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30 de Noviembre, 2006

Shut Up and Kiss the Ring.

Neil Cavuto just can't understand why Mexicans don't swallow their corruption with a smile. SHORTER version: "The constitution works in our country because when an election is stolen here, everyone makes nice and acts like it never happened!" He makes it sound like being a good citizen/politician/patriot is something akin...

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 4:19 PM.  |

29 de Noviembre, 2006

Leaving the Lonely Land of Linux

Hay-men! I got a message from Apple and they said my maching is done! So, barring unforeseen obstacles, I'll have it in the morning. This is exciting. I've been missing half of my feeds, most of my bookmarks, ftp access, photos, apps, email accounts, bluetooth file exchange for my phone,...

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Common (Hidden) Goals?

MAYBE THEY SHOULD GET TOGETHER and have a couple drinks. "Shoot the shit," as they say....

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Denial: A River of Blood and A Hill of Pain

I AGREE WITH THE COMPLAINTS of Lisa Disbrow of Moraga, whose son, Zach, 22, is a West Point student graduating in May and preparing to serve in Iraq. She wants the memorial of crosses and Muslim Crescents and Stars of David that mourning citizens of Lafeyette, CA have erected...

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Dis Unity and the Stolen Crown

THOSE FIERY AND PASSIONATE Mexicans are at it again! Doing that damn "put your body where your beliefs are" thing! The Mexican congress actually got into a physical situation, the right-wing PAN (National Action Party) faction terrified that the PRI (Party of the Democratic Revolution) will block the inauguration...

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28 de Noviembre, 2006

Del Diario, entry #112806

From the Del Diario Series, entry #112806...

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The United State of Assimilation

TOM TANCREDO (R-Colo) admits that there has been grave damage to "the nature of America" due to "uncontrolled immigration." But...I thought the colonizers' arrival and subsequent slaughter of the indigenous residents on this continent was accepted as a beneficial part of American history? Haven't we resigned ourselves to the...

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A Very Wild Life

DROWNING AND SURROUNDED by a shuffling mosaic of Wi-fi, neon, concrete, political discourse, unexplained cancers, Clean Air Acts, television award ceremonies, hypnotic advertisement riffs, and jungles of synthetic material--"success"--we feel our lungs tremble when the moon boldly shows herself outside our window. We feel our heart whisper (a lovestruck...

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27 de Noviembre, 2006

And End to Racism...the Censorship Way!

Ah, yes. The Dignity of Enforced Values. I see. Basically works like this: "We're really upset about how our people had their will taken away from them and lived in degradation, so we are going to bestow dignity upon our people by taking away their right to decide what words...

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The Skin of My Soul (Pt 3 of 2)

SHE DIDN'T LOOK BEHIND HER, only grabbed the small blue box of tampons from the shelf and kept moving. She was angling for the cash registers, and trying to put distance between herself and the three friends who were traveling up the aisle behind her. "DONNA!" the closest one...

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25 de Noviembre, 2006

We'd rather the bird were back in the cage

I'VE GOT IT! If we just wipe out all books that discuss rape and the unwanted pregnancies that may follow, we can finally have our utopia and live as One under a fluffy, divine Bunny in the Sky! I say we make a new War on Something. How about....a...

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22 de Noviembre, 2006

Del Diario - Entrada #112206.1

From the Del Diario Series, entry #112206.1...

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20 de Noviembre, 2006

Siesta

OKAY, now it's time to take her into the shop. See you on el otro lado....

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Kramer Spells "Goodbye" With an N

IT'S A CONFLICT inside when a face and voice that has brought you laughter over the years, and thus given you one of the greatest gifts—moments of pure, unselfconscious, joy—suddenly sours and becomes ugly. It seems that Michael Richards was doing a (drunken?) stand-up routine, and for some inexplicable...

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19 de Noviembre, 2006

A Humane Being

POVERTY IS A FUNNY TOPIC to post on after my last entry, but I swear to you that there is no subtext implied. I just snuck on the computer to try and read some junk, and on one of my regular sites came across this inspiring video. Of course,...

