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Since I've been talking about burritos it seems only fitting to continue on with Mexican food for another day and I thought what better to talk about than a sorely missed restaurant in Mission La Rondalla and their specialty dish, Birria de Chivo.Since I've been talking about burritos it seems only fitting to continue on with... more
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After posting Friday’s article I received some feedback that leads me to believe there is a burrito war brewing. The so called California Burrito which is indigenous to San Diego does not represent the California burrito in an way. The California burrito that San Diego lays claim to started around 1995 actually originating in Las Vegas before moving to San Diego. It generally consists of meat, guacamole or avocado, sour cream and french fries [the original Vegas version used tater tots].After posting Friday’s article I received some feedback that leads me to believe... more
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My wife pointed out a show in the IFC called Young, Broke and Beautiful that is done by a guy I have met and been featured on his website — Broke Ass Stuart. I met him at the SF Weekly Webby Awards because he is generally in San Francisco, or New York, but now with his show he travels around a lot. Not too bad for being a broke ass. Today’s subject though was a minor part of his show in San Diego where he made that comment, a California Burrito has to have french fries. [cue record scratch]. No that is not correct. A San Diego, CA Burrito may need french fries, but not a California burrito and I am going to go into the history of burritos in California because they’ve gotten a claim to fame in the San Francisco Bay Area.My wife pointed out a show in the IFC called Young, Broke and Beautiful that is done... more
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Mitt Romney’s father, former Michigan governor George Romney was born in Mexico. That’s shocking right? Even though the story has apparently been out there for months, I never heard it. What is even more shocking is that the admission came from the virulently anti-illegal immigration presidential candidate himself. Perhaps in an effort to beat to the punch an investigative report by the excellent Mike Taibbi on Brian Williams’ “30 Rock” program Monday night, on Sunday afternoon Mitt Romney suddenly mentioned Latino immigrants in a context other than ‘Round them up. Sort them out. And send the illegal ones back where they came from. He admitted in passing that his dad was born there.
Taibbi traveled to what remains of the ancestral home of the Romney’s of Mexico, Colonia Juarez and Colonia Dublan, two Mormon settlements just 175 miles south of the U.S. border. There Taibbi spoke with Leighton Romney, the candidate’s second cousin and recounted the family’s saga of South of the Rio Grande.
Like many things 19th Century Mormon, the story is funky. So let me qualify it by saying I have never met a 21st Century Mormon I didn’t like. Further, my impression is that those who practice the religion these days are members of the most impressive religious sect in the country. The hilarious Broadway smash ‘Book of Mormon’ aside, (and whatever credo floats your personal theological boat,) seldom has the world seen a group that so effectively teaches adherents to be the best they can be by doing the best they can for others, as well as themselves.
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Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/01/11/geraldo-rivera-el-padre-de-romney-es-de-mexico-who-knew/#ixzz1l5eYcyknMitt Romney’s father, former Michigan governor George Romney was born in Mexico.... more
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Hey everybody! Looking forward to celebrating the proud Mexican people's day of Independence!? Well that shit ain't 'till the middle of September so you're gonna be dry a long time if that's what you're REALLY looking to celebrate. But let's be honest, that's not why you're excited about Cinco de Mayo. We know it's not why we are. It's because the fifth of May isn't about Mexican independence, hell, it's barely about Mexicans, it's just another American invented excuse to get shit faced and blame it on the calendar!
Cinco de Mayo is no more about Mexican culture than St. Patrick's Day is about Irish culture. The both of them are simply about Drinking culture. Which naturally got us to thinking, we're drunks, we need more excuses for that to be publicly acceptable. And with that in mind Van Full of Candy is proud to present, more vaguely ethnic holiday type events where it's okay to make a gigantic ass out of yourself in the name of wearing a brightly colored t-shirt proudly exclaiming how you are an ethnicity that you clearly aren't. For on these days, we are all brothers, we are all drunken Americans!
