Comments for thebadrash.com http://www.thebadrash.com A blog from Barcelona, Catalonia, about politics, society and culture Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:40:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Comment on Mas making love to France by Ernesthttp://www.thebadrash.com/2013/06/04/mas-making-love-to-france/#comment-243732 Ernest Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:40:46 +0000 http://www.thebadrash.com/?p=2107#comment-243732 Not sure this can be called privatisation. The French company would simply be granted a concession to operate the train service. Even if Renfe gets the contract, it is always a good idea to have some competition in order to get a better deal. Not sure this can be called privatisation. The French company would simply be granted a concession to operate the train service. Even if Renfe gets the contract, it is always a good idea to have some competition in order to get a better deal.

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]]> Comment on Mas making love to France by trebotshttp://www.thebadrash.com/2013/06/04/mas-making-love-to-france/#comment-241684 trebots Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:33:22 +0000 http://www.thebadrash.com/?p=2107#comment-241684 http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1923/04/11/pagina-10/33275349/pdf.html http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1923/04/11/pagina-10/33275349/pdf.html

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]]> Comment on Mas making love to France by trebotshttp://www.thebadrash.com/2013/06/04/mas-making-love-to-france/#comment-241529 trebots Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:32:00 +0000 http://www.thebadrash.com/?p=2107#comment-241529 There has effectively been no liberalisation of SNCF, and much of France's local train network is now on tatty old buses, so sounds interesting. Mas isn't a great reader, but even he should know that suggestions to Paris that it should save Barcelona from Madrid have traditionally consistently ended in French invasions, with huge celebrations when the Spanish finally drive them out. There has effectively been no liberalisation of SNCF, and much of France's local train network is now on tatty old buses, so sounds interesting.

Mas isn't a great reader, but even he should know that suggestions to Paris that it should save Barcelona from Madrid have traditionally consistently ended in French invasions, with huge celebrations when the Spanish finally drive them out.

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]]> Comment on Wert's education reform abandoned by Tomhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2013/05/10/werts-education-reform-abandoned/#comment-238196 Tom Fri, 17 May 2013 15:50:36 +0000 http://www.thebadrash.com/?p=2100#comment-238196 Seems you may have been right. I take it all back. Well, this post anyway. Seems you may have been right. I take it all back. Well, this post anyway.

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]]> Comment on Wert's education reform abandoned by trebotshttp://www.thebadrash.com/2013/05/10/werts-education-reform-abandoned/#comment-236828 trebots Fri, 10 May 2013 10:08:05 +0000 http://www.thebadrash.com/?p=2100#comment-236828 LD says that the holdup is Wert's mad and unconstitutional idea of avoiding confrontation with CiU by sending children who want to use Spanish to private schools in parts of Spain where's it's legal to use Spanish and making the regional govt pay: <blockquote>La LOMCE iba a ser aprobada este viernes en Consejo de Ministros pero, según fuentes consultadas por Libertad Digital, finalmente será la próxima semana cuando se dará su visto bueno en Moncloa. El miércoles, en una reunión de los secretarios y subsecretarios de Estado presidida por la vicepresidenta del Gobierno, se informó desde Educación que aún faltaban "algunos aspectos técnicos" que resolver. En concreto, los que tienen que ver con la lengua. El Consejo de Estado llamó la atención sobre la solución que planteaba el Ministerio para los casos en que este derecho se vulnere: que el alumno pueda a ir a un centro privado y los gastos corran a cuenta de la Administración autonómica. El Consejo entendió que esa medida no entra dentro de las competencias del Estado. "Estamos en un proceso de reflexión; estamos valorando otra solución", afirmó la secretaria de Estado, Montserrat Gomendio hace dos semanas. Aún la solución no ha quedado plasmada en el texto normativo, de ahí que se retrase su aprobación.</blockquote> If they really backed down to a couple of thousand students trying to get onto IU's candidate list for the locals the Jewish-masonic conspiracy would never forgive them. LD says that the holdup is Wert's mad and unconstitutional idea of avoiding confrontation with CiU by sending children who want to use Spanish to private schools in parts of Spain where's it's legal to use Spanish and making the regional govt pay:

