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31 de Enero, 2008

Hey, That Ain't Culo!


GERMAN MUSICIANS now join the horde of googlers caught up in my site stats who are obsessed with the world-famous Mexican Butt. (Not as popular a search as the highly-sought Mexican Cock, however. Let's be real.) Mexico's ambassador to Germany has voiced his displeasure over a popular German song...

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Why Are Mexicans So Damn Kind and Smart?


I GUESS THE ANSWER to that is just another mystery, like so many of those that disappeared with the ancient tribes of México. But look to José to break it down: ECATEPEC, MEXICO -- Jose Luis Gutierrez is the mayor of the biggest city in Mexico you've never heard of,...

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Something Stinks in Lima


LIMA, Ohio — The air of Southside is foul-smelling and thick, filled with fumes from an oil refinery and diesel smoke from a train yard, with talk of riot and recrimination, and with angry questions: Why is Tarika Wilson dead? Why did the police shoot her baby? “This thing...

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30 de Enero, 2008

MAPA for Obama


From Nativo. V. Lopez, National President of the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) "the oldest political-civic organization of Mexican Americans and Latinos in the U.S." January 29, 2008 SI SE PUEDE WITH OBAMA In various previous bulletins we have pointed out numerous contradictions and challenges facing us during this presidential...

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Strange Winters [mtv vlog 1-30-08]


THIS WEEK in Eugene, Oregon and the surrounding areas, there has been a lot of talk about the weather. But not in a mundane fashion, such as when you are having your gas pumped (remember that 'round here, you cannot pump your own gas, it is all full serve!) and...

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You Can't Raze the House of Nezua!


THOSE OF YAZ who read my more non-politicalish blog House of Nezua may have noticed that the site is down for a couple days. I don't know all of what's going on, but for a basic explanation and the new location, go here. UPDATE: oh...its back!! hmm. okay. i'm going...

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Obama for Safe Roads.


(01-28) 04:00 PST Washington -- Sen. Barack Obama easily won the African American vote in South Carolina, but to woo California Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses...

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29 de Enero, 2008

My Morality, Your Body, Our Plates.


I GUESS I just don't get it. Firstly, If women are against abortions...can't they just not have one? It seems to be something like those against gay marriage. Don't marry someone of your own sex if the idea repulses you. And really, what good is it doing to anyone...

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Bendixen for Obama!


I'M BEGINNING TO GET ANNOYED as I keep hearing what a rift exists between Latinos and Blacks, or how Latinos won't vote for blacks. Specifically, that Obama will be hurt by this "fact." A few weeks ago, Sergio Bendixen, a Clinton pollster and Latino expert, publicly articulated what campaign officials...

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Univision, Now With Extra Clinton Bias!


Univision, the largest Spanish-language television network, was recently bought out by a private equity consortium that includes billionaire Haim Saban. Saban is a close friend of the Clintons, and a particularly zealous Hillary fundraiser. —Is Univision Slanted toward Hillary?...

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Terror, Mirror, On the Wall


"Some may deny the surge is working, but among the terrorists there is no doubt." —George W Bush, who has no doubt that the surge is working....

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28 de Enero, 2008

Learn Chinese


A LITTLE JIN to move your monday noche around enough to keep the hinges greased. His flow is tight, the beats are nice, and he's pretty, too. What more ya want? Jin was the first Chinese American rapper to get signed to Ruff Ryders, though he had a falling...

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Lunatic Gets a Mic


THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary __________________________ For Immediate Release January 28, 2008 STATE OF THE UNION EXCERPTS As Prepared for Delivery (Posted without commentary for those who want to flagellate themselves in peace.)...

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Foto del Mes


SINCE IT DOES the blog no justice to leave bush at the top of the page, I leave something a bit prettier (only in comparison, of course):...

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The Funny Thing About Gang-Rape


IN HONOR OF GEORGE W(ARMONGER) BUSH and his scheduled (and bound to be pathetic) Pseudo-State of the Union, I bring back what seems to have been one of Fugya's sunnier moments: contemplating the gangrape of a Saudi woman who was then sentenced to 200 lashes for being gangraped. You...

