In the spirit of recycling (not to mention laziness), I’ve decided to repost this from last year. Vaya con Dios, mis amigos.
Hola! Today isn’t a holiday in the United States, but it ought to be. And it ought to be a reason for us to embrace our neighbors to the south, instead of trying to demonize them.
In 1858, Benito Juárez (a full-blooded Zapotec, and member of the Liberal Party) was elected President of Mexico. Thanks to their Civil War (oh, and that little Mexican-American War thing), Mexico was financially devastated, and Juárez was forced to suspend all foreign debt payments, which England, Spain and France weren’t really happy about. Being imperialist Europeans, they did what imperalists do – they invaded. England and Spain cut deals and split pretty quickly, but not those pesky French (under Napoleon III – who was not dissimilar to dubya, in many respects).
Napolean wasn’t all that crazy about the United States (we were in the midst of our own little difficulties at the time, you may recall) , and he was hoping to toss out the Mexican Constitutional Government and set up something a little more favorable to France (to that end, he installed Maximilian I as Emperor). In fact, he had plans to institute a monarchy over Central and South America so France could exploit the region’s raw materials (plus supply the Confederacy in its fight against the Union). The French were in cahoots with the plutocratic Mexican land owners, who weren’t real crazy about this Juárez guy.
Anyhow, in April of 1862, a French force of seven thousand set out for Mexico City, having somehow gotten the impression that the Mexican people would welcome them (I believe they were told they’d be greeted as liberators, and showered with flowers and candy). Juárez ordered General Ignacio Zaragoza (who had 2,000 soldiers entrenched in the fortified hills of Loreto and Guadalupe by the city of Puebla) to set the French straight.
On cinco de mayo, 1862, the very well-equipped French attacked the two forts (defended mostly by Mexican Indians armed only with machetes) with cannon and rifles. Zaragosa ordered his cavalry (commanded by Colonel Porfirio Diaz) to attack the French flanks (which I understand are excellent with a nice Burgundy), and the French, in turn, sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz, who pretty much butchered them. What was left of the French infantry charged the Mexicans – or at least they tried to – through a stampeding herd of cattle that the Mexicans stirred up.
By the end of the day, one fort was in ruins, but more than a thousand French soldiers were dead.
So, the French didn’t get to run guns and supplies to the Confederacy, Union forces were eventually sent to the Tex/Mex border under the command of General Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got whatever weapons and ammo they needed. Poor old Maximillian was eventually executed by firing squad, and Napoleon III was deposed as Emperor of France in 1870, and dead by 1873.
So, anyhow, that’s how the Mexicans saved the Union, and why cinco de mayo ought to be a holiday in the US, filled with piñatas, Sangria, and much singing of La Bandera de Estrellas.
That, and it’s a long way between New Year’s and Memorial Day.
Boo :bee: :omg: :pirate: :yippee: :boobs: :bee:
Tea :joe: Cheers and later perhaps :alc:
Merry Cinco de Mayo
YEA ALPHA King Kong :yinyang:
is also in truth the OMEGA (snicker)
A.I.V. Dark Angel Butterfly ….. and Stand Down then
R. :hot: .C.P.
projectile :barf: , how nice … that’s what i get for bloody eating and sleeping a tad bit 🙄
:yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :joe: :joe: :joe:
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 😯 😯
❓ whatever :sheep: le
:yawn: :yawn: :yawn: The ^&%$&*( weather radio was going off all night long.. 😮 😮 Waiting for the early news to see what isn’t there any longer this am. :omg: :reaper: :reaper:
Condee loser.. or is it lizard Lice is on C-span explaining that its all Iran’s and Syria’s fault that our puppet government in Iraq won’t stand up and repress their people like Sudam did so they will quit killing each other.
Its mazing how they can make a lie and then build their alternate reality on it .. :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason:
I think the morning farm report is designed to reinforce the alternate reality for the CEO’s of ADM and Chargill so they are assured that their factory farms will be doing well. Kind of like a WSJ report for big agra. :reaper: :reaper:
Thanks for the Cinco story, although I doubt that much of the country wants to celebrate the Mexicans helping to save the Union – those places where they don’t celebrate Lincolns bday, but they do RE Lee’s.
