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LAST DAY TO SIGN UP TO CRASH THE PARTIES!!!!!!!!!

Neo — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:33:17 GMT

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Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in U.S. Custody

Neo — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:40:35 GMT

May 5, 2008

By NINA BERNSTEIN

Word spread quickly inside the windowless walls of the Elizabeth Detention Center, an immigration jail in New Jersey: A detainee had fallen, injured his head and become incoherent. Guards had put him in solitary confinement, and late that night, an ambulance had taken him away more dead than alive.

But outside, for five days, no official notified the family of the detainee, Boubacar Bah, a 52-year-old tailor from Guinea who had overstayed a tourist visa. When frantic relatives located him at University Hospital in Newark on Feb. 5, 2007, he was in a coma after emergency surgery for a skull fracture and multiple brain hemorrhages. He died there four months later without ever waking up, leaving family members on two continents trying to find out why.

Mr. Bah's name is one of 66 on a government list of deaths that occurred in immigration custody from January 2004 to November 2007, when nearly a million people passed through.

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MAY DAY!

Neo — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:10:52 GMT

Marches won't bring immigration reform

Immigrant march update: And they're off

L.A. business leaders joining May Day call for immigration raid moratorium

Pro-immigrant groups across the United States are holding demonstrations against deportations

LAPD "Well Prepared" for 'May Day' Rallies

May Day turns violent in Turkey

LAPD Officer: May Day Mistakes Won't Be Repeated

Dockworkers take May Day off, idling all West Coast ports

Los Angeles Police Expect Calm at Immigration Rally

Bush Administration Rejects Bipartisan Veterans Measure

Neo — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:06:04 GMT

FACT SHEET

Bush Administration Rejects Bipartisan Veterans Measure

Opposes New GI BILL to Restore a Free College Education to Veterans,

Grow the Middle Class, and Invest in our Economic Future

As a bipartisan coalition of members of Congress came together with Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to press for a new GI Bill to provide full college scholarships to returning service members yesterday, the Bush Administration said no.

In a letter, Defense Secretary Gates declared his opposition: "Gates also restated long-standing Pentagon opposition to GI Bill educational benefits that are too generous, making it more likely for service members to leave the military to attend college. "Serious" retention issues are expected if benefits exceed the average monthly cost for a four-year public college, including tuition, room, board and fees, Gates said." [Army Times, 4/30/08]

President Bush also warned at a Rose Garden news conference that he would veto any additions to the Iraq Supplemental spending bill, even as Democratic leaders consider whether to include the GI Bill as an amendment to Mr. Bush's $108 billion supplemental request for 2008 war spending. "I will not accept a supplemental over [$108 billion] or a supplemental that micromanages the war," he said.

Republican Former Senate Armed Services Chairman John Warner calls the Pentagon's opposition "very thin and tenuous." "The flip side of that is putting a big piece of cheese out there will induce more qualified people to join just to get this. It should be a tremendous incentive for recruitment." [Politico, 4/ 30/08]

This measure will offer the 1.7 million brave men and women who have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan educational benefits, on par with those provided to veterans of the World War II era -- making military service more attractive, and strengthening our sagging economy. The original GI Bill launched millions of families on a course of prosperity and toward achieving the American Dream—and set the American economy on the right course after a draining war.

Once Again, Bush Administration Turns its Back on Veterans:

President Bush has a long record of opposing efforts to help our veterans:

· Opposed A Bigger Military Pay Raise. Last year, the Bush Administration opposed the House-passed Defense Authorization bill – objecting to a range of provisions including those that increased military pay by 3.5 percent calling it "unnecessary." (The Administration proposed a 3 percent increase.) Ultimately, Congress enacted this increase into law.

· Opposed Ending the Disabled Veterans Tax. In 2003, President Bush threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act over this provision. That year, the White House was forced to drop its opposition, as Congress passed legislation that took a first step in ending the disabled military retirees.

· Opposed TRICARE for Reservists. In 2003, Secretary Rumsfeld recommended that the President veto the defense bill if TRICARE for Reserve forces was included. In 2006, the Defense bill finally included TRICARE for Reservists.

