Tijuana, Mexico.– The Dominican Republic's Olympic dream may come true if defeating Cuba at the NORCECA women's volleyball qualifying tournament in Tijuana, Mexico.
The world-ranked No. 9 Dominican
Republic advanced to the final-match following an easy 3-0 (25-15,
25-18, 25-15) victory over No. 22 Canada on Friday.
The Dominican side will clash with three-time Olympic champions
and currently No. 10 Cuba in the match for a ticket to the
volleyball tournament of the 2012 London Olympic Games on
Saturday.
The Dominicans dominated the whole match and topped the taller
Canadians in blocks 8-1 and had the slight edge in serves 3-2.
The winners made 15 errors to 18 by the defeated team. Bethania De La Cruz led four Dominican players who finished the
match in double digits in the score sheets with 14 points, all
via attacks.
Cuba
overcame Puerto Rico in four sets (23-25, 25-17, 25-19, 25-22)
to advance to the title-match.
Written by: generoso, 5 May 2012 9:13 AM
From: Dominican Republic, United States
DR volleyball is a strong team, but so are Cuba's tough cookies. This should be an interesting match.
If DR wins, there could be a great possibility for gold, in London.
From: Dominican Republic
The DR women's team is ranked just 1 above Cuba, this should be a very good match. Although the Cubans didn't play the 2011 world cup so got no points and feel below DR in rankings to 10th..
This is something to be very proud of...
Wishing them all the best of luck...
Written by: Atabey, 5 May 2012 1:35 PM
From: United States, NYC
Josean,
Women and Volleyball and Cuba and Women
NO METRO!
Written by: josean, 5 May 2012 2:07 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Says the Olympic Champion of Diverting Topics with Vomit causing Cut and Paste Nonsense about Jamaica!
Too bad you can't use your Multiple User Names to PREMATURELY EJACULATE Minuses anymore!
Written by: generoso, 6 May 2012 7:56 AM
From: Dominican Republic, United States
BREAKING NEWS:
DR defeated Cuba 3 to 1, and qualified for the London olympics!
PS: To the thread hijackers, this is a sport related thread, not a political blog. Give us a break!
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 9:47 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
I think this time can be shortened if a new Political Thesis is placed against the existing one, the Nixon Thesis of Conflict.
That's why I have proposed the Open Source Thesis, the values of the Internet made common policy, the myths of connectivity made real. (Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the man at left.)
I do this because we need to cut through the bullshit. A lot of our current political issues are made hairier by the fact that opponents to the present Thesis don't have any unifying belief structure, or they think they don't.
But they do. They're using it and living it. The Internet provides a means with which we can deal with all our existing problems, if we liberate it, if we liberate ourselves, if we accept it and deal with it rather than trying to bottle it up and control it.
That's the Open Source Thesis in a nutshell. The rest is detail.
And if you're on the Internet, I think that, deep in your heart, you believe it.
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 9:49 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
P.S. -- You recognized the lady, didn't you? You weren't supposed to because it's Valerie Plame-Wilson, with her husband. And she was, in normal times, under deep cover, working on fighting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. But then everything became political.
August 03, 2006 in Current Affairs
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 9:59 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
"Politics is Everything"
Politics are the process by which people or groups of people make collective decisions that affect an entire community or nation-state. Politics is a force of human nature by which the hierarchical human social construct of power is manipulated, transferred, and/or put into use for the benefit of the collective entity. It is human nature to be power hungry, each group or individual believes that their ability to make collective decisions is superior to the other. The ability to make collective decisions is what defines power. All political factions compete for power.
Politics rule all forms of social activity because human beings evolved to create a division of labor and activity as an optimal means of surviving. It is very difficult to decipher which came first, politics or civilization; it is yet another variant of the “chicken or egg” dilemma.
Continued:
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 10:02 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
However, one thing is clear about their relationship, they constitute a self-perpetuating system of human interaction. Civilization could never exist without politics, in the animal kingdom, the issue of power is also crucial to the collective survival of wolves. Wolves do not challenge the status of the alpha male, they simply instinctively know who is strong enough to lead the pack. Wolves live an apolitical lifestyle. Unfortunately, the rapidly changing circumstances of human civilization necessitate a constant challenging of authority to adapt. Politics are the means by which humans best adapt to changing circumstances and evolving views of human epistemology. Thus politics are a constant adversarial struggle. All historians agree that history is made by political conflict. The nature of the events surrounding political conflict is what historians disagree about.