And the moral is, that the big bad French learned their lesson, and they never ever tried to do this again, except in Vietnam and Algeria, and parts of Africa. :sammy:
Capitalists given the opportunity will exploit any situation if there is a dollar to be made and seldom care who’s toes get stepped on in the process unless of course the person getting stepped on happens to have an AK47.
One has to ask where the capitalists that drove the English and French empire building went too.. Did they come here or did cross breeding just kill them off. ?? If they came here will they leave as soon as all the bananas are harvested and move on to exploit someone else. ?? :reaper: :reaper:
Greesnbug Kansas which looks to be south of Wichita apparently ticked off mother nature last night and for all practical purposes isn’t there this morning. :reaper: :reaper: Nothing around here seems to be missing though 😯
ya, woke up here at 4 am.
most every one i know is snoozing away.
every once in a while, we all synch up for early morning sessions.
some of those have been beauties. total freedom from any agendas or requirements…
were’nt the blue feet on those boobies a treat? the colors in nature are so amazing and diverse.
eya D6, i need you to code break for me. i’m missing some of your comm from not knowing yer code.
Dark Angel Butterfly? nice but ‘Huh?’
“I couldn’t even understand what I was even TRYING TO SAY.
A.I.V. … Dark Angel Butterfly … Stand Downâ€
Ha! ya!
me, you and a buncha other folks from time to time. art a wonderful pursuit tho.
how’s the rats? everyone else got up to keep me company.
Bgurl fell asleep on the couch after her midnight dinner (i crashed just before she got home)
her me and the dogs having a wonderful time, yakking, dogs conned is into a pee excursion, ruzz clearly intending to hunt a rat in the old 48 dodge 4 door in the back lot as soon as she relieved herself, but frustrated by the leash and harness we slipped on her.
ordinarily we’d let her hunt for a coupla hours but we have 14 girl kids sleeping outside at the neighbors, her youth group! they were playing thru the fence with the Jacks earlier.
so heres Bgurl in her Business suit and floppy bathrobe with the doggers on leashes at 4 in the morning outside…. all three too cute for words.
we had meatball sandwiches with fresh french bread and coffee and now the rest of them are back asleep.
5 am~ the first bird song of the morning is heard.
beautiful sound, always evokes an image of sherwood forest in my mind.
:bee:
for all you early birds… and D6 when she wakes up.
“Silence is golden…â€
http://tinyurl.com/2bh42o
re 7 :rofl2: :banana:
:banana: a.i.v.
Iraq is hemorrhaging doctors as violence racks the nation. To stem the flow, the Iraqi government has recently taken a cue from Saddam Hussein: Medical schools are once again forbidden to issue diplomas and transcripts to new graduates.
Hussein built a fine medical system in part by withholding doctors’ passports and diplomas. Although physicians can work in Iraq with a letter from a medical school verifying their graduation, they say they need certificates and transcripts to work abroad.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/04/AR2007050402359.html?referrer=email
Sun J. , It sounds Charming, your whole beginning of the day with Family. The “sleep over”, how wonderful .. makes me giggle. I love hearing the first songs, as morning begins.
Dark Angel Butterfly is a song that I (loop) repeats over and over again. I just like “the beat”. I have been caught on two loops:
Dark Angel Butterfly by Stand Down and Carnival by Natalie Merchant. :doh: 😉
I am before on a loop with playing Evanescence and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Cheers. 😉
Good morning all you li’l early morning seditionists. :joe: I normally awake at 5ish but Nellie the squeaky wheel likes to wake me up at 4:30. Needy Nellie. Spose to be 82 degrees here today, we have had lovely weather here in downtown Phoenix!
What happened to Greenbug, Kansas, Fred?
:yawn:
gotta drive to the coast…
:cold:
:joe:
This guy, Dave Barber, filling the interim spot for Sammy Seder is getting eaten alive by callers. He gets all upset that the callers are attacking Rudy Giuliani and then admits to not hearing some of the obvious stuff from 9/11, indignantly demanding that the callers send him e-mail to prove what they are saying.
