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1:07 am - Multi Post to various groups
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| Monday, March 16th, 2009
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2:12 am - $1,000 IKEA Gift Card
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| Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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9:59 am - SAVE OUR TACO TRUCKS!
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http://saveourtacotrucks.org/
"Led by District 1 County Supervisor Gloria Molina, the L.A. Board of Supervisors has passed new restrictions that will effectively eliminate taco trucks from our streets. Under Supervisor Molina’s new rules, taco trucks will have to change location every hour, or face a misdemeanor charge carrying a $1000 fine and/or jail. Yes, jail.
Taco Trucks are a special facet of Los Angeles, and something we don’t want to lose. Though this ordinance currently affects just unincorporated parts of L.A., that’s 65% of the County. And of course it opens up the doors for legislation closer to home too.
Let’s send Gloria Molina and the L.A. Board of Supervisors a message that we cherish our local vendors and don’t want to see them move away. This new law needs to be repealed!"
This is ridiculous. Who else is open that late? Please re-post and sign the petition to help save the taco trucks in LA, even if you don't live in LA.
http://saveourtacotrucks.org/
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| Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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6:22 am - The unspoken voices of Election Day.
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 For this day in which many of us in will go to the voting booths to decide who our country's next president will be, I would like to share with all of you the words of a few of your fellow LiveJournalers who have served in Iraq.
"I spent about two hours cleaning and inspecting my three main weapon systems, a M2 HB .50cal machinegun, a M-4 carbine, and an M-9 pistol so that I may face the enemies you all have placed me in proximity of . . . All this scares the shit out of me. I've never been shot at...or blown up...or done the shooting and blowing up. And i want you to know that I'm disappointed that you have sent me here. Thanks. But not really. I'm not the first trooper you've sent to do your dirty work . . . I'm trying to calm my hands, shaking all palsy-like. And so i clean. I prepare. I shower. I write. I'll meditate. Any suggestions? No, I can't go to the driving range. I don't think I'm the first soldier to be nervously twitchy about doing what I've agreed to do. And I hope it doesn't stop really. And I hope there are others like me. And I hope you understand that war needs people like me...who can't dehumanize your enemy. I hope you want me here. But not really."
- Thomas Strickland, aka  rev_wayfarer. Thomas was a poet who wanted to become an English teacher one day. He was also an LJ friend of mine. He died in Al Mahmudiyah, Iraq, August 15, 2005. Thomas lived in Douglasville, Georgia and served as part of the Georgia Army National Guard’s 48th Brigade Combat Team. He was 28 years old.
wolfmoon98 a.k.a Mike Smith wrote:
"This is a run down of whats happened to me personally since i've been here.
a. been the victim of 3 roadside bombs (IED's) but haven't been injured in any of them.
b. been in 8 firefights. i was shot in one of them, but it only went through my cargo pocket, didn't hit my body.
c. been mortared more times than i can count. our unit is the most heavily mortared unit since the start of the war. but we've had no casulties from them, except for some vehicle damage.
d. i've been in more iraqi homes than i can count, and the people seem nice, some of the time. i've had lunch with one family, and i've detained another"
 "so i think i might have made a mistake. too many things have entered my mind recently. i don't know if it's because i've been in 3-4 fire-fights, but i'm realizing some things. i'm not going to go into it, but if you must know, ask and i'll say what i can. i don't even know what i'm thinking anymore. i'm just taking this one day at a time, one mission at a time. this place sucks. . . i've been thinking a lot lately . . . i know i've always said i don't regret anything i've done in my life, but i think i found one."
- Mike Smith, 24, of Media, Pennsylvania died January 11th, 2005 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when his military vehicle was hit by a rocket propelled grenade. Smith was assigned to 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division.
 And this, from Adam Estep, a.k.a. adeptus13 :
"God, I want out of here. I feel like I'm an animal, and I could claw my way out, if need be. Yet I know I couldn't.
She needed me the other day - I was able to miraculously call, but I know that I really should have been there. She let something slip just then.. something.... valuable. But it seems to me today that yet again, I have no pull.
One day, perhaps."