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Eufrosina for Mayor!


THOUGH IT IS TRICKY to judge other cultures by our own standards (especially when we have so far to go ourselves), I don't think there's any question that this is a pretty unacceptable situation for las mujeres. It reminds me of the perverse idea that makes the rounds in the...

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Target: Selling Ass and Mimicking Dying Institutions


Target to the blogosphere: you’re irrelevant. That was the message the cheap-chic retailer seemed to convey in an abrupt e-mail message to ShapingYouth.org, a blog about the impact of marketing on children. Early this month, the blog’s founder, Amy Jussel, called Target, complaining about a new advertising campaign that depicted...

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26 de Enero, 2008

Obama Takes South Carolina Primary


A FELLOW STREET TEAM 08 member (Shantel, reppin' South Carolina) just told me that Obama's win in South Carolina is expected to manifest as a "big lead." She also gives me these figures: 80 percent black men for obama 82 percent black women for obama 17 percent black men...

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Tear Down the Wall


I WONDER sometimes if we (the human race) will ever live to evolve to a point (and yes it's "evolve" in my way of seeing things, hello, my blog, blog meet readers) where we look back on all the futile walls we tried to use to keep some people hungry...

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In Which Nezua Talks Shit About the FCC


IT'S "BATTLES" LIKE THIS, juxtaposed with all the corporate and government crime to which we turn a blind eye, that really make me wonder about morality and sanity in this nation of ours: The Federal Communications Commission yesterday proposed a $1.43 million indecency fine against ABC television stations for a...

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25 de Enero, 2008

More FairNBalanced® News


WITH ALL THE CASES of soldiers returning home and acting out on damaged souls and wartorn minds (a crime we must lay at the feet of our government which not only chose this war, but SOLD it, rammmmed it down our throats, and planned for it long ago), why...

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Turning to Sawdust From the Top Down


I LOVE IT when scientists discuss the events of 9/11. Though I had to smile at part of the intro to Pt II: remember when we were outraged when it first became clear that Saddam didn't actually have any connection to 9/11? Wow. It makes you long for innocence....

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24 de Enero, 2008

Bill Clinton: Nobody But Media Cares About Racial Issues


OKAY, I paraphrase! But that's his gist. The media is "determined to take this election away from [South Carolina]" when they focus on the racial dogwhistles such as the Clintons and/or their representatives/surrogate speakers love to toot. And the Clintonbrow wrinkles up sadly: "And that's not right. That's not right."...

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Strange Truth-Telling Man Leaves Race


IF ONLY Bush had been so summarily rejected by the mainstream media...and most of us. Dennis Kucinich has decided to drop out of the presidential race after disappointing single-digit showings in early primaries and caucuses. —Kucinich abandons White House bid Later, Señor K. You were inspiring up in this...

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One Thing Leads to Another


Wednesday's meeting was handicapped, of course, because no-one says aloud what the reasons are for opposing impeachment. That Cheney and Bush have committed impeachable offenses is universally understood. But the arguments against impeaching them (other priorities, bipartisanship, we don't have the votes, etc.) usually sound like lame cover for whatever...

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Official MTV News Intro to Street Team 08


I NEVER POSTED the official MTV News intro on the Street Team 08, tho I meant to. Behind the cut is the first vid MTV News did on the Street Team, in typical glitzy quick-cut MTV fashion. You can see me for a moment in one wide shot. That was...

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23 de Enero, 2008

Because Dreaming is Not Enough (Vlog 1-23-08)


CLICK the pic to the left to find yourself magically transported to a page hosting my latest MTV Street Team '08 video, which was shot in Eugene, Oregon at a Martin Luther King Jr rally and march on January 21, 2008. All shooting, editing and sleeplessness by Nezua....

