31 de Diciembre, 2007

¡feliz año nuevo! y bienvenido 2008!

HERE WE ARE AGAIN! And like last year, I succumb to that urge to simulate order and suss out meaning from the ever-fluctuating and always-fluid weave and dance of many moments, as well as take up the ancient tradition of, well, maintaining tradition, and the telling of stories that...

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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 12:03 PM.  | | (12)

A Taste of Mittocrisy

DEAR MISTER ROMNEY, I really appreciate your steadfast commitment to your faith. I've heard people choose these types of ideologies because it grounds a person in morality and integrity and human values. And of course I can admire that. With all the hate- and fear-mongering filling the public square today,...

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30 de Diciembre, 2007

The Fable of Greebey Vather, Time Traveler Extraordinaire

I see a screenplay blooming. Dealing with a favorite theme: time travel. You now think you'll steal this zeitgeisty gem from me, but you cannot because in the future, I have already finished it, and am mailing it to myself yesterday in a walnut sealed in Presidential earwax and pressurized...

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29 de Diciembre, 2007

Our First Year's End Best-of List!

THAT'S RIGHT, peeples. Walk it like ya mean it. It's your glory, too. Gracias mil to marenda.biz and LIving Life Abundantly for including The Unapologetic Mexican in your 50 Best Blogs of 2007! Hell yeah. Living life abundantly. I'm feelin that. Also shouts out to see Racialicious, Latinasoyme Latinitasoyme, Field...

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Having the Flu and With Nothing Else to Do

a poem by charles bukowski I read a book about John Dos Passos and according to the book once radical-communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hills living off investments and reading the Wall Street Journal this seems to happen all too often. what hardly ever happens is a man...

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The New Pretty Bird Woman House

GRACIAS MIL, thanks so much to all here who gave something to help Pretty Bird Woman House, for they have reached their goal and can now buy the shelter!!! They got a big donation on Friday that took them over the top, and now the dream is a reality....

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Ozombie Bin Hidin', REMIX 11

LOOKS LIKE the CIA did not make and disseminate it's latest Ozombie Bin Hidin' tape in time to mention the Pakistan violence that our ally Musharraf claims were AL Qaeda's latest deeds. Bin Laden did not mention accusations that Al Qaeda was behind Thursday's assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir...

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New Waters, Ancient Dream

THIS WORLD. My country. What a crazy fucking place. A place where many people are more worried about electric boxes of bits getting dirtied up with "dirty words" than they are a huge immoral monster-nation raping weaker tribes on the regular. Where we have a deranged and sad figure in...

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27 de Diciembre, 2007

Benazir Bhutto Killed

PERHAPS the most obvious admission that a person can make stating that they are personally incapable of changing the world's destiny with their own abilities and gifts and unique vision is to simply take the life of those who make it their mission to do so. Benazir Bhutto, I...

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Tus Mensajes [Wrong on All Issues]

You are so wrong on all issues. It's not right to tear gas rioting Mexicans, but Mexicans can kill 15,000 white Americans every year and that's okay? No! Stay in Mexico and make your country liveable and leave us Americans alone. Your words of hate are unjustified and only...

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24 de Diciembre, 2007

FelizamerraChristmix!

WELL, my friends. It's another year, and we're still here. Some of us. So let's enjoy, in whatever we ya do. Merry Crippins, as my oldest hija used to say, not being able to pronounce it. Merry Crippins to ya, and happy pine tree, and whichever ya be naming...

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23 de Diciembre, 2007

Leaflet from the Anti-Christmas Insurgency

THE CHRISTMAS U-BOATS are ready to launch, the eggnog spiked with communistic proparumba, the Athiestletoe hung up in wild, manger-rousting abandon. Let us share this laugh and this hunk of Heathengrease cheese, this wine stained moment of time to negotiate a space behind the rest of the rats in...

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21 de Diciembre, 2007

Weekend Open Thread, Basant Style

I'LL MOST LIKELY be deep in the mix for a day or more, compas. Don't hesitate to break into the fridge while I'm gone. House is yours....

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Perro Flamenco Friday

HAPPY VIERNES, VAT@S! Have a great weekend. Remember to wash down your politics with poetry or perro flamenco! It's good for the soul....

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las flores y las plumas

we opened the doors of our homes to greet them they came in & evicted us we showed them the open green of our valleys the clear blue of the sky they cut down the forests for their furnaces for their crosses we gave them all the fruits of...

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20 de Diciembre, 2007

Lakota Secede from United States of America

I GUESS THIS MEANS the Presidential Candidates don't need to do quite as much campaigning in the Northern plains area of the US? The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday. "We...

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Nezua Named MTV's Street Team '08 Rep for Oregon!

SOME OF MY regular readers (I do not, at this point, necessarily refer to the bran-eating amongst us, though they are a well-stirred crew, I'm sure) remember the day back in August I casually (you should have seen me, I was sipping a mint julep as I typed) posted...