To top it off, he sounds like a cross between Mark Levin and Michael Savage.
How much more can AAR fall ?
AARgh is falling?
no prob!
http://tinyurl.com/yq82ad
loop ish ness!
bin there dun that…
and with tunes i don’t even like!!!
Stars Over Kansas » Largest U.S. Meteorite Found in Kansas,
WhatSmells.com – Main Page
“For reasons unknown even to weather experts, the temperature at Greensberg, Kansas, jumped 20 degrees in ten minutes.” – The Arizona Republic July 8, …
http://www.whatsmells.com/main.html – 57k – Cached – Similar pages,
The Truth Seeker – The Illuminati Chronicles Part 2
July 8, 1987 – The “Arizona Republic†reports: “For reasons unknown even to weather experts, the temperature at Greensberg, Kansas, jumped 20 degrees in ten …
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=159 – 46k – Cached – Similar pages
…and the rest LBH :rofl2:
:bow: Death and Damage near Greenberg in Kansas due to a current Tornado. That’s not so funny :bow:
early o’clock here and the first yelps, squeals, and laffing from the camper kids next door!
stunned silence from the birds,
dogs are sleeping thru it, old news for them.
the burds regroup and chirping “good morning gurls” in chorus.
it’s boring here, nothing ever happens.
wheres the drama and exciteamentals of old? cows with guns? squirls with uzi’s?
You know you’re living in 2007 when:
1. You accidentally enter your bank pin code on the microwave.
2. You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don’t have e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12. You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn’t a #9 on this list.
…and now you are laughing at yourself.
brilliant jim!
i know just who to forward this to……
Do :bee: , do :bee: , dew
Sorry but I wake up a little punny on Sinkhole Day Mayo, one of my favorite hollandaise, especially when it is Kentucky Derby Day. God save the Queen..
made it to the coast…saw a heron.
:knit:
roxie are you planning on going to all of the shows?
Diebold in Scotland?
RoxieSeattle — your “ol’ ‘ips ” were here for this past weekend. :pirate: :yippee: :pirate: the :bee: Dazzled Twins … [and the secret makes 3 … :yippee: ]
A.I.V. … Dark Angel Butterfly .. Stand Down
[… its a bit dark, for some but that =’s LBH = :rofl2: ]
SBlueHeron, re 26 WOW
a.i.v. … How To Save A Life …. by The Fray
blue:
don’t know, how about you?
druid:
my ‘old lips’, ‘old hips’, ‘olé sips’????
For several thousand dollars and other promises, an Alaska legislator and two former lawmakers threw their support behind a tax scheme and a natural gas pipeline plan that would have benefited an oil services company, prosecutors said.
The three men, Rep. Victor Kohring of Wasilla, and former state Reps. Pete Kott of Eagle River and Bruce Weyhrauch of Juneau, were arrested Friday but deny wrongdoing. The three Republicans pleaded not guilty at their arraignments.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070505/pipeline-bribe
fred:
do you have friends/relatives in kansas?
Diebold in Scotland?
Comment by sblueheron — May 5, 2007 @ 12:10 pm
I head about this on the PBS NewsHour last night. Where do these bloody Scots think they are, Florida?
:rofl2:
Happy Cinco de Mayo. Not as much of a holiday as a marketing scheme. Enjoy your overpriced, watered-down margaritas at Chili’s. (My brother-in-law manages a Chili’s and he would tell you the same thing. But he’s a Republican and as such does not read blogs of this nature.)
pj, don’t sweat recycling posts. This week I recycled a twelve-year-old speech and they told me it was my best one so far. Maybe next week I’ll talk about this new band I heard from Seattle with a singer named Cobain and a drummer who used to be in the Foo Fighters. 😀
Roxie, I saw THE OLD SHIPS , which are out of … wait for it… :rofl2: SEATTLE = I guess LBH …
I have a perfect hat (for the times) to wear at Churchill Downs, except I know not fit for the Queen :dancers:
:40: they were playing a remix of amy winehouses rehab on the sirius chill channel as Borat would say “very nice”
8) i felt like a move snob i went into hollywood video and bought three used movies all the kings men babel and children of men
:tongue: im going east…… very east
😯 newfies……
:nuts: ok im going to go play spiderman……
i already beat the lizard!!!!!
wow sean, that is east. and they even have their very own “n” word.
furthermore, calling it “beating the lizard” doesn’t make it okay!