The ACLU has a statement

Neo — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:42:43 GMT

The ACLU has a statement out:

http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/gen/35049prs20080428.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org

WASHINGTON - In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a challenge to Indiana's most-restrictive-in-the-nation voter identification law. The American Civil Liberties Union's case, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board - consolidated with Indiana Democratic Party v. Rokita - is an appeal of two lower court decisions that upheld the state's law requiring voters to present government-issued photo IDs in order to vote. The ACLU argued that the Indiana law creates an unconstitutional burden on voting rights.

"Today's decision minimizes the very real burden that Indiana's voter ID law places on tens of thousands of eligible voters who lack a government-issued identification while accepting at face value Indiana's unsubstantiated claim of voter fraud," said Ken Falk, Legal Director of the ACLU of Indiana and lead counsel on the case.

In January 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago upheld Indiana's voter ID law by understating the right of every individual to vote without being subject to undue burdens imposed by the state. There is no evidence that Indiana's voter ID law is justified by any actual problem of voting fraud, which is already prohibited by various criminal statutes in the state. No cases of in-person voting fraud have been prosecuted in the state in recent history.

"We are very disappointed in today's decision, but it leaves the door open to future challenges in Indiana and elsewhere by registered voters who are denied their right to vote based on onerous and unconstitutional voter ID laws," said ACLU Legal Director Steven R. Shapiro. "We should be seeking ways to encourage more people to vote, not inventing excuses to deny citizens their constitutional voting rights."

The Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of voter ID laws has broad national significance with the 2008 election underway. Indiana is one of over 20 states that have passed restrictive voter ID laws, while other states are considering similar legislation. Plaintiffs in the ACLU's case include the Indianapolis branch of the NAACP as well as organizations representing the elderly, the homeless, and people with disabilities, along with two elected officials.

"As the dissent notes, Indiana's law will sadly but predictably have its greatest impact on voters who are poor, elderly, belong to racial minorities, or have disabilities," said Angela Ciccolo, Interim General Counsel with the NAACP.

Attorneys on the case, Crawford v. Marion County, are Shapiro of the national ACLU; Falk, Jacquelyn Bowie Suess and Gavin Rose of the ACLU of Indiana; Laughlin McDonald and Neil Bradley of the ACLU Voting Rights Project; Ciccolo, and Victor Goode of the national NAACP: and Pamela Karlan and Jeffrey Fisher.

For more information on this case, including legal briefs, go towww.aclu.org/scotus/2007term/32592res20071106/ 32592res20071106.html

Supreme Court upholds photo ID law for voters in Indiana

Neo — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:41:40 GMT

Supreme Court upholds photo ID law for voters in Indiana

By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require
voters to produce photo identification without violating their
constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
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In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana's strict photo ID
requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups said would deter
poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots. Its backers said
it was needed to deter fraud.

It was the most important voting rights case since the Bush v. Gore
dispute that sealed the 2000 election for George W. Bush.

The law "is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting 'the
integrity and reliability of the electoral process,'" Justice John
Paul Stevens said in an opinion that was joined by Chief Justice John
Roberts and Anthony Kennedy.

Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas also agreed
with the outcome, but wrote separately.

Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter
dissented.

More than 20 states require some form of identification at the polls.
Courts have upheld voter ID laws in Arizona, Georgia and Michigan, but
struck down Missouri's. Monday's decision comes a week before
Indiana's presidential primary.

The case concerned a state law, passed in 2005, that was backed by
Republicans as a way to deter voter fraud. Democrats and civil rights
groups opposed the law as unconstitutional and called it a thinly
veiled effort to discourage elderly, poor and minority voters — those
most likely to lack proper ID and who tend to vote for Democrats.

There is little history in Indiana of either in-person voter fraud —
of the sort the law was designed to thwart — or voters being
inconvenienced by the law's requirements.

"We cannot conclude that the statute imposes 'excessively burdensome
requirements' on any class of voters," Stevens said.

Stevens' opinion suggests that the outcome could be different in a
state where voters could provide evidence that their rights had been
impaired.

But in dissent, Souter said Indiana's voter ID law "threatens to
impose nontrivial burdens on the voting rights of tens of thousands of
the state's citizens."

Scalia, favoring a broader ruling in defense of voter ID laws, said,
"The universally applicable requirements of Indiana's voter-
identification law are eminently reasonable. The burden of acquiring,
possessing and showing a free photo identification is simply not
severe, because it does not 'even represent a significant increase
over the usual burdens of voting.'"

