrr Alasdair? I can. Fat unfit club boozers like yourself cant. Couch potato… Ageism is almost the lowest kind of insult. Almost… .
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 039 The Grandpa Voice
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Gramps...you are old enough to be my Pa....maybe my Gramps....;-)))
Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
No wonder...all the grammatical errors....
You were taught Middle English....
You have been recategorised...“silly old duffer...likely to fall asleep mid-post”...all posts are irrelevant....best keep reminding him who I am....
ps...It's Voice from yesterday...I said ...VOICE!!....from YESTERDAY!!...;-)))
Voicy… suck on this. https://youtu.be/4ruwmeWFqyc
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Where you live, is a joke, average house price £130000 , average time to sell 412 days
Where I live, average house price £530000 , average time to sell 42 days.
You live in a laughing stock sink town where no one wants to go. (Not even Syrians!)
Bahahahaha Looser.. Wee man
I can see my post hurt...;-))))
Sep 24th, 2015 - 12:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0How did Scotland do in the Rugby...;-)
ps ....It's “loser” ...oh dear it must be that university education.....
Do we believe him...?
Nah...
@40 wee voice,
Sep 24th, 2015 - 01:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0boring... oh, and you quite dated yourself - miserable old curmudgeon
@41 The Voice and @42 Voice
Sep 24th, 2015 - 06:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't know where either of you live(and, frankly, don't really care) but your exchanges are quite amusing for the ten year old behaviour you are both exhibiting. Grow up, both of you!
Gordo, St Marys is an anglican church. Because you said you are Catholic I guess you must have converted? Nothing to do with the Cormarant which is just the local pub. As for Mr Voice, he drags us down to his level, never has any worthwhile comments, always bragging about something or other that he imsgines to prop up his feeling of inferiority. Hates the Falklands, hates Yanks, hates the English etc etc.
Sep 24th, 2015 - 08:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0@45 The Voice
Sep 24th, 2015 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let's just say I was baptised and received into the Universal Church where I continue to worship. I am a Christian and have never been converted from that faith.
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