si es adolescente o muy joven: pendeja

esposa: jermu, señora

tipo, chabón, flaco, fulano, quía, chico

si es adolescente o muy joven: pendejo, péndex

esposo o marido: dorima

Naked swimmer evades police in Tokyo palace moat

TOKYO (Reuters) - A bald, naked man who said he was a British tourist went swimming in the moat of Japan's Imperial Palace on Tuesday, climbing the palace wall, throwing rocks and splashing water at police before being taken into custody.

Television footage showed the tall man getting out of the water at one point, chasing police with a rock and a plastic construction site pole.

He then went back to the murky water and swam across to the other side of the moat, climbing up the 8-metre (9-yard) stone wall of the palace.

He was caught by two policemen, after a chase media said lasted for an hour and a half.

"I've never heard of anyone doing such a thing," an unidentified man at the scene told TV Tokyo. "He must be a bit crazy."

Television showed passers-by gathering around the moat and watching the chase, giggling and taking photos on mobile phones.

Police said it was unclear what his motives were, although media said he had dropped a bag in the water.

The man, around 40 years old, first said he was Spanish but later said he was a Briton living in Spain, police said.

"We are checking on his mental condition now," a police spokesman said. The man was later released.

The palace, in the heart of Tokyo and home to Japan's emperor and empress, is surrounded by 12 moats running 7 km (4 miles) in all.

Tourists can walk freely around the periphery of the palace and go inside on a tour, but in general are not allowed to step within the premises of the 115 hectare (284 acre) palace grounds.

LOL! Now this news really caught my attention just now. This guy must be an otaku, specifically a hentai lover. Banzai for that! :D

El grupo de trabajo constituido en el seno del Gobierno de Aragón para impulsar el proyecto de ocio y juegos de azar Gran Scala reanudó este martes sus reuniones, según informó el vicepresidente del Ejecutivo autónomo, José Ángel Biel, en la rueda de prensa posterior al Consejo de Gobierno de la Comunidad Autónoma. La opción de ubicar Gran Scala en Ontiñena (Huesca) "se va afianzando", dijo Biel.

El grupo está presidido por el propio Biel y también forma parte del mismo el consejero de Economía, Hacienda y Empleo, Alberto Larraz, junto con varios directores generales del Ejecutivo autónomo. El hecho de que el grupo reanude sus trabajos "es un síntoma", señaló Biel, quien recordó que la anterior reunión tuvo lugar el pasado mes de junio.

José Ángel Biel añadió que, en las próximas semanas, el grupo de trabajo de la DGA establecerá "algún contacto" con la empresa que impulsa el proyecto, International Leisure Development (ILD) y, en el momento en que el Ejecutivo regional disponga de un proyecto concreto sobre el papel, la ley autonómica que regularía "los centros de ocio de alta capacidad" estaría lista en un mes, aproximadamente.

El también portavoz del Gobierno autónomo aludió al proyecto público de la Ciudad del Motor de Alcañiz-Motorland, que comenzó teniendo aseguradas 100 hectáreas de suelo, para acabar ampliándose hasta las 300 hectáreas, aunque Biel matizó que son proyectos completamente distintos, ya que Motorland es enteramente público y las actuaciones jurídicas en Gran Scala serán, forzosamente, de naturaleza distinta.

DUBLIN, October 6 (Compass Direct News) – Militant Islamists in the southern island of Mindanao have stepped up their attacks on majority-Christian villages following the failure of a peace agreement that would have enlarged an existing Muslim autonomous region there.

With Muslim commanders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the southern Philippines yesterday saying ongoing support from the international community was necessary to prevent a full-scale war breaking out in Mindanao, both Muslim and Christian residents in the disputed territories were fearful of what the future might hold.

“The problem is that many people living in these areas don’t want to be part of a Muslim autonomous region,” a source in Mindanao who preferred to remain anonymous told Compass.

“The closer you get to these zones, the more nervous people are,” he said. “The town of Kolambugan, where most of the fighting took place in mid-August, became a virtual ghost town for a while. It had a population of 25,000. But people are slowly returning to their homes.”

A Christian family from the area said many people were afraid to sleep at night because they kept hearing reports that they would be attacked at midnight.

“When MILF forces attack Christian villages, Muslim neighbors are afraid that Christians will retaliate against them, even though they have nothing to do with the violence,” the source added. “This has happened in the past.”

He also explained that some moderate Muslims are drawn to support the MILF because the rebels claim the Christians have stolen their ancestral homelands. Communities in Mindanao often struggle with extreme poverty.

“If MILF is successful in gaining control over these lands, the people assume that their economic situation will improve,” he said. “So although they want the fighting to stop, they sympathize with the MILF.”

