padre dijo

Se ve que no estas al corriente de los nuevos nombramientos.Hay un nuevo fichaje estrella,Leire Pajin,secretaria de organizacion del partido que nos gobierna,posiblemente su curriculo empalidecera al de Bibiana.Eso si,las dos tienen una cosa en comun,son hijas de papa socialista con cargos publicos desde antes de que ellas nacieran.De esta forma la figura de "hijo de papa" se ha transferido sin interrupcion de la aristocracia a la cleptocracia.
Para mirar al otro lado te diré que hace dos dias Arenas y Rajoy aparecieron en el Parador para hacer tiempo hasta la hora del avion despues de un mitin/espectaculo en el palacio de congresos de Torremolinos.Llegaron en una caravana de mas de 30 coches y lo primero que ocurrio es que nadie se pudo ir del aparcamiento porque la policia bloqueo con un inhibidor todos los mandos a distancia.
Cada vez parece mas claro que nuestros politicos mas que a resolver nuestros problemas se dedican a crearnoslos.
Basos

9 Julio 2008 | 01:42 PM

ddevega dijo

Leire Pajín es una clásica. Diputada por Alicante, si no recuerdo mal era diputada con 28 años, la más joven en la historia de la democracia. Una auténtica profesional de la política. Como becaria en Unicaja, Bibiana sabe lo que es trabajar en el sector "privado", Leira Pajín no sabe lo que es un sueldo que no sea público, de los impuestos de todos.
Esta democracia nuestra es lo que tiene.
Respecto al PP no puedo estar más de acuerdo, da mucha pena. A ver si se juntan unos cuantos con Rosa Diez y sacan 20 diputados en las siguientes. Como se le hinchen las narices a María San Gil un poco más y algún otro peso pesado se junte con doña Rosa, le van a dar un susto a más de uno.

9 Julio 2008 | 02:10 PM

padre dijo

Te equivocas por 4 años,fue diputada en el 2000 con 24 años.

9 Julio 2008 | 08:40 PM

ddevega dijo

Interesante la noticia de hoy el el confidencial a propósito de las prácticas despóticas de Leire en la Secretaría de Estado.
Supongo que son las consecuencias de todo lo que comentábamos más arriba... nepotismo iletrado más que ilustrado. Que pena! esto es el zapaterismo, y la tristeza es que el PP da casi tanta pena como el PSOE. Que depresión.

http://www.elconfidencial.com/cache/2008/07/10/93_pajin_depuro_to...

El otro día comía aquí en Dubai con un compañero español de INSEAD que está trabajando en Abu Dhabi con una compañía americana y hablábamos de otro compañero nuestro que lleva 6 años empujando un partido político (http://www.porunmundomasjusto.com/) en sus horas fuera del trabajo con un ánimo y un mérito extraordinarios. Si alguno tiene vocación de servicio público y esperanza en cantidades industriales para pensar que algún día no nos gobernaran las Leires de este mundo, le animo a que se apunte.

10 Julio 2008 | 08:28 AM

Padre dijo

De depresion nada. A luchar cada uno en lo suyo. Me ha gustado mucho lo del mundo mas justo.
Mañana nos vamos a la boda de Lola Paloma si te acuerdas felicita a tia Pauline y tio Jose.
Besos

10 Julio 2008 | 09:30 AM

M.T.A. (TRADUCTORA 2º) dijo

DDV,

You are being unfair to a Spanish woman like Bibiana. It takes real genius to reach those heights with those tiny intellectual wings. I am a visitor from overseas. From Martini de Mar, as a matter of fact.

10 Julio 2008 | 04:20 PM

ddevega dijo

M.T.A.,

Nice wording but I see some contradictions in your rationale, genius vs. little intelectual wings. I would consider other than genius to be the real reason to come to those heights...

10 Julio 2008 | 05:54 PM

M.T.A. (TRADUCTORA 2ª) dijo

DDV,

Brilliant! May I quote Oliver Wendell Holmes? ("The Autocrat of the breakfast Table") "Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavour of genius in an essentilly common person is detestable".

