The "we are a model" link didn't work for me when I tried clicking.
According to this dude, the election fraud was perpetrated in part by ChoicePoint. I knew I had a reason to detest credit-reporting companies as intensely as I do.
Interesting article, but wow, one piece of rhetoric was worthy of the American press.
He said Saturday's rally would be the first of several but vowed all would be peaceful.
I love the use of the word "but" instead of "and," or the inclusion of the qualifier in the first place. It just concedes to those who believe that all protest(ers) are inherently violent. Like you can't disagree with "The Man" without being psycho or irrational.
Especially since the Giuliani solution depends on a certain ratio of police intmidation to dire poverty, and in the D.F., even with one of the most brutal police forces in the world, that wasn't happening. They "cleared out" the zocalo a few times, arresting or dispersing everybody, but more people just kept coming back.
The intersting thing, to me, is why they hired him in the first place. One hand washing the other? Or whatever the expression is?
AMLO's political strategy while mayor was to do a few token things for the organized sections of the working class (e.g., municipalizing the Pascual factories so the workers could hold onto them as a cooperative), while securing middle-class support through his "war on crime." They still hated him in Polanco, but that would have been the case no matter what. That way he could form a cross-class political alliance of middle-class professional types and the better-off sections of the working class, while treating the poorest, who aren't likely to vote anyway, as scapegoats. And it worked for him in the DF, but he wasn't able to translate that into nationwide political support from the middle class. All Calderón had to do was Chávez-bait him, and they'd scurry back to the PAN. That, combined with old fashioned caudillismo and some selective dirty tricks in ballot-counting, seems to have been enough to keep PAN in at the PRD's expense.
Yay!!! But does it have something to do with, like, the stock market? Do people throw rolls of stock prices exuberantly down upon returning troops, or isthat just my fantasy?
Ticker tape used to be how stock prices were communicated. You ever see an old movie where there's this weird little device chattering away? It's the stock prices being sent and printed off. It goes in alphabetical order, looping over and over and over again, constantly telling the stock broker asshole whether he needs to jump out of a building or buy a new Latin American country.
Like everything else in this country, it was "invented" by Thomas Edison. Which is to say, he designed some of it, stole the rest of it, and patented it.
I'm not sure why they throw this in parades, though. Maybe it just falls nicely. It's incredibly thin and light and fluffy, like, the width of your little finger, and, presumably, very thin and cheap.
Oh, I should have thought about this more before commenting, but I realized why it was probably used as confetti. Ticker tape is outdated about five minutes after it's printed off. But everyone insists on it running all the time. So they probably just threw it out in parades because they had all this extra confetti-type stuff just sitting around that no one needed to archive or anything. So they tossed it at triumphant soldiers and the like.
Dude, stay away from the nypd pizza. That stuff will make anyone feel crazy! I have literally vomited after eating it. There's something very bad in there. Maybe too heavy on the police presence? The grease? Not sure.
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According to this dude, the election fraud was perpetrated in part by ChoicePoint. I knew I had a reason to detest credit-reporting companies as intensely as I do.
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He said Saturday's rally would be the first of several but vowed all would be peaceful.
I love the use of the word "but" instead of "and," or the inclusion of the qualifier in the first place. It just concedes to those who believe that all protest(ers) are inherently violent. Like you can't disagree with "The Man" without being psycho or irrational.
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That stated, I'm pretty sure AMLO wuz robbed.
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The intersting thing, to me, is why they hired him in the first place. One hand washing the other? Or whatever the expression is?
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But does it have something to do with, like, the stock market? Do people throw rolls of stock prices exuberantly down upon returning troops, or isthat just my fantasy?
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Like everything else in this country, it was "invented" by Thomas Edison. Which is to say, he designed some of it, stole the rest of it, and patented it.
I'm not sure why they throw this in parades, though. Maybe it just falls nicely. It's incredibly thin and light and fluffy, like, the width of your little finger, and, presumably, very thin and cheap.
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Reduce, reuse, recycle!
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