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PL just sent me what he believes is a made-up story by La Vanguardia’s plagiarist moron in London, Rafael Ramos, the essence of which is that the City thinks that our new leader, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is just wonderful. There are a number of problems with the article: Various businesses in the City include…
They’ve nailed Jack Kelley of USA Today, so when are we going to hear some news from Josep Maria Casasús on the fate of La Vanguardia’s plagiarising illiterate, Rafael Ramos? (Here he is with some more porkies in the Independent, full text on al-Jazeerah.)
Half of Spain has been walking round for the past decade chanting “Aznar, murderer,” which is demonstrably untrue, and nothing at all has happened. Now a kid down in Seville has put a picture on his website of some virgin (sorry, Our Lady of Hope of Triana) with a willy in her hand and a…
A number of people I spoke to yesterday were firmly convinced that Mr Aznar had himself planted the bombs, and that even al-Qaeda would be better than another Partido Popular term in power. Since most of these people also believe that one can have rational conversations with trees (but not, apparently, with prickly shrubs), it’s…
Reports the Chicago Tribune: New Lenox’s newest cop barks, or at least understands, only a foreign tongue. So when canine officer Bear joined the force five months ago, his partner, Officer John Conroy, learned to give commands to the Czech born and bred German shepherd in his native language. “It is a bit of a…
Although Spanish playing fields are not the 2m-deep clay solution of their English cousins, I’m still a bit surprised that Zapatero thinks he’s going to win votes with an education policy featuring less religion and more physical education. A reduction in religion has got to be welcome in a country in which religious education still…
I assume someone else will comment on the Laporta-Pujol double act at the Barça match (1-2 at home to Real) last night: the young club president who, despite an appalling week, still believes he can win it all, and the weary old politician who has just seen his successor shut out of the new regional…
Hier wordt driftig gedebatteerd over onze koning, Jordi Pujol. Als hij ons straks na de verkiezingen verlaat, moet hij (a) het bedrijfsleven in, of (b) boules-speler en onbetaalde bouwinspecteur worden, net als alle andere oude mannen?
En la nit de 16 de desembre de 1773, uns rebels americans (incloent Samuel Adams) van descarregar 342 caixes de te en el port de Boston per a protestar contra l’aplicació pels Britànics d’impostos sense reformes democràtiques. L’altre dia en Seattle ho van fer altra vegada, per a protestar contra un impost sobre el cafè,…
The FT has Mariano Rajoy “stepping out from the imposing shadow of Mr Aznar.” Aznar is, with all due respect, a fucking dwarf.
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