The change we need: Obama, 44th president of the US!!!!!!

I'm speechless. Tearful. So happy.
Thank you everybody!!!!

Let's celebrate!

Ftom Barack's campaign blog:

Thank you.
You did it. You showed America -- and the world -- that change can happen.
Thank you for the miles you walked, the doors you knocked, the phones you rang, the hard-earned dollars you gave, the spirit you committed to this campaign. Thank you for never wavering, even when the days were dark, the clouds grayed the skies, and the rain poured. Thank you for tuning out the static of the cynics and believing in your power to change this country. Thank you for all the late nights and all the far too early mornings, for trudging through the bitter cold of winter and wading through the oppressive heat of summer to canvass in your communities. Thank you for the rain-soaked jeans, the mud-caked sneakers, the sweat-drenched t-shirts, and the snow-covered scarves and hats. Thank you for your patience; thank you for your perseverance.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | Sam Graham-Felsen's Blog: You did it!

Yes, we can!!!!

I have lately been microblogging quite a bit on Obama.
I really want him to win. I need it, I think it's the best not just for US, but for most of the world. A change, a deep change, is necessary in the US.
And any other option scares me.
So, I've decided to send all my good vibrations towards US and Obama's supporters by compilating part of what I have been posting at Tumble & Fall.
Have a look and, if you are a US citizen, please vote for change.

I…believe that every American has the right to affordable health care. I believe that the millions of Americans who can’t take their children to a doctor when they get sick have that right…We now face an opportunity - and an obligation - to turn the page on the failed politics of yesterday’s health care debates. It’s time to bring together businesses, the medical community, and members of both parties around a comprehensive solution to this crisis, and it’s time to let the drug and insurance industries know that while they’ll get a seat at the table, they don’t get to buy every chair.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | Policy Issues

Campaign Get on the Bus: Early Vote in Ohio (via BarackObamadotcom)

For the last eight years we’ve tried it John McCain’s way, we’ve tried it George Bush’s way. It didn’t work. It’s time to try something new.”

- Barack Obama Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | Obama Road Blog: Road Blog Rewind: Barack Swings Through the Southwest

First Time Voters in North Carolina (via BarackObamadotcom)

Obama and Biden's Plan for America.
Obama Blueprint for Change

Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Politics Campaigns and Electi obama Change

These two boys waited as a long line of adults greeted Senator Obama before a rally on Martin Luther King Day in Columbia, S.C. They never took their eyes off of him. Their grandmother told me, “Our young men have waited a long time to have someone to look up to, to make them believe Dr. King’s words can be true for them.” Jan. 21, 2008.

Callie Shell - Obama - Digital Journalist

A New York Times article reports that as a college student, Barack Obama, one of the two leading contenders for the Democratic nomination for President, was interested in Nietzsche, Freud, and Sartre. A hopeful sign! I would have been worried if as an undergraduate he had been enamored of Kant or Hegel!

Brian Leiter’s Nietzsche Blog: Obama and Nietzsche

More stuff at
Tumble & Fall, tag: Obama | Barack Obama's issues | Barack Obama's campaign blog

Spain's Governing Party Is Beaten

In case you didn't know...We made it!!!!!!! Following Attacks, Spain's Governing Party Is Beaten

So we can gradually go back to different news and comments, such as Dilbert's marketing strategies or my success at Magic disco on Saturday night, after so many hours acting against PP government! (to be continued)

YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!

WE MADE IT!!!!!

I was at the cacerolada until 1:30 a.m. opposite the PP headquarters in Barcelona, which was set up by email messages, sms messages and this website, catalan but with Spanish entries too, that was also involved:
Indymedia Barcelona: newswire

There were thousands of people banging on tins, pans, with bicycle chains against containers, anything to make noise and make our message clear.

This is another website linked to the demonstration on Saturday night, where you can see some pics VilaWeb - Diari Electronic Independent

All the way the demonstration went, when aproaching 2 a.m. we started moving back to the Town Hall -Plaza Sant Jaume- people were amazed when, in their cars, etc., they had to stop at such hours for still hundreds of people marching, shouting, singing and banging on our pans and tins, and the reaction was always a big grin and beep-beep-bipbipbip on their horns!

People stood outside the music bars and pubs they were that Saturday night to see us pass, and clapped and cheered. Obviously, when we started to move from our main destination opposite the PP offices, and downtown to the Town Hall, we kept trying to buy some beers and every shop, petrol station or bar immediately close to the main demonstration had run out of them -we had been there for 4 hours or more, thousands of people, and many would leave for a moment and buy some cans to take to the friends... so we kept trying as we moved downtown, and I found a music bar where they didn't have cans, but offered us plastic cups full for only one euro!!! He saw we came from the demo and was happy to help, instead of charging average 3 euro per beer or more.

Even the neighbours who couldn't sleep were, in many cases, out on their balconies and banging too -if you can't beat them, or sleep, I guess...

Couldn't get to any screenings

Some cancelled 'cause of the terrorist attack, some too full and people waiting in the streets, so am watching them on the website I'd already posted earlier on this week.

Mary-Anne has just recommended me this article

Aznar ante el Tribunal Penal Internacional

Left wing and others are asking for the vote so that we can take Aznar to court for all he has done to Spain, sending us to war without asking first, etc.,

Sorry, Spanish again, but the moment requires this.

Can't even think of telling you about my personal life right now!

Yahoo! Noticias - 14-M.- Herrera pide el voto de los "pacifistas" para llevar a Aznar ante el Tribunal Penal Internacional

The political blog-based page I spoke about...

...Has done a small, interesting investigation, besides the big research going on every day: A young girl documented her direct visits to the three main political parties in Madrid, asking questions to see how they reacted to a young kid who was going to vote for the first time and was trying to decide who to vote to.

