4:32 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Immigration| Politics · 18 Comments
21 Aug 2006
That xenophobic freak Pat Buchanan is at again. MSNBC is running excerpts of his new book “State of Emergency” and they are nothing less than laughable. I might be upset if I weren’t ROFLMAO.
Chapter 2. The Invasion
“Will the American Southwest become a giant Kosovo, a part of the nation separated from the rest by language, ethnicity, history and culture, to be reabsorbed in all but name by Mexico from whom we took these lands in the time of Jackson and Polk? Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents have made clear their intent to take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war.”
And apparently Mexicans are responsible for — of all things — bedbugs:
Chapter 3. Coming to America
“High among the [costs of immigration] is the appearance among us of diseases that never before afflicted us and the sudden reappearance of contagious diseases that researchers and doctors had eradicated long ago. Malaria, polio, hepatitis, tuberculosis and such rarities of the Third World as dengue fever, Chagas’ Disease and leprosy are surfacing here …. Bedbugs have invaded the United States for the first time in 50 years, with 28 states reporting recent infestations.’”
For a real hearty laugh, check out the whole feature on MSNBC.com.
Via / MSNBC.com
1:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Internet| Women · 3 Comments
21 Aug 2006
Spanish actress Penelope Cruz says she doesn’t feel pressure to fit into U.S. standards of beauty, mainly around weight because she’s not from the U.S. FemaleFirst goes so far as to say:
The beautiful ‘Volver’ star is comfortable with her curvy body, despite the expectation from Hollywood for women to be really skinny.
I agree that Penelope is beautiful but curvy? She looks straight up flaca to me. Or is it that as a Latina I also have a different idea of beauty compared to Hollywood?
Via / FemaleFirst
Image Via / Bodog Beat
1:11 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Bolivia| Politics · 1 Comment
21 Aug 2006
The Dow Jones — in a strangely translated and not very PC press release — announced today that a group of Guaranís have seized a gas pipeline in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, which provides gas to nearby Brazil:
Between about 20 to 30 Indians were still occupying the site Monday, while up to 150 people were staging protests outside the premises, the official told Dow Jones Newswires, speaking over the telephone from Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
The occupied control station is located in Parapet in Santa Cruz state and serves to compress gas to transport it to Brazil. Brazil currently imports about 25 million cubic meters of gas a day from Bolivia.
Indian leaders have threatened to close valves in the control station to stop the gas exports, but so far the gas flow is uninterrupted, the Petrobras official said.
The protesters are demanding 9 million dollars they say were promised them by Brazilian oil companies in 2005.
Via / Easy Bourse
Image via bolivia.indymedia.org
9:13 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba| Politics · Comments Off
21 Aug 2006
Does Raul Castro really taste great and is he less filling compared to his bro Fidel? According to State Department spokesman Tom Casey he is. That’s what he called Raul in a statement last Friday in reaction to a statement by the acting Cuban president saying that he was open to normalized relations with the U.S. but that threats would get Bush and company nowhere.
Some of the empire’s war hawks thought that the moment had come to destroy the Revolution this past July 31. We could not rule out the risk of somebody going crazy, or even crazier, within the U.S. government.
Interesting that Raul is considered less hard core by the U.S. government than Fidel when during the revolution Raul was always considered more ruthless. A ver if Fidel ever steps back in the spotlight or steps back to Raul.
Via / AccessNorthGa.com
Image Via / Con Tinta Negra
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