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19 de Diciembre, 2007

Fresh Fruit at Affordable Prices!

Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalised by their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds by punching their way through the ventilator hatch of the van in which they were imprisoned. Once outside, they dashed for freedom. When they found sanctuary one recent...

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Christmas for a Wounded, Pretty Bird

YOU MAY RECALL, I posted a request for Olbermann last week or so, passing on the wish/hope/dream that one person in the Native American comunidad expressed for a greater level of exposure of their particular need. That need was that a home be bought, a refuge home for Native...

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18 de Diciembre, 2007

GOP dead in OR

A LOCAL CONSEQUENCE of widespread Republican incompetence: SALEM, Ore. (AP) - After four losses in races for statewide office in recent years, Republican activist Kevin Mannix isn't planning to run for anything in 2008. "I'm on the sidelines for now," says the former GOP lawmaker and gubernatorial contender. Mannix...

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David and Goliath. And Obama.

As health care goes, so goes the rest of the progressive agenda. Anyone who thinks that the next president can achieve real change without bitter confrontation is living in a fantasy world. —Paul Krugman, Big Table Fantasies IT'S AN EDWARDS OVER OBAMA ARTICLE that makes sense in its particular...

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17 de Diciembre, 2007

La Migra Trying to Start War With México

SAN DIEGO - The Border Patrol says its agents were attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period along the Mexican border, typically by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. Now the agency is responding with tear gas and powerful, pepper-spray weapons, including firing into Mexico. The counteroffensive has...

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A Legacy of Forgetfulness (The Haunted Land, Pt. III)

Slavery - the institutionalized ownership of one human being by another - is arguably the most disempowering system ever created by humans. It is intended to degrade and humiliate to the point that a person no longer feels agency over his own life. Like other systems of injustice, its effects...

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16 de Diciembre, 2007

Canucks Drill Through Border-Illusion

NORTH VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cabo Drilling Corp., (TSX-V: CBE) ("Cabo" or the "Company") Mexico Division, has been awarded a contract by Pinnacle Mines Ltd. (TSX-V: PNL) to drill a minimum of 4,500 meters on Pinnacle's La Calavera copper-silver-zinc joint venture property located in the State of...

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KBR/Halliburton Rapeland Fest Interrupted by Scrutiny. Again.

Congress is asking questions about another ex-employee of government contracting firm KBR who claims she was raped in Iraq. Letters to the Pentagon and the Justice Department today from Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. underscore congressional concern about a second alleged assault, this time of a woman from Florida who...

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Aurora Dairy Sucks Teat of Greed

Some of the nation's largest retailers and grocery chains sold milk labeled "organic" that was not truly organic, recently filed lawsuits allege. The federal complaints focus on the sale of milk from Boulder, Colo.-based Aurora Organic Dairy, which recently agreed to change its practices after the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

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15 de Diciembre, 2007

Carcinogen Found in LA Drinking Water

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two reservoirs that supply drinking water to parts of the city have been shut down and will be drained after a rare sunlight and chlorine reaction tainted the water with a cancer-causing chemical, utility officials said Friday. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power...

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Merck Issues Vaccination Recall

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A Fierce Heart Moves on, Julia Carson Presente!

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Rep. Julia Carson, who rose from a childhood of poverty and segregation to become the first black and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died Saturday. She was 69. Carson died of lung cancer at her home, where she had spent the past several weeks,...

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14 de Diciembre, 2007

Code Switching for the Masses

THE USA'S selective loathing of foreign elements has always disturbed me. Almost 100% of our products are made elsewhere, (even the traditionally AMERICAN products, hola Chrysler users!), massive corporations join hands with no regard to politics or who our "enemy" is on any given day, and then here on...

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13 de Diciembre, 2007

You are invited to the House of Nez.

EW KID on the block. Come chill for more personal, less formal (oh shit you thought we were loose up in here?), non-politics, day in the life junk. Hook up to the feed, subscribe by email, or just bookmark the page. There will probably be more hablando over there...

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The Masked Pundito

WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE yours truly may be soon writing a weekly column in the Mexican newspaper [edited, maybe better to keep unnamed until finalized?]! Or "half" of it. It's a "head to head" type of thing, tho that sounds more confrontational than it actually is. It's more of...

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12 de Diciembre, 2007

La Virgen Morena, Our Lady Guadalupe, Oatlaxopeuh

Before the Christmas season "officially" begins on December 16, day when the first Posada takes place, Mexicans join together for the festivities of Our Lady of Guadalupe, on December 12. This is one of the most important dates in the Mexican calendar. On this date, thousands of the faithful from...

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11 de Diciembre, 2007

45 People Killed in Algiers Car Bombing

THE ELEVENTH sure seems to be the day for bombing. It was not only the day the Towers were demolished in Manhattan, it was also the day General Pinochet launched his coup against the Chilean government in '73. "Suspicions quickly focused on"...Those darn suspicions! Always focusing themselves. I hope...

