Vote por Uribe... pero.....

Vote por Uribe y me gustó mucho parte de su gestión administrativa. Lo apoye en su reelección y estuve de plácemes con la seguridad y estabilidad que trajo al país. Pero…. Dirán que siempre hay un ‘pero’, no estoy de acuerdo con mucho de los crímenes contra la humanidad que cometieron muchos de los militares durante su mandato, empujados en parte por el afán del gobierno de derrotar a la guerrilla militarmente a cualquier costo.

Tampoco estoy de acuerdo con todos los escándalos de muchos de sus ministros y la relación de los Uribistas con los paramilitares. En fin lo que todo el mundo conoce y que todavía sigue saliendo a la luz pública.

Santos ha tenido un gobierno de altas y bajas. Ha tratado de dirigir al país por el sendero de la paz y ha llevado a cabo políticas liberales en pos de los más necesitados con cierto éxito. Pero….. he aquí el otro pero, le ha faltado más temple para frenar a aquellos que se han opuesto a sus políticas. Ha permitido muchos desmanes y oprobios de Uribe, sobre todo al comienzo de su administración. Últimamente ha mejorado un poco en ese terreno y ha respondido a los ataques de Uribe.

Álvaro Uribe tendrá razón en algunos puntos de su crítica, pero con lo que no estoy de acuerdo es la forma en que ha llevado a cabo su oposición. Ha estigmatizado la imagen de Santos como un Ángel Negro para el país. No ha sabido tener una oposición digna, caballerosa, digna de un expresidente y líder de la nación. Todo lo contrario, él ‘polarizo’ al país. Trayendo como consecuencia más violencia verbal que usualmente lleva a la física, especialmente en nuestro país.

Acepto muchas de las posiciones de Uribe contra Santos, lo que no tolero es el perfil mezquino de su comportamiento y la forma que ha escogido para hacer oposición. Uribe ha polarizado más al país y ha hecho que la paz este cada vez más lejos. Ojala me equivoque por el bien de la nación, pero hay muchos que siguen a Uribe ciegamente, sin importar lo que eso implique para el país.

Justamente la violencia actual es producto de la polarización en la que nuestro país ha vivido desde antaño, desde el mismo momento de la independencia. Es una lástima porque la polarización evita que haya concertación, diálogo y entendimiento de la partes. Es la que lleva a demonizar al rival político, a estigmatizarlos, al odio. Eso es lo que para mí representa Uribe, la llama del odio que se opone a todo lo que no sea idea suya. Creo que su egolatría está pasando la raya y estoy seguro que si la oportunidad la tuviera, daría un golpe de estado y se proclamaría presidente vitalicio y quizás cuente con el apoyo de muchos Colombianos que lo siguen más como un icono de ese mundo Uribista medio tiránico, de poco dialogo y de mano dura.

Es una lástima que nuestro país y sus líderes estén en este punto triste de la ya extensa historia de sufrimiento de nuestra nación. Solo les pido a todos que recapaciten y decidan por el bien de la nación, que no sigan como borregos a un caudillo que los obnubila y que se apodera de forma total de su raciocinio y forma de pensar.

If you are a Republican….

If you are a Republican you have a lot of things, oh yeah, such as greed, selfishness, hate, irrationality, dilutions, and live in the fictitious world of extremist Christian conservatives, having little to no government, seeing the poor die of hunger or for lack of health insurance, exploiting minorities and if possible going back to owning slaves to take advantage of cheap and free labor. If you are a Republican, you don't care about your neighbor, you don't pay taxes, you would live in a town with dirt roads, you would not have bridges or airports, and you will not invent anything because God is giving you everything you need. If you are a Republican your kids will be raised learning about how the world was created in seven days and that the planet has only 5,000 years; that dinosaurs lived with prehistoric men.

You would teach your kids that evolution is just a theory that hasn't been proved; you would tell them not to believe in science, not to believe in global warming, not to protect the environment. You would tell them that nothing wrong is happening to Mother Nature, that no animals are going extinct; and in general you would teach them your delusional view of the world.

If you are a Republican start praying that enough Democrats can counteract your craziness so your kids might have a chance and still have a decent and livable planet, clean water, food on the table, health insurance, real education, a job, a career, and above all, Democrats will teach them how to love, how to be charitable, how to have compassion, how to pay fair taxes so everyone could benefit from it and have roads, bridges, airports, schools, be educated, how to become a real professional, how to have a business without the need to oppress and exploit anyone.

