Tuesday, March 11, 2008

How Much Can Wifi Handle



Days of joy and nostalgia that make me remember some specific dates and lessons not learned in any university:

March 3, 1996: "SWEET DEFEAT." Popular Party wins first general elections. José María Aznar achieves his goal of ousting of the Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez to , a leader who resisted despite the opposition of harassment and demolition to which he was subjected, especially in the previous legislature, by various pressure groups led by the right. That day I remember what my paternal grandfather told me one of the many "chats" we held: "John, from now you going to know what is right when he commands, not again know I think a socialist government because it will cost a lot of these bastards back to the opposition ... " . "Grandpa, there is no big deal" , I just tell you candidly. Unfortunately, my grandfather John died 3 months later.

March 12, 2000: "bitter defeat." Aznar since that night and would not speak more Catalan in the privacy and celebrated his landslide victory hooligans shouting "Pujol, dwarf, speak Castilian ". Since 1996, the PSOE had experienced a crisis of leadership: the new Secretary General, Almunia was finally the headliner, but found it difficult to regain the trust of the social majority. My father, rank and file party activists who voted years before Josep Borrell in the primaries, I said at the time: "Now it is clear that, not raise our head, we have PP for a while, we had to be submitted to Borrell as candidate ... ". Do not know if we had won the Catalan, but perhaps it defeat had not been so bitter. One year, 35 º Regular Federal Congress of the PSOE, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was elected leader of the PSOE, I also remember how my father had opted for José Bono considering it "the best and most famous" of the four candidates that applied for the Secretariat General.

March 14, 2004: "Dark Victory." After a term of despotism and arbitrariness of the right in government, and opposed construction of a cohesive and strengthened PSOE, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero returns us the illusion of getting a better Spain, with "another form of being and rule " . He won March 14 elections after those fateful days of uncertainty, manipulation of information by the Government of PP and the social rebellion of "PASS" following the September 11 terrorist attacks in Madrid, the bloodiest democracy. The scene of our victory was punctuated by the blood of hundreds of victims and the outrage of a people who felt cheated and disgusted with the arrogance of Aznar and his clique. The words of my grandfather in 1996 took effect in 2004, since then, and after the withdrawal of English troops from Iraq, also my father began to believe that "Zapatero was much Zapatero .

March 9, 2008: "sweet victory." The PSOE has renewed majority in the most hotly contested elections in our history. The PP Mariano Rajoy has lost its second consecutive front "bobo solemn" ZP, following an unprecedented electoral democracy but also blurred the end with the assassination of Isaias Carrasco in the hands of ETA. The Socialist victory was palpable from months before, just expected to know what the difference against the PP, which in recent years sought to regain power by using the same tricks in vain that the term 1993-1996. This time the turnout was key and the public has responded massively in the polls "voting with all his might" .

Last Sunday I felt that my vote was worth three, for me, for my father and my grandfather. This has been for me a "bittersweet" victory because the echo most lacking in moments like this. If it is true that there is Heaven, I'm sure that they too, like good socialists, are celebrating that we won the election. To me I can only imagine her knowing glances while I admit I had more reason than a saint.

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