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Paul Allen: Google Gears
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I didn’t have time last week to make a big point about the announcement of Google Gears, an open source software project aimed at enabling online web services (such as Google Reader, an RSS client, and eventually all the other Google Apps) to work…
Larry Ellison May 23, 2007 11:57 pm
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Ayer, se subió al barco Larry Ellison, pero se bajó -lo bajaron- Chris Dickson. Da igual, hicieron el ridículo un día más. Ya ha rodado la primera cabeza, la más importante, la de este director deportivo y, a la vez, consejero delegado, …
Another Path to a Billion
around the corner Motley Fool - You know the list: Microsoft ?s (Nasdaq: MSFT ) Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Oracle ?s Larry Ellison, and Dell ?s Michael Dell are the four most recognizable names on Forbes? latest list of the nation?s …
Una nota para reflexionar
No sólo en el Oracle, en el que el disgusto de Larry Ellison sigue siendo tal, que se está planteando dos alternativas extremas: O lanzarlo todo por la borda y abandonar, o volver a hacer otro macro proyecto para conquistar la Copa …
Taking the 5th, from a distance
An interesting Constitutional issue has unexpectedly arisen in the midst of the securities class action lawsuit against Oracle and its CEO Larry Ellison. The plaintiffs? lawyers have sought evidence from Economist editor Matthew Symonds …
Valencia, Yachts and Race Cars, a Perfect Combination
Team BMW Oracle headed by Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, reportedly has a budget of $150 million budget if not greater. (It seems that money doesn?t buy everything as BMW Oracle has already been knocked out of contention for the cup in …
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BMW Oracle?s early exit could serve Alinghi well
Although the Larry Ellison-backed team had been considered a favorite, BMW Oracle lost to Italian team Luna Rossa 5-1 this past Sunday in the Louis Vuitton Cup semifinals. As a result, Alinghi won?t have to face Ellison?s team in next …
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Hurts big time: Ellison’s team loses America’s Cup bid (Addict 3D)
( InfoWorld ) - Larry Ellison’s costly bid for the America’s Cup is over, ending before the storied sailboat race even started. “Hurts big time,” read the headline on BMW Oracle Racing Team’s blog in response to its 5-1 defeat by Italian rival Luna Rossa Challenge team in the best-of-nine semifinal of the Louis Vuitton Cup held off Valencia, Spain.
Oracle?s Loss May Help Alinghi the Most (New York Times)
Alinghi, a Swiss team, will not have to face Larry Ellison?s American team in the June 23-July 4 final. BMW Oracle Racing came into the competition as one of the favorites.
Ellison too late to take wheel (San Jose Mercury News)
George Steinbrenner doesn’t know winning. Larry Ellison knows winning.
larry ellison May 23, 2007 9:36 pm
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Ayer, se subió al barco Larry Ellison, pero se bajó -lo bajaron- Chris Dickson. Da igual, hicieron el ridículo un día más. Ya ha rodado la primera cabeza, la más importante, la de este director deportivo y, a la vez, consejero delegado, …
Another Path to a Billion
around the corner Motley Fool - You know the list: Microsoft ?s (Nasdaq: MSFT ) Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Oracle ?s Larry Ellison, and Dell ?s Michael Dell are the four most recognizable names on Forbes? latest list of the nation?s …
Una nota para reflexionar
No sólo en el Oracle, en el que el disgusto de Larry Ellison sigue siendo tal, que se está planteando dos alternativas extremas: O lanzarlo todo por la borda y abandonar, o volver a hacer otro macro proyecto para conquistar la Copa …
Taking the 5th, from a distance
An interesting Constitutional issue has unexpectedly arisen in the midst of the securities class action lawsuit against Oracle and its CEO Larry Ellison. The plaintiffs? lawyers have sought evidence from Economist editor Matthew Symonds …
Valencia, Yachts and Race Cars, a Perfect Combination
Team BMW Oracle headed by Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, reportedly has a budget of $150 million budget if not greater. (It seems that money doesn?t buy everything as BMW Oracle has already been knocked out of contention for the cup in …
In The Wrong Place At The Right Time by XFreak [FRAO]
Disclaimers: The Sentinel, Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg, Simon Banks, Henri Brown, Larry the Barbary ape, and Rainier University belong to Pet Fly Productions and Paramount. No copyright infringement is intended. …
BMW Oracle?s early exit could serve Alinghi well
Although the Larry Ellison-backed team had been considered a favorite, BMW Oracle lost to Italian team Luna Rossa 5-1 this past Sunday in the Louis Vuitton Cup semifinals. As a result, Alinghi won?t have to face Ellison?s team in next …
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Larry Ellison’s BMW-Oracle Eliminated in America’s Cup Bid (Bloomberg.com)
May 20 (Bloomberg) ” Larry Ellison’s BMW-Oracle was eliminated by Italy’s Luna Rossa, ending the U.S. software billionaire’s second attempt at winning sailing’s America’s Cup.
Ellison too late to take wheel (San Jose Mercury News)
George Steinbrenner doesn’t know winning. Larry Ellison knows winning.
Hurts big time: Ellison’s team loses America’s Cup bid (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
Larry Ellison’s costly bid for the America’s Cup is over, ending before the storied sailboat race even started.
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Crash evidencia uma sociedade doente
O primeiro é legalzinho, bom para dar umas boas risadas e acompanhar a comentada atuação de Meryl Streep que realmente destruiu como Miranda, além da gatinha Anne Hathaway, no papel de Andy, ou a nova Émile…rs. …
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El nombre de esta hermosura es Anne Hathaway, es una de las actrices mas sensuales de hollywood una de sus peliculas donde la puedes apreciar es “The Devil Wears Prada”. Aqui una muestra de su belleza. Para agrandar la foto da click en …
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Anne Hathaway in Valentino. What is with the ink spot on the front? Not only was it unflattering to her figure, it looked like a giant butterfly crashed into the front of her gown. Jessica Biel wore an pink Oscar de la Renta halter that …
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The Devil Wears Prada has been made into a movie which stars Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs and Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly. Although it does not follow everything in the book it suceeded in showing us the hilarious message of the …
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Summer and sequels go together like popcorn and soda, and the summer 2007 calendar boasts a huge number of follow-ups to past box-office successes. But this year’s extraordinary lineup includes return visits to some of the most popular series in motion picture history.
Craig joins Zwick in WWII drama (Boston Globe)
Edward Zwick and Daniel Craig are teaming for World War II action-drama “Defiance,” about a band of Jewish resistance fighters. Zwick is writing, directing, and producing. The film is based on a true story and is set to begin shooting in early September.
Jane Austen’s love life takes a turn (Portsmouth Herald)
Jane Austen wrote some of English literature’s most enduring romances, but she never enjoyed a passionate love affair of her own.
Today’s Blessing
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I invite you today to look to Christ. When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ who is the fullness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world, look to Christ. Only in Christ will you fulfill your potential as a citizen of the world community.
- Pope John Paul II the Great (October 3, 1979)
Le invito hoy que mire a Cristo. Cuando usted se pregunta sobre el misterio de ser, mire hacia Cristo que le d el significado de la vida. Cuando usted se pregunta lo que significa ser una persona madura, mire a Cristo que sea la plenitud de la humanidad. Y cuando usted se pregunta sobre su papel en el futuro del mundo, mire a Cristo. Solamente en la voluntad de Cristo usted satisface sus posibilidades como ciudadano de la comunidad mundial.
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THE DAWN PATROL 160 LOW LUX NEGRO 1 AS
Now I am married to a wonderful human female who is as independent and opinionated as I am. She was nwever married while she lived and passed her time on Terra like many of you quietly going unnoticed by the flash of camera bulbs and absent from the covers of magazines and dailies. She was a normal person who had normal desires and wanted merely to be safe from harm and comfortable in her life until alas on aone fateful day her life was cut short.
Carol’s death came out of nowhere she couldn’t have possibly seen it coming it wasn’t as if she walked the verdant fields of Terra with a body scanner telling her the condition of her descending aorta. One minute she was a living breathing human working as a research assistant in the Bismarck, North Dakota public library and the next second she was on the floor of that lovely establishment dead from a massive stroke. Carol Henninger, dead at the age of 41.
I go into such intimate personal detail to make a point about fear which is the driving force behind the midterm elections coming up and I felt there needed to be a form of clarity made on such a fun and scary holiday for human beings in America. There is a laundry list of “scare” tactics being used by people who generally have very little to fear. Those people are the GOP operatives who get GOP candidates elected. Neither of these well paid groups have nay of the basic, read, normal fears average Americans have. They want not for food nor shelter, some have more than one home or ebven properties that they generate income from. They want not for initmacy physical or intellectual they have a mighty Internet at their disposal and all manner of muscled men and voluptuous women, a phone call well placed or an e-mail well sent away, ready and professionally willing to sweep away the ennui of their betrothed’s fading beauty.
I cannot separate the facts presented here about the right wing from similarities on the left save for one critical element. The right wants you to fear, terrorism, torture, arrest for treason, energy costs, airport security, taxes, and the especially want you to fear a 66 year old grandmother from California. While the democrats want you to hope. Hope it is time for change and oversight of a runaway executive branch, hope that you were not suckered into believing that a $20 tax cut when reversed will somehow become a $2000 tax increase and a hope that Big Pharma will get out of the shareholder ass kissing business and get back into the noble work of small margin big return research and development and eschew big marketing Madison Avenue marketing and decrese the number of Barbie doll hooker reps it sends out to physicians nation wide.
The choice is yours, you have one week upon which to ponder. Choose then, in that private moment, and choose well. Choose Hope.
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This has been in my memory the nastiest midterm election campaign ever. The Harold Ford commercial was just so very far over the top even for GOP I fear it will backfire among many of the conservative black voters who might have seen more in Corker than in Harold Ford. The thought of a pretty white woman, take Heidi Klum fior example willingly giving herself sexually to a black man makes the flesh crawl of millions of American white men most of whom are married to unattractive white women. Everyone cannot be blessed with rational mind, a lovely wife, smart children and the commonsense to recognize and appreciate these blessing like say, Ser Daryl Cobranchi’ But I digress.
DPRK to rejoin six party talks CNN reports.
New Bird Flu is really the scary kind not like that previously hyped up End of the World virus that turned out to be a pussy. Laal Hethri curiously silent on new strain of Bird Flu, spokesdemon scowls, slams door in reporter’s face.
This just in from the Department of Redundancy Department:
Katherine Harris is about to literally shit the political bed. The GOP dumped Florida senatorial candidate is planning to write a book. Sources close to the Daily Pitchfork in the DC metro area say it will detail how Harris was plied to call the election in 2000 for George W Bush. Laal Hethri sent to guard her now actually have to stay awake. Offically, Katherine Harris is insane.
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He’s back: Ward Burton returns to NASCAR (French …
He’s back: Ward Burton returns to NASCAR (French Bulldogs)
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Longhorns’ Lokey out with fractured leg
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Bowling Green Daily News - Between Friday and Sunday, someone stole five French bulldogs, valued at $10,000, from a kennel on J.E. Simmons Road just outside Glasgow. If you have information about this crime or any other, call Crime Stoppers at 781-2583. Information that leads
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Broncos 17, Browns 7
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Moyer signs extension with Phillies
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Getzlaf’s goal in shootout lifts Ducks
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Lancaster News - Dogs and cats of all shapes sizes and colors attended the service - French bulldogs, labs, pugs and a Doberman, just to name a few of the breeds represented. Two goats waited patiently in a trailer for Smith to bless them, too. The blessing of the
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Freak dog breeds attacked by vets
Local - Swedish dog breeders are breeding unhealthy animals just for their fashionable looks, the country’s veterinary association has said. Freak dog breeds include Boston terriers and French bulldogs, of which 40 percent are born through caesarian, as their
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Augusten Burroughs shaken - and awed - by sharp “Scissors”
Seattle Times - And he’s found stability in his personal life, living with longtime partner Dennis Pilsits and their two French bulldogs. He’s close to his brother and nephew, but remains estranged from his mother. “I dislike her,” he said. “I mean, I love her, as a
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The Devil (and Jim Carroll) hates Latin
“Progressives” hate Latin and Chant. It’s in the way of their insipid agenda that goes down much better with the musical farts of Haugen, Haas & Co and the “improv” by Father Feelgood. Latest case in point: the insufferable Jim Carroll, a former priest and current whiner about all things orthodox, writes in the Boston Daily Worker err Globe:
The first vote taken by the bishops of the Second Vatican Council in 1962 concerned liturgical reform, centering on use of the vernacular at Mass. If the Council fathers had voted against worshipping in language ordinary believers could understand, the revolutionary impulse driving that Council would have been stopped dead in its tracks, but the tally was overwhelmingly in favor. The Latin Mass was finished. With that single vote, the Council set loose a current of change that is still running.
Once Catholics entered into the mystery of the Mass as literate participants instead of as dumb spectators, an unprecedented renewal took hold. The vitality and warmth of today’s typical liturgy, involving intelligible encounters with sacred texts, has Catholic parishes surprisingly full, even in a time of widespread disillusionment with clerical leadership. The structure of order that was embodied in the old tradition, and its language, turned out to be dead letters in comparison to the meaning and nourishment that now regularly draw Catholics to the Eucharistic meal. What Tyndale did for English, English has done for American Catholicism. And so with other vernaculars, elsewhere.
So that’s why Mass attendance is at an all-time low ‘
Also, note his term “Eucharistic meal”.
One still hears of Catholic nostalgia for the Latin Mass. Classicists regret the loss of the Church’s museum function. Esthetes decry the banalizing of liturgy in which all worshippers are fully able to participate. More pointedly, reactionaries have never stopped campaigning for the restoration of Latin, understanding its twin significance as symbol and pillar of the old order. Unsurprisingly, that campaign has been reinvigorated lately, with a blessing from Pope Benedict — a futile shoring up of a rapidly collapsing clericalism. But Catholic Latin is a lost cause. For which one says, “Deo Gratias.”
Peter has more on the subject.
I’m not fixated on Latin or even the Tridentine Mass - even the flawed Pauline Mass could be perfect within its confines every time. The problem we have is the enemy in our midst. The Carrolls, Chittisters, Gumbletons. The dissenters, heretics, pantheists, neo-Pagans and syncretists. The horizontal people. The “meal” people. There are three segments in the Church - the vast majority of people who don’t know much about anything, the more traditional oriented people and the progressives who - ironically - don’t want to give up the Catholic Church for its institutional structure and prestige but other than that aren’t Catholic in the least. And, they usually hate Latin and the Tridentine Mass. Vernacular in itself isn’t bad, but, in this age it means an opportunity to inject the relativist, progressive agenda.
If the Catholics of ages past were so ignorant and today’s Catholics are such good little conscious participants, how come the former went to Mass and knew their Catechism quite well whereas the latter may never even have seen a Catechism - or a church from the inside ‘
On a more general level, a trivial Mass destroys the sense of the sacred. That leaves room for those vultures. Once God is shoved to the sideline, once we’re all horizontal, we’re more open to listen to what they have to say. Once everything is community, and God is, in essence, an empty husk, there is room to fill up that husk with their agenda. Sure, it’s madness. But, make no mistake: it’s madness with a method.
The Importance of Routine.