Jenna Bush may not back McCain

Neo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:51:48 GMT

Posted: 01:55 PM ET

Laura Bush and daughter Jenna appeared on CNN's Larry King Live Thursday.

(CNN) — President Bush was quick to endorse John McCain when the Arizona senator wrapped up his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

But another Bush might not be so sure.

Speaking with CNN's Larry King Wednesday night, Jenna Bush said she hasn't decided yet who she will vote for in November.

"I don't know," Jenna Bush, daughter of President and Mrs. Bush, said when asked if she will back McCain.

"Of course [I am open]. I mean, who isn't open to learning about the candidates and I'm sure that everybody's like that," she added.

Though the younger Bush conceded she has "been too busy with books to really pay that much attention."

Meanwhile, mother Laura Bush was quick to affirm that she will be voting for the Republican candidate in the fall.

The two appeared on the show to discuss Jenna Bush's upcoming wedding next month.

"[It will be] outdoors, very small wedding, you 'know, very small, all relatives, our families, really, kind of big," Jenna Bush said. “So it's half-family and then half very close friends."

From: CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Filed under: John McCain

Voto Latino and Crash the Parties on Good Morning Arizona!

Neo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:56:37 GMT

Want to be a reporter? Crash the Parties!

April 23rd, 2008

Journalists are fortunate enough to get to report on television every day, but for others its a dream. Now you can make that dream come true, and start your reporting career at the Democratic and Republican national conventions.

Clueless in America

Neo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:17:47 GMT

By BOB HERBERT

Published: April 22, 2008

We don't hear a great deal about education in the presidential campaign. It's much too serious a topic to compete with such fun stuff as Hillary tossing back a shot of whiskey, or Barack rolling a gutter ball.

The nation's future may depend on how well we educate the current and future generations, but (like the renovation of the nation's infrastructure, or a serious search for better sources of energy) that can wait. At the moment, no one seems to have the will to engage any of the most serious challenges facing the U.S.

An American kid drops out of high school every 26 seconds. That's more than a million every year, a sign of big trouble for these largely clueless youngsters in an era in which a college education is crucial to maintaining a middle-class quality of life — and for the country as a whole in a world that is becoming more hotly competitive every day.

Ignorance in the United States is not just bliss, it's widespread. A recent survey of teenagers by the education advocacy group Common Core found that a quarter could not identify Adolf Hitler, a third did not know that the Bill of Rights guaranteed freedom of speech and religion, and fewer than half knew that the Civil War took place between 1850 and 1900.

"We have one of the highest dropout rates in the industrialized world," said Allan Golston, the president of U.S. programs for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In a discussion over lunch recently he described the situation as "actually pretty scary, alarming."

Roughly a third of all American high school students drop out. Another third graduate but are not prepared for the next stage of life — either productive work or some form of post-secondary education.

When two-thirds of all teenagers old enough to graduate from high school are incapable of mastering college-level work, the nation is doing something awfully wrong.

Students suspended for skipping class to meet Obama

Neo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:08:15 GMT

SCRANTON, Pa. - Two high school seniors in Scranton, Pa., are paying a high price for their interest in politics. Colin Saltry and Joey Daniel say they skipped gym class on Monday to rush over to a diner where Sen. Barack Obama's motorcade had just pulled in for an impromptu breakfast stop. The two met Obama, and they say he even signed excuse slips for them to show their teachers. That didn't work. Saltry and Daniel got one-day suspensions for leaving school grounds, and Saltry has been ordered to resign as senior class president. Saltry says it was worth being suspended to meet Obama, but he didn't expect to be bounced from his class presidency. Assistant Superintendent William King says the rules are clear, and adds that if the students had approached a teacher about wanting to leave campus, they probably would have been given permission.

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Mexican American journalist to be honored with U.S. postage stamp

Neo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:18:01 GMT

Ruben Salazar, a Times reporter and columnist and general manager of KMEX-TV
at the time of his death in 1970, is one of five American journalists being honored with postage stamps.

(United States Postal Service)

By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 22, 2008

The U.S. Postal Service will issue a stamp today honoring Los Angeles newsman Ruben Salazar, who, through his reporting and opinion columns during the 1960s, became a provocative voice for a Mexican American community searching for its political and social identity.

Among the first Mexican American reporters to work at a mainstream newspaper, Salazar was killed Aug. 29, 1970, struck in the head by a high-velocity tear gas projectile fired by a sheriff's deputy during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in East Los Angeles. He was 42.