:jerk: it cost me 20$ to eat at this oriental buffet place……
i no happy!
:rofl2: A Torontonian, an American and a Newfoundlander are involved in a grisly crime and are all sentenced to death. The executioner told them that they would each get to choose the method by which they would die.
Their choices were: lethal injection, electric chair or by hanging.
The American was afraid of needles and didn’t want to be hanged. The American chose the electric chair.
He sat in the chair and they pulled the switch and nothing happened. The executioner said that if this happens a second time that he could go free.
They tried a second time and again nothing happened so they set him free.
The guy from Toronto was also afraid of needles and didn’t want to be hanged so he too chose the electric chair.
Once again, the chair didn’t work and he was free.
Next it was the Newfoundlander’s turn to pick how he was to be executed.
He said “I’m afraid of needles, the electric chair won’t work so you’re going to have to hang me”.
:rofl2: Newfie Horse
A feller from St. John’s drove his car into a ditch out around da bay. Luckily, a local farmer came to help with his big strong horse named Buddy.
He hitched Buddy up to the car and yelled, “Pull, Nellie, pull!” Buddy didn’t move.
Then the farmer hollered, “Pull, Buster, pull!” Buddy didn’t respond.
Once more the farmer commanded, “Pull, Coco, pull!” Nothing.
Then the farmer nonchalantly said, “Pull, Buddy, pull!” And the horse easily dragged the car out of the ditch.
The motorist was most appreciative and very curious. He asked the farmer why he called his horse by the wrong name three times.
“Well… Buddy is blind and if he thought he was the only one pulling, he wouldn’t even try!”
ba-da-de-dum or however you spell it.
:rofl2: The Newfie and the Genie
A drunk Newfie was stumbling home one day when he got lost and found himself in the bush. He fell to the ground and noticed a lamp. He picked it up, and rubbed it, and out came a genie.
“You have three wishes, choose them wisely.” says the Genie.
The Newfie, looking down at his last, and empty, bottle of beer, smashes it on some rocks and says, “I want a beer that will never run out.”
A bottle appears in front of the Newfie. He takes it, looks at it, and downs it. He looks at it again, and to his surprise, it was still full. The Newfie being very content starts walking away.
“Where are you going,” asks the Genie, “You still have two wishes left!”
“Well,” replies the Newfie, “Give me TWO more of these!”
:fist: vigilance!!!!! im out :jesus:
sean these are great. are you travelling thru the catskills to get to newfoundland?
one last newfie joke not that anybody really wants to read it……
Newfie Mental Hospital
George and a Newfie feller were both patients in a mental hospital in St. John’s.
One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, George suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. The Newfie promptly jumped in to save him. He swam to the bottom and pulled George out.
When the medical director became aware of the Newfie’s heroic act he immediately ordered him to be discharged from the hospital, as he now considered him to be mentally stable.
When he went to tell the Newfie the news he said, “Newf, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you’re being discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of another patient, I have concluded that your act displays sound thinking and judgment.
The bad news is, George, the patient you saved, hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he’s dead.”
The Newfie replied “He didn’t hang himself; I put him there to dry … So…how soon can I go home?”
nope……
ah..you saved the best for last..
later.
Sean, very cute. Thanks.
OMG Laura Bush was just on my TV telling me to get an emergency kit and to practice for the different types of emergency that may hit me.
Do you thinl Georgie Preznit is planning to invade?
:rofl2: The Bronze Rat
A Newfie walks into a souvenir shop in St. John’s. Looking around at the exotica, he noticed a very life-like, life-sized bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but it was so striking he decided he must have it.
He took it to the counter. “How much for the bronze rat?”
