Política Estados Unidos Entries
11 de Julio, 2008
Latinos [and Allies] Want Specifics, Not Soundbytes
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Latin America , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: ICE, Immigration, John McCain, latinalista.net, LatinoPolitico, migra, Obama, The Sanctuary, Zuky.net
MMMM! DO YOU SMELL WHAT NEZUA'S COOKIN'? It's the flava of the voting week, and that flava is currently simmering and spiceh!!! It may fade in a few, but for now, that flavor is Obama and McCain's Concern for Latin@ Issues. It also means that the "Left Blogosphere" or... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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4 de Julio, 2008
The Bombs Bursting in Air
Categorized under Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: bush, Impeachment Pie, Imperialism, Iraq, War, War Crimes, war on terror
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26 de Junio, 2008
The Realestateconquista
Categorized under Historia , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: Economy, fotoshop, historia, Housing Debacle, Lou Dobbs, Mexicans, Mexico, Reconquista, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
AS THE AMIGO who sent this link wrote: "Lou must be having a bad day." And just knowing that brings some sun to these gray skies. June 25 (Bloomberg) -- More than a century and a half after Mexico lost Texas to the U.S., Virgilio Garza wants a piece... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Junio, 2008
The Aroma of Justice
Categorized under Acción , Blogando , Historia , Juegos , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: African Americans, Amigos and Amigas, Blacks, blogs, DNCC08, Feminism, George Carlin, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Power to the People, Protest, RNC
AMIGA CARMEN talks about how some pissed off Hillary supporters are stewing and planning on disrupting the Democratic National Convention and of understanding their anger...but not their cause. George Carlin talks about how most of Feminism's concerns don't involve women of color. Nezua is remembering when he was pissed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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11 de Junio, 2008
And now, on to the rest of the year
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
ARE YOU AS GLAD as I am that the primaries are over? Wow. I think I actually feel some kind of psychological and physical rebound. Or relaxation settling in. So here's a long sigh and a smile for that reality. To celebrate, I'm going to take a breather up... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Junio, 2008
For Women or For Woman?
Categorized under Juegos , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Lord of the Rings, Obama
Clinton's bid to claim a piece of the ticket was regarded as brazen by some experienced Democratic politicians. It could prevent another Democratic woman from eclipsing her and even sabotage Obama's chances of winning, advancing a Clinton comeback by four years, to 2012 instead of 2016. Here's why: By advertising... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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7 de Junio, 2008
LiveBlogging Hillary's Concession Speech
Categorized under Blogando , LiveBlogging , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Obama
LIVEBLOG: keith olbermann introducing her...it feels like a sporting event with that voice. like obama does in so many venues, now hillary finally gets the roaring 80s-styx-arena tsunami of applause superstar treatment from the audience...and it takes losing to obama to get it. how ironic. and by ironic, i... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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6 de Junio, 2008
"He Shouldn't Do So On Our Account."
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Latino, Obama
The idea that Obama can't win Latino votes is a myth -- one that Clinton supporters only perpetuate when they suggest that he needs to choose Clinton as his running mate to win those votes. That's the argument advanced by Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez, D-N.Y., who said recently that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Democrats and the Destructo-Rat
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Democrats, lieberman, Obama, putos
HONESTLY, I never understood why the Dems tolerated Lieberman, the whiny traitor. He makes them look weak and silly and ineffective, as he runs around punching holes in the hull with a donkey sticker on his awl handle. But I just figured there was some arcane political rule or reason... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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High-Ranking Disturbance
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, racism
SOME DELUDED BLOGGERS (once I may have been able to say "rightwing bloggers") insist that it is, perversely, Obama who has pulled some "race card" because they are at a loss as to how to understand certain realities, and as I've said, certain politicians have factored this willing blindness into... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Tus Mensajes [Mirrors and Time]
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: African Americans, Change, Clinton, Obama
FROM THE MAIL: Firstly, I really should have posted this right after Obama's big speech on race, but it is one of those things that slipped through. Here is the person I've called "D," when mentioning them before. "D," is John, a reader in Georgia, and here he shares a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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5 de Junio, 2008
John McCain Flings Self 2000 Feet From Peak of Heightgeist
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: John McCain, Obama
IT WAS RIVETING, John "Betcha I Can Doom My Campaign in One Night" McCain's speech the night Barack Obama declared his winning the Democratic nomination for President. It was embarassing and awful and hilarious and surreal. It was as if McCain were doing a satire of himself. It was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Dream Dies Not Readily. Clearly.
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Obama, Vice President
IT IS RIDICULOUS to think of HRC as Obama's VP. Perhaps once it would have been possible. Not now. Where does that push come from? The Clinton campaign. Were HRC to be named now as VP, whose will has been enforced and with an intensity and assumption of priority... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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3 de Junio, 2008
Bow to the Mat
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Obama, Tae Kwon Do
REGARDING HILLARY CLINTONs odd non-concession speech last night: I do understand that Hillary, as a woman, feels she must appear strong to the end. And as a fighter, myself, I do respect that idea. And I do get that she is angling for cash and for a position in Obama's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Obama Wins Democratic Nomination
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Obama
ILLINOIS SENATOR BARACK OBAMA secures the necessary amount of delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination. In above photograph, the universe's most magical eight-ball confirms the future. Foto from footage shot at mid-May Obama rally at the University of Oregon 'Quad'... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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2 de Junio, 2008
Nuestra Amiga, Mi Prima Nicole
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Raza | Tags: Election, elections, familia
MI PRIMA, my cousin, is pictured to the left. Nicole is descended from the same familia, the same amazing mujeres y hombres who brought our family into the United States 70 or 80 years ago. I have become a freaky artist type cat, and she is on the politician... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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1 de Junio, 2008
The Spirit of Baghdad Bob Returns
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Baghdad Bob, Clinton, Harold Ickes, Hillary Clinton, McAuliffe
THE CLINTON CAMP looks forward to VICTORY!!!!! “We’re still fighting hard to be the nominee,” Mr. McAuliffe said. “We’re looking for a big win here in Puerto Rico.” When asked if Mrs. Clinton would suspend her campaign if Mr. Obama clinched the nomination this week, Mr. McAuliffe said that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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31 de Mayo, 2008
Michigan and Florida - The RBC Votes.
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Harold Ickes, Hillary Clinton
DEMOCRATIC RULES AND BYLAWS COMMITTEE MEETING over, and while Ausman (and Levin) here had a nice rimlight/kicker effect going on, most people were not lit as well and were rather flat in appearance. I know that's what you were wondering about. Anyway, votes were taken, sides argued, and Harold... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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30 de Mayo, 2008
Nezua Goes to Denver?
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: DNCC08
OR... NEZUA GOES TO DENVER! That is to say, I have been given access and credentials to attend the Democratic Convention through my affiliation and bloggership with Culture Kitchen (which is the outfit run by the talented and lovely Liza Sabater, we also have worked together on other projects). I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Mayo, 2008
Hillary Clinton's "Assassination" Remark & Why It Matters To Me
Categorized under Guest Blogando , Kevin , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, US Presidential Election 2008
[Update: I've added several more blogger of color reactions below. I post these reactions to show the breadth of thought on the matter from bloggers of color. I don't necessarily agree with everything that is said. Oh Wait! You mean not all black people and other people of color think... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Rush to Cruelty, the Climb to Liberty
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Raza , Violencia | Tags: ICE, Immigration, latinalista.net, Latino, Lou Dobbs, migra, Obama, putos, Rush Limbaugh
At a fundraiser in Florida Thursday night, Barack Obama accused anti-immigrant crusaders Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh of "ginning things up" to such an extent that there was a rise in hate crimes against Hispanics last year. "A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia. There's a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Mayo, 2008
Banking on Denial
Categorized under Hipnotismo , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, Glosario, Hillary Clinton, racism, Scarem Carom
HILLARY CLINTON plays a dangerous game. She uses her supporters—who believe in her so much that they refuse to see she is a calculating politician—to cover her crooked technique. Don't get me wrong, of course Obama is a calculating politician too. I don't think he is some beautiful pure... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Mayo, 2008
The Little-Discussed Resurrection-Nomination!
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Fear, Hillary Clinton
I LOVE how, well, disingenuous the arguments are getting from those trying to justify what Hillary did. "She was referring to herself getting shot" they desperately try to argue. HELLO, what?? Are you really about to try and say that she was arguing that she should stay in the race... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Hillary Hints at Murder
Categorized under Hipnotismo , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Violencia | Tags: Assassination, Clinton, Fear, Hillary Clinton, racism, RFK
WOW. This is going too far by anyone's standards, Senator. Either you are purposely feeding a violent and bone-white theme snaking around this election's feet, or you are plain stupid and unaware of what is dropping out of your mouth. And I respect you too much to call you... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Obama Gets Four More
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, Superdelegate Dance
OBAMA scoopin' up more superdelegates. Takes four today, one of who was previously in Clinton's camp. State Senator Peter Burling of Cornish and Deborah Nelson of Hanover, two former Edwards superdelegates from New Hampshire, plan to announce their switch at a news conference this morning, the Associated Press reported.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Rocky in the Black Spidey Suit
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Outtakes and Remakes
Hillary Clinton is not Rocky. Because Rocky was neither a dirty fighter nor a sore loser.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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22 de Mayo, 2008
Voting in Oregon: The 2008 Democratic Primary
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, Lane County, Obama, Oregon, Street Team 08, Vote-by-Mail, Voting
VOTING IN OREGON: The 2008 Democratic Primary gives you a peek into the mail-in elections that Oregon employs, as well as the inside of the Lane County Convention Center where the results came in the evening of the 20th. The latest video by Oregon's Official MTV Choose or Lose... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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20 de Mayo, 2008
Some of Your Money Funds Terrorism, too.
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Format, Hillary Clinton, hype, hypocrisy, John McCain, Obama, race, racism, sexism
THERE IS misogyny among both supporters of Clinton and Obama. And there is racism in both camps, too. Some people will not vote for a woman, no matter what. And guess what, some people will not vote for a man who looks like Obama. Some people who harbor a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Last Day for Oregon to Vote in Primary!