While the conflict is primarily political, religion plays a significant role. As a member of the Moro Youth League stated in an Aug. 5 national television interview in the Philippines, “As a Muslim, in order to live in a righteous way, you need to be living under sharia [Islamic] law and with an Islamic government. We believe we have the right to fight for this.”

Other Youth League members on the program agreed that sharia was a primary objective of autonomy, and that Islam was the only “real path of doing anything in this world.”

Violence Erupts

Some 2,000 MILF supporters yesterday held a protest march in Marawi city, Lanao del Sur, appealing to the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference to compel the Philippine government to revive the aborted peace agreement that would have enlarged the existing Muslim autonomous region in the south.

Breakaway MILF commanders on Aug. 18 attacked several majority-Christian villages after the Supreme Court prevented the Aug. 5 signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD). The agreement potentially would have given the MILF power to establish an Islamic state governed by sharia law.

Christian leaders in Mindanao appealed to the Supreme Court when they realized that if they voted against inclusion in the proposed Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE), their majority-Christian villages would become small islands in the midst of MILF-administered territory. As a result, they feared, they would be forced to move elsewhere.

Incensed by the 11th-hour stalling of the agreement, three MILF commanders on their own initiative led attacks against towns in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte provinces on Aug. 18, burning homes, seizing livestock and killing at least 37 people. Another 44,000 residents immediately fled the area.

When some Christian residents armed themselves in defense, Secretary of Interior Ronaldo Puno warned that anyone carrying weapons would be disarmed.

The MILF has only 11,000 active fighting men, according to local estimates. But by Aug. 20, the National Disaster Coordinating Council had reported a total of 159,000 people displaced by the rebel attacks.

The Philippine army quickly retaliated, sweeping villages in an attempt to seize the rebel commanders.

After two weeks of violent clashes, the Philippine government officially abandoned the MOA-AD. Spokeswoman Lorelei Fajardo said President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo would seek a new agreement based on consultation with legislators and local politicians rather than negotiations with the MILF.

Furthermore, the government would concentrate on the “disarmament, demobilization and rehabilitation” of MILF cadres, Fajardo said.

In response, MILF leaders rejected any renegotiation of the peace deal with Arroyo’s administration.

Overcoming Prejudice

An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Aug. 7 stated that the MOA-AD would only reinforce prejudices between Christian and Muslim communities.

Under the agreement, WSJ claimed, the government would further divide Mindanao into Muslim and Christian enclaves, increasing the likelihood of territorial disputes. Separating Muslims from the rest of Philippine society, it stated, would encourage a vision already held by MILF to help create a pan-Islamic state covering several countries in the region, including Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

Finally, the WSJ said, less Philippine control of Mindanao would “invite even more terrorist activity in an area that already has strong ties to al Qaeda.”

While there are proven terrorist leanings in groups such as the MILF and the Abu Sayyaf, not all area Muslims approve of or engage in such activities.

Camilo Montesa, a key figure in peace negotiations, in his blog on Aug. 30 described an encounter with a young man who believed that Muslim residents would readily seize property from Christians once the BJE were formed.

Others told Montesa that, “Muslims were scouting and marking the big houses of Christians in Cotabato and staking a claim over them in anticipation of the signing of the peace agreement.”

“The hearts and minds of the people are the battlefields, and not some hill or base camp,” Montesa concluded. “There is a limit to what arms and war can produce ... It is unfortunate that we are so divided as a people at this point in our national life.”

Reclaiming ‘Ancestral Domains’

As Islamic identity strengthened in the Middle East after World War II – and as many Philippine Muslims traveled to study in Middle Eastern countries – certain sectors of the Bangsamoro population became committed to reclaiming “ancestral domains.”

Their claims dated back to the rule of the Sultanate of Sulu, which existed prior to Spanish colonial rule in the 1500s, and the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935. When the last sultan died in 1936, the fledgling Philippine government refused to recognize his heir, effectively eradicating the traditional Bangsamoro power base.

When the Philippines became a republic in 1946, its constitution allowed for the establishment of an autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao. Initially the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) fought alone for this autonomous territory; in 1977, however, MNLF member Hashim Salamat – who had studied in Saudi Arabia – and his followers seceded from the movement and founded the rival MILF.

The Philippine government signed an agreement with the MNLF in January 1987, and territories were added to the resulting Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) through a series of plebiscites or referendums in 1989, 2001, 2002 and 2006.

MILF commanders later laid claim to a further 712 villages outside the ARMM.

Negotiations between the government and the MILF began in earnest in June 2001. Both parties were to formally sign the resulting MOA-AD on Aug. 5, a deal which could have led to the creation of the separate Bangsamoro Juridical Entity, or fully-functioning state, replacing the ARMM by 2010.