The Old Master should have met Bibiana. Her mediocrity is ferocious and her claim to a purely biological form of genius is unglorious.

I am very pleased to agree with you.

10 Julio 2008 | 11:12 PM

Leicester-Stanhope dijo

Good evenig, DDV!

My friend M.T.A. was most kind to tell me about your blog.

It sounds like an awfully nice place!

We expats have quite a problem here in the Marbella area. Most locals are not really interested in non-Spanish bloggers. And our fellow English-speaking foreign residents are more interested in fun-and-sun activities.

M.T.A. has also told me about a very exciting local blog run by a famous media personality, a certain Senora Martini. but I would need a translator.

Some friends of mine know Dubai very well. Quite a quaint place, isn't?

10 Julio 2008 | 11:52 PM

ddevega dijo

I couldn´t define it better. Very meaningful quotation properly picked for the matter.
That is precisely the most irritating thing. Is not only mediocrity itself but trying to pretend just the opposite what makes it unbearable.
The only very unique essential ability is to worship the godfather, and in that both Leire and Bibiana are second to none.

Leicester, quaint is in fact the proper word. It is indeed an interesting place to be these days. A fast growing melting pot of very various and different people and cultures with a common denominator, make money, to survive or to retire, but make money.

11 Julio 2008 | 07:01 AM

Leicester-Stanhope dijo

Good morning, Ddevega!

I like people who start very early. You are one hour ahead of me (local times). Well done!

My friends must have known a very different Dubai. Yours sound like a great place. The craving for money is the universal theme, isn't it? I must tell them.

I liked what you said to my "buena amiga" M.T.A. Godfather-worship (or "Padrone", "Líder Insustituíble" or "capomafia autonómico") It represents a most unfortunate trait in human nature. Do you think that people like Bibiana and Leire are a mutating link in the chain of perverse human stupidity?

11 Julio 2008 | 08:08 AM

padre dijo

Maravilloso que tu blog vaya extendiendose tan bien.

11 Julio 2008 | 09:54 AM

ddevega dijo

Leicester,

I guess perceptions about Dubai, as most of the things in life, very much depend on the way to look at it. If you reset your mental background and:
1) Stop benchmarking Dubai against the cities you know or city you come from.
2) Take advantage of the experience as an opportunity to better understand human nature in such an eclectic, schizophenic place
3) Fully enjoy the positives of what the place has to offer.
Then I believe it could be a thrilling experience, but still, just two months and a half here, ask me again the question in a year time.

On Bibiana and Leire, I do not think they are particulary stupid, what I honestly believe, and that was the point I wanted to make in the blog, is that they are very, very far from being competent to be in the Board of Directors of a 1,4 trillion dollar company with 45 million stakeholders (at least) which is called Spain.

11 Julio 2008 | 04:36 PM

Leicester-Stanhope dijo

As they would say in old Spain..."Olé"

Brilliant once again, Ddevega! I am beginning to be really impressed.
I never thought that Bibiana or Leire are stupid. Far from it!! I just think that they are inmoral.

11 Julio 2008 | 05:35 PM

ddevega dijo

Morality, such a complex topic, isn´t it?
I believe nobody is born with a moral footprint. A certain moral framework is developed in the course of life. Parents, friends, own experiences, education, reading have much to do with it. In that sense a would rather use the world amoral than inmoral. A blend of irresponsibility and lack of basic decency is probably part of the equation as well.
Bibiana´s comments today on the report of the results achieved with the "Ley de Violencia de Genero" presented in the Ministrer´s Council may be considered pretty inmoral though.

11 Julio 2008 | 11:17 PM

Leicester-Stanhope dijo

Ddevega,

I AGREE WITH YOU! Amoral fits quite nicely. Coupled with massive ignorance plus a monstruous dose of narcissism...it can be lethal!
I am sure you remember the last words in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".

11 Julio 2008 | 11:35 PM