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30 de Abril, 2007
¡Somos América!
TOMORROW IS MAY DAY, or International Workers Day. Despite the fact that the United States has tried to neutralize the day and ignore the history, it remains an important and widely recognized event, nonetheless. For Mexican Americans it has significant resonance, and we all remember what last year was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Say My Name.
I MAY HAVE MENTIONED how burdensome my LegalWhiteFather's last name has become over the last couple of years. I've carried the Irish sur-misnomer since I was legally adopted by him at eight years old, and that was back when I informally changed my own first name to "Jack." All... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Gettin' Cheeky in the Zócalo
I WAS A STUDENT AT NYU when Spencer Tunick shot a series in Manhattan. (Was I in the pic? You'll have to get a print and take your time with it!) Looks like he's doing his latest work in good old México. And it seems la gente are down... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Compuspanic
BAD NEWS FOR LOU DOBBS and those who dream of a culture with no flava. After all, it is an illusion that the American market won't keep responding to the growing Hispanic [as in "Spanish-Speaking"] population. Because it will. The latest sign that you cannot possibly hope to curtail the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Freedom to Lie, Cheat, and Steal
GEE, I'm so surprised! This is why I laugh when people call suspicions of American government's covert and criminal agendas "conspiracy theories." There is far too much proof (and just from what we know) that such suspicions are well-founded in fact. And that those who would invalidate them are... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Bee at the Heart of the World
YESTERDAY, I posted on bees. Of course they have been on my mind lately because of the widespread phenomenon that is being called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). If you haven't read about it, there is a mysterious dying out of bees taking place all over North America, and concentrated... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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29 de Abril, 2007
966 Bees in the Shade
WHOA. Maybe colonies of bees move around this time of year, and I'm unfamiliar with the whole idea. But I just had quite an exciting moment. I remember when I was about 10, and there was all this talk of Killer Bees from Africa that might land on our... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Phone-y Standards
BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND how very important it is to the DC bigshots, the mainstream pundits, and the rest of the world, I will give my opinion on this current Sex Scandal about to blow wide the doors of human disbelief. You know those doors that like to stay closed,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Sand Creek Massacre Site Memorialized
THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE of 1864. It was not only an atrocity, but one that symbolizes many others. The day is a particularly cruel and bloody chapter in the narrative that has brought the current America into existence. The country that some modern-day Americans claim (oh so haughtily) is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Idiota. Cobarde. Asesino.
I UNDERSTAND that I will be stating the obvious here...but sometimes, even in the midst of all this whirl and tumult and hail of deception and gut-curdling corruption, the "obvious" becomes a thin mist that is no longer even felt by the vulcanized hull of our habituated defenses. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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28 de Abril, 2007
High Mime Time
CLICK to laugh. It especially tickled me because of a conversation between Darkblack and myself on an old post, where I mentioned killer mimes running for office. But I think it's just damn funny anyway. sombrero tip to scarshapedstar at correntewire... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Drivelling For Change
NOW WHAT ON EARTH would convince Nez to respond to an email with this?: Read more for some Saturday entertainment, courtesy of the wiley mind behind rhnichols@btinternet.com:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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27 de Abril, 2007
Esta mi obsesión para viernes. Escuche.
EL GENERAL has me racking my brains for "love songs" so I bring this one over here to set off this very warm friday evening. Perhaps not a typical "love" song, more about, well...obsession. And being drawn into it, even despite consequences. And the hesitation or admonishment not to.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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I'm Skeered Now.