La LOMCE iba a ser aprobada este viernes en Consejo de Ministros pero, según fuentes consultadas por Libertad Digital, finalmente será la próxima semana cuando se dará su visto bueno en Moncloa. El miércoles, en una reunión de los secretarios y subsecretarios de Estado presidida por la vicepresidenta del Gobierno, se informó desde Educación que aún faltaban "algunos aspectos técnicos" que resolver. En concreto, los que tienen que ver con la lengua. El Consejo de Estado llamó la atención sobre la solución que planteaba el Ministerio para los casos en que este derecho se vulnere: que el alumno pueda a ir a un centro privado y los gastos corran a cuenta de la Administración autonómica. El Consejo entendió que esa medida no entra dentro de las competencias del Estado. "Estamos en un proceso de reflexión; estamos valorando otra solución", afirmó la secretaria de Estado, Montserrat Gomendio hace dos semanas. Aún la solución no ha quedado plasmada en el texto normativo, de ahí que se retrase su aprobación.

If they really backed down to a couple of thousand students trying to get onto IU's candidate list for the locals the Jewish-masonic conspiracy would never forgive them.

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]]> Comment on Wert's education reform abandoned by Tomhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2013/05/10/werts-education-reform-abandoned/#comment-236825 Tom Fri, 10 May 2013 09:32:00 +0000 http://www.thebadrash.com/?p=2100#comment-236825 As a dodo, I reckon. Maybe you're right though. Maybe it never had a chance. As a dodo, I reckon. Maybe you're right though. Maybe it never had a chance.

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]]> Comment on Wert's education reform abandoned by trebotshttp://www.thebadrash.com/2013/05/10/werts-education-reform-abandoned/#comment-236823 trebots Fri, 10 May 2013 09:26:06 +0000 http://www.thebadrash.com/?p=2100#comment-236823 It's not dead yet, and I agree with a lot of what's in it - refocusing from jobs for bad teachers to jobs for school leavers - , but always assumed that Wert had been put on the job because he would firm up an important proportion of the PP vote but act in such a completely ridiculous fashion that the government would be able to abandon him, thus keeping CiU and a section of potential PSOE vote onside. It's not dead yet, and I agree with a lot of what's in it – refocusing from jobs for bad teachers to jobs for school leavers – , but always assumed that Wert had been put on the job because he would firm up an important proportion of the PP vote but act in such a completely ridiculous fashion that the government would be able to abandon him, thus keeping CiU and a section of potential PSOE vote onside.

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]]> Comment on Those horrid Catalans by Rickhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/05/11/those-horrid-catalans-2/#comment-223319 Rick Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:28:19 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=472#comment-223319 I'm sorry but I don't understand exactly what you're saying. If you could clarify what you are saying it would be much appreciated. I'm sorry but I don't understand exactly what you're saying. If you could clarify what you are saying it would be much appreciated.

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]]> Comment on Those horrid Catalans by danyhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/05/11/those-horrid-catalans-2/#comment-222767 dany Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:54:13 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=472#comment-222767 Sorry for you Rick and yor bad experience i ave my idea for wath is like that if you want speack with a north catalonyan (french part) im her Sorry for you Rick and yor bad experience
i ave my idea for wath is like that
if you want speack with a north catalonyan (french part)
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]]> Comment on Shut down democracy to save democracy! by Ernesthttp://www.thebadrash.com/2013/03/05/shut-down-democracy-to-save-democracy/#comment-221409 Ernest Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:44:08 +0000 http://www.thebadrash.com/?p=2086#comment-221409 They run out of arguments pretty quickly, so this is what it's left. Nationalism is evil, undemocratic, etc. You're a nationalist. Therefore you're evil, undemocratic, bla, bla. This is propaganda of the lowest degree. It relies entirely on the undefined concept of "nationalism". Since it's undefined, it can be applied arbitrarily to anyone... except them, of course, because everybody knows that they call themselves "non-nationalists" therefore they're not nationalists by definition :-) Now we're starting to see that they have redefined democracy to mean rule of the law. It makes no sense, because pretty much any regime democratic or not has rule of the law, but this doesn't seem to stop them... They run out of arguments pretty quickly, so this is what it's left. Nationalism is evil, undemocratic, etc. You're a nationalist. Therefore you're evil, undemocratic, bla, bla. This is propaganda of the lowest degree. It relies entirely on the undefined concept of "nationalism". Since it's undefined, it can be applied arbitrarily to anyone… except them, of course, because everybody knows that they call themselves "non-nationalists" therefore they're not nationalists by definition :-) Now we're starting to see that they have redefined democracy to mean rule of the law. It makes no sense, because pretty much any regime democratic or not has rule of the law, but this doesn't seem to stop them…