Adam Estep was born in Santa Clara, California, and dreamed of starting a family with his new bride, Demara, who he married before he shipped out. He looked forward to going to college and becoming a professional artist. A 23-year-old tank driver, he was supposed to come home on April 12, 2004. Instead, his tour was extended. Adam Estep died on April 30th, 2004 in a rocket-propelled grenade attack outside of Baghdad.
Please take a moment to honor these three members of our community and remember their friends and families who are, in many cases, amongst us, who are amongst the hundreds of thousands of others who have been effected by this conflict.
Tom, Mike, and Adam are unable to vote today, but I'm quite certain they would want any of you who could vote to do so.
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| Friday, February 1st, 2008
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1:20 am - Stand up for Barack Obama, because he's standing up for you.
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Hola, ¿qué tal? My name is Mark Kraft. Some of you may know me from my work as LiveJournal's first Business Manager, back in the early days before it became a big dotcom. I'm also the guy who developed the idea for LiveJournal's communities, so it's always a pleasure posting in them, because they're such an important part of so many people's lives.
Over the past several years since moving on from LJ, I have become increasingly involved in journalism and activism, especially within my wonderfully diverse community in the Silicon Valley, where Mexican-Americans and latinos have built an increasingly affluent and influential community alongside those of other immigrants from around the world, such as Vietnamese, Indians, Chinese, and Koreans, creating the products and technologies that help improve our future.
At the same time, I grew up in the rural farmland south of Silicon Valley, near Gilroy and San Martin, and lived alongside strawberry and garlic fields, and mushroom farms, cared for by poor immigrant laborers. My mother had to work early in the morning, so she'd drop me off at Mrs. Seros, a strict but kind grandmother who looked out after me and her grandkids, fixing us fresh tortillas and scrambled eggs with mugs of hot chocolate, getting us on the bus for school together. She lived in a tiny, very crowded house compared to ours, and her grandchildren wore hand-me-downs that Mrs. Seros would oftentimes have to sew up holes in, but they were lucky compared to so many others who usually lived alongside the fields in shacks, and who often had to travel up and down the Pacific coast as the seasons changed, following the jobs. Their lives were a world apart, and unfortunately, their hardships were largely hidden away, seperate from the rest of us.
Politically, I think that a country should look out after its people and can be judged by how it treats its least fortunate. Unfortunately, the Democrats in the US have oftentimes not been much better at caring for its people than the Republicans. However, I think that things are changing. More specifically, I think that *we*, the younger generation, are going to bring about a huge change in this country, because of how we grew up and what we believe in. We grew up with friends who were rich, poor, black, white, latino, asian, etc.. and though we sometimes had our differences, we learned to get along. We were taught that it was wrong to discriminate, that poverty was something that should be fought against, that everyone deserved a chance to succeed, and that we should embrace and appreciate both our similarities and our differences, and share, not fear, each other's cultures.
We were taught all these things, and yet we can see that the reality around us conflicts against what we were taught and what we believe in. Our generation is change. It can see through the cynicism and manipulation that tries to divide us, and can see that what is needed is truth, honesty, integrity, and mutual respect. We need to heal divisions, bring hope where there is cynicism, truth where there is manipulation. We need to sweep away the ugliness, the racism, the lack of compassion, the hopelessness, and the neglect of the past, and bring about real, meaningful, fundamental change.
That's why I support Barack Obama for President. He "gets it". He's lived it. He understands... and he's a brilliant leader who is capable of not only creating laws designed to help fix problems that effect our nation, but also one that doesn't tolerate injustice, and who knows how to go about creating change in the right way.
He *knows* that corporations have too much power in Washington, and that the people have too little. He believes that governments should create laws not in back rooms, but in the open, where the people of the world can see what our leaders are doing and hold them personally accountable.
This is vital if we want real immigration reform... a working system where hardworking Mexicans who want to help their families won't have to be exploited by profiteers or left to die in the desert just because they wanted to come to the United States in order to find work to support their families.
Passing immigration reform won't be easy. It will require not only fighting corporate interests, but also fighting those politicians who exploit the economic fears and racism of some voters in order to gain their support. Barack Obama's approach is not only shine a light on the process of how decisions are made, and not only to appeal to Democrats, independents, and Republicans, but also to reach out to the people of the United States, encouraging them to make it clear to their politicians that they want real solutions, and not a failed system of undocumented laborers, sometimes dying to get into the United States, and all-too-often being exploited or suffering in silence once they get here.
