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Of all the campaign promises I’ve seeing / heard / read about lately, this one definitely takes the cake. Watch as Republican governor hopeful and business owner Tim James promises fellow Alabamans some serious change.
Way to go, Tim! You are on your way to become almost as creepy as Jan Brewer.
If you thought anti-immigration efforts were going to stop at racial profiling and sending of UFO’s to the border, think again.
The new tool against the war on us, immigrants, is the Dillon Aero SUV Mounted Gun, a “high-powered rifle mounted on top of law enforcement trucks.”
Proudly introduced this year at the Border Security Expo in -where else? Arizona- this baby can blast up to 3,000 bullets per minute, which we figure should be enough to help Ms. Brewer rid her State of unwanted gardeners, cooks, janitors, bus boys, etc.
After all, as the company’s tag line goes:
“He who shoots the fastest. Wins.”
¡Ay, nanita!
Not content with debuting this week on Twitter, Hugo Chávez -aka @ChavezCandanga is now inviting pals Evo Morales and Fidel Castro to follow suit.
I am already a morbid loyal follower of both, @ChavezCandanga @ReflexionFidel, though my sources tell me the latter is not the real Fidel.
Honestly, who cares? reading Fidel’s “thoughts” in 140 characters is much better -and time-efficient- than sifting through his 8-hour-speeches.
[Can’t wait to start following Evo and his thoughts about transgenic chicken and gay people]
Via Cuernavaca 2.0.
For the uninitiated or, rather, the monolingual crowd, this Mexican taxi driver wants you to know There is no service available for gringos from Arizona.
Hat tip: Luis Cabrera
So this is the cover Fortune magazine first assigned to comic book artist Chris Ware, who chose an accurate -and clearly uncomfortable- way to depict modern capitalism.
According to Chicagoist, Ware was asked to design the May cover of the magazine, but his final product, which featured Guantánamo Bay prisoners, Mexican factory workers, and a few potshots at money-grubbing politicians was apparently not what Fortune had in mind.
So here it is for your viewing pleasure.
Ah… don’t you just love the Internet?
Crap! I was so busy bitching at Jan Brewer and the whole Arizona brouhaha, that I failed to acknowledge the truly super-terrific news item of, like, the whole year: The Mexican Congress this week voted for the creation of AEXA, a national space agency, which according to its backers, “will help Mexico develop a space policy and stimulate investment in aerospace technology.”
Among AEXA’s biggest enthusiast is the one and only José Hernández, who has not only flown on the shuttle Discovery and lobbied for the creation of a Mexican space agency, but was brave enough to follow me on Twitter!
As far as I can tell, AEXA will not be sending astronauts into space nor building rockets any time soon, but who cares, really? We will be KICKING some-serious-ass and showing Arizona our people can really transcend borders (and not necessarily by jumping fences.)
¿Quién dijo que no se puede?
Image: Chewy Pulido
According to the state’s official tourism visitor guide, Arizona is a Land of Wonder; a place where you can plan a “Grand” vacation filled with fun activities including hiking, biking, rafting and even mule-riding.
What I find most fascinating, though, is the fact that the guide highlights the state’s proximity to Mexico, and actually encourages tourists to visit Mexico:
Ah…. so now I finally get it!
What this whole thing means is: If you want to see Mexicans, or anything related to Mexico’s culture or heritage, you’ll be better off taking a car and cross the border; chances are you will not see any of that around here anymore.
[Oh, and please don’t worry; Mexican cops are not into racial-profiling. They are equal opportunity shooters.]
Yes, my friends. Former Congressman and Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo this week blasted the Arizona immigration bill, saying it might have gone too far.
He even expressed concern that people would be “pulled over because [you] look like should be pulled over.”
Mind you, this comes from one of the country’s most forceful opponents of illegal immigration or, as Jon Stewart pointed out lately:
“The man Mexican parents tell their kids about to make them to eat their vegetables!”
So, yeah, it’s that bad!
One more year has gone by and this blogger’s dreams have been shattered… again. Not content with not picking me among its 15 Most Influential Latinos, People en Español this year forgot to send me my application for this year’s Los 50 Más Bellos special edition.
The list is expected to be unveiled Monday night (April 26) during El Show de Cristina, giving Univision viewers “an exclusive peek at this year’s coveted issue, revealing the list of celebrities, as well as the cover, before the magazine hits the stands on April 30th.”
So there you have it. I’m now almost certain I didn’t make to the the list, but that’s OK, as long as they keep me on board as the un-official chronicler of the Bellos party.
Otherwise, I’m just going to have to keep hoping. As my abuela used to say: “La esperanza muere al último”.
One more irresistible promotion at my local barber shop. Who said there are no good deals left in the city?
If you belong to the ‘brown’ race and plan to travel to Arizona in the near future, make sure to fake a Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) a rare, but not uncommon condition that will make you sound as if you are from some exotic land, namely Ireland, Wales or as I like to call it, ABLA (Anywhere But Latin America.)
Please watch and pay attention! Don’t you let the 1070 bill catch you unawares! Vodpod videos no longer available.
Despite all the bad news you’ve been reading lately about Mexico, there are places that just continue to attract large groups of Americans. And no, we’re not talking spring-breakers in Cancún.
According to Veteran’s Today (this blogger’s daily source of fresh news), Lake Chapala has become the number one retirement destination for U.S. veterans, partly because of its near perfect weather and low cost of living, but mostly -I suspect- because as the article states, “You can get by without Spanish.”
Which is, like, great, because if you didn’t need to learn any other language throughout your live, why start now?
Other advantages cited include -but are not limited to- “high quality health care, and pharmacies, with many bilingual professionals trained in the U.S. or Canada.”
[If none of this sounds attractive enough, think about it this way: wouldn’t you just love to hang out with your retired buddies while some local woman dances and prances around in a colorful dress and wearing a gigantic hat?]
I said earlier that Michelle Obama’s visit to Mexico City was going to me a very “bloggable” event but I wasn’t expecting this.
So before you watch, please allow me to formally apologize for my county’s elementary school teachers. Not all are like this. Or at least, they were not like this when I was growing up. I promise.
I don’t know what they have been telling Michelle Obama about crime in my country… but she was spotted arriving in Mexico City not only sans husband, but also sans purse…. cellphone, keys, credit cards… ¡nada!
Way to go, Mrs. Obama, better safe than sorry.
And just when you thought Hispanic television couldn’t get any more entertaining [read it with irony, please] former NBC exec Ben Silverman is ready to give us a new telenovela (both in English and Spanish) to be called Pedro & María, and billed as “modern-day version of Romeo & Juliet.”
The show will be brought to you by Procter & Gamble (which the press continues to call “Proctor & Gamble“) and “will give its audience the ability to vote on the direction the characters and story lines take.”
So, without further ado, here’s my vote: Have Pedro and María take a swig of poison during the first episode and spare us the whole thing. Will you?
As for “Hispanic” adaptations of Romeo & Juliet, this blogger will stick to her favorite one, the one and only, brought to you by Mario Moreno Reyes himself.
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