Why is there so much controversy over schedules and routines’ While some moms despise the idea of routine, others thrive on them. Can putting your infant on a feeding schedule really lead to malnourishment’ Does implementing a daily routine really have to confine you’ While some moms may cringe, and others cheer at the thoughts of a schedule or routine for your infant and toddlers we can all agree that having your children sleeping through the night would be a blessing. A study showed
To Cheer or not to Cheer’ - The Wessex Scene
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Senator Kerry with “Fighting Dem” Patrick Murphy in Newtown, PA
cheer from all the students in attendance. Patrick had been serving as a constitutional law professor… to JK and a big cheer erupted from the crowd again! After JK was finished speaking he asked
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Among the most highly prized possessions that any college basketball player can hope for is their college basketball jersey. The college basketball jersey represents a feeling of pride and belonging to the team. But the feeling is not restricted to the team. Jerseys are also prized by fellow students, who show up at college games dressed in the same colors to cheer on their team. Anyone who loves the game will have a favorite team and player. Wearing their jersey creates a special
NFL: On Carr, Young, Kubiak and what happened around the NFL
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THE TEACHER PART THREE
Now leaning forward even closer to her new friend, Ellyn whispered in a husky voice, When I see you in you cheer leading out fit, the one with the tight sweater, I think about how nice it would be to just lift up the front of it and pop one of your nipples into my mouth!!! Giana asked excitedly, h-have you ever seen my breasts naked before!’! While shaking her head from side to side Elly replied, No, but once I saw them while you were wearing your bra, and they looked huge!!! re bigger than
Mike’s Mets: Why I Picked On Mookie (And Don’t Regret It)
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Online Holiday Shopping Sales Meet Record Breaking Expectations
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with business analysts predicting a record breaking online
holiday shopping season, it appears the projections were right
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Although the final holiday shopping sales figures aren’t in yet,
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Depending on where you get your information there are a few contenders for the title of worlds richest man (or woman). According to one source that I have just read, Ingvar Kamprad has just…
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The Value of Platinum Over Gold
As early as the 7th century B.C., the Egyptians had already been
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U. may increase number of gender-neutral bathrooms (Embassy Suites Maui)
U. may increase number of gender-neutral bathroomsBrown Daily Herald - have gender-neutral bathrooms, according to RUQUS members. The only officially recognized gender-neutral public bathrooms are in Keeney Quadrangle, according to Klawunn. Private bathrooms in several other residence halls and bathrooms in co-ed suites Source: www.browndailyherald.comSuper 8 China Opens 6 New Properties in September 2006KATC 3 - The hotel has 127 guestrooms featuring standard single and double rooms, as well as luxury and executive suites. Every guestroom is clean and comfortable, with classic, elegant furniture. Each room has DD & IDD, digital cable TV, free broadband Source: www.katc.comTuesbrfs3 / ks cbKankakee Daily Journal - The Bradley-Bourbonnais Senior Club’s October luncheon will be held at noon Oct. 12 at the Quality Inn & Suites. Tickets for the luncheon will be on sale Oct. 5 and Oct. 10. The senior room at BBCHS will be closed on Monday because there will be no Source: daily-journal.comWhere to Stay with ChildrenKLAS-TV - Suites. Similar to the set up of the adjoining room, suites offer families room to move around, much needed privacy and opportunities to save money. A typical suite has two full beds, a fold out sofa and a kitchenette, making it an attractive Source: www.klas-tv.comA-List Couples Luxuriate in the Authentic Hip ‘Simply South Beach’ at WREG - The hotel showcases 790 stylish rooms and suites, its own Emeril’s Restaurant, a palm tree-lined promenade and ultra-private beach cabanas. To experience “Simply South Beach,” or for information, call the Loews Miami Beach Hotel at (877)604-1601 or Source: www.wreg.comLocal DigestGilroy Dispatch - Meet at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites in Morgan Hill, 17035 Condit Road. Blessing of the Animals Gilroy - Animal owners bring your pets to St. Stephen’s Church Saturday, Oct. 7, at 10am to receive the Blessing of the Animals. Please have Source: gilroydispatch.com
The ‘Rushing Wind’ of the Reformation: the ministry of the Holy Spirit
“… the testimony of the Spirit is more excellent than all reason. For God alone is a fit witness to himself in His Word, so also the Word will not find acceptance in men’s hearts before it is sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who has spoken through the mouths of the prophets must penetrate into our hearts to persuade us that they faithfully proclaim what has been divinely commanded… By this power we are drawn and inflamed, knowingly and willingly, to obey him, yet also more vitally and more effectively than by mere human willing or knowing.” -John Calvin
“In the virginal conception God is fulfilling His promise to redeem His people by a work of divine restoration. What is in view is not “creation ex nihilo” but a new creation which is in the context of the old creation. The flesh by Mary weakened by the fall in which the Spirit operates in a way so mysterious that Scripture sheds no light on it whatsoever. Out of that humanity weakened by the fall, joining it to the persons of the Son of God the Holy Spirit sanctifies that human nature at the moment of His conception so that, that which is conceived in her is called holy, the Son of God. What then we have in the gospel testimony to the virginal conception is the notion that the Son of God enters into the closest possible union with humanity in its falleness in such a way that by the Spirit in the moment of conception that humanity is, by union with the Son of God, through the Spirit, sanctified in order that there may be in him the beginning of a new and holy creation. And the Spirit of God is however mysteriously active in this right from the very beginning of the human life of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is present and active from the very inauguration of the life of Jesus so there is no point of Jesus existence as the Son of God incarnate in which the Holy Spirit is not already both present and active. This is one of the great mysteries of the Christian faith.” -Sinclair Ferguson
The Gospel of the Holy Spirit’s Love
By Horatius Bonar
Does the Holy Spirit love us’
There can be but one answer to this question. Yes! He does. As truly as the Father loveth us, as truly as the Son loveth us, so truly does the Spirit love us. The grace or free love which a sinner needs, and which has been revealed and sealed to us through the Seed of the woman, the “Word made flesh,” belongs equally to Father, Son, and Spirit. That love which we believe to be in God must be the same in each Person of the Godhead, else the Godhead would be divided; one Person at variance with the others, or, at least, less loving than the others: which is impossible.
Twice over it is written, God is love (1 John 4:8,16); and this applies to each Person of the Godhead. The Father is love; the Son is love; the Spirit is love. The Trinity is a Trinity of Love.
When it is said, “God is a Spirit” (John 4:24), the words refer to each Person. If we lose sight of the love of one, we shall lose sight of the love of all. That which is the glory of Jehovah, is the glory of each of the three Persons. Let us beware of misrepresenting the Trinity by believing in unequal love, a love that is not equally large and free in each.
When it is said, “God is light” (1 John 1:5), we know that these words are true of the whole three Persons; not merely of the Father or of the Son. The Father is light; the Son is light; the Spirit is light. As of light, so of love; and he who would doubt that the Spirit is love, must needs also doubt that the Spirit is light. That which is written of God, is written of the Spirit of God. That “name” which God has proclaimed as His, belongs to the Spirit as certainly as to the Father and the Son,- “The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands” (Exo 34:6). Shall we rob the Holy Spirit of that blessed name’ His personality claims it; and the gracious characteristics which go to make up the name, are as much those of the Spirit as those of the Father and the Son. The personality of the Spirit requires that what is thus written of one should be applicable to all. We are wont to say of the three Persons, “They are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.” If so, then the love which we affirm of the whole we must affirm of each. They must be equal in love, as well as in “power and glory.”
Let not the old question of unbelief come in “How can these things be’” We cannot “find out the Almighty unto perfection” (Job 11:7); but shall this inability of ours lead to doubt’ Shall it not rather lead to faith’ Shall we rob the Spirit of His love, because we cannot understand the deep wonders of Godhead’ Shall we not rather say, If there be love in God at all, there must be love in the Spirit’ For to Him it is given to carry out in human hearts the purposes of redeeming love, in striving, awakening, drawing, convincing, quickening, comforting; so that it is impossible to suppose that His love can be less warm, less tender, less large, less personal than the love of the Father and the Son.
Laying aside the disputes of intellectual pride, the questionings of vain human reason, the puzzling suggestions of unhumbled self-righteousness, the fond endeavours to comprehend the hidden things of God, the stubborn determination not to believe unless we see “signs and wonders” (John 4:48), let us recognize in that simple formula, God is love the foundation of our faith as to the Spirit’s gracious character, and the solution of all our perplexities as to His personal and ineffable love. True, He did not take flesh for us; He did not become poor for us; He did not die for us; He did not weep for us the human tears which the Son of God wept over Jerusalem; but none the less does He love us; and none the less is His work for us and in us the work of love,-love without bounds, or change, or end.
We are baptized “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matt 28:19). That threefold name is love; or rather, that one name in its threefold connection with the three Persons, unfolds itself as the expression of the threefold love of Father, Son, and Spirit. The name thus named upon us is the divine declaration and pledge to us of “the love of the Spirit.” Our baptism says, not only, “God the Father loveth us,” not only, “God the Son loveth us”; but also, “God the Spirit loveth us.” We are baptized into the love of the Spirit.
Perhaps much of our slow progress in the walk of faith is to be traced to our overlooking the love of the Spirit. We do not deal with Him, for strength and advancement, as one who really loveth us, and longs to bless us, and delights to help our infirmities (Rom 8:26). We regard Him as cold, or distant, or austere; we do not trust Him for His grace, nor realize how much He is in earnest in His dealings with us. More childlike confidence in Him and in His love would help us on mightily. Let us not grieve Him, nor vex Him, nor quench Him by our untrustfulness, by disbelieving or doubting the riches of His grace, the abundance of His loving-kindness.
He is no mere “influence,” but a living “Personality”; and there is a vast difference between these two things. An “influence” cannot love us, and we cannot love an “influence.” If there is to be love, there must be personality; and, in this case, it must be the personality of love.
The fresh breath of spring is an influence, but not a personality. It cannot love us nor call on us to love it. The voice of that which we call “nature” is an influence, but not a personality. There can be no mutual love between it and us. But a being with a soul is a personality, not an influence; and the love of man or woman is a personal thing, a true and real affection-one eye looking into another, and one heart touching its fellow. So is it with the love of the Spirit.
There is a personality about Him passing all the personalities of earth,-passing all the personalities of men or angels; and it is this divine personality that makes His love so precious and so suitable, as well as so true and real. There is no reality of love like that of the Spirit. It has nothing in common with the coldness or distance of a mere “influence.” It comes closely home to a human heart, because it is the love of Him who formed the heart, and who is seeking to make it His abode for ever.
The proofs of His love are abundant. They are divine proofs; and, therefore, assuredly true. It is God who has given them to us, that no doubt of the Spirit’s love may ever enter our minds. They are spread over all Scripture, in different forms and aspects. While the Bible was meant to be specially the revelation of the Son of God, it is also the revelation of the Holy Spirit. He reveals Himself while revealing Christ. He utters His own love while showing us the love of the Father and the Son.
The thoughts of the Spirit are thoughts of love.
The apostle uses the words, “the mind of the Spirit,” in connection with His gracious intercession (Rom 8:26,27); and we know that intercession implies love. The “groanings that cannot be uttered” are awakened in us by the Spirit in His love. He thinks of us; and His thoughts are “precious” (Psa 139:17). Yes; He thinks of us; and His thoughts are thoughts of peace (Jer 29:11). The Bible is filled with the thoughts of the Spirit; and they are love. They breathe in every page of Scripture; for holy men of God “spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
The ways of the Spirit are the ways of love.
His manifold dealings with the sons of men, in “opening hearts” (Acts 16:14), teaching, sanctifying, chastening, are the dealings of love,-love which many waters cannot quench, and which the floods cannot drown. The faintest touch of His hand is the touch of love. The gentlest whisper of His voice is the whisper of love. All His dealings from day to day, whether of cheer or of chastisement, whether of warning or of welcome, are those of love. In a thousand ways He beckons us to come to the Cross; He draws us, unconsciously and imperceptibly, but irresistibly, away from sin and self to God and heaven. He has not, indeed, human tears to shed, like the son of God when he wept over Jerusalem; but not the less are His yearnings true and tender, and all His ways toward us are ways of unutterable compassion (see Gen 6:3; Psa 51:11,12; Isa 55:8). He is “very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”
The works of the Spirit are the works of love.
When He “garnished the heavens” (Job 26:13), it was the work of love. When he moved upon the face of the deep (Gen 1:2), it was in love. When He came upon holy men of old, it was in love. When He wrote the Scriptures, it was in love,-love to us. When He anointed Jesus of Nazareth to preach the gospel to the poor, it was in love to us. When He fulfills His office of “guiding into all truth,” it is in love. When He opens eyes and hearts, it is in love. When He chastens, it is in love. When He comforts, it is in love. When He sheds abroad the love of God in our hearts, it is in love. When He, as one with the Father and the Son, wrote the seven epistles of the Revelation, it was in love,-as the close of each of them shows: “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches” (Rev 2:7). His works in the soul of man, in regenerating, upholding, and perfecting, are the works of love,-love like that of Christ, “that passeth knowledge”: love to the chief of sinners; love to those who have vexed and resisted and quenched Him; love which says, “How shall I give thee up, Ephraim’ how shall I deliver thee, Israel’” (Hosea 11:8).
The words of the Spirit are the words of love.
That which we call “the word of God” is specially the Spirit’s word: and it overflows with love; love which, while it condemns the sin, presents pardon to the sinner; love which, while it spreads out before us “the exceeding sinfulness of sin,” proclaims aloud, to the guiltiest of the guilty, free forgiveness and “deliverance from the wrath to come.” The gospel of Christ contains in it the good news of the Spirit’s love. “He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost” (Matt 3:11) are the words in which is described the fitting out of men for preaching the good news; and in this baptism we have the manifestation of the Spirit’s love. He baptizes because He loves. He sends out men to tell of His love; and the baptism with which He baptizes them is to fit them for this message of love. By this baptism the words of love are put into their lips; and these words are truly those of the Spirit Himself, from whatever lips they may come, by whatever pen they may be written down. They are the words of sincerity and truth. He means what He says when He sends out His servants with the language of love upon their tongues.
Hear some of His words of grace,-grace as boundless and as suitable as that of the Father and the Son; grace which has lost none of its largeness or freeness by the lapse of ages or the desperate resistance of human hearts:
“Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies” (Psa 103:3,4); “O Lord, I will praise thee: though Thou wast angry with me, Thine anger is turned away” (Isa 12:1); “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found” (Isa 55:6); “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isa 1:18); “As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked” (Eze 33:11); “I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love” (Hosea 11:4); “Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity” (Micah 7:18); “The Lord is good; a stronghold in the day of trouble” (Nahum 1:7); “How great is His goodness” (Zech 9:17). These are the Spirit’s own words; and He writes them as the witness for God, the revealer of the divine character, the Unfolder of the love of Father, Son, and Spirit. They are the words of the Spirit, spoken before the Son of God came into the world to reveal and to embody in Himself the love of God to man. The New Testament is yet more abundant in its utterances of love: and in every one of them the Spirit has His part: till all is summed up in the wondrous words which time cannot weaken, and which long use cannot make stale: “The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely” (Rev 22:17).
The Holy Spirit is no mere mechanical agent in the great work of a sinner’s deliverance, and of the Church’s upbuilding, obediently doing the work appointed to Him. “I delight to do Thy will” is as true of the Spirit as the Son. He loves the sinner; therefore He lays hold of him. He pities his misery; therefore He stretches out the hand of help. He has no pleasure in his death; therefore He puts forth His saving power. He is longsuffering and patient; therefore He strives with him day by day; and though “vexed,” “resisted,” “grieved,” and “quenched,” He refuses to retire from, or give up, any sinner on this side of eternity. The extent to which we resist Him, and the amount of His forbearing love, we cannot know. This only we may say, that our stubbornness is something infinitely fearful and malignant, while His patient grace passeth all understanding.
We are little alive to the injury we do to ourselves by any misunderstanding as to the mind and the work of the Spirit. The injustice which we do to Him is great; and the wrong which we inflict upon ourselves is no less so. No mistakes as to the Spirit’s gracious character can be trivial or harmless. To regard Him as “austere,” or “hard,” or inaccessible, or needing to be persuaded to do His work in us, is to treat Him as at variance with the Father and the Son; slow to carry out the great purpose of divine love, in which purpose the three Persons of the Godhead are equally concerned. To raise questions as to the riches of His grace is to misread Scripture, and to put a dark and false construction upon His testimony for Christ, as well as upon His dealings with the sons of men,-His dealings with those who have been saved, as well as with those who are lost. For what do the saved ones not owe to His love; and what would that love not have done for the lost, had they not stubbornly set it at nought to the last! “How often would I have gathered thy children” were the words which accompanied the tears of the Son of God over the rebellious city; and they are words equally expressive of the Spirit’s feelings toward the stout-hearted of every age and nation.
Imperfect views of the Spirit’s character may not be regarded by some as serious or fatal, but it is hardly possible that they can be entertained without exercising a darkening and deadening influence upon the soul: not in the same way as defective views of Christ’s work affect us, but still with a most evil result both upon the conscience and the heart,-as if there were something in the Spirit which repelled us, whatever there might be in Christ to attract us; as if the light which the Cross throws upon the love of the Spirit were not quite in harmony with that which it reveals of the love of Christ; as if the Spirit were not always as ready with His help as is the Son.
All wrong thoughts of God, whether of Father, Son, or Spirit, must cast a shadow over the soul that entertains them. In some cases the shadow may not be so deep and cold as in others; but never can it be a trifle. And it is this that furnishes the proper answer to the flippant question so often asked, Does it really matter what a man believes’ All defective views of God’s character tell upon the life of the soul and the peace of the conscience. We must think right thoughts of God if we would worship Him as He desires to be worshipped; if we would live the life He wishes us to live, and enjoy the peace which He has provided for us.
The want of stable peace, of which so many complain, may arise from imperfect views of the Spirit’s love. True, our peace comes from the work of the Substitute upon the cross, from the blood of the one sacrifice, from the sinbearing of Him who has made peace by the blood of the cross. But it is the Holy Spirit who glorifies Christ to us, and takes the scales from our eyes. If then we doubt His love, can we expect Him to reveal the Son in our hearts’ Are we not thrusting Him away, and hindering that view of the peace-making which He only can give’ Trust His love, and He will make known the Peacemaker to you. Trust His love, and He will show the precious blood by which the guiltiest conscience is purged, and the peace which passeth all understanding is imparted. He is the Spirit of peace, and His work is the work of peace. His office is to make known to us the Prince of Peace. Can there be peace without the recognition of the Holy Spirit’s love’ Can there fail to be peace when this is recognized and acted on’ Doubts as to the love of the Spirit must inevitably intercept the peace which the peace-making cross presents to us.