GEEEZ, I don't know. With all these sudden developments, maybe we should take our mind off the Democrats' debating points and just back the Republicans. You know?... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Cheese-Hefting Footsoldier of Pollen Town
HMMMM. I use "Truth" an awful lot. The front page of the blog becomes...extraordinarily pretentious. When every third entry has "truth" in the title. For crying out loud. I can't help but feel. Perhaps I will slip in some other words a bit more to help counter the balance. I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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You Can't Deport the Truth
BIG GOLD-TOPPED PROPZ to mis amig@s sech as XicanoPwr and Marisa at Latina Lista and mi güero blo'migo at Mexfiles, and Migra Matters and No Más Muertes and all the other soldader@s who stare the border issue in the face day after day after day after day. I read... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Truth Accidentally Slips Into Candidate Debate
I REALLY, REALLY like this cat. Mike Gravel (D), Senator representing Alaska. Damn. Not only is he the man responsible for making the Pentagon Papers public—and that is no small thing—he kicked ass in the debates. Of course for simply telling the truth (along with some other gems about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Just Like a Woman
NOW, THAT'S TWO TIMES women have assumed that I was a woman, from my writing. What can I say to this? I never would have guessed. I must be getting healthier....... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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26 de Abril, 2007
Coke Ranch Logic
If the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings, we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory." —"President" George W. Bush SOME STATEMENTS are so stupid (not to mention sociopathic) that to attempt to unpack them is to toy with your own... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Barely Concealed and Uncongealed Rage of McCain
JOHN MCCAIN, as I've said before, is a man strapping a lid on top of a cauldron of rage. Remember, what we see of him now is utter restraint. Here is a man who has been a prisoner of war and tortured for taking his part in the Vietnam... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Indian Killer Day
As many of you know, this is the 100th anniversary of the designation of Columbus Day as a state holiday in Colorado, the birthplace of the Columbus Day holiday. Also, as many of you might know, several of us from TCD/AIM have been working with State Senator Suzanne Williams... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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A Decidedly Loyal Readership
I GET HITS from some strange areas, no doubt. This screenshot from my stats shows that The Unapologetic Mexican has readers who are compelled to visit and read even from beyond the grave.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Why We Do
ONE OF THE BLOGS I used to read one day sported an essay that essentially summed up the author's ongoing growing feelings that—in his opinion—blogs don't achieve much of anything and that the writer felt his blogging time only ate up time they could be using for other more... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Abril, 2007
Mexico City Passes Abortion Law
MEXICO makes an important step, recognizing the autonomy and needs of las mujeres: Mexico City legislators passed a ground breaking abortion legalization measure Tuesday that moves the nation´s capital into the vanguard of Latin America's nascent pro-choice movement. The law allows women in the Federal District - Mexico City´s... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Toking About Truth
POPPING IN briefly to ask you please to read this story, and digg it. It would be great (and important, I think) if everyone also took the action JC suggests in the post. But you read it and do what you are moved to. Gracias.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Love and Violence
Love and Violence, properly speaking, are polar opposites. Love lets the other be, but with affection and concern. Violence attempts to constrain the other's, to force him to act in the way we desire, but with ultimate lack of concern, with indifference to the other's own existence or destiny.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Abril, 2007
Let's Have Nexus
THE NON-MAINSTREAM areas of the blogosfero—the Brown™, the Feminists, the disabled, the marginalized—bring us many intelligent, hopeful, restless people finding the ways in which they want to grow, to reach for their own light, their own right, their own path away from the cramped vessel of personal servitude or... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Abril, 2007
Feed on Me. When You're Not Strong.
FOR THOSE WHO access this site via a feed, here is a headsup on a change I am making: I am going to pull the plug on the index.xml file (the "old" feed before I used FeedBurner). If you are connected to this feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/theunapologeticmexican, then you are okay,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Freedom (On the March)
CLICK the image to download (or right-click and "Save as") the new single from an EP I am working on called Xolagrafik. The song is called Freedom (On the March), and it is by (of course) NLXJ. username=guest pw=porfavor Update: lyrics behind the cut.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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22 de Abril, 2007
Secret Superheroes
SOME OF YOU ARE AWARE of the latest "outing" of real-life identity, and round of threats leveled on a woman blogger, DeviousDiva. I'm glad to say that at the least, the person who put her information out there has removed it. But of course, the dynamic remains, and we... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Truth is My Law
IT IS EXPECTED that we take the laws seriously in this land. That we integrate them into our personal moral systems. We tell our children to do this, to trust us on our superior ability to filter out what is good and what is bad. And we hand them... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Sunday Skillet Blogging #4
BREAKFAST is served!... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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21 de Abril, 2007
The Art of Saying Nothing
#1: WHO is this man? (username="guest", pw="porfavor") #2: What the hell is he saying? (Optional) Winner gets a dream-colored tamale. Update: The fun of the game is to see who knows, remembers, or can figure it out! Which means someone who can guess or who knows without Googling the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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20 de Abril, 2007
A Voice That Lives On
HEY HEY HEY it ain't Friday Night until we bust out the YouTube and get celebratory with some sweet música. Last time we featured Argentinian rebel-hearted artist Mercedes Sosa, it was to listen to a beautiful, beautiful tune called Gracias a la Vida. Today we open our ears and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Bang, bang.
WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS THAT everyone still has the right to a gun, though. Oh, and that we have live streaming coverage of violent events like this: April 20, 2007, 5:38PM 2 dead in JSC hostage standoff A gunman and one hostage, both men, are dead after a violent incident at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Age of Garudacoatl
FROM NAROPA U. AND THE AGE OF GARUDACOATL: Join in a one-day conference celebrating diversity and examining racial issues through eastern practices and talks Friday, April 20, as Naropa students present Floricanto Naropa on the Arapahoe Campus. Floricanto Naropa includes several guest speakers including: Juan Felipe Herrera, Naropa Associate... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Detainment Center
WE SEE NOW how ousting Imus has moved us forward as a nation and will clearly have beneficial results upon the dialogues on race in this country. His replacement? The thoughtful pundit Michael Smerconish. The Big Talker 1210 AM morning show of Daily News columnist Michael Smerconish is to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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black men playing basketball
TAKEN FROM a fantastic book by Derrick Jensen, called The Culture of Make Believe. I have to admit I'm glad I was born white. Very rarely have I received stares of hatred due to my race. When I was a teenager, I spent a summer at the University of Southern... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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19 de Abril, 2007
The Useless Figurehead Blamer Sellout, Pt 2.
WHAT A PATHETIC, SNIVELING, EQUIVOCATING, SMIRKING, DUPLICITOUS, DISHONORABLE fool. I suggest you just head on over to the muckraking joint and watch the whole series in a row, if you want a feel for how the questioning went. What a disgrace. What a whiny, lying disgrace. Though at least... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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How to Create a Rape Victim
Update 2009: This post was controversial. Or perhaps just the title. Some felt my poetic use of the title How To Create A Rape Victim ultimately points blame at a woman for being raped by harshly reminding parents not to trod over their childrens' sense of boundaries and right to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Filters and Lenses
THE LATEST ISSUE OF NEWSWEEK tells us that Imus the Titan fell because "power in America is shifting." But the cover shows us that Newsweek is not about to go quietly into that brown night.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Searching for Michael Patrick Vaughn
FOR THOSE ON THE WEST COAST, please keep your ears and eyes open for a black male named Michael Patrick Vaughn. I don't know if he goes by any nicknames aside from Mike, but please see below the cut for a picture and contact information. He is the brother... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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18 de Abril, 2007
Double Vision [The White Lens VII]
THE IRONY OF LIFE is such that I end up thanking my LegalWhiteFather for the strong presence of Bob Marley's philosophies early in my life. I can think of no single artist heard more often in my childhood home. His albums were almost always spinning, in the house, and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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17 de Abril, 2007
The Perfect Ratio
• Just because you have a name with which to denigrate or even properly "describe" a thing does not necessarily mean you properly understand it. • Just because you believe in a mythical land doesn't mean it will be there for you when you die. Live as if your balance... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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16 de Abril, 2007
31 Dead, and counting.
MAN. I don't even know what to say. Horrible. As if we haven't been watching enough senseless death lately. Of course we like it much less "over here" than "over there." I'm guessing the reaction and news cycle will be furious and intense and massive, and overwhelm the spectre... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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15 de Abril, 2007
Ka-Ching, Ka-Boom.
ANOTHER TAX DAY comes and goes. Between our typing against the war, and even our protests in the street, we pause to shell out the money that will continue to make it possible. Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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King Koz the Kold
AS WITH EVERYTHING, there are a few ways we can look at Mister Moulitsas' brief press release shrugging off (for the second time) the Kathy Sierra incident. This is how I see it: What we talk about with each other out here; what we hope for one day; why... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Sunday Skillet Blogging #3
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Shortly After We Removed the Editorial Lobe
IT IS AN AMBITIOUS LEAP, isn't it? From Self to All? I wonder what that thing is. That thing that fuels the jump from feeling I know what is best for me to what is best for others. True, we are sometimes called upon to assume as much. When... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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14 de Abril, 2007
Construction on the March
OR..."COLONIAL CARPENTERS." I couldn't decide between the two. I pick both of them, we all win. Carlos Mencia for those who can bear it.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Virtually Clean
I NEED to take a day just to clean out and organize the rapidly growing stacks of virtual folders on my computer. I'm actually surprisingly organized on my computer. Folders, subfolders, customized icons (because my mind remembers visuals better than anything else) and logical systems for everything I store.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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13 de Abril, 2007
Who Has Loved Like We Do?
