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June 27, 2014 By Fausta

O’s foreign policy, Northern Triangle edition

My latest at Da Tech Guy Blog is up, O’s foreign policy, Northern Triangle edition. Don’t miss it!

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Filed Under: El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua Tagged With: Central America, Da Tech Guy, Fausta's blog

June 20, 2014 By Fausta

The new twist in illegal immigration: Children as human shields for the cartels

Please read my latest article, The new twist in illegal immigration: Children as human shields for the cartels at Da Tech Guy Blog, and hit Da Tip Jar while you’re there.

Related, from Drudge,


Sheriff Joe: Obama's 'dumping of illegals intentional'...
Resident suggests housing them in DC...
Boehner: 'Administration's own making'...
Calls for National Guard to be deployed...
Hundreds Arrive By Hour...
'De facto amnesty here'...
WH: 'Unlawful Migration'...
Frustrated Agents Look For New Jobs...
Rick Perry Unloads...
130,000 minors expected to arrive in coming year...
Miami Public Schools Issue SOS...


‘THEY CAN’T STAY’

Diseases at border becoming crisis…

Scabies, chicken pox… 

Amnesty protesters block entrance to ICE faciity…

ADELSON: LET THEM STAY…

Known Gang Members Released…


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Filed Under: crime, drugs, Mexico Tagged With: #dm7, Da Tech Guy, Fausta's blog, Rick Perry

May 30, 2014 By Fausta

Venezuela: Bi-partisan US Congress approves sanctions bill

faustaBoth parties came together to approve HR4587, the Venezuela Human Rights and Democracy Protection Act. Read all about it at Da Tech Guy Bog, and please hit Pete’s tip jar.

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Filed Under: news, Venezuela Tagged With: #dm7, Da Tech Guy, Da Tech Guy Blog, Fausta's blog, HR4587, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

May 29, 2014 By Fausta

Colombia: What the FARC really want

faustaI’m posting at Da Tech Guy Blog on the Colombian election and the FARC negotiations:
Colombia: What the FARC really want

Silvio Canto and I talked on this and other subjects in last night’s podcast.

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Filed Under: Colombia, elections, FARC, terrorism, terrorism. Latin America Tagged With: Da Tech Guy, Da Tech Guy Blog, Fausta's blog

April 25, 2014 By Fausta

Venezuela: Misery and missiles

In addition to the marauding gangs armed to the teeth, the country is armed. Russia is Venezuela’s largest supplier of weapons and armored vehicles, but China and Iran are involved, too.

Read my full article at Da Tech Guy Blog

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Filed Under: Communism, crime, economics, Venezuela Tagged With: #dm7, Da Tech Guy, Fausta's blog

April 23, 2014 By Fausta

“Positive discrimination”

My latest at Da Tech Guy, “Positive discrimination”,

But I pose to Justice Sotomayor this question, does race matter when Asian (East Asian and Indian) students are denied admission to top colleges because quotas favor a different minority?

Go read the whole thing.

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April 18, 2014 By Fausta

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, RIP

That a human being would waste his prodigious talent in the service of a monstrous dictator after having witnessed such event speaks of a blindness, a void of the soul.

But then, Fidel had gifted García Márquez a fully-furnished mansion in Havana’s best neighborhood (link in Spanish), and a Mercedes, complete with staff, after the 1982 Nobel award was announced.

Read my full post at Da Tech Guy’s blog to find out what event I’m referring to.

While on the subject,

In addition to being Fidel’s pal, Gabo also gave us “Lateeen-ohs” a reputation for being nonsensical and less than rational. His so-called “magical realism” pegged us all as totally out of touch with reality, and tagged us as noble savages — endearing, perhaps, but also annoyingly savage and inferior to rational North Americans and Europeans.

García Márquez also reduced us Puerto Ricans to cultural stereotypes, No se les hable de lógica, pues eso implica razonamiento y mesura y los puertorriqueños son hiperbólicos y exagerados. “Don’t speak to them of logic, since that implies reasoning and restraint, and Puerto Ricans are hyperbolic and exaggerated.”

Charming, wasn’t he?

[Note:I am told that the essay on Puerto Ricans was not written by García Márquez. If anyone has the name of the original author, please leave a link in the comments section.]

Check out Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Good Friday meditation on original sin

UPDATE:
In a fellational tribute to Fidel Castro, García Márquez sounds like he wrote copy for Dos Equis in his spare time,

His devotion is to the word. His power is of seduction. He goes to seek out problems where they are. The impetus of inspiration is very much part of his style. Books reflect the breadth of his tastes very well. He stopped smoking to have the moral authority to combat tobacco addiction. He likes to prepare food recipes with a kind of scientific fervour. He keeps himself in excellent physical condition with various hours of gymnastics daily and frequent swimming. Invincible patience. Ironclad discipline. The force of his imagination stretches him to the unforeseen.

And he’s been known to cure insomnia by just walking into a room, yeah.

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Filed Under: books, Communism, Cuba Tagged With: #dm7, Da Tech Guy, Fausta's blog, Gabriel García Márquez

April 16, 2014 By Fausta

Mad Men’s somber final season opener

madmen_iconUnlike the prior season, this season’s opener had me glued to the TV set from beginning to end. The episode is titled Time Zones, and Joel Murray as Freddy Rumsen opened it with an entrancing monologue (an ad for Accutron watches) that also serves both as a metaphor on time, and on the value of objects for those of us who are fond of our material possessions – especially our watches.

The pitch of Rumsen’s voice, the flat delivery, and the use of this monologue as the opener for the final season brings us into a Twilight Zone* of sorts, in keeping with the T-Zone title.

Read the rest of my review at Da Tech Guy Blog.

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Filed Under: entertainment, TV Tagged With: #dm7, Da Tech Guy, Fausta's blog, Mad Men

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