Spanish Basketball Olympic Team accused of racism but guilty of stupidity

Spanish media took a picture from the Spanish Basketball team and they decided that it would be funny to act 'Chinese' in the picture. Maybe it was funny at the moment, now is just giving them a big headache. As The Guardian informed they weren't being consciously racist, but probably pretty stupid.

Since I saw the news in The Guardian I have began reading in different Chinese media (and international media too) an increasing attack against the team. I am convinced it was not a clever think to do and not exactly disrespectful, however, thanks to the media, this is being magnified and exaggerated.

The way Spaniards are pictured in most countries all over the world have always been and probably will continue to be through stupid topics (many times these are not even true). You shall think this is not the same as talking about race, it is about culture, and in many places around the world people takes culture and traditions more than seriously, and Spaniards don't make an international issue about it.

The team shouldn't have done that, but little stupid things can NOT be used as an excuse every now and then to create a conflict. People worldwide have to learn respect and, more important, to be able to go through misunderstandings and differences.

This would help us all.

Picture from The Guardian.

Transport strike strikes all Spain

Tomorrow I am going to saw all the trees in the city so the streets are unusable, then I am going to go house by house and put chewing gum into every lock, when finished with this I’ll go straight to someone else’s house and park my car in front of their garage door,… all that because I do not agree with oil prices. Oh! Sorry I can’t do that! I’ll go straight to jail! Wait… I don’t really get it, if some people is doing it in Spain and feel proud about, how come I can-t do it myself? Oh! Yes! It IS illegal! And it sadly shows an individualism dangerously close to I-just-care-about-me attitude. Not just them, the whole country is paying indirectly and many people directly, so as yourself why taxes that everyone pay should just benefit a really small percentage of the population?

It is great that someone uses their right to strike if they believe that a revindication is worth it. That is one think, but you canNOT screw a whole country that, by the way, is suffering as much as you for the same reason, just because you think your cause is morally superior to the reasons the rest of the country might have, or just because you have the means to do it (trucks).Dixit.

Picture from La Vanguardia.

Spanish green party unblooming

There is a pretty relevant conclusion to be drawn from the elections in Spain this week. The Communist Party - which encompasses the Greens too - has been almost pushed out of the competition! Especially in Catalunya where they have been losing supporters since the formation of a the coalition with the socialists ... thank God.

Years ago they were doing a proper job pushing the government to be a little greener, which is a really good thing, but since they had the chance they just began enjoying all the benefits that being in the government gives you, and just banning every initiative or infrastructure that may help building a better country.

You can’t just say NO to everything, they have been acting just as snoby-trendy-exmarxists. Criticizing always everything but nothing to say (now and before) about the massacres in the old USSR, Romania, Cambodia or the lack of human rights in Cuba.

Go home, relax, take a deep breath and began feeling comfortable with people’s disenchantment because the very first time you can be in the government and you act as you did, showed people they should be more careful next time.

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Girl shipped out of Spain back to Ipanema

Brazil and Spain have lately been screwing up one another’s tourists, reportedly sending them back upon arrival.

What made the situation news first was Brazilia’s reply when they stopped 13 Spaniards travelling to Brazil who were stopped by custom guards and shipped back to Spain.

That happened after Spain returned some 800 Brazilian visitors home. They must have thought the guys were missing their families already.

Everyone is still smiling and saying how they are both good friends… “but”.

Just a quick note: Spain is the second biggest investor in Brazil, I know it wasn’t probably under Spain’s neocolonization plan but when you get you may, and just may, be asked for something in return.

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The better of two evils

Socialists won the election in Spain, the conservative PP increased votes and Catalan nationalists, the CiU, gained 10 members of parliament and a big influence in Spanish politics once again.

One would say the necessity of some agreements to form the Government shall bring moderation and stability to Spain. Well ‘one’ would be wrong. I bet since Popular Party increased their results in almost half a million votes, they are going to be as radical as always with their policies, looking for citizen confrontation which helps nobody but them.