Barack Obama knows the United States *needs* proud Mexican workers to help our economy. Workers who should be able to come to our country to work with their heads held high. He also knows that those who are already here in the United States need to have the work they have done respected and honored with a path to citizenship, while still allowing those who have done the right thing by going through the complex and time consuming process of becoming a citizen to be at the front of the line. And yes, he knows that it's too hard and too time-consuming for all applicants to become citizens... and he wants to fix that too.
In the '90s, Bill Clinton led the United States through a time of economic growth, driven, in part, by the rapid growth of technology jobs that started around the mid-'70s and that really took off with the growth of the Internet. As a result, many Americans found a better life and better jobs. However, the Clintons also oversaw policies that led to many of those jobs being exported overseas. Barack Obama realizes that we need to reverse this trend, while still staying competitive in the global marketplace.
He wants Mexicans who have worked and studied hard know that they're welcome to work in the United States or become a US citizen, and he knows that much more needs to be done to see to it that Mexican workers have greater possibilities and more access to jobs not only in the fields, factories, kitchens, and hotels of the United States, but also in the offices, the data centers, and the engineering departments, not only helping build the United States' high-tech future, but also helping to bring that kind of a future back to the people of Mexico, helping improve the lives of all Mexicans.
These are things that Barack Obama truely "gets". He understands technology and what it takes to help it expand, thrive, and empower ordinary people in a way that many other politicians don't. He understands that the old solutions aren't enough anymore, and that they aren't appropriate to where either the US or Mexico needs to go in the future.
Throughout this election, Barack Obama has always made it clear that he was an underdog, fighting against a very powerful establishment, while lacking the kind of long-established political machine that some of the other candidates have had. I think he'd be the first to admit that he's been at a disadvantage up until now at getting his message out to Mexican-Americans and Latinos, in part because he has had to build his grassroots campaign from the ground up, and because he has been so busy fighting for victories throughout the rest of the United States, where Mexican-Americans and Latinos are less represented.
But there's always been one thing that Barack Obama has had on his side. The people. A huge army of volunteers and supporters who have stepped up to contribute their time and their money on a level that no other candidate could match. Throughout the country, we've fought the existing political machine's advantages to a draw, but our army of supporters and volunteers are starting to turn the tide. A few weeks ago, we were down nationally by about twenty percent. Now we're down by a handful, and each day there is a real sense that the gap is closing. The big question is, can we close it in time.
I believe we can.
Barack Obama's campaign has made some really impressive -- and in some ways, unprecidented -- efforts since his victory in South Carolina. In California, thousands of grassroots Barack Obama supporters are reaching out on an unprecidented scale.
We also have some brave politicians who have come forward to help us, like Ted Kennedy, who just spoke to the Latino community of the entire country the other day on Piolín por la mañana, letting Latinos know that only two senators marched for immigrant rights on May 1, 2006... Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama. We also have the former Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry coming to California to help the campaign. He's speaking tomorrow at San Jose's Mexican Heritage Plaza, reaching out to the community in the run-up to Super Tuesday.
We can now announce that the Obama campaign has more volunteers in California than any Democratic primary campaign in this state's history, ever. Last week, we were trailing in California by over 20%. Today, the race is too close to call, and many are saying that it looks like an Obama upset is likely. I know that we're fired up here... motivated because we believe in Barack Obama and his message of reaching out to people, inspiring hope, and encouraging them to get onboard and to stand up for their communities. As Barack Obama has always said from the beginning, this race isn't about him. It's about us.
That is why I am writing this. I want to reach out to LiveJournal's Mexican community -- both north and south of the border -- and invite all of you to not just vote for Obama if you can, but to step forward and offer to volunteer, right now, to care about this election, and to spread the news to your friends, your families, and your neighbors that a change is coming. A fundamental, revolutionary change where we, as a people, will be finally given a fighting chance to repair the divisions between our countries and our communities that have been broken for so long.
A change is coming, and you are that change, if you choose to be.
I don't care if you live in Mexico, in the United States, or anywhere else. There is something that all of you can do to help, if only to spread the word online within the Latino community that a change is coming.
