Al sacar un billete en taquilla con Portillo/Avanza para viajar de Marbella a Sevilla en la estación de Marbella uno descubre que hay siempre excepciones en la teorías de las ciencias sociales. En este caso que sobreviven en la naturaleza los mejores preparados/dotados genéticamente. ¡Pedí el billete para Sevilla, TRES VECES y el morronquín me entregó el billete para Ronda! Me enteré por el precio. Cuando le correjí , se quedó molesto puesto que tenía que cancelar uno y despacharme otro. Otra cosa, AVANZA no acepta tarjetas de crédito. ¡Bien venido al siglo XXI! Por fin con el billete soliciado ya cuatro veces, me escapé del tarquillero convencido que los pro abortistas a veces tienen razón. Darwin, a veces no, ….
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The Spanish press, bot the ABC and El Mundo gave us the news about Senator MaCain´s recent surgery. He was treated with kindness and respect as one who inspite of having been captured In Vietnam showed amazing courage in standing nearly alone in the Republican ranks to defend the values of the Grand Old Party again the egocentric bully from NYC. Please get well, Senator. You are needed in battle again.
Mr. Gómez de Liaño, one of Spain´s better social critics and historians, invites us all to rethink issues that the progressives in the media consider resolved. He concludes that much of the propaganda favoring multiculturalism in the west is purely out of la vie en rose. He asks how we can accept that a culture that accept the open and radical discrimination against women, one that condemns apostates against Islam and a culture that jails homosexuals can blend into western society. The recent history of violence and blood in Syria and Iraq suggests that nations that refuse to recognize the Rights of Man, as defined by the UN will often foster children who are antagonistic to the values of our Atlantic house. In brief, we should not accept multiculturalism when people of one narrow and parochial view are waiting at the door.
Humanism and democracy are the delicious fruits of the West. The Spanish reconquest, the western colonial legacy in many parts of the world such as South Africa, India and Latin America cost those people dearly but what the West left defines much of what they are today. Looks for Ignacio Gómez de Liaño in your library ot in Kindle.
Trump again merits attention in the Spanish press. What is most common is to read that, in Europe, his activities and words may seriously damage the foundations of the American democratic system. With the passivity of an exhausted Republic Party and touch democratic ?arty with its masses, Trump is a prince of havoc. o far not one of his campaign promises has become reality because thinking people in Republican ranks can not support him. His tuits on his prerogative to pardon one and all sounds like something coming out of the mouth of a Maduro in Venezuela or an Erdogan in Turkey.
The poor Catalan independence seekers are behind the ball. Only some 38% of the population now favors to some extent independence. Mr. Rajoy has given them all the rope they needed to hand themselves in public. Remain seated at your door and watch the idiots walk by. Under their leadership Catalonia´s bonds are of junk value. The dept is over a billion euros. Well done Puigdemont! Any of your henchmen or you would obviously make a grand President de la Republica. Now Mr. Puigdemont is crying tears of a poor victim of Franco style tyranny because Madrid has informed him that it will not transfer funds that would be fraudunlently used to pay for acts for which there was no request in the budget Catalonia approved in the regional parliament. Todate, only Ven4zuela has declared its support for the movement. Dime con quien andas.
Don Javier Porcuna, Consejero de Turismo del Ayuntamiento de Marbella, pide la reorientación del turismo hacia un turismo de calidad. Celebro las palabras aunque dudo de la sinceridad del Sr. Consejero viendo la cutrefacción en la cual se ha dejado caer toda la zona histórica de la villa. Si dudas lo que digo, explícame el lamentable estado de la una vez hermoso Patio de los Naranjos que, a la misma puerta del ayuntamiento, ha sido convertido en una vulgar eatería a la cual acuden en la grandísima mayoría de los casos los del turismo low cost. Pido que el Sr. Consejero preste más atención a lo que tiene a la vista en Marbella a la vez que a los establecimientos de Puerto Banus. Sabemos que éste también es Marbella pero no tanto como el Patio de los Naranjos y sus congestionadas y cutres calles colindantes. Es alarmante ver cómo Marbella y tantas ciudades andaluzas están tan heridas de gravedad debido a los intereses que favorecen el turismo tóxico que imposibilitan que la calidad brille entre tanto ordinario y feo.
Donald Trump has come across again at the G-20 meetings in Hamburg as a source of conflict on the world scene. Although he won the support of the Turkish strong man other world leaders present let him go his way. The family photo taken at the end of the summit shows him standing way at the end of the front row of world leaders. That seems to be where his peers place him now, at the end of the line. The United States under Trump and his daughter has thrown away its preeminent position among nations. Well, at least we still have our place on the Security Council.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt probably have their reasons for the boycott against Qatar. But, reading through the 13 points of their ultimatum, some of them seem curious to say the least. First, the demand that Doha close down Al Jazeera is a real mystery. I watch their news broadcasts (not shows a la Quest or Cristine Amanpour). The broadcasts are some of the best TV journalism to be found. Opinions and positions are always well grounded in facts and obvious research into issues. Of course there is more attention given to the Islamic world but that is natural. AL Jazeera also offers some of the best documentaries to be found on television. Qatar´s friendship with Turkey and Iran makes sense. Tell me who your neighbors are and I will tell you who my friends are. Probably Qatar does maintain channels of contacts with Arab organizations not of Saudi liking, but after all, such channels could be of interest to others who have none. Talking is not supporting. That the four countries demand that Qatar cease to interfere in their internal affairs, well…, talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Then, there is the issue of double nationality. If people live in Youngstown or Doha for years it seems natural enough that they be allowed nationality there. Qatar is a tiny nation but it is a sovereign one too. Were it larger, those now pressuring her might not have made demands that they know are doomed to failure. CNN, the financial Times, the BBC, Reuters, the Atlantic and papers such as El Mundo here in Spain all label the 13 demands as excessive, abusive and designed to failure. At least the media might consider standing by Al Jazeera, one of the very few free sources of serious news in the Islamic world where even progressive regimes like those that censure Qatar are at times called to face public opinion in an open forum listened to around the world.
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