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Me Vs. Inanimate Objects, Round 983,475.02

DEPENDING ON HOW LONG MY COMPUTER stays on this time, this may be my last post until I can afford to get it out of the shop. Due to recent (further) computer developments (this a.m.) which I will omit for speed's sake [update: basically it keeps shutting off, sometimes...

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Soul Actor and the Sole Actors

Jack Lucas, Shock Jock Radio Personality: Edwin! I told you about these people. They only mate with their own kind. It's yuppie inbreeding. That's why they're retarded and wear the same clothes. They don't feel love. They only negotiate love moments. They're evil, Edwin. They're repulsed by imperfection, horrified...

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18 de Noviembre, 2006

Winters of the Real

AND NOW, for your weekend pleasure, I bring you Winters of the Real, a portrait of Dick Cheney by Nezalixo, himself....

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Got Life?

I, TOO, AM ONE OF THOSE who recoils at the thought of watching OJ Simpson's "If I Did It" confession/ploy/steam-release valve. I don't even like watching him speak about anything. I'm glad FOX news and many advertisers and consumers are being vocal about not supporting him, or encouraging him...

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The Wicked Woman (She's in Power)

WHEN I SEE BLATANT SIGNS OF SEXISM and racism thriving in everyday adult, supposedly-educated discourse, I just feel...stunned. I know I retain some kind of odd naïveté about the world, but I honestly don't get why every person capable of self-actualization isn't interested in making an effort to both...

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17 de Noviembre, 2006

Three Little Piggies and the Law of the Jungle

INTRODUCING A NEW ELEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY into my activities, my wonderful, multi-faceted computer-that-costs-more-than-Chiapas has begun to occassionally shut itself off. It does not warn me to save my documents, it does not blow a silver trumpet, it does not say—in a sing-song voice—"time to shut down!" It simply clicks...

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16 de Noviembre, 2006

Crumbs in Oaxaca

Brad Will shot a second time at point blank range 15 minutes after first bullet downs him?...

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14 de Noviembre, 2006

The Design That Was Not to Be

I'VE BEEN PUTTING TOGETHER SOME JUNK for my old man, for the 30th Annual Writer's Week at U of Califas @ Riverside. We thought we had it, but it turns out that trademark lawyers hate fuchsia! Back to the drawing board. Behind the cut is the version that was...

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Remembering That Which Is True (part.1)

THERE IS A QUICKLY MOVING VOICE that runs free in your mind. Voice flits back and forth, like an electron flow healing a synaptic cleft—between Consideration and Decision; between Contemplation and Reaction; between Estimation and Implementation. This speaker, this injection, this Voice moves and acts before you will normally recognize...

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This, in The United States of America

PLEASE re-listen to this clip of the Boston Legal episode where James Spader plays the most righteous mofo this side of Tiananman Square. Because these things his character is outraged about are still in place, even if the Democrats will have a majority vote in the House and Senate. These...

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12 de Noviembre, 2006

Project For A New American Sitcom

Needless to say.... It bombed....

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10 de Noviembre, 2006

Friday Afternoon Snake Rock Blogging

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND. Enjoy your day! Me, I'm actually feeling a little ill, which doesn't happen to me too often. When it does, my very high energy level goes to nearly nada, and I let my body rest up. I can't predict how this will develop, and I prefer...

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Michelle Malkin is Just Plain Disturbed

WHO HURT THIS POOR WOMAN? Seriously. If you look over her posts, it's just sad. It's not even the topics. It's the thread that weaves underneath everything. The only constant. Negativity. She is constantly railing, spitting, hating while smiling, condemning. It's the stance she needs to be in. Intelligent, honest,...

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9 de Noviembre, 2006

The Most Honest Man in America

It made me cry. I'm too used to half-asleep souls and lazy lies. Here was a heart not able to harden itself or smooth the truth over with comfort, or alibi. The war and our world was destroying his happiness. He couldn't bear to be a part of it. And...