Perhaps the want of faith, which we often mourn over, may arise from our not realizing the Spirit’s love. “Faith [no doubt] cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”: yet it is the Holy Spirit who shines upon the word; it is He who gives the seeing eye and the hearing ear. Under the pressure of unbelief, have we fled to Him and appealed to His love’ “Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief,” may be as aptly a cry to the Spirit as to the Son of God. He helpeth our infirmities; and in the infirmity of our faith He will most assuredly succour us. It is through Him that we become strong in faith; and He loves to impart the needed strength. He giveth to all men, liberally, and upbraideth not. Yet in our dealings with Him regarding faith, let us remember that He does not operate in some mystical or miraculous way, as if imparting to us a new faculty called faith; but by taking of the things of Christ and showing them to us; so touching our faculties by His mighty yet invisible hand, that, ere we are aware, these disordered souls of ours begin to work aright, and these dull eyes of ours begin to see what was all along before them, but what they never had perceived, “the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Thus He works in us, often slowly and imperceptibly, but with divine power, making us to understand the gospel and to draw out of it that light and life which it contains for the dead and the dark. Looking at the cross, under the Spirit’s enlightenment, we grow in faith. For never does He produce or increase faith in us without keeping our eye steadfastly fixed upon the great redeeming work of the incarnate Son. He is not the Spirit of unbelief or bondage, but of faith and liberty; and His desire is that we should be delivered from unbelief and bondage.
He loves us too well to be indifferent to our remaining in distance or in distrust. He longs to see us children of faith, not of unbelief; to make us strong in faith; to remove whatever from within or without hinders its growth. Trust His love for the increase of faith; for deliverance from the evil heart of unbelief; for revealing to you the bright object of faith,-Christ, and “God in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing unto men their trespasses.” As truth is the foundation of faith, so, as “the Spirit of truth,” He guides us out of error into truth, and thus leads us out of unbelief into faith; making us to see that the root of what we called our want of faith, was not that we were believing the right thing in a wrong way (as is so often said), but that we were not believing the right thing, but something else which could not bring rest to us in what way soever we might believe it.
Perhaps our want of joy may arise from our over-looking the love of the Spirit. Peace is one thing; joy is something more,- “joy unspeakable and full of glory.” Assuredly He is the Spirit of joy, and as such delights to impart His joy. He who, by the lips of His Apostle, said, “Rejoice in the Lord always,” wants to see you a joyful man. Will you trust Him for this’ Will you rest in His love for this gift’ Do not say, Joy is a secondary thing: a man may be a Christian without joy; some of the best of God’s people have gone mourning all their days. These are poor excuses for not possessing what God wants you to possess, and what would make you ten times more useful to all around. God wishes you to be joyful. Your testimony to God is imperfect without joy. Cultivate joy; and in order to do so effectually, take firmer hold of the Spirit’s power, and rest more implicitly in His love. He loves you too well to wish you to be gloomy. Be filled with the Spirit and you will be filled with joy. Joy is a great help in living a holy and consistent life. Holiness is joy, and joy is holiness. Accept the Spirit’s love for both of these.
The “seal of the Spirit” (Eph 1:13); the “witness of the Spirit” (Rom 8:16); the “indwelling” of the Spirit (Rom 8:11); the “inworking” of the Spirit (Eph 1:19); the “help” of the Spirit (Rom 8:26); the “liberty” of the Spirit (2 Cor 3:17); the “strengthening” of the Spirit (Eph 3:16); the “fullness” of the Spirit (Eph 5:18); the “teaching” of the Spirit (John 14:26); the “baptism” of the Spirit (Mark 1:8);-all these are most closely connected with the “love of the Spirit”; and he who would separate them from that love, would rob them of all their meaning and power and consolation.It is the loving Spirit that seals, and witnesses, and indwells, and inworks, and helps, and liberates, and strengthens, and teaches, and baptizes. So that in seeking these blessings we must ever remember that we are dealing with one whose love anticipates our longings, and on whose side there exists no hindrance to our possessing them all. Nowhere in Scripture has God led us to suppose that the Holy Spirit would be awanting to us in any time of need, or that we could be beforehand with Him in any desire of ours for any spiritual blessing. “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him’” (Luke 11:13).
In our day, when that which is miraculous or supernatural is suspected or scorned, it is not easy even to gain a hearing for such truths. The Holy Spirit, we may say, is discarded as the most incredible part of the supernatural and impersonal. He Himself is regarded as an airy nothing, or as mist; and His direct and divine agency is treated as the dream of diseased enthusiasm. The removal of the supernatural from religion means specially the removal of the Spirit. To retain Him personally in our theology is considered to be retaining the most incredible part of the supernatural,-the most visionary article in our creed.
Hence the need of bringing fully into view both His personality and His character. That modern unbelief should dislike the whole subject, and treat it as incompatible with reason, and therefore incapable of proof, as being wholly beyond the range of our senses, need not surprise us: nor would we attempt to meet Rationalism on its own ground. But what we say is this: Our information regarding the Holy Spirit must come wholly from revelation; and the question is, Does the Bible bear us out in the above statements’ It certainly does seem to contain the doctrine we have been affirming. Its Author evidently meant us to accept that doctrine as true. If that doctrine cannot be true, it must be honestly struck out of the Bible; not by explaining texts away, or misinterpreting whole chapters, but by boldly affirming that Scripture is inaccurate. The words regarding the Spirit are too plain to be diluted into unmeaning figures. He who inspired the Bible has used language that cannot be mistaken. He has not left us in any doubt as to what He intended. Hence the quarrel of unbelief is a quarrel with revelation, and more specially with the Author of revelation. This is the real point at issue in these days, in the controversy with Rationalism.
The doctrine of the Holy Spirit’s person and work must stand or fall with the Bible.
If it is incredible, then Scripture has utterly deceived us, and the God who made us has given us a book, as the revelation of divine truth, which contains what no man ought to believe or can believe. If the innumerable references to the Spirit be mere figures of speech (Orientalisms) meaning nothing real, then to accept them as literal, and to believe in a personal Spirit, must be pure fanaticism; and as to such a thing as the love of the Spirit, only visionaries or mystics would accept it.
Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure; and the Word of God is true and real. Heaven and earth may pass away, but one jot or one tittle of what is written in Scripture cannot. What God has made known to us concerning the Spirit,-His wisdom, love, holiness, and power, remains unaltered throughout the ages; as true to us in these last days as it was in the beginning.
That the Holy Spirit is the producer in the human heart of everything that God calls religion, is beyond question to any one who accepts Bible statements as divinely true. He begins, carries on, and consummates in us all spiritual feeling, all spiritual worship, all spiritual life and energy. Nor can there be anything more hollow and unreal than religion without the Holy Spirit. That which is external and superficial,-which manifests itself in dress, and music, and routine service,-may flourish without Him; nay, can only flourish in His absence. But the deep and the real must be His work from first to last. The love of the Spirit is absolutely necessary to a religion of love, and liberty, and joy. Religiousness is at every man’s command. Any man may get it up in a day; but religion cometh from above, and is the product of the Spirit dwelling and working in the heart.
The bustle of the present day hinders our discernment of this difference; nay, it grieves the Spirit provoking Him utterly to depart; thus leaving us with a hollowness of heart which yields no rest nor satisfaction, and which cannot be acceptable to God. “The Spirit of God,” says Melanchton, “loves retirement and silence; it is then He penetrates into our hearts. The Bride of Christ does not take her stand in the streets and cross ways, but she leads her spouse into the house of her mother” (Song 8:2).
“The gifts of the Holy Ghost”!
This is the Church’s heritage (Acts 2:38,39). How far she has claimed it or used it is a serious question; but that this gift was meant for her in all ages is beyond a doubt. The whole book of the Acts of the Apostles is evidence of this. “My Spirit remaineth among you,” is a promise for the Church as truly as for Israel (Hag 2:5).
From the beginning it has been so; and the holy men raised up by God to speak His words or do His works were men “filled with the Holy Spirit” (Exo 31:2). It is this Spirit that has been the life of the Church. When He came, all was life; when He departed, all was death. Nothing was lacking so long as He was in the midst, and when He left nothing could compensate for His withdrawal. When He was present, the Church was the garden of the Lord; when He forsook her, every herb and flower of that garden withered.
Even in Old Testament days it was so; but since Pentecost, more largely and more powerfully. The indwelling and inworking Spirit, who is the promise of the Father and gift of the Son, is that which belongs to the Church of every age, little as she may have claimed or welcomed her peculiar glory.
“The gift” and “the gifts” are, both of them, expressions used in connection with the Spirit (Acts 8:20-10:45). He is one, yet manifold; called “the seven Spirits of God,” and “the seven lamps of fire,” and the “seven eyes,” and the “seven horns” (Rev 3:1; 4:5; 5:6). He is not only spoken of in connection with each saint, but with the body, the Church universal, which is the “habitation of God, through the Spirit” (Eph 2:22); “the temple of the Holy Ghost” (1 Cor 3:16; 6:19); and, as such, possessor of His love.
Such is the manifold fullness of the Spirit which as the gift of Christ, is the property of the whole Church of God. That fullness is not only the fullness of peace, and wisdom, and holiness, but of love. It is given her, not for herself only, but for the world out of which she has been called. She is to shine in the light of this love upon a dark earth. She is to pour out of the fullness which she receives upon a parched and needy world; out of her are to flow rivers of living water (John 7:38). Great is the world’s need; but not greater than the provided supply: for the fountain of love, out of which the Church receives and pours this living water, is inexhaustible and divine.
The love of the Spirit is, like that of the Son, a love that passeth knowledge, a fountain whose waters fail not: “A pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb” (Rev 22:1).
In the possession of this heavenly gift (of these sevenfold gifts) the Church is unspeakably rich, whatever her outward condition may be. Enjoying the fullness of this abiding Spirit, she manifests her character as the witness for Christ and as the light of the world. These gifts of the ascended Christ (Eph 4:8) made her what she was meant to be in the midst of the world’s evil and of the powers of darkness, “a burning and shining light.” In the power of such gifts she went forth to do battle with the idolatries and immoralities of heathendom. Boldly entering the cities of classic fame, she took possession of pagan temples and Jewish synagogues; and thousands everywhere, through apostolic preaching gathered round the throne.
It was not the gift of miracle, of healing, or of tongues, that did the work. These were not subordinate things, and in many places never used by the apostles. These were not “the best gifts” which we are commanded to covet (1 Cor 12:31).
It was the fullness of spiritual power, possessed and exercised by holy men, awakening, quickening, sanctifying, that wrought the mighty changes which history records.
It is well that we should look back to Pentecost, with wistful eyes, longing for a ministry of Pentecostal power, as the only remedy for the unbelief of the last days. But mere physical miracles are not the desirable things. The gifts of the Spirit, the Church’s inalienable inheritance, are quite apart from bodily manifestations; and they remain with us still. But do we claim them’ Do we use them’ Do we not trust in other strength’ Do we not lean on learning, on science, on talent, as if by these we were to fight and overcome’ And, in so doing, do we not mistake our true position, and character, and mission’ Nay, do we not grieve and quench the Spirit’
Yet, the love of the Spirit is unquenchable.
He is unwilling to depart. He despises not the day of small things; but He bids us look beyond and above them. Formalism, routine, and external religion, the excitements of mysticism,-these are poor substitutes for the life, and glow, and energy of the Holy Spirit. Nothing but His own presence can avail to lift us out of the unreal religiousness into which we have fallen; to transform creeds into realities, and the bodily bowing of the head, or bending of the knee, into spiritual worship; turning the “dim religious light” into the sunshine of a heavenly noon; drawing out of our hymnals the deep heart-music of divine and blessed song; delivering us alike from Rationalism and Ritualism, from a hollow externalism, and from an impulsive and unreasoning fanaticism. It is His presence only that can vitalize ordinances; clothe ministry with power; unite the broken Church; fill the void of aching hearts; impart to service, liberty and gladness; ward off error; and make truth mighty,-filling our sanctuaries with living worshippers, and sending forth men of might to preach the everlasting gospel; and to proclaim, as in primitive days, the Christ that has come, and the Christ that is to come again.
He has come, in His love, to quicken the dead in sin;
and He is daily moving upon the face of the waters,-bringing life out of death. Nor is His arm shortened, that it cannot save.
He has come, in His love, to give light for darkness.
Nor is there any human heart too dark for Him to illumine. He lights up souls. He lights up Churches. He lights up lands, making them that sit in darkness to see a great light.
He has come, in His love, to gather in the wanderers, far and near.
No strayed one has gone too far into the wilderness for Him to follow and to bring back. The “ends of the earth” form the vast region into which His love has gone forth to seek, and find, and save.
He has come, in His love, to guide the doubting heart.
He takes lovingly and gently the hand of the perplexed and inquiring, and leads them into the way of peace. He knows all their troubles and fears, so that they need not fear being misunderstood. He teaches their ignorance and shows them their mistakes, and points their eye to the cross.
He has come, in His love, to bind up the broken-hearted.
His name is the Comforter, and His consolations are as abundant as they are everlasting. “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,” are the words which he has written down for every sorrowful one (Isa 40:1). In all trial, bereavement, pain, sorrow, let us realize the love of the Spirit. That love comes out most brightly and most tenderly in the day of mourning. In the chamber of sickness or of death, let us find strength and peace in the presence, companionship, and sympathy of the gracious Spirit.
He has come down, in His love, to seek after the backslider.
From a heart that once owned Him, He has been driven out, and He has retired sorrowfully. But He has not ceased to desire a return to His old abode. He still pities, and yearns, and beseeches. “Turn, ye backsliding children, for I am married unto you,” are His words of longing and pity.
He has come, in His love, even to the misbelieving and the deluded, seeking to remove the mists with which a rebellious intellect has compassed itself about; and to lead them out into life, and love, and day.
They are groping for an idea; and He brings them into contact with a Person, even God Himself. They are crying vaguely for knowledge; and He presents to them the wisdom deposited in the Person of the Word made flesh. They are in search of sympathy for their wounded hearts; and He places Himself before them in the fulness of His all-sympathizing love. They are asking for a creed of certainty and perfection, on which their faith may rest; He offers Himself to them as a living and unerring Teacher,-the Author of an infallible Book, all whose pages sparkle with the love of its loving Author. They crave beauty in worship, something to please the eye,-aesthetic beauty, as they call it! He draws the eye to Him who is “the chiefest among ten thousand, and altogether lovely.”
He has come, in His love, to build up His own.
He seeks to fill, with His holy presence, the soul into which He has come. He wants, not a part of the man, but the whole,-body, soul, and spirit,-the entire being, that it may be altogether conformed to Himself. He has come to His temples, and His purpose is to make them in reality, what they are in name, the “habitation of God, the temples of the Holy Ghost.”
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Tall Tales of Apple Pie
If you go to the doctor in East Tennessee, he will examine you carefully. Do a few tests. Listen to your heart with his stethoscope. But truth is he knows that the best medicine they is is fresh-baked home-made apple pie. One slice and you are feeling better. Apple pie can cure the common cold, insomnia, rheumatism, depression, chicken pox, measles and dysentery. One doctor I know in Bristol, Tennessee prescribes apple pie for broken bones.
The apple pie is well-known hereabouts. It’s something special. We acknowledge that it has medicinal power. We don’t doubt the power of pie. We are recipients of its many fine blessings. We got strong, healthy children to prove the point.
We know first-hand the wonder of apple pie. The First National Bank over in Blountville offers apple pie to its customers. Apple pies can draw more than just flies. Customers find themselves in the bank, when they wasn’t even going to the bank. The scent of an apple pie can break down barriers. Open doors. Attract crowds. Some days you got to stand in line outside the bank to get in. They busy.
Apple pie can boost the immune system. That fresh fruit filling nestled in a flaky, hand-made crust can heal the sick. Once sprung from the oven the pie goes about working miracles right and left. Even the scent of apple pie can cure folks of the blahs.
Just sink your teeth into an apple pie and wait. In no time, the sweetness invades mind and body. Even the thought of gobbling down an apple pie is enough for most folks to straighten up. Children warned that if they don’t behave they will receive no apple pie. So it goes with convicts at the Tennessee State Penitentiary. You wouldn’t believe the effect of such a threat. Hardened criminals grow soft at the very notion of someone withholding apple pie from their diners. It’s unthinkable. Cruel and unusual punishment.
Apple pie has always been popular. Scientists have studied its effects on the general population and found that people who eat apple pie on a daily basis are smarter and more energetic than those who don’t.
The chunky apples in a pie, when you sink your teeth into them, provide a blessing unlike no other food. We can think more clearly after the first bite. And somewhere following the last bite we enter a state of bliss.
We understand things we couldn’t before eating a slice of apple pie. Its striking how anyone who eats an apple pie is suddenly endowed with powers of compassion for the human race. We feels so sad for them who don’t have pie to eat.