Please leave a comment if you are interested in helping Barack Obama spread his message of hope, so that we can get others to stand up too, for their families, their communities, and their future.
Can we stand together? Can we win together? Can we fix what is broken and bring our people together?
SÍ, SE PUEDE!
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| Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
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3:29 am - U.S. Immigration Debate not a racist issue? BULLS**T!
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Read the following two stories, and look at the language used in both and tell me it's not a racist issue.
The first story deals with the subject of illegal Irish in the U.S. It talks about how the U.S. wants to make sure it doesn't " penalise the so-called "undocumented Irish"" and how "they want to regulate so that people aren't taken advantage of".
When it's Irishman, they're "so-called undocumented", but when it's a Mexican, they're "illegal aliens" - no "so-called" or "alleged" added to that.
The second story deals with the immigration debate and cracking down on jobs that usually tend to hire illegal Hispanics. It talks about "tougher border controls" and how opponents did not want to pass a bill that amounted to "amnesty for law breakers".
When dealing directly with the business that tend to hire illegal Hispanics, we're talking about "law breakers" - there's no "so-called" or "alleged" in front of that.
Not that I'm saying that the plight of the illegal Irish isn't one that should be fought for as is the plight of all illegal immigrants, but let's just take a look at the way things are handled when it comes to these two distinct ethnic groups:
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On a side note, due to this recent crackdown, my mom just told me that my father's job just lost all of its workers aside from him, my uncle and my brother, since they were the only citizens working as laborers. If the contractor doesn't find guys to replace them soon, he may lose the bid and my dad, brother and uncle would subsequently lose their jobs. Seeing as how the the last three days in Dallas, TX have hit between 102-104 degrees, I'm willing to bet everything that there aren't many legal workers that are willing to take the places of all the guys that were fired because of their illegal status.
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| Monday, August 13th, 2007
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11:35 am
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Hi, I am a college student and I am interested in learning more about Mexican culture from the perspectives of Mexicans who live in Mexico and Mexicans who live here in the states. I lived in Morelia, Mexico this summer and I have talked to many people there. Now that I am back, I would like to learn more about Chicano identity vs. Mexican identity, language barriers, immigration issues, discrimination, racism, etc. (I hope this is allowed in this community!) I was hoping that some of you would be able to answer some of my questions.
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| Friday, May 18th, 2007
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7:32 am - college raza
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Hola gente,
My name is Crystal Lopez. I have been trying to find a community to reach out to college raza, so i figured there should be plenty in here. Well I am from L.A. but have been attending school at San Pancho State (San Francisco) for the last two years. I am a Raza Studies major and I love love love the program, courses, teachers, everything. I am also recently married and my husband moved up here with me from L.A. We've been talking about moving back to L.A. and after two years I'm ready to move back, although I love this place. The only thing that worries me is finding a new school. I'm afraid of not finding the same thing that I have here, but if I find something better that would be great.
So if any of you here attend a school in the L.A. area, and are majoring in Chicano Studies or Latin American Studies, could you let me know what you think of it. How is the program, classes, faculty, etc. I am looking to find a school that's very active in the community or on campus, so if you have anything to say about organizations on campus as well, please do.
At the moment my career path is leaning toward working with youth, either as a counselor, teacher, or maybe at an organization. I want to help Latino youth specifically, but youth of color in general attain higher education and receive a liberating education. And I am also considering going into immigrant rights. So if you think your school is great for me and has what I need, please let me know. I figure its best to ask here so that I can get real responses rather than just look at websites.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated, and maybe I'll be attending your school soon.
Gracias,
Crystal Lopez
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| Saturday, May 5th, 2007
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8:43 pm
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"A good friend of ours said that if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazi's after World War II, then every single one of 'em, every last rich white one of 'em from Truman on would have been hung to death, and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung, and tried, and shot. As any war criminal should be. But the challenges that we face, they go way beyond administrations. Way beyond elections. Way Beyond every four years of pulling levers. Way beyond that, because this whole rotten system has become so vicious and cruel, that in order to sustain itself, it needs to destroy entire countries, and profit from their reconstruction, in order to survive, and that's not a system that changes every four years, it's a system that we have to break down generation after generation after generation after generation after generation. Wake up."