“Twelve dollars for the rat, one hundred dollars for the story,” the owner said.
The Newfie gave the shop owner twelve dollars. “I’ll take the rat. You can keep the story.”
As he walked down the street carrying the rat, he soon noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and began following him.
This was disconcerting, so he began walking faster. But within a couple of blocks, the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began squealing.
He began to trot toward the harbour, but looking back he saw that the rats now numbered in the millions, were squealing ever louder, and coming toward him faster and faster. Now scared, he broke into a run, then a full Olympic sprint to the edge of the harbour where he threw the bronze rat as far out as he could.
Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the Bay after the bronze rat, and they all drowned.
The man walked back to the souvenir shop.
“Aha!” said the owner. “You have come back for the story.”
“No,” said the man, “I came back to see if you have a bronze Conservative.”
Did anyone see this? I mustve missed it…just been so busy this week.
I guess that Riley has been doing this show for 3 whole yrs!!
What a talent! All by himself!! Wow!
No word of thanks to Maron? No mention of the supporting crew and writers? The brilliant young producers?
Now he can continue on to wreck evenings too….ah, thats showbiz…and the wages of being a good corporate soldier.
The cream really does rise, huh? I think Im gonna vomit.
shit…
Adios Amigos!
by Ron Dodd on May 4, 2007 – 5:09am.
After three years of waking in the middle of the night to bring you the first news of the day with our own brand of humor and irreverence The Mark Riley Show will officially come to an end on May 11th. However, our last live show was today . Next week we have lined up our friend and ultimate beltway insider, Brent Budowsky, to talk with Mark about the Iraq war, presidential politics and much more. Also, you’ll hear some of Mark’s favorite interviews with musical guests we’ve had on the show over the last year. I think you will enjoy these.
Mark and I will spend the next couple of weeks preparing for the launch of a new show here on the network (as well as adjusting to a new sleep schedule) starting May 21st from 8pm to midnight featuring contributions from other Air America hosts such Bobby Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, David Bender and Laura Flanders, as well as newsmakers, artists, musicians and the like. The new show is called The Air Americans. Stay tuned and stay with us. We look forward to your continued support.
Ron Dodd, Executive Producer
SeanMS, re 53 hahaha :rofl2: 😆 :rofl2: 8) cool and pretty pixs too … :pirate: :pup: :yippee: :pirate: :yippee: :pup: .
a.i.v … How To Save A Life … … The Fray
THX Melina, no I hadn’t seen. Did one get notified as other AAR info…maybe I will check other site. :doh: 🙄 :smack:
I am just depressed due to the California Red Tide poisoning the food chain — due to Humans’ fault, pollution, OVERFISHING, and Global Warming. 🙁 We Proclaimed This. And most just Ignored and now tis here. :omg: :smack: :no: Some of us even proclaimed in one’s early teens who is now 108 years, 🙁 most then and now did nothing. 🙁 and then someone also hurt my feelings 🙁 … It is a Sad Day. Waning. Needs Night.
🙁 a.i.v. … How To Save A Life … The Fray
oops..I forgot to look at the ocean :spank: :spank:
bad me. must learn to stop and smell the roses.
There was some sort of ferrari fetish fest in cannon Beach today. 🙄 men shining up the engines in their trunks :fire:
roxie.both nights if I can make it…how about you.?
gypsy is planning on coming for the saturday show not sure about Old Zeb.
I want to take some friends on friday too.
SBlueHeron, leave it to you to make me smile and smerk )
Now looking at Ferrais and having “”ferrari fetish fest and not even my Pen :drool: Fetish (one of few :hubba: 🙄 :hot: )
a.i.v. … How To Save A Life … … The Fray
“Adult Swim’s new animated series Lucy, Daughter of the Devil will start airing sometime this summer. The show was created by Loren Bouchard (who co-created Home Movies and produced Dr. Katz). It stars Jon Benjamin, Jon Glaser, Melissa Bardin Galsky, Sam Seder, Todd Barry and me. I voice a screechy, gruff nun.”
http://www.eugenemirman.com/