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The latest pride and national bandwagon award goes to Corona and their attempt to alcoholize Latinos.
Right on...Rah-Rah! Corona! Latinos!!! "...que linda la botella." Yeah.
2 Tough
Questions
Question
1:
If
you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who
were
deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had
syphilis, would
you recommend that she have an abortion?
Read the
next question before looking at the response for this one.
Question
2:
It is
time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts.
Here are the
facts about the three candidates. Who would you vote for?
Candidate A
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults
with astrologist
He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8
to 10 martinis a day.
Candidate B
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until
noon, used opium in
college and drinks a quart of whiskey every
evening.
Candidate
C
He is a decorated war hero.
He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an
occasional beer and never
cheated on his wife.
Which of these
candidates would be our choice?
Decide first... no
peeking, then jump over for the response.
I wonder if this is a way around it: get an out of state mailbox at one of those private vendors (NJ?), and deliver the items there, and either pick them up or have the place forward them to you. Or just move out of this crappy state, like I am thinking of doing.
"NY Governor David Paterson is expected to sign a bill requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases shipped to the state, even if they have no operations or employees working there. The so-called 'Amazon tax', which applies to Internet retailers who derive sales through affiliate programs, would end what for many New Yorkers had been tax-free shopping and generate an estimated $50M in revenue this fiscal year. Experts predict that other states could follow suit with similar provisions."
I like this post over at SoundTaste entitled "Dominican Women Rock." Take pride in yourself people. Follow the links for a grand finale of photos!
Many, if not most indigenous and people of color communities around the globe wear their babies. From the continents of Asia, the Americas and Africa, indigenous women from ancient times wore their babies, mostly so that they could get back to the daily chores of life while taking care of their young. Babywearing was practical. So practical in fact, that on those continents, it is considered an act of the lower, poor classes. After all, wealthy women had people to do their chores for them, including carrying and taking care of their babies.
And it’s that fact that makes the whole babywearing movement in the U.S. so interesting. The babywearing community is mostly white and upper middle class to upper class and they better be...Many of these babywearing communities have the nasty little habit of fetishizing/exoticizing their practice. Without irony they post pictures of “traditional” babywearing across the globe and oooh and ahhh and say how cute. I even came across one post with a mama proudly and excitedly sharing how and Asian older man commented on her Asian style babywearing and according to her, he even said it in a “cute accent”.
“If there is one issue that has challenged presidential candidates of both parties in Iowa this year, it is immigration, and the Democratic contenders were confronted with it again Tuesday, in a provocative way. Should American citizens, they were asked, turn in someone they know to be an illegal immigrant?”This is tempting the opening of the proverbial 'can of worms.'
Even after Hillary Clinton responded that citizens should not be “enforcing the broken laws of our federal immigration system”, NPR’s Steven Inskeep continued the line of questioning by asking, “If a citizen witnessed some other kind of crime, wouldn’t you want them to report it?”
Read about it here at Adventures of The Coconut Caucus:
A Letter From The Publisher
Dear Reader:
Faced with a trademark legal challenge and protracted litigation by the publishers of the newspaper and website ¨Politico,¨we have reluctantly chosen to change the name of our publication, from“La Política” to “CandidatoUSA.”
The publishers of Politico - launched in January by Washington D.C.-based Allbritton Communications, also owners of seven ABC television affiliates and three other news channel outlets - claim La Politica infringes on their trademark.
The name change odyssey began,without our knowledge, on July 11when Jim VanderHei, Politico’s co-founder and editor, called me.
He had heard of our plans to launch La Política and wanted to know more. I gave him details of
our preparations to launch an electronic trade newsletter on the business of reaching Hispanic voters.At his suggestion, we agreed to talk again after the launch of La Política on November 5 to explore avenues of collaboration between Politico and our publication.
We did launch on November 5. But next day, instead of a call from VanderHei, we received a two-page aggressive and threatening letter from Politico’s attorney demanding that we “cease and desist” from the use of the La Política name because they hold a registered trade mark in the term “The Politico.”
I, of course, rapidly called VanderHei and sent him the following e-mail message:
From: Arturo Villar [mailto:avillar@hispanicmarketweekly.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:54 AM
To: ‘jim@politico.com’
Subject: Urgent; Please call me
Jim: I left you a phone message yesterday wanting to talk about La Politica.When you called me on July 11 to inquire about La Politica, I shared our plans for the mewsletter, and we talked about exploring ways to work together after our launch in the fall.
We did launch this past Monday, and instead I have received a letter from your attorney
We are studying the matter and we need more time to consider the business implication of your attorney’s demand Please call me at ..; to discuss this and our cooperation plans.
Saludos, ArturoNo response from VanderHei.
Facebook is truly looking at the business end first and the people second. What they should of done is first have the business request to use the story of the users purchase and then ask if they can use it, rather than publish first and leave it up to the user to opt out later. MoveOn allows you to fight back.
So you have one racist who dresses up as a black prisoner and another racist awarding the best costume award, and all the other racists standing around condoning it with non-action. We are second class citizens and one big joke to them. And this is the head of the agency who is responsible for apprehending
Julie Myers, head of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should resign or be fired.
UPDATE [2007-11-07 22:00:00]: Because of her actions, her nomination for top immigration enforcer (yeah, right) has been held.
The original fool who came in the costume has been forced to take a leave of absence.
Puerto Rico Police Accused of Corruption
MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico (AP) — Mistrust of police has been ingrained for years in this bleak coastal town, where a basketball court mural shows a girl running from a baton-wielding officer under the slogan: "To be poor is not a crime."
So there was some sense of vindication when the FBI arrested 10 officers this summer, accusing them of planting drugs on residents of housing projects and other poor neighborhoods in one of Puerto Rico's worst police corruption cases.
The reach of the scandal became apparent this week when the local Justice Department recommended throwing out cases against 51 people accused of drug offenses in Mayaguez, a town on Puerto Rico's western shores.
The police unit in Mayaguez considered residents of housing projects near their precinct as "targets of opportunity," said Luis Fraticelli, the top FBI official in Puerto Rico, in an interview with The Associated Press.
"They would drive by and they didn't like the kid or whatever, so they would decide to go plant drugs on him," said Fraticelli.
