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By La Neta, February 11, 2010 9:21 pm

A different kind of storm swept through Capitol Hill today when Rep. Lincoln Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.) announced he was not going to run for reelection, retiring instead to go make beaucoup bucks as a lawyer in Miami.

We have been scratching our heads trying to remember if there is ANYTHING the Cuban-American legislator has done besides loud, bilingual and constant tirades against Fidel Castro.  Can’t think of anything.

Anyhoo, his severely underserved constituents need not worry about having to change any embroidered napkins, at least not the last names. Little bro Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart, who almost got his a** whipped by a Democrat in the last congressional election, is jumping over to Lincoln’s more Republican-friendly district, to continue his job of non-stop constant tirades against Castro (oh, and a couple of hurricane preparedness pressers) without having to worry about a challenge from someone who actually wants to do something in Congress.

Oh, and get this…why didn’t this Spanish-language network cover this at all?

Hopefully it’s not because the anchor is another Díaz-Balart, baby bro José, because that would be pretty stooopid!!

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By La Neta, November 29, 2009 9:17 pm

The White House is all set to announce on Monday November 30th the nomination of former National Council of La Raza prez Raúl Yzaguirre

as — get this — the new U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic.

Yzaguirre, 70, was NCLR president for 30 years before retiring in 2004 to become a community organizing professor at Arizona State University.

He has since also dabbled in some political stuff, having been picked by the then-Hillary for President campaign in 2008 as one of the co-chairs, and he promptly went about complaining that the Obama campaign had stolen the “Yes We Can” slogan from the United Farm Workers union.

His reward: an ambassadorship to a country he knows nothing about and can barely understand the extremely rapid Spanish that’s spoken down there.

Of course the best thing about this is the Mexican will realize not every Latino is from south of the border and that tortillas aren’t a staple food all over the place, and that there indeed are people who dance without cowboys boots.

Omigawd! Virgen de Altagracia! He’s gonna be eaten alive!

Hey but it doesn’t end there! Apparently the Dominican government consulted voodoo fortune tellers in neighboring Haiti, because the quisqueya government “granted with pleasure the approval of Yzaguirre” – a week and a half ago.

Somebody please tell the Dominicans the White House first has to make the announcement official and then it has to be greenlighted by the U.S. Senate.

And while you’re talking to them, bring back some Presidente beer, por fa’!!!!

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By La Neta, November 29, 2009 8:20 pm

Back in the day when Spain was allegedly a world-class powerhouse, the natives got jealous of the smartest people amongst them and decided to kick them out, telling the chosen sons and daughters of Abraham to scram.  ‘Course it was not done politely.

Fast forward to today, and again Spain is telling the Jews vayan al diablo.  And this time it happens before they even get there.

Spain is hosting the Solar Decathlon Europe next summer, where teams from 20 universities around the globe participate.

The team from Israel’s Ariel University Center of Samaria in the West Bank had qualified, but the Spanish government recently told the team it was removed from the competition because the university is in “occupied territories.”

Stepping into the hornet’s nest is Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who has quite a number of Jewish constituents (and you thought Cubans only cared about Fidel!).

“It is outrageous that a group of scientists is being barred from participating in an international scientific competition because they are from the West Bank,” she said.

“The decision by the Spanish government to expel the team represents a dangerous assault on the principles of scientific exchange and academic freedom, and contributes to the demonization of the state of Israel.”

The letter to the team from the Spanish government reads, “The fact that your center is actually located in the occupied territories, and being obliged to respect the European Union position in relation to this matter, we are forced to inform you that the continuation of your center in this competition will not be possible.”

Because Spain is the host country, it can decide who participates or not.

So Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen is lobbying the DOE to withdraw its co-sponsorship of the event. Already thousands have signed a petition asking the Obama administration to tell the Spaniards WTF and get the U.S. paws off that gathering.

It promises to get nice and nasty.

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By La Neta, October 14, 2009 10:18 pm

Hey Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, wassup with going on a national radio show to talk about healthcare reform and immigration, and constantly saying “resident alien” when referring to  illegals?

(Check it out here: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=46 and click on: Health Care Overhaul Has Tough Implications For Immigrants)

So, Janet, isn’t your organization always clamoring for respect for the big brown nation? Aren’t y’all always complaining that the gringos and other clueless folks refer to the community in disparaging words?

So wassup with this “resident alien” nonsense? What are you? Working in secret for the Border Patrol?

Or are you simply just another Latina dingbat in a nice dress?

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By La Neta, October 12, 2009 6:03 pm

Omigawd, we can be a stupid peoples sometimes…

Case in point is the Virginia race for governor, with the wishy-washy Democrat Creigh Deeds running way behind the ultra-conservative right-wing zealot Bob McDonnell.

Leave it up to the Democrats to fail to take advantage of the Obamanation mania that gripped that state last year (Virginia voted DEMOCRAT for the first time since 1964), but an even more egregious thing is seeing the brown people support someone who really absolutely positively no question about it HATES brown people, especially immigrant brown people.

” Voto Virginia ” with  Eduardo Verástegui”

Heil yeah!!!