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NM Day without Immigrants Round Up

Duke City Fix has a nice photo retrospective on their Flikr page,  and be sure to check out Johhny Mango's 36 Hours with Jim Baca.

Maggie has a great post on the "Failed Diversion" of "the recent embroilment over illegal immigration was created as a media diversion to take our eyes off of the Bush Administration's completely failed Iraq policies."

La Queen Sucia tells us of the stupidity that lands in her in box from anti-Latino folks.


Susan G over at Daily Kos has a nice wrap up of national coverage

And  Atrios points out Bush flip flopping and actually singing on the National Anthem in Spanish.

A commenter at Think Progress caught this. Bush a couple of days ago:

After saying he did not consider the anthem sung in Spanish to have the same value as the anthem sung in English, Mr. Bush said: "I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English. And they ought to learn to sing the anthem in English."

From Kevin Phillips' American Dynasty:

When visiting cities like Chicago, Milwaukee or Philadelphia, in pivotal states, he would drop in at Hispanic festivals and parites, sometimes joining in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Spanish, sometimes partying with a "Viva Bush" mariachi band flown in from Texas.

Best of the blogs y Feliz Dia de San Valentin

There's a bunch of really great stuff out in the blogs today and since I'm swamped i thought you should check some out.

Primeramente con La Queen Sucia and her Heather sighting at a local Starbucks where Heather was interviewing prospective job applicants.  From her blog...

Woman is saying, "I'm really proud of my ability to talk to any realm of people, from the very illiterate to the other end of the spectrum."

Very illiterate? Can you be just a little illiterate?

Quidate mujer, I think that might be considered domestic spying.

And finally you have to check out one of my favorite Tejano Blogs. Rio Grande Valley Politics,  and their version of Janie's got a gun.

Cheney's Got a Gun

Dum, dum, dum, Dick what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound of my gun
Dum, dum, dum, Dick what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound, it's the sound...

Cheney's Got A Gun
Cheney's Got A Gun
Thought he was in Vietnam
Now everybody is on the run
But he got 5 deferments from war
others died in his place, what a whore

Go and read the rest here LINK

By the way, RGVP has the best tag line of any blog that I've ever seen:

If a politico tells you a lie, it's only because he thinks he's telling the truth.

Best Snark of the Week on El NMB

New Mexico's Blogosphere's Queen Sucia

When you've got the inbred children of neo-cons running around puking their guts out drunk (like the vastly underaccomplished Bush twins) and getting arrested for fake IDs (the vastly inebriated Bush twins) and you've got their kids forging prescriptions for drugs because they are junkies (Bush's little freaky crack-ho niece) or because they are driving drunk over the lawn of their ex-girlfriend in an effort to run her over (Bush angry alcoholic nephew)

Please go and read her complete post it will be well worth it!

Here are some stories that I've read already:

I'm saying a novena for the country because SecDef Rumsfeld has "no plans to retire," reports Reuters. LINK

Another example of policy being set at the expense of hard working immigrants, Per the Washington Times' Stephen Dinan, "the House Judiciary Committee yesterday voted down an amendment that would have created a path to citizenship for most illegal aliens before passing a bill to require employers to check employees' documents to ensure workers are legal." LINK

This just makes you want to bang your head against wall but it's also proof that bush  & co are hardly going down w/o a fight, The Washington Post's Jim VandeHei on President Bush, the money-magnet despite his poll numbers. LINK

I hate to play the race card but the elitist The New York Times editorial board slams Gov-elect Corzine's first major decision for selecting a "business as usual" politician to replace him in the Senate. LINK 

As La Reyna posted  this morning

He is a social liberal in most other arenas, and is pro-union, pro-choice, and anti-Bush.

...he proves that you can be BOTH a liberal democrat and critical of Castro's Cuba.

I have to admit that this ones personal for me as I just spent 3 months in North Jersey (Essex County) managing a field campaign for the John Corzine campaign.  Hudson County was right next door and many a night I spent with Hudson County operatives and listening to political tales of Congressman Menendez and how he had to fight his way to the top.  While I never had the opportunity to personally meet, now Senator Menendez,  his record is admirable and deserves more from an elitist institution who can't even detect plagiarism (even if it crawled out of their ass and laid one on their lips) or report the facts.