Thank God for letting liberals be here on this planet with you because without them, you would be living in caverns, using furs, hunting animals with arrows and rocks, etc., and may be having a few liberal inventors around, so you could enjoy making fire and having cooked food and warm nights; most likely you would not know anything about the wheel, yeah, the wheel somehow is science, and you are against it, so you would burn at the stake anyone who dares to invent such a demonic tool. Oh if you are a Republican..... I can go on and on... and anything that has no reasoning, is delusional, crazy or negative can be accommodated to you. For all that I prefer being a Democrat or like you call us -thinking that you are offending us- a ‘liberal’.

America, Wake Up!

America, wake up! Haven’t you noticed that Wall Street is trying to make sure that Obama and the Democratic Party are not reelected on 2012? Why do you think that they are keeping the jobs hiring on halt? Why do you think WS wants us to blame Obama and his administration for all the illness and problems of the economy? America, wake up. Please I implore it to you, please wake up. What good does it do to the nation putting back in the White House and the Congress the people who got us where we are now in the first place? The House will keep obstructing anything that could benefit the country and Obama. They will not pass the Obama’s Jobs bill since it will reenergize the economy and that will look too good for Obama’s record looking towards 2012 elections. They will not allow that. They prefer a country in shambles and people in poverty, because it will look really bad for the president. The worst thing is that the American people are starting to believe their plots, their lies and their total disregard for American’s well being. What’s going on with all of us in America? Did we become a bunch of uneducated folks that don’t know how to differentiate a lie from reality? Is it our level of education? Is it our greed and selfishness? Is it our stupidity? I thought Americans were smarter; but looking back to our history you can tell that it is enough for a politician to get sufficient money to get on TV hundreds of commercial hours to convince the innocent and ignorant viewers to believe the tons of lies they want you to accept as true.

Let’s work together and avoid voting against our own interest. I beg to all the evangelicals, Christians, Jews, and to all Americans in general to stop being the idiot servants that we’ve been so far for politicians, Wall Street, and multimillionaires. Let’s have a country that cares about their people; that is not judgmental with people that has fall in disgrace; that tend their hand to the needy, but not when they please, such as in donations, but as a social compromise to help each other out. Let’s have an economical hybrid type of government, by mixing the best of Capitalism with the best that social programs could offer. Let’s have this premise in mind: don’t do to others what you don’t want others do to you. And keep in mind that nobody; nobody is exempt from falling in economical distress, no matter if you are 100% responsible, a good citizen, paying your taxes, having a 401K plan, and an almost flawless retirement package. Remember what happened to Enron employees, all of them had good retirement plans, and many of them end up sleeping in their cars. Wake up America!

Are you a conservative?

I was reading a blog on the HuffigntonPost.com and I came across a comment by ProfessorMacphisto and it was not just hilarious but totally true.  Here is his comment. You can also look at the whole article on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/house-republicans-town-halls_n_930862.html

If this is your first course in GOP 101, then pay attention there will be a test. These are the core GOP principles­:

1. Seek the lowest costs for labor through lowering of wages, less or no benefits, and unsafe working conditions­.
   
2. Seek ever cheaper labor by taking jobs in America and sending them overseas.
   
3. Seek the most limited or non existent regulatory environmen­t and pass laws to limit liability from violations when they do occur (which has the practical effect to enable the pollution of our air and water, poisoning of our foods and medicine, and the injury through defective products).
   
4. Place the tax burden to pay for government services on individual wages and seek lower and lower taxes for the super rich (who make income through dividends and capital gains) and corporatio­ns.
   
5. To enable you to implement #1, #2, #3 and #4 above, divide the American people on cultural issues (religion, sexual orientatio­n, gun rights, etc.) to distract them from establishi­ng their own economic interests in a political context.
   
6. Instill fear in the American public through manufactur­ed crises and created "boogeymen­". Then diminish your political opponents by claiming to be more "patriotic­" and the better keeper of "American Values" than they, and therefore are more fit to manage the created crises.

Now for an open book quiz. Only one question: Why would anyone vote for the GOP that was not rich?

Doomsday for Middleclass America

After seeing what is happening in Washington, and the development of the battle to get an agreement on the debt ceiling deals, I see a very dark future for our country and here is why.

The plan proposes to make cuts to all levels that will affect all Americans from all backgrounds with the exception of millionaires. I'm sure that the plan will also cut social programs that are not included in this agreement, but eventually they will also be on the table when the Super Committee takes place in a few months. The GOP will use these talks to keep hostage once more the president and the whole country, demanding more cuts to important social programs such as Medicare, Social security, Education, indispensable government jobs such as police forces, firefighters, air traffic controllers, and as well as many other important jobs that will have a direct impact in the way we live in America.