~Zack de la Rocha @ Coachella 2007~
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| Friday, May 4th, 2007
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12:19 pm
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| Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
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10:21 pm - DENOUNCE LAPD Police Brutality @ the May Day rally!! REPOST!
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If you're in the L.A. area please attend - if not, please repost and get the word out. WE CAN NOT LET THIS TYPE OF BRUTALITY CONTINUE TO HAPPEN! This is a blatant violation of our right of freedom to assemble.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Conference in Downtown Los Angeles
Multiple Organizations to DENOUNCE the POLICE BRUTALITY AFTER THE MAY DAY March at Macarthur Park!
May 2, 2007
Union Del Barrio and the Frente Contra las Redadas (Front Against the Raids), a coalition of over 40 Latino, Asian, White and African-American community and student organizations will denounce the brutal and RACIST POLICY BRUTALITY against unarmed defenseless families
This Coalition is comprised of the following organizations: the American Friends Service Committee-San Diego, African People's Socialist Party, Alianza Nueva Nacion, Assoc. of Raza Educators, Barrio Defense Committee (San Jose), Brown Berets de South Central, Bus Riders Union, Chapinas Unidas, Comite de Mujeres Patricia Marin, Comite Pro Democracia en Mexico, Committee on Raza Rights (Oxnard), Coordinadora Estudiantil de la Raza, Danza Azteca Cuatemoc, FIOB (Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacionales), FMLN- Los Angeles (Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberación Nacional), Guatemalan Social Network for Justice and Peace, Homies Unidos, MEChA de Santee, Movimiento de Liberación Nacional, NICANA (Nicaraguan American National Assoc.), Puerto Rican Alliance, Raza Graduate Student Assoc. of UCLA, Raza Rights Coalition- San Diego, School of the America’s Watch-LA, South Asian Network, Somos Raza, Union Del Barrio
The central objectives will be:
1) To publicly DENOUNCE the racist police attacks against migrant families
2) To publicly announce a new HOTLINE phone number that the public can call to report a raid.
Contact: Ron Gochez mexicanotucla@aol.com (email for phone #)
What: Organizations to DENOUNCE POLICE BRUTALITY at May Day March
Where: LAPD HEADQUARTERS
150 N. Los Angeles St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
When: Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Time: 5:00 P.M.
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| Thursday, April 26th, 2007
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3:54 pm
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I've always wanted to be fluent in Spanish. My dad is Dominican, but he's always very busy, and was when I was little so I didn't grow up just knowing the language. I know things here and there from him, but I wasn't brought up bilingual or anything close to it. I took Spanish in all four years of high school, and loved it very much, but am not taking anything in college. I go to a community college and taking their "Conversational Spanish" and "Elementary Spanish" would just be a waste of time according to my Spanish teacher in high school.
I want to be fluent in this language, I love it so much. It would really help my nursing career, and I would love to be able to talk to my Dominican family. I've tried to keep penpals, but it's so hard to find someone who is really committed to learning English like I am to learning Spanish, so they always fall apart. I don't really have the money or time to study abroad, I'm really focused on getting my nursing degrees as soon as possible. More than anything, I want to raise my kids in two languages.
Is there anything you guys can suggest? What is a realistic goal for becoming fluent, time-wise? How did some of you become fluent? Did any of you teach yourselves out of a textbook or use programs?
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| Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
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10:35 pm - S.M.N.
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| Saturday, November 25th, 2006
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4:01 pm - NMSE needs writers!
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| Monday, October 30th, 2006
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4:52 pm
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| Thursday, August 10th, 2006
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1:56 pm - Mexicanos que viajan a los EEUU
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| Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
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10:27 pm - AMLO VS CALDERON, hagan sus apuestas!
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Soy yo, o todo mundo esta
harto ya de esperar?? Lo entiendo se tiene que hacer el conteo, no desconfío del
IFE pero ya, no?
Todo el país esta
esperando!!!!!!
Esperemos que mañana sepamos
ya algo oficial, por que lo no oficial no ha dicho nada, un día gana uno un día
el otro, prefiero esperar a la oficial pero ya que le apuren, no?
