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Sorry to generalize, being Spanish and having lived in Southern California I am quite sensitive to water issues in general, and the worldwide spread of the English grassy lawn as a lifestyle/cultural icon in particular. Plus, I was really incensed by this socialist, state education advocate, rotary-clubber, golfer friend of mine and his inability to see the social implications of his little Spanish glofing vacation (including cheap, environment-destructive flights).

I do hold the highest respect and gratitude for the International Brigadists, who fought in vain.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 08:36:18 AM EST
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The subtitle of my personal blog, "If you tolerate this, your children will be next" is from the title of a Manic Net Preachers song about these International Brigadists, itself taken from a Spanish Republican propaganda poster on the terror bombing of Madrid (second from left, sorry found no bigger version):



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 08:44:18 AM EST
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It took me a while to figure out what "terror bombing of Madrid" had to do with the Civil War, I thought immediately of March 11...

It's rather sad that googling "If you tolerate this your children will be next" brings up the music album cover but not the war propaganda poster.

Now, to go completely off-topic, Basque nationalist leader Arzalluz once said "for us the Bombs and for Madrid the paintings" in reference to the Guernica being in a Madrid museum. It made my blood boil.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 09:03:32 AM EST
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Apology accepted. For myself, reading about the Spanish Civil War and the international left's role in fighting Franco was one of my "coming of age" political events.

Money is a sign of Poverty - Culture Saying
by RogueTrooper on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 09:09:51 AM EST
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For me it was learning about the Spanish left's sabotaging of its own war effort, with assistance from the International left.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 09:12:14 AM EST
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