Categorized under Acción , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Eugene, Oregon, The Petroleum Wars, Voting
AS OREGON'S OFFICIAL MTV Street Team Rep. and all-around virtual dawn street crier, it falls upon me now to type out this message—OREGON: TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to take your ballot and get thee to an official drop! Drive and be counted! Don't let Nader get elected due... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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19 de Mayo, 2008
Awe Koota Bilxpaak Kooxshiiwiash
Categorized under Indígena , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: indigenous, Obama
WHILE HE WAS NOT quite slammin' shots with the Crow Indians, Obama clearly did impress the Crow Nation with his attention today. After holding a town hall meeting in Billings, Barack headed to the Crow Nation Reservation in Crow Agency, Montana, where he was formally adopted as a member... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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15 de Mayo, 2008
Chillin' on the 20 Yard Line
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Outtakes and Remakes
NOTE TO SELF: Must blog soon on important social justice issue or risk losing that "feeling good and helping the world" sensation I've come to love from my computer tappings. Sometimes I feel like a football fan out here. But...I am! I've said it before. Politics seem to be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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14 de Mayo, 2008
John Edwards for Barack Obama!
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: John Edwards, Obama
NOW we can say it for sure. So, as suspected, it wasn't a slip the other day when, as reported in the Ticket, [also snatched up by the mighty ears of UMX!] former Sen. John Edwards said he was going to endorse the Democratic presidential candidate he had just... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Obama in Eugene Pt. 3 [MTV vlog 5-14-08]
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, Democrats, McArthur Court, MTV, Obama, Oregon, Street Team 08, The Pit
OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 3) concludes our trilogy featuring Obama's rousing event that energized the town of Eugene, Oregon as well as the University of Oregon, and packed McArthur Court to overflowing on March 21, 2008. • Part One here. • Part Two • The Making Of narrative The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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13 de Mayo, 2008
Change in the Weather
Categorized under Pelicula , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Obama
BOY did I pick the wrong gig if I wanted not to be immersed in politics all the time. Whew. There's one giant politician here after another, every other day. When I'm not eating, I'm editing. When I'm not editing, I'm asleep. I hear Hillary is coming back and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Bill Clinton in Eugene, Oregon
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Eugene, Health, Hillary Clinton, Obama, September 11, University of Oregon
BILL CLINTON spoke last night at the University of Oregon in Eugene in behalf of his wife's candidacy, and of course, your trusty citizen journalist Nezua was on the scene. The speech was attended by about 800 - 1000 people. I didn't count, but the venue was switched at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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10 de Mayo, 2008
Obama at the Quad
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: blogs, Change, Hope, Obama, Power to the People
EIGHT THOUSAND members of the O.F.B. showed up yesterday at the Memorial Quad at the University of Oregon to listen to Senator Obama. As usual, I feel exhausted after the whole ordeal, and it's always hard to believe that this is mostly from standing and waiting. As well as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Mayo, 2008
Our Death Will Be Inside Our Homes
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Parenting , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: Iraq, The Petroleum Wars, War, War Crimes, war on terror
AND IN THE LAND THAT FLOATS UPON OIL, U.S. Forces and their subordinates are murdering the children of Iraq at the fastest rate possible. Though it's not quite fast or deadly enough to save them from the looming WMDs that endanger them all—the ones that required our military to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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I Expect You'll Understand the Difference Between White and Wrong
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Format, Hate Groups, Obama, Oregon, Voting, White Supremacists, White Supremacy
IT IS FUNNY how the primaries don't even seem to be about who actually wins or loses each state, but how each win or loss matches up to the expectation of whether or not that state will be won or lost. Of course the expectations are constantly massaged, sort... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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8 de Mayo, 2008
Rust Takes Down the (Clinton) Machine
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Clinton, Obama
A CONCISE AND UNEMOTIONAL article on why the Clinton Machine couldn't crest the hill. Some say "old guard" and this piece more or less backs that up. Their thinking is yesterday's news in various ways and that's why they never saw what hit them. Bam, bam, bam! Blogmigo Kai just... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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7 de Mayo, 2008
Summoning Us to Greatness
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, satire
I'M RATHER DISAPPOINTED that the Clintons will not be moving back into La Casa Blanca. After all, it would have been great to have Hillary as President. I could have proudly pointed both my daughters to her and show them how a strong and smart woman should act in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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4 de Mayo, 2008
The Empire Strikes Barack
Categorized under Humor , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Change, Clinton, Iran, Obama, Olbermann, Star Wars
THE FORCE is strong with this one.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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1 de Mayo, 2008
Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [pt. 4]
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Negativity, Obama
LAST WEEK we watched a young man (whom one person wrote me and called "arrogant") engage the democratic process as he questioned Hillary Clinton during her Town Rally at the South Eugene High School (April 4). The bold student wanted to know if when all was said and done... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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29 de Abril, 2008
A Proper Context
Categorized under Cultura , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: Format, historia, Latino, Mexico
MEXCELLENT. AUSTIN, Texas — The School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin is offering an online course for working journalists on how to incorporate the voices and views of their communities' Latinos into their reporting. The four-week course, "Covering the Latino Community," will teach journalists across Texas... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Home of the Brave, Sweatshop of the Free
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Historia , Parenting , Política Estados Unidos , Resistencia | Tags: hypocrisy, Kahlil Gibran, Power to the People, Protest, RNC, University of Montana, Youth
TAKE the power back. This is unacceptable. The eight University of Montana students who stormed Main Hall earlier this month, staged a sit-in protest in the campus president's office, and were arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassing will get a lesson in consequences from UM administrators on Tuesday. Charles Couture,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Reminder for Oregon
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Obama, Oregon, Voting
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28 de Abril, 2008
Blue-collar Bitter Gun Owning Harley Riding Voters
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, obama, YouTube
sombrero tip to yliza... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Fear Builds Walls, Hope Builds Pigs
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: music, Obama, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters
HA HAAAA CHARADE YOU ARE... Man, I love that song! Haven't played it in years, don't even think I have it anymore. That was in the cassette era, and I've lost all my music casettes. I saw Floyd in '88, NJ. (Maybe it was '89.) I think it was the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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So Much for Lucidity and Political Abstinence.
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Outtakes and Remakes
I SWEAR! There really was one lovely shining moment when I just didn't care anymore. Ah well. I excuse it by remembering I never follow football or basketball or anything. Politics is boxing without the sweat and shiny shorts. And we do know how I love to watch boxing.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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When Blackness Approaches Power
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Religión , Violencia | Tags: African Americans, Anti-Arab, Blacks, Christianism, Hillary Clinton, hypocrisy, Jeremiah Wright, race, racism, religion
THE CONTINUED hypocritical attacks on Jeremiah Wright and Obama's name are disgustingly racist. Period. And the more I hear of this Pastor vato, the more I like him. Speaking the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, [Pastor Jeremiah] Wright called the recent criticism surrounding his sermons "an attack on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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27 de Abril, 2008
How Hillary Can Still Win
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Obama, YouTube
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25 de Abril, 2008
Oregon Latinos for Obama
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, Oregon, PCUN, Portland, Ramon Ramirez, Susan Castillo
A coalition of Latino community leaders in Oregon has thrown its support behind Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Ramon Ramirez, the president of PCUN, the state's largest farmworker union, made the announcement Wednesday, citing Obama's commitment to improving the lives of farmworkers and Latino families in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Abril, 2008
The Civic Reawakening of a New Generation
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Harvard, Obama, Power to the People, Youth Vote
With the central mission of the Institute of Politics being to engage and inspire young Americans in the memory of John F. Kennedy and his legacy, we are particularly pleased that the underlying shifts in civic participation that we noted in 2002 are not a one-time phenomenon but instead represent... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Time to Lift the Rug (Again)
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: bush, Change, Clinton, Hope, hypocrisy, Obama, Oliver North, Ronald Reagan
When I say my thinking has traveled an arc with Clinton, dont take it the wrong way. I still do not think she is going to be, our should be, our president. But I have grown more sympathetic to her as a person, through the course of my recording... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Abril, 2008
Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [pt. 3]
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Clinton, Eugene, MTV, Oregon
HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [3] continues our HRC four-part series, which features the Senator's appearance at Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read the comments of Tapper and Suarez and myself and probably many others, regarding this very appearance. If you're one of the chosen ones, you've even... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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21 de Abril, 2008
Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [MTV Vlog Apr21]
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Clinton, Democrats, Eugene, MTV, Oregon
HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [1] begins our HRC three-part series, which will feature the Senator's rally/town-hall appearance at Eugene, Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read Tapper and Suarez and myself and many others comment on this very appearance*. Now, witness all the small town high school political... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Ruben Salazar Remembered
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Raza , Salud | Tags: Chicanos, El Movimiento, Hunter Thompson, Ruben Salazar, Salazar Park
RUBEN SALAZAR, a respected Mexican American journalist whose face and voice became important to El Movimiento in the 70s will be posthumously recognized on a stamp. Salazar was shot and killed while covering the National Chicano Moratorium March, which was organized by the Mexican American community mostly to protest... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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15 de Abril, 2008
King Rat the Corpse Rancher
Categorized under Acción , Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: bush, putos, Torture, War Crimes
I SAID I'D WRITE ON TORTURE today, as the Gross W. MoronTerror has recently admitted—using his typical "YGAFPWT"* methodology of confronting accusations of his violating the social contract—that he has signed off on the torturing of humans. A brief comment to mark yet one more slimy, sleazy, slipped notch... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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8 de Abril, 2008
A Hunger for Truth (And Tomato): Shooting the Obama Trilogy
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Eugene, McArthur Court, MTV, Obama, Oregon, Street Team 08, The Pit
I PROMISED YA I would relate my arduous tale of shooting the Obama event here in Eugene (Parts 1 and 2, 3 still to come), and so I now point you to a lengthy and well-illustrated blog wherein I relate the story of A Hunger for Truth (and Tomato):... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Bill Past Due
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton
SO I'VE BEEN THINKING after reading a few irate writers who imply that there is some kind of contagious framing out in the aether that unfairly paints Hillary Clinton as a liar. Some of these people say this persistent test she must pass is a special Clinton rule, or is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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7 de Abril, 2008
Obama in Oregon, Part 2
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Pelicula , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, Democrats, McArthur Court, MTV, Obama, Oregon, Street Team 08, The Pit
OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 2) continues our trilogy of Obama-in-Oregonity as promised last week! Peep through the Lens O' Nez and once again, enter "The Pit" in Eugene, Oregon—which is really not as gruesome as the name might sound, but instead a rather invigorating and some might even venture,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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5 de Abril, 2008
Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, Clinton, Eugene, MTV, Oregon, Street Team 08
COVERED THE HILLARY CLINTON campaign stop in Eugene yesterday, at the South Eugene High School. While there was a smattering across a few demographics (there were young people, too), it seemed to my eye to be mostly white women, and older people. (You can't judge by who is behind HRC... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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4 de Abril, 2008
Hillary Clinton Releases Oregon Campaign Schedule
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Democrats, Eugene, Oregon
HILLARY CLINTON has released her schedule for Oregon with one day to spare. (Senator Obama gave but two days notice). She will be speaking in Portland and Eugene. (Senator Obama spoke in Salem, Portland, and Eugene.) Senator Clinton will be stopping in Eugene tomorrow to speak at two high... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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2 de Abril, 2008
Raging Bill
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, I should tag this something, Outtakes and Remakes
SOMEONE'S SMOOTH VENEER is popping off like pine panel in a bonfire. "It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended," one superdelegate said. According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who flew in from Chicago with bags under his eyes - was classic old Bill... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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30 de Marzo, 2008
Occupational Hazard
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama
I'M NOT HERE to be an unwavering bullhorn for Obama. That is utterly boring. And yes, I don't think there's any contest between him and Senator Clinton, as far as who could get more done. Or who would be more uplifting as a President in a few senses. Or... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Obama Opens Office in Eugene
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Eugene, Obama, Oregon
RIDING THE WAVE of his recent appearance(s) in Oregon, the Obama campaign opens a local office. DOWNTOWN EUGENE - More than one hundred people showed up Saturday morning for the grand opening Obama's new office located at 1280 Willamette Street in Downtown Eugene. "I'm here this morning to support... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Invaders Press On
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: hypocrisy, Iraq, Support the Truth
IF WE STEP BACK a moment from our ethnocentric surety and simply think out what it might mean to be INVADED by another nation, no not simply bombed once and let be to work our economy and feelings of unity and national safety out as we all have (supposedly)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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28 de Marzo, 2008
Obama in Eugene Pt. 1 [MTV vlog 3-28-08]
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, McArthur Court, MTV, Obama, Oregon, The Pit
OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 1) is the name of the new video shot and edited by yours truly, Oregon's Official MTV Choose or Lose Street Team 08 Citizen Journalist, and just as the title foreshadows, there will be two more parts to this tryptych of political goodness. Clicking the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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27 de Marzo, 2008
Is Avoidance the Answer?
