¡BIENVENIDOS! And welcome to our Carne Blogsada Sábado Roundup wherein I feature brief commentary and links on a few news topics that may be important to Latin@s y los otros and some choice links harvested from the fruitful and fertile blogsoil of El Blogarrio. Enjoy!
PUT OUT YA PLATO! We have a variety of flavors today, going to dip briefly into areas in the main of the stream as well as some news from tha Blogarrio™.
As we’ve already talked about, John “Chickenshit” McCain’s is not quite getting that when it comes to us Latinos/Hispanix, the road to the White House will not be reached via Avenida Pander! Yet, the lesson is coming home to him anyway.
Oye, perhaps not every single Latin@ cares as much about Immigration reform as much as I do or some of the amigos y amigas I chill with do, but believe it that enough of us do notice when hypocritical stances get nuestra gente harassed by police, raided and terrified, killed in prison, or deported. Believe that, Pinche McCabrón! These are new times and your base can no longer be the top 1 percenters or that fearful horde that now lumbers after the slimy tracks of ya Straight Crock Express. We are all people out here. We matter. We remember.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Cindy Florez can’t always remember the name of the man who will get her vote for president, but she knows his party and that’s enough.
“I will vote Democrat,” the 23-year-old hotel housekeeper said, in broken English, moments after registering to vote at a John McCain campaign booth in a Latino neighborhood market.
It’s an insult-to-injury moment for the Republican presidential candidate. And when it comes to McCain’s relationship with Hispanic voters, it’s not the first.
The man who once took a big political risk by joining with Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to propose a comprehensive immigration reform bill that was embraced by Hispanics is now struggling to win these same voters, and falling perilously below the level of support that helped lift President Bush to the White House.
The candidate who won nearly 70 percent of Hispanic voters in his last bid for Senate in border-state Arizona is watching a first-term Illinois senator run away with those voters.
NEXT UP, if you have time, interest, and ability, consider lending your hand to the cause of Democracy in this fine nation of immigrants that is the USA:
(KSL News) Latino organizers are recruiting volunteers to help first-time immigrant voters learn the ropes of casting their ballots. They want every vote to count in such a high-stakes election.
“Latinos throughout the country will be looking for candidates who want to treat people with compassion, who want to address the issues our communities are facing, not for those who want to build tent cities,” said Tony Yapias, with Proyecto Latino de Utah.
Post and video here. Might not wanna read the comments there, though. Sounds like a McCain/Palin rally by the end. Ay. By the hostility and anger, you’d think that “first-time immigrant voters” atually means “Cackling Fence Hopping Welfare Stealing Criminal” instead of “Legal Citizen Performing Important American Duty and Right For First Time Needing Assistance.” But that’s what happens when your brain tissue gets rank and stagnant with self-administered septic effluvium. Words come apart and everything looks ugly. Muy triste.
• BARACK OBAMA busts out with a new health care vid. Hang in for the “Soy Barack Obama” at the end part. It’s fun.
The article where I found this video talks about how the Obama campaign is “shifting from immigration, its recent topic of choice, to health care and taxes” and I’m sure sorry to hear that in light of all that’s been going down in the last half year or more, especially in the last few months.
Related, I talked to a blogmigo today from The Sanctuary, and we are thinking it may be a good idea to start talking to our contactos in the MSM again on this survey ignorando that McCain is doing, todavía. Stay tuned for info if we do, I’ll letcha know wassup.
THIS COULD BE NOTHING AT ALL or it could develop into something worth watching. I have no reason to think so…it just struck a chord of curiosity in me. These are tense times for Latin@s all over. I pay close attention to anything like this.
DES MOINES, Iowa - The administrator of the Iowa Division of Latino Affairs has abruptly quit his job.
Walter Reed, the director of the Iowa Department of Human Rights, says Armando Villareal turned in his resignation on Sept. 29 and left without further explanation. Reed’s office oversees the Latino affairs division.
Salvador Alaniz, a member of the Iowa Commission on Latino Affairs, says Villareal’s departure was a surprise.
The Latino Affairs Division has become more visible in recent years with the growth in Iowa’s Hispanic population.
• EL BLOGARRIO: Manuél contributes some beautiful pumpkin arte for Yes We Carve. La Mala, La Poeta kicking it live esta noche in NYC. Problemchylde (Sylvia) informing us with no hesitation that The Revolution Will be Horny! Kai breakin’ down the Economy con estilo! XP’s open letter that Yo No es un PC! Kyle tells the tale of the Illegal Gringa. Y Duke at the Sanctuary telling us of Sheriff Bizell’s longing for the Good Ole South and why that’s a problem for Elizabeth Dole!
• LASTLY, not all of us pray and hope for hurricanes to blow into Mexico, as one anchorman intoned over the TV while I was in Denver for the DNC.
The US National Hurricane Center has downgraded Hurricane Norbert, with wind speeds of up 110 mph (175 km/h), from Category 3 to 2.
Norbert is due to hit Mexico’s Baja California peninsula in the Pacific on Saturday.
Forecasters have warned of torrential rain and the threat of mud slides.
“Preparations to protect life and property in the hurricane warning areas should be rushed to completion,” said a public advisory from the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Mexican authorities have issued warnings and are preparing an emergency plan.
Meteorologists said the hurricane was likely to produce rainfall of up to 10 inches (25.4 cm) in some parts of southern Baja California which could result in “life-threatening flash floods and mud slides”.
My thoughts, good energy are with you, México! Am lighting una vela.
And hope all my friends out here in blogworld are doing well today. It’s cold here!
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¡”Pinche McCabrón”! That made me shoot hot Yerba Maté out my nose.
A hurricane set to hit the west coast of Mexico has weakened slightly but remains “life-threatening”, meteorologists have warned.
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