Cuts to 'Planned Parenthood' will affect hundreds of thousands if not millions of women who don't have the economic means to pay for birth control pills or contraceptive methods. This in itself will avoid millions of abortions every year. If cuts take place, then the main purpose of conservatives to closing or de-funding Planned Parenthood because they perform abortions, will fire back at them, creating the perfect situation for millions of abortions to take place due to lack of contraceptive methods and medication. Will Americans be affected? The answer is simple; yes, it will have a direct impact on poor women who don't have the economic means to support a child. Not only women from all social and races backgrounds will be affected, but entire families and big portions of our society too.

Education cuts will be disastrous for all children of school age due to lack of neighbors' schools and overcrowded classrooms. Kids will have to travel longer distances to go to their neighborhood designated schools thus increasing the family transportation budget. Many more poor kids will quit schools because parents won't have the economic capacity to pay for it. These cuts not only will affect primary, middle and high school, but also university and college institutions as well. The whole education system will be affected and the results will not only be bad for the kids, but bad for the entire country. It will influence the level of technical knowledge and capacity of the labor force, which will not be prepared for businesses' future high advanced technical needs. These businesses will require skilled workers that will not be there when they will be needed, forcing these companies to import foreign educated workers or open offices and factories overseas where the skilled labor force is present, affecting even more the unemployment rate and increasing the levels of poverty of our nation.

What about the war on government jobs? It has become a dirty word to say that someone is employed by the government. The extreme right such as the Tea Party has brought all the conservatives to a corner, and I would also say not only the GOP, but the whole country for that matter, from which it will be difficult to get out in the near and far future. I say this because of the avalanche of cuts that it will come due to the latest deal that the government of President Obama was forced to sign. All of us are going to feel the effects of such inconsiderate measures by seeing crime rates go up like hot air balloons, firefighters doing nothing to stop a house on fire because the owner didn't pay his/her dues, or maybe getting too late to save a victim of a car crash due to lack of emergency personnel. We will feel the impact, but only those who are affected by it will notice it. If people read it in the papers the first thing that comes to their mind is that that will not happen to them. Security at all levels will be affected and crime will rise at levels never conceived before; especially after having an unemployment rate of 15% or higher that will produce new poor society members that would do anything in order to survive. The only people benefiting from this social catastrophe will be the corporations owning private penitentiaries all over the country, which will be filled to full capacity with 'clients' that will be arrested for petty-cash theft, burglary, drug use, etc.

But that's not all; these cuts will eventually affect the receivers of well deserved social programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Their benefactors paid for these social services in advance by working hard all their life and having paycheck deductions to cover for these future benefits. With these cuts everyone fifty years old or younger will be affected by not having anything at all when retirement comes, despite the fact that they pay for it throughout all their working years. But not only people from that group will be hit by these cuts, also current users of those programs will notice their benefits reduced year after year. So there will be a time when our grand kids will talk about when people received something called 'retirement benefits' that was given to all citizens after certain age as appreciation and well deserved thank you from society for their hard work and helping the country's economy to boom and be successful.

Be ready and prepared, this is just the beginning. Pray to God that these extremists don't take this beautiful country over the edge of the abyss. Let's all get together and vote out all the people in government that allow the Tea Party extremists to control the United States of America. Let's be free again, don't let the religious extreme turn this democracy into a theocracy where the strongest will rule and the weak and poor will be submitted and eventually will not even have a voice.

Los Niños del Tea Party

Articulo escrito por Juan Gabriel Vasquez / El Espectador / Julio 14 2011.

LEO EN EL TIEMPO UN ARTÍCULO cuyo título, "Cinco días de verano ultraconservador", se las arregla por sí solo para echarle a perder el sábado al más fuerte, y al terminar el artículo me parece entender algo que antes no entendía.

¿Pero qué es eso que antes no entendía y que ahora entiendo? De lo general a lo particular, las posibilidades son varias: tal vez la razón de que el mundo esté como está, o la razón de que en los últimos años el gobierno de Bush haya sido el que fue, o, como mínimo, la razón de que la Florida, el estado que llevó a Bush a la presidencia, haya sido el estado que llevó a Bush a la presidencia. Porque es allí, en la Florida, donde sucede lo que nos cuenta María Camila Hernández en ese artículo: la existencia y modus operandi de la Tampa Liberty School, un campamento infantil donde los niños, dicen los organizadores, podrán profundizar en los “valores fundacionales” de Estados Unidos.

Pero yo, por alguna razón, no pude leer el artículo como estaba escrito, ni tampoco las páginas web que visité enseguida. Cada vez que en ellas se me aparecía la palabra “enseñanza”, mi cabeza la reemplazaba por “doctrina”. Una de las doctrinas era ésta: “El gobierno no puede obligarme a ser caritativo”. Los lectores informados reconocerán la guerra a los impuestos que la derecha norteamericana considera uno de sus pilares. Otra doctrina era: “Estados Unidos es bueno”. Los niños comienzan el día en una habitación aburrida llamada “Europa” y luego hacen el tránsito a una más agradable donde son recibidos con confeti azul, blanco y rojo. Otra doctrina, en fin: “Creo en Dios”. No creo que ésta necesite mayor comentario de mi parte: el campo de verano se ha modelado a partir de las famosas “Bible schools”.