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Gore, Obama, Race
THESE DAYS, there is a sure way to have me laugh at writing and declare it devoid of intelligent method, and that is to employ cute little hatenames for Obama supporters. I mean, come on. Is "Obama supporters" really so hard to type? Does it actually hurt to not sling... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Marzo, 2008
Vigil (to End the War) - [MTV Vid 3-25-08]
Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Política Estados Unidos , Protesta , Violencia | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, Iraq, MTV, MoveOn, Oregon, Protest, War Crimes, war on terror
ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Iraq Invasion, MoveOn held vigils all over the country at the same time. This video commemorates and captures the public vigil held in Eugene, Oregon to call for an end to the Iraq Occupation. The latest video for my MTV Citizen Journalist gig.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Marzo, 2008
Shining, Gleaming, Streaming, Flaxen, Waxen
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: blogs, Change, Negativity, Obama, Outtakes and Remakes, race
ANYWAY, I'm feeling burnt out on some of these conversations. Political swattings and virtual angers. Maybe this is a place to which I keep returning. So I guess I must enjoy it on some level. How perverse. But I do need to step back, I'm getting too stirred up... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Bethesda and Oaxaca [The White Lens 8.5]
Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Foto , Historia , La Lente Blanca , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, Format, iPhone, Mestizaje, Mexico, MTV, Oaxaca, Obama, Oregon, race, racism
AND NOW A STEAMING MUG OF COFFEE and a big wave from Nezua and all others in la casa—and by the way, big thanks to my weekend warriors, those that showed up and bloggedeth, adding their stones to the scale, daring to brave a hungry and discerning readership that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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22 de Marzo, 2008
The McCain Girls
Categorized under Humor , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: John McCain, YouTube
I'M NOT SURE what inspired this video or what the hell it is supposed to achieve other than making me laugh out loud for over two minutes. If you only see one YouTube video this month, make it this one.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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I was in the room when....
Categorized under Aprender , Character Study , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Guest Blogando , Historia , Invitados , La Lente Blanca , Política Estados Unidos , Preguntas , Race for '08 , Rafael , Raza , Religión , Stories , Terrorizing la Gente , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: consequences, Obama, pastor, race, religion, truth
I was in the room when... a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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21 de Marzo, 2008
Happy Friday, Baby.
Categorized under Música , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Macintosh, music, Obama, YouTube
SOME SMOOOVE VOCALS to take ya into this sunny (at least where I am) Friday afternoon. Hoy less Flamenco, y más Bachata! Just feels right. Aventura with La Boda (The Wedding). Reminds me of Westchester, I used to play this album on my iPod Mini while I rode the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Richardson Endorses Obama for President
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Bill Richardson, Clinton, Obama
EVEN AFTER Chilling with Bill. Ouch!... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Drunken Dealer
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Headlines , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: African Americans, Blacks, blogs, brown pride, Change, Glosario, Race, racism, The Haunted Land
I HONESTLY AM BAFFLED by the phrase used again and again by certain "liberal left wing" bloggers as of late. "Race card." As if just spitting out the phrase somehow destroys a person's points. If anything can be called "Pulling the Race Card"—i.e., using a fiction-based argument that relies... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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19 de Marzo, 2008
Liveblogging My Recollections and Musings to the Obama Speech
Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: bush, Change, Clinton, historia, hope, Obama, putos
19:47 ...going from wbush, who sneerhunches talksdown to ya as if you are a stupid child to an intelligent and groundbreaking speech by obama on the nuances of the human condition and american history and racial tensions...it's a beautiful sort of whiplash, if nothing else...wow...you mean i don't have... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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18 de Marzo, 2008
257,000
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: GOP, Hillary Clinton, Outtakes and Remakes, Republicans
EVEN IF you are for another Clinton presidency (that is to say you are a ShrillHillShill vs. an Obamatonatronic in this year's DeathMatchSuperCelebrity American MegaIdol PrezFight), doesn't this scare you? I don't know. It seems to say a lot. The GOP-orcs are on the march, and it seems they have... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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17 de Marzo, 2008
Hillary Clinton, Victim-Warrior Extraordinaire.
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama
I am throwing the "kitchen sink" at my opponent, but dammit, I want him to stop being mean to me while I do it! I'm very strong and being picked on by everyone! Obama is an inexperienced possibly Muslim man made of nothing more than a speech, but I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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16 de Marzo, 2008
With Support Like That
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, SNL
SO TELL ME. How does having a black man who supports Obama coming on SNL and calling Tiny Fey "bitch" in response to her statement "bitch is the new black" (he responded "black is the new president, bitch") "support Obama"? Hmm? Because I can't imagine the Clinton team being... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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13 de Marzo, 2008
whtmlk and the hardcoldtruth
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: I should tag this something, Outtakes and Remakes, putos, racism, White Supremacists
MOST INSANEST Comment of The Year. That's right. It's only March, so you have nine full months to beat this. You may need the headstart. THE HARD COLD TRUTH THAT WE AS A NATION MUST FACE IS BLACKS ARE VOTING OBAMA AT 90% THESE FIGURES ARE A STRONG INDICATION THAT... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Four Days in the Hole
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Ley , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: borders, Criminal Justice System, Immigration, migra
A STORY that makes you cringe. And really, only the tiniest sampling of how inhumanely those inside the "justice" system can be treated every day. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A woman being held as an illegal immigrant spent four days forgotten in an isolated holding cell at a courthouse with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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11 de Marzo, 2008
Lucky Boy
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Format, Obama, Race
An Obama aide has struck back at the Clinton campaign over comments made last week by Geraldine Ferraro, calling them “outrageous and offensive.” Susan Rice, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama, was responding to Ms. Ferraro’s remarks on MSNBC Tuesday morning. Ms. Ferraro told a Los Angeles newspaper that the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Marzo, 2008
The 'Nice' ICE? [Van Nuys ICE Raid]
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Califas, CHIRLA, ICE, Immigration, migra, Van Nuys
THIS VIDEO of the ICE raid in Van Nuys, California was given to a few of us here on the Latino (-issues focused) side of the blogosphere with a little advance notice before it hits the rest of the webworld. From amiga Anike: Exactly one month ago ICE called the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Felons for Clinton?
Categorized under Ley , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Democrats, Obama, Ohio, Republicans
I KNOW SOME Democrats who get upset about appeal that Obama has for Independents and even some Republicans. One of the choices of attack they wield against the idea of his run is that "it should be Democrats who choose the Democratic nominee." Without resorting to more loaded adjectives, is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Someone Said Something About Banality?
Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush, putos
IT'S SO DARN CUTE when he pretends to be a good ole shucksy kinda loony! Bush surprised cabinet secretaries, diplomatic officials and journalists at the annual Gridiron dinner by taking the stage and giving the first public singing performance of his eight-year presidency, which ends in January 2009. To... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Whoops, Wrong Number!
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama
IT'S JUST kind of funny. The so-called "red-phone ad" was played all over the country and helped turn the tide for Hillary Clinton leading up to her big win in Ohio. The ad shows a sleeping child and asks voters who they would want to see answering a 3 a.m.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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8 de Marzo, 2008
Who Would Yanni Bomb?