When details of the agreement were leaked to the press, however, Christian politicians in regions of Mindanao affected by the agreement appealed to the Supreme Court, which in turn issued a temporary restraining order on the signing of the agreement on Aug. 4.

Report from Compass Direct News

There will be plenty more videos on this verb tense coming!

Hope this was helpful.  Let me know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions!

Vocabulario:
ayudar - to help
bailar - to dance
cantar - to sing
enseñar - to teach
estudiar - to study
hablar - to speak, talk
nadar - to swim
necesitar - to need
tocar - to play (an instrument)
trabajar - to work
visitar - to visit

la abuela - grandmother
el dinero - money

Ingredients

• Olive oil
• Garlic - 7 cloves (sounds like a lot, but it is worth it)
• 1/2 green capsicum, diced
• 2-3 large ripe tomatoes
• 3 medium size potatos, cut into 1 cm rounds
• 2 cups (hot) vegetable or fish stock
• flat leaf (continental) parsley
• 2 fillets of white fish (cod, snapper, ling, or whatever looks good) cut into small cubes
• S&P & lots more olive oil

Method

1. Roughly chop 4 cloves of garlic and all the capsicum into small bite size pieces
2. Put enough olive oil in the pan to coat the bottom of the pan, and place on med-high heat
3. When the olive oil is hot, add the garlic and capsicum and stir
4. Meanwhile, cute the tomatoes in half and grate (yes, grate!) the tomato (you should be left with around 1 cup of tomato puree, no skin).
5. Saute the garlic and capsicum until it slightly changes colour, then add the tomato puree (stand back as it may spit at you!).
6. Stir on high heat for 1-2 minutes (you should notice the tomato change colour from dark red to a lighter orange/red)
7. Add the potatos and pour over enough stock so that the potatos are covered. Add some parsley, cover and leave for 10-12 minutes on high heat until the potatos are cooked
8. While the potatos are cooking, crush 2 cloves of garlic in a mortar & pestle, then slowly drizzle in the olive oil to make an aoli (add some lemon juice and salt to taste). Tip: If you add the oil too quickly the aoli will split!
9. Once the potatoes are cooked, add the fish and cover for another 3-5 minutes (until the fish is cooked, it should flake eaily)
10. Add a little pepper, salt and extra parsley to taste
11. Set aside for 3-5 minutes before serving (this will give the fish a chance to infuse the vegetables).
12. To serve, place the potatos in the bowl, then layer over the fish, capsicum and tomato broth. Drizzle with the aoli and add a generous amount of parsley.

Cooking time/quantity

20 minutes, 2 serves

Variations

This would be great as a starter with some crusty bread, or add beans instead of potatos for a quick version which is lower in calories.

If you don't like capsicum, add another green vegetable like green beans, peas or squash.

I saw some cool snakes on Dirty Jobs the other night(if Mike Rowe told me to eat dog I probably would, that man is friggin sexy) and I just thought it would be cool to have one. Of course I CAN'T actually have one since I live in a dorm room and they aren't allowed. But maybe someday. There is a cool place in Colorado where you can adopt snakes that don't have homes. I would so do that.

I told my mom about this and she thinks I am out of my mind. Maybe I am...maybe I will grow out of wanting a snake just like I grew out of wanting my noise pierced. Maybe by the time I can actually own a snake I will have realized its a bad idea. But I'm not sure it is. I think its kinda cool. :D They are cute and feel cool. Snakes need love too. :(

Anyway...I got another A on my second spanish test. WOO!! And I stayed up last night watching Sox/Angels baseball...what a game! This post season has been pretty interesing. I'm still rooting for the Dodgers though...and any team that isn't from Boston. ;)

I just thought I would tell you that I really liked
this assignment.Even though it took a long time, I
like watching the videos and learning about the artist.
I thought they were really cool.

*giddy*blush*

The assignment asked kids to watch two videos (on BBC Mundo) on these two different artists.  They had to tell me about the two different artists and then compare/contrast them.  I was really excited about this assignment because I'm using real news articles, stuff they will see next year on the AP test, and I'm asking them to do what the AP test will ask them to do.  This is "real life" stuff, not made-for-the-textbook stories.

(The best part?  The student actually FOLLOWED ALL DIRECTIONS and did an awesome job on the assignment, so I didn't have to spoil the compliment with a bad grade, or feel I was only giving her a high grade because she said something nice to me.)

La comarca aragonesa de Los Monegros se halla en el valle del Ebro central, en la orilla izquierda del río, aguas abajo de Zaragoza capital. Se distingue dentro del valle por su mayor aridez, fruto de la escasa pluviosidad (menos de cuatrocientos milímetros anuales), que se complementa con la salinidad de sus suelos y el efecto desecante del viento dominante, el cierzo.