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The Struggle Not On Our Screens


A REMINDER and an update on the struggle for human rights in Burma: When the youths of Burma chanted "The whole world is watching!" through clouds of tear gas last September, it was—for once—an understatement. Cell phone footage of the junta's violent crackdown made the rounds from Beijing to...

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Dennis the Menace (to Entropy)


COKE AND PEPSI agree that there is no such thing as "too many cavities," whilst Dennis Kucinich sez "I want some juice, dammit." “If impeachment is off the table, truth is off the table. If truth is off the table then this body is living a lie.” —Dennis Kucinich,...

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We Need No Border After Today


RIGHT ON. RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Tens of thousands of Palestinians on foot and on donkey carts poured into Egypt from Gaza Wednesday after masked gunmen used land mines to blast down a seven-mile barrier dividing the border town of Rafah. The border breach was a dramatic protest against...

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21 de Enero, 2008

And Justice


A SONG that played in my home while I was growing up. It sounds just as good today....

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Dream Until Your Dreams Come True


THANK YOU for the dream. And for the doing. We're not there. We're still working. Salud, Mister King. And again, thank you....

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20 de Enero, 2008

Smart Employees Within!


PROPZ to Home Depot (somewhere in Oregon) for choosing a different style than the tired "English Only" route....

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VOTE for Pedro from Pluto!


KEEP MOVING, NOTHING TO SEE HERE. Just another article pretending to tell NEWS while sticking in little anti-Latino or anti-migrant jabs. This is part of what made me laugh just a tiny bit to myself during all the AP lecture/training in nyc recently. We were hearing of all the...

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Mount Rainier Has Heart


The tiny city of Mount Rainier is considering whether to declare itself a sanctuary for illegal immigrants, entering a regional and national debate over enforcement of immigration law. If the City Council approves the proposal, the eclectic city of 9,000 in Prince George's County will join nearby Takoma Park in...

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The Hipsanik Effect


IT DEPRESSES ME that I have to share a land with these people: The illegal aliens who invade our country, by their own illegal act, attack our fundamental ideals and principles, and endanger the future of America. They don't hesitate to play the 'race card' to validate their own illegal...

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19 de Enero, 2008

Sejak!


I MEAN, the truth is, I think I also have a Wide Stance. Not making a statement, but I'm not gonna lie. Winner!...

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Mechanical Pussy


SUDDENLY I realize that I have not, in fact, been hearing a mewling cat somewhere outside my window since the dark predawn hours. Yes, suddenly I realize that I must have forgotten that recently I picked the "mewling cat" sound as an alert for my RSS feeder. So I'm very...

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18 de Enero, 2008

Kurt's First Guest Post


A SMALL REMINDER from our friend, Kurt Vonnegut. For no special reason except for that it lives on. And should:...

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Bedford Raid to be Reviewed by DHS


NEW BEDFORD - Homeland Security has agreed to review an immigration raid at a New Bedford leather goods maker that immigrant advocates said caused a humanitarian crisis. [...] Most of the detained workers were women with young children, and immigrant advocates criticized the agency for tearing families apart. A...

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Poison? Or Antidote?


South Carolina has one of the fastest-growing Latino populations in the nation, and illegal immigration is one of the hottest topics -- along with concerns about the economy and the Iraq war -- among likely voters in the state's Republican primary Saturday. In Saluda County, a collection of farming and...

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Adding Injury to Injury


THE INCREASINGLY ACCEPTED USE of Tasers does nothing to mitigate the sorrow when another "uncooperative" citizen has their heart fried by one. [bracketed] words have been added by Nezua. ...[A] 29-year-old man who had crashed his car died after state troopers [shot] him with a Taser, according to autopsy results...

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17 de Enero, 2008

Unapologetic Posse?


HERE IS A POLL measuring your reaction to the idea that on weekends, there could possibly be guest bloggers here in 2008. Of course, this is the House of Nez. I'm not just talking about any bloggers. I'm talking about rock stars of the locasphere. The menudo of the virtual...

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There's No Such Thing As (Horse) Race!