Categorized under Guerra , Iran , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: John McCain, YouTube
HAVE YOU EVER put on some new agey music, sat back and thought about deep azure skies and exactly how you might sear that blue stretch of beauty into a turmoiled, agent-orange streaked, phosphorus misted, IED-spattered eternal war-o-rama-scape? Rage McCain sure has. And then he set it to video! Snuggle... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Dear Barack (and Kevin),
Categorized under Corazón , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Clinton, Democrats, Hope, Kevin Bacon, Obama
DEAR SENATOR OBAMA, I know that someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Kevin Bacon will read this. So I hope you talk to Mr. Bacon and he conveys these thoughts to you. It's not that I think I'm savvier on the political scene... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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7 de Marzo, 2008
MALVERDE - La Marcha
Categorized under Artivism , Cultura , Frontera , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: borders, HR4437, Immigration, Latino, MALVERDE, May Day, Mexicans, Mexico, music, YouTube
I KNOW you been bumpin' this. For when gente feel like they've had enough Flamenco for the evening. Some rhythm and flow from Mexican American Hip Hop artist Malverde.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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News From Nezua #1 [MTV Vlog]
Categorized under Artivism , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Bobby Green, Citizen Journalism, escuela, MTV, Oregon, poverty, Schoolsystem, Street Team 08, Voting
COME WATCH ME change my clothes. On MTV's dime. The newest vlog titled News From Nezua [1] is freshly-shorn and waiting to entertain you with nifty editing and news of Oregon. True, a volatile mix, but Creosote is my middle name, chula. Either that or Pine Cone...it's hard to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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6 de Marzo, 2008
candles on every corner
Categorized under Corazón , Once de Septiembre , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: Hope, My Life, Power to the People, September 11
IT'S SO EASY for me to begin to get crazy. All I have to do is listen more to the news than I do to the earth and the wind and my own body and my own heart. It's a simple recipe, and there you have the makings of many... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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We Give Much for Little
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Imperialism, Support the Truth
WHY DO WE excuse the nastiest, ugliest, least ethical behaviors when candidates run for office? It's sad how easily we do it. I suppose we have given up on fair campaigning. We've never seen it. But see how we can write off deception and trickery and maligning and just about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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2 de Marzo, 2008
State of the Black Union, Pt. 1
Categorized under Corazón , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Blacks, Dick Gregory, YouTube
BEST WORDS on george w bush EVER: If that man was alive, he'd be a sick, sick man. —Dick Gregory This guy just blows me away. So much heart.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Febrero, 2008
You Say Spoiler, I Say Candidate
Categorized under Carmen D. , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: defending democracy, Nader, Power to the People, pundits, Voting
(NOTE: this post actually written and blogged by Carmen D. before templates and code and logins were arranged so that guest bloggers could have their own sign-ins.) Ralph Nader has announced that he will run for president as a third party candidate. Nader, 73, said most people are disenchanted with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Febrero, 2008
Sí Se Puede Cambiar
Categorized under Artivism , M , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Obama, Power to the People, YouTube
A beautiful and thoughtful song by Andrés Useche, performed in Spanish with English subtitles. I find it very difficult to side with the skeptics against the deluge of inspirational art and music this election has generated. If loving these songs is wrong, I don't want to be right. Hat-tip to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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21 de Febrero, 2008
Zombified Crowd Chases Pipe Dream of Hope
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Power to the People, Prairie View, Voting
Early voting starts today in Texas. In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston, the county made the decision to offer only one early voting location: at the County Courthouse in Hempstead, TX, the county seat. Prairie View A&M students organized to protest the decision,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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20 de Febrero, 2008
Ten for Ten
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Democrats, Obama
OBAMA wins Hawaii and Wisconsin. MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Barack Obama has surged past Hillary Clinton to open a big national lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. Obama also leads Republican front-runner John McCain in a potential November election match-up while Clinton... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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13 de Febrero, 2008
Symbol and Essence: The Power of Naming
Categorized under Corazón , Español , Frontera , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Democrats, español, Immigration, Language, racism, Republicans, Symbol and Essence, war on terror
ANOTHER BLOG POST exclusive to MTV, as it is part of my Street Team 08 duties! This one delves more into one of my favorite paradigms, Symbol and Essence. Words that came to me while thinking on our many forms of warring with the Other.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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12 de Febrero, 2008
Not a Republic, but a Corporatocracy
Categorized under Ley , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: AT&T, Corporations, Democrats, Justicia, putos, Republicans, Verizon, Wiretapping
WHEN IT DOES APPEAR that our government is useless at operating in a way that is in our best interests; when those times arrive that remind us that U.S. "justice" and "law" and government observance of those laws (the ones they purport to defend and protect) is but a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Febrero, 2008
94,000 Humans Don't Count
Categorized under Acción , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Califas, Power to the People, Voting
I AM SURPRISED, in all honesty, that this is not linked in more places. In my opinion, people who believe in the Democratic process (and I'm not even sure how much I do, anymore, especially given events like this which seem to happen over and over) would be incensed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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6 de Febrero, 2008
Symbol and Essence, Part 3 [MTV Mix]
Categorized under Gobierno , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Religión | Tags: activism, Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, MTV, Power to the People, Street Team 08, Symbol and Essence, Voting
A BLOG POST exclusive to MTV (as it must be, contractually) can be read by clicking the image above. No video this week. But a specially-crafted Non-Super Wednesday message instead.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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5 de Febrero, 2008
MTV Street Team '08 Reports on Super Tuesday
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Democrats, MTV, Republicans, Street Team 08
YOUR FAITHFUL OREGON representative for the MTV Street Team '08 (ahem, yours truly) is invisible on this day, because Oregon doesn't exist when it comes to Super Tuesday. But my Street Team peeps are LIVE on the scene in each Super Tuesday state. It's a pretty cool idea, they'll... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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3 de Febrero, 2008
Yes We Can. Sí Se Puede.
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Obama, Street Team 08, YouTube
I KNOW that the Committee Yearning for the Next Installment of Clintons (CYNICS) will surely shrink from this vibe like slugs from salt (or, you know, like kings from carpentry work to employ a less hostile metaphor although it lacks the needed element of revulsion and horror), and I will... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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30 de Enero, 2008
MAPA for Obama
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hope, Latino, MAPA, 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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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29 de Enero, 2008
My Morality, Your Body, Our Plates.
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: hype, Pro-Life and Pro-Choice
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Bendixen for Obama!
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Change, Clinton, hype, Obama, Sergio Bendixen
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Enero, 2008
More FairNBalanced® News
Categorized under Guerra , Hipnotismo , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: hype, Mexico, mexico, war on terror
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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17 de Enero, 2008
There's No Such Thing As (Horse) Race!
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Democrats, Republicans
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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An Intro by Citizen N.
Categorized under Artivism , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Citizen Journalism, español, MTV, Oregon, Power to the People, Street Team 08
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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'supdate
Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: bush, Health, MTV, New York City, Pollution, Zuky.net
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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4 de Enero, 2008
Obama and Huckleberry Dominate Iowa Caucus
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Democrats, fotoshop, Hope, Iowa Caucus, Justicia, Obama, Reckoning, Republicans, The Haunted Land
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.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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3 de Enero, 2008
The Lying Tribe
Categorized under Hipnotismo , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Kucinich
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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1 de Enero, 2008
President Overlord II?
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Bloomberg, Operation Overlord II, Police State, RNC
THERE'S SOME TALK lately about Michael Bloomberg running for President, and I've got four words for that thought. Hell no. and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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31 de Diciembre, 2007
A Taste of Mittocrisy
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Raza , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: borders, hypocrisy, indigenous, Mexicans, Mitt Romney, putos, Republicans, RRPP
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,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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20 de Diciembre, 2007
Nezua Named MTV's Street Team '08 Rep for Oregon!
Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Chronicles of Nezua , Medios , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: blogs, Change, Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, MTV, Oregon, the Unapologetic Mexican, Vlog
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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18 de Diciembre, 2007
David and Goliath. And Obama.
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Corporations, Democrats, Frey, John Edwards, Krugman, Power to the People
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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17 de Diciembre, 2007
La Migra Trying to Start War With México
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Gobierno , Planeta , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: borders, migra, Power to the People
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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16 de Diciembre, 2007
KBR/Halliburton Rapeland Fest Interrupted by Scrutiny. Again.
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: bush, halliburton, Iraq, KBR, war on terror
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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14 de Diciembre, 2007
Code Switching for the Masses
Categorized under Frontera , Ley , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: borders, Corporations, hope, Impeachment Pie, Power to the People
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Diciembre, 2007
Politician, Impeach Thyself
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Democrats, hypocrisy, Impeachment Pie, Torture
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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8 de Diciembre, 2007
Tom Perpetuates His Pain
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: español, Immigration, racism, Tancredo, White Supremacy
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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3 de Diciembre, 2007
reJECTED
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: gonzales, putos, Torture
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2 de Diciembre, 2007
Blast from the Past
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: John Kerry, My Life
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30 de Noviembre, 2007
Over There, Over Here
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: Clinton, terrorism
BOMB-STRAPPED man holds Clinton campaign HQ hostage. Live video.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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27 de Noviembre, 2007
Hurricane of HIV
Categorized under Ciencia , Derechos Humanos , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: activism, Blacks, Bob Marley, Change, HIV, Nicole Styles, Power to the People, Public Health, Washington DC
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Noviembre, 2007
Spies Dousing Fires
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: DHS, Fake News, Fear, war on terror
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Noviembre, 2007
The Inforvasion Era
Categorized under Arte , Humor , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: arte, Wiretapping
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17 de Noviembre, 2007
Kucinich Wins "Debate" in Under 9 Minutes
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Kucinich
AS DENZEL WASHINGTON SAID (repeatedly) through the character of Frank Lucas in the film American Gangster, "My man."... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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16 de Noviembre, 2007
Them Belly Full And They Laughing
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Clinton, Democrats, Farming, NAFTA
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).... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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14 de Noviembre, 2007
Her Back Pages
Categorized under Guerra , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Power to the People, resistance
... 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!... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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"I Stand Firm on Some Things. Sometimes."
