Happy New Year 2007...
2007?! Geez! I can't believe I've made it this far. 2007 sounds SO modern, yet we are still oh-so backward.
I wish you the very best for the new year. I mean everyone. I mean no ill will. If you made a mistake, well that's your hide, not mine... I wish you the best!!!
This should be a better year as far as local politics go, the voters having made more sensible decisions, we'll see.......
All the best!!!
posted by Junkbox @ 8:27 PM
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Long ago in the hills of Central Texas on the banks of the Guadalupe River that passes next to La Hacienda Drug Treatment Center I made a promise to bring a drug treatment center to our small community in South Texas. Our small band of misfits walked 125 miles from Hunt, Texas, where La Hacienda is located, to our state capitol in Austin to bring attention to the lack of treatment services in our community. Our first goal was accomplished on May 18th of this year when the conference committee of both the Senate and House announced that the drug treatment center we long advocated for was coming to my hometown of Edinburg.
With that goal complete, I returned home fully prepared to return to civilian life. When I returned home yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised by well wishers from the community and more importantly members of my family who after reading newspaper reports of my potential departure from office, encouraged me to continue my work in the legislature and to build on the successes we saw last session.
Therefore, let me announce to you the faithful readers of this site, that it is my full intention to once again seek election to office so that I can continue serving the people of this community at their capitol.
My first order of business is to announce our second legislative goal for our South Texas community, that being the construction of a medical school. I have instructed my staff to begin drafting legislation for the construction of a medical as well as other professional schools for our community. These may seem like mere dreams not likely to have a chance of success but so was the drug treatment center when we started.
EARN MY VOTE AND HIS Anti-Semitic, Racist, Neo-Nazi Groups in America Today
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism. The ADL’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents found that Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States declined in 2005, but that levels were still a source of concern. More specifically, there were 1,757 reported anti-Semitic incidents in North America 2005, a three percent decline from 2004.
Anti-Semitic incidents included in the Audit comprise physical and verbal assaults, harassment, property defacement, vandalism or other expressions of anti-Jewish sentiment. States with the most total incidents: New York, New Jersey, California, Florida, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
One trend that has served as a driving force behind the numbers is public activity by organized neo-Nazi and other hate groups.
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HISPANICS HAVING TO PUT UP WITH BULLSHIT AGAIN!!
"We apologize for he foul language in the heading and We here at THE POLITICAL RING don't make it a habbit to use cus words in our blog, but it's b.s. injustice about How Hispanics are being Percieved that inferiorates us so"
My advice: Call your Congressman and complain about such b.s. being portrayed on a Public Broadcasting Channel.
The following is a clip from Today's Monitor:
Area veterans criticize omission of Hispanics from WWII documentary
Amanda Harris and Jennifer L. Berghom (Valley Freedom Newspapers)
September 21, 2007 - 11:00PM
HARLINGEN — A group of men held yellow and orange signs Friday that read, “Hispanic World War II Vets were excluded. Why?” The men also held American flags and black-and-white Prisoner of War/Missing in Action flags as they protested filmmaker Ken Burns’ documentary series, “The War,” which is scheduled to premier Sunday on Public Broadcasting Service stations across the country. “We want to make sure that the public knows — especially PBS and this affiliate here, KMBH — that we are opposed to the airing of this documentary by Ken Burns,” said M. Felix Rodriguez, commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars District 18. “It’s an inaccurate portrayal of the diversity of the groups that contributed to the victory over our enemies during World War II.” Rodriguez and four other veterans, all of whom have fathers, fathers-in-law or uncles who served during World War II, stood in an empty field Friday across the street from the KMBH-TV60 building with their signs and flags. “They left us out,” veteran Maximo Belmarez said. “Mexicans played a big part of the war. It was not puros gueritos fighting.” Veteran Efrain Solis said that even though Burns added segments to his documentary featuring Latino and Native American veterans, it was only after various groups protested their initial absence. “It’s an afterthought,” Solis said. Eduardo Casas, a retired Marine and retired teacher from the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo school district, said his biggest worry is that teachers will use the documentary as an educational tool. “That’s my concern as an educator,” Casas said. “It’s inaccurate. That’s a worry. It will give the wrong message to young students.” Casas said documentarians have a responsibility to do thorough and complete research, because documentaries are often used in classrooms. Questions to KMBH regarding the protest were directed to the e-mail account of the station’s general manager Monsignor Pedro Briseño, who did not respond as of Friday. The documentary sparked protests throughout the nation as well as threats to boycott products of the series’ sponsors. Some cartoonists even dedicated their comic strips to telling the stories of Hispanic World War II veterans, according to The Associated Press. The AP also reported that Burns and PBS reached an agreement with a Hispanic veterans group to add a segment that includes content from Native American and Latino veterans. But Rodriguez, fellow veterans and historians said that isn’t enough, calling it “a slap in the face.” “What he is saying is (Hispanic and Native American veterans) didn’t participate or contribute to the success in winning the war,” Rodriguez said. “It is an insult to me, but more of an insult to my dad.” Jennifer Mata, a history professor at the University of Texas-Pan-American, said leaving out that history could lead to issues of identity problems for younger generations because they won’t see their ancestors’ contributions. Mata and fellow UTPA history professor Amy Hay said World War II was a significant war for Hispanics as well as other minorities, because they were fighting against discrimination abroad while facing it in their own country. Trinidad Gonzales, a history instructor at South Texas College in McAllen, said he hopes more Hispanic veterans and their families will record their own histories. Gonzales said he is working with Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez — a University of Texas at Austin professor collecting oral histories of Hispanics who lived during World War II — to record the histories of veterans throughout the Rio Grande Valley. Rivas-Rodriguez also founded Defend the Honor, a campaign that criticizes what it calls Burns’ omission of Hispanic and Native American veterans from his documentary. “The bottom line is, we can’t just allow the documentary (to be) considered to be a true reflection of what was going on in World War II,” she said.
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