April 30th - Casimir the Pole Drunky Day
Poland was established around 700BC, but it wasn’t until the “Piast Dynasty” in 1365 that the first “Polish Joke” was accidentally uttered by Casimir III the Great when he asked “How many damn Poles does it take to polish my scepter?” He got huge laughter from everyone in his royal gold room. So much so that he immediately decreed that to be “the first official Polish joke”. He spake this joke on April 30th, which happened to also be on his birthday, so the celebration is of the birth of the joke and also of the king. The celebration in America consists of wearing one’s favorite red & white apparel in honor of the Polish flag. The drinking aspect of the celebration is all about taking shot upon shot of Goldwasser and coming up with the crudest joke possible until somebody is so offended that a bar fight breaks out. After the brawl everybody hugs and makes up and then throws up.
September 8th - Sir Wallace's Day
To coincide with Braveheart's original UK theatrical release date, we celebrate the life and liver of Sir William Wallace. What surprises me is with as much as the Scots love to drink, how there isn't already an excuse holiday in their honor. I mean, there's a drink named after these punch happy, incomprehensible people! That kind of dedication hasn't been seen on this planet since the nomadic Schnapps tribes of the third century, finally having run out of drink and having to stop to rest their splitting headaches settled upon a plot of land to call their own and changed their name to "Aztec". So why don't we have a drinking holiday celebrating their crazy, drunken culture? Is it because most Americans can't tell the difference between a Scot and a dirty low down swarthy Irishman? Probably, but we'll teach them how! Paint your face, slur something about how they can take your empty, but they can never take away your freedom to buy another round, fall down and be peed on. We're all Scottish today laddie!
December 7th - Super Imbibe Number One Sing Night Go!
Before most people only thought of the Japanese people as dangerously irradiated and damp, they were largely recognized as a quiet, polite, buttoned down people. Of course, they also enjoy the most ridiculous and insane game shows ever devised by asylum inmates, and like their pornography filled with tentacles. The Japanese people are fucking confusing. But one thing is certain, they love Sake. After a hard day at work the Japanese business men will take the train out to the bars, sing karaoke and get absolutely pissed with their bosses. Slobbering drunk and belligerent and then the next day go back into work and resume their quiet work a day roles. The date of Super Imbibe Number One Sing Night Go is an attempt to take back a day that frankly hasn't lived in infamy for quite some time since most of the Greatest Generation is almost gone by now, and really, it's for the best, they've been making all of the rest of us look kind of shitty for a long time. We'll feel much better about ourselves and our singing voices as we turn our ties into head bands, belt out some Bon Jovi and celebrate Super Imbibe Number One Sing Night Go! A day that will live in drinkfamy!
December 21 - Railroad of Death Day
In the year 1941, Japan really really wanted to get to the Malayan frontier probably to call it their own or shoot some shit up. Regardless of their motive, Thailand happened to be in the way.
