Thursday, July 29, 2010

Mazatlan/dune Buggy Rental

NATIONAL

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Excerpt from the book I'm writing:

One day we went to help in a nearby field, I noticed a deep trench dug in the ground. Asked my companion and I pointed to the sky, and made a hand plane and the other pump. "Hindus," he said with astonishing calm. And at dinner I found out that Indian aircraft, having violated the sky Pakistan had dropped a few bombs in the fields. He did not kill or hurt anyone, but a house had been damaged and were still arranging, and tenants who had been thrown to the ground, frightened shrapnel and built the trench.
And I thought about what our friend told us commander, that the Pakistanis were his people, both as to the other side of the border, and never attack or bombed population, but the Indians felt at home outside and did not care to do so in either of the two sides.

Years ago, during the Yugoslav wars, I thought of those words, when my younger sister asked me, upon hearing the news from Sarajevo ...
- How is it that some guys who have been brothers, who speak the same language, playing with the same selection, bomb and kill in this way so barbaric? -
And is that Serbs never considered as part of the Bosnians themselves, but to their land, the taxes collected. For them it was part of Greater Serbia.

That is extreme nationalism.

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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Gretchen Rossi College

uncompromising SOMETHING MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED YEARS






Just over two hundred years, a bourgeois society with its covenanted king seeking a partner, a marriage of convenience to save her impoverished empire commercial.

Just over two hundred years a noble society made a pact with his queen looking for a partner, a marriage of convenience to open its thriving kingdom to the Mediterranean.

Just over two hundred years, the kingdom of Aragon had suffered two consecutive plague epidemics, its population being reduced to one third. With France in full expansion, the Aragonese, who until then had managed to stop it, could do little. The solution was the king's marriage with the princess French or English queen.

Just over two hundred years, Castile suffered a cruel civil war against feudal nobles who wanted to modernize his kingdom. The second beat and queen married to King of Aragon. Thus was established what we now call Spain.
a result, Aragon continued to govern the trade in the Mediterranean and Castile was revamped and created the world's most modern management, with which could run an empire where the sun never set.
Catalonia and Aragon not maintained its independence until the early eighteenth century that France beat the Catalan army after he had done with Castilian. Catalan laws were repealed, the land shared between France and Spain and its people prosecuted and punished to the late nineteenth century.

Now, one hundred fifty years later, nineteenth-century bravado fools to have defied and insulted an entire people, and acting under a constitution that defends more compelling in a game rooted in authoritarianism and another in fear, have laid the groundwork for the final breakage.

Five hundred years, who read history will laugh at the stupidity of those individuals who had in his hand to recover the history that was created five hundred years ago. Today

listened to politicians and commentators praise the progress autonomy, met for what was polite and civilized population. And I thought that Catalan should leave education to the background and civilization to a third party to catch up the rest.

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