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Unrelated Quotes, Part 5.

The media and the public eye tend to focus on the actual act of the protest and not the content of it. I think we need to put the issues in people's hands because then you get a chain reaction of accountability happening. If people get angry enough they will...

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Unrelated Quotes, Part 4.

Over $10 million was raised [for Katrina relief] by school kids through bake sales, lemonade stands, car washes and other fundraisers. [...] That's more than almost every major U.S. corporation gave. More than wealthy oil and petrochemical companies, such as Chevron and ConocoPhillips. It's more than what AT&T and Verizon...

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8 de Noviembre, 2006

Must...Colonize...Must....Or....Die...

AND THAT'S JUST WHAT I MEAN when I say that yesterday's Democratic victories (while sure to bring many good changes soon, hey it's already brought one doozy) won't change many important things about America, a country built by those, and still made of many, who embrace the very notion...

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Rummy Turns Tail

Chickenshit Rumsfeld is resigning. CSPAN sez just now. Bush speaking on it. (I guess those "Senior Officials" were wrong, eh?) Bush says he will be replaced by Robert Gates, the CIA Director under Bush 41. (Is Bush, sensing a fall, now reaching for summa Poppi's wisdom....too late?) Don't get me...

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The Myth is Broken

THE MOST OBVIOUS AND IMPORTANT CASUALTY in the 2006 US Midterm elections is the myth of Republican Invulnerability. And clearly, that is the last scale that—now fallen—exposes the vulnerability of the beast. And when you have a beast that has terrorized people, a people who have dreamed nightly of...

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7 de Noviembre, 2006

Dems Take the House (and Clean House)

OH YEAH BABY. Can you smell the investigations? Pelosi officially recognized as (potential) New Speaka de la Casa, via FOX news live stream. Fox now projecting the Republicans have lost control of the House....

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Democrats Leading in Senate Exit Polls [15:45]

I'M NOT SURE WHY everyone keeps writing "Don't get too excited about the good exit polls...remember, they were also high in 2004." YEAH, that's RIGHT! Because the Dems actually won in 2004. Boy. Give people a little distance and they begin believing GOP spin, no matter how much evidence...

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Chasing America's Royal Family - La Cosecha Extraña [2]

FOR THOSE WHO NEED TO BE TOLD: If you drink alcohol and then climb up on top of a bar, and then proceed to shake your hips in order to convince the teeming barroom throng that you can do a Shakira? You are pleading to all the ghosts who...

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Dark Hearted, Dark Skinned Dems?

This is a mockup I made of an actual GOP ad [sombrero tip to Northern Reader]. I think the official GOP poster didn't quite drive the point home in the most efficient way, although they basically nailed it. I'm being picky. (And the creepiest part is how little I needed...

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Unrelated Quotes, Part 3.

I have never been one to criticize Laura Bush. [...] But now she's pissed me off. Via Vegacura and Olberman I see she said of Michael J. Fox that 'it's always easy to manipulate people's feelings with these awful diseases.' No, Mrs. Moron it is not manipulation for someone...

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6 de Noviembre, 2006

Flag on the Field

WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT if politics worked like sports in that if you caught a team cheating, they would be penalized and forced to forfeit a percentage or number of "points" as a penalty? What? Making illegal robocalls? You lose 5000 VOTES, vato! Booyah! All up in ya tightest race!...

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Explosions Hit Mexico City

BLOWING THE NEWS OF A PEACEFUL MARCH OF THOUSANDS out of the news cycle completely, the Associated Press reports that multiple explosions have occurred in Mexico City. And Mexico's struggle continues playing out right in front of our eyes. (AP) MEXICO CITY — Simultaneous explosions hit the Federal Electoral Tribunal,...

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Alimentación del Mundo

AS THE SIGHTED MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE know, I support the United Farm Workers with my hard-toiling icon over there in the sidebar. It's not easy, but I forge on. I have used the UFW image for my "favicon" image (the one that shows up for bookmarks or in...