The Japanese army did not want to go ALLLLL the way around Thailand to get there so they said "let us cross your land". They didn't say please or anything, so the Thai's took exception to that and said "ummm yeah no", to which Japan said "WAR!!". After the entire 8 hours of the war, Thailand said "You know what? we're done, go ahead and cross. But with one exception. You help us build a railroad across our country." Japan agreed and sent over 200,000 Asian "helpers" and 60,000 POWs, all of which died in the severe working conditions and the beatings that were given by the Japanese. So to celebrate this, America dresses up in railroad prisoner garb and let themselves get "beat" by the proprieters of each bar they attend on their "Bar Railroad Crawl". It’s one of the least popular celebrations due to the pain, but is heralded as the best Thai celebration ever. The popular drink for this day is actually comprised of Thai beer and a shot of sake to signify the two countries coming together for their time of mass slave killing, it’s fittingly called “The Railroad Beating”.Hey everybody! Looking forward to celebrating the proud Mexican people's day of... more
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Following yesterday’s review of El Burrito Express I found this article about a supposed trans-continental burrito shipment tunnel that would deliver a California style burrito to those in Weehauken, NJ in 42 minutes. I had to share this.Following yesterday’s review of El Burrito Express I found this article about a... more
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hirty years ago when they opened, El Burrito Express was a god send to me. I was a broke college kid with a girlfriend who had a daughter and EBX was half a block away from her house. We would walk down and get a bean and cheese burrito for $3.65 and it would feed the three of us.hirty years ago when they opened, El Burrito Express was a god send to me. I was a... more
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As you probably know from my writings I have a thing for Mexican food. There was a place I used to like to frequent that was an old school Mexican restaurant and it wasn’t in the Mission District, it was in the Richmond District. It was Tommy’s.As you probably know from my writings I have a thing for Mexican food. There was a... more
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Arizona's hot-button immigration law is on hold, pending court appeals, but its effects are rippling across the country as state legislatures reconfigured by the November elections begin their new sessions.
The disputed Arizona law would allow law enforcement officers to stop people and demand proof of legal immigration status. In July, a U.S. district judge granted the Obama administration's request for an injunction blocking parts of the trailblazing law, which raised many legal questions, including whether local officials can legally enforce federal immigration law and whether such local enforcement could lead to unconstitutional racial profiling.
That hasn't deterred elected officials elsewhere — legislation closely modeled on Arizona's law has been introduced in at least 15 other states since the beginning of the year. (See box below.) And legislators in other states say they're awaiting clarification from the courts before introducing their own measures.
The issue is simple, they say: Illegal immigrants are breaking the law, taking jobs and services from U.S. citizens and legal residents.
"It's a huge problem," said Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi, where the state Senate last month became the first state legislative chamber to pass a bill modeled on the Arizona measure.
Opponents contend that such measures would unconstitutionally institutionalize racial profiling, leaving anyone who looks or sounds "different" vulnerable to being targeted by police — "just like the way African-Americans were discriminated years before," said Sole Arrellano, an organizer for the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance.
Democratic state Sen. David Jordan, who is black, also said opposition to the bill crossed racial and ethnic lines.
"Those of us who have been in the struggle to see how things were done have to be skeptical of anything targeting African-Americans and Latinos," Jordan said.
TheGrio: Black and brown unite to fight Mississippi immigration bill
En Español: Immigration news and updates from Telemundo
Dividing line for Republicans
While the measures haven't gotten the national attention the Arizona law commanded, they are dividing legislators and immigration activists just as sharply.
Massachusetts police arrested a man last month and accused him of sending a threatening e-mail to Will Snyder, a Republican who introduced an Arizona-style law in the Florida House.
"You better just stop that ridiculous law if you value your and your family's lives, a------," the e-mail said, according to The Miami Herald.
They're also putting high-profile governors on the spot in states with large immigrant populations.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41182588/Arizona's hot-button immigration law is on hold, pending court appeals, but its... more
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The lone police officer in the Mexican border village of Guadalupe remained missing on Tuesday, five days after reportedly being abducted by gunmen who stormed her home.
Erika Gandara, 28, was the Mexican village's entire police force in the farming communities in the valley of Juarez, the El Paso Times reports.
A spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office told the newspaper on Monday that authorities were aware of the incident involving Gandara, but there was still no official report of the kidnapping. Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for prosecutors in northern Chihuahua state, said a search has begun for Gandara, who hasn't been since seen Dec. 23.
Sandoval said Tuesday that the search started as a missing-person case.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/28/lone-police-officer-mexican-border-town-remains-missing/#ixzz19V09IitHThe lone police officer in the Mexican border village of Guadalupe remained missing on... more
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MEXICO CITY (Dec. 17) -- Nearly 150 inmates escaped Friday from a state prison in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo, and authorities said the breakout was probably helped by prison employees.
