Every Spanish newspaper is carrying this story.
Time will tell what this will eventually prove to be:
Another ceasefire or an historical moment?
Zapatero is skeptical.
Add me to the list.

Looking at those outfits, I have to wonder if they pronounce Basque with a lisp.

Headline should have been "Spanish Basque in newfound feelings of unity."

/those men have paper bags on their heads

Unimpressed.

Everyone is Spain is skeptical right now. Add me to the list.


PonceAlyosha: /those menpeople have paper bags on their heads

The one in the middle is a chick and she's the one who read the declaration.

Spanish government gives them the raspberry.

Wanted for questioning.

oldebayer: Spanish government gives them the raspberry.

Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!

In other news, Dark Toad wanted for questioning.

/ It's the berets that make 'em look like mushrooms.

I look at it this way. If you are "fighting a war" and you don't have the balls to show your face, then you are a fracking puXsy and should have your puXsy ass kicked.

Man up you puXsies!

NicoFinn: The one in the middle is a chick and she's the one who read the declaration.

I thought there was a little something pointy about that one's knees...

/hola

"Evolutionism is the tinfoil hat..."

I misread the headline.

Ehh, just give them a subsidy and they'll calm down.

kingfish2004: I look at it this way. If you are "fighting a war" and you don't have the balls to show your face, then you are a fracking puXsy and should have your puXsy ass kicked.

Man up you puXsies!

A war isnt always like a game of Stratego

Kitty Shat Down: NicoFinn: The one in the middle is a chick and she's the one who read the declaration.

I thought there was a little something pointy about that one's knees...

/hola

Hola!

AmazingRuss: Looking at those outfits, I have to wonder if they pronounce Basque with a lisp.

In Andalucía they do.

kingfish2004: I look at it this way. If you are "fighting a war" and you don't have the balls to show your face, then you are a fracking puXsy and should have your puXsy ass kicked.

Man up you puXsies!

This just in, gas masks for pussies. More at 11.

The real question, is this good or bad for Jai alai?

Do these people not realize how utterly phantom and terrifying they look?

CygnusDarius: Wait, don't a good number of Basques get a little annoyed when someone says they're Spaniards?.

/Or so I've been told
//Or maybe it's just another dumb stereotype

I'm Basque on my mother's side of the family, she really doesn't mind so much because both Spaniards and Basque share alot of cultural similarities.

It bothers her more that people don't know what "Basque" is, or that more people associate Basque with the ETA. She grew up in Madrid and while she didn't have any problems with her heritage, she said that the ETA were extremely resented by both Spanish and Basque people.

She told me that the ETA were probably the most feared group during her youth.

If nobody can tell the difference between the Basque and Spanish, why don't they just get together and hit a pinata?

CygnusDarius: /There's a similar one in France, but I don't remember the region
//Corsica, I think

What Corsican separatists might look like:

Finally a Basquetball headline makes the main page. My favorite play is the alleyoop.

CygnusDarius: /There's a similar one in France, but I don't remember the region
//Corsica, I think

Yeah, the National Liberation Front of Corsica.
So if the Basque are being honest, Spain is gonna have its own version of Sinn Fein.

The ETA was never a good idea, but after Franco they've just become a sick joke. Hardly anyone in Basque supports them to any extent, yet that hasn't stopped them from murdering people in some twisted ideological fantasy. I mean, really, who supports that kind of separatism when what you're hoping to achieve is a brand of Marxism that went out of style in 1975?

ACallForPeace: CygnusDarius: /There's a similar one in France, but I don't remember the region
//Corsica, I think

Yeah, the National Liberation Front of Corsica.
So if the Basque are being honest, Spain is gonna have its own version of Sinn Fein.

Are there militant Quebecoise? Does the US have any thing close to this, outside some Texan waving the confedorate flag and firing a gun in the air after a few too many beers?

even if they separate, they'll still want to be in the EU, which would make the whole thing pointless...

I'm partly French Basque.

So there.

Adrian, don't they have a flag?

This will not last. ETA is not happy with a proposed high speed rail line going into Basque Country and they will seriously try to prevent this from happening at all costs.

CygnusDarius: I thought they already had a Basque party. Can't remember the name, though.

The crazy one that got outlawed. Batasuna, I think.

Well, it worked for the IRA...

When does it arrive?

\too obscure?

MadSkillz: Funk Brothers: This will not last. ETA is not happy with a proposed high speed rail line going into Basque Country and they will seriously try to prevent this from happening at all costs.

That sucks. I see a lot of potential for terrorism. When will these assholes learn that you don't get public support by KILLING them?

To be fair, it worked for Franco.

A cease fire? Why wasn't I notified sooner?

Etchy333: I'm partly French Basque.

So there.

Half Spanish Basque, half French Basque. All bastard.