Politics are everywhere.
continued:
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 10:04 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Politics are found even in areas of study that are meant to be solemn and ideally non-political like religion. All religions make political statements that attempt to answer what is the best cultural norm to adopt for the optimal means of survival with peace. Religious leaders can function politically within their respective religious organization. The mixing of politics and religion may be taboo among adherents of modern Western civilization but this phenomenon is nothing new. The idea of a theocratic government is older than any kind of secular democracy, the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh had a dual role of political leader and religious leader. The question of the efficacy of this form of government is up to the political philosophy to which one may subscribe.
continued:
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 10:07 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
The truth is, however, that all human social interactions, to some extent politics within them; hence, the logical fallacy of the phrase “politically apathetic.” If all human interactions are political to some extent, then completely disengaging in political activity is virtually impossible. The only instance in which a living person can be completely cut off from human interaction is when a person has completely lost his sanity or consciousness.
So politics is ever present due to the competitive nature of human interactions.
Source udlf.net
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 10:14 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Politics And Play: America's Rebel Athletes
by Neda Ulaby
Not being much of a sports fan myself, I never gave much thought to the importance of the brawny arts in the sociopolitical sphere. Nerdy weaklings like me — and even nerdy athletes — might find A People's History of Sports in the United States something of a revelation.
Sure, anyone who pays the slightest bit of attention to the Olympics is somewhat sensitive to the intersection of sports and the body politic. But author David Zirin unpacks the history of the labor movement and civil rights though sports with authority, humor and exactly the sort of lefty zestfulness you could anticipate from the title.
Like Howard Zinn's seminal progressive tome, A People's History of the United States, Zirin's book presents an alternative view of America's past, beginning with lacrosse-playing Native Americans and the role of sports in slavery.
continued:
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 10:16 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Obviously, the most fodder comes from the protest movements of the 1950s and '60s, but readers will also learn about black ballplayers who helped pave the way for Jackie Robinson and the Counter Olympics, held before African-American athletes were allowed to represent their country. A number of prominent sports figures are sternly taken to task, including Don Imus, Michael Jordan and a certain former baseball commissioner from Texas.
"This sprawling, insightful and contrarian book is worth reading," noted Time magazine, "for its portrayal of the rebel athletes to whom it is dedicated, and to whom we are all indebted."
Source NPR
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 10:32 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
It’s called allowing Freedom of Expression maybe if you try it sometime along with a penile implant you might be able to keep a woman............SHORTY!
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 10:44 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
“Get a life, cocksucker!”
This statement not only demonstrates your lack of Class but also you lack of appreciation for YOUR MOTHER's Line of Work!
Written by: RonEvane 
, 6 May 2012 11:22 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Here’s a report about our team playing well and going to the Olympics. I’m expecting to read opinions on our chances for the gold, and here’s a cocksucker hijacking it and turning into something ugly and totally unrelated to the issue at hand…
The retard, under the pretext of “freedom of expression”, turns this beautiful report into another arena to vent out his usual vile and depressive blabber with no consideration or respect for what’s been discussed!
If I didn’t know any better, judging by what the asshole gripes about, I’d imaging the DR to be the arm-pit of the devil.
This DR-hating, Haitian is vomiting wicked, despicable, loathsome and horrid propaganda. Thereby thwarting and precluding future visitors to our beautiful nation which translates to less money and jobs for those who desperately needed. …Bud, you’re a traitor to our nation!.. If it’s true you’re a Dominican.
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 11:41 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Four words:
Do not read it!
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 11:56 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Look how YOU ENHANCE our Nation’s Image with your Trujillista Intolerance:
“Get a life, cocksucker!”
“here’s a cocksucker hijacking”
And the old helpful statement to confirm to world the stereotype that All Dominicans hate Haitians:
“This DR-hating, “Haitian is vomiting wicked, despicable, loathsome and horrid propaganda”
Who does more “Damage to DR” me or you old man with your repressed sexually indenty crisis?
Written by: josean, 6 May 2012 12:51 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
This is the original Comment I posted after the Professor's and stillhere’s posts; before the Politically Correct Thought Police censored it:
“Imagine what we could really achieve if we invested in our Children’s EDUCATION with a
holistic education development model that would include Sports like the Cubans do.”
“The Cubans do it without the resources we have at our disposal or a METRO!”
I see nothing wrong with this comment as I was acknowledging these ladies achievement and just trying to point out (using Cuba’s commitment to combining educational and sport achievement as an example) what we could acomplish as country if we had our priorities in order and the will to enact them.