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Clinton
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Hillogynists Take Note
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Sexismo | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Que Viva Las Mujeres
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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13 de Noviembre, 2007
Bloody Kisses on la Frontera
Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Frontera , Migra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: ALIENZ, borders, Environment, Format, hope, migra, resistance, The Haunted Land
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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10 de Noviembre, 2007
Calculator
Categorized under Hipnotismo , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Hillary Clinton, hype
MORE of the same. The Clinton campaign has admitted to planting questions in Iowa. —Clinton Camp Admits To Planting Questions No more fake town halls. No more fake sincerity. No more well-maneuvered dynasties.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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8 de Noviembre, 2007
If Someone Finds Out Who They Love
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Barney Frank, Change, Dare Not Speak Its Name
REP BARNEY FRANK: I want to address the motion to delay. Mr. Speaker, we say here that we don’t take things personally, and usually that’s true. Members, Mr. Speaker, will have to forgive me — I take it personally. 35 years ago, I filed a bill that tried to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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7 de Noviembre, 2007
Alienz Unite!
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Kucinich
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: Let me tell you something. In Washington, the truth is an unidentified flying object. And it's time that someone stood for the truth." —Dennis Kucinich... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Mark Klein is an American Patriot
Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Chris Dodd, Power to the People, Wiretapping
AND WE MUST RECOGNIZE as much. In this day and age where White House criminals are lauded or pardoned, and truthtellers, journalists, and gadflies blacklisted, exposed, shot, or otherwise discouraged from facing down this behemoth of a lunatic administration, a man like Mark Klein is a huge part of what... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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6 de Noviembre, 2007
A New Record for Bush!
Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: arte, bush, fotoshop, Nixon
AND FOR GALLUP polls. Our very own George W. Bush finally breaks Nixon's record of 48% who "strongly disapprove" with a solid 2% mandate. A new record! Pick it up on the way to your nearest impeachment party. We'll spin it ALL night long.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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General Busharraf
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush, Musharraf, Pakistan
A Bush administration official who works on Pakistan issues acknowledged that with the United States having already invested so much in General Musharraf, there was little Washington could do in response to the Pakistani president’s actions that did not have the potential to undermine American goals. [...] A senior administration... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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5 de Noviembre, 2007
Kucinich Takes Giant Step Toward Healing the USA
Categorized under Acción , Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Change, hope, Impeachment Pie, Justicia, Kucinich
IT'S TIME TO IMPEACH CHENEY By Congressman Dennis Kucinich, special to www.ImpeachCheney.org As a member of Congress, I have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution and the laws of our nation, and I have pledged to represent the views of my constituents and of all Americans. That’s why I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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29 de Octubre, 2007
¡Viva Presidenta Cristina!
Categorized under Latin America , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Hillary Clinton, Que Viva Las Mujeres
ARGENTINA HAS ELECTED its first woman President. BUENOS AIRES — First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner appeared to win a sweeping victory Sunday to become Argentina's first elected female president, according to exit polls and early official results. [...] Fernandez vowed to reach out to all her compatriots 'without rancor,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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American Bullets, Mexican Blood
Categorized under Frontera , Ley , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: borders, Mexican Cartels, Mexico
MANY PEOPLE, when arguing me and trying to convince me of how evil and ugly and degraded Mexico is, like to minus part of the equation from their awareness. Talk about crime in Tijuana, but don't talk about the culture of criminality that a border creates with its unnatural... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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28 de Octubre, 2007
Ex-Concert Pianist Murdered by Federal Kindness
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Drogas , Ley , Planeta , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: GOP, hypocrisy, Mota, Mother Nature, Power to the People
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. It's not just a bar in Liberty, NY. It's supposedly what you and I are entitled to by the government. Isn't that sweet? Isn't it so understanding of the human condition? Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Octubre, 2007
Rudy Wants
Categorized under Gobierno , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: Rudy Giuiliani, September 11
JOSH MARSHALL, at Talking Points Memo, discusses Rudy Giuilani and zeroes in on the fashion of fascism: My point of comparison would be Benito Mussolini. You've got the extreme hostility to civil liberites [sic] and the foreign policy adventurism. But I'm not thinking so much of the harder and sinister... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Octubre, 2007
Dream on
Categorized under Frontera , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: DREAM act, hope, Immigration
DREAM ACT fails to pass. (52-44 as mariachi mama and my email lists tell me).... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Octubre, 2007
OBAMA CAUGHT FONDLING SELF
Categorized under Humor , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Obama, pundits, satire
HERE, Barack Obama takes a moment to send a secret signal to his terrorist buddies using the "I cup my package for thee" salute and delivered during the National Anthem!!!1!!11!!1!! Luckily, ABC news corp. caught it on tape, and the respectable Raw Story is patriotic enough to host the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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13 de Octubre, 2007
Maybe we need more Gore on TV
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Al Gore
AL GORE wins the Nobel Peace Prize! Felicidades, Mista Gore. You shame that tiny man who bumped you out of line for la casa blanca yet again by working hard and seeing far, and being rewarded for it—rather than having everything from ideology to office stolen for you or handed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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10 de Octubre, 2007
Sides
Categorized under Latin America , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Democrats, nafta, Obama, Peru, Republicans
I HAVE A FRIEND, he's ten, twelve, maybe even fifteen years younger than me. He is a hardcore "Democrat," though he grew up in a Republican family, and used to be a Republican. Now he has switched sides and is all about the Dems. When I bring up NAFTA,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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6 de Octubre, 2007
The Secrets of Liberty
Categorized under Gobierno , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: historia, Israel
WELL, that's pretty interesting. I never knew that Israel knowingly attacked a US ship and the US Government hid it for years. My worldview is not exactly shaken, but it is quite a revelation. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee brags that it is the most influential foreign policy... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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4 de Octubre, 2007
One More Moment Before We Bomb—
Categorized under Guerra , Iran , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: Iran
LET'S TAKE A WALK THROUGH IRAN. Here are images, I wanted to lay them out. As glimpses. Isolated glimpses into another country, one that mostly exists for us in scary soundbytes and media-approved shots of hangings and flame and the dark dark chador and the obscuring burqa. We pump the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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3 de Octubre, 2007
A Moment, Before We Bomb—
Categorized under Guerra , Iran , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Signs of the Sixth Sun , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: Iran, war on terror
CHANCES ARE GOOD, given what we do know and have seen and have heard from those with control of the money and the guns in these here United States of America, that we will soon initiate some kind of massive violence upon Iran. Whether it be part of the USA's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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29 de Septiembre, 2007
Hillarious Clinton and the Air Raid Siren
Categorized under Guerra , Iran , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Bill Richardson, Democrats, fotoshop, Hillary Clinton
CLEARLY, someone has recently advised Hillary Clinton that she was coming across as too dour, to grim, too "shrill," perhaps, and too heavy. So, true to the Rovian/GOP handbook, she is changing the packaging (her reactions), while the content continues to veer into the most grim and cynical terrain... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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28 de Septiembre, 2007
George Washington, Terrorist
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Format, Hillary Clinton, historia, Iran, terrorism
The classic definition of terrorism is violence directed against civilians to make a political point. The term shouldn't be applied to an indigenous population fighting an irregular war against a foreign occupying army, since that would have made everyone from George Washington to the French Resistance to the Afghanis confronting... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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26 de Septiembre, 2007
In Which We Find Out What We Already Knew
Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Español , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: bush, Iraq, Jose Maria Anzar, Spain
OVER TIME, I HAVE NOTICED from checking out news sources in Español vs. English that politicians and media pundits often take gross and blatant advantage of the fact that so many US citizens cannot read/speak anything other than English, as in YEAH, AMERICA NUMBER ONE! ENGLISH ONLY!!!!! WOOOO! USE... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Septiembre, 2007
Snore.
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Democrats, pundits, Republicans
SO HILLARY CLINTON begins to hint more and more that the Iraq Occupation won't be ended under her (hypothetical) watch—ooooh, but WAIT she says "When I'm president," instead of "if," and doesn't let herself get interrupted, and just like that, all the pundits are falling all over themselves. Even David... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Septiembre, 2007
Like a Long Awaited Dawn
Categorized under Cultura , Política Estados Unidos , Raza | Tags: Democrats, Power to the People, Republicans
For 5 years the NDN community has been telling a simple but important story - that the very rapid growth of the Hispanic community was creating a very new and powerful dynamic in the American electorate. In our new report, Hispanics Rising [pdf], NDN reviews the emerging politics of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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21 de Septiembre, 2007
Stand and be Counted. Or Cower and be Condemned.
Categorized under Corazón , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: blogs, bush, Democrats, Hope, Iraq, Olbermann, Petraeus, Power to the People, pundits
I KNOW I DIDN'T GO INTO IT, but I don't go into many things that a well-informed and reasonably sane person staying current on the News would understand all by themselves. I don't like to bog down my blog (Blog-bog, must add this word) with unwieldy explanations that insult the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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19 de Septiembre, 2007
The Answer to All Our Problems
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: borders, putos, racism, Tancredo
...IS CLEARLY Tom Tancredo and his platform of racist blame! Tancredo said the more he studies the issue, the more it seems that many of the nation's problems can be blamed on Hispanics crossing into the United States from Mexico. Health care costs? Blame the burden of paying for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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18 de Septiembre, 2007
The GOP Hates Your Brown [Black, etc] Ass
Categorized under Corazón , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: Democrats, Fear, racism, Republicans
DON'T EVEN IMAGINE the question is up in the air. It is not up in the air. I am not saying every Republican is racist. But the GOP as an organization—how they operate, what fears they dig up, what innuendoes their ads use, the framing their preferred TV networks are... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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15 de Septiembre, 2007
Harbinger of Mediocrity. Prophet of Flatulent Futures. Shill and Sham and Propped-Up Half-Man.
Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Gobierno , Palabras , Poesía , Política Estados Unidos , Spoken | Tags: bush
NOW I KNOW by now so many of us hold such great and deep and far-reaching and sincere contempt, NAY revulsion (and rightly so) for the man now holing up in la Casa Blanca that we have phrases like "Bush Derangement" and "Bush Bashing," and with these phrases even... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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14 de Septiembre, 2007
And You Shall Know Him By The Ease With Which He Misleads
Categorized under Gobierno , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush, Iraq, war on terror
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13 de Septiembre, 2007
Back in the Good Ole O.R.
Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Indígena , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: activism, borders, Chris Simcox, Environment, False History, Immigration, KGB Bar, New York City, NYC 2007 Pro-Immigration Meetup, The Haunted Land
AS IT TURNS OUT, I cannot blog on much that went on at the Immigration Strategy Meeting. My packet of materials is half drafts that cannot be disseminated (lest they "fall into the wrong hands"), and the cat who invited me to the panel I spoke on (and who funneled... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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1 de Septiembre, 2007
MTV Application submitted
Categorized under Medios , Pelicula , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: arte, Choose or Lose 08, MTV, My Life, YouTube
SOME OF YOU RECALL the post I made on MTV's latest contest to choose one person from every state to represent a blogging/reporting role on the 2008 Prezleedenshul Electerections in each state. Opportunitiues for National Spongebaths or something like that. Well, as such junctures between Pretzel-dentures and prolonged elections are... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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31 de Agosto, 2007
Home of the Cage, Land of the Dog Box
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: CIA, gonzales, The Trials
PERHAPS one day I will feel vindicated for the absolute madness that threatens to corrode my thinking process at each moment I dare to think about what our nation is doing to others in our names. While many people seem somewhat sane and copasetic as they discuss our crimes... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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27 de Agosto, 2007
Dreams for Jose, and All of Us
Categorized under Acción , Política Estados Unidos , Raza | Tags: Change, Hope
IF WE WANT Mexican immigrants to be "productive members of society," rather than just denounce them, or even just to hope for them, then we need to help them where we can. Just as if we want our garden to be more bountiful, we need to step out and water... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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How to Commit Republican Suicide, Pt. 734
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Gobierno , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Immigration, Republicans
SOME SENSIBLE WORDS for the Republicans today. Of course, to have hope in their hearing such words, one would have to possess the view that the Republicans are currently motivated by "sense." And as the article points out, it seems all they really care to reach for these days is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Gonzo is Gone
Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Dear Alberto , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: gonzales
FINALLY, the "nation's first Latino attorney general" resigns. Another rat leaving the ship, and I've got to think that between Rove and Gonzales splitting, and really quite early in the second term of the administration, some heavy shit must be about to go down. War with Iran? Investigations? Subpeonas... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Agosto, 2007
Bill Richardson Remembers he's Latino
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Raza | Tags: Bill Richardson, español
I DON'T MEAN to rib our dear Governor Richardson, but vato, you comin' out late at the gate! LAS VEGAS -- Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson started a Hispanic outreach program Thursday to try to raise his profile with a voting bloc critical to his campaign. 'Because my name is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Agosto, 2007
Irrovelent
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Change, Outtakes and Remakes
KARL ROVE said something the other day. Somewhere, someone listened with rapt attention. A moment of silence for that unfortunate soul.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Unauthorized President and His Undocumented Legacy
Categorized under Migra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: ALIENZ, hypocrisy, Language
ONCE AGAIN, Dubya represents lies, empty rhetoric, and ultimately and overwhelmingly: "hypocrisy." If President Bush is serious about getting tough on U.S. employers who hire illegal aliens, he can start with his own administration, which employs thousands of unauthorized workers, says the top Republican on the House immigration subcommittee. A... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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21 de Agosto, 2007
MESSAGE: He (Wants You to Think He) Cares.
Categorized under Gobierno , Medios , Planeta , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush, Hurrican Dean, Katrina, putos
MONTEBELLO, Quebec (AP) - President Bush, at a North American summit on Tuesday, offered U.S. assistance and expressed his concern for the citizens of Mexico and elsewhere whose lives were affected by Hurricane Dean. 'We stand ready to help,' said Bush, standing alongside Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Los Angelenos Represent!
Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: Impeachment Pie, Los Angeles, Power to the People
CITIZENS SPEAK UP LOUDLY on the need to impeach the criminals in our midst.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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17 de Agosto, 2007
Ulises Ruiz Ortiz to Visit USA
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: Mexicans, Mexico, Oaxaca, putos, Ruiz
DEVELOPING NEWS from elenemigocomun.net (email list): La Jornada and the State of Guanajuato confirm that Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) and Juan Manuel Oliva Ramírez, the Governor of Guanajuato, are visiting Mexican Consulates in Chicago today (August 17th), New York City tomorrow (August 18th) and Dallas on Saturday (August 19th). Locations... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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14 de Agosto, 2007
USA to Help Mexico Spy on Citizens?
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: CIA, Mexico, War on Drugs, Wiretapping
SINCE THE USA IS DOING SO WELL with its spying, its "War on Drugs," its budget, and all matters Terror and Habeas Corpus, she is going to trot on down Mexico way to spread the...success: MEXICO CITY, Aug. 13 — Mexico and the United States are holding intensive talks... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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12 de Agosto, 2007
Nez Takes Issue with Comment #132
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Chris Matthews, pundits
IN RESPONSE to the article "In A Three Minute Monologue, Matthews Gushes Over Bush’s ‘Great Neo-Conservative Mind’": [COMMENT#] 132.I hate to tell you that I told you so, but ….. I TOLD YOU SO! The MSM is backing Hill’reh, and insofar as supporting Bush and the Iraq War hurts... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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30 de Julio, 2007
Betraeus Mix (feat. Divider)
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Iraq, Outtakes and Remakes
"Petraeus." Oh, sure. It sounds epic and strong because of the Greekness, eh? You can see it stamped on the spine of a book. A happy little face carved in stone, rounded bangs and all. Evening light raking sideways over the marble. THE AGE OF PETRAEUS, VINNER OF THE... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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16 de Julio, 2007
Strong Women 4 Peace!
Categorized under Corazón , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: hope, Power to the People, Que Viva Las Mujeres
Other strong women attending the conference, in solidarity with Iraqi women and children, drafted a "Call for Restitution to the Women of Iraq" which rejects the policies by which the United States brought war to Iraq and renounces war as a means of solving conflict between and within states.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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15 de Julio, 2007
A Living Force, A Buying Force, A Voting Force
Categorized under Migra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Bill Richardson, Change, familia, Farming, Immigration, John McCain, Jon Kyl, Mexicans, migra
THESE DAYS, a good way to fall out of favor with the Reich Wing is to treat Mexican Migrant Homelanders (or "ALIENZ", "Migrant Homelanders" is my papás phrase) as if they are human beings. That is just not cool, and you will be castigated and cast out for it. Guess... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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10 de Julio, 2007
Don't Look to Them for Truth
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Bob Marley, gonzales
"DON'T LET THEM CHANGE YA!" Or even rearrange ya, Bob (Marley) told me when I was a child. I took many of his words to heart, and to this day, he is one of my teachers. I knew who "them" was then, and I know now. There is no... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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6 de Julio, 2007
No Right to Privacy in USA (Cont.)
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush, NSA
JUST A TINY REMINDER in case you forgot: the government is spying on you. And no law exists in the US that gives you rights otherwise. You don't even have the right to challenge those who are—right now—going through your mail and email and listening to and recording your... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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5 de Julio, 2007
Prejudged George
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush
'After a highly publicized trial, involving calm legal analysis in the courtroom (but vicious vilification outside), Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice," Snow writes in the op-ed. "In reviewing the case, the president chose to rectify an excessive punishment, and at the same time, the president made... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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15 de Junio, 2007
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Passports!
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Mexico
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A PASSPORT, you now have until 2009 to travel down México way with a bit less of a problem. WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday voted to put off until mid-2009 passport requirements for U.S. travelers entering the United... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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1 de Junio, 2007
Well-Ironed Suits Required in the House of Death
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: CIA, DOJ, House of Death, Mexico
PERHAPS YOU REMEMBER the House of Death saga? The secret and bloody fingers dipped south of the border by the USA? The ones that reach all the way to top of the DOJ? The Narcosphere has got some tasty docs on hand, as well as more backstory and links... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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18 de Mayo, 2007
You Can Do It, Mamá
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush, Cheney, Hope, Impeachment Pie
I'VE HEARD IT SAID THAT the Democratic party is the "Mommy party" and the Republican party is the "drunken psychotic Daddy party." So okay. Offered for your consideration: If "Daddy" has turned out to be an unreliable and arrogant idiot who talks a lot of shit about Living the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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17 de Mayo, 2007
Truth Conspires to Start Tiny Fires
Categorized under Ciencia , Historia , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: JFK
OH, HELL just when those grassy knoll people started getting quiet. This is only going to stir things up. In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Immigration Reform Deal Struck
Categorized under Frontera , Ley , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Migrant farmers
A DEAL first negotiated by Senators Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz) has been has been accepted and agreed upon by a "bipartisan group" of senators. The deal attempts a broad reworking of America's immigration laws. In the details available so far, preference for attaining a green... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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16 de Mayo, 2007
Gravel Gives the Straight Dope
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Mike Gravel, Mota
OUR MAN GRAVEL, kickin' out some more groovalicious gems: When asked whether he believed marijuana should be available next to beer in liquor stores, Gravel replied, "Go get yourself a fifth of scotch or a fifth of gin and chug-a-lug it down and you'll find you lose your senses... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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14 de Mayo, 2007
Del Diario - Entrada #051407 [(Re)introduction]
Categorized under Corazón , Del Diario , Derechos Humanos , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Hope, Overlap, Power to the People, Protest, RNC
From the Del Diario Series, entrada #051407:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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13 de Mayo, 2007
Delegate Cero, the United Others, and The New Porn
Categorized under Indígena , Literatura , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: EZLN, Hope, indigenous, Marcos, Mexicans, Mexico
MARCOS speaks of his new (erotic) book, his mask, and the future as he sees it. The subcomandante's specific aim in his current low-key tour of the country is to consolidate the broad and loose collection of marginal left groups known as The Other Campaign. Marcos hopes this rather... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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5 de Mayo, 2007
Short Reach for the Peach
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush, fotoshop, Impeachment Pie
According to the new NEWSWEEK Poll, the public’s approval of Bush has sunk to 28 percent, an all-time low for this president in our poll, and a point lower than Gallup recorded for his father at Bush Sr.’s nadir. The last president to be this unpopular was Jimmy Carter... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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30 de Abril, 2007
The Freedom to Lie, Cheat, and Steal
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
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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29 de Abril, 2007
Idiota. Cobarde. Asesino.