A Times columnist and general manager of KMEX-TV at the time of his death, Salazar quickly became a cultural icon. Awards are granted in his memory, and roads, schools and parks have been named after him. His likeness appears on posters, murals and lithographs, including one by the famous Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. Folk songs were written about him.

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Clinton claims victory in Pennsylvania primary

Neo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:08:03 GMT

Clinton claims victory in Pennsylvania primary

Sen. Hillary Clinton claimed victory in Pennsylvania's primary on Tuesday, beating out Sen. Barack Obama after a bruising seven-week buildup. What she called a "deeply personal" win allows her to pick up a majority of the state's 158 delegates and make a small dent in Obama's overall lead. Read More

the anti-immigrant screed that grows like cotton

Neo — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:05:26 GMT

Arizona Uber Alles: Legislators Target Chicanos in Attempt to Close Intellectual Borders of Schools

April 18, 2008

Though it looks like just another report on the anti-immigrant screed that grows like cotton out in Arizona and across the country, the issue raised in this article gives one reason to both pause and sound the alarm: Latinos are being used to institute uniformity of “values” in schools. Not satisfied with the political profits reaped by targeting immigrants, the white legislators behind Arizona’s SB 1108 want to expand their racial franchise by trying to cut funding to schools that teach courses that “denigrate American values and the teachings of Western civilization”.

Among the individuals and organizations mentioned in the article as targets of SB 1108 are the student group, MECHA, Chicano Studies and my friend and eminent scholar/activist, Rudy Acuna, who emailed the piece with a telling title- “Scary”.

http://ofamerica.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/arizona-uber-alles-legislators-target-chicanos-in-attempt-to-close-intellectual-borders-of-schools/

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Neo — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:37:18 GMT

CARTER AND GORE TO TEAM UP AGAINST CLINTON!

Neo — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:24:31 GMT

REPORT: CARTER AND GORE TO TEAM UP AGAINST CLINTON TO END HER PRESIDENTIAL BID
by FOXNews.com
Sunday, April 13, 2008

Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are planning to call for Hillary Clinton to end her presidential run, according to an article published Sunday in a Scottish newspaper.

The Scotsman — the same paper that quoted Barack Obama adviser Samantha Power calling Clinton a “monster,” which resulted in her dismissal from the campaign — reported that the two politicians are teaming up because they believe it is in their party’s best interest to end the prolonged battle for the Democratic presidential nomination and unite behind Obama, who continues to maintain a lead over Clinton in number of pledged delegates.

“They’re in discussions,” a source close to Carter reportedly told the newspaper. “Carter has been talking to Gore. They will act, possibly together, or in sequence.”

According to the report, the two party elders will either meet with Clinton privately to urge that she withdraw her candidacy or they will publicly endorse Obama in the hopes that more superdelegates will follow suit.

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Iowa court rules 'official English' law means no more bilingual voting materials

Neo — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:21:47 GMT

Iowa court rules 'official English' law means no more bilingual voting materials
State officials have yet to make a decision on appeal, advocates concerned

By M. Mindy Moretti
electionline.org

An Iowa county judge ruled this month that the state's chief election official violated the state's "official English" law by providing election-related materials in Spanish, Laotian, Bosnian, and Vietnamese.

The ruling, issued from a Polk County judge, came as the result of a lawsuit filed by U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). If unchallenged or upheld, it would mean that Secretary of State Michael Mauro may no longer provide any voting materials in languages other than English.

"When we came into office here, we believed that the information out there was correct and that we were providing a service to the public, making it more convenient to participate," Mauro said in a statement. "I have never seen anything wrong with participation."

In 2002, then-Gov. Tom Vilsak (D) signed legislation into law requiring that all official government communications must be in English. Thirty states, including those with sizable populations of non-English speaking citizens, have English as their official language. So far, it is unclear what if any impact the Iowa ruling could have on the rest of the country.

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, (D) who at the time was secretary of state, asked the state's attorney general if a provision in the law that said, "any language usage required by or necessary to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, or the Constitution of the state of Iowa," allowed him to continue providing materials in languages other than English.

Attorney General Tom Miller (D) determined that Culver could continue to provide the materials in languages other than English.

King and seven others, including U.S. English, filed suit in late 2006.