Everything else I posted subsequent to that, were responses to the polemics raised by those who are closed minded and intolerant of others opinions.
Written by: RonEvane , 6 May 2012 11:09 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
"Four words:
Do not read it!"
I do not read your garbage anymore, but others do. The ideas and words typed by you onto these pages, are always full of negativism and pure hatred for all things Dominican. Not matter the subject being reported, it's the dark side of it all that's looked upon by you, never the good and beautiful. Never the positives and causes for celebration!
What I have read in the past, leaves me to conclude that you're sick and a source of irritation for most here.You're a pathetic, bitter little man with nothing to do but to gripe about life simply because you do not have one to speak of.
I can bet you spend more time thinking up crap to complain about than to find ways to better yourself in any way.
Another sure bet is that you have more posts than anyone on this site. ..That only goes to ilustrate the obvious: You don't have a life beyond the key board. I'd hate to be you!
Written by: josean, 7 May 2012 7:04 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Now YOU are the Paladin of DT!
Your “Superior” Ability puts you above All the readers and you have to guide and protect these poor souls through josean's comments because only You know what the TRUTH is.
Like your Lord and Savior Lie-onel Fernandez you’re the only one who is capable of “Conceptualizing” here on DT and no one but you can understand and decipher my posting!
Your SHORT Irrational Temper and anger over the comments of someone you don’t even know over the internet is indicative of the decrepit state mind your social isolation has produced; not to mention the effects caused by your physical SHORT comings!
You’re the one you needs to GET A LIFE and two additional things:
A more MASCULINE Photo on your profile even if it’s fake,
And a wife, if there is a poor soul out there that could stand you beyond dinner at McDonalds!
Written by: josean, 7 May 2012 7:15 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
"Another sure bet is that you have more posts than anyone on this site. ..That only goes to ilustrate the obvious: You don't have a life beyond the key board. I'd hate to be you!"
PS
You need to improve math skills as well; dread has more postings than I, Nincompoop!
Written by: RonEvane , 7 May 2012 10:21 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
"You’re the one you needs to GET A LIFE and two additional things:
A more MASCULINE Photo on your profile even if it’s fake,
And a wife, if there is a poor soul out there that could stand you beyond dinner at McDonalds!"
As always, Blabbing incoherently about things with no relations to the topic at hand. All that comes out of your puny brain is the same old gibberish complaining about "Lio-nel", and the metro.
Your hatred for my DR knows no bounds. Nothing good, such as the volleyball team going for the gold in the next Olympics, isn't, (in your sick mind), a great reason to applaud and celebrate. You take this and turn it into a gasbag, blowing off about incoherent political mierda. Your limited one-dimensional mind and pessimism, caused by self-loathing, has made you the pariah of DT... Bud, I will reiterate and call you a cancer to this site.
From: Canada
Ahhh.... More "fear and loathing". Where's Hunter when you need him?
Stay on topic lads. Please.
Written by: josean, 7 May 2012 10:33 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
"Bud, I will reiterate and call you a cancer to this site."
¡Si Te Pica Es Porque Ají Comes!
And I will also reiterate:
Four words:
DO NOT read it!
From: United States, I dont even live inside a house , I haunt one!
Good job girls , now bring the tittle home .
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If DR wins, there could be a great possibility for gold, in London.
The DR women's team is ranked just 1 above Cuba, this should be a very good match. Although the Cubans didn't play the 2011 world cup so got no points and feel below DR in rankings to 10th..
This is something to be very proud of...
Wishing them all the best of luck...
Women and Volleyball and Cuba and Women
NO METRO!
Says the Olympic Champion of Diverting Topics with Vomit causing Cut and Paste Nonsense about Jamaica!
Too bad you can't use your Multiple User Names to PREMATURELY EJACULATE Minuses anymore!
DR defeated Cuba 3 to 1, and qualified for the London olympics!
PS: To the thread hijackers, this is a sport related thread, not a political blog. Give us a break!
I think this time can be shortened if a new Political Thesis is placed against the existing one, the Nixon Thesis of Conflict.
That's why I have proposed the Open Source Thesis, the values of the Internet made common policy, the myths of connectivity made real. (Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the man at left.)
I do this because we need to cut through the bullshit. A lot of our current political issues are made hairier by the fact that opponents to the present Thesis don't have any unifying belief structure, or they think they don't.