Categorized under Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush
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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27 de Abril, 2007
You Can't Deport the Truth
Categorized under Corazón , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Hipnotismo , Historia , Indígena , Ley , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: borders, Change, Chicanism@, False History, Fear, historia, Hutto, hypocrisy, indigenous, mexicans, YouTube
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
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Mike Gravel, Support the Truth
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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26 de Abril, 2007
Coke Ranch Logic
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush
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
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: John 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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24 de Abril, 2007
Let's Have Nexus
Categorized under Cultura , Derechos Humanos , Literatura , Política Estados Unidos , Sexismo , Signs of the Sixth Sun , Violencia | Tags: Devious Diva, Hate Groups, Hope, Kathy Sierra, Let's Have Nexus, Overlap, pundits, racism, Soul of the World
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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21 de Abril, 2007
The Art of Saying Nothing
Categorized under Juegos , Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
#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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19 de Abril, 2007
The Useless Figurehead Blamer Sellout, Pt 2.
Categorized under Dear Alberto , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: gonzales, Righteous Rants, YouTube
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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5 de Abril, 2007
Return of the Mud People
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Chertoff
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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15 de Marzo, 2007
Open Season on Anti-Mexican Humor!
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Raza , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: gonzales, racism
SATIRE IS FUNNY when it attacks the powerful, and yet there is something strange that happens when a powerful person is mocked, and at the same time, belongs to a people being demonized and persecuted and exploited by our own mainstream culture. The strange part comes in when the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Sharpton's Tone and the O-Litmus Debate
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Preguntas | Tags: Obama
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON asks: Listening to Al Sharpton rip into Barack Obama this week made me wonder: why is it that African American leaders so often feel compelled to give the back of their hand (to say nothing of the serrated edge of their tongue) to emerging black leaders? Is it... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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12 de Marzo, 2007
Gonzales Breaking No Stereotypes Today
Categorized under Dear Alberto , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: gonzales
WHY THA MEXICAN AMERICAN POLITICIAN gotta be the sneak and the cheat? Thanks a lot, Gonzo, for representin' so well. Gracias for putting your people on the map, and for making your "Illegal Alien" parents so proud. Not that you ever fooled me or a lot of people, but it's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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6 de Marzo, 2007
Fibby
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
Little guy takin' the fall. Libby guilty on four out of five charges.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Febrero, 2007
A Scabby, Rotted, Pale, Flaccid Dick
Categorized under Arte , El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: Cheney, fotoshop
DICK CHENEY is of the Olde American School. The type that proudly justifies (or justifies at all) the massacres at Horseshoe Bend, Wounded Knee, and Sand Creek. The type that stole half of Mexico's land, lied about why, and then ignored provisions of the bullshit treaty signed afterward. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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19 de Febrero, 2007
Happy Hellmaker Day
Categorized under Arte , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , día festivo | Tags: arte, bush, fotoshop, Iraq
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14 de Febrero, 2007
You Only Draw Attention to Your Weakness
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Format
I HEAR DEMOCRATS COMPLAINING alllll the time about being called the "Democrat" party. Do they realize that this inside-the-beltway whine may feel righteous to them and to them makes sense to point out, but to the rest of America, all we hear is whining? Each time? The Right just... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Twice as Brave
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Obama
I'M GONNA PUT MYSELF OUT THERE and say that regardless of what the "Black Community®" or the "White Community®" thinks, I say that Barack Obama is one brave cabrón and I admire him for that. He's out there smiling and standing tall, and every single media publication and conversation... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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7 de Febrero, 2007
Gleam on the National Product
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: fotoshop
"BLOGGERS® ARE EDGY, Bloggers® are 'RAW,' Are bloggers® going too far?" And most importantly: can they be trusted near our National Product? What is all this nonsense? Bloggers are not a new species. They (WE) are nothing special, nothing strange, nothing unknown. BLOGGERS ARE PEOPLE. It's just been so long... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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5 de Febrero, 2007
Lt. Watada Makes His Stand
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Resistencia | Tags: Iraq, Watada
TODAY BEGINS THE TRIAL OF LT. EHREN WATADA, a brave soldier who will be one of the heroes of this time, I think. So many of us know the truth of how wrong this war is, but few take such a stand as Lt. Watada. I watch with great... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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3 de Febrero, 2007
Dawn Will Not Be Banished With A Button
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Capitalism, eat the rich, Imperialism, Iraq, RNC, war on terror
I KNOW I OFTEN WRITE that no American Party will change the Way Murka Do. I know this probably frustrates some people who take their involvement with engaging the political machine very seriously. As they should. Take it all seriously! Take it all to heart. I do. In between... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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2 de Febrero, 2007
The Magical, Mysterious, Golden, Corn Cake
Categorized under Blogando , Historia , Humor , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , día festivo | Tags: Pat Buchanan, satire
The Magical, Mysterious, Golden, Corn Cake BOOK 1: Tense Turrets and Taut Triggers. A box. I WAS AGAIN BUT A SHIFTING WEND making its way forward under the swaying palms, under the pre-dawn streaking of a grand magenta sky light; the stealthy and purpose-driven Peter Pan of the Xicano underworld... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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1 de Febrero, 2007
Product #044 (Prototype)
Categorized under Arte , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: fotoshop
links/conversation on the clean scene: • Kai carves out his own interpretation of the laundry aisle conversation • Plugging myself for Jesus • Nez Gets Certified as a Progressive Headbussa • Blackamazon (who is almost sure of loving Nezua) • The Thin Black Duke rings the schoolbell. • Heraclitus... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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31 de Enero, 2007
Living the Dream
Categorized under Corazón , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: False History, Fear, Hope, Power to the People
THIS IS A REMINDER that if your government wants you to be quiet when discussing the possible violations it has committed against YOU—the people who make up this so-called NATION—then this "government" is up to no good. That is to say, if the GOVERNMENT wants you and I to engage... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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15 de Enero, 2007
The O-Bomba bringin' trauma!
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
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8 de Enero, 2007
Intellectually Serious Pimp Daddy J-Mo
Categorized under Arte , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: fotoshop, Imperialism, pundits
BELOW THE CUT, you can see Jonah Goldberg's new approach as he busts out a column with a dope-ass style. Seems he has been soakin' up some gangsta rap, and now is dissin' John McCain! I know. I was surprised, too.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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6 de Enero, 2007
New US Citizenship Exam
Categorized under Frontera , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: hype
NOW THEY ARE MAKING JOKES in the exam for gaining American citizenship? 2. What is the supreme law of the land?A: The Constitution—Questions and Answers for New Pilot Naturalization Exam Someone call the Decider! He'd get a righteous belly laugh out of this one.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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5 de Enero, 2007
The Hyper-Powered Hatter and his Obedient Tea Party
Categorized under Gobierno , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Imperialism
CALL ME FRINGE, CALL ME RADICAL, say I see no hope in American Government and watch how (not) upset it gets me. But here is another crumb on a trail to the clearing in the path where the eyes get pried open by the imploding sun of entrenched neoliberalism... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Surging for Legacy
Categorized under Arte , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: arte, bush, fotoshop, Imperialism, Iraq
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30% of America Delusional, too
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: bush, fotoshop
AND THE ONLY THING I CAN EVER SAY about these polls in the last few years is "damn. that many people still don't see through this ladrón?" Enjoy it, misterbush. For some reason I see you breaking records on the low end, and this may be a pleasant memory... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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3 de Enero, 2007
Bush Cocaine Use Mentioned on FOX
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: YouTube
DEAR BARRACK OSAMA N------ TERRORIST JUNKIE: They are already calling you "pothead" and "junkie" on a major news channel. And, my brown friend, if you even attempt to take on any more power, it will get much worse. Hell, even now, FOX-REPUBLICAN would drop an N-bomb all over you... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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30 de Diciembre, 2006
All-Day Ticket to the War Theatre
Categorized under Globalización , Gobierno , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Capitalism, eat the rich, Imperialism, Somalia
UNSURPRISINGLY, The United States Warmoney Machine never rests. Sadly, it does not stray from its tired, cynical, repulsive formulas. Revoltingly, it cares not for human life, nor principle, nor peace. Only power. Oil, cash, blood. As long as it equals power for the Lords and Ladies of the USA.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Diciembre, 2006
The Days Before It All Went Bad
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: bush, hype, Imperialism, Iraq
AS WE STAND ON THE PRECIPICE OF TRUE DISASTER, I dread to think of the future for Iraq. For troops. For Us. For todo el mundo. I think I understand the power of denial. But I still don't understand how these men and women don't do all in their power... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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22 de Diciembre, 2006
The Long War on Mexico
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Gobierno , Historia , Latin America , Migra , Política Estados Unidos , Raza , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: assimilation, borders, gonzales, halliburton, Hutto, India, indigenous, Lou Dobbs, Mexicans, migra, NAFTA, Outsourcing, Police State, The White Lens
I'M FINDING these anti-Immigrant Detention and Terror Tactics very upsetting. Deeply disturbing. In a way I'm not sure Mr. Bush or perhaps many citizens even understand. Perhaps in a way not even some of my friends know. I know there are probably some American Mexican@s who don't feel as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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15 de Diciembre, 2006
The Grave Mistake Waiting to Happen
Categorized under Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: fotoshop
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14 de Diciembre, 2006
Rights to the Left of me, Torture to the Right
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Gobierno , Guerra , Ley , Migra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: borders, Gitmo, malkin, migra
SOME BAD NEWS, SOME GOOD. And why would I think it bad news that the inmates of Guantanamo are denied the rights of Americans? Because I do not believe in this notion that when it comes to human rights, what is Wrong to do to human beings on our... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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11 de Diciembre, 2006
The Department of Just-Us
Categorized under Dear Alberto , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: gonzales, Police State, satire, surveillance, war on terror
OUR FRIEND ALBERTO GONZALES (the 2nd generation Mexican American who doesn't remember how his parents got here) or his little suit-wearin' posse—have been doing the clickie-clickie-clickie and I fear I may just have to create a new category for him, since I have been informed that his outfit, the Department... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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2 de Diciembre, 2006
Casa de la Muerte
Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: border, gonzales, House of Death, mexicans, racism, War on Drugs
THERE IS A DARK STORY that the White House is trying to suppress, most of the media is ignoring, and that we are not going to let pass by. It is a true story, a horror story. What is being billed as "The House of Death" is an account... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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30 de Noviembre, 2006
Shut Up and Kiss the Ring.