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| Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
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11:15 pm - DE TERKEDADES Y EMPAREDADOS DE PEPINO . . .
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20 Junio
HOY EL EVANGELIO EXPONE UN MENSAJE DURO, CERTERO, TOTALMENTE CLARO... Y TAMBIEN PRECIOSO... Ahi les dejo la cita biblica y el link de la homilia en que se analiza, leanlo les toma dos minutos ;D :::
Evangelio según San Mateo 5,43-48.
http://evangeliodeldia.org/www/popup-comments.php?language=SP&id=1081
y no se diga de que hoy recordamos a todos aquellos hombres y mujeres ingleses que dieron la vida misma por defender su FE...
c yax! xoxo
muakz!
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Mártires Ingleses
Fueron hombres y mujeres, clérigos y laicos que dieron su vida por la fe entre los años 1535 y 1679 en Inglaterra.
Ya habían surgido dificultades entre el trono inglés y la Santa Sede que ponían los fundamentos de una previsible ruptura.-
Luego vinieron los problemas de ruptura con Roma en tiempos de Enrique VIII, con motivo del intento de disolución del matrimonio con Catalina de Aragón y su posterior unión con Ana Bolena, a pesar de que el rey inglés había recibido el título de Defensor de la Fe por sus escritos contra la herejía luterana en el comienzo de la Reforma.-
Pero fue sobre todo en la sucesión al trono, después de la muerte de María, hija legítima de Enrique VIII y Catalina de Aragón, cuando comienza a reinar en Inglaterra Isabel, cuando se desencadenan los hechos persecutorios a cuyo término hay que contar 316 martirios entre laicos hombres, mujeres y clérigos.-
Primero fueron dos leyes: El Decreto de Supremacía, y el Acta de Uniformidad (1559). Por ellas el Trono se arrogaba la primacía en lo político y en lo religioso. Así la Iglesia dejaba de ser «católica» -universal- pasando a ser nacional -inglesa- cuya cabeza, como en lo político era Isabel.-
Fue interpretado como una desvinculación de Roma, una herejía, una cuestión de renuncia a la fe que no podía aceptarse en conciencia. De este modo, quienes se negaban al mencionado juramento o quienes lo rompían quedaban ipso facto considerados como traidores al rey y eran tratados como tales por los que administraban la justicia.-
Vino la excomunión a la reina por el Papa Pío V (1570). Se endurecían las presiones hasta el punto de quedar prohibido a los sacerdotes transmitir al pueblo la excomunión de la Reina Isabel I.
En Inglaterra se emanó un Decreto (1585) por el que se prohibía la misa y se expulsaba a los sacerdotes.-
Bastaba con sorprender una reunión clandestina para decir misa, unas ropas para los oficios sagrados descubiertas en cualquier escondite, libros litúrgicos para los oficios, un hábito religioso o la denuncia de los espías y de malintencionados aprovechados de haber dado hospedaje en su casa a un misionero para acabar en la cuerda.-
No se relatan aquí las hagiografías de Juan Fisher, obispo de Rochester y gran defensor de la reina Catalina de Aragón, o del Sir Tomás Moro, Canciller del Reino e íntimo amigo y colaborador de Enrique VIII, -por mencionar un ejemplo de eclesiástico y otro de seglar.-
Ana Line fue condenada por albergar sacerdotes en su casa; antes de ser ahorcada pudo dirigirse a la muchedumbre reunida para la ejecución diciendo: «Me han condenado por recibir en mi casa a sacerdotes. Ojalá donde recibí uno hubiera podido recibir a miles, y no me arrepiento por lo que he hecho». Las palabras que pronunció en el cadalso Margarita Clitheroe fueron: «Este camino al cielo es tan corto como cualquier otro».
Margarita Ward entregó también la vida por haber llevado en una cesta la cuerda con la que pudo escapar de la cárcel el padre Watson. Y así, tantos y tantas... murieron mártires de la misa y del sacerdocio.