Sin embargo, Los Monegros son en potencia forestales, habiendo sido en el pasado un sabinar, más o menos laxo, en las zonas de clima más extremo y hasta carrascal en las de mayor humedad (las alturas de la sierra de Alcubierre y la orla periférica). Al parecer, su nombre viene de Montes Negros, debido al color que se apreciaba desde la lejanía por los bosques de sabina que los cubrían.

En la actualidad los bosques, en su mayoría de pino carrasco de repoblación, quedan relegados a la sierra, mientras sabinas y carrascas se recuperan tímidamente gracias a la disminución de la ganadería, la desaparición del carboneo y la sustitución de la leña para usos domésticos e industriales. En el llano, todo lo arable está cultivado. Pero allá donde aflora la roca madre y no es ni rentable ni posible labrar, aparece la agroestepa de pequeños arbustos y hierbas efímeras.

Sierra, llano, bosques, cultivos y pseudoestepas, sobre cloruros o sobre sulfatos, junto a lagunas de agua dulce o salada, permanente y temporal, forman un variado mosaico de paisajes y, por lo tanto, un reducto de muy elevada diversidad.

La Comisión Europea solicitó hace dos semanas información a España sobre más de 250 urbanizaciones que no disponen de recursos hídricos suficientes. Hoy, el grupo de los Verdes en el Parlamento Europeo ha entregado a la Comisión el nombre de varios proyectos en esa misma situación, entre ellos la nueva ciudad del juego de los Monegros, Gran Scala en Aragon.

Los Verdes han solicitado que urbanizaciones como "La Favera" en Villanueva de Gómez (Ávila) y planes urbanísticos en Palazuelos de Eresma (Segovia) o en Almeranara (Castellón), y las urbanizaciones de Seseña, en Illescas (Toledo), se incluyan en el expediente de una posible infracción del derecho comunitario por incumplir la Directiva Marco de Agua.
La nueva ubicación de los Monegros

David Hammerstein, Eurodiputado por los Verdes, ha explicado que tras la primera denuncia a la Comisión recibieron numerosos correos confirmando la reiterada vulneración de la Directiva en otros municipios. "Es muy positivo que los ciudadanos hayan reaccionado ante la noticia publicada en distintos medios" , ha señalado Hammerstein que ha añadido que todavía hay muchos planes urbanísticos en España que superan la demanda de los recursos hídricos existentes.

Hammerstein ha mostrado especial preocupación por la nueva ubiación del complejo Gran Scala Monegros de Aragón, conocido como el proyecto de Los Monegros. Los municipios de Ontiñena o Ballobar, candidatas a alojar la nueva ciudad artificial del juego, "sufren una gran escasez hidríca y por ello esperamos que este tipo de proyecto no siga adelante".

IU rechaza la actitud de la Alcaldía de La Almolda

Barrena denuncia que se pregona en el municipio para acelerar la venta

El coordinador general de IU-Aragón, Adolfo Barrena, acusó ayer a la alcaldesa de La Almolda, Ángeles Labarta, de incitar a los vecinos a "dar un cheque en blanco" a ILD, promotora del complejo de ocio y juego en los Monegros. Barrena lamentó ayer, en un comunicado, que ayuntamientos aragoneses se hayan convertido "en agentes de la propiedad al servicio de ILD, presionando a los vecinos para que den un cheque en blanco y pongan sus tierras a disposición de unos empresarios que no han demostrado solvencia económica alguna".

Según Barrena, ayer mismo, la alcaldesa de La Almolda, está exigiendo, mediante la megafonía del municipio, que todos los vecinos lleven antes de las dos de la tarde la carta que les envío el pasado mes de marzo, un documento en el que los propietarios de terrenos "ponen a disposición del Ayuntamiento sus tierras, es decir, dan un cheque en blanco a los especuladores de ILD".

Para Barrena, no deja de ser "patético e impresentable" contemplar que ayuntamientos aragoneses, como La Almolda, Ontiñena o Ballobar, hayan entrado en una pugna para ver quién se queda con Gran Scala, un proyecto que a su juicio tiene un impacto "desastroso" en la ordenación del territorio y no garantiza un futuro para la población.

Los argumentos de Barrena para emitir esta opinión es que, a juicio de Izquierda Unida, desarrolla "un urbanismo incontrolado, fomenta del ocio de consumo basado en el juego y en la construcción de parques temáticos devoradores de recursos naturales".