A bite of pie to allay our fears. Cast out demons. We are immediately relaxed. Our minds expand, thoughts occur to apple pie eaters that would not otherwise. Like what can I do to be a better member of the community’ How can I improve’ How can I be more helpful to othe
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Tags: susan hiller, freud museum, maillot de bain, saône et loire, psychology books
I live quite close to Freud’s house. It is a museum today. The closest I got there was by Susan Hiller’s pieceFrom the Freud Museum (1991-6) .
Hiller created alternative archive from objects she collected from Freud’s house, labeling, arranging, setting up new meanings from someone else’s memories. I especially enjoy this piece because of the mediation Hiller offers between the cultural luggage of Freud and the genuine ability of everyone to make meaning. Here is a photo of it:
and back to the the house of Freud. Accidently or not, few block away there is a quiet small book shop specializes in psychology books. There I found the following images:
(Dedicated to Assael, which we share an Adlerian upbringing….and since Adler did not recognize the exsistance of emotions, we also share the ability to refute his theories. )
׳”׳׳PRESIDENTIELLES 2007L’ACTUALITE SATIRIQUE DE LA CAMPAGNE PRESIDENTIELLEtag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-166486342006-08-20T2 0:48:16ZBloggerThis is an Atom formatted XML site feed. It is intended to be viewed in a Newsreader or syndicated to another site. Please visit theBlogger Helpfor more info.truePrésidentielles 20072006-08-20T22:24:00+02:002 006-08-20T20:48:16Z2006-08-20T 20:31:13Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11561058734 1342163La fête de la Rose : des épines pour la droite et les éléphantsSégolène Royal a mis le feu dimanche 20 août à la fête de la Rose de Frangy-en-Bresse, modeste commune de Saône-et-Loire, qui n’avait jamais connu pareille effervescence. Son arrivée a provoqué dans la journée une énorme bousculade, avec trois blessés légers chez les sympathisants. “Frangy connaît sa première émeute”, a lancé Arnaud Montebourg, patron de la fête, qui a rallié au cours de l’été lefalsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-20T14:20:00+02:002 006-08-20T12:42:46Z2006-08-20T 12:40:38Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11560776381 3927380Ségolène Royal creuse l’écart dans les sondagesSerait-ce le résultat de ses photos en maillot de bain sur la plage ou du cambriolage de son domicile ? Toujours est-il que Ségolène Royal vient de creuser l’écart avec Sarkozy : 55% des Français la préfèrent au ministre de l’Intérieur (contre 44%). Coup dur pour les éléphants : elle est la seule des socialistes à le devancer en cas de duel, selon un sondage IFOP pour Dimanche Ouest-France. AfalsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-19T11:09:00+02:002 006-08-19T09:35:10Z2006-08-19T 09:35:10Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11559801102 0599003Le vrai-faux cambriolage du domicile de Ségolène RoyalRentrée en fanfare : visiblement pressée d’en découdre avec Sarkozy, la favorite des sondages s’en est pris au ministère de l’intérieur, accusé d’avoir divulgué l’information du cambriolage de son domicile à la presse. «Il est scandaleux que cette information ait été diffusée par le cabinet du ministre de l’Intérieur, alors que j’avais demandé que cet incident reste confidentiel», a-t-ellefalsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-18T22:13:00+02:002 006-08-18T20:46:55Z2006-08-18T 20:20:04Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11559324040 8928813Ségolène cambrioléeMais que fait la police ? L’appartement de Ségolène Royal à Boulogne-Billancourt (92), qu’elle partage avec son conjoint François Hollande et leur quatre enfants, a été visité durant leurs vacances sur la Côte d’Azur.
Apparemment, plus de peur que de mal : rien n’a été dérobé.
Les visiteurs cherchaient des idées ?falsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-17T18:33:00+02:002 006-08-17T17:17:36Z2006-08-17T 16:47:55Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11558332757 5816703Thierry Breton : la dette de l’emploi”Tous les indicateurs sont au vert. L’économie française va très bien. Cette croissance économique représente du jamais-vu depuis 20 ans…” Des phrases à l’avenant, Thierry Breton, le toujours ébouriffé ministre de l’économie, en a usé et abusé au-delà de l’entendement, la semaine dernière, sur les plateaux radios et télés. Pourquoi une telle effervescence en plein mois d’août ? On sait lefalsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-16T22:04:00+02:002 006-08-16T20:58:43Z2006-08-16T 20:09:36Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11557589764 2871241Guerre du Liban : l’heure du bilanUne fois n’est pas coutume, saluons ici le travail de la diplomatie française, avec à sa tête Président Jacques Chirac, qui a permis de mettre un terme au carnage. Même si ce cessez-le-feu fait bien l’affaire d’Israël, menacée d’enlisement dans ce conflit qui ne devait durer qu’une semaine et qui, plus d’un mois après, n’était toujours pas parvenu à son objectif : la mise hors d’état de nuire dufalsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-15T17:19:00+02:002 006-08-15T21:04:36Z2006-08-15T 15:23:04Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11556553849 7516645Villepin toujours en campagneLe forcené de Matignon n’a renoncé à rien. Plus que jamais décidé à surfer sur les bons chiffres du chômage, que l’on doit bien évidemment aux résultants foudroyants du CNE et non pas aux effets du papy-boom, le premier ministre se comporte plus que jamais comme s’il était en campagne. D’ici à cequ’il nous refasse le coup de “Villepin sortant des eaux”, comme à la Baule l’été dernier…
PlusfalsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-12T22:00:00+02:002 006-08-14T19:35:13Z2006-07-30T 14:02:46Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11542681663 1266032Jospin s’impatienteLionel Jospin s’impatiente. A quelques semaines de l’université d’été de la Rochelle, fin août, les quelques soutiens qu’il compte encore au PS donnent de la voix. N’ayant pas réussi à faire frémir sa popularité après l’annonce alambiquée sur TF1 de sa possible candidature, le 28 juin dernier, son avenir politique pourrait bien être derrière lui. Seule espoir : contrairement à ce que les sondagesfalsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-12T11:20:00+02:002 006-08-12T09:57:21Z2006-08-12T 09:57:21Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11553766414 7922753Ségolène Royal reconnue par les siensTant d’efforts ne seront pas restés vains. Ségolène est enfin reconnue par les siens. Les socialistes ? La gauche ? Le prolétariat ? La France d’en-bas ? Non ! Les PEOPLE !
Pour Laurence Piau, rédactrice en chef de Closer, dont “le concept est de montrer les people dans la vraie vie” (ça ne s’invente pas), “Ségolène Royal est un people” qui colle au dit concept : “Elle apparaît sur ces photosfalsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-11T18:02:00+02:002 006-08-11T16:18:22Z2006-08-11T 16:18:22Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11553131027 6238942Le Pen s’y voit encoreLe menhir de Saint-Cloud compte bien nous refaire le coup du 21 avril 2002. Dans un entretien publié dans Le Figaro d’aujourd’hui, le président du Front national, juge “probable” sa présence au second tour de l’élection présidentielle de 2007. “La multiplication du nombre de candidats et la gravité de la situation internationale et nationale rendent probable ma présence au second tour, comme enfalsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-10T20:04:00+02:002 006-08-10T18:15:29Z2006-08-10T 18:11:43Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11552335033 1166070Mickey d’OrsayPlus que jamais fidèle à sa réputation (non usurpée) de ministre des affaires qui lui sont de plus en plus étrangères, Douste blabla a effectivement tenu les propos que lui prête ci-contre le dessinateur Pétillon à la Une du Canard enchaîné de cette semaine.
Avec un connaisseur aussi subtil des arcanes de la diplomatie, nul doute que le retour de la paix au Liban n’est plus qu’une affaire defalsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-09T20:05:00+02:002 006-08-10T17:55:31Z2006-08-09T 18:16:54Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11551474140 4270206Vous le reconnaissez ?Jacques Toubon est toujours vivant. Chirac disait affectueusement de lui qu’il se jetterait dans la Seine s’il le lui demandait. Ses exploits en tant que Garde des Sceaux l’ont immortalisé dans les mémoires. En 1996, il s’était distingué pour avoir envoyé un hélicoptère dans l’Himalaya destiné à rapatrier le procureur chargé de l’affaire du vrai-faux rapport de Xavière Tibéri sur la francophonie.falsePrésidentie lles 20072006-08-07T00:28:00+02:002 006-08-12T22:37:14Z2006-08-12T 22:29:25Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11554217652 4809780Candidatures :ça se bouscule au portillonLe 21 avril n’aura pas servi à grand-chose. Bien au contraire. C’est maintenant le pape autoproclamé de l’altermondialisme et de l’arrachage des champs de maïs OGM qui ne fait plus mystère de son intention d’y aller. José Bové a confirmé au Journal du Dimanche qu’il était « toujours disponible pour une candidature » à la présidentielle de 2007. Tant d’abnégation tue l’abnégation. Il a au passagefalsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-04T00:40:00+02:002 006-08-12T23:02:23Z2006-08-12T 23:02:23Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11554237436 6312194Le sondage qui change tout« Avec quel homme ou quelle femme politique préféreriez-vous partir en vacances? ». La question n’est pas d’un immense intérêt politique. Néanmoins, l’institut BVA a réussi à trouver un échantillon de de 1.005 personnes représentatif de la populationfrançaise, avec la méthode desquotas, qui ont accepté d’y répondre. En bonne logique, ce sont Ségolène Royal et Nicolas Sarkozy, les deuxfalsePrésidentielles 20072006-08-03T17:48:00+02:002 006-08-10T16:53:58Z2006-08-03T 16:09:03Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11546213436 6004433On n’est jamais trop prudent !Ne croyez pas les images qu’on vous montreà la télé. Claude Chirac, la fille de son père, experte en communication et protection rapprochée, a réussi à convaincre son papa de se protéger de l’impulsif Zidane, et la presse et la télévision de maquiller les images de ce tête-à-tête de tous les dangers. Présidentielles 2007, plusque jamais attaché à faire triompher la vérité, est heureux de vousfalsePrésidentielles 20072006-07-31T20:08:00+02:002 006-08-01T14:49:37Z2006-07-31T 18:20:19Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11543700197 4301003La dernière de Jean-PierreAprès 2003, Jean-Pierre Raffarin serait-il à nouveau victime de la canicule ? On peut légitimement s’interroger. Aujourd’hui sur RTL, il a donné la pleine mesure de son talent, en gratifiant les auditeurs d’une raffarinade d’anthologie : “La politique ne parle pas assez d’amour”.
Invité de l’émission “Un été avant l’Elysée”, il a parlé de son amour pour Johnny : “Johnny est un personnagefalsePrésidentielle s 20072006-07-30T00:02:00+02:002 006-07-30T13:53:15Z2006-07-29T 22:09:41Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11542109811 4030921Le nouveau jeu politiqueà la mode : le kidiçadeki ?Quel est l’auteur de ce bon mot ? De qui se moque-t-il en creux ?
“Je prends cette annonce précipitée comme un hommage, une forme d’impatience d’annoncer les bons chiffres. Ca lui faisait très plaisir, il l’a fait, je considère que c’est un hommage qu’il rend au travail du ministère de l’Emploi.”falsePrésidentielle s 20072006-07-29T00:39:00+02:002 006-07-29T18:18:38Z2006-07-28T 22:47:34Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11541268548 6683487La meilleure Une de la semaineLa Une du Canard enchaîné de cette semaine est un grand cru. Ami du réalisateur de “la grande vadrouille” et de son épouse Michèle Morgan, notre flamboyant premier ministre a tenu à prononcer son éloge funèbre en personne.falsePrésidentielles 20072006-07-28T20:27:00+02:002 006-07-28T19:07:35Z2006-07-28T 18:53:37Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11541128178 9373858La vérité des chiffresLe quotidienéconomique La Tribune, propriété de l’homme le plus riche de France, Bernard Arnault, par ailleurs président de LVMH, n’est pas l’archétype de la feuille de chou gauchiste. Ses réserves et son rappel sur la baisse du chômage n’en sont que plus précieux. Présidentielles 2007 ne résiste pasau plaisir de vous livrer in extenso sa Une du week-end, qui douche singulièrement le satisfecitfalsePrésidentielle s 20072006-07-28T20:21:00+02:002 006-07-29T22:46:23Z2006-07-28T 18:25:10Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11541111106 9404796Bientôt le Nobel de la paixLa Une du Monde avec le titre : “Liban : le plan Chirac pour sortir de la crise”. Le tout agrémenté de 3 photos du Président. De mémoire de lecteur, il y a bien longtemps que le quotidien de référence n’avait ouvert ainsi ses colonnes à Chirac, qu’il avait jusqu’alors toujours combattu. Il est vrai que l’annonce du chef de l’Etat est à la hauteur de l’événement. Le président a annoncé que lafalsePrésidentielles 20072006-07-26T00:48:00+02:002 006-07-28T22:50:28Z2006-07-28T 22:50:28Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11541270285 6170057L’hommage de Villepin et Sarkozyà Gérard OuryfalsePrésidentielles 20072006-07-24T18:30:00+02:002 006-07-26T15:47:59Z2006-07-24T 16:37:03Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11537590234 5047671Les brèves… qui en disent longLa lune de miel entre Sarkozy et Villepin continue. Le Nouvel Obs rapporte les propos peu amènes du poète de Matignon concernant le projet présidentiel de son ministre de l’intérieur : « Je n’ai pas entendu une seule proposition du niveau d’un débat présidentiel. » Avant de s’en prendre méchamment à sa proposition de supprimer la fonction de Premier ministre : « Avec àla tête de l’Etat un hommefalsePrésidentielles 20072006-07-18T19:33:00+02:002 006-07-18T18:12:56Z2006-07-18T 17:59:47Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11532455878 7509763Déni de réalitéLa réalité n’est pas le soucis du Président. Son allocution du 14 juillet en a apporté la preuve à ceux qui en doutaient encore. Au bout de 11 ans de pouvoir et à neuf mois de l’élection présidentielle, oser déclarer : “Je ne suis pas à l’heure du bilan mais à l’heure de l’action”, c’est abracadabrantesque. Maintenir “le suspense” sur son éventuelle candidature en 2007, alors qu’il affichera 74falsePrésidentielles 20072006-07-18T19:21:00+02:002 006-07-18T18:16:09Z2006-07-18T 17:26:41Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11532436011 2087256Le nouveau jeu politiqueà la mode : le Kidiçadeki ? (Qui dit ça de qui ?)Qui est l’auteur de ce bon mot ? De qui brosse-t-il le portrait ?
Si vous ne trouvez pas, c’est que vous n’avez pas allumé la radio ni la télé depuis au moins une semaine.
“C’est un livre miroir, qui permet à son auteur de se convaincre qu’il est lui-même pétri de toutes les qualités, il pousse le narcissisme politique jusqu’à son paroxysme: il s’aime, donc il faut que les Français l’aiment.”falsePrésidentielle s 20072006-07-12T20:30:00+02:002 006-07-12T18:47:30Z2006-07-12T 18:47:30Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11527300508 6008940Ségolène encore et toujours à la UneSégolène Royal sait faire parler d’elle. Après son voyage en Suède, pour redorer son blason socialiste un rien écorné par son blairisme imprudemment affiché ; sa présence lors de la finale de la Coupe du monde “parmi les supporters” pour faire peuple ; la voici de nouveau à la Une d’un nouveau mensuel, Ikono, où elle pose pour le photographe Yann Arthus-Bertrand, auteur de “La Terre vue du ciel”,falsePrésidentielles 20072006-07-12T20:22:00+02:002 006-07-13T11:05:54Z2006-07-12T 18:23:35Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11527286157 0711259Le nouveau jeu politiqueà la mode : le kidiçadeki (qui dit ça de qui ?)Connaissez-vous le Kidiçadeki ? Comprendre : Qui dit ça de qui ? Le nouveau jeu politique à la mode pour les adeptes de petites phrases qui en disent long. Rien à voir avec le Sodoku. Il s’agit de trouver le nom de l’auteur d’une citation politique, le plus souvent vacharde, et - originalité - le nom de celui ou celle qu’elle vise.
Vos réponses sont les bienvenues à la rubrique “COMMENTAIRES”falsePrésidenti elles 20072006-07-12T20:21:00+02:002 006-07-13T11:08:33Z2006-07-12T 18:21:58Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11527285180 0384266Le nouveau jeu politiqueà la mode : le Kidiçadeki (Qui dit ça de qui ?)7/« Il est contre-productif de dire du mal d’elle. C’est vrai que ça m’arrive aussi, mais moi, je me contrôle. Contrairement à Jean. Lui, c’est peut-être sexuel, le signe d’un amour déçu, alors que moi, cela ne peut pas être le cas ! »
8/ « C’est le fossoyeur de la majorité. Ila réussi en un an à se mettre tout le monde à dos. Les jeunes, les députés, qui affichent désormais leur opposition auxfalsePrésidentielles 20072006-07-12T20:18:00+02:002 006-07-13T11:09:00Z2006-07-12T 18:20:40Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11527284403 9698274Le nouveau jeu politiqueà la mode : le Kidiçadeki (Qui dit ça de qui ?)Connaissez-vous le Kidiçadeki ? Comprendre : Qui dit ça de qui ? Le nouveau jeu politique à la mode pour les adeptes de petites phrases qui en disent long. Rien à voir avec le Sodoku. Il s’agit de trouver le nom de l’auteur d’une citation politique, le plus souvent vacharde, et - originalité - le nom de celui ou celle qu’elle vise.