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Feed the Blog

TEMPORARILY speechless. But playing good music. Keep on....

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9 de Diciembre, 2007

The Story of Stuff

THIS 20 MINUTE SHORT is fantastic. It will make you cry, it will make you sick, well, hell. It's just a great time. For the whole familia. Seriosly, important message and education on the many hidden costs of material consumption, delivered by an eco-hero in a fun, dreadful, animated...

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Pretty Bird Woman House

OLBERMANN, I already know you read me, dawg. Stop LYIN'. And we all know you are down with tha populace, and have been a beacon of hope to many of the voiceless. You have put that pretty mug in front of the camera and scoffed forth many important statements...

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Politician, Impeach Thyself

In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a...

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Toy Drive for Imprisoned Children

ANOTHER CHRISTMAS IN THE HUTTO PRISON CAMP for families and children from 40 different countries. Toy Drive for the kids at Hutto Detention Center December 6th. 6-9pm. 1401 E 34th Street (on the corner of Lafayette and 34th) Come as you are and bring an unwrapped toy, book, art supply...

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7 year old takes 6 slugs for mama

IT SHOULD NEVER have had to come to this, but a child (Alexis Goggins) has saved her mother's life from a crazy, murderous, ex-boyfriend by shielding her mother from a hail of bullets with her own body: A 7-year-old-girl is being hailed as an “angel from heaven” and a...

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8 de Diciembre, 2007

Tom Perpetuates His Pain

TOM "POOR TOM" TANCREDO boycotts Univision Debate. I appreciate John Amato's disgust at Tancredo's idiotic hostility toward all things Spanish-flavored. And on the other hand...I understand. Tancredo is giving back what the USA gives those of us who here who have any kind of Otherlyness to us. In his...

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Defending My Right to Blow You Away

WHEN COPS ARE PRESENT and you shoot a burglar in the back, you can get off saying it was "self defense." One little stipulation: the corpses need to have been those of brownskinned ALIENZ. *Note for the Nuance-Challenged: I hope you don't think I'm advocating burglary. But when the...

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The Truth We Don't Seek

I TEND TO PAY attention to little human details. We communicate on so many levels that I find it very helpful to watch tics, eyeball choreography, the hands, the body, to listen closely to "trail-off" statements, to note associations made in topics, and so on. This doesn't mean you...

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The Pranker and the Pretendsident

THIS IS sort of hilarious. And to make a bigger point, it shows why living in fear is not a good idea. You can beef up security until not a single ray of light shines from the nation's core no more, and still get a kid a world away...

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Para mi Blogmig@s

I JUST WANT to stop in briefly here and thank my blogmig@s who have chipped in to ease mi novia's teeth pain. A total of $215 $255 has been donated so far and it really has moved her, and has also eased the tension that was going on here...

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7 de Diciembre, 2007

XP Wins Texas Progressive Alliance 2007 Silver Star!

AND I JUST GOTTA post propz to mi hermano y blogmigo XP: Edmundo Rocha. Blending lends heavy-handed social critiques, local and national politics, and a heaping dose of common sense in his blog, Edmundo Rocha tackles heavy topics like imigration, teenage pregnancy, racial and gender politics, and backs up everything...

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The Happiest Fucking Time of the Year!

I WAS GOING to leave out the vicious EFFWURD from my title, but my mother reads this blog and I know she needs some excitement from time to time, living in the woods and nearing 60 by now! And, face it. That's just how happy I am. The foto to...

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6 de Diciembre, 2007

Godwin is Dead. And No One Cares.

SO IT'S COMING TO THIS, THEN? ROME (Reuters) - A local politician has shocked Italians, and Jews in particular, by proposing that immigrants be treated with the same severity the Nazis used when they occupied the country. Giorgio Bettio, a city councilor in the northern city of Treviso, said...

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Ask a Chola Bout the WGA Strike

sombrero tip to Michael A. Deliz aka The Latino Insurgent. ¡Órale!...

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5 de Diciembre, 2007

¿NPR as KGB?

During questioning in the Democratic radio debate yesterday, debate sponsor NPR came dangerously close to promoting civilian pursuit of immigrants. The New York Times summed up NPR’s questioning in this way, 'If there is one issue that has challenged presidential candidates of both parties in Iowa this year, it is...

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Stormin' Oregon

GRACIAS for the inquiries, but I'm safe and sound. The storm in Oregon is a bit North and West of where I am by a couple hours. The coast is underwater in many places, but again, I am not on the coast. In this Age of Storm, these coasts...

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4 de Diciembre, 2007

Imus and the Yawning

MOST SENSELESS and Useless and Unnecessary Quote Ever award goes to..... 'Dodd?' said one brief commenter at the liberal blog DailyKos. 'WTF???'” —Dodd Falls Victim To Imus' Old Tricks On New Program Because...if One Brief Commenter at DailyKos is confused, that's news! Sheesh. ANYWAY, Imus is back on air. With...

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