MAN, the more I hear these candidates speak and the more I learn about them the more depressed I feel. (And definitely stay away from this place). I know, I know! Beat the Other Team. I'm all for it. Yes, they are far worse. Agreed. But eh. Lately I've...

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An Intro by Citizen N.


NOT BAD for a sick man working all gear and angles himself! Just a little intro vlog for my MTV gig. And hey, I only look a little bleary. Which is actually what impressed me. Aside from the fact that gettting through the entire approval process (for Street Team...

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'supdate


WOW. What a fantastic cold I caught in the city. I've been sick for a week and last night it morphed into a lung-drowning cough that made me have to sit up to fall asleep. Of course, it may not have helped that I was editing until four in...

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15 de Enero, 2008

Oh, the Unity.


JUST GOTTA SAY the Unity Gestapo patrolling the LeftLiberalBlogosphere lately with all this "let's just be real careful and nice and get along so we can cream the other team in '08" urgent vibing guilting snot makes me feel ill. Act on your truth. That's all I have to say....

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Shadow of a Sun


MTV Camp, Part 2 begun on the night of the 14th. finished the night of the 15th. SEEMS I SWITCHED over to NY time and can't get back. Used to fall asleep early, wake up real early. Now I'm not. But being sick doesn't help. And I can't sleep. It's...

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Oaxaqueño Youth Under Attack


AND THE CORRUPTION IN OAXACA refuses to die a quiet death. Urban Paramilitaries Provoke and Attack a Youth March Today, January 15th, 2007, before the beginning of a youth march for the liberation of political prisoners, Urban Paramilitaries (porros) have initiated a series of provocations to defame the social...

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Mis Blogmig@s Rule


JUST GOT A BOX in the mail. Ugly cold been clinging to me for days, and I didn't even want to go see humans, but I threw my hood over my head and answered it....

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Mix it up


I'M A MEXICAN Romanian Jewish German American who was raised (moving from state to state) in a faith based on Eastern (India) philosophies, born in Los Angeles but who has a slight new york accent, who grew up immersed and in love with hip-hop, breakdancing, and many elements of...

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Jay Chou (Fearless)


I WON'T STEP ON THIS with a world of talk (though I'd like to); I'll just let you know that it's a music video that includes scenes from a movie (that I recently borrowed from a blogmigo) called Fearless, a film by Ronny Wu about a famous and amazing...

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13 de Enero, 2008

Crock-a-Mole


HILLARY breaks it down real simple-like for the Latino comunidad. In ethnic food terms, you know. It's just the way we think of everything. Clinton and her busload of traveling press moved from there to the popular local Mexican restaurant Lindo Michoacan, where a "roundtable" that was actually square passed...

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Clinton Camp Woos Imus for '08 Ticket


ANY READER who has been following this blog for a while knows that I criticize and compliment most Democrats without hesitancy. I do not shift support, per se, from candidate to candidate. I just find things I admire, and things I do not, and I write about them as they...

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12 de Enero, 2008

The Return of Nezua


¿QUE TAL, AMIGOS? I missed this blog! That's one of the things I realized on my (beautiful) break and breather away from this never-satiated page. I really enjoy the community here. Which is a kickass thing to remember. And I sure missed my home. But now I'm back from...

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And when you leave, go quietly.


If ICE seeks permission from a judge, agents can sedate people before deporting them. Immigration officials have acknowledged that 56 deportees were given psychotropic drugs during a seven-month period in 2006 and 2007 even though most had no history of mental problems. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal...

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11 de Enero, 2008

Liberty in Chains


Six years and going strong since America perverted its own sense of justice and fairness by maintaining a detention center in another country and under the banner of freedom from terror illegally detained American citizens and world citizens exposing them heavily to torture instead of legal representation and equal protection...

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10 de Enero, 2008

Clinton's New Hampshire Win and The Bradley Effect


I don't like assuming the worst about people (*smirk*), but there has always been some knowledge of the fact that liberal whites will tailor their responses to prevailing assumptions of equality and justice when asked about issues of race, gender, sexuality, disability, or what have you. However, what people say...