MEEEEEENWHILE let's get on with nuestra tradición de viernes, our friday tradition. Once again chilling with the amazingly talented and stunningly beautiful Estrella Morente, we groove on ¿Quienes se Amaron Como Nosotros? (Who Has Loved Like We Do?) A soothing and yet inspiring way to ease into your Friday and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Womanism and Related Hot Topics
I FEEL LIKE THIS POST (or the thread, actually) could use some women's analysis. I don't know how right or how wrong I am about my part in the comments, but either way, it seems odd to have two guys going back and forth, as if we could ultimately... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Lavish Promises
UNCLE SAM IS A PIMP. Overseas recruiters lure guest workers to the U.S. with lavish promises of permanent residency, high-paying jobs and better living conditions, charging thousands of dollars in “processing fees.” Guest workers are usually deeply in debt by the time they arrive in the U.S., where the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Untitled #017
I FOUND THIS IMAGE to be interesting, as well as odd. I think it is a T-shirt. I'd like to hear how it strikes you, coming from your particular spot on the tundra. sombrero tip to resistracism... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Kind Supremacist [The White Lens V]
WHEN I THINK BACK to those times in my youth when peers would let slip Spic jokes or drop down derision on my kind without thinking about the fact that I might mind, or not knowing I was Mexican one thing really sticks with me: how much the standard... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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12 de Abril, 2007
King Koz Chastises Crying Bloggers
HEAR YE, HEAR YE: King Koz has declared that death threats made to bloggers "dont' even exist" "most of the time"! Subjects who dare to refute this charge do not know of the King's crystal ball! He can see all your threats before they arise...or arrive in your inbox.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Parry Catches up to Nezua
SOME BLOGGERS DIG out a Cool Niche by being right about many things. As trying to be right lands me in enough trouble as it is, I must settle for having interesting thoughts early on. Thus, I now defend my thoughty priority from Robert Parry's journalistic clutches by quoting... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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And so on.
VAYA CON DIOS, Kurt! You were a storyteller, a teacher, and a friend. The world won't be quite the same without you, amigo.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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11 de Abril, 2007
Addendum on Speech Rules
THERE IS NO REAL PLACE to drop this in, and it bothers me. I keep waiting for an opportune time, and it won't arrive. So, because I recently linked to the kerfuffle that went down regarding my now (in)famous reply post to Glenn Greenwald's post Awkward Discussions on Race... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Where's Nezua?
A HEADS UP if'n ya want to follow some blogs where I can be found from time to time.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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PBS and Ken Burns to include Latinos in THE WAR!
MIL GRACIAS TO ALL who have sent letters or made calls to PBS or anyone else on the issue of Ken Burns' and his omission of Latinos from his newest documentary on WWII, The War. For those following the story, here is the victory we have been working and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Why Hitler Loved America
...AND HOW THE U.S.A's slaughter of Indians and immigration policies inspired him. In Hitler's view, the US had become a major power by 'ethnic cleansing' of the native inhabitants: he saw clearly that the US itself, which poses as a nation state, is in fact an Empire."... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Why We Can't Take a Joke.
JON MAKES US LAUGH as always, and yet there is a tone conveyed in these jokes (YouTube below the cut) that imply that there is too much attention on this "offhanded remark uttered by an elderly man on the radio," as Jon calls it. That Imus is not the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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10 de Abril, 2007
Gonzo Gets Served
GONZALES IS SERVED with a subpoena. Good. This torturer, liar, and disgrace to America, to Mexico, to common decency, and to humanity needs to be felled. And I am utterly disappointed. I'm sure I have written this before. But the feeling only grows. I have wished so hard for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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To Serve You With Indignance, Oh Sir.