What's that NYT's I can't hear you.  Ummm why don't you issue one of your infamous public apologies for insinuating that Senator Menendez is corrupt.  I don't see any indictments with his name. North Jersey politics is  rough, but most corrupt pols go to jail.  Corrupt pols like former republican Gov. John G. Rowland and republican Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham

Ahh the double standard that exists of being Latino in this country if you're a liberal.  And as far as as corruption goes nothing compares to the bush's corruption.

George Bush reaped $14 million from selling his $600,000 stake in a deal that involved the building of a new stadium for the Texas Rangers.  George profited handsomely while taxpayers were stiffed for the money to subsidize Bush and his investment partners.

Jeb Bush Defaulted on a $4,56 million loan from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida.  After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office building that Jeb used the $4.56 million to finance was reappraised by the regulators to $500,000 which Bush and his partners paid.  Taxpayers were socked the remaining $4 million tab.

Neil Bush was director of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan in Denver.  After the S&L lent Bush and his partners over $200 million in loans for JNB Exploration, Neil's unsuccessful oil company, Neil's partners welshed on $132 million in loans, partly resulting in the failure of the S&L. Federal regulators determined that Neil was completely dependent on his partners for his income.  The S&L's failure cost taxpayers $1 billion.

THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY!

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Hey y'all, go and check out Samir's new blog theme at Truth, NM.  It's pretty slick and Samir takes another jab at New Mexico talk radio today.

The fix was in

Last night at the Downtown Flying Star, Duke City Fix hosted a rather large get together for their readers and bloggers.  If you ever wondered who the personalities are behind the various bloggers you could have met a majority of them last night except for the elusive Pika.  Pika remained shrouded in -his or her- Nome DE plume for the evening but with more than 4 people wearing name tags with Pika on it I think that I can make a good guess at who Pika is.

It's gotta be Mario Burgos who was among the many local bloggers that I met last night.  If you haven't had the opportunity to check out New Mexico's very own Republican Noise Machine or you're a believer in the Bush doctrine that we're an empire now, and when they act, they create their own reality then this is the place for you.  By the way Mario in which reality do Americans get 5 week vacations?

By far Albuquerque's reality based community were in the hizzy gettin dizzy.  Jon Knudsen of Abloggerque served as the blogaratzi snapping photos of attendees and bloggers.  I thought that Joe was the Honorable Jim Baca.  Thanks for being so gracious Joe but you had a camera in your hand when I met you and you sort of looked like him.  Jim sorry I missed you but keep up the good work!

The lovely ladies from m-pyrical Margorie, Maggie, and Mjae were regaling their court with stories from their blogging  experiences and lamenting about the lack of comments on their blog.  I sympathize with you ladies.  I'd give anything to get my three loyal readers to comment on anything that I write.

Daddy'O of Eucatastrophe is positively the Zen daddy of blogging in the 505.  I wish that I had more of a chance to rhyme and reason with him but Adam kept him chatting for a good while.

There are countless others that I met that are not named here but in due time I hope to get to know all of you.

Finally, Chantal you and your crew rock!  The event was a great success and there is a great community of bloggers (you to Mario) in Albuquerque and Duke City Fix does a lot to nurture that aspect of community.  They probably have the best blog roll of Burque Bloggers and most definitely are helping turn new readers onto new blogs and sustaining El NMB.

The Albi should add a new category for their "Best of Albuquerque" issue for best blog because Duke City Fix is it. 

You have my vote!

 

 

The Blogs of Enchantment has a newbie

One of the things that I enjoy about the New Mexico Blogosphere are the diversity of voices and opinions that color the sky like a New Mexico sunrise.  Someone always has something to say and yesterday the NMB  grew by one (that I know of at least).

Make some time to go and visit the blog of LCV field and political organizer Maggie Toulouse.  Her blog was born at 1:40 pm, August 17, 2005.  Her first post weighed in at a whopping 1,040 words.   Oh my!

With no shortage of subjects to blog about (Otero Mesa, Valle Vidal, energy issues, and New Mexico political happenings) the vigilant versatile valiant vexing verbal vixen of viormental verbosity brings veracity and value to the NMB.  Try saying that quickly 5 times.

Welcome Maggie!  By the way you still owe me lunch,