But they do. They're using it and living it. The Internet provides a means with which we can deal with all our existing problems, if we liberate it, if we liberate ourselves, if we accept it and deal with it rather than trying to bottle it up and control it.
That's the Open Source Thesis in a nutshell. The rest is detail.
And if you're on the Internet, I think that, deep in your heart, you believe it.
P.S. -- You recognized the lady, didn't you? You weren't supposed to because it's Valerie Plame-Wilson, with her husband. And she was, in normal times, under deep cover, working on fighting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. But then everything became political.
August 03, 2006 in Current Affairs
"Politics is Everything"
Politics are the process by which people or groups of people make collective decisions that affect an entire community or nation-state. Politics is a force of human nature by which the hierarchical human social construct of power is manipulated, transferred, and/or put into use for the benefit of the collective entity. It is human nature to be power hungry, each group or individual believes that their ability to make collective decisions is superior to the other. The ability to make collective decisions is what defines power. All political factions compete for power.
Politics rule all forms of social activity because human beings evolved to create a division of labor and activity as an optimal means of surviving. It is very difficult to decipher which came first, politics or civilization; it is yet another variant of the “chicken or egg” dilemma.
Continued:
However, one thing is clear about their relationship, they constitute a self-perpetuating system of human interaction. Civilization could never exist without politics, in the animal kingdom, the issue of power is also crucial to the collective survival of wolves. Wolves do not challenge the status of the alpha male, they simply instinctively know who is strong enough to lead the pack. Wolves live an apolitical lifestyle. Unfortunately, the rapidly changing circumstances of human civilization necessitate a constant challenging of authority to adapt. Politics are the means by which humans best adapt to changing circumstances and evolving views of human epistemology. Thus politics are a constant adversarial struggle. All historians agree that history is made by political conflict. The nature of the events surrounding political conflict is what historians disagree about.
Politics are everywhere.
continued:
Politics are found even in areas of study that are meant to be solemn and ideally non-political like religion. All religions make political statements that attempt to answer what is the best cultural norm to adopt for the optimal means of survival with peace. Religious leaders can function politically within their respective religious organization. The mixing of politics and religion may be taboo among adherents of modern Western civilization but this phenomenon is nothing new. The idea of a theocratic government is older than any kind of secular democracy, the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh had a dual role of political leader and religious leader. The question of the efficacy of this form of government is up to the political philosophy to which one may subscribe.
continued:
The truth is, however, that all human social interactions, to some extent politics within them; hence, the logical fallacy of the phrase “politically apathetic.” If all human interactions are political to some extent, then completely disengaging in political activity is virtually impossible. The only instance in which a living person can be completely cut off from human interaction is when a person has completely lost his sanity or consciousness.
So politics is ever present due to the competitive nature of human interactions.
Source udlf.net
Politics And Play: America's Rebel Athletes
by Neda Ulaby
Not being much of a sports fan myself, I never gave much thought to the importance of the brawny arts in the sociopolitical sphere. Nerdy weaklings like me — and even nerdy athletes — might find A People's History of Sports in the United States something of a revelation.
Sure, anyone who pays the slightest bit of attention to the Olympics is somewhat sensitive to the intersection of sports and the body politic. But author David Zirin unpacks the history of the labor movement and civil rights though sports with authority, humor and exactly the sort of lefty zestfulness you could anticipate from the title.
Like Howard Zinn's seminal progressive tome, A People's History of the United States, Zirin's book presents an alternative view of America's past, beginning with lacrosse-playing Native Americans and the role of sports in slavery.
continued:
Obviously, the most fodder comes from the protest movements of the 1950s and '60s, but readers will also learn about black ballplayers who helped pave the way for Jackie Robinson and the Counter Olympics, held before African-American athletes were allowed to represent their country. A number of prominent sports figures are sternly taken to task, including Don Imus, Michael Jordan and a certain former baseball commissioner from Texas.
"This sprawling, insightful and contrarian book is worth reading," noted Time magazine, "for its portrayal of the rebel athletes to whom it is dedicated, and to whom we are all indebted."
Source NPR
It’s called allowing Freedom of Expression maybe if you try it sometime along with a penile implant you might be able to keep a woman............SHORTY!
“Get a life, cocksucker!”
This statement not only demonstrates your lack of Class but also you lack of appreciation for YOUR MOTHER's Line of Work!
