Archive for September, 2008
Sarah Palin : The Politics of Image and Ownership
9:42 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia| Politics| US Presidential Race 2008| Women · Comments Off
29 Sep 2008On today’s political stage, image is everything and substance is just that, filler. As people await the VP debates later this week, the concern is who will make more mistakes, who will fuck up worse and how that will play out in November.
Sarah Palin, held up as a an everymujer, proves herself over and over again as not fit to run a country and it’s not about what she looks(ed) like in a swimsuit.
Monday Morning Miedos : Chavez Says Venezuela Will be Nuclear Power
7:42 am By Maegan La Mala · Politics| Venezuela · 2 Comments
29 Sep 2008
Wanna scare ‘mericans into voting McCain? Easy. Create a new brown menace to go with Ahmadinejad. As we saw in the debate last week, all it takes is saying Ahmadinejad, Castro, Chavez in one breath.
“In Venezuela we are interested in development of nuclear energy, of course for peaceful purposes, for medical purposes, for purposes of electricity generation,” Chavez said at a political rally.“Brazil has various nuclear reactors, so does Argentina. We will have ours.”
Chavez noted that Venezuela, which is a member of the oil-producing cartel OPEC, developed a nuclear reactor decades ago but abandoned it under pressure from the United States.
He said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had offered help with a reactor, adding that “we already have a commission working on this issue.”
I can’t be the only one expecting an invasion of Venezuela, can I?
Via / Reuters
Poetas en NY bring a Happy Mob to Union Square
8:05 am By Maegan La Mala · New York City| language · Comments Off
27 Sep 2008
Today a mob of poets will descend upon Union Square in NYC, sending their words through the streets of and using verses will bailout the souls of a money driven city.
Today begins the Quinto Encuentro “Poetas en Nueva York” and if you go to some events, you may just find la Mala.
For more information visit the Poetas en NY website or just ask.
John McCain Unsuspends Campaign : Will Debate Tonite
12:20 pm By Maegan La Mala · US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
26 Sep 2008
Seems like Republican presidential candidate John McCain is unsuspending his campaign and will be participating in tonight’s debate.
Not that anyone really believed the campaign was “suspended”.
So guess what VivirLatino will be doing this Friday night? We’ll be liveblogging the debate here and live tweeting it (Just request to follow @vivirlatino or @mamitamala).
So join us at 9 pmish (EST). We’ll bring the vino.
Pointing el Dedo : Those Damn Illegals are to Blame for Economic Meltdown
8:51 am By Maegan La Mala · Blogs| Immigration| Internet| Media| Money · Comments Off
26 Sep 2008
Need someone to blame for the economic downturn, for the mortgage crisis? Look no farther than Maria y Jose. That’s right it’s those damn illegal immigrants (or some would have you believe). After all they control the money and the system that controls that. No? DreamActivist writes over at The Sanctuary:
Why, don’t you know, those migrant workers, low-income wage-earners, illegals in the military, undocumented students struggling to afford college, caused the financial collapse of Wall Street, Main Street, all streets!! Now we need a $700 billion dollar bailout for them!
Sylvia P also follows the path atras, as to who really is to blame.
It started with the ambitions of a single illegal alien.
That’s right. I said it. We have no time for political correctness now. If Sen. McCain can suspend his campaign, I can suspend my intelligence to state things plainly. And plainly, my investment banker siblings, it always starts with one.
And we ignored the signs, even when it appeared in the news way back when the Mexicans first began ousting CEOs.
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26 Sep 2008
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Racism? Que Racism? Anti-Obama Fliers Appear in New Jersey
2:35 pm By Maegan La Mala · New Jersey| race · 1 Comment
25 Sep 2008
Some New Jersey residents received more than the usual junk fliers in their driveways this past weekend.
Roxbury resident Elizabeth Corsetto says a flier was left in her driveway asking, “Do You Want A Black President?” and showing a doctored photo of Obama with a long beard and turban.
The fliers came from the New Jersey-based League of American Patriots, which notes on its web site that membership is “restricted to adult heterosexual men and women who are entirely of European Christian ancestry.”
The flier claims that “Black Ruled Nations most unstable and violent in the world,” and asks, “Why should we seal our fate by allowing a Black ruler to destroy us?” The one-page flyer, which misspells the Democratic presidential candidate’s first name…
Nearly 400 people are missing two weeks after Hurricane Ike hit parts of Texas.
“There are a lot of elderly folks, just looking at the age column,”Many of them are from the hardest hit areas of the county, including Boliver, Crystal Beach and Gilchrist.
About 75% of homes in the Galveston area are uninhabitable.
For the first time since Hurricane Ike blew away much of the city, residents of Galveston began streaming home today.But the city is in such bad shape, those hurrying back home were given an ominous warning: Bring tetanus shots, rat poisoning and don’t bring children.
If that’s not enough, planes are spraying the city with insecticide to prevent a boom in the mosquito population, the water isn’t drinkable and people are urged to wear face masks to guard against inhaling toxic mold that is proliferating in the sweltering city.
One way you can help is through giving to the Greater Houston Community Foundation.
Via / ABC Local, ABC National, y Para Justicia y Libertad
Mental Health Crisis Leads To Taser Death
11:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health · Comments Off
25 Sep 2008ABC is reporting the story of Iman Morales, a man who was experiencing a mental health crisis and was tasered to death rather than helped. Apparently his mother called the police for help after he wandered naked out onto a fire escape. The police showed up and after Morales ‘poked’ one of the police officers with a florescent light bulb, they tasered him. Unfortunately, after an hour of trying to convince the man to come down, the police had ‘forgotten’ to put precautionary inflatable foam or netting down to break Morales’s fall. Morales suffered extreme head trauma from landing on the sidewalk and died.
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