En La Almolda han reaccionado tras conocer que Ontiñena también entraba en la puja por vender las hectáreas necesarias para instalar Gran Scala, aunque por el momento no ha habido ningún paso por parte de los promotores de este macrocomplejo, que siguen sin concretar la compra de los suelos. Pronto hará un año de la presentación del proyecto

You'd think that with such an incentive, and what with the new deadline, I'd be chomping at the bit to get going on this whole learning-a-language thing. Maybe you'd think that I'd have done more than just install the program onto my computer. You'd be wrong. I've done little more than that. And when I say "little more than," I mean I've done absolutely nothing besides that - the program is taking up memory space on my computer, but I haven't even opened it once. My Spanish language skills are about the same as when I started. Or, to be perfectly honest - given that I've been working around the clock lately, only breaking for a glass of wine or two to relieve the tension, all of which has probably killed a few brain cells along the way - I'm likely even further behind than before.

So - you might be asking - why am I even writing about this, then? For one simple reason: good, old-fashioned guilt. I figure putting it out here will shame me into starting, even if the deadline and the newfound incentive haven't. After all, Kevin has already learnt more Spanish than I have, just by reading the phrases at the back of the Guatemala guidebook. I can't have that. I really, really can't have that.

When it comes time to go, I swear I'll be able to say a thing or two to the locals. I swear.

More updates to come...

Posted by Lisa.

Creo que Juan está feliz con el departamento que alquila en San Telmo.

PIenso que Juan es una excelente persona.

En mi opinión, San Telmo es un barrio maravilloso.

Para mí San Telmo es demasiado sucio.

Creo que San Telmo está perdiendo su esencia.

Desde mi punto de vista, San Telmo es ideal para los jóvenes pero no para la gente mayor.

Según mi humilde opinión, San Telmo se está prostituyendo.

I usually love red bell pepper in salads, but I haven't felt like making salad since the weather has turned cold. So I decided this evening to make a Spanish omelette instead, since red pepper makes a healthy, tasty,colorful addition to it. I will use some of it for lunch tomorrow for Noor and me - it is a food she loves. This omelette, called a tortilla in Spain, luckily keeps well for a few days in the fridge, so the rest of it will be handy for dinner for the 4 of us one evening later this week.

You could add meats (such as diced ham) and vegetables to the basic egg and potato combination, to make different kinds of tortilla. Here's the recipe for my version of it.

Spanish Omelette

6 medium sized potatoes, peeled and cut across in to very fine round slices( I use a food processor to do this; I'd find it a challenge to slice the potatoes as fine by hand)

6 eggs

1 large red bell pepper, cored and diced

2 medium sized onions, peeled and sliced fine

4 tablespoons of olive oil

Heat 3 tbsp of the olive oil very slightly in a large, fairly thick-bottomed frying pan. Add the onions and the potatoes, cover, and leave to cook till the potatoes are soft, over moderate heat. Turn the mixture gently from time to time with a flat/wide cooking spoon, taking care that the onions and the potatoes don't brown or burn. Try to separate the fine slices of the potatoes - which tend to stick to each other because they are so thin - each time, so that all of it gets cooked. Half way through, add the pepper.

When the mixture is cooked (the potatoes should be soft but not lose all form and become mushy, though they will be smashed up a bit), take it out in to a large dish, and allow it to cool.

Break the eggs in a separate bowl, and season with salt and pepper. Add to the first mixture when it has cooled and stir gently to mix evenly.

Return the frying pan to the heat. Add 1 tablespoon of olive oil, turn the egg and potato mixture back in, cover, and leave it to set, on moderate heat. When the mixture is almost set (this will take about 10 minutes;the middle won't yet be set but don't wait for this to happen else the other side will get burnt), turn the omelette over by sliding it on to a large plate, and then leave the other side to set. This will take just a few minutes.

Take it out when it is cooked on to a large serving plate and when it has cooled down, wrap it in cling film to store in the fridge.

This omelette makes a complete meal, with a green salad or soup, and some bread. And since it is easy to carry, sliced up, it is a great picnic food as well.

I am looking forward to my delicious lunch tomorrow, already :-)

Hopefully, this will be one of many posts along my journey to learn this beautiful language.

Like the racist Reverend Wright, Obama downplays his connection with left wing radicals and white collar crooks such as Father Pfleger, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, Saul Alinsky, William Ayers, Donald Warden (aka Dr. Khalid al-Mansour), pro-Palestinian Rashid Khalidi, Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, Nadhmi Auchi, Joseph Aramanda and Louis Farrahkan.

Guilt by Association? Or Scumbags of a Feather Sink Together?

 By JB Williams  Thursday, September 25, 2008

The long list of evil Obama associates seems to grow daily and although Obama has spent the last few years dodging questions, ignoring demands for full open disclosure of his past and making excuses about a plethora of bad associations, one fact seems glaringly obvious…

Obama has far more to hide than to share!