THE WISE MICHAEL SMERCONISH on Imus' "nappy-headed hoes' remark: However, we've also have a society on our hands that we have people walking around–anxious to be offended." —Crooks N Liars Guilty as charged! I can't speak for anyone else, but I know I've been waiting all morning for someone to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Your Standard Sucks (The White Lens VI)
HERE'S THE THING about Imus' tapping into the well of White Supremacist thought and using the White body and hair growth standard to judge others: Your standard sucks, bro. And Imus, here's why YOU suck when you feed these memes: Using "nappy" as an insult is saying "Being what... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Freedom on the March, Verdad
THE LUNACY of the Bush Doctrine becomes more and more evident as we watch his spoiled seed bear fruit. On Sunday, tens of thousands of Sadr's supporters crammed into the backs of trucks or into minibuses draped with giant Iraqi flags to make the 100-mile journey south to Najaf.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Abril, 2007
At the Movies With Nezua [The Host]
FOR PURPOSES OF DEFINITION, let's consider the post I did on Falling Down a "Full Analysis," the post on Grave of the Fireflies an "Analysis," the post on Pan's Labyrinth a Character Study, and this post a Review. What this will mean to you is that an Analysis will be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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8 de Abril, 2007
icebergs and gold
BRENDA WAS DANGEROUS and I knew that after only a few hours of hearing her speak. A theme that kept peeking through her rants was the assertion that almost everyone she had the slightest reason to dislike had a nasty, cruel, evil core that would show if you only scraped... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Get all up in my space
CHECK me and I'll check ya back. That is to say, if you do the MySpace thing (which I hardly do, but like the man said "Why can't we all just get up on Rupert Murdoch's networking site?" and mostly because Liza tracked me down and added me so... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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This Camera Kills Fascists
FROM RODNEY KING TO MISTER MACACA TO UCLA cops tasering students to the cold-blooded shooting of Elio Carrion to PuppetBush's Seven Minutes of Inaction as well as countless other examples—video has brought us the truth that the ruling class and their Ganglords (la chota) and all their agents work... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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7 de Abril, 2007
The Great Unprotected Planet
WE'LL ENACT STRICT LAWS and lists to protect endangered bugs and animals even though species aren't known to last forever. Yet we'll—and when I say "we" I mean human beings—"soften" or deny or strongarm truth about the harm we are doing our world. Even when our very existence is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Pretiendship
HONESTY is more than a gift, it is as necessary to the relationship called "friendship" as hydrogen is to the compound called "water." If someone offends you, steps over your line, or acts in a way that hurts you or disappoints you but does not know it or see it... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Desert of the Real
ONCE GROWN, WE DEFAULT TO LOYAL SUBJECTS and mostly because our own parents have often done a better job of teaching us to listen and obey their own rules and the rules that have come to rule them, than in teaching us to stand independently, to question even themselves, to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Noble Invader
O, DON'T YOU GET TIRED living in a land of propaganda, being treated as if you were a fool, being lied to as if you are stupid? I know...if I can swallow the Big Lie, then why can't I just get used to our smaller agreed-upon lies? (Psst...because I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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6 de Abril, 2007
War
WAR, WAR, WAR. And the monster wants more. Here is a song from a man and a prophet whose voice and lyrics and spirit filled my house when I was younger. I'm working on a post that touches on this right now, but for now I'll just preface this... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Freedomfest Destiny, Cont.
