The Left Anchor

Robin Hood, seated on the ancient trunk of an oak, had a spot of melancholy in his eyes blazing once:
- So, Juanito …
Little John (Johnny) scratched his head:
- Bad, very bad, boss, things could not be worse. Half the land is uncut and peasants Papan flies outside their huts without a bad roast beef that get between teeth.
- Will have to pass on some coins, to go out of step.
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A few days ago I arrived in Atar, inside the country, in the desert. I will spend ten days here before continuing further north where the train will overtake the world’s longest and flowing through the desert loaded with iron ore to reach the coast at Nouadhibou. The latter is the second largest city in the country and famous for being the starting point of the canoes that come to the Canary Islands. I’ll be there almost a couple of weeks and I’m dedicating the month of February to travel a bit to hear what my colleagues in the other mission stations.
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Across our continent is now debate about the need to illuminate what has been termed a Euro-Islamic, an Islam which, applying more spirit than the letter of the Quranic message, is consistent with the values of democracy, human rights, gender equality and the separation between state and religion. In France and have to work and from the Government, in cooperation with Muslim associations are attempting to build a French Islam, compatible with the Republic. In Spain, in the light of cases such as the claims of the imam of Fuengirola, perhaps not so crazy to join the task and assign to the promotion of Spanish Islam part of the vast fortune over 2,400 million per year - all taxpayers or non-Christians, believers and agnostics, we pay to the Catholic Church.

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Is the economy, stupid! “Is a phrase that he had written the former president Bill Clinton on a poster in his office, always remembering where I had to focus their efforts. It seems that Obama’s current “boss” American, would concentrate its energy on lowering the high unemployment resulting from the crisis of 2008, despite pressure from his cabinet of advisers monetarists who ask more attention to the potential emergence of inflationary pressures .
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The accounting of the pharmaceutical industry can not keep up, adding orders for antiviral and calculating the benefits in their coffers will finally called the Influenza A. And governments are trying to reassure the public by publishing the quantities of drugs they cherish in their stores. Roche Laboratories need not make any investment in advertising to sell massively famous Tamiflu, as noted by the world press as the main action against the dreaded disease, while speculating about hypothetical scenarios virus mutations drawing frightening invite a massive ‘purchase preventive’ magic dust against the pandemic.
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As a good proletarian bourgeois pretensions I see the Academy Awards.

I fail to follow the previous frivolity with the stars paraded down the red carpet and the fashion police questioning or complimenting the costumes for the divas, but, like many, also pointed to my favorites, and feast your successes as if were mine.

Ever cholula I questioned this practice. After all, what has my reality with illusions that showy plant.
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Paris hastens his steps in a winter that does not stop smokers from sidewalks driven by new rules against snuff. Strikes by railway officials and teachers seek to stop the change proposed by a government determined to build a new French production, which to face the challenges ahead. Sarkozy confirms there is no better kind that comes out of the same wood and the best attacks with weapons of socialist rhetoric.

No time to analyze the cynicism and inconsistencies give way to a pragmatism that gets even colder in this becoming itself long European winter.
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After one of the strongest earthquake on record, the Chilean infrastructure held up quite well, but the cost of repairing damage will total $ 1,200 million, said on Monday the Minister of Public Works in Chile, Sergio Bitar .
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The Brazilian government announced Monday it would implement a total of $ 591 million in trade sanctions on U.S. goods in a move intended to go against cotton subsidies granted U.S. a year ago under a ruling of the World Trade.

The government published a list of 102 U.S. imports from subject to increases in import tax “II” in Brazil.
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Zac Efron did not comb his hair before he hit the red carpet at the Oscars last night. Course, that’s the style for young men, but still, Zac looked a lot windblown and a little sloppy for the Oscars.
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