A Christian?

For months, despite his Arab Muslim name and background, Obama told the public via his surrogates in the press, that he was not a Muslim but a devoted Christian and he offered as proof, his twenty year membership in the Rev. Wright’s church of radical racism, where he and wife Michelle were married, their children were baptized and the Obama family sat in a pew for twenty years without ever noticing that they belonged to a radically anti-American church of racism.

Such a story begs a great lapse in judgment on the part of the listener…

Only after “the new media” released actual video footage of the Rev. Wright’s weekly tirades against “white America” did he reluctantly denounce his pastor of twenty years, claiming that this was not the Rev. Wright he had known, and that the founder and pastor did not speak for the church…

Then “the new media” released video of the new pastor who replaced the suddenly retiring Rev. Wright, and his vitriolic racist rhetoric was no different.

In the end, he left the church and denounced his pastor of twenty years, as well as the congregation he raised his children around. This was his proof of a Christian life? America looked the other way....

A Community Organizer?

Listed as the sole accomplishment on Obama’s résumé was “community organizing.” So, people naturally wanted to know what his community organizing was all about.

That’s when the names Saul Alinsky and William Ayers surfaced. Saul Alinsky was the father of the communist practice known as “community organizing,” the practice of exploiting poor and under-educated communities through race-baiting and class warfare. William Ayers is of course the famed convicted terrorist from left-wing homegrown terror organization Weatherman.

The basis for this particular group of community organizers is the communist strategy of exploiting poor, youthfully ill-informed and easily manipulated pockets of the population into mobilizing on behalf of their organizers’ agenda. In this case, Alinsky and Ayers set the radical left-wing agenda.

Though the initiative operated under the cover of a Vietnam era anti-war movement and Students for a Democratic Society, connected to the Black Panther movement and several other college campus initiatives led by the Communist Party, it was nothing more than standard run-of-the-mill communist propaganda parties aimed and exploiting the ignorant into moving the leftist agenda forward.

While Ayers is a prominent figure due to his bombing of government buildings, acts he still believes were justified today, the most famous member of the movement was infamous convicted murderer, Charles Manson.

This was Obama’s community organizing years in a nutshell. Radical leftists and Black Nationalists, all of whom operated violent illegal activities in opposition to American principles and values, in particular, capitalism. This is where Obama met the radical Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It’s also where he first came in contact with other radicals operating in common. Meanwhile, the leftist American press continued to look the other way.

Birds of a Feather?

During the early years of radical left-wing community organizing efforts, William Ayers and his father Thomas came into cooperative contact with the Black Panther’s and Black Panther behind the scenes mentor Donald Warden, known today as Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, the name he took when he adopted the radical Wahabbi Muslim faith through friends in the Saudi Royal family.

In a March 2008 TV interview, former Malcom X lawyer and Harlem burough president Percy Sutton named Khalid al-Mansour as the manchurian puppetmaster behind Barack Hussein Obama. He told of how al-Mansour was raising money for the education of Barack Obama, and asked Sutton to write a letter of recommendation to Harvard University on Obama’s behalf.

Politico blogger and Obama supporter Ben Smith immediately sought, received and printed a “ family retraction” of Sutton’s TV statements on the Politico blog. Newspapers across the country ready to run with the story of a manchurian candidate groomed by Saudi Royal family deal maker al-Mansour stopped dead in their tracks, biting on the Sutton retraction effectively manufactured by Smith in a rush to defend his candidate, Barack Obama.

However, the alleged Sutton retraction, issued by former Hillary Clinton Harlem campaign chief Kevin Wardally, turned out to be fake. When questioned about the retraction by Newsmax investigative journalist Ken Timmerman, official Sutton family representatives answered, “that neither Mr. Sutton or his family had ever heard of Kevin Wardally.”

”Who is this person?” asked Sutton’s assistant, Karen Malone. When told that he portrayed himself as a “spokesman” for the family, Malone told Newsmax, “Well, he’s not.”

Wardally refused to retract his false retraction, stating to Newsmax that, “he had been retained by a nephew of the elder Sutton, who is in our office almost every week.”

Timmerman reports, “Wardally works for Bill Lynch Associations, a Harlem political consulting firm. The nephew, Chuck Sutton, no longer works with the elder Sutton at Inner City Broadcasting, but for a high-tech start-up called Synematics.”

Still, nothing in the left-wing lamestream press about a growing number of miscreants who appear to be lying on behalf of the Obama campaign, including campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt…

The Harvard Law Grad?

