Archive for October, 2008
Thought Things Were Settling Down?
11:42 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · economy · Comments Off
23 Oct 2008
Well, prepare to huddle back into your fetus position. Economic (supposed) guru wizard, Alan Greenspan just gave testimony in front of Congress about the state of the economy. His news is, of course, terrifying.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Thursday the current financial crisis is a “once-in-a-century credit tsunami” which will have a severe impact on the U.S. economy, driving unemployment higher.
Greenspan, who headed the nation’s central bank for 18½ years, said that he and others who believed lending institutions would do a good job of protecting their shareholders are in a “state of shocked disbelief.”
He said that the current crisis had “turned out to be much broader than anything that I could have imagined.”
I’d offer you one of my thumbs to suck on while in your fetal position, but I need it myself.
No More Sex Until You Register to Vote : Episode 2 of Voto Latino’s La Pasión de la Decisión
11:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Internet|US Presidential Race 2008 · 1 Comment
23 Oct 2008As promised, here’s the next episode of a Voto Latino‘s novela, La Pasión de la Decisión The theme is: no sex until you are registered to vote. My theme is, no sex until you do something beyond voting (this may explain my lack of sex).
Nancy Pelosi Proves that Dems Aren’t Immigrant Friendly Either
9:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Politics · 5 Comments
23 Oct 2008
Still think that electoral politics is going to solve the immigration issue? Or that being a Democrat means a magic answer to save Latinos once we, as a sleeping giant that everyone keeps talking about, vote? Gracias to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is keeping it real by stepping away from offering a path to citizenship to immigrants.
…Pelosi also said Congress would have to tackle the politically sticky job of overhauling immigration laws in the new Congress, after a bipartisan measure collapsed last year.The estimated 12 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally “are part of the U.S. economy. We cannot send them all home, and we cannot send them all to jail, so we have to address it,” Pelosi said.
Any solution would have to be bipartisan, she said, so it may require sacrificing some of Democrats’ past priorities, such as giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.
“Maybe there never is a path to citizenship if you came here illegally,” Pelosi said. “I would hope that there could be, but maybe there isn’t.”
Daddy Yankee Smells Like Pesto and Teaches Rican Children
7:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Music|Puerto Rico · 1 Comment
23 Oct 2008
Daddy Yankee isn’t finished horrifying Ricans and Latinos in general.
Thankfully next month he steps away from politics and into the realm of the fluffy again when he launches a cologne. For $39 (small bottle) and $49 (big bottle) you can smell like a strange pesto spilled on your shows it seems as the main aromas in the scent include apple peel, ginger, cedar leaves, sage, basil, amber, and suede. Mmmm sexy.
I can’t Marry You because You Didn’t Register to Vote : Voto Latino’s La passion de la Decision Parte 1
2:37 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Internet|TV|US Presidential Race 2008 · 2 Comments
22 Oct 2008Our amigos at Voto Latino just released the the final episode of their get out the vote spoof telenovela La Pasión de la Decisión. It features Rosario Dawson, Wilmer Valderrama, Tony Plana, Mayte Garcia y otros acting melodramatically TelemundoUnivision style.
We’ll feature an episode everyday as we get closer to election day. Part one asks the burning question, would you marry/date/sleep with someone who wasn’t registered to vote?
Sarah Palin Needs to Read Job Advertisement Before She Submits Application
12:37 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
22 Oct 2008You know, one of the first ‘rules’ I ever got from my university advisor on how to work job applications was to sit and read the advertisement really closely before you work through the application. That way you could be extra sure that you had the skills that the employer was looking for, but also so that you could mold your resume around the requirements of the job.
My advisor told me, there’s nothing that will get a job application thrown in the garbage faster than an application where the applicant clearly isn’t really even all that sure about what job it is they are applying for.
Which brings me to this lovely clip:
Er…since when was the VP post all about monitoring and rubber necking Congress? I wonder if McCain just told her that so that he could keep her away from his White House should he win?
Soy Jose el Plomero
11:55 am By Maegan La Mala · US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
22 Oct 2008Did you peep John McCain’s new ad where everyone is suddenly Joe the Plumber, except anyone that looks like me or anyone I know (save the black man who is not Barack Obama who is on screen for what? a millisecond?). Don’t know about you pero this ad makes me want to not vote for McCain especially if those are the peeps on his team.
I couldn’t agree with them more!!!!
11:38 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
22 Oct 2008John McCain is chocked full of total Jackass moments these days. Ok, here’s the background. John Murtha (Democrat for Pennsylvania) recently told the press the oh so startling news that Obama might have trouble pulling in the vote from some areas in Pennsylvania. Why? Because those voters are *racist*.
Well, McCain decided to use Murtha’s words to stoke the fires of his base. Only…well…see for yourself.
Sigh. Poor John. Throwing all his truth out there like that…I feel like sending a couple tios out on the dance floor to reel drunk John off the floor and bring him home.
Sarah Palin’s New $150 G Style
9:55 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|economy|Fashion|Money|US Presidential Race 2008|Women · 2 Comments
22 Oct 2008
Despite Alaskan governor’s excellent record, the Republican National Committee felt that Sarah Palin needed a fashion makeover at a cost of more than $150,000.
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.
The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.
Problems with Early Voting
7:55 am By Maegan La Mala · North Carolina|race|US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
22 Oct 2008
Jack from Angry Brown Butch blogs that various news outlets are already reporting problems in early voting that has begun in some states. Not surprisingly, mots of these problems favor John McCain voters while disenfranchising likely Barack Obama voters, that is voters of color. This doesn’t look good for actual election day, now less than 2 weeks away.
McCain Supporters Harass Obama Voters in North Carolina
In North Carolina, over 200,000 residents have already cast ballots in early voting. In Fayetteville, a group of John McCain supporters heckled and harassed a group of mostly black supporters of Barack Obama as they voted on Sunday. The Washington Times reported the McCain backers shouted and mocked the voters as they walked into the voting place. The website Facing South reports the McCain supporters likely broke the Voting Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits anyone from intimidating or threatening a person for voting or attempting to vote. On that same day in Fayetteville, North Carolina, thirty people reported having their tires slashed after attending an Obama rally.
More voter harassment after the jump.
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