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9 de Enero, 2008

Answering for Thievery: The Worker Deserves His Pay


A reader shared more information about Pedro Zapeta with me; Nez originally posted about it earlier last year. Proud to Live in America has created a petition for Zapeta, an immigrant who saved up $58,000 while working as a dishwasher so he could start a business in Guatemala. When he...

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8 de Enero, 2008

Lydia Mendoza, ¡presente!


Lydia Mendoza, a woman whose song and performance became part of the cornerstones of American music, died on December 20, 2007 at 91 years old. Her accolades include being the first Texan to win the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 1982 and winning the National Medal...

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7 de Enero, 2008

Keeping Up Shop (Open Thread)


While Nezua is handling his biznass in NYC to represent the (mean?) streets of Oregon to the fullest, he's asked me to make sure you're not randomly assaulted by flesh fluttering poetics, anagrams of pointless proportions, online apothecaries, marketing (insults to) sonnets, and good-for-nothing under-the-bridge-dwellers. And in general, keep UMX...

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6 de Enero, 2008

The Unapologetic Mexican: 2008


WELL, WE ARE DOWN TO T-minus1, and tomorrow is our launch date. So this is as good a time as any to let ya know what's up for this blog in 2008. I planned to have this post ready on January 1st, but sometimes that's just the way the taco...

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5 de Enero, 2008

The Executioner's Dilemma


SO...is torture okay under certain conditions? Or is torture, by nature, wrong? Because if torture is wrong, then why do we kill death row inmates with drugs that clearly provide torturous endings? And if we don't think torture is right, why is one of the drugs we inject them with...

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The Story of Roderick Gamble and Silk Littlejohn




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4 de Enero, 2008

Haitian Family Busted for Criminal Underpantsiness


THANK GOD WE HAVE SWAT TEAMS who can respond to butt crack criminality! WELLINGTON — Six members of a family were arrested at The Mall at Wellington Green in an incident that began benignly enough over a pair of droopy jeans but ended like a chaotic scene out of...

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Obama and Huckleberry Dominate Iowa Caucus


THE SEXY AND CONCILIATORY OBAMA and the most decidely unpresidential and extremely-religious Mike Huckabee come away from the Iowa caucus with the highest numbers. Biden and Dodd fall away, Richardson and Clinton stubbornly hang in there. (The Nezua Caucus numbers show that Clinton is out of the race, however....

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3 de Enero, 2008

Nezua Recommends...


TODAY, one friend of mine breaks down How to Erode and Destroy Democracy which calmly bullet-points many factors in and contributors to our declining culture, while another friend breaks down The Great Immigration Swindle—which debunks the con behind much of the anti-migrant talk today. Useful reads, thanks Rob and Yave....

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Lakotah Declare Liens on Government-Held Land


AND MAKE IT CLEAR that they don't have beef with the citizens of the USA, but with the government, itself. And that they are not only withdrawing from the treaties and reclaiming sovereignty, but also initiating actions to reclaim the land. Following up on this amazing happening posted on...

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The Lying Tribe


THOUGH AT HEART, when pressed, I must admit that I inevitably return to the Bukowski doctrine of political thought, it's always good to remember how much the US Presidential products are marketed and trumpeted...or not. Bill Richardson is a tested and proven leader. And it is not as if this...

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2 de Enero, 2008

wetback


WHEN I WAS YOUNGER and I first heard the term "wetback," I had no idea why it was a slur for Mexicanos. I didn't ask anyone, this was before I met Google (around 1983ish? pic here is from '93 tho), and I was only left with my imagination. Whatever...

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1 de Enero, 2008

President Overlord II?


THERE'S SOME TALK lately about Michael Bloomberg running for President, and I've got four words for that thought. Hell no. and...

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Ugliest Taco Representation of 2007


I GUESS it's work-safe....

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