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]]> Comment on Those horrid Catalans by Rickhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/05/11/those-horrid-catalans-2/#comment-218781 Rick Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:00:13 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=472#comment-218781 Hate to say this but I just got back from Barcelona and had to cut my trip short by two weeks bc I was tired of the rude locals I kept encountering. I know not all people can be lumped up in the same boat but it is what I experienced. And you can't lump up everyone's experience with yours. I stopped speaking Spanish bc I was treated badly every time I asked a question in Spanish but as soon as I began speaking English, their tune would change almost immediately. Case in point, I got on the bus and in spanish, asked the driver if he could tell me how I could connect to get to the camp nou. He rudely answered me in Catalan and I said, ok sorry. As soon as he realized I was an American, he answered me in Spanish. Odd, and rude and not the only experience I had. It's not about rudeness or not caring about the region and their culture that I didn't speak in Catalan, it's for the simple fact that I know Spanish and I am comfortable speaking it and I figure that a region where the locals speak both languages would have no problem answering me in Spanish as well. In fact, one of the things that attracted me to Barcelona was their unique culture within Spain. Sorry, but that's the truth. I found them rather racist and rude. Sorry to the awesome locals I did interact with but as of right now, my impression has been tainted. It will take me a while to work up the appetite to visit again. Hate to say this but I just got back from Barcelona and had to cut my trip short by two weeks bc I was tired of the rude locals I kept encountering. I know not all people can be lumped up in the same boat but it is what I experienced. And you can't lump up everyone's experience with yours. I stopped speaking Spanish bc I was treated badly every time I asked a question in Spanish but as soon as I began speaking English, their tune would change almost immediately. Case in point, I got on the bus and in spanish, asked the driver if he could tell me how I could connect to get to the camp nou. He rudely answered me in Catalan and I said, ok sorry. As soon as he realized I was an American, he answered me in Spanish. Odd, and rude and not the only experience I had. It's not about rudeness or not caring about the region and their culture that I didn't speak in Catalan, it's for the simple fact that I know Spanish and I am comfortable speaking it and I figure that a region where the locals speak both languages would have no problem answering me in Spanish as well. In fact, one of the things that attracted me to Barcelona was their unique culture within Spain. Sorry, but that's the truth. I found them rather racist and rude. Sorry to the awesome locals I did interact with but as of right now, my impression has been tainted. It will take me a while to work up the appetite to visit again.

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]]> Comment on Simple arithmetic for 'Spain bloggers' – 14 pays by Ernesthttp://www.thebadrash.com/2013/01/08/simple-arithmetic-for-spain-bloggers-14-pays/#comment-209355 Ernest Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:28:07 +0000 http://www.thebadrash.com/?p=2078#comment-209355 Actually, you're wrong. The 14 payments are not evenly spaced in time. The worker gets 1 payment every month and 2 additional payments in June and December. Therefore interest rates play in favour of the employer and against the worker. Actually, you're wrong. The 14 payments are not evenly spaced in time. The worker gets 1 payment every month and 2 additional payments in June and December. Therefore interest rates play in favour of the employer and against the worker.

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]]> Comment on Simple arithmetic for 'Spain bloggers' – 14 pays by Jack Hhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2013/01/08/simple-arithmetic-for-spain-bloggers-14-pays/#comment-206189 Jack H Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:48:55 +0000 http://www.thebadrash.com/?p=2078#comment-206189 I'm not sure what you're referring to here, but 14 payments instead of 12 means more money for the recipient and less money for the sender, because of compound interest. I'm not sure what you're referring to here, but 14 payments instead of 12 means more money for the recipient and less money for the sender, because of compound interest.

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