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30 de Noviembre, 2007

Over There, Over Here

BOMB-STRAPPED man holds Clinton campaign HQ hostage. Live video....

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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 12:18 PM.  | | (0)

Can't Live With 'em, Can't Piss 'em Off.

THE BLEATING of the White Power Structure as it realizes it is not Empire Eternal, after all, but only a temporary glitch in the natural order of things. Fort Smith-Fayetteville station KHBS / KHOG-TV reported Wednesday evening that [Sen. Denny Altes, R-Fort Smith] sent an e-mail calling for illegal aliens...

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RunningVato!

THESE ARE MY NEW RUNNING PANTS. I have taken to a daily early morning regimen of exercise again. Running about two miles a day. I don't think of myself as a runner. I am not a runner. I think to myself "I'm a fighter, who just happens to be...

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29 de Noviembre, 2007

The Doi Tung Open Thread

I'M A BIT BEHIND on work, and so I must leave you, my thoughtful and intelligent (and rarely soft-spoken) readership, to your own threadful devices. Please share with nuestra clica your thoughts today, what you are hoping for, what you fear, or just what's going down in Mundania. (Nota:...

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28 de Noviembre, 2007

Dirty Boys

I'M JUST GONNA let ya know right away that I am of that percentage of men who DO wash their hands after using the bathroom, whether it be home or away. Now it's entirely possible I'll eat something that falls on my own floor, drink champagne out of your ex-wife's...

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The USA's Oily Devil

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday CNN may have been instigating his murder when the U.S. TV network showed a photograph of him with a label underneath that read "Who killed him?" The caption appeared to be a production mistake -- confusing a Chavez news...

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27 de Noviembre, 2007

Hurricane of HIV

AND WILL THEY SAY nobody could have foreseen the weakness of the levees? For the first time, Washington D.C. has collected data on H.I.V. and found that in the nation's capital, the "modern epidemic"—as the Washington Post calls it—is now primarily one affecting blacks. The numbers most starkly illustrate...

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Find the Disappearing Window(s®)

CLICK IMAGE for full foto of a class at the Missouri School of Journalism. I've been using a Mac since the days you had to be on the video floor of a film school in Manhattan (or your local produce section, farm, or orchard, haha) to see this many...

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26 de Noviembre, 2007

Dicktase

Vice President Dick Cheney, who has a history of heart problems, experienced an irregular heartbeat Monday and was taken to George Washington University Hospital for evaluation. The condition was detected when Cheney was seen by doctors around 7 a.m. at the White House for a lingering cough from a cold....

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Repeated Tasering Shown to Cause Dementia

PARIS (AFP) — Antoine di Zazzo says he has been 'tasered' more than 50 times and never felt the worse for the ordeal. One of the biggest Taser representatives outside the US base, Di Zazzo also gave a surprise blast of the stun gun to French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le...

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25 de Noviembre, 2007

Spies Dousing Fires

THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY is now training firefighters to inspect your home and your behavior when you are visited by them, even for emergency purposes. According to FOX "News," aside from blueprints, chemicals, flight manuals, and bomb-making books, one of the things they are going to be on...

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America's Little Warlings

“We’ve worn handmade peace shirts every Thursday since the first week of school, without fail,” Skylar said. But what started out as a light-hearted gesture soon started to be taken out of context. Students started approaching the group members, yelling obscene things at them, said Lauren. “People just turned...

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24 de Noviembre, 2007

Lead Balloons at the Party

ONE OF LIL 'NITA'S most central, most used toys for the last year has been this cart/ magnetic board/ chalkboard/ colored spinny blocky thing that I now find out has lead in the paint. I've watched Lil 'Nita go from being too small to budge it or even figure...

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Illegal Angel Operations

ONCE AGAIN, a Mexican Being was where he was not supposed to be, and just look at the consequences. PHOENIX - A 9-year-old boy looking for help after his mother crashed their van in the southern Arizona desert was rescued by a man entering the U.S. illegally, who stayed...

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23 de Noviembre, 2007

Viernes

IF YOU THINK it would be a surreal experience for blindfolded contestants on "What's My Line?" to try and verbally box in Salvador Dali until they figure out who he is, you're right! And it's funny as hell, too. Happy Friday Night!...

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The Inforvasion Era

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22 de Noviembre, 2007

REDACTED: Uprising Radio Film Review

AS PROMISED , my review from the Pacifica Radio network of Brian de Palma's Redacted, now posted on Uprising Radio. Visuals and commentary [spoilers] behind the cut. Warning: Explicit depictions of graphic violence, corpses and rape....

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A Focus of Mine

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21 de Noviembre, 2007

onions and peas and cranberry sauce

thanksgiving, i think of grandpas, grandpa, the last time we all sat together and ate was at that place, that restaurant, i remember it was remarkable, it was the first time Jane didn't cook, the first time we weren't all gathered together there in montgomery, in grandpa's house, the...