Vos réponses sont les bienvenues à la rubrique “COMMENTAIRES”falsePrésidenti elles 20072006-07-11T13:00:00+02:002 006-07-13T11:06:35Z2006-07-11T 11:20:10Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11526168105 5089108Timide effet coupe du monde.Que peut bien dire Chiracà Zizou ?, l’index levé vers le ciel, en le recevant à l’Elysée, au lendemain de la défaite de la France en finale, face à une Italie fidèle à elle-même. Sans doute lui témoigne-t-il de sa compréhension face à son coup de tête, en réponse aux insultes du défenseur italien Materazzi. Coup de boule, qui lui a valu son expulsion pendant les prolongations et l’opprobrefalsePrésidentielle s 20072006-07-11T12:35:00+02:002 006-07-11T10:58:00Z2006-07-11T 10:55:26Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11526153264 9506628Le nouveau jeu politiqueà la mode : le Kidiçadeki ? (Qui dit ça de qui ?)Connaissez-vous le Kidiçadeki ? Comprendre : Qui dit ça de qui ? Le nouveau jeu politique à la mode pour les adeptes de petites phrases qui en disent long. Rien à voir avec le Sodoku. Il s’agit de trouver le nom de l’auteur d’une citation politique, le plus souvent vacharde, et - originalité - le nom de celui ou celle qu’elle vise.
Voici une première série de citations pour ne pas bronzer idiot.falsePrésidentielles 20072006-07-03T20:17:00+02:002 006-07-10T08:57:43Z2006-07-03T 18:47:50Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11519524705 9966266Les brèves… qui en disent longLe vrai-faux retour de Jospin n’a pas déchaîné l’enthousiasme dans son camp. Jean-Marc Ayrault a eu ces mots cruels : “La question n’est pas de savoir si Jospin souhaite se porter candidat. C’est de savoir si les Français souhaitent sa candidature. L’important, c’est que le candidat ou la candidate porte un renouveau des idées, deséquipes et des pratiques.” Le portrait craché de Jospin : 69 ansfalsePrésidentielles 20072006-06-22T19:21:00+02:002 006-06-22T18:20:21Z2006-06-22T 17:52:59Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11509987797 7988879Benito de BeauvauLes villepinistes seraient-ils pour une fois en phase avec l’opinion ? C’est ce que laisseà penser un sondage TNS Sofres pour Le Figaro Magazine. Le président de l’UMP a beau faire la course en tête dans les sondages avec la socialiste Ségolène Royal, il a cependant du mal à convaincre au-delà de son propre camp en terme d’image. En effet, le premier flic de France ne rassure que36% desfalsePrésidentielles 20072006-06-19T18:35:00+02:002 006-06-19T17:29:14Z2006-06-19T 16:48:35Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11507357159 0746248La chute sans fin de VillepinUn mauvais week-end de plus pour Dominique de Villepin. Alors que l’UMP refuse d’avaliser son projet de fusion Suez-GDF, que Devedjian, alias Sarkozy-m’a-dit, l’a traité de “premier ministre de convenance”, le Journal du dimanche vient de publier un sondage selon lequel l’auteur inoubliable des “Cent jours ou l’esprit de sacrifice”, bat le record d’impopularité de son prédécesseur Jean-PierrefalsePrésidentiell es 20072006-06-15T19:11:00+02:002 006-06-15T17:43:19Z2006-06-15T 17:39:13Ztag:blogger.com,1999: blog-16648634.post-11503931533 1892068Où est passée la majorité ?Après Bayrou, les temps de parole des groupes UMP de l’assemblée nationale et du sénat vont-ils à leur tour être décomptés dans celui de l’opposition par le CSA ?
Malgré le numéro de charme de Breton et Villepin sur leur projet de fusion GDF-Suez, les députés et sénateurs de la majorité n’en démordent pas : ils voteront contre un projet de loi.
Avant même l’ouverture du débat sans vote organisé àfalse”" type=”application/atom+xml”/>P r2006-06-14T19:20:00+02:002006 -06-14T17:44:11Z2006-06-14T17: 44:11Z”" type=”text/html”/>tag:blogger. com,1999:blog-16648634.post-11 5030705110732084La derniC’falsePr2006-06-12T19:27 :00+02:002006-06-14T17:12:10Z 2006-06-12T17:55:06Ztag:blogge r.com,1999:blog-16648634.post- 115013490644506163Les vacheries du week-end politiqueCe week-end encore,falsePr2006-06-04T00:08 :00+02:002006-08-03T22:09:52Z 2006-08-03T22:09:52Ztag:blogge r.com,1999:blog-16648634.post- 115464299236644101SSelon un sondage CSAfalsePr2006-05-25T23:15:00+ 02:002006-05-25T21:35:16Z2006- 05-25T21:29:20Ztag:blogger.com ,1999:blog-16648634.post-1148 59256043293803Immigration choisieAdepte autoproclamfalsePr2006-05-18T2 0:05:00+02:002006-05-25T12:01: 24Z2006-05-18T18:11:40Ztag:blo gger.com,1999:blog-16648634.po st-114797590070375863Avec Sarko, le festival de Cannes c’est toute l’annLe festival de Cannes s’ouvrefalsePr2006-05-15T19:18 :00+02:002006-05-15T21:41:11Z 2006-05-15T17:23:59Ztag:blogge r.com,1999:blog-16648634.post- 114771383953162470FranC’est un homme en colfalse” etPr2006-05-12T17:45:00+02:002 006-05-14T22:04:47Z2006-05-12T 16:01:31Z” ettag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16 648634.post-114744969144674568 Clearstream : c’est la faute au “Monde” etIl n’y a pas d’affaire Clearstream ! Il n’y a que de mauvais journalistes et de mauvais juges. C’est en substance la rfalsePr2006-05-12T14:04:00+02 :002006-05-14T20:37:36Z2006-0 5-13T12:18:46Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-16648634.post-114752 272609477240Villepin, l’ami du genre humain”Le forcenfalsePr2006-05-10T18:23: 00+02:002006-05-15T17:14:58Z20 06-05-10T16:33:42Ztag:blogger. com,1999:blog-16648634.post-11 4727882228191964Comme si de rien n’AccusfalsePr2006-05-09T18:04 :00+02:002006-05-09T17:01:09Z 2006-05-09T16:18:14Ztag:blogge r.com,1999:blog-16648634.post- 114719149430990889Sarkozy imperator : il exige de Chirac les pleins pouvoirsL’attachfalsePr2006-05 -08T18:37:00+02:002006-05-12T1 6:41:36Z2006-05-12T16:41:36Zta g:blogger.com,1999:blog-166486 34.post-114745209691746580Vill epin lMfalse”" type=”application/atom+xml”/>P r2006-05-05T22:35:00+02:002006 -05-05T20:44:53Z2006-05-05T20: 43:15Z”" type=”text/html”/>tag:blogger. com,1999:blog-16648634.post-11 4686179523461948″La stratAvis de recherche. Jacques Chirac, prfalsePr2006-05-04T20:25:00+0 2:002006-05-04T18:48:01Z2006-0 5-04T18:48:01Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-16648634.post-114676 848142163613Souvent Villepin varie. Et bien fol est qui sPlutfalse”" type=”application/atom+xml”/>P r2006-05-03T18:17:00+02:002006 -05-03T22:06:20Z2006-05-03T16: 44:15Z”" type=”text/html”/>tag:blogger. com,1999:blog-16648634.post-11 4667465508695086L’art de se moquer du “Monde”L’affaire Clearstream est une bonne affaire pour le Monde. Chaque nouveau numfalsePr2006-05-03T12:21:00+ 02:002006-05-03T16:14:04Z2006- 05-03T10:26:38Ztag:blogger.com ,1999:blog-16648634.post-1146 65199863431599Villepin monte sur ses grands chevauxLa meilleure dfalsePr2006-05-01T20:05:00+02 :002006-05-02T16:05:12Z2006-0 5-01T18:18:44Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-16648634.post-114650 752405328910Villepin tombe de CPE en ClearstreamPour Villepin,falseone little star in a big empty spaceThis is my hidey-hole. I tried having other hidey-holes, but they always get found out. As I’m sure this one will, but for now, I shall write in relative peace, with few to read my tales.tag:blogger.com,1999:blo g-326052532006-08-20T08:47:13Z BloggerThis is an Atom formatted XML site feed. It is intended to be viewed in a Newsreader or syndicated to another site. Please visit theBlogger Helpfor more info.trueStern Schatten2006-08-20T01:45:00-07 :002006-08-20T08:47:12Z2006-0 8-20T08:47:12Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-32605253.post-115606 363219282916Oh, for fuck’s sake…*looks at self*
You are so… you know what? Whatever. There’s nothing to blog. You fuckhead. Who’d want to read it anyway?
~*~falseStern Schatten2006-08-19T13:01:00-07 :002006-08-19T20:14:09Z2006-0 8-19T20:14:09Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-32605253.post-115601 844959638177Well, thank you, for making this easier.Okay, I just figured out which person I’m fucking mad at. The one is just acting how they always act, and while I might not like it, they’ve never pretended to anything else. Same with two others. This other person is pretty much just caught up in the whole thing at this point, and has other issues. So while the person didn’t really help the situation, not the person’s fault. Same with this one.falseStern Schatten2006-08-17T18:02:00-07 :002006-08-18T01:13:37Z2006-0 8-18T01:13:37Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-32605253.post-115586 361742969954Bitchin’ Chai.FUCK!!!
Just thought I’d share. This is going to be the strongest cup of chai I think I’ll ever drink. You don’t even know. I don’t even know who I’m mad at. I really don’t. Well, when I figure out who it is I’m pissed at, I’ll just think this at them: *slaps* Start thinking, you fucking idiot. But for now I’ll just scream along with my music. ~*~falseStern Schatten2006-08-17T00:05:00-07 :002006-08-17T08:35:04Z2006-0 8-17T07:58:54Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-32605253.post-115580 153486857153Quizzes!!!!You Are Ruby Red
You are warm and inviting - yet a little wild and outrageous.
Well aware that you have a dual personality, you work it as much as you can!
You like for people to be comfortable around you, but not at the expense of you stealing the limelight.
Popular and well known, you make friends easily. You have your big personality to thank for that.What Color Red Are You?
You Belong in thefalseStern Schatten2006-08-16T22:41:00-07 :002006-08-17T06:16:12Z2006-0 8-17T06:16:12Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-32605253.post-115579 537280633279I am…From Felix!
If I were a month, I would be: May
If I were a day of the week, I would be: Friday
If I were a time of day, I would be: sunset
If I were a sea animal, I would be: dolphin
If I were a direction, I would be: North
If I were a sin, I would be: Lust
If I were a historical figure I would be: Catherine the Great
If I were a planet, I would be: Venus
If I were a liquid, I would be: Chai
If IfalseStern Schatten2006-08-15T15:15:00-07 :002006-08-15T22:17:56Z2006-0 8-15T22:17:56Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-32605253.post-115568 027613043914Idea!!!!!Hey… We should do a “blogthings” blog…
Where one person posts a blogthing quiz, and the other two have to take the quiz and post their results in the comments…
Just a thought.
~*~falseStern Schatten2006-08-15T15:04:00-07 :002006-08-16T09:08:58Z2006-0 8-15T22:14:13Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-32605253.post-115568 005351066290Yay! Fun Stuff!What Your Soul Really Looks Like
You are very passionate and quite temperamental. While you can be moody, you always crave comfort.
You are a grounded person, but you also leave room for imagination and dreams. You feet may be on the ground, but you’re head is in the clouds.
You believe that people see you as larger than life and important. While this is true, they also think you’re a bit fullfalseStern Schatten2006-08-15T14:54:00-07 :002006-08-15T21:56:33Z2006-0 8-15T21:56:33Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-32605253.post-115567 899352540816*Yawn*I’m done. I need something to do today. I’m sick of cleaning. 
~*~falseStern Schatten2006-08-15T01:09:00-07 :002006-08-15T08:13:37Z2006-0 8-15T08:13:37Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-32605253.post-115562 961701079783Fucktastic!!!I love the week right after my period. I’m no longer constantly inconvenienced, I’m not bloated, no cramps, not as much of the annoying hormones…
*sigh* Happiness is being able to flatten one’s stomach at will without pain from doing so. That is nice.
~*~falseStern Schatten2006-08-14T06:42:00-07 :002006-08-14T13:56:46Z2006-0 8-14T13:56:45Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-32605253.post-115556 380598945655Even more sunrise.This is so surreal for so many reasons. And it didn’t really click until I made that comparison to prove my point. And now I’m sitting here with the words “oh” and “fuck” running through my head. I blame him. If the ditching hadn’t happened… alot of other happy things wouldn’t have either. So you know what, maybe this’ll work itself out. I think I’ll try just letting whatever happens happen.falseStern Schatten2006-08-13T15:46:00-07 :002006-08-14T01:36:41Z2006-0 8-14T01:07:33Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-32605253.post-115551 765310212921Stuff to do.To take this survey put your music player on shuffle and answer each question with the song that comes on, then type any comments you have.
1. What is your name?
Song: We Both Reached For the Gun from Chicago (movie version)
Comments: that’s awesome
2. Will you get far in life?
Song: 25th of December by Everything but the Girl
Comments: it’s a good song… but i don’t think it says much forfalseStern Schatten2006-08-13T15:16:00-07 :002006-08-13T22:21:21Z2006-0 8-13T22:21:21Ztag:blogger.com, 1999:blog-32605253.post-115550 768108060791Fun Stuff.If you comment on this thing, then: I’ll respond with something random about you. I’ll challenge you to try something. I’ll pick a color that I associate with you.I’ll tell you something I like about you. I’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you. I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of. I’ll ask you something I’ve always wanted to ask you. If I do this for you, you must post this in yourfalse
SINTESIS INFORMATIVA Jueves 17 agosto 2006
Tags: jaque mate, elecciones 2006, la boca, vicente fox, mary kelly
SUBDIRECCI”N DE COMUNICACI”N UNAM
Presenta 40 por ciento de los fumadores alguna lesión en la boca
Pone en marcha la UNAM la nueva licenciatura en manejo sustentable de zonas costeras
Salvan agua de lluvia y proteínas de peces a náufragos
Admitirían UNAM, IPN y UAM a algunos “rechazados”
Lourival Possani, investigador de la UNAM, obtuvo el Redi Award
Los salvó su fe, dicen sicólogos
Estudiantes rechazados realizarán un plantón en las calles
Dueto de guitarra mañana en Las Rosas
Celebran el medio siglo de La filosofía náhuatl, libro de Miguel
La directora de Emakunde hablará en México sobre género
Estrategia de colisión y ruptura
Este gobierno privilegió la creación de plazas
Reproducen ajolotes y otros tipos acuáticos
Cultivan la ciencia y el saber
Nuevo mapa del sistema solar: proponen 12 planetas
‘No nos rescató… al otro nos vamos’
Rebasará los 500 mmdd la balanza comercial este año
Detonarán desarrollo turístico en Ciénega
Las Aguas Turbulentas de la Frontera/Mary Kelly, Arturo Solís
In Messico restaurate pitture olmeche di 3 mila anni
“Revelaciones de Grass, un ardid mercadotécnico”
México participa en la XVI Conferencia Internacional de Sida
Libros en venta, de a peso, de a dos
ELECCIONES 2006
La precampaña de López Obrador
Propone sindicato de la UNAM unirse a las protestas de López
Niega STUNAM que tanquetas inhiban las manifestaciones
Duda frente sindical apoyar a López Obrador
Divide llamado de Obrador al FNUAS
Buscar juntos ‘’la unidad y el diálogo'’, pide Fox a ciudadanos
Reitera Fox la disposición al diálogo de su gobierno
Fox: estoy abierto al diálogo para resolver crisis política
Mi gobierno, abierto al diálogo, dice Vicente Fox
Construir el país transparente
Los aliados del gobernador Ulises Ruiz
Matar a López Obrador/Miguel Treviño Rábago
Acusa Delgado a IFE, gobierno y medios de sembrar dudas
IFE sin presupuesto para retirar propaganda federal
Arremeten con una camioneta contra seguidores de AMLO en Matamoros
Usaron la observación para reforzar versión de limpieza
“Por el Bien de Todos”, en pie de lucha
Resistencia Civil y Revolución Cultural
Se perdió documentación de casilla de Guanajuato
Crecen trámites de fotocredencial
En la mente de los magistrados
Contacto con la politica nacional
Campamento del PRD durará hasta que la gente quiera
Vallejo, Montoya y Puga en Fuego Amigo!