CONSIDERING THAT THE LAND GRAB of the Yanqui Invasión (American-Mexican War) was predicated on such similar wrongs as the Iraqi Oil Grab—A greedy, deceitful president using a trumped-up casus belli, power-hungry intermediaries, crooked "laws" that "ratified" and "validated" an example of naked and brutal conquest based on a belief... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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La Luz
THERE ARE, OF COURSE, those things we do not blog about. They either are not to be shared publicly, will not further the blog's purpose, are inappropriate, or just distracting to the flow. I'd say that most of this winter, my home life has been extremely stressed because of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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5 de Abril, 2007
Newt Destroys the Spanish Language
WHOA. I liked him better when he was insulting us in English. Newt Rich-Gringo shows us how calm a man can keep his face as he murders the Spanish Language in broad daylight whilst also patronizing the people he just insulted while simultaneously implying that not knowing English well... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Compassion in the Bush
DEAR DON SURBER: The image you posted showing the world the depth of George W. Bush's compassionate moment with Senator Byrd's time-weakened digits greatly moved me. You stated in your post that the photo was receiving "so little play" in the newspapers exactly because it revealed the depths of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Return of the Mud People
FIRST OF ALL, why does this guy still have a job? I see his face and all I can think of are dead bodies and overrun levees. Secondly, what the hell does this freak mean by "clean skin terrorist"? No, I mean honestly. What the hell does that mean?... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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4 de Abril, 2007
The King is Gone
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Mexico Through the Eye of the NYTimes
IN THE NY TIMES, we find an article about Mexico's bill to allow abortion for any reason in the first trimester, predicted to pass into law on April 19 of this year. Amanda at Pandagon points out that the article quotes "Catholic Leaders" who threaten (by lingual proxy) violence... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Violent Minority
THE SILENT MAJORITY: until now, that is! Finally, Glenn Beck tells us what it is like to live in America as part of an unrepresented, hated, and oppressed group of people: the White, Christian, Conservative, Male. Surely a harsh road to walk. But with brave soldiers of truth like... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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War on Drugs Boosts Production of Kind Bud
I BET YOU DIDN'T REALIZE that the War on Drugs is turning some people into total stoners. But these matters are complex, ése! You close one door and another opens. Sometimes you close one door and a little hatch in the ceiling opens and a ladder pops out and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Greedom on the March
POTENTIAL PRESIDENTS are discussed like well-produced flicks making the circuit and the appraisal of their smashing box-office numbers leaves me just as cold. As with many other facts that aggravate my spirit, I am often told these realities are nothing to be overly-excited or angry about. This defaulted drool... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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3 de Abril, 2007
Newt Gingrich Chats With the White Folk
I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE the garbage that comes out of these fools' mouths sometimes. They talk like the entire country is made of Whites who fear and hate any other language or culture. Maybe they just count on "disenfranchising" or "purging" the other voters. I don't know. Or maybe... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Skin of My Soul Pt. 7 (A Silence of 19 Days)
AS MY PAST ADVENTURES ILLUSTRATE, I learned young that a verbal strength is a great power in society. But better than a single power, it is an enhancer type of power. Like having a pretty face. It is not one skill, but an augmentation to countless skills. Almost everything... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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2 de Abril, 2007
Blogroll Drama, Reprise.
DESPITE YOUR FRENZIED SCREAMS, the Great Bloglist Purge Dram-a-Rama rolls on! For those who find blog posts about blogging or blogging netiquette inherently irrelevant, move on with my blessing. I can't help but think that no matter how I edit this piece, it remains utterly boring and insulting to your... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Treasonous Robots Invade Mexico
THERE SEEMS TO BE some strange activity down in Mexico. Many electronic pulses and synaptic goings on. What on Earth could those shifty Alien types be up to? [M]any students in Mexico are experiencing science, history, math and other subjects via whiteboards that work like touch screens and it... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Asymmetrical Peacemakers
YET ANOTHER REASON taking to the street to protest the war is an effective way to end it! TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- Tacoma police say last month's 12-day anti-war protests cost the city an unbudgeted $500,000 to provide a large-scale law enforcement presence. [...] The city plans to ask... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Freedom Surges On
I'M SURE GLAD we didn't kick up a civil war in Iraq. In another brutal attack, suspected Sunni militants massacred a group of 21 Shiite workers overnight after laying an ambush north of Baghdad. Travelling in three minibuses, the workers were abducted on the main road out of Baghdad... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Defend The Honor - Update March 31
THANKS TO ALL who have sent letters or made calls to PBS or anyone else on the issue of Ken Burns' and his omission of Latinos from his newest documentary on WWII, The War. For those following the story, here is the latest update on the situation: PBS is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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1 de Abril, 2007
Sunday Skillet Blogging #2
NOW SERVING Sylvia and guests.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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A Chosen Disintegration
PEOPLE WHO CHOOSE TO BE WEAK are dangerous. They will not speak their mind at the crucial time, and so you cannot know them or count on their sound and timely judgment. They will make decisions based on keeping themselves completely away from that which scares them, which is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Being Michelle Malkin
SO MICHELLE MALKIN'S HINGE TWEAKS A BIT MORE STARBOARD as the police state she began dreaming of so long ago promises itself to her. A world where each person in the crowd is a terrorist or a terrorist-watcher, a world where we are all thinking in terms of enemies, a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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