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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 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, July 2, 2009 8:11 pm

It’s real nice to see that even in this wishy-washy economy, some White House folks are doing well for themselves…making over 100Gs (some WELL over that for gawd knows what they do):

But why is the person in charge of Hispanic media paid such crap compared to the rest of the press office, and almost $15,000 LESS than the person in charge of African American media?

Ealons, Corey A.      $78,000  Director of African American Media

Miranda, Luis A.      $65,000  Director of Hispanic Media

Just wondering…

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By La Neta, June 3, 2009 6:47 pm

A little worried that it’s all Sotomayor all the time, immigrant rights groups announce they’re forming a new coalition to help the current coalition push the issue of immigration reform.

Reform Immigration For America purports to bring all the interested parties together for the good of the immigrants. That’s nice and all, but how seriously can the beaners take a group called RIFA?

For the Spanish impaired, RIFA means raffle.

Is that the image these groups want to conjure up? That immigration reform is a LOTTERY?!!!

We hear there was some fierce internal discussion about this, but apparently all the letterhead had been signed off on, and changing it would cost too much money (apparently no one realized the whole RIFA nonsense until someone who came late to a meeting started laughing, not realizing it was FOR REAL), or so says the Humpty Dumpty brain trust that insisted on keeping it like that.

Of course, RIFA is real close to RISA — laughter -which is good, because this RIFA silliness is a JOKE.

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By La Neta, May 14, 2009 7:18 pm

Two Einsteins with pending immigration orders of deportation were arrested at the White House gates Thursday afternoon while they waited to take a tour of the joint.

A routine background check showed they were wanted by the authorities for pending deportations. All visitors have to be cleared by the Secret Service, and when the G-men ran the names through a databank, they saw a problem. (and of course the deportables would know this already, because this information is requested by the Secret Service in advance)

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