The public safety department of Tamaulipas state, where the prison is located near the border with Laredo, Texas, said 141 inmates got out through a service entrance used by vehicles, "presumably with the assistance of the prison staff."
The department said the prison's director could not be located, adding that he and other officials were under investigation.
Eighty-three of the prisoners were being held for trial or had been convicted of crimes like theft, assault and other state offenses, while 58 were being held on federal charges, which include weapons possession and drug trafficking.
Tamaulipas has been plagued by a steady wave of violence tied to turf battles between the Gulf and Zetas drug gangs, but it was unclear whether members of those groups were among the escaped inmates.
States like Tamaulipas have said in the past they are not prepared to handle highly dangerous federal prisoners, and again on Friday the state urged the federal government to take charge of such inmates.
"The state does not have the capacity to prevent them escaping," the department said in a statement.
The federal Interior Department blamed the breakout on local authorities, saying they did not properly guard the facility.
"The absence of effective methods of guarding and control by local authorities is deplorable, and it has caused frequent escapes from prisons that put the public at risk," the department said in a statement.
It called on state authorities to clean up their prison and judicial systems by increased screening and vetting of corrections officers. In past cases, prison guards - often underpaid or under threat from gangs - have been implicated in prison escapes.
Federal police and soldiers were dispatched to patrol the area, and a search for escaped prisoners was begun.
The jail break apparently occurred in the pre-dawn hours Friday.
The escape came on the same day that federal Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna addressed a graduating class of new prison guards, underlining the urgent need to professionalize correctional forces.
"We are making a historic effort to build a new prisons model, that will treat prison staff as efficient public servants," Garcia Luna said.
The new guard recruitment programs, supported in part by the U.S. government, include increased training, screening and vetting of guards.MEXICO CITY (Dec. 17) -- Nearly 150 inmates escaped Friday from a state prison in the... more
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At some point by now, most of the state of Washington has likely seen the video of Seattle Police Officer Shandy Cobane stomping on the head of prone Latino suspect, Martin Monetti, after telling him that he would "beat the fucking Mexican piss" out of him, back in April. Not only is the racist language indisputable, but so is the well-placed kick Cobane delivers to the man's head. The only one who hasn't seen the video, it would appear, is Seattle City Attorney Peter Holmes. The attorney announced he would not pursue any criminal charges against Cobane on Tuesday, spinning the obvious stomp Monetti's head as "step(ing) on Monetti's right hand and sweep(ing) it away from his face."
The city is also dismissing charges against Officer Mary Woollum, who stood on Monetti's back for about 24 seconds, after Cobane kicked him.
Cobane already escaped hate crime charges back in September. Now he won't even have a misdemeanor to worry about.
Here's the Mexican piss stomp video again for a refresher.
Now here's the key parts of City Attorney Peter Holmes full statement released Tuesday:
> "Though the incident was marred by an unacceptable and unnecessary racist
> comment, our office concludes that neither officer's conduct was criminal, and I
> decline to file misdemeanor charges...
> ...Cobane is heard yelling, "I'm going to beat the fucking Mexican piss out of you
> homey. You feel me?" Shortly after Cobane's comment, Monetti, with his arms
> extended in front of his head, moved his right hand toward the right side of his face.
> Cobane used his right foot and appeared to step on Monetti's right hand and sweep
> it away from his face. Cobane then directed Monetti to keep his hand down.
> Moments later, Woollum approached Monetti's right side and stepped on his right leg
> for approximately 24 seconds."
Either Holmes was eating psychedelic mushrooms before he watched the above video, or he's simply offering a shameless spin attempt at what's obviously a kick to the head, not a sweep of the hand. Either way, he's letting Cobane off the hook, despite what most would conclude is irrefutable video proof of excessive force.
