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As a day job, I work with back-end computer support, and every once in a while a systems check is performed to make sure everything is running optimal.  Likewise, I think individuals should engage in a 'self-check' every so often.  More so, those that are involved in social affairs should do this especially as to not become immersed in their own manure.

Read below:

Latino registered voters rank education, the cost of living, jobs and health care as the most important issues in the fall campaign, with crime lagging a bit behind those four and the war in Iraq and immigration still farther behind. On each of these seven issues, Obama is strongly favored over McCain--by lopsided ratios ranging from about three-to-one on education, jobs, health care, the cost of living and immigration, to about two-to-one on Iraq and crime.

I don't know if they are ranked in order (too lazy to look at report), but I would put those as my top four.  So in a nutshell, even though I've been MIA, I feel I'm still in touch with the Latino heart.  After all, the Latino heart is a human heart, and these issues are what all Americans are concerned about.  I'd be curious to what issues some readers and writers of Latino Blogs are deemed most important.

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.

Picasso.  Now you see him, now you don't in Brazil.  

I'm a big fan of social networking/web 2.0; it's the power of generosity and humaneness that exalts itself magnanimously within such arenas. 

I found this cool site:  BookCrossing.   The idea is to publicly distribute books and keep track of these books via their own ID number.  You place a book on a bench in the park, on the stairs of a building, a coffee shop in the mall, and jot it down on the site - the book is now ("out in the wild," as they call it).  Whoever picks it up can then sign into the website and state they have got it if they are so inclined.

I am releasing Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind," somewhere tomorrow (it's a book that's been lying around; I actually want to read it one day, but I don't think I'll get to it for some time).

Hahahaha.

Leaving their cozy nook of bare legged models garnered in high-striped tube socked, panties and a t-shirt, American Apparel uses immigration within their ads:

"At American Apparel, we agreed with the President's call for immigration reform, so why has nothing been done for the last three years? ....It's time to give a voice to the voiceless. Businesses are afraid to speak to the media about immigration, frightened of reprisals by government agencies.... At what point are we going to recognize that the status quo amounts to an apartheid system? At what point will America stop living in a state of denial?"

Edgy?  Ballsy?  Sick of the status quo?  I think they have done more here than Congress has done in the past few years.

Mas.

I met Luis back in October.  Looks like he's finished his trip around America.  Photos over at Luis Mendoza's blog, from Oakland.

Elana Levin, from The Drum Major Institute, has written a article to Progressive bloggers and their lack of opinion and coverage on the immigration issue.

Ugh.

But there is a shining light:  Real American Hate Lou Dobbs.

Myth:  Latinos threaten English language because they don't want to learn the language.

Fact:  Latinos are learning English.

This fact has been stated over, and over again.  I feel like a broken record by reiterating it.  But, it's necessary because they keep telling the same lies.

In Brazil, as they celebrate Black Consciousness Day.

Some would do it for a year's tuition, and others for a mere iPhone.  Is this the most materialistic generation ever, or is voting and youth synonymous for undervalued? 

Hattip.

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 Mexican hispanics illegal immigrants?!?  Great. 

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.

The old adage 'it's not what you know, but who you know' painfully applies verbatim in some highly selective schools.  Grades, nor scores gives a certain elite few white kids entry onto the rosters of prestigious schools.  My friend over at Prometheus 6 has the story.