Spain wins and plays better.

Finally, Spain is starting to play better and beat Portugal... now Paraguay is our next rival. We have to keep working and do our best.

Jeep Cherokee

Por fin tengo el Cherokee.

The Killer tomatoes win in the World Cup, but doubts remain.

Victory over Chile 2 to 1, Spain and Chile qualify to the second round, but people still has doubts about the Spanish team. Let's hope they win against Portugal.

The Killer Tomatoes won in South Africa World Cup....it is about time.

Yesterday the Spanish National Team won their match against Honduras, not a brilliant game, but they scored 2 goals and now they have to do a good job against Chile if they want to go ahead in the championship.

By the way, just because Villa scored 2 goals before he didn't have to kick the penalty, that he missed... please let's play like a team like they did in the Euro.


At least president Zapatero didn't try to pass another unpopular law taking advantage of the soccer game as he did during the match against Switzerland.

4 millones de parados (por lo menos) y lo unico que preocupa a los gobernantes en España es quitar el voto a los ciudadanos que vivimos fuera.

Vamos a ver, con la crisis que atraviesa España (crisis cañi, nada del rollo patatero internacional que nos quieren vender... que la culpa es de otros... la excusa de los crios de diez años).... resulta que el Gobierno y el principal partido de la oposicion se ponen de acuerdo para quitar el voto al congreso a los españoles que vivimos fuera....

Por supuesto, con la politica del palo y la zanahora que tanto gusta en España, despues del palo, nos ofrecen el caramelito de crear senadores que representen a los españoles en el exterior... cuando todo el mundo sabe que el Senado en España es una broma y cuya funcion es meramente decorativa....


Resulta que despues de dar el pasaporte español a cantidad de descendientes de españoles de tercera generacion, ahora estan preocupados porque son muchos y en ciertas ocasiones el voto emigrante podria decidir varios escaños en el congreso, que es el que corta el bacalao de verdad.

No es nuestra culpa el hecho de que las leyes en España se hagan segun sople el viento, donde la ideologia significa "idea logica" (ZP dixit) y la improvisacion y chapuza legislativa como las leyes de igualdad sean nuestro pan de cada dia, pero tampoco es nuestra culpa el hecho de que nos hayamos marchado y aun nos importe nuestro pais de nacimiento.Dejamos atras a familias, a padres, amigos, casas, tierras..... y marcharse en muchos casos no fue facil. Queremos a nuestro pais y nos da pena ver como parece que a cambio, nuestro pais nos rechaza.

No he oido nunca de ningun pais que limite el voto a sus ciudadanos en el exterior... que pasa, ¿que ahora los emigrantes somos solo medio españoles....? Pues entonces, los que tienen casas o propiedades en España que paguen solo 1/2 de los impuestos .... ah, claro, para pagar si somos "pata negra".

Descanse en Paz Miguel Delibes

Descanse en paz, Miguel Delibes. El mejor escritor español del siglo XX.

No todo el mundo quiere ser famoso.

Jacob Hickman
Myron Rolle.

Leo en las noticias que dos jugadores que podrian entrar en la NFL no van a ir, uno, Hickman quiere dejar el futbol porque esta cansado de lesiones y Myron Rolle, el otro tiene una beca Rhodes y quiere ser neurocirujano.

Dicen las estadisticas que solo un 2.5 por ciento de los jugadores que van con beca de futbol a la Universidad llegaran a jugar a la NFL y solo unos pocos duraran mas de una temporada.

Quiza en estos tiempos de operaciones triunfos, grandes hermanos e intentos de buscar la fama rapida, que estos dos hombres jovenes tomen estas decisiones, podria hacernos pensar un poco.

Fin de semana de San Valentin...

Finde frio en Houston... pero activo.

Viernes, concierto de rock clasico en Sambuca en el Downtown.



Luego el sabado, concierto de blues en The Big Easy, no es el tipico bar adonde llevarias a una mujer en una primera cita, je, je... pero el concierto fue maravilloso. Canto Bobby Mack, guitarra blusera tejana, muy al estilo Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Un domingo bajaremos a The Big Easy para escuchar Zydeco.. y bailar.

FacePalm

Nevada en Houston

Nunca habia nevado antes tan pronto, y de hecho en Houston nieva cada varios años, pero el año pasado batimos el record de nevada mas temprana y este año lo hemos vuelto a batir... ahora estamos a bajo cero, cosa poco comun por aqui.

Vaya con los del Climagate... que vengan una temporada al Golfo a predecir huracanes con la bola de cristal.

Solid State Records

Buenas bandas de hard rock cristiano en la discografica Solid State Record... viendo el desolador panorama del hard rock mainstream en general, prefiero estas bandas.

Rey Luy

No es doo wop tradicional, pero al menos vale.

SOUNDS AND LETTERS DONT AGREE

When the English tongue we speak
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Won't you tell me why it's true
We say sew, but also few?
And the maker of a verse
Cannot rhyme his horse with worse.
Beard is not the same as heard
And core is different from word.
Vaca is cow, but bajo is low
And shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose and dose and lose.
And think of goose and yet choose.
Think of comb and tomb and bomb
and the babies in the womb.
Doll and roll and home and some,
and, since pay is rhymed with say
Why not paid with said, I pray?
Think of blood and food and good
like a flood of words in a mood.
Mould is not pronounced like could.
Wherefore done, but gone and lone.
Is there any reason known?
To sum up it seems to me
sounds and letters don't agree!!

AllLayedOut.com

Fwd: There I Fixed it!

If you like English

Let's face it -- English is a crazy language!

There's no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? One index, two indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through the annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?

Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love?

Have you ever run into someone who was discombobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all).

That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it!

(This essay has been attributed to Richard Lederer.)

Pluralities

by Eugenie A. Nida

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;

But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.

Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese;

Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice,

But the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,

Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

Cows in the plural may be cows or kine,

But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.

And I speak of a foot and you show me your feet,

But I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,

Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

If the singular is this and the plural is these,

Should the plural of kiss be nicknamed kese?

Then one may be that and three may be those,

Yet the plural of hat will never be hose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren,

But we say mother, we never say methren.

The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,

But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim.

So our English, I think you all will agree,

Is the trickiest language you ever did see.

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

    2) The farm was used to produce produce.

    3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

    4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

    5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

    6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

    7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to

    present the present.

    8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

    9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

    10) I did not object to the object.

    11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

    12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

    13) They were too close to the door to close it.

    14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

    15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

    16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

    17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

    18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.

    19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

    20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests

21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Lo que mas me gusta del ingles es que es un a lengua llena de creatividad.

Regreso al camino del Sur

Programa del 12 de septiembre.

Regreso al Camino del Sur

Cesar Vidal se fue de la COPE, pero en su nuevo trabajo en EsRadio seguira haciendo un programa parecido de musica sureña. Me lo voy a apuntar para los podcasts.


http://www.esradio.fm/regreso-al-camino-del-sur.html

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