Quite interesting.

Hay motivo - Especial

Por una vez hago una entrada en castellano: Visionad los cortos de Hay Motivo en este link, si no podeis llegar a ninguna proyeccion.

Hay motivo - Cortos

Hay motivo - The Videos

Through this link you'll be able to see the 32 videos, in case you can't make it to the screenings -Vel, Elin, Hello! Remember your Spanish as you'll find it really interesting, I know you two!

Hay motivo - Video

The Reason

Gimme a reason to change things?

You want a reason to change?

32 Spanish film directors give you 32 reasons, having 3 minutes each for their short films. 32 problems, 32 situations. So many people wanted to collaborate, an initial idea for 6 or 7 clips became this long film, and people have had to be left out.

Spain is not as well as the Government pretends, and before the elections you should know what's going on.

Check it out if you have a moment. The film was made by a joint effort of over 300 people, working for free, and in less than a month as far as I know. They did their part to make things change, now you should do your part and vote consequently. Not voting does not fuck the system. It fucks you and all of us for the next 4 years, as it is usually the left-winged, anarchist, independentist, environmentally concerned, etc. who says "Fuck politics, I'm not voting". It's not the conservative, it's not PP, it's not the bankers, they do vote. Otherwise, how can you understand so many people in the streets marching against a government, and then this same government wins another election?

The people involved in this film have had all sort of warnings, and obviously have had no chance of TV screening... Yet screenings are all around Spain, in different organizations, pubic spaces, wherever someone applies for a copy for public screening.

FNAC is screening it simultaneously on Saturday 13 at 13:30h

Local televisions are also echoing the film

Can't do much else than recommend you to check it out, I'm going to try and get to FNAC this Saturday.

Interested? find out more at their page Hay motivo!

I may sound a bit obvious, but too many people think that by not voting they are going to make things change. And too many polititians are counting on this. Let's try harder this time.

Good luck.

An interesting political blog I've just found

By the way, going through the news regarding the Gavioca game, I've bumped into this political blogPuedoprometeryprometo.com. The name comes from a very famous motto Mr. Adolfo Suarez, our first elected president after Franco died, had: I can and shall promise, in a liberal translation. Haven't checked it out completely, but it seems quite good, for what I've seen. Once again, only for you cleverclogs who can read Spanish, too!

And, so as not to be too serious on a Monday mornig, have a look and a laugh at your favourite Celebrities with and without makeup.

Have a nice Monday!

Another proof...

...that the right-wing polititians in Spain are touching bottom

It sounds funny. It sounds like someone's taking the piss. It sounds like a joke. But it's not: it is the real PP party, currently in the power and scared shitless after Mr. Worm-face Aznar's support of Bushy-boy's war games, after the biological disaster they've caused by mishandling the Prestige affair, and covering up the real facts up to now, after the plane that crashed with so many Spanish soldiers, and was later discovered to have been warned by many not to let it fly because it was too fucked up... after all this, PP guys 'n' girls are going mad, and attacking and insulting any other party that has a minimum of reputation -not that they have much left, either...

So, PP -I remind you, the party that is currently ruling Spain, not some local thingy- has come out with a board game to hand out to the press at meetings, etc. where, in the form of a modified Juego de la Oca, a popular simple game for children, it is demagogical to the extreme, it seems a fake! See a short review on it here gavioca video, though it's been commented everywhere for the last few days. There are, in the original game, good boxes and bad boxes to fall into -go on playing, miss a turn, etc. Obviously -too obviously for most of us- the good boxes have a motto or a picture of PP, and all the bad boxes are terribly condescending images of shattered logos of the other main Party. PSOE, that ruled Spain before PP with Mr. Felipe Gonzalez. The message is too ridiculous, see the board in PDF here Gavioca-the game it self

Shame on you, men!

It's election time!

It's Estefania's birthday -the girl with me at the office is 30 today, so I sent her the BIRTHDAY JUKEBOX card.

And Election is coming closer in Spain, and the Election Rant by members of the current government is getting worse and worse.

There is Carod, this catalan independentist polititian that, quite stupidly, visited terrorist band ETA to talk to them and make them see they can not go on killing people, naughty boys!. This polititian then becomes part of the local catalan government, left wing/ecologist+socialist+independentist combination due to the sum of votes of three parties, quite an interesting combination and with quite a good mixture of members -needless to say, I'm glad it's my men who are in the local government now!.

So the Spanish government has attacked them saying that this carod guy had talked the terrorists into stopping attacks in Catalonia, but not in the rest of Spain! As if things were that easy and you could talk ETA into stopping their attacks! Anyway, this guy has had to leave the Catalan Government position he had, and is now almost considered a terrorist himself by the right-wing and low-level polititians in the current guvernment. He has actually been called a killer, and has brought trouble to the local and national socialist party -not that the national one was out of trouble before!

Then, ETA found a great way to create even more discomfort, and emitted a communication, the famous "comunicado de ETA" everyone is talking about now, where they say, with their own paranoid reasons, that they have realized that Catalonia is also an opressed country and they shall never attack us again, but only the opressors, Spain. This has been so ridiculous, it has become object of all sort of jokes and comments, as it is really surreal. So we have had our Catalan government having to publish an announcement in all the papers saying that neither the catalan Government, neither the Catalan People, agreed with the terrorist methods and that we eould never forget the killing of ... a list of catalan polititians, and terrorist attacks, ... nor of all our friends and family in ther est of Spain, nor of other Spanish Citizens.

How low can you get? Do the right-wing guys really think that the catalan Government has secretly pacted an agreement with ETA?

They are stupid and paranoid enough...