"This is a resounding legal victory for official English legislation and the majority of Iowans who backed the state's official English law," Mauro E. Mujica, Chairman of the Board of U.S. English, Inc. said in a statement. "The court has rejected the secretary of state's attempted end run around the legislative intent of the law and made it patently clear that the government has the right to control the message it sends to the public."

Rob Toonkel, director of communications for U.S. English, Inc., said the factor in the organization's decision to pursue litigation in Iowa is that the provision of voter registration materials in certain foreign languages is neither federally mandated nor consistent with the law passed by the Iowa legislature.

Advocacy groups disagree that a ruling such as this doesn't conflict with federal law.

"You can have these language laws, but they can't conflict with federal rights.we think the Iowa decision is wrong," said John Tresviña, president and general counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. "It deprives U.S. citizens.many of them taxpaying.from their right to understand the ballot."

According to Margaret Fung, executive director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, there is a growing Asian population in Iowa (over 45,000 according to the 2006 Census America's Community Survey data).

"The state has traditionally welcomed immigrants and refugees from Asia and other parts of the world," Fung said. By providing Asian-language voter registration forms online, the Iowa rule has encouraged greater civic participation in a cost-effective manner."

Fung pointed out that many new citizens are not fully fluent in English but are well informed about politics and other issues.

Immediately following the ruling officials in the secretary of state's office removed a bilingual voter registration forms from the state's Web site.

At press-time, neither the secretary of state nor attorney general had indicated whether they would appeal the county judge's decision.

"We're just trying to get our hands around it and what our options are," said Frank Chiodo, deputy secretary of state. "Is this a legislative fix, or a court fix, or is this something that needs to be left alone and we move on. We're looking at everything."

Some conversations involve discussions about what impact the ruling will have on potential voters in Iowa.

Iowa recently became one of seven states offering election-day registration and, with a backlog in the citizenship application process at the Citizen and Immigration Services Department that might not be cleared up anytime soon, questions linger about what impact this decision could have on November 4.

Chiodo said that, should the ruling stand, voters in need of language assistance in filling out a registration form or with other voting materials nothing prevents a county from providing the voter with an interpreter or the voter from using one.

How the ruling will impact individual counties is unclear. According to Ken Kline, president of the Iowa State Association of County Auditors and Cerro Gordo County auditor said the association has not taken a position and has far as he can recall, it hasn't even been discussed.

"Personally, I believe it's a very emotional and political issue," Kline said. "Our county did have the Spanish-language [voter registration] form on our Web site and as soon as I heard the ruling, I pulled it down."

Kline said that for his county - where to the best of his knowledge no one has ever requested materials in a foreign language - there don't seem to be strong feelings either way, but he does know that's the case in all counties.

Advocates are watching the situation closely and taking a wait-and-see approach to what sort of actions they may take in Iowa.

Tresviña said what sort of future action his organization would take hinges on whether or not the state chooses to appeal the decision. He noted the importance of Iowa as a swing state in the upcoming November elections and that many states have an increasing number of minority language voters.

Fung said her organization is in contact with Asian American groups in Iowa and has offered assistance doing voter education. She also said that they support further court action.

"If the Iowa Attorney General appeals from the district court's order, AALDEF would support the state's position regarding translated voter registration forms," Fung said. "Apparently, Congressman King refuses to accept the longstanding federal policy prohibiting 'literacy tests' for voters and ignores the success of the Voting Rights Act in increasing voter registration and turnout of minority voters. In the meantime, other states with "official English" laws should not be heartened by this ruling. It's simply bad public policy to disenfranchise eligible citizens who are seeking to exercise their constitutional right to vote."

Latin Artists, iTunes Get Out The Vote

Neo — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:13:55 GMT

Latin Artists, iTunes Get Out The Vote
April 13, 2008 - Latin

By Ayala Ben-Yehuda, L.A.

Pitbull, Aventura, Ozomatli, Don Omar and other artists are helping to mobilize Latino voters via a digital album to benefit Voto Latino.

Voto Latino is a non-partisan get-out-the-vote organization co-founded in 2004 by actress Rosario Dawson. The organization’s executive director, Maria Teresa Petersen, said the politically-conscious songs chosen for the compilation were “a launch pad for conversations” on a variety of issues such as immigration. The topic is addressed in a new track by Pitbull and Kurse, “Across the Waters,” about Cubans risking their lives to get to the U.S.

