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No country in the world is more determined to disappear. The moral decline in Spain began in the sixties when the birth rate of the once strongly Catholic country began to plummet. Spain has made an abrupt and terrible shift away from traditional family life toward egregious hedonism. The country’s fertility rate is the lowest in the world. In less than 20 years every Spanish worker will support one pensioner, in other words the pension system will be bankrupt. The only hope of preventing the oncoming disaster is to keep the doors open to the armies of migrants marching across the open borders and sailing from darkest Africa in search of a better life. The purpose of the recent amnesty of around a million immigrants, sin papeles, was the Government’s answer to save the social security system with no consideration of the consequences.
Spain is now in the grip of cultural death and Spaniards don’t seem to care. The number of babies born to foreign parents in Spain has now reached 15% of the total. Last year saw 465,616 births in Spain, of which over 70,000 were to a foreign mother. Over the year there was a reduction in the total number of marriages, at 209,125, despite 1,275 gay marriages, which, short of immaculate conception, have no baring whatsoever on the birth rate! In nearly 30,000 of the marriages one or more of the partners was a foreigner.
The appeaser Zapatero will go down in history as one of the culprits in the disappearance of Spain as many of us used to know it. With the flood of newcomers there is a cultural sea change underway that will do nothing to enrich Spanish culture. The million Ecuadorian peons toiling in the fields, the Philipino maids, the Peruvian and Columbian drug dealers and crime gangs, the almost half million foreign prostitutes, the black African vendors, the legions of Rumanian beggars and accordion players add nothing, on the contrary they subtract from a disappearing Spain. Or am I wrong about this and in the near future we can look forward to Moroccan matadors and black African flamenco dancers!
Human Rights for Spanish Apes
And here’s the latest piece of ridiculous nonsense from the PSOE. The Socialist Party is trying to pass a parliamentary initiative that includes simians in the category of "people" and, thereby, grant them legal protection. Under the measure, apes would be put on a par with handicapped people. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero defended the initiative as the "next logical step in the evolution of Spanish socialism."
Zapatero said he is confident that granting voting rights to apes is feasible. “Apes have the manual dexterity to mark ballots. There is no physical barrier to their participation in selecting who will govern Spain. The PP knows that this newly empowered under-privileged segment of our society is likely to vote Socialist. Opposition by the PP is driven by party politics. We, on the other hand, are merely trying to extend the blessings of democracy to a wider constituency. We socialists believe apes need to have a voice. We are ready to listen to that voice."
Zapatero said the extension of rights to apes may not be the last expansion of the franchise. Researchers recently announced that starlings can apparently recognize the grammatical concept of adding sounds to produce a more complex song. "Adding sounds to produce a more complex song has been my path to political success," claimed the president in an exclusive interview with this newspaper. Zapatero agreed that the logistics of casting a ballot would be more complex for birds than apes, but says he is optimistic that this difficulty can be overcome.
Anything that Infuriates Catholics can’t be all Bad
The Da Vinci Code is a wildly contrived story and the movie is excellent, saw it last month. Nevertheless, believing that anything that infuriates Catholics can't be all bad, I must say the Da Vinci Code is a delightful change of pace. The entire volume has far less gratuitous sex and dismemberment by psychotic zealots than the first chapter of the Bible. As for Jesus making an honest woman out of Mary Magdalene, According to Dan Brown, the Catholic Church hid this fact because it didn't wish to revere a female.
It is interesting to compare the Christian/Catholic reaction to the release of The Da Vinci Code with Islam over those cartoons in a Danish newspaper. Most people would agree that a full-length feature film distributed worldwide suggesting that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, had offspring and the Catholic Church tried to cover it up is much more offensive to the Catholic Church than a few Danish cartoons ridiculing the prophet Mohammed.
While the Catholic Church has expressed outrage and called for boycotts of the movie, there have been no violent reactions, protests, burnings, killings, threats of beheadings or any priests in the Catholic Church putting bounties on the filmmakers’ heads.
On the other hand, the Danish cartoons prompted all of these reactions from the Islamic community.
Justice Depends on Where You Are
On June 13 the British Home Secretary, John Reid, was accused of sticking his nose into legal affairs after calling on the Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith to refer the sentence of a convicted pedophile for review. Craig Sweeney kidnapped and repeatedly sexually assaulted a three-year-old girl. Sweeney was sentenced to life but was told that he faced a minimum sentence of five years. (That probably means out on parole after two years). Sweeney had a previous conviction for sexual assault on a six-year-old girl, for which he had served 18 months of a three-year sentence. Lord Falconer’s department insisted the judge had got his formula wrong in calculating Sweeney’s sentence! You see, with just 1,700 prison spaces left and inmates already sleeping three to a cell and the prison population increasing by an average of 150 guests a week, Britain’s jails will full within three months! Next stop the Dorchester!
There’s one of two ways to solve the shortage of accommodation for criminals. Build more prisons OR… In South Carolina the state senate has just endorsed making repeat child rapists eligible for the death penalty. The proposal allows prosecutors to seek the death penalty for sex offenders who are convicted twice of raping a child. Currently in South Carolina, murder is the only crime eligible for the death penalty. No prison space problem in this state!
Scum Report
The “Respect” MP George Galloway said a suicide bomber would be morally justified in murdering Tony Blair. What! “Morally justified” - this is outrageous. I don’t care if Tony Blair wears women’s underwear, there is no justification for what is a call for one of those Islamofascists to assassinate the British prime minister. If anyone deserves to be put to sleep it is Galloway!
Pink Martini
Somewhere between a 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical music ensemble, and a Brazilian marching street band is the 12 piece American band Pink Martini. The other night I watched them in concert on PBS, the American public broadcasting system, commercial free TV! The same night I ordered their two CDs from www.amazon.com and can’t wait for them to arrive.
Part language lesson, part Hollywood musical, the Portland, Oregon-based ‘little orchestra’ was created in 1994 by Harvard graduate and classical pianist Thomas Lauderdale to play at political fundraisers for progressive causes such as civil rights, affordable housing and public broadcasting. Even though they are on the left of the political spectrum I love their music. The singer and for me the star of the group is the seductive China Forbes, also a Harvard graduate.
Equally at home performing its romantic, multi-lingual repertoire on concert stages and in smoky bars, Pink Martini draws a wildly diverse crowd. The ensemble made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 and in the years following toured throughout Europe. They perform at the tower of London on July 8 accompanied by the BBC concert orchestra.
After Words
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