Aún no se concluye el retiro de propaganda electoral
Proyectan diputados del PT y PRD marcha al Trife
Pierde un diputado federal la coalición El Trife ratifica un …
Fox amenaza al TRIFE con la Policía Federal Preventiva
El PRI también ve “compló” en el Trife
Decisión del Tribunal Electoral debe apegarse a la legalidad
Calderón sale a pactar con los gobernadores del PRI y Obrador …
“La Corte no tiene atribución electoral” Mariano Azuela dice …
AMLO busca socavar la democracia, señala TWP
López Obrador hace de la política un espectáculo, acusa el Post
Decisión del Tribunal Electoral debe apegarse a la legalidad
Revoca el TEPJF triunfo perredista en el Edomex
Regaña TEPJF a sala de Monterrey por integración de expediente
Se inconforma el PRI con resoluciones del TEPJF
Vulnera el TEPJF derechos de partidos
Azuela cierra la puerta a que la Corte investigue violación
INSTANTÁNEAS ELECTORALES
El Washington Post vs. el Peje
La Convención Nacional Democrática
En la mente de los magistrados
PRD advierte que no se moverán por el desfile
EDUCACI”N
Escuelas serán flexibles en horarios por plantón: SEP
Confía Tamez en el comienzo de clases sin contratiempos
“Horarios flexibles” en escuelas si siguen bloqueos
Sari Bermúdez: no logramos que la SEP incorporara la educación
Costos de útiles ‘castigan’ a padres
Afectará plantón a casi 145,000 alumnos en el DF
Presentan en Praga la primera definición científica de planeta
Revela estudio severos efectos de la quimioterapia
Improbable, el desarrollo de vacuna contra el VIH
Hallan gen de evolución del cerebro
Rompen récord de distancia las sondas Voyager
La moda del verano, una agencia antimatrimonial
Video muestra violaciones en siete distritos electorales
Agremiados del Sntssa de Oaxaca se unen a maestros; paran labores
Cada nuevo diputado percibirá una dieta mensual de 126 mil 272 pesos
´El Trigrillo´ vacacionaba en su yate al ser detenido
Médicos y enfermeras inician un paro cívico en Oaxaca
Ulises Ruiz reitera que no dimitirá a su cargo
Conviértase en un casanova en cómodas lecciones
México, pendiente de repatriación de náufragos
Aguacero en DF deja árboles caídos y cortes de luz
¿Me cambia este billete de a $1,000?
REFORMA
Fe de Erratas: Convenio con la UNAM
Por
La nota publicada el martes 15 de agosto en la página 6, bajo el título “Actualizan programa de 1988″, contiene un error en el último párrafo.
Lo correcto es: “La actualización tendrá un costo de 3 millones y aún no se firma el convenio con la UNAM para hacerlo, aunque se prevé que esté lista en octubre”.
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Otorgan a Possani Premio de Toxicología
éxico.- El investigador emérito Lourival Possani, del Instituto de Biotecnología de la UNAM, obtuvo el Redi Award que otorga la Sociedad Internacional de Toxinología, por sus trabajos de aislamiento y caracterización de toxinas del veneno de alacranes y reptiles. Es el primer latinoamericano en recibir esta distinción, la más importante del mundo en su área.
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Reinan mitos.- León-Portilla
Sergio R. Blanco
Celebran a ‘La filosofía náhuatl’. Asegura el historiador que el mundo no ha cambiado tanto desde las civilizaciones antiguas
Al igual que sucedía en las civilizaciones antiguas, el mundo actual está anclado en mitos, y uno de ellos es la democracia, consideró ayer el filósofo e historiador Miguel León-Portilla (Ciudad de México, 1926), quien ha dedicado toda su vida al estudio de las culturas prehispánicas de México.
“Si uno analiza lo que nos parece resultado de una acción democrática, ve que en primer lugar los que votan no son el cien por ciento, sino el 35, 40 o 50. Y de ese porcentaje, el que gana tiene un 30 por ciento o menos, porque muchos no han votado o votaron por otros. Hay mucho de mítico en esto, no es tan racional como a primera vista se ve”, dijo.
El investigador lanzó su afirmación en el marco de la conmemoración del 50 aniversario de la primera edición del libro La filosofía náhuatl, que se celebró ayer en el Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas de la UNAM.
“Hoy vivimos en un mundo bastante mítico: los que se lanzan a guerras lo hacen para implantar la democracia”, sentenció el profesor emérito de la UNAM durante el acto, en el que participaron también el arqueólogo Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, los filósofos Juliana González y Jaime Labastida y la historiadora Mercedes de la Garza, directora del Instituto.
A lo largo de sus ponencias, los especialistas insistieron en que la aparición del volumen en 1956 supuso una ruptura, puesto que fue el primer volumen que situó el pensamiento indígena como una filosofía, es decir, una cosmovisión que va más allá del mito.
La filosofía, dijo León-Portilla, es un proceso por el que los hombres comienzan a cuestionarse acerca de la concepción religiosa del mundo, que se encuentra implícita en los mitos.
Pero para hablar de filosofía no es necesario que hayan desaparecido esos mitos, como ocurre, por ejemplo, en el mito de la caverna de la filosofía de Platón, o en el motor inmóvil de Aristóteles, apuntó.
Por lo tanto, agregó, la pregunta esencial para poder hablar de una filosofía náhuatl es si hubo o no hubo cuestionamientos.
“Estamos en un mundo del mito. Pero lo interesante es cuestionarse al respecto del mito. Eso sí ya es filosofía.
“Ellos se cuestionaron:¿Podemos decir palabras verdaderas en la Tierra? ¿Podemos dar un rumbo a nuestro corazón? ¿Dónde está la luz si todo es tiniebla? ¿De veras tenemos raíz en la Tierra los hombres? Son cuestiones que ponen en tela de juicio las creencias”, expresó el investigador del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas.
Labastida, durante su participación, dijo que no entendió el volumen de León-Portilla cuando lo leyó por primera vez hace más de 40 años, porque entonces pensaba que el mito no se podía elevar a la categoría de filosofía en su concepción occidental. Sin embargo, reconoció que el paso de los años le ha hecho cambiar de opinión.
De la Garza, por su parte, indicó que en la filosofía se puede hablar de dos grandes cosmogonías: la lineal y la cíclica. Mientras que el pensamiento judeocristiano considera el devenir del tiempo y el espacio como algo secuencial, los pueblos antiguos de América, como los mayas y aztecas, concebían el mundo como un ciclo continuo de creación y muerte.
Elige la flor y el canto
Flor y canto es la manera en que los nahuas llamaron al arte y a la poesía. Durante su ponencia, León-Portilla exaltó la significación filosófica de este término, mismo que los antiguos tenían en tan alta estima que lo comparaban con tomar hongos alucinógenos, con una mazorca dorada o con el techo de la cabaña que los albergaba.
“No quiero hacer malabarismos con Aristóteles, Santo Tomás y Hegel, aunque los respeto. Defiendo a Platón y San Agustín. Me quedo con Kierkegaard y con Unamuno. Y me quedo con la flor y el canto del pensamiento”.
El manuscrito de los Cantares mexicanos, resguardado en la Biblioteca Nacional, será coeditado próximamente.
Así lo dijo
“Mientras existan la pobreza, la explotación y la negación del indígena, seguirán escuchándose las palabras ásperas y duras y las voces de los vencidos que tomaron cauce en los trabajos de Miguel León-Portilla”.
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Arqueólogo
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Jaque Mate / Fuerza de ley
Sergio Sarmiento
“La ley, sin la fuerza, es impotente”.
Blaise Pascal
Hace algunos días un grupo de unos 200 estudiantes rechazados de la UNAM y de otras instituciones públicas de educación superior trataron de bloquear la transitada avenida de los Insurgentes a la altura de la Rectoría de esa universidad. El gobierno del Distrito Federal optó por despejar el plantón, cosa que no había hecho en el bloqueo del Paseo de la Reforma. Pero el grupo de estudiantes ha seguido haciendo manifestaciones y protestas en distintos puntos del área metropolitana de la Ciudad de México. En respuesta, esta semana las autoridades educativas anunciaron que revisarían la situación de este grupo de estudiantes en particular.
Hugo Aboites, un profesor de la UAM que “asesora” este movimiento, dijo en una entrevista que la UNAM solicitó revisar la lista de los rechazados. Según él, la posición de la universidad es que se buscaría la forma de permitir el ingreso de cuando menos algunos de estos rechazados: “No lo garantizamos -afirma que le dijeron- pero no descartamos dar admisión a estos jóvenes”.
No me sorprendería que, efectivamente, la UNAM y otras instituciones le dieran cabida no a las decenas de miles de rechazados ni a los que quedaron más arriba en el examen de ingreso, sino precisamente a ese pequeño grupo que ha participado en las manifestaciones. Cada vez queda más claro en nuestro país que hay dos tipos de gobernados: los que participan en manifestaciones y plantones, a los cuales debe dárseles un trato especial, y todos los demás, a los cuales nunca se les hace caso.
Por esta razón, las manifestaciones y bloqueos se han convertido en la forma usual de pedir cualquier cosa a las autoridades. Ahí vemos el Paseo de la Reforma y el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, tomados por el PRD que exige que se le entregue la Presidencia de la República a Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Oaxaca lleva tres meses tomada por la sección 22 del sindicato de maestros y por la llamada Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de Oaxaca, que demandan la renuncia del gobernador Ulises Ruiz. Ayer un grupo de vecinos tomó una carretera en Chalco, pidiendo ya no recuerdo qué. Y hoy seguramente habrá nuevas manifestaciones y plantones en exigencia de lo que a usted se le antoje.
Son las propias autoridades y los políticos los que solapan y promueven esta actitud. Cuando acababa de empezar su mandato como gobernador del estado de Michoacán, el perredista Lázaro Cárdenas Batel utilizó la fuerza pública para evitar que un grupo de taxistas bloqueara el centro de Morelia; quizá la razón es que esos taxistas eran priistas, porque hoy Cárdenas solapa la toma ilegal de Sicartsa por un grupo de mineros que defienden a Napoleón Gómez Urrutia. Cuando la Policía Federal Preventiva impidió que el perredista Martí Batres y un grupo de seguidores, incluidos diputados de su partido, establecieran un bloqueo en la avenida Congreso de la Unión, fuera del Palacio Legislativo, protestaron no sólo los políticos del PRD, sino los priistas Enrique Jackson y Emilio Chuayffet. Parecería que en México cualquiera tiene derecho a bloquear calles e instalaciones productivas, siempre y cuando lo haga con la bandera de algún partido político.
En otros países del mundo, especialmente en los que tienen democracias más maduras, las cosas no son así. Todo el mundo tiene derecho a manifestarse, por supuesto, pero no a cerrar calles o accesos de empresas. La ley en esos países protege también los derechos de los ciudadanos comunes y corrientes, los que no pertenecen a partidos políticos.
Muchos políticos mexicanos afirman que el Estado debe abdicar de su responsabilidad de defender los derechos de los ciudadanos comunes y corrientes cuando éstos se contraponen a los de los políticos. Si alguien toma una avenida o cierra una empresa, afirman que la obligación de la policía es proteger a los bloqueadores y no a los transeúntes, empresarios o trabajadores cuyos derechos se ven afectados. Dicen que deben respetarse los bloqueos porque éstos benefician a los más pobres. La realidad, sin embargo, es muy distinta: estamos creando un perverso sistema que afecta más los derechos de los más pobres.
Si la UNAM u otras universidades públicas abren nuevos lugares no a quienes hayan obtenido mejores calificaciones en el examen sino a los que participaron en bloqueos y manifestaciones, estarán perpetuando este injusto sistema. Si el gobierno del Distrito Federal y los estatales mantienen la tesis de que cualquiera puede bloquear lo que quiera, siempre y cuando lo haga al amparo de un partido político, estarán sembrando las semillas para nuevas y cada vez más violentas confrontaciones. Si el Estado no sirve para defender los derechos de todos, entonces cada quien tendrá que defender los suyos a través de la fuerza.
Transparencia
Excelente decisión del IFAI la de ordenar a la Secretaría de Gobernación revelar el costo de las campañas de promoción de programas sociales de la Presidencia de la República. Si algo ha manchado la campaña electoral del 2006 fue esa campaña. Pretender mantener en secreto su costo, que los contribuyentes hemos pagado con nuestros impuestos, habría sido un insulto añadido a la irresponsabilidad del presidente Fox al difundir esos spots en la campaña electoral.
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Suena Bélgica en Xalapa
María Eugenia Sevilla
Organiza el violinista Erasmo Capilla primer encuentro de música de cámara en Veracruz
El primer Festival Internacional de Música de Cámara Erasmo Capilla será como tener, por dos semanas, una pequeña Bélgica en Xalapa, Veracruz.
Con una carrera musical formada, desarrollada y reconocida en la ahora capital de la Unión Europea, el violinista xalapeño Erasmo Capilla ha organizado una muestra, del 26 de agosto al 10 de septiembre, con artistas de la escena musical belga reconocidos internacionalmente, con quienes ha compartido tablas y amistad.
“He participado con gente que veía de muy lejos en las portadas de sus discos y resulta que hoy somos colaboradores, amigos”, comentó ayer el violinista y director de orquesta de 41 años de edad, durante una rueda de prensa en la Casa de Bélgica.
En los 15 conciertos programados participarán solistas y agrupaciones como la Orquesta de Cámara de Bruselas, que será la que inaugure y cierre el festival en el Teatro del Estado, bajo la batuta huésped de Capilla.
Destaca la presencia de la Soprano Dinah Bryant -en 2004 participó en La Valquiria, en el Palacio de Bellas Artes- y su esposo, el pianista Daniel Blumenthal; el Cuarteto Arriaga, constituido por egresados del Conservatorio Real de Bélgica y la Escuela Juilliard de Nueva York, así como el Cuarteto Enesco, ganador del Diapasón de Oro de la Academia Francesa del Disco.
Figuran también Walter Broeykens, considerado un virtuoso del clarinete y el violinista Yossif Ivanov, ganador concursos como el Yehudi Menuhin de Inglaterra, quien toca un Patti-Stradivarius de 1717.
El director del festival ignora si podrá darle continuidad al proyecto auspiciado por el Gobierno de Veracruz y la Universidad Veracruzana, pero aseguró que buscará más patrocinadores.
Tras ganar el Concurso de Violín para la Juventud Mexicana, a los 15 años Capilla se fue becado a estudiar al Real Conservatorio de Música de Bruselas, que dijo, sólo aceptaba alumnos a partir de los 18 años.
A los 24 se doctoró en Música en Capilla Musical de la Reina Elisabeth y, también como excepción, se convirtió en el único alumno del francés Sylvain Camberlin, con quien estudió dirección de orquesta.
Y aunque el músico es considerado el mejor violinista veracruzano, goza de mayor reconocimiento en Europa que en su País, donde, reconoció, le gustaría tener mayor presencia en orquestas como la Sinfónica Nacional, con la que se ha presentado sólo dos veces y Filarmónica de la UNAM, con la que tocó por última vez en 1991.
“No sé por qué no han vuelto a invitar (…) He hablado muchas veces con algunos directores de instituciones y orquestas y me dicen que sí pero a veces no veo los resultados”.
Tras su retorno a México en 1995, Capilla se ha dedicado a ofrecer recitales en el País y en Europa, así como a la docencia; con frecuencia dicta cátedra en las Masterclasses de la Academia Internacional de Verano de Brujas.
Para oír
Algunos conciertos en el Teatro del Estado, en Xalapa.
· Dúo de pianos, Agosto 31: Youlia Zaichkina y Alexander Mogilevsky. Obras de Tchaikovsky y Prokofiev.
· Recital, Septiembre 3: Dinah Bryant y Daniel Blumenthal. Obras de Mozart y Schubert.
· Recital, Septiembre 4: Erasmo Capilla y Blumenthal. Obras de Debussy, Shostakovich y Brahms.
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Llama Presidente a buscar diálogo
Mayolo López
Destaca el ejemplo del ex rector Barros Sierra. Convoca Vicente Fox ‘a los distintos actores’ a defender la legalidad y las instituciones
En medio del conflicto postelectoral, el Presidente Vicente Fox externó ayer la disposición de su Gobierno al diálogo, abogó por la unidad nacional y pidió la defensa de la democracia.
“Mi Gobierno está totalmente abierto al diálogo”, ofreció en la residencia oficial de Los Pinos, durante la ceremonia conmemorativa por el 69 aniversario de la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE).
En esa tónica, trajo a colación la figura de Javier Barros Sierra, rector de la UNAM en 1968, por haber defendido “la autonomía de esa noble institución del autoritarismo”.
“Como defensor de la pluralidad y de las instituciones, decía el rector Barros Sierra, la verdadera democracia es escuchar a los demás… Y hoy a todos nos corresponde exigir respeto a los derechos de los ciudadanos y respeto a las normas de convivencia social”, sostuvo.
