Friday, February 19, 2010

Smelly Cheerleader Feet

A foreign language


"The defendant (Euskal Herriko (Laborantza Ganbera) takes refuge in a foreign language." So says the prosecutor. The defendant is Basque. The foreign language is Euskara. The where they have committed the alleged crime is Euskal Herria, the people who speak Euskera. The prosecutor is French, owner of one of the most powerful and widespread languages \u200b\u200bin the world.
The English Popular Party is complaining because parents of the Basque Autonomous Community are determined that their children are enrolled in school in Euskera, and conclude that there must be some blackmail, any pressure or some cosmic trick for this to happen. How can a citizen of the English state wants their children to learn Euskera?
Throughout my life I have learned several languages, and my only regret is not having learned a lot more. "Nothing human is alien to me," said Terence more than two thousand years. And is there anything more humane than the language? Some of the language are woven ideas, form societies, peoples. Learn a language and understand that society.
Never crossed my imagination be described as a foreign language they know, and those who do not know are my absence, my ignorance and I hope one day be mine, when learning.
How can such ignorance, such a lack of respect, people who are supposed to take care of public welfare (or at least that is what they pay)?
I can only think of two reasons: fear and hatred. Interestingly, these same people melt when their taste buds speak English, when, from their point of view, is a language other threat to their beloved French English due to its rising political and economic. What threat is Euskera, humble language, which only aims to be spoken by people of your country? Yes, there seems to be a threat to the chauvinism of the grandeur of France and the sacred unity of Spain. Ignorance, arrogance and canyons. Is there a more dangerous combination?

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Brunton 440rangefinder

Marie Antoinette and Angela Murillo


Two great characters in the history of Europe. One lived in a time when women had little to say, but being queen, was an exception and said everything he could think of. The other Judge in the XXI century, when women have much to say and say it without problems. And both have taken advantage of their circumstances to speak with moderation and intelligence, demonstrating their skills of empathy, elegance and poise.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

My Mom Beats My Backside With A Hairbrush

The strike, a weapon loaded with benefits


Unemployment is a drama. In Spain there are four million dramas: young disenchanted because, despite their efforts to prepare for the labor market, still living at home with their parents and asking for pay, without being able to plan, emancipated. access to adult life. Middle-aged people with family responsibilities, mortgages ... it feels unsuccessful in his own career by not being able to frente a sus compromisos. Gente ya mayor, que sabe que no volverá a tener la oportunidad de trabajar, y que no sabe cómo podrá encarar un futuro con la pensión menguada hasta límites de pobreza tercermundista. Gente a la que le gusta su trabajo, orgullosa de su capacidad, que se siente despreciada por la sociedad que le ha dicho "tú ya no nos vales". Cuatro millones de dramas. Frustración, depresiones, suicidios, familias destrozadas.

Pero en la lógica del Sistema (y ésta es la que cuenta; para éso la votamos cada cuatro años), son cuatro millones de oportunidades.
Indeed, unemployment turns work into a privilege. And who gets what should be grateful to the company and know that comes, goes, and we must behave
Besides, the unemployed can not strike.
And, they can engage in black without social security, no agreements or labor laws, no timetables, no minimum wages.
And if you do not like, I pick the following, which is tail, and are also undocumented migrants.
And the motto is "every man for himself" and you can is always the pattern.
Unemployment System is gasoline, and when it is uphill, you have to put more gas.