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20 de Noviembre, 2007

Redacted Review - Station Info

JUST IN CASE you want to hear the reviews live at any point, I will start posting that info the day before the broadcast. Usually, a day after the review airs on the Radio Pacifica network, I post a link to the audio stream here, with screenshots. ____ You...

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¡Viva la Revolución!

NOVEMBER 20 is the day, in 1910, that the Mexican Porfiriato—the rule of Porfirio Díaz [aka José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz], showed its first serious cracks. November 20 is understood as the day that began the Mexican Revolution of 1910, as it is the day Francisco Madera made...

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BREAKING: Self-Obsessed Junkie Looks Out Window!!!

I'M KIDDING TRENT, he knows this! But clearly he misplaced his smack and mainlined a bag of social conscience, getting his synth on thenceforth. Here's a new jammie that "The Art of Mental Warfare" (s/t C&L) put to Trent's new song Warning. (Funny how the A.o.M.W. post talks down about...

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19 de Noviembre, 2007

Vampires and Pimps Eternal

AS THE HAUGHTY AUTEUR type (and just as a matter of general fairness) I am grossed out when I see systems where the distributors, marketers, or sellers of work cheat the maker of the work. I've just never understood how people are comfortable doing that. It seems so vampiric...

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18 de Noviembre, 2007

Adenovirus 14

WE'RE BEING WARNED of a virus. Spreads like the common cold, but kills like a fatal disease. The article stresses (twice in two paragraphs and rather redundantly) the fact that this time it's not just the elderly and the young who should be scared; it's everyone. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -...

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Tucker on BizarroTube

IN BIZARRO WORLD, Tucker Carlsen doesn't radiate a mosquito-like vibe, a gnattish nattyness, and...is honest. Yeah. And has good fashion sense. While we may never find the wormhole to that exciting version of Bizarro Tucker, I felt close today, when he asked "Did Kucinich Rock the Debate?" (Despite his...

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"You Are a Declining Empire, and You Will Learn the Truth."

JOHN BOLTON gets his Walrus mustache trampled by an old stodgy dude with a British accent. It's a war crime that's being committed in Iraq. Because there is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons." —Tony Benn s/t...

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Bangladesh Cyclone Kills Thousands

CYCLONE IN BANGLADESH kills thousands. UPATE Sun 17:24 PST: 2200 confirmed deaths, over 10,000 feared dead. Rescuers struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of survivors trapped in isolated towns along Bangladesh's ravaged coast on Saturday, as the official death toll from Tropical Cyclone Sidr passed 1,700. The Category 4...

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Overtaking the Joneses [The War Between Surnames]

THE EPIC STRUGGLE BETWEEN SURNAMES has been raging across the land largely unnoticed, but somewhere or other, the battle lines have been drawn. Articles like the New York Times' In Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up to Joneses bring an accounting of the war torn namescape to us back...

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Dolla Bill, Y'all.

JAY "HARBINGER OF TANKING ECONOMIES" Z has spoken and thus, we can be sure it is so. The Murkan Dolla just don't mean what it used to. Pay attention as you watch the catchy new music video from the mega-star rapster Jay-Z, "Blue Magic", and see if you can't spot...

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17 de Noviembre, 2007

Kucinich Wins "Debate" in Under 9 Minutes

AS DENZEL WASHINGTON SAID (repeatedly) through the character of Frank Lucas in the film American Gangster, "My man."...

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The Needle or the Cell?

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — Hundreds of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle. The get-tough policy in the Washington suburbs of...

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Like Barium From Heaven

OR MAYBE SOMEWHERE more sinister... Could a strange substance found by an Ark-La-Tex man be part of secret government testing program? That's the question at the heart of a phenomenon called 'Chemtrails.' In a KSLA News 12 investigation, Reporter Jeff Ferrell shows us the results of testing we had done...

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16 de Noviembre, 2007

Freshman Officers

LET'S GO back to High School. Don't worry! I don't mean yours....

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Them Belly Full And They Laughing

Really, what an offensive statement Clinton made to the millions of American and Mexican workers who lost their jobs and saw their wages destroyed thanks to NAFTA - a deal pushed by the Clinton administration (for some more data on NAFTA, see this report from the Economic Policy Institute)....

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They're Always Thinking of Us

I AM DUTY-BOUND to report that although it's true that Zahara, one of Brad and Angelina Jolie's adopted children, has been removed by adoption from her home land of Ethiopia, now her parents have provided something almost as good. An island in Dubai shaped just like Ethiopia! Brad Pitt and...

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Diabetes: Weapon of Terror?

WHEN YOU ARE this terrified of your own citizenry, guess what? It means "The Terrorists," as it were, are winning. Because the whole fear behind what happened on 9/11 was that "our way of life" would be destroyed. Secret prisons, torture, Gitmo, wiretapping the nation, intrusive and unwarranted police...