Here’s a report about our team playing well and going to the Olympics. I’m expecting to read opinions on our chances for the gold, and here’s a cocksucker hijacking it and turning into something ugly and totally unrelated to the issue at hand…
The retard, under the pretext of “freedom of expression”, turns this beautiful report into another arena to vent out his usual vile and depressive blabber with no consideration or respect for what’s been discussed!
If I didn’t know any better, judging by what the asshole gripes about, I’d imaging the DR to be the arm-pit of the devil.
This DR-hating, Haitian is vomiting wicked, despicable, loathsome and horrid propaganda. Thereby thwarting and precluding future visitors to our beautiful nation which translates to less money and jobs for those who desperately needed. …Bud, you’re a traitor to our nation!.. If it’s true you’re a Dominican.
Four words:
Do not read it!
Look how YOU ENHANCE our Nation’s Image with your Trujillista Intolerance:
“Get a life, cocksucker!”
“here’s a cocksucker hijacking”
And the old helpful statement to confirm to world the stereotype that All Dominicans hate Haitians:
“This DR-hating, “Haitian is vomiting wicked, despicable, loathsome and horrid propaganda”
Who does more “Damage to DR” me or you old man with your repressed sexually indenty crisis?
This is the original Comment I posted after the Professor's and stillhere’s posts; before the Politically Correct Thought Police censored it:
“Imagine what we could really achieve if we invested in our Children’s EDUCATION with a
holistic education development model that would include Sports like the Cubans do.”
“The Cubans do it without the resources we have at our disposal or a METRO!”
I see nothing wrong with this comment as I was acknowledging these ladies achievement and just trying to point out (using Cuba’s commitment to combining educational and sport achievement as an example) what we could acomplish as country if we had our priorities in order and the will to enact them.
Everything else I posted subsequent to that, were responses to the polemics raised by those who are closed minded and intolerant of others opinions.
"Four words:
Do not read it!"
I do not read your garbage anymore, but others do. The ideas and words typed by you onto these pages, are always full of negativism and pure hatred for all things Dominican. Not matter the subject being reported, it's the dark side of it all that's looked upon by you, never the good and beautiful. Never the positives and causes for celebration!
What I have read in the past, leaves me to conclude that you're sick and a source of irritation for most here.You're a pathetic, bitter little man with nothing to do but to gripe about life simply because you do not have one to speak of.
I can bet you spend more time thinking up crap to complain about than to find ways to better yourself in any way.
Another sure bet is that you have more posts than anyone on this site. ..That only goes to ilustrate the obvious: You don't have a life beyond the key board. I'd hate to be you!
Now YOU are the Paladin of DT!
Your “Superior” Ability puts you above All the readers and you have to guide and protect these poor souls through josean's comments because only You know what the TRUTH is.
Like your Lord and Savior Lie-onel Fernandez you’re the only one who is capable of “Conceptualizing” here on DT and no one but you can understand and decipher my posting!
Your SHORT Irrational Temper and anger over the comments of someone you don’t even know over the internet is indicative of the decrepit state mind your social isolation has produced; not to mention the effects caused by your physical SHORT comings!
You’re the one you needs to GET A LIFE and two additional things:
A more MASCULINE Photo on your profile even if it’s fake,
And a wife, if there is a poor soul out there that could stand you beyond dinner at McDonalds!
"Another sure bet is that you have more posts than anyone on this site. ..That only goes to ilustrate the obvious: You don't have a life beyond the key board. I'd hate to be you!"
PS
You need to improve math skills as well; dread has more postings than I, Nincompoop!
"You’re the one you needs to GET A LIFE and two additional things:
A more MASCULINE Photo on your profile even if it’s fake,
And a wife, if there is a poor soul out there that could stand you beyond dinner at McDonalds!"
As always, Blabbing incoherently about things with no relations to the topic at hand. All that comes out of your puny brain is the same old gibberish complaining about "Lio-nel", and the metro.
Your hatred for my DR knows no bounds. Nothing good, such as the volleyball team going for the gold in the next Olympics, isn't, (in your sick mind), a great reason to applaud and celebrate. You take this and turn it into a gasbag, blowing off about incoherent political mierda. Your limited one-dimensional mind and pessimism, caused by self-loathing, has made you the pariah of DT... Bud, I will reiterate and call you a cancer to this site.
Ahhh.... More "fear and loathing". Where's Hunter when you need him?
Stay on topic lads. Please.
"Bud, I will reiterate and call you a cancer to this site."
¡Si Te Pica Es Porque Ají Comes!
And I will also reiterate:
Four words:
DO NOT read it!