Y es entonces cuando uno piensa que esos “valores fundacionales”, descritos como están en el artículo, no se parecen mucho a la idea que uno tiene de Estados Unidos, y en cambio son idénticos a la idea que uno tiene del Tea Party. Y es entonces cuando uno se percata de que el ideólogo del campamento —¿un ideólogo en un campamento de verano para niños? Ya verán ustedes que sí— es el tristemente célebre Glenn Beck, la voz mediática de todo lo que está mal en la extrema derecha norteamericana: la voz del racismo, del antisemitismo, de la cultura del miedo, de la teoría de la conspiración como forma de entender la vida. Sí: la idea original para la Tampa Liberty School, su inspiración, es Glenn Beck: el mismo que sostuvo que la izquierda norteamericana estaba en colusión con un califato árabe para derrotar a los Estados Unidos; el mismo que acusó al filántropo millonario George Soros de ser un colaborador de los nazis cuando tenía 13 o 14 años. Tan extremas son las ideas de Glenn Beck que la cadena Fox decidió hace unos meses terminar su programa. La cadena Fox, por supuesto, es el hogar de otros fundamentalistas ultraconservadores (véase Bill O’Reilly). Pero incluso para ella resultó más dañina que provechosa la presencia de Beck en su programación. Y éste es el inspirador de la Tampa Liberty School.

Ni me quiero imaginar cómo serán las fogatas de este campo de verano. ¿Qué se quemará en ellas? No serán masmelos, desde luego. Fotos de Obama. Libros de Noam Chomsky. Banderas de Francia.

Posibilidades no faltan.

Translate a document using Word 2007

Version en Español en la parte inferior

Today’s global markets are pushing Internet and word processor users to talk to a wide range of nationalities and languages. MS Word has a solution that might not be perfect but it helps to translate documents from and to different languages in a very easy way. Here is how:

Select the text you want to translate. You can type it there and then or you could paste it from somewhere. If you need to select the entire document, and if it is very lengthy, you can go back to the "edit" tab and click "select all." Or you can just highlight the entire or part of the text by clicking the left mouse button and dragging it across the text you want to highlight.

Click on Translate in the Review tab.

A task pane will appear on the right side of the document. Select which language you would like to translate into or the existing language it is in. Here is where you can select which language to translate to or from.

The selected or highlighted text will be translated in the lower part of the task pane.  You can get the translation of the same text into different languages instantly as you choose the language under the option of "To".

If you need to translate the selected text into a language that is not included in the given list, click on Translation options and select the particular language you want.

This helpful feature to translate text in Microsoft Word is very handy. However, there is no substitute for a human professional translator as good and meaningful translation demands comprehension as well as understanding of cultural references, artistic quality and talent. So there are chances that the translation done by a computer program will lack profundity as well as meaning.

 

Traduzca un Documento Usando a MS Word 2007

Los mercados globales de hoy están empujando a los usuarios de la Internet y de procesadores de textos como MS Word a comunicarse con una amplia gama de nacionalidades y de idiomas. MS Word tiene una solución que quizás no es perfecta, pero ayuda a traducir documentos a diferentes idiomas de una manera muy fácil. A continuación las instrucciones:

Seleccione el texto que desea traducir. También puede escribir en un documento en blanco, o también puede pegar desde algún lugar que tenga texto como el navegador de Internet. Si necesita seleccionar todo el documento, y si es muy largo, puede volver a la ficha "Editar" y haga clic en "Seleccionar todo". O simplemente puede resaltar la totalidad o parte del texto haciendo clic en el botón izquierdo del ratón y arrastre sobre el texto que desea resaltar.

Haga click en ‘Translate’ en el Tabulador que dice ‘Review’.

Un panel aparecerá en la derecha de su pantalla. Seleccione el lenguaje original que usted quiere traducir y luego el lenguaje al cual va a ser traducido el texto

 

El texto seleccionado o resaltado se traducirá en la parte inferior del panel de tareas. Puede obtener la traducción del mismo texto en idiomas diferentes al instante mientras selecciona el idioma en la opción de "To".

Si necesita traducir el texto seleccionado en un idioma que no está incluido en la lista dada, haga clic en Opciones de traducción y seleccione el idioma particular que desee.

Esta herramienta que ayuda a traducir textos en Microsoft Word es muy útil. Sin embargo, no hay sustituto para un traductor profesional humano. Siempre habrá la posibilidad que la traducción hecha por un programa informático carezca de profundidad y claridad.