The Spanish socialist party just got their asses handed to them in local and regional elections and might as well just say buenas noches.
In case you’re not fluent in Spanish, please allow us to translate. Good night. The Spanish socialist party just got their asses handed to them in local and regional elections and might as well just say buenas noches.
The BBC explains the good old fashioned culo kicking:
Spain's socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is looking a little punch drunk after the Spanish elections
With 91% of municipal votes counted, the centre-right Popular Party (PP) had almost a 10-percentage point lead, the interior ministry said.Voting took place amid mass protests against high unemployment and the government’s handling of the economy…
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero conceded his party had been resoundingly defeated but said he had no intention of calling early general elections.
He may be a socialist, but he’s not stupid. Call those elections now and he can take an early retirement.
He said three years of economic crisis had taken their toll.
“It destroyed thousands of jobs. It is a crisis that had profound effects on citizens’ morale. I know that many Spaniards suffer great hardship and fear for their futures,” he said.
“Today, without doubt, they expressed their discontent,” he added.
However, he vowed to pursue reforms to try to improve the economy until the end of his mandate. At this point, a general election must be held by March of next year.
Don’t make the mistake of viewing this as an isolated event. The Canadian Conservatives just won a landslide election. Australia’s ruling Labor party appears primed to be unceremoniously booted from office.
Spain’s government-backed REVE electric car and wind power project said 15 cars had been sold so far this year, in addition to one last year.
Its power source is electric, but its sales are anemic
There was an old Cold War joke about a two-man footrace staged between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. JFK won the race handily and the next day Soviet newspapers reported, “Khrushchev defeated all but one competitor in the big race, Kennedy finishes next to last.”
Consider that the inspiration for the headline on this story about sales of electric cars in Spain. The BBC reports that:
Spain’s plans to have 2,000 electric cars on the road by the end of 2010 have been dealt a blow as figures showed just 16 have been sold.
The government-backed REVE electric car and wind power project said 15 cars had been sold so far this year, in addition to one last year.
They’ve sold 16 electric cars in the whole country in two years. At this rate, Spain’s electric car owners club could hold its annual convention one good-sized, gas-guzzling SUV.
If electric car sales are this anemic in an enlightened European country like Spain, what are the odds that a big car lovin’ country like the United States will be able to meet President Obama’s goal of having 1,000,000 plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSe38dzJYkY A Spanish court is deciding whether to put former President Bush and six members of his administration on trial for war crimes.
Human rights lawyers brought the case before anti-terror judge Baltasar Garzon, who will send it to prosecutors if he determines that it has merit.
The ex-Bush officials are former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington, Pentagon attorney William Haynes, and Justice Department officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee.
Give it a break, Spain. You lost the damn Spanish-American War fair and square. How about we just give you Puerto Rico back and call the whole thing even?
Perhaps President Bush should watch this Monty Python video just to see what kind of treatment he can expect at the hands of the dastardly Spaniards.
Our high school Spanish is a little rusty, but we think he's ordering the #7 combination.
They had a lunatic convention in Madrid yesterday. They weren’t certifiable lunatics, of course, but they might as well have been. No matter what their mental state, it certainly made the media sit up and take notice.
One hundred or so senors y senoritas threw off their clothes and threw themselves on the ground in the Spanish capital to protest Canada’s annual seal hunt. We’re pretty sure there’s some sort of symbolism involved here, but we haven’t quite zeroed in on what it is.
The lunatics smeared themselves with a red liquid that represented the blood that’s spilled during the “massacre” (their word) of seals. Most of them were bare ass naked, but some of the more modest protestors wore red underwear.
“We want to sensitize people to the fact that animals are capable of feeling and suffering like us,” said Silvia Toval, “and to protest against the massacre of hundreds of thousands of seals which is about to begin in Canada.”
The seal hunt has been a tradition in Canada for 350 years. This year, the nation has approved killing 275,000 seals on the Atlantic coast.
Here’s our take: The hunt is brutal. We don’t want to see it. Don’t even want to hear about it.
We don’t want to know how sausage is made, either. But we’re not going to strip naked in Times Square in some sort of misguided pig protest.