No reason now to think that any other officer who's been video taped kicking or punching someone without justification will be treated in any other fashion.At some point by now, most of the state of Washington has likely seen the video of... more
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In "Marijuana Wars, Part 2," Vanguard executive producer and correspondent Adam Yamaguchi joins an elite task force as they survey and eradicate multi-million dollar marijuana fields run by Mexican drug trafficking organizations.
In this clip, Adam learns how undercover operatives prepare to go inside a Mexican drug trafficking organization, posing as land owners whose property could become a marijuana grow site.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Mondays at 9/8c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.In "Marijuana Wars, Part 2," Vanguard executive producer and correspondent... more
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In "Marijuana Wars, Part 2," Vanguard executive producer and correspondent Adam Yamaguchi joins an elite task force as they survey and eradicate multi-million dollar marijuana fields run by Mexican drug trafficking organizations.
In this clip, undercover operatives conclude a dramatic four-month investigation by luring growers and financiers -- who may be heavily armed -- into a trap.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Mondays at 9/8c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.In "Marijuana Wars, Part 2," Vanguard executive producer and correspondent... more
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In "Marijuana Wars, Part 2," Vanguard executive producer and correspondent Adam Yamaguchi joins an elite task force as they survey and eradicate multi-million dollar marijuana fields run by Mexican drug trafficking organizations.
In this clip, we see how the reach of drug trafficking isn't contained to California. In Gwinnett County, outside Atlanta, 71 people have been indicted as part of a trafficking take-down.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Mondays at 9/8c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.In "Marijuana Wars, Part 2," Vanguard executive producer and correspondent... more
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Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel travels to the U.S./Mexico border to investigate one of the most contentious issues in America today: immigration. Meeting with "coyotes," the hired smugglers who offer to take illegals across the border for a fee, Putzel learns the methods immigrants use to evade border patrol and the dangers they face on the journey. Arrest and deportation are inherent risks, but the lack of water and scorching temperatures of the desert crossing are far more deadly. Those who do make it safely across the border face tightening immigration laws and an increasingly hostile public. Putzel ultimately crosses the border with a migrant and coyote.
"Life And Death On The Border" premieres Monday, November 15 at 9/8c on Current TV.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Mondays at 9/8c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel travels to the U.S./Mexico border to... more
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Brock Winston III is the ULTIMATE Republican. Running for U.S. Senate is tough work so Brock likes to relax by taking out his shotgun and doing some trap shooting. It's a man's sport and he LOVES it! Vote for Brock Winston III in November. He has a gun ya know!Brock Winston III is the ULTIMATE Republican. Running for U.S. Senate is tough work so... more
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On the heels of receiving the 69th annual Peabody Award and the 2010 Television Academy Honor Award, Current TV's "Vanguard" will air a three-part special on the U.S.-Mexico border issue this fall. The documentary news program, which has been lauded for its groundbreaking and in-depth approach to some of the world's most important and under-reported stories, will provide a fresh and insightful perspective on one of the nation's most complex and controversial topics. The three-part special will launch on Monday, November 15 at 9/8c, with the second and third parts airing on consecutive Monday nights in prime time.
As seen in this election year and with the controversy over the new laws passed in Arizona, the security of the U.S.-Mexico border has emerged as one of our nation's most hotly-debated issues. "Vanguard" will introduce all the players in this human drama: from the migrants making the terrifying, dangerous and illegal border crossings to the coyotes who profit from them. Additional focus will be placed on the policemen and border patrol agents trying to hold back the tide of immigrants, to the Mexican drug cartels, whose violent clashes threaten to spill over the border.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Mondays at 9/8c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.On the heels of receiving the 69th annual Peabody Award and the 2010 Television... more
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Quizas sintieron la presion de USA...
The Mexican government said Friday it has opened a federal investigation into the reported shooting of an American tourist on a border lake plagued by Mexican pirates and strongly denied delaying action on finding the man or his attackers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVL_pGyFvsIQuizas sintieron la presion de USA...
The Mexican government said Friday it has... more
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