Phillipines now replaces Spain as the pariah du jour

Gee that didn't take long. Now it's the Phillipines' turn to go from ally to bedwetting, yellow, shitty, untrustworthy pariah. So for the next few months it's the Phillipines' turn to be haragued about how pathetic they are and such losers. Don't misunderstand me, the government not only shouldn't negotiate with these scumbags but should send its very, very best special unit to hunt these bastards down and kill them in such a manner that no other low life ever thinks about kidnapping another Filipino.

I know, I know, it's so much easier to cut a deal than to kill. So a word of advice to the jingopundits and other critics: by all means deplore the negotiations if they're confirmed but don't succumb to the temptation to insult Filipinos as cowardly pariahs 'cause you'll need their help again real soon and they'll remember the insults for some time. Hence they'll think twice before helping out. After all, if they're cowardly, yellow, fearful wimps than their help is completely useless isn't it?

Update: Well it's confirmed but before the American jingopundits foam at the mouth, they'll want to read Sassy's post and the comments therein. It appears that Gloria has decided with a mixture of extreme public pressure and some possible wiliness to ensconce itself in a potential Kerry administration. So remember jingopundits, it's not always about the Stars and Stripes

CHOI FM: la libérté d'expression comme opium

La libérté d'expression est devenue un opium des médiatiques. C'est une drogue que lorsque l'on invoque, tout le monde doit se plier sous ses effets narcotiques.

Malheureusement pour les animeateurs de cete station ainsi que les proprios, la libérté d'expression n'est jamais absolue mais parfois relativisée. On ne peut pas justifier de propos injurants et insultants comme la libérté d'expression. Désolé mais les insults ne sont jamais d'expression seulement que d'injures qui croissent la haine innécessairement.

Je crois qu'on voit le pendule rétourner à la civilté dans les discours. En États-Unis, la station de Howard Stern a été amendé à un montant 500 000$ U.S. pour ses propos poronograhpiques et les directeurs l'ont suspendu pour une semaine afin de sauver son emploi. Les auditeurs québécois mérient mieux que la radio-poubelle

Elections and terrorism: who's cowardly now?

Yesterday, I read on the Net about the Justice department's very public musings about postponing the elections should a terrorist atack occur in America. It's curious isn't it that the same jingopundits who fulminated against Spain's cowardice at voting out the Popular party and perfidy in removing the troops so quickly from Iraq, stay silent when their own government muses whether or not to suspend one of the most important institutions of a democracy: voting.

It never occurred to Aznar, as unpopular and polarizing as he was, to postpone the elections. Yet, I haven't yet read anything by the jingopundits that decry the Bush administration's panicking, lack of fortitude or mock the sheer idiocy of the proposal. After all, don't the jingopundits always remind us that Americans voted in a presidential election during their civil war when the dangers were far more present?

I'm unimpressed by this trial ballon. It bespeaks of a growing loss of nerve by the Administration and a lack of confidence in the electorate that it'll vote for the 'wrong candidate'. More importantly, that the Justice department has even contemplated this proposal highlights a glaring flaw with the Bush administration: a certain tone deafness with respect to consequences of its policies and an unwillingness to learn from the past. If anything, the proposal should've alerted him to the political implications to the charges that he's surreptiously instituting a dictatorship, because his electoral victory remains suspect, and squash any proposals that would reinforce common, but false, prejudices about him.

L'?t? ou le Qu?bec en f?te

On conna?t tr?s bien les festivals tenus ? Montreal, mais cette ville-l? n'est pas la seule. En fait c'est toute la province qui f?te puisque chaque ville et village organisent un ou plusieurs festivals estivals modeste que soient-ils.

Josh Freedman- humoriste de la Gazette avait ?crit il fait quelques ann?es que les Qu?b?cois sont de f?teurs professionels. Je suis d'accord parce que notre ?t? dure si peu et on veut profiter du bon temps ? son maximum et rester les plus d'heures possibles dehors. En outre les f?te nous rappelent que chaque saison ? son propre rytme et que le travail n'est pas si important que l'on pr?tend.

La temporada de congressos

Noto que durant l'estiu els partits pol?tics espanyols aprofiten de la temporada per tenir congressos. Aquests d'on es orienta la plataforma, ratifiquen o no el cap del partit i l'executiu, articular una nova orientaci? si cal i festejar de qu? eixerits, llestos i macos els son.

M'intressava seguir el congres del PSOE. Observava com encara els el costava a les espanoylistes a aceptar que Motilla integr?s al executiu federal. Un ingratitude tenint amb compte que sense el PSC, el partit nacional no hagu?s guanyat les eleccions europees, ni hagu?s consolidat el poder pol?tic en el pa?s a trav?s la vict?ria a la Generalitat- regalitat pels republicans- ni a les nacionals.

Quant al convergents, era interessant a llegir de c?m el partit intenta reconstuir-se desde el desfet. Acordo amb Saez per? afegiria que la perduda a siguda la cosa m?s positive ep partit. El la permet de renovar-se amb nova sang, plantagar noves idees i persudir de nou per que el partit mereix guanyar no sols la Generalitat ans tamb? els municipis. A veure com Mas i el seu equip dirigiran el partit en els pr?xims anys.

No s? si el PP ha celebrat el seu congres. Si l'he mancant, m'enfadar? per que m'haguessi agradat llegir que hauria decidit el partit. Suposo que no llan?aran Rajor a fora del barc del partit..per ara. En tot cas, l'estiu es la temporada de congressos pol?tics.