“A todos nos corresponde cuidar nuestra democracia, cuidar la unidad en torno a México: orden, paz y armonía es la fórmula para trabajar y construir una gran nación”, recalcó a 17 días del inicio del plantón de seguidores de Andrés Manuel López Obrador que mantiene bloqueado el Paseo de la Reforma.
En opinión del Mandatario, los políticos y los gobernantes deben estar a la altura para cuidar y garantizar el orden y la legalidad y, simultáneamente, nutrir y fortalecer las instituciones.
“Convoco a todas y todos los ciudadanos, a los distintos actores del País, a que juntos busquemos la unidad y el diálogo, a que defendamos la democracia y las instituciones; entre todos las hemos construido y a todos nos corresponde defenderlas, nutrirlas y fortalecerlas”, sostuvo.
En su abono, Fox afirmó que estos son tiempos de la unidad, el orden y la paz, de respeto a la ley y a las normas de la convivencia.
Como nueva medida de seguridad, los asistentes al acto -por lo menos los caballeros- fueron cacheados por elementos del Estado Mayor Presidencial antes, inclusive, de pasar por el detector de metales camino al salón Adolfo López Mateos.
Por otra parte, Fox aseguró que la privatización de la industria eléctrica nacional “no forma parte” de ninguna agenda gubernamental.
El secretario general del Sindicato Único de Trabajadores Electricistas de la República Mexicana, Víctor Fuentes del Villar, abrió su intervención con un elogio al Presidente.
Fuentes recordó que hace tres años le preguntó a su antecesor en el cargo, Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, cómo era su relación con Fox.
“Es excelente, en un marco de respeto mutuo. Es un hombre que ama a su país…”, le dijo Rodríguez.
“Hoy, a un año de tomar posesión de este cargo, coincido totalmente con la opinión de Rodríguez Alcaine, señor Presidente”, afirmó el líder sindical.
Así lo dijo
“Como defensor de la pluralidad y de las instituciones, decía el rector Barros Sierra, la verdadera democracia es escuchar a los demás”.
Vicente Fox
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Gaceta del Ángel / Luz a luz VII
Germán Dehesa
Inspirado en mi hija Juana la Loca, he de decir que me siento como marinero nayarita en el octavo mes de su perdición. Si alguien tenía alguna duda acerca de la resistencia y de la encendida voluntad de vida de la raza tenochca, estos chicos que se hicieron a la mar y en ella se perdieron -se gestaron nuevamente, ahora por cuenta del destino- durante nueve meses y nueve días. Es una saga impresionante. Piensen que el gran Gabo se aventó una exitosísima crónica contando la historia de un náufrago que estuvo diez días a la deriva. La historia de estos tres marineros que sobrevivieron más de nueve meses requeriría de un relato que a la vez fuera un canto épico de gran aliento. En el horizonte mexicano al único narrador de esa talla que yo conozco es Fernando del Paso.
Toda esta reflexión en voz escrita es porque, de momento, la situación del país tan al filo de la ilegalidad y el enfrentamiento, me hace (¿nos hace?) sentir marinero de San Blas en el octavo mes de su impredecible y loca deriva (¿a qué sabrá un pelícano crudo y sin su chilito y su limoncito?). Urge que nos rescatemos, que nos despejemos. Un buen comienzo de esto, se me ocurre, puede ser entrar a www.despejalaciudad.org.mx (ya con esto aplacamos al xalapeño) y proseguir con esta tarea de cuya eficacia hablan con torpísima elocuencia la enorme cantidad de mentadas y vituperios que estoy recibiendo por cuenta de los intolerantes y enfebrecidos discípulos del Rabí de Macuspana. Sigan votando, campeones. Todos sus mensajes serán leídos, no por mí, pero serán leídos.
En el exterior de esta Ciudad tomada, la vida sigue. De los Estados (con excepción de Oaxaca y Chiapas que están a punto de ser parte de la Soberana República de la Chota) me llegan mensajes llenos de extrañeza. En ellos me preguntan qué nos traemos aquí en la Capital, porque ellos en sus lugares están en calma y trabajando. Como comprenderás, lectora lector querido, no tengo buenas respuestas para estas interrogantes. Ya quisiera yo saber, a fondo y de manera inteligible, qué demonios está pasando en la Ciudad de México y qué demonios puede pasar en el país. De cualquier manera y aunque no tenga respuestas, me da un enorme gusto saber que gran parte del país se encuentra en paz. Los abrazo mucho, aunque me temo que esta brutal factura que nos están presentando los pobres, los humillados y ofendidos de este país, a través de un muy cuestionable conducto y de tan lesivos modos, nos va a alcanzar a todos más temprano que tarde. No nos confundamos: la pugna está ahí y es legítima de muchísimas maneras. Hay que ser desmedidamente ciego y reaccionario para suponer que, llegados a este punto, los pobres regresarán a su manso, agachado y sumiso silencio. Si por algo será recordado Andrés Manuel, será por haber logrado colocar como primer tema de la agenda nacional esa lucha contra la pobreza que a todos debe comprometernos. Esto es indudable. Lo pantanoso surge al contemplar los mulas modos de AMLO y su séquito de tránsfugas y bandidos y al contemplar también su alarmante personalidad y su creciente cesarismo. En verdad, no creo que pueda ser el que nos saque de este ineludible atolladero en el que ya estamos metidos.
Pero también hay luces: la UNAM fue un conmovedor deleite. Es un honor impartir ahí una cátedra acerca de J.L. Borges. Y también está Amalia García y su digna voluntad de estar abierta a la conciliación. Y también está Chapultepec que hoy reinagura su Lago (ahí estaré escuchando a Alejandro Encinas); y también de modo principal estás tú, lectora lector querido.
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Plaza Pública / Tareas del Tribunal
Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa
El órgano principal de la justicia electoral empieza a abordar los juicios de inconformidad sobre la elección presidencial, que debe resolver a más tardar el 31 de agosto, término que debería emplear al máximo a fin de no festinar el fin de esta etapa crucial del proceso
Ayer miércoles 16, tres días antes de su fecha límite (el 19 de agosto, según el artículo 69 de la ley de medios de impugnación) la Sala Superior del Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación resolvió los recursos de reconsideración relativos a la elección de diputados y senadores. Si bien no le faltan otras tareas (juicios de revisión constitucional, derivados de las elecciones locales concurrentes, y juicios para la protección de los derechos político-electorales del ciudadano), ahora la prioridad del órgano principal de la justicia electoral son los 364 juicios de inconformidad relativos a la elección presidencial.
Apenas se está en la etapa de instrucción y es de suponerse que, en cada uno de las decenas de casos a su cargo, los magistrados emplearán todo el término disponible para formular el proyecto de sentencia y someterlo a la consideración de la sala. El anticipo con que concluyeron su tarea respecto de la elección legislativa debe proveerlos de más tiempo, y no significar que en esa misma proporción (tres días antes del 31 de agosto) cumplirán sus deberes judiciales relacionados con la elección presidencial. “El tiempo se venga de las cosas que se hacen sin su colaboración”, prescribió el poeta alemán Heine y en este caso el apresuramiento real, y aun la apariencia de apresuramiento, añadirían al cuestionado proceso electoral un poco o un mucho más de suspicacia. Hay que decir, de paso, que dicha actitud deriva en amplia medida de la ignorancia de la naturaleza de las funciones del Tribunal y de los modos de desahogarlas.
Conviene insistir en que la Sala Superior del Tribunal ejercerá en las siguientes semanas dos clases de atribuciones. Unas corresponden a su carácter de órgano jurisdiccional, y el plazo máximo para realizarlas vence dentro de dos semanas exactas (o de hoy en 15, como decimos), el jueves 31 de este mes. Otras son las propias del órgano constitucional de calificación, necesariamente posteriores a las jurisdiccionales, que consisten en un acto cuantitativo (”el cómputo final… una vez resueltas… las impugnaciones que se hubieren interpuesto”) y actos cualitativos, como determinar la validez de la elección, su apego a los principios constitucionales; establecer la elegibilidad del candidato que haya obtenido mayor número de votos y emitir la declaratoria de Presidente electo. Para ello el Tribunal dispone de un plazo máximo que se agota el 6 de septiembre. Hay quienes consideran conveniente que el proceso esté concluido en su totalidad antes del 1o. de septiembre. Legalmente es posible. Políticamente sería dar nuevas señales de prisa que agravarían la crispación creciente.
Antes de sustanciar 175 juicios de inconformidad, el Tribunal resolvió una cuestión de previo y especial pronunciamiento: ordenó abrir cerca de 12 mil paquetes electorales, a petición de la coalición Por el Bien de Todos. La decisión judicial significó reconocer dos constantes: que en tan elevado número de actas hubo “errores evidentes” y que esos yerros no fueron advertidos ni reconocidos y por tanto no corregidos en los consejos distritales. Cada uno de los magistrados atendió peticiones específicas relativas a los juicios de inconformidad que les corresponden, y en consecuencia están recibiendo las actas circunstanciadas de la diligencia de apertura de los paquetes, para incluirlas en el expediente respectivo. Cada miembro de la Sala Superior ordenó en promedio abrir unos mil 700 paquetes y dispondrá de igual número de actas repartidas en los 20 juicios que, también en promedio, dieron lugar a la sentencia interlocutoria del 5 de agosto, cumplida entre el 9 y el 14 del mismo mes.
Esas diligencias judiciales no se realizaron para obtener nuevos resultados, y por lo tanto practican un regodeo inútil quienes proclaman que nada cambió. Eso se verá cuando los magistrados incorporen ese insumo a su reflexión judicial, en cuyos momentos iniciales nos encontramos apenas. De las actas circunstanciadas puede resultar la anulación de la votación en casillas. Dos causales -las marcadas con las letras f) y k) del artículo 75 de la ley de medios de impugnación- pueden ser aplicables, pues se refieren a que haya mediado “dolo o error en la computación de los votos y siempre que ello sea determinante para el resultado de la votación” o que hayan existido “irregularidades graves, plenamente acreditadas y no reparables durante la jornada electoral o en las actas de escrutinio y cómputo que, en forma evidente, pongan en duda la certeza de la votación y sean determinantes para el resultado de la misma”.
No obstante que es un tribunal de derecho, no de conciencia ni político, la Sala Superior dispone de anchuras para formarse y ejercer sus criterios. Por ejemplo, no sólo puede sino que “deberá suplir las deficiencias u omisiones en los agravios cuando los mismos puedan ser deducidos claramente de los hechos expuestos”. Igualmente puede ordenar “diligencias para mejor proveer” que conforme a su propia jurisprudencia son “actos realizados por propia iniciativa del órgano responsable, conforme a sus exclusivas facultades, con el objeto de formar su propia convicción sobre la materia del litigio”. Tales diligencias, ha definido el Tribunal, no causan agravio “a los contendientes en el juicio, habida cuenta que (con ellas) no se alteran las partes sustanciales del procedimiento en su perjuicio, ya que lo hacen con el único fin de conocer la verdad sobre los puntos controversiales”.
Cajón de Sastre
Hoy a las 18:30 horas será presentado el libro La política económica de la Revolución Mexicana, 1911-1924, en el auditorio Arturo Elizundia Charles de la Facultad de Contaduría y Administración de la UNAM. El autor es Fernando Paz Sánchez, un economista hidalguense que al cabo de una larga y fructífera carrera en el servicio público condensa ahora su energía en la enseñanza y la investigación universitarias. Es ahora coordinador del doctorado en ciencias de la administración. Sobresalió en sus trabajos sobre la actividad rural en nuestro país, entre los cuales cito los libros El campo y el desarrollo económico de México, y La economía agrícola mexicana, ¿sin campesinos? En el libro que hoy se presenta, “el maestro Paz procura demostrar que la Revolución mexicana sí propició cambios importantes y muy positivos que se tradujeron en un mejoramiento sensible en la calidad de vida de la población y dieron paso a un proyecto de nación mucho más justo y promisorio que el ofrecido por el paradigma porfiriano”.
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Mexicar / Estadística violenta
Enrique Canales
La mentira no es mala porque la prohíban los mandamientos, la mentira es mala porque puede llegar a provocar violencia sangrienta. Ahora hay mexicanos que mienten acerca de las elecciones para poner por encima de nuestras instituciones a un sol. Por optimista, espero que no estén pensando en aquel sol azteca que exigía sacrificios humanos. Pero mentir para colocar el interés del sol azteca por encima de nuestras instituciones, conduce a provocar violencia y muchos sacrificios humanos.
No es justo que los mexicanos estemos recibiendo de un candidato ambicioso y desquiciado todos estos golpes, atropellos, mentadas, falsedades, bloqueos, chantajes, insultos desde la noche del 2 de julio. Mentir y bloquear los derechos humanos ocupando vialidades son en sí acciones violentas. Somos muchos los mexicanos agraviados y violentados por Andrés Manuel.
En esa fatídica noche del 2 de julio, cuando Andrés Manuel supo que no había ganado por sus fantasiosos 10 puntos de ventaja en las elecciones, encabritado, declaró fraude y cochinero a toda la elección. Desde entonces se ha dedicado a mostrar evidencias falsas o muy infladas que a la hora del conteo resultan en menos del 3 por ciento de los votos que necesita demostrar para cambiar el sentido de la votación.
Yo no soy psiquiatra para enviar por la fuerza a un dislocado mental a una institución, ni soy funcionario público para hacer imponer el orden y hacer respetar la ley y sobre todo proteger los derechos de terceros. Protesto como ciudadano por el hecho ridículo de que una persona resentida pretenda hacernos daño a todos, porque no votamos por él.
¿Qué podemos sacar de provecho de esta loquera? Necesitamos poner en claro los aprendizajes de esta novela callejera. ¿Qué podemos aprender?
Por lo pronto, hacer responsables directamente, económica y penalmente a los jerarcas de los partidos en lo personal, en el caso de que uno de sus candidatos no acate lo que dice la ley electoral y no obedezca sin chistar los dictámenes del Tribunal. La ley no se negocia en las calles. Los actos de poscampaña son los que más han ensuciado la elección. ¿El PRD no merece multa por los insultos y mentiras a los procesos electorales?
Aparte de que las campañas deberían ser más cortas, con menos presupuesto otorgado por el IFE y que el IFE entrenara por más tiempo y a dos suplentes adicionales por casilla, también tenemos tal vez otros aprendizajes de las campañas y de la mecánica electoral. Yo no pondría tanto límite a lo “sucio” de la campaña porque el que ensucia, se ensucia. Ya vimos que Andrés Manuel, por su carácter deschavetado, hubiera resultado un enorme peligro para México.
Aunque no me lo crean, yo le daría suma importancia a impulsar una serie de cursos de estadística para la población en general, partiendo desde primero de secundaria hasta terminar con preparatoria. Insisto, no sé qué tanto la ignorancia de la estadística impulsó a los perredistas a decir tanta estupidez ¿o fue la maldad? Para mí, una gran parte del componente de la maldad es la ignorancia estadística, pues la ignorancia distorsiona el juicio.
Enseñemos estadística alrededor de organizar elecciones y encuestas, en el propio salón de clase, de la escuela, del barrio, de la comunidad, del pueblo, de los sindicatos, de los partidos y finalmente comprender todas las aberraciones que se han dicho o postulado en estas elecciones.
Mi punto es que todavía no estoy seguro de si las falsedades y mentiras que se pronunciaron por Andrés Manuel, por Gerardo Fernández Noroña, por Jesús Ortega, por Martí Batres, por Claudia Sheinbaum, se debieron a las ganas de engañar o se debieron a su tremenda ignorancia de la estadística.
Andrés Manuel en su carta al New York Times aseveró que, si había modificaciones de un puñado de votos por casilla, entonces el resultado de la elección se cambiaría. Ya se sabía que los errores tendían a ser aleatorios, lo que demostraba que no había habido fraude. Pero sin conocimientos estadísticos el pobre de Andrés Manuel se llena de patrañas en su cabeza.
Es que las curvas “se deben cruzar varias veces” decían ya en el conteo total de los votos; pero eso no es estadísticamente cierto. Luego la confusión entre irregularidades, paquetes abiertos, boletas sobrantes y errores de suma fue atroz; confundieron el “se pudo dar un fraude” con el “se dio un fraude”. Si yo dejé a mi novia media hora sin vigilar, porque encontré su ventana abierta, no quiere decir que me fue infiel. El “me pudo ser infiel” en ese rato, no es igual al “me fue infiel porque pudo serme infiel”.
Sería muy útil que desde primero de secundaria los jóvenes comenzaran a entender y resolver problemas de estadística simple e ir aumentando la teoría y la práctica de la estadística, pues eso les será útil en los deportes, pero también en la producción del campo, en la calidad de la producción industrial, a entender al mercado y sobre todo poder ser demócratas realmente y no cometer las burradas que estamos observando.