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15 de Noviembre, 2007

D.C. March Against Hate Crime

With hate crimes and noose hangings on the rise across the country, we must have the federal government protect us from local hate and bigotry. From Mychal Bell in Jena, Louisiana, to Sean Bell in New York, it is time for the federal government to intervene, and you can...

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Uprising Radio Review #2 [Lions for Lambs]

MY LATEST REVIEW, on Uprising Radio, this time on Lions for Lambs. Down in front! And join me behind the cut for una platica— as if the film didn't have enough!...

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14 de Noviembre, 2007

Her Back Pages

... AND THEN THERE'S Ava from Alabama, who could serve as a much better inspiration to mijas than previously-mentioned equivocators. After all, this young lady is willing to lose support while she chases down what she believes true and important. ¡Que Viva La Rebelde!...

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"I Stand Firm on Some Things. Sometimes."

SPEAKING OF CONCRETE REASONS to be extremely wary of Clinton's Presidential ambitions. You remember the spot of reason that Eliott Spitzer announced over New York way, when it came to keeping records of who was driving and of those who need to drive to make their way through their...

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Hillogynists Take Note

HILLARY RUNNING for President of the United States of America is a great thing, no matter what. This ain't a cigarette ad. Mujeres have come a long way. And I, for one, am excited to see it. Sadly, one of the main reasons I thought I'd want a female President...

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7.7 Quake Shakes Northern Chile

A powerful earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale ripped through northern Chile today, causing panic, power outages and some structural damage, and closing down, at least temporarily, some of the country’s copper mines, according to news reports. The earthquake was centered in Chile’s Atacama desert, 780 miles north...

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13 de Noviembre, 2007

Bloody Kisses on la Frontera

I HAVE TO SAY, the cross-border Kissing Booth just about cracked me up. Though I am not often capable of such things, meeting antagonism and violence and hostility with a sense of humor and love is probably the most satisfying way to engage negativity and destructive energy. Though la migra...

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Indians for Saints

An indigenous Argentine has been beatified for the first time at a ceremony in southern Argentina. Tens of thousands of faithful attended the service in honour of Ceferino Namuncura, many of them dressed in ponchos and plumed headdresses. The Vatican Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone, led the service in the...

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Tus Mensajes [Ready to Work]

FROM THE MAIL: Hola. What pisses me off about this site is that it forces me to look at my own racist attitudes. Many well-meaning white folks will not even acknowlegde their racist tendencies which is unfortunate. Look at the Obama candidacy. I really do believe that there will be...

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No Matter How Hard Ya Try, Ya Can't Stop Us Now

These intellectual challenges to mainstream and other viewpoints are some of the opinions Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander-American, and black bloggers are exposing on a growing number of sites focused on social, political, and cultural issues. The sometimes facetiously named blogs range from Angry Asian Man to The Angry Black Woman....

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Keyboard Killers, Pt 4. (Water Rapists)

MORE WORDS on the New Horrific Normal, this thing we pretend is viable—torture. More words I never in my entire life thought I'd be writing. But all I can really say to people like Jonah Goldberg—people who now deliberate over the nuances of thisnthat and talk so long they think...

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12 de Noviembre, 2007

Donda West Dies

KANYE WEST'S mother has died from what seems to be complications from cosmetic surgery. Kanye West’s mom, Dr. Donda West, tragically passed away Saturday night in Los Angeles. The former chairwoman of Chicago State University’s English department had undergone elective surgery, but the cause of death has yet to be...

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The Red Carpet Treatment [Veterans Day]

LALO ALCARAZ, a Xicano who pens some damn funny comix on the regular, wrote me and asked me to post up his latest comment on the Ken Burns saga. Behind the cut, I give you Lalo's latest. Should have been up ayer, but only got it anoche....

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Tus Mensajes [Tunnel of Oppression mail]

FROM THE MAIL: Hola, nada mas queria comentar que el video de "A xicano interpretation" esta buenisimo. we played it at our university for our yearly "Tunnel of Oppression" it was awsome! me trajo un gran orgullo de saber que soy mexicana, con mcuho respeto a ud, le doy las...

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Tus Mensajes [A Plea to Mean Mexicans]

FROM THE MAIL: I want there to be peace between our people and for the hatred to stop. The only way to do this is for the Americans and Mexicans to be nice to each other. The generations before us had brought it to this point and now we have...

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Baaaah! Naaah! Ughhh!

NEVER keep goat milk in your fridge next to the creamer in an almost identical container. Especially when you get up and pour your coffee before the sun rises. Although making such mistakes will actually wake you up even quicker than your normal, cow-laced copa. (If any cocky vegans show...

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10 de Noviembre, 2007

The Naked...and

AFTER HIS RECENT hospitalization, Norman Mailer has died. Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Norman Mailer, the prolific writer whose public brawls and macho swagger often overshadowed his Pulitzer Prize-winning prose that challenged society's views of politics and sex, died early today. He was 84. Mailer died of renal failure at...

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