Obama mania…
Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 5:43pm
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I don’t have time to do blogging justice today. I’ve got to scuttle off to an event which I am rather nervous about as organisers have said that they want me to translate words from old Welsh ( gwenhwyseg) in to modern day Welsh. I don’t think that this can be to show that politicians have other interests, as I have never claimed to be a Welsh language specialist! But there we are, it will be an experience…. I’ve done a vlog which is on my youtube site, but the sun is in my eyes, so its not the best one I’ve ever done. Feel free to take a look at it anyway.
I’ve just been watching Obama’s inauguration. I didn’t catch the beginning but he’s certainly an inspiring speaker. Oh to have so many turn up to political events in Wales! I truly hope that he can be the change that Americans are so desperately crying out for after the disastrous Bush administration. An historical day it is, and the expectations are high for Obama to deliver- not only to save the American economy, but the World’s also..Now where have I heard that before?!
In the Assembly today we had a statement on open cast mining, and the implementation of 500 meter buffer zones- this has been Plaid Cymru policy for a while, and so I welcome the announcement. So too do I welcome the health impact assessments for open cast mining developments. I hope we can monitor its implementation, although I would prefer that no opencast mining took place at all.
I’ll have a few things to blog about tomorrow- I wanted to comment on the fact that MPs may be potentially exempt from releaseing their expenses to the public. One word comes to mind- hypocrisy. How can the government justify spending thousands of pounds to develop ID cards, keep thousands of innocent people’s information on the DNA database, when they refuse to be open and accountable themselves? Disgraceful.