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Nombres, Nombres y… Nombres / La presión de la IP a Fox - Calderón, en riesgo una mayor competencia y PGR - SCT en la mira
Alberto Aguilar
Gestionan contra Carstens para SHCP y crece lista para nuevo equipo; Plascencia de unidad y termina espectáculo; Centro - Norte ahorro de 3 mdd; sube 12% papel de empaques
AUNQUE EN LOS últimos días la escena política la han dominado los plantones de AMLO y el PRD, así como el recuento en el TRIFE, créame que tras bambalinas y en plena recta final de Vicente Fox, hay gestiones diversas de la IP orientada a preservar con Felipe Calderón privilegios que a futuro podrían inhibir una mayor competencia.
Vaya inclusive se busca influir en el próximo presidente de la República en la conformación de su gabinete a través de miembros del CMHN, entre ellos Gastón Azcárraga, Claudio X González, Lorenzo Zambrano, Roberto Hernández y Carlos Slim Helú.
Este es el marco en el que ha trascendido la posible modificación por parte de SCT de Pedro Cerisola al título de concesión de Telmex para que la telefónica pueda difundir video, así como el “extraño” recurso de inconstitucionalidad de la PGR de Daniel Cabeza de Vaca en contra de algunos artículos de la nueva LFCE.
El procedimiento que se dirimirá en la SCJN que lleva Mariano Azuela se prolongaría por 6 meses. Fue presentado por el subprocurador Javier Laynez, antes en el área jurídica de Presidencia.
Quienes le conocen lo ubican como un “purista” de su oficio, más no deja de llamar la atención el recurso en solitario de la PGR, cuando el ejecutivo participó de forma activa en la discusión de la nueva ley.
Además justo se cuestionan dos de los artículos que más objetó la IP: las facultades a la CFC de Eduardo Pérez Motta para realizar visitas domiciliarias y la posibilidad de desincorporar activos de agentes económicos con predominio en el mercado.
Según esto ninguna de esa facultades debe estar supeditada a la decisión de un juez por la separación de poderes que refiere la Constitución.
De paso se cuestionó la ratificación que debe dar el Senado a los comisionados de la CFC, lo que se da para Banxico, IPAB IFAI, el Tesorero de la Federación, entre otros.
Recordará el activo cabildeó que realizó primero la regiomontana FEMSA de José Antonio Fernández “el diablo” y luego Telmex en la última fase legislativa.
El mismo retraso del Acuerdo de Convergencia por SCT y la posibilidad de que se amplíe el título de concesión de Telmex para que ofrezca video reflejaría la presión de algunos grupos para concluir el sexenio con prerrogativas.
Las empresas de TV por cable agrupadas en Canitec de Alejandro Puente han rechazado el que Telmex pueda recibir esa concesión que incluso desentonará de la recomendación hecha por CFC.
Los cableros llegaron a exigir una salvaguarda de 10 años frente a Telmex.
Al final la CFC no fijó tiempos, pero sí condicionó a Telmex a dar interconexión, interoperatividad y portabilidad a los nuevos actores en telefonía, previo a recibir su aval para TV.
Si SCT actúa por su cuenta y favorece a Telmex se alterarán las reglas del juego y la ansiada competencia en ese ámbito se transgredirá, heredándose los viejos vicios en ese terreno al próximo gobierno.
El tema de AMLO-PRD no es el único en la arena.
Y POCO MÁS de lo mismo. No hace mucho algunos funcionarios entre ellos Pedro Cerisola, Fernando Canales Clariond y el senador Fernando Elizondo solicitaron a Felipe Calderón evaluar a otro candidato distinto a Agustín Carstens para SHCP. La cercanía del ejecutivo del FMI con Francisco Gil Díaz incomoda a más de uno. Para Calderón es el principal prospecto. Goza de la mejor reputación en el rubro financiero. Una alternativa mencionada es la de Luis Téllez, aunque a este también se le ubica en SCT o Pemex. Para el equipo de Calderón cada vez hay más nombres: Javier Lozano en SCT o alguna posición en Presidencia, Genaro Borrego para STPS, Carlos Elizondo en Economía o SEP, Jesús Reyes Heroles en Pemex, Josefina Vázquez Mota en Segob, Roberto Campa en el ISSSTE, Tomás Ruiz en Nafin a petición de Elba Esther Gordillo. Incluya también a Javier Molinar, Miguel Ángel Yunes, Liébano Saenz, Juan Carlos Romero Hicks, Francisco Ramírez Acuña, Víctor Manuel Borrás y John McCarthy que no ha dejado de autopromocionarse. El desfile apenas comienza.
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José Woldenberg / Lo más triste
José Woldenberg
La diferencia entre la tristeza y la compasión quizá sea la distancia. Si nos informan que un avión se desplomó en Bulgaria, que todos los pasajeros perecieron y no conocemos a ninguno de ellos, es probable que nos invada una compasión lejana -epidérmica- por los muertos y por los deudos. No obstante, si entre ellos se encuentra un familiar querido o un amigo cercano, el sentimiento más rotundo será la tristeza, la profunda y abrumadora tristeza. Ese “perro que ni me deja ni se calla”, como diría Miguel Hernández. Y la diferencia se encuentra en la distancia anímica con la cual contemplamos los acontecimientos.
Lo más triste del conflicto postelectoral es la erosión de un patrimonio que compartíamos (casi) todos: la confianza en la vía y las instituciones electorales; la presunción de que habíamos alcanzado un mínimo acuerdo en un mecanismo eficiente para regular la lucha entre partidos, programas y candidatos. Porque lo que se ha desgastado -¿sólo por el momento?- es una fórmula de competencia que permite la coexistencia pacífica de la diversidad, una construcción de la cual todas las fuerzas políticas resultan beneficiadas, una edificación civilizatoria que paulatinamente nos enseña a vivir con los “otros”.
Se trató de una auténtica construcción (no de una aparición) difícil, paciente, compleja, que tardó décadas y a la cual concurrieron gobiernos y partidos de oposición, organizaciones no gubernamentales e instituciones electorales, legisladores y militantes, medios masivos de comunicación y ciudadanos. Una operación que debió desmontar un entramado institucional autoritario y substituirlo por otro que ofreciera un lugar a todas las corrientes políticas representativas. A lo largo de ese trayecto de más de 20 años se reformaron la Constitución y la ley (varias veces), se crearon nuevas instituciones (IFE, TEPJF, FEPADE), se inventaron y remodelaron rutinas electorales (desde el padrón hasta el Programa de Resultados Electorales Preliminares, desde las boletas hasta la fórmula de integración de las mesas directivas de casilla), se fortalecieron los polos organizativos de diversas corrientes ideológicas y se equilibraron sus fuerzas, se transformaron los códigos de entendimiento de la política (de los paradigmas excluyentes a los democráticos), hasta lograr que el mundo de la representación política fuera plural y no monocolor.
Y todo ello fue posible a través de una vía (básicamente) pacífica, institucional y altamente participativa. Y los resultados están a la vista: la colonización del Estado por la diversidad de fuerzas políticas que habitan el país, el poder compartido, un equilibrio de fuerzas en las instituciones estatales como nunca antes en nuestra historia.
Elección tras elección se hacía y se hace patente que ninguna fuerza política lo gana todo, mientras las otras tampoco lo pierden todo; que quien triunfa en un momento y lugar luego puede perder gracias a que los humores públicos son cambiantes, y que por ello estamos obligados a convivir en la diversidad.
Una ilustración pedestre: un niño de 12 años más o menos informado en 1976, observaba y sabía que el mundo de la representación política era ocupado por un solo partido; que el Presidente, los gobernadores, la inmensa mayoría de los presidentes municipales, así como todos los senadores y casi todos los diputados salían de una sola organización política: el PRI. Un niño de 12 años hoy en el Distrito Federal sabe que su ciudad es gobernada por el PRD, que el estado de México lo gobierna el PRI y que el PAN postuló al actual presidente de la República. Esos niños -a querer o no- eran y son socializados en mundos políticos radicalmente diferentes: el primero en uno sin espacio para la pluralidad, el segundo, en un universo habitado por la diversidad. Todos -parecía- cambiábamos bajo el influjo de una transición democratizadora.
Y sin embargo, hoy franjas relevantes de la sociedad creen que las elecciones no han sido limpias y peor aún que los votos no se han contado con pulcritud. Esa noción ha sido alimentada por diversos nutrientes: desde las “explicaciones” delirantes (la existencia de un algoritmo que modificó los resultados del PREP) hasta los errores en la presentación de los resultados preliminares (la no distinción entre actas recibidas y actas computadas), desde las operaciones propagandísticas más burdas (la presentación de un presidente de casilla introduciendo unas boletas a la urna con el consentimiento de los representantes de los partidos como si se tratara de un acto ilícito) hasta el doble discurso en relación a lo que se demanda de las autoridades electorales (el recuento total de votos en la plaza y la impugnación de un poco más de 40 mil casillas a través de los juicios de inconformidad), desde la descalificación genérica y en bloque de lo que se ha construido hasta la conversión de errores en el llenado de algunas o muchas actas en un fraude orquestado. Y el resultado también se encuentra a la vista: una disminución de la confianza en el procedimiento electoral y un número significativo de ciudadanos que hoy “creen” en menor medida en la limpieza de los comicios.
Se trata de una pérdida sustantiva cuyas derivaciones nadie puede minusvaluar. Un patrimonio común -estratégico- se desgasta ante nuestros ojos. Sin embargo, no hay tiempo para las lamentaciones -nunca hay tiempo para ello-, porque como escribió Guillermo Fadanelli, “los únicos que tienen la vida resuelta son los muertos”. De tal suerte que será imprescindible restañar las heridas y reiniciar las operaciones reformadoras capaces de, poco a poco, remontar lo perdido.
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What Do We Expect When We Deal With People?© 2006 Stuart DawAt a recent Toastmasters meeting I attended, one man rose to answer a “Table Topics” question relating to the largesse of Bill and Melinda Gates, along with Warren Buffet’s magnanimous donation to the Gates charities. Table Topics is the portion of a Toastmasters meeting wherein a member is asked to stand and answer a surprise question thrown by the Table Topics Master. The reply is usually restricted to two or three minutes, but in many cases the speaker can’t make it that far, sitting down in embarrassment at the truncated, scrambled answer he just delivered. The respondent in this case was not lost for words, though he was not inclined to answer directly either, but rather he soared off on a tangent about Bill Gates personally.Apparently he had recently been watching Gates testify before a committee of Congress, and was flabbergasted that Gates, as he put it, “turned out to be such a dummy.” Apparently he had expected Gates, so successful in his own industry, to be conversant with every issue in, or aspect of, society. But to his surprise Gates was a functional idiot in the speaker’s view, on any subject outside his particular sphere of interest, which of course was in the whole field of information technology. For evidence in support of his thesis, he cited Gates having already lost tens of millions on an ill advised foray into public education.For me, this all brought to mind some important things about people in general. When I was much younger I was often impressed by the proclamations of some authority on a given subject, only to find that he seemed to know very little about certain other things. That kind of realization brought me to a conclusion I would try to remember in such cases: never be in awe of a man in his own specialty. In other words, admire a Milton Freidman or a Dr. Jonas Salk, but don’t expect them to be authorities on atomic energy. The key to their success, outside of basic intelligence, was focus, the ability to concentrate on one thing and then do it well.All of this brings me to the hot button I have harbored for the past few years, and that is the role played by philosophy in one’s life, and how so few people recognize it. And I speak of people high in the social system and in almost any sphere of activity, including governments. They may have learned how to operate successfully in a given area, absorbing by induction the required lessons to be learned. But they haven’t seen the crucial importance of needing to develop a rational set of principles they can then apply to all aspects of their lives.Further, I noticed that someone so sensible in business could, outside of that business, hold a clear view of a certain principle only to act in a way that seemed to contradict it. To cite just one small example, years ago as a board member of a public company in the coffee business, I had a particularly nice rapport with another director, a fine man in his 70’s who had a track record of success in a company he had founded, built, and sold many years earlier. He had soon identified me as a rather fervent advocate of capitalism.Because we came from areas many miles apart, we would only see each other at board meetings. On each occasion, before the meeting began, he would greet me warmly and immediately want to discuss the virtues of the free market. This was the way one such day began, and at the following board meeting, after the usual business had been taken up, the president of the corporation, in discussing the company’s prospects for growth, happened to mention the loss of a fairly large soluble coffee customer to Nestlé. Almost leaping from his chair, my director friend demanded to know what our lobbyist in Washington was doing about it. After all, he exclaimed, our company is American, and Nestlé is owned by a few Swiss families. Before the president, somewhat taken aback could answer, I gently put my hand on my irate friend’s arm and said, “Whatever happened to the free market out there in the lobby that we were so enthused about?” “Oh, that’s just theory; this is the real world,” he replied impatiently, clearly ready to pursue some remedy to our competitive problem. What we had here was obviously a case of accepting a principle in the abstract, while denying its efficacy in reality, illustrated by the old slogan, “It’s okay in theory, but it won’t work in practice.” Of course there can be no such thing. If something won’t work in practice, then the theory has to be wrong.If this seems unusual, on reflection and observation you may see it is far more common than you had realized, and that an honest, inward look may reveal it is true even of yourself. “But what,” you might ask, “has philosophy got to do with it - philosophy, that terribly boring thing in which they tried to get me interested in college.” The answer? “Almost everything.”First, in the illustration above, my friend was treating ethics, that branch of philosophy that tells one how one should behave, rather carelessly. Instead of questioning the business issues of service, product quality, and pricing, he was quick to invoke the power of the government to fight the company’s competitive wars. Further, in addition to his denial of the wisdom of a free market, he was being a philosophical intrinsicist, saying in effect, “This is an American company, therefore we have an intrinsic right to the business over any foreign competitor.”Most of us are guilty of committing such errors all the time without even thinking about it. But how do we know whether we are right or wrong on any issue if we have no yardstick with which to measure our ideas? Most people have never taken the trouble to study philosophy, especially the fundamental conclusions that help us make the right ethical choices, and the crucial politics that always flow from one’s views on ethics. There are 4 main branches of philosophy, two of which make up the foundation, the other two being derivatives from them. As an illustration, let’s say we have two people, Jack and Bill, who have trouble getting along with each other, as they seem to have diametrically opposite ideas about life. So you decide to check out their fundamental philosophic ideas.First, you want to assess their grasp of reality, so you inquire about their Metaphysics, which is the branch of philosophy that asks, “What is?” Jack says he believes this world, this universe, is real, governed by the immutable laws of nature. It holds everything we need to survive and be happy right here on earth, happiness being the proper condition for mankind.Bill disagrees. He says that this world is an inhospitable place, that man is as a chip floating on a dark, menacing ocean, or as existentialist Jean Paul Sartre said, “Alone and afraid in a world I never made.” We might as well live for today, for who know what’s coming tomorrow. Besides, this earth is merely an unreal reflection of a better place in some other, ineffable, unknowable dimension, populated by devils, gods and angels.Then you want to check out their view of the second basic branch of philosophy, Epistemology. For if metaphysics asks “What is,” epistemology, the theory of knowledge asks, “How do I know what is?” Jack says knowledge comes by means of the senses, which gather data from reality and transmit it to the brain, which then integrates that raw material (hopefully, if one is rational) into non-contradictory concepts, giving us the power of reason. Bill says no, that knowledge comes intuitively, or that we had all the world’s knowledge when we were born, and merely grasp it bit by bit as we grow older, through what Plato called “knowledge by reminiscence.” Or maybe we get it through mystical insights, or the zodiac, or even drug trances. Now you get into the payoff branches of philosophy; ethics, and the fourth branch that depends on one’s view of ethics known as politics. In ethics, Jack believes that man should be free, free to think and to act on the product of his thought. He knows that freedom means to be literally free from the use of physical force or fraud by one man against another, that the most important minority is the minority of one. Each man should be free to produce, and to enjoy the fruits of his labor. You realize that Jack is a rational egoist.Bill disagrees. He says that “it take a village,” that a man can not fend for himself without the help of others, that people are born as indentured semi-slaves, in effect, and they must be prepared to live their lives in sacrifice for others as necessary. You conclude that Bill is an altruist. So you wonder about the boys’ politics. You start by asking Jack. He seems surprised, for he correctly assumed you would know he is a capitalist, once you had the basic stuff on him. He even gives you a definition he picked up from some woman philosopher named Rand, and he paraphrases her by saying that “capitalism is a social system based on individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned, and in which no one is allowed to initiate force or fraud against anyone else.” That, Jack says, is the ideal which of course we have never achieved in our society, and from which we have been moving away because of the growing power of governments that have a legal monopoly on the use of force.Bill vehemently disagrees. Karl Marx had the right idea, he says, and that if it were not for the imperfections in man, socialism would have been proven to be the right political system, if only we were prepared to follow the altruistic imperative of self sacrifice for the common good.You now see how two intelligent young people could become so far apart in their view of life, and you begin to realize how easy it is for anyone to get mixed up in his ideas. It all goes to make life very interesting.