The combination of ill-fated coincidences and shady characters surrounding what increasingly appears to be a corrupt Obama campaign is now leading honest investigative journalists like Ken Timmerman at Newsmax to ask more obvious questions.

Like, how did a poor black boy from a broken home, who never held down steady work or disclosed student loan information on his tax returns, managed to pay for seven years of the most expensive schooling in the country?

In searching for answers to this and many other obvious questions, reporters have received the runaround from Obama campaign spokespersons who can’t seem to stop cornering themselves in blatant contradictions.

While the Obama campaign continues to use his Harvard years as a centerpiece for a White House bid which he claims to be an “open book,” his Harvard records remain under lock and key, beyond the reach of journalists seeking to know more about a man who wants to be President of the United States.

Why won’t Obama sign a release for his college records at Harvard, Columbia or Occidental? And why is the left-wing lamestream press still silent on all of it? The answers should be obvious to everyone by now.

Guilt by Association?

In a candidate with no real relative experience on his résumé, the company he has chosen to keep over the years may be the only means of knowing what the man actually believes in. Yet the man is desperate to run from almost every associate he has ever known. This is because his life is filled with personal associates whom have a very public history of highly anti-social and very anti-American backgrounds.

The public has a right and good reason to know if Barack Hussein Obama is the Manchurian candidate of the Saudi Royal Family and at present, all evidence certainly points in that direction. At a minimum, there are way too many unanswered questions regarding an endless string of less than acceptable associations.

As a general rule, people who hide things have something to hide.

When Obama’s twenty year pastor and mentor became a racially charged public disgrace, Obama cried “guilt by association.”

When Obama was caught lying about the depth and breadth of his personal relationship with Weatherman terrorist William Ayers, he again cried “guilt by association.”

When former Black Panther lawyer Percy Sutton connected Obama to Black Panther mentor and Saudi front man Khalid al-Mansour, Obama cried “guilt by association” yet again.

When the nation learned that Obama’s “community organizing” was nothing more than Alinsky style communist bent Black community rabble-rousing in an effort to manipulate the most easily manipulated segments of our population, Obama cried “foul and more guilt by association.”

As Obama is linked to Arab Muslim after Arab Muslim, and mountains of money pour in from all over the globe through more than 500 campaign bundlers, with no means of backtracking where all of that money is really coming from, Obama runs for cover and redirects press attention away from himself by sending an army of investigators to Alaska to dig up (or invent if necessary) dirt on Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Meanwhile, nobody in the left-wing lamestream press is asking a single serious question of the Obama campaign and there is NO mass public outcry for full disclosure from the candidate who is running on “full disclosure.”

Scumbags of a Feather Sink Together?

Best I can tell from all available evidence, Barack Hussein Obama is the Manchurian candidate of the Saudi Royal Family.

He has been propped up for years by Black Nationalists, former Black Panther thugs, Wahabbi wealth and communist sympathizers masquerading as Alinsky styled “community activists” who have bilked the poorest and most unsuspecting members of society out of their freedom and liberty in pursuit of left-wing political power.

Dr. Khalid al-Mansour is certainly capable of being the official puppet master behind what is clearly a puppet presidential candidate. More than forty years of political alignments by al-Mansour demonstrate that he is a brilliant individual, of great wealth and power, extraordinarily well connected, with a hardcore anti-American agenda and a life long desire to seat the first Black Nationalist President, maybe even operating under the command and control of the Saudi family that made al-Mansour the international power-broker he is today.

We have lots of facts, lots of questions and very few forthright answers here. We have all seen Obama’s alleged intellect disappear the minute he is without a teleprompter. He’s only eloquent when someone is feeding him words. So, who is feeding Obama those words?

Rev. Wright, Father Pfleger, Percy Sutton, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, Saul Alinsky, William Ayers, Donald Warden (aka Dr. Khalid al-Mansour), pro-Palestinian Rashid Khalidi, Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, Nadhmi Auchi, Joseph Aramanda and Louis Farrahkan.

These names and more like them are repeatedly intertwined with Obama’s entire adult life over the last twenty odd years. The list of Obama associates is distinguished and consistent. Consistently corrupt, radically leftist, racially charged and anti-American…

When one has nothing but evil associates in his past, it is very difficult not to draw the natural conclusion that this individual, with such a long history of association with a multitude of corrupt friends, complete with very anti-American rap sheets, is also corrupt and anti-American at best.

Obama has the power to lay all such suspicions to rest by simply offering full disclosure of his brief but busy background.

Yet for some reason, Obama continues to run from his past and his past associations, leaving investigative journalists crisscrossing the country kicking over rocks and following trails that would lead any honest critical thinker to conclude that Obama is nothing he reports himself to be.