On the other hand Socialists, with just simple majority, are going to believe that they have been given a green card to do all the silly things they proposed. Welcome to the fall of the Spanish empire, it’s been always so easy to spend someone else’s money, something which they are really good at, that I just hope some other party may stop them. However I am afraid the only ones who could do it, the conservative Catalan party CiU, is just going to work to return their arse into the Catalan Government, no matter what it takes.

Let’s hope one day politicians understand that the value of a Government is not in the length of terms, but in the use they make of them; a politician may lead long yet very little. So I encourage them from here to be honest with themselves to build a better country for us all.

Image from La Vanguardia.

The blood in Spain falls mainly down the drain

Terrorism in Spain is a significant concern but the country's citizens should not let that issue, alone, influence their vote. The two main parties - the socialist PSOE and the conservative PP - have proved themselves incapable to find a solution for it.

They should be extremely ashamed about the bad way they have always dealt with terrorism. Spanish media has reported the joint briefing the two parties came up with to condemn the violence.

However if you read the fine print, you realize that even condemning violence together takes them a huge effort. So in my opinion if losing more voters is more important than losing more people they should get no votes at all.

Isaías Carrasco assassinated by ETA

We pray with those whose overwhelming grief cries for peace.

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Top hit: “My girl” by Mariano Rajoy

Rajoy recently said he wished a better Spain were a little innocent girl would love to live with peace and harmony. Obama did the same a few days later.

“Obama quoted me” said Rajoy yesterday… Do I need to comment on that? I am imagining counselors in the Democrat American campaigns looking for ideas in conservative Spanish political parties... ehem

It’s beyond funny.

After laughing my way to the grave and began breathing again I just thought about the poor little girl. He forgot to say how things would for this little, tinny, cute, lovely, adorable girl in a peaceful and full of opportunities Spain.

If that girl happened to have two mummies or two Daddies Rajoy is not going to let her live with them. God helps her not to be gay, because she is going to have no rights.

If the kiddo happens to be handicapped her parents are not going to get any help from he government. If their parents don’t agree with a catholic doctrine, better they shut up and ask for nothing since Rajoy thinks religion should be compulsory in shcools. If she doesn’t come from a nice neighborhood, hope she aspires to work either as a waiter or in a factory.

Of course (Rajoy) thinks her bigger aspiration is hunting a husband and being a princess, but she better is careful as divorce is going to be a calvary, the husband can beat, hit, stab or burn you (if not all together) but marriage is an institution, and God apparently have whispered him to maintain it no matter how hard it is.

No relieve when dying in pain, no public help from the government when old… the list could go on but there’s no need.

God save Spain… I just hope my God is not the Same as Rajoy’s.

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Zapatero (PSOE) VS Rajoy (PP) , Spain elections are a circus!

Spanish politicians improve themselves every election. Seems that in the country the more nonsense you are the more votes you may get.

Both proposals are something to really listen carefully. While ones(PSOE) offer you the eternal kingdom of future poverty, the other ones (PP) are willing to go back to the civil rights which our former beloved dictator planned for the country.

Have all of them gone crazy? Where do they have their minds while talking about giving back to every citizen 400euros? Increasing the pensions, hire tones of teachers, give money away for young people paying their apartments? Who is going to pay all that? How much fun is to play with everyone else's money? Love it.

Or in the other side still insisting on ETA being the planner in Madrid’s terrorist attacks, wanting to go back in 101% of the laws that the current government have applied, supporting every single issue that goes through the, pretty empty, heads of the Catholic Church in what I’ve heard it is a secular Spain. The PP is just unbelievable, who have given them the power of deciding what's moraly correct!?! Sure in a little while they'll decided who rules the party with white smoke... no more comments.

At that point, one can just think that either we are going back to Franco, whom I am sure they would bring back to life if they could, or try to have our Evita Peron’s philosophy which basically consists in giving bread away while you do anything to create wealth so people can feed themselves without having to beg in the future.

The only possible conclusion one can arrive to is that Spanish politicians don’t even try to disguise the fact that they are trying to buy votes instead of gaining them. Pathetic.

Image from La Vanguardia.