Obama is white!

To celebrate election day, what better than doing it with a smile in your face. Chris Rock tells a shocking "truth" about Obama on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Our president is white!

Priceless!

Elections in Spain

The conservative party has won the elections in Spain. In fact, it has not given a chance to the other "right wing" party in the country, paradoxically called Socialist Party. I want to give PP ( the winning Popular Party) a chance to prove they can change something, but to be honest, they are going to need a miracle.

¡Bemsha SWING!: Indignados

¡Bemsha SWING!: Indignados:Here is a post from a fellow blogger about the indignados in Spain. The post contains a collection of slogans that the blogger in question translated into English. Totally worthy!
Also, thanks to clarissasblog.com  where I found the link!

Political bipartidism and soccer

This is an example of how human stupidity works. Spain is a country where people are experts on ruining excellent opportunities to excel (Before nationalistic heat starts blooming among readers from Spain, I have to say that I'm originally from Spain). In 1977, the newly pro-democracy government allowed for a system that allowed a multitude of parties to be contenders in the political race (about the the Spanish electoral system and the application of the D’Hondt method I may talk in the future). Now, any legal political party can run, but in reality, only two parties PSOE and PP have any chance of winning the elections. Spain has ruined in a little over 30 years the opportunity of having a country with a wide representation of political ideas. In exchange, we are stuck with two sides of the same coin, where a few corporations and "Lords" control the country, represented by half-wit politicians.

The analogy with soccer lays in the boring Spanish La Liga, the strongest league in the world according to FIFA. In the last few years, the difference between the two soccer giants Real Madrid and Barcelona, and the rest of the teams has grown so large that world-class teams as Valencia, Sevilla, or Villareal, or historic teams as Athletic de Bilbao or Atletico de Madrid, talk only about the possibility of finishing third in the so called“other Liga”. (I reserve another post to talk about the share of television revenues among the Spanish teams)

As in politics, people who stop for a second to think about the situation, do not want to have bipartisan systems like these. However, if you do not care too much about politics or soccer, you will try to establish an alliance with one of the powerful sides, no matter how little they have in common with your own conception of politics or soccer. I am not implying that only people that do not have the capacity for deeply analyzing different situations support these two parties or these two teams but, definitely, they make for a high percentage of their mass support.

The Four Great Hypocresies of the Debt Deal

Let me start by saying that I do not always agree with Keith Olbermann's way of express himself in front of the camera, probably because sometimes, paradoxically, it reminds me of some specimens from Fox News. In this occasion, I must say, he has delivered as anyone should have after the agreement on the debt ceiling was announced.

Olbermann addresses, among many others, two very important points in his speech (that you can watch here). One is about the Republican demand of a constitutional amendment to avoid deficit, the other is directly related and, obviously, has to do with the decision to not adding any revenues. With such an amendment in effect, it is scary to think, Olbermann says, what may happen if, God forbid, we are struck by a terrorist attack, or a natural disaster (I don’t have to remind anybody about Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya). If adding revenue is out the game for the government, who is going to pay for the future boo-boos in the economy? The answer, unfortunately, comes straight to your face, YOU!

The President did not have the balls...

to invoke the 14th amendment, the so called constitutional option in order to raise the debt ceiling. One has to wonder if Republicans would have already done it, or if the President is just exhausting all options before doing it. We'll know by Tuesday at the latest!

Question: what do you think about the President position in this issue?