The compilation of new, previously unreleased and hit songs will be released exclusively on iTunes April 15. The digital retailer, label Nacional Records, and the artists and publishers involved are donating all proceeds from the 15-track album, which will sell for $3.99.

The album’s product page will have a link to Voto Latino, where people can register to vote. iTunes and iTunes Latino will feature the product in November; additional promotion for the project will come via Billboard En Español and MySpace Latino.

The Voto Latino tracklist is as follows:

1. Notch – Aquí Me Quedo
2. Pitbull & Kurse - Across The Waters
3. Ozomatli - (Who Discovered) America?
4. Don Omar - Angelito
5. Los Amigos Invisibles - All Day Today
6. Salvador Santana Band - My One True Love
7. Ceu - Roda (Bombay Dub Orchestra’s Grateful Dub Mix)
8. Aterciopelados – Cancion Protesta
9. Aventura - Mi Corazoncito
10. Chingo Bling - They Can't Deport Us All
11. Ceci Bastida - Empieza A Amanecer
12. David Garza - There Go The Weirdos
13. Volumen Cero - El Mar
14. B-Side Players – Nuestras Demandas
15. Hip Hop Hoodíos - Viva La Guantanamera

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Chneys pic and the naked lady

Neo — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:34:22 GMT

All the bloggers are talking about it on the net and I think its funny. Here is Chneys pic and the naked lady lol j/k

Enjoy

This two-picture combination photo provided by the White House shows Vice President Cheney, and a close-up of his sunglasses during a fishing trip on the Snake River in Idaho. That is not a naked woman reflected in Vice President Dick Cheney's sunglasses. Although it kind of appears to be. It you blow up the picture, you can see it is Cheney's hand gripping the handle of a fishing rod. The picture was posted on the White House Web site as one in a series of photos of Cheney outdoors. It created a buzz on the Internet on Friday and some cable television shows. (AP Photo/White House, David Bohrer)

source: AP

Pitbull - Across the Waters

Neo — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:32:51 GMT

Pitbull and many other artist have donated songs to Voto Latino. Songs will be available on iTunes for 99 cents each or all for $3.99 on (date TBA).
100% of the proceeds will benefit votolatino.org

To preview the first single by Pitbull - Across the Waters Click Here

Anti-Illegal Immigration Group Calls for 'Absolut' Vodka Boycott

Neo — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:01:24 GMT

An anti-illegal immigration group issued a call to arms Tuesday against a prominent Swedish vodka brand.

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC President William Gheen is in a tizzy over an Absolut vodka advertisement that ran recently in Mexico. While it is no longer running, he says it shows the alcohol manufacturer is peddling products to a group of people actively seeking to claim U.S. territory in the name of Mexico.

The ad showed an 1830s map of Mexico and the United States where most of the modern western United States was still part of Mexico. The ad headline was "In an Absolut World."

Absolut officials say they had no intent to make any immigration-related message with the ad, and have since issued an apology.

Gheen's group is calling for a boycott of the product until Absolut fires the ad agency.

"On the one hand, we are boycotting Absolut. On the other hand, we want to thank them for getting caught" placing such an outrageous ad, Gheen said.

"We have a growing uprising here in America," Gheen said, warning that Mexicans and other illegal immigrants are trying to take over the southern U.S. — an area Gheen said is not too different from the map used in the Absolut ad.

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LAST DAY TO SIGN UP TO CRASH THE PARTIES!!!!!!!!!

Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in U.S. Custody

By NINA BERNSTEIN

MAY DAY!

Bush Administration Rejects Bipartisan Veterans Measure

The ACLU has a statement

Supreme Court upholds photo ID law for voters in Indiana

Jenna Bush may not back McCain

Voto Latino and Crash the Parties on Good Morning Arizona!

Want to be a reporter? Crash the Parties!

Clueless in America

Students suspended for skipping class to meet Obama

Mexican American journalist to be honored with U.S. postage stamp

Clinton claims victory in Pennsylvania primary

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the anti-immigrant screed that grows like cotton

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CARTER AND GORE TO TEAM UP AGAINST CLINTON!

Iowa court rules 'official English' law means no more bilingual voting materials

Latin Artists, iTunes Get Out The Vote

Chneys pic and the naked lady

Pitbull - Across the Waters

Anti-Illegal Immigration Group Calls for 'Absolut' Vodka Boycott