With each passing day, investigative journalists uncover another and then another Obama connection to leftist corruption, Arab money and tyrannical communist friends. If Obama refuses to answer the questions directly by fully opening up his life, he does so at the risk of allowing reporters and the voting public to draw their own conclusions from whatever evidence they are able to uncover on their own.

Meanwhile, the “candidate of full disclosure” can not run on his own “full disclosure” since he has offered no disclosure concerning his life.

People working around the clock to hide their past generally have something in their past worth hiding. People willing to open up their past for all to see, generally have nothing to hide.

His defenders call it guilt by association. But try running a Republican candidate who sat in the pew of a White Supremacist church for twenty years, hung out with skin heads on weekends and was groomed and funded for twenty years by Fidel Castro and see how long it takes leftists and their press to lynch that candidate by way of his associations…

Unless and until Obama is ready to stop running from his past, I suggest that every honest investigative journalist in America spend the next few weeks kicking over every rock around Obama and Dr. Khalid al-Mansour. At the moment, all evidence implicates Obama as a left-wing Saudi puppet and al-Mansour as the Saudi puppet master.

If this is the basis upon which Obama wants American voters to make their November decision, so be it. But losing in November won’t be the result of “racism.” It will be the result of life long “guilt by association” and the fact that Obama refused to answer a plethora of very real and reasonable questions about his past.

If he won’t explain the vast number of ill-conceived relationships, he will sink with his friends, including those in the lamestream press, who stopped being the unbiased eyes and ears of the people years ago.

I sincerely hope that Obama decides to open his résumé up to the standard scrutiny expected in every run for the highest office in the land. But I won’t be holding my breath… jb-williams.com/

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Vocabulario:
¿A qué hora...? - At what time...? / When?
a la(s)... - at...
empieza - It begins, it starts
termina - It ends

¿A qué hora empieza la escuela? - When does school start?
¿A qué hora termina la escuela? - When does school end?
¿A qué hora empieza el concierto? - When does the concert start?
¿A qué hora termina el concierto? - When does the concert end?
¿A qué hora empieza la película? - When does the movie start?
¿A qué hora empieza la fiesta? - When does the party start?

La escuela empieza a las ocho de la mañana. - School starts at 8:00 AM.
a las ocho de la mañana. - at 8:00 AM
La esucela termina a las tres y media de la tarde. - School ends at 3:30 PM.
a las tres y media de la tarde. - at 3:30 PM
El concierto empieza a las ocho de la noche. - The concert starts at 8:00 PM
a las ocho de la noche. - at 8:00 PM

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4:30pm - Miguel y William
7:00pm - Luz silenciosa
9:30pm - El violín

October 8, 2008
4:30pm - Lo mejor de mí
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9:30pm - Los crímenes de Oxford

October 9, 2008
4:30pm - Fados
7:00pm - El orfanato
9:30pm - El pollo, el pez y el cangrejo real

October 10, 2008
4:30pm - Bajo las estrellas
7:00pm - El violín
9:30pm - Concursante
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October 11, 2008
2:00pm - Nocturna
4:30pm - Luz silenciosa
7:00pm - Fuera de carta
9:30pm - El orfanato
12:00mn - Los crímenes de Oxford

October 12, 2008
2:00pm - El violín
4:30pm - Mataharis
7:00pm - Todos estamos invitados

Those I find interesting:

Miguel y William * MIGUEL & WILLIAM
October 7, 2008 4:30pm
Leonor leaves London to marry a rich, widowed duke in Castile, also leaving her lover, William Shakespeare, a promising playwright. In Spain, she meets Miguel de Cervantes, a man of letters who has lost faith in his talent. Shakespeare arrives to prevent the marriage between his beloved and the duke and so Leonor sees the chance to bring together the talents of the two writers to create a unique work.

El orfanato * THE ORPHANAGE
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October 11, 2008 9:30pm
Laura returns to the orphanage where she spent the best years of her childhood to discover that it has acquired a haunted, unhappy air. She then sets out to learn what happened at the orphanage after she left, plunging headlong into a netherworld where the dead reach out to the living.

Fuera de carta * CHEF'S SPECIAL
October 11, 2008 7:00pm
Maxi thinks his life is perfect. Then, unexpectedly, the children from his sham marriage turn up on his doorstep and a handsome ex-football player from Argentina moves in next door, making him reevaluate his own morals and values.

Los crímenes de Oxford * THE OXFORD MURDERS
October 8, 2008 9:30pm
Otober 11, 2008 12:00mn
The murdered corpse of an old lady is discovered by two men who meet for the first time, on the site of the first in a series of murders, all announced by the perpetrator by strange symbols. Professor and student join forces to try and crack the code, revealing an elaborate puzzle where nothing is as it seems.