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
Neil Cavuto just can't understand why Mexicans don't swallow their corruption with a smile. SHORTER version: "The constitution works in our country because when an election is stolen here, everyone makes nice and acts like it never happened!" He makes it sound like being a good citizen/politician/patriot is something akin... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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28 de Noviembre, 2006
The United State of Assimilation
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: assimilation, Tancredo, The Haunted Land
TOM TANCREDO (R-Colo) admits that there has been grave damage to "the nature of America" due to "uncontrolled immigration." But...I thought the colonizers' arrival and subsequent slaughter of the indigenous residents on this continent was accepted as a beneficial part of American history? Haven't we resigned ourselves to the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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18 de Noviembre, 2006
The Wicked Woman (She's in Power)
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Sexismo | Tags: Nancy Pelosi
WHEN I SEE BLATANT SIGNS OF SEXISM and racism thriving in everyday adult, supposedly-educated discourse, I just feel...stunned. I know I retain some kind of odd naïveté about the world, but I honestly don't get why every person capable of self-actualization isn't interested in making an effort to both... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Noviembre, 2006
The Most Honest Man in America
Categorized under Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Immolation, Iraq, Protest
It made me cry. I'm too used to half-asleep souls and lazy lies. Here was a heart not able to harden itself or smooth the truth over with comfort, or alibi. The war and our world was destroying his happiness. He couldn't bear to be a part of it. And... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Unrelated Quotes, Part 4.
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Unrelated Quotes | Tags: eat the rich
Over $10 million was raised [for Katrina relief] by school kids through bake sales, lemonade stands, car washes and other fundraisers. [...] That's more than almost every major U.S. corporation gave. More than wealthy oil and petrochemical companies, such as Chevron and ConocoPhillips. It's more than what AT&T and Verizon... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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8 de Noviembre, 2006
Must...Colonize...Must....Or....Die...
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Imperialism, The White Lens
AND THAT'S JUST WHAT I MEAN when I say that yesterday's Democratic victories (while sure to bring many good changes soon, hey it's already brought one doozy) won't change many important things about America, a country built by those, and still made of many, who embrace the very notion... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Rummy Turns Tail
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
Chickenshit Rumsfeld is resigning. CSPAN sez just now. Bush speaking on it. (I guess those "Senior Officials" were wrong, eh?) Bush says he will be replaced by Robert Gates, the CIA Director under Bush 41. (Is Bush, sensing a fall, now reaching for summa Poppi's wisdom....too late?) Don't get me... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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7 de Noviembre, 2006
Dark Hearted, Dark Skinned Dems?
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Hipnotismo , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags:
This is a mockup I made of an actual GOP ad [sombrero tip to Northern Reader]. I think the official GOP poster didn't quite drive the point home in the most efficient way, although they basically nailed it. I'm being picky. (And the creepiest part is how little I needed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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2 de Noviembre, 2006
We Are Your Overlords
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Gobierno , Oaxaca , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Imperialism, indigenous, Oaxaca
A MAINSTREAM POLITICAL SITE offers a good insight into why the Democratic party produces "lords" who think those underneath them are there to serve them, thank them, or be thought of as chattel, doing their rightful work to support them. It attempts to explain the existence of people like... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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1 de Noviembre, 2006
Fighting the Fearmasters
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
Okay, this ad kicks ass. I love this general. Watch this ad before clicking to read more.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Octubre, 2006
Speaking Ill of the Family
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
Um. I know this is one of the "good guys." I don't mean to knock his ad. But I need another ear here.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Republican Jim Gibbons. For Illegal immigration Before He Was Against It.
Categorized under Frontera , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: GOP, hypocrisy
BROWN WOMEN FROM BELOW THE BORDER are good enough to clean up after you, good enough to cook for you, good enough to take care of your babies, and good enough to run down and hide in the basement when La Migra comes around. But for Republican Jim Gibbons, karma... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Octubre, 2006
GOP: all the bad news or just bad asses?
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
I WROTE A LONGISH, LINKY, CLEVERESQUE post that I was bored of before I could publish it. It seemed so obvious and just plain pointless to write it. I finished it and deleted it. Yet, major sites keep reacting to Limbaugh's Overthetopness, Mehlman's intractable racism, so and so's destroying... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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3 de Octubre, 2006
Gang of Perverts (Schadenfreude Shuffle)
Categorized under Gobierno , Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
I HAVE TO SAY, it sure is fun to watch the GOP explode into plain view right before the mid-term elections round the bend. It sure gives yours truly a deep sigh of satisfaction to watch all these corrupt bastards have their lying, racist, sadistic, perverted souls dragged out... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Septiembre, 2006
The Great (Possible) Spinach Caper
Categorized under Frontera , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
I'VE BEEN PAYING QUIET AND CLOSE ATTENTION to the spinach ordeal. Because I've had sneaking suspicions that it is in some way some kind of sabotage against Mexican farmworkers. Now before you imagine I am being irresponsibly paranoid, remember the age we live in! You have to realign your... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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21 de Septiembre, 2006
Good Perrito, Gooood!
Categorized under Gobierno , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags:
IT COMES AS NO SURPRISE that the United States is bending fingers and directing threats at whomever it can, in her attempt to derail Venezuela's bid for a two-year seat on the UN Security Council. After all, you can hardly have sitting members who do not recognize this Day... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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2 de Septiembre, 2006
Vernon Robinson Has Had Enough...of Integrity.
Categorized under Frontera , Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
LATELY I'VE BEEN TRYING NOT TO FOCUS ON THE HATE. I don't want to feed it, and it only diminishes you to give it too much credence. I really thought hard about whether or not to even bother posting this. But this "PLEASE elect me and I'll get rid of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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29 de Agosto, 2006
George W. Bush, Mass Murderer (The Sequel)
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
Here’s the story you haven’t been told. And the man who revealed it to me, Dr. Ivor van Heerden, is putting his job on the line to tell it. [...] IEM and FEMA did begin a draft of a plan. The plan was that, when a hurricane hit, everyone in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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21 de Agosto, 2006
Actions Have Consequences, Pt. 372
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Macaca
Don't mess with Macaca.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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20 de Agosto, 2006
Ahnold: Friend to Minutemen AND Immigrants
Categorized under Hipnotismo , Humor , Los tebeos del Domingo , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: arte, fotoshop
Today's sunday funnies!... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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17 de Agosto, 2006
Grand Old Racist
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Hipnotismo , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: GOP, racism
What is it with the GOP? Do they shop for their candidates at the same anachronistic and hateful juncture in the space/time continuum? Directly following the whole "Macaca" Debacle, we have Mister Tramm telling us about one of the nasty side effects of having dark skin—it precludes swimming ability! Bet... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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16 de Agosto, 2006
Gonzales Spins A Dark, Deadly Tale of Fear
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: gonzales, surveillance, war on terror
cross-posted on A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World This man is evil. I'm ashamed that the most famous Mexican in American Government so far is this torture-lovin', immigrant-hunting creep. He is a demon with a cartoon-happy face. He's a terrified, sadistic, freak who has visions of death and spies and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Agosto, 2006
The Lie of the Land
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Gobierno , Ley , Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the amendments.Left off the list would be what... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Help Joe Rescue the Democratic Party From LOS HUMANOS XTREEEM!!!
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: al sharpton, blogs, lamont, lieberman, maxine waters, racism
The blogs are a form of expression. There is nothing wrong with a blog. It depends how you use it. I will tell you that the bloggers who came after me -- some of them were so full of hatred ... that it is just not good for our... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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8 de Agosto, 2006
So Much Trouble In the World [Bye Joe]
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: lamont, Leeberman, leiberman
...but at least the people are telling the pols that we ain't havin' it . U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman conceded defeat just after 11 p.m. in the bitter Connecticut primary.courant.com Now let's watch all the Democrats flee the center. Head for port. It ain't that they care what war... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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4 de Agosto, 2006
NYC Volunteers Needed/Call for Latinos to Vote
Categorized under Acción , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: activism, Election, Latino, New York City
If you are citizen of the US, or if you know American Citizens, it is important that you (and they) vote in the next elections. Please keep in mind that your vote is your chance to make your voice known, and is a direct political contribution and a chance... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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2 de Agosto, 2006
First They Came for the Mexicans....
Categorized under Acción , Gobierno , New Mexican Memes , Política Estados Unidos , Protesta | Tags: activism, Camp Democracy, Gitmo, halliburton, mexicans, mexico, resistance, RNC
I'll grant you that in the United States our two big political parties never nominate a candidate of, by, or for poor people. Nonetheless, we have now established a pattern of stolen elections, and we have NOT taken over our nation's capital to demand justice. This fact alone would make... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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26 de Julio, 2006
Bush, President of Iraq
Categorized under Humor , Política Estados Unidos | Tags:
I DON'T LAUGH at everything Mencia does, sometimes I think he works too hard for a joke, and sometimes I think in his "edgy" humor, he is a bit crass, or stereotypical, but I haven't seen him in a while. I found this clip [2 MB] funny, not only... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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13 de Junio, 2006
Falling Under the Spell of the Silver-Tongued Conqueror
Categorized under Historia , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: lamont, leiberman, lieberman
It’s important for people to know that their actions have consequences." Harry Reid, referencing Joe Lieberman's predicament "The Lieberman Problem," Firedoglake Blog, Monday, June 12th, 2006 at 5:05 pm In the early 1500s, Spain invaded Mexico. Cortés brought his men through the land, blazing a path of broken idols, slaughtered... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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