En la Inglaterra de hoy tan modélica y proclive a la defensa de los derechos del hombre hubo una época en la que no se respetó la libertad de conciencia de los ciudadanos y, aunque las medidas adoptadas para la represión del culto católico eran las frecuente y lastimosamente usadas en las demás naciones cuando habían de sofocar asuntos políticos, militares o religiosos que supusieran traición, pueden verse aún hoy en los archivos del Estado que las causas de aquellas muertes fue siempre religiosa bajo el disimulo de traición.-
Y, después de la sentencia condenatoria, los llevaban a la horca, siempre acompañados por un pastor protestante en continua perorata para impedirles hablar con los amigos o rezar en paz
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Oremos
Señor y Dios nuestro, que nos das constancia en la fe y fortaleza en la debilidad , concédenos por el ejemplo y los méritos de los santos mártires ingleses participar en la muerte y resurrección de tu Hijo para que también gocemos contigo, en compañía de tus mártires, de la plena alegría de tu reino. Por nuestro Señor Jesucristo.
current mood:  contemplative
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| Saturday, June 17th, 2006
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6:47 pm - ANÉCDOTAS
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alvaroph
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PRIMERA ANÉCDOTA
Esto sucedió en una clase de fisiología en la Facultad de Medicina.
El profesor estaba hablando de los altos niveles de glucosa hallados en el semen.
Una asistente levantó la mano y preguntó:
Si le he entendido bien, está usted diciendo que hay un montón de glucosa como en el azúcar, en el semen masculino.
Es correcto - respondió el profesor.
Levantando la mano de nuevo la chica preguntó:
Entonces, ¿por qué no sabe dulce?
Tras un silencio estupefacto, la clase completa estalló en risas.
La cara de la pobre chica se puso rojo brillante cuando se dio verdadera cuenta de lo que, sin querer, había dicho. Cogió sus libros sin decir una palabra y salió de la clase para nunca más volver.
Sin embargo, mientras cruzaba la puerta, la respuesta del profesor fue clásica.
Totalmente serio, respondió a su pregunta:
No le sabe dulce, porque las papilas gustativas para el dulce están en la punta de la lengua y no al fondo de la garganta.
LA SEGUNDA ANÉCDOTA
Una profesora universitaria estaba acabando de dar las últimas informaciones a sus alumnos sobre el examen final que harían al día siguiente.
Terminó diciendo que no habría excusas para quien no acudiese al examen, a menos que se tratase de un accidente grave, enfermedad o muerte de algún pariente próximo.
Un gracioso que estaba sentado al fondo de la clase preguntó con ese típico aire de cinismo: Dentro esos motivos justificantes... ¿podemos incluir el de extremo cansancio por actividad sexual?
La clase explotó de risas mientras que la profesora esperó pacientemente a que todos se callaran. Entonces miró al payaso y le espondió:
Eso no es un motivo justificativo. Como la prueba será de selección múltipleusted puede venir y escribir con la otra mano..... o puede usted contestar de pie, si es que no se puede sentar.
ESTUDIO CIENTÍFICO
Un científico norteamericano descubrió que las personas que no tienen suficiente actividad sexual leen los e-mails con la mano posada en el Mouse...
Ahora no vale la pena quitarla.
Ya es demasiado tarde..... mala suerte.... Acéptalo.
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| Sunday, June 11th, 2006
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11:41 pm - Estan dormidos???
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hyperlatina
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Oye, ¡no puedo creer que no se haya escrito nada en esta comunidad sobre la gran victoria de nuestro país hoy contra Irán! ¿Que buen partido, no? Estuvo emocionante, y pues, aunque nos falto entusiasmo en el primer tiempo, afortunadamente nos pusimos las pilas para la segunda parte. ¡Que bien jugo El Tri hoy! Y la verdad es que la selección Irania jugo súper-bien también - no era tan fácil ganarles como pensé que lo seria.
Y bueno, pues también hay que comentar sobre el apoyo que la gente y el resto de la selección le enseñó a Oswaldo Sánchez después de la desafortunada muerte de su padre este jueves pasado. Por cierto Don Felipe estuvo guiando y apoyando a su hijo desde el cielo.
Ah y por cierto, para los que vieron el partido – ¿notaron la cantidad de aficionados vestidos como el chapulín colorado?
Y para los que no vieron el partido… aquí les tengo unas fotos. :D
(fotos cortesía de la pagina de noticias BBC)
( fotos bajo del corteCollapse )
current mood:  jubilant
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