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5 de Noviembre, 2006

Built of Bones

NOT CONTENT TO LIMIT OUR AWARENESS to "congressional" "oversight," the benefits of the two-party system and the last week's worth of mediatric spinnypulp, we strive to understand this world we have been born into. We want to know what the true law is. Who rules me? What do I...

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A Pattern of Attacks

FROM Oaxaca Study Action Group: (posted at 08:58:48, timestamped earlier for page placement)) During the night helicopters brought military troops into the city. According to La Doctora, impeccably calm and intelligent as ever on Radio Universidad, the people must remain non-violent - she mentioned Mahatma Ghandi - to avoid the...

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Verbal Coliseum

An e-card announcement I made recently at my father's request....

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4 de Noviembre, 2006

Mediation

The recent security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory was very serious, with sensitive materials being taken out of the facility — possibly including information on how to deactivate locks on nuclear weapons.—cbsnews.com Businessman on Train: [reading a newspaper] I see the police have made another lightning raid.Priest on Train:...

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Why wait?

I'M ON PINS AND NEEDLES wondering just what the Saddam verdict will be....

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3 de Noviembre, 2006

El Día de Los Muertos

LAST NIGHT WE BROUGHT THE DEAD into la casa, and celebrated their lives, their foods, their words, their memory. Papi Felipe, Lucha (nanita), Mamá Juanita, Uncles Chente and Beto; Richie, Randy and a host of other spirits. The house was full! —Of light, and good food, and dulces. We...

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La Cancion

I AM NOT JUST A COLLECTOR of unexpected adjectives, I am also someone who was wed to music before he ever made a best friend. It's a great love and daily practice for me. I play it, write it, dance to it, compose it, pay a lot of attention...

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2 de Noviembre, 2006

¡Brad Will Presente!

Something so fitting about Brad Will coming back on El Día de Los Muertos to sing a song called I Really Like The Cops....

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hurling ideas of redemption

UNDETERRED BY DISTRACTION and commercials for more gloss, human smell-killer, blemish-hider, instant snax and war without end, we feel our toes sink into the maize and blood-colored path that twists into the woods, through the blistering sands, and finally leading up that stepped path to the stars....to the fifth...

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War in Oaxaca

FROM Oaxaca Study Action Group: The war is on in Oaxaca. It began at 8:00 AM with the gathering of the PFP and an inflitartion [sic] of porros and state police in plain clothes.There are 5,000 PFP and many people if they're out there. The Rector of the universidad has...

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We Are Your Overlords

A MAINSTREAM POLITICAL SITE offers a good insight into why the Democratic party produces "lords" who think those underneath them are there to serve them, thank them, or be thought of as chattel, doing their rightful work to support them. It attempts to explain the existence of people like...

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1 de Noviembre, 2006

Now the Weak Must Get Strong

For now, groove on this. really....

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So Far From God...

Basically, [North American ambassador in Mexico, Tony ] Garza ordered to send the PFP (Preventive Federal Police). What a pity...eleven years of war (1810-1821), and the Reforma by Benito Juarez, Mexico's victory over the French army, the Mexican Revolution and the so many deaths and still, we receive orders...

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The Movement is Not Going Away

FROM OAXACA: Colleagues, I just received a call from the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers in Oaxaca. Some updates:1. The government has accomplished little through its violent attacks. They have not "retaken" the center of the city. They are in the Zocalo, but the popular movement has encampments at Sto. Domingo...

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Fighting the Fearmasters

Okay, this ad kicks ass. I love this general. Watch this ad before clicking to read more....

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¡No Represión!

In the video, demonstrators speak out and carry signs directed to the gathering riot police. One handpainted sign says "We are brothers..." A woman can be seen attempting to reach out to standing riot police, crying out "No puedes massacre a su jente!" ("You can't massacre your people!") and other...

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