Comments for Meandering Matrix http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com Nodes Of Information Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:54:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Gustavo Arellano’s iAsk A Mexican! by Henry Arellano http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/gustavo-arellanos-iask-a-mexican/#comment-1168 Henry Arellano Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:54:01 +0000 http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/gustavo-arellanos-iask-a-mexican/#comment-1168 You know that you speak for the people . having read some of your replies to stupid questions,and some of your stupid answers I just ran into your site , completely by accident. All I want to ask is whose point of view do you express ?ever since your answer to a writer concerning his question pertaining to the deflowering of daughters by there Fathers as some kind of wright of passage ,you replied that you were unaware of such a practice.If in fact you are unaware should you not have looked into it ?I could be wrong and I hope I am but this is a problem and a legit question not to be dismissed If in fact you really want to be the voice of the people.Just a comment nothing else.Its that at that time the issue was a topic being discussed by fellow employees and more than a few agreed that the practice was wide spread.mejicanos all. You know that you speak for the people . having read some of your replies to stupid questions,and some of your stupid answers I just ran into your site , completely by accident. All I want to ask is whose point of view do you express ?ever since your answer to a writer concerning his question pertaining to the deflowering of daughters by there Fathers as some kind of wright of passage ,you replied that you were unaware of such a practice.If in fact you are unaware should you not have looked into it ?I could be wrong and I hope I am but this is a problem and a legit question not to be dismissed If in fact you really want to be the voice of the people.Just a comment nothing else.Its that at that time the issue was a topic being discussed by fellow employees and more than a few agreed that the practice was wide spread.mejicanos all.

]]> Comment on Lupe Fiasco–”Hurt My Soul” by sandrar http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/lupe-fiasco-hurt-my-soul/#comment-1158 sandrar Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:01:19 +0000 http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/lupe-fiasco-hurt-my-soul/#comment-1158 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> Comment on Obama has nothing to say… by Felix Alicea-Gonzalez http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/obama-has-nothing-to-say/#comment-1151 Felix Alicea-Gonzalez Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:50:57 +0000 http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/?p=1376#comment-1151 Obama must act within the frame of "capitalism", so I never expected him to cooperate with the popular-elected president of Honduras. Michelleti will benefit Obama's agenda, while Zelaya is moving away from it. I will continue sostaining that "Socialism" has proved to be one of the more advanced ideas of our civiliztion.... Obama must act within the frame of “capitalism”, so I never expected him to cooperate with the popular-elected president of Honduras. Michelleti will benefit Obama’s agenda, while Zelaya is moving away from it.

I will continue sostaining that “Socialism” has proved to be one of the more advanced ideas of our civiliztion….

]]> Comment on Al-Andalus: 700 Years Of Muslim Presence by la historia en mis libros http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/al-andalus-700-years-of-muslim-presence/#comment-1123 la historia en mis libros Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:23:28 +0000 http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/?p=1360#comment-1123 I'd like to tell just one thing, that is that the muslim presence in Spain has never been hidden. Every one in Spain knows this moment, this big moment in our story. So please, don't tell it isn't Known because it is hidden. Thanks I’d like to tell just one thing, that is that the muslim presence in Spain has never been hidden. Every one in Spain knows this moment, this big moment in our story. So please, don’t tell it isn’t Known because it is hidden. Thanks

]]> Comment on Silvio Rodriguez: “Sueno Con Serpientes” by Daniel Bruno http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/silvio-rodriguez-sueno-con-serpientes/#comment-1115 Daniel Bruno Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:51:23 +0000 http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/?p=1355#comment-1115 Daniel Bruno Sanz would like to share his Huffington Post essay with you; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-bruno-sanz/obama-2012_b_234874.html Please post it on your website and send your link to us for inclusion at DanielBrunoSanz.com Follow us on Twitter at Twitter.com/DanielBrunoSanz Regards, Navas Here are the keyords in the essay: 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 2012 Election, B.E.T., Barack Hussein Obama, Booker T. Washington, Bryant Park, Cipriani's, Colin Powell, Criminal Industrial Complex, Deb Slott, Do The Right Thing, Heidi Klum, Hip-Hop, Mark Penn, Melting Pot, Pink Elephant, Racism, Reconstruction, Robert Johnson, Seal, Segregation, Shelby Steele, Sidney Poiter, Sonia Sotomayor, Spike Lee, Tavis Smiley, Terrence Yang, The Dance Flick, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Virginia Davies, W.E.B. Dubois, Zero Mostel, Politics Prologue to Obama 2012 We approach the future walking backwards, our gaze forever fixated on the past. Predicting the future is not a passive exercise; we invent it every day with our actions. I began the sketches for what would ultimately become Obama 2012 in March 2007, a month after Barack Obama declared his candidacy. I had spent much of the previous 18 months living abroad as an entrepreneur and statesman of sorts, and I was slightly out of touch with the pulse of life on the street in the United States. I learnt about Sen. Barack Obama’s Springfield, IL speech formally declaring his candidacy for president of the United States through one of the international cable news channels and thought how great it would be to have a fresh start after years of mediocrity in Washington and a plummeting reputation around the world. By September, after what seemed like raising a six-month-old child, my sketches had turned into Why the Democrats Will Win in 2008 the Road to an Obama White House. It was my answer to the burning question everyone had back in March: Can he really win? Actually, not everyone thought it was a question. For many people, including Mark Penn, director of the Clinton campaign, the answer was an easy “no way.” This strategic blunder made it that much easier for the Clinton campaign to be defeated. Then there were Black pundits like Shelby Steele, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, who came out with a 2007 book entitled A Bound Man, Why Obama Can't Win. Being Black did seem to be an automatic disqualification, but then why did someone need to write an entire book arguing what should have been patently obvious? Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell came to my mind and I remembered that he could have run for president in 1992 as a war hero. But Colin Powell was Ronald Reagan’s protégé and got a special pass on the race question. Black conservatives like Justice Thomas, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell were careful to disassociate themselves from liberal thinkers and activists like Jesse Jackson, who lost, as expected, the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries. Ultimately, Colin Powell, in spite of all his honors, declined to run for president. His wife Alma feared for his safety. Common sense said that a candidate like Obama, for numerous insurmountable reasons, didn't stand a chance of winning the Democratic primary, let alone a general election in which 10% of the electorate is African American and Republicans controlled the White House for 20 of the preceding 28 years. But I decided that Obama's chances merited a closer examination. In it, I would bring to bear my gambling skills. Daniel Bruno Sanz would like to share his Huffington Post essay with you;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-bruno-sanz/obama-2012_b_234874.html
Please post it on your website and send your link to us for inclusion at DanielBrunoSanz.com
Follow us on Twitter at Twitter.com/DanielBrunoSanz
Regards,
Navas
Here are the keyords in the essay:
13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 2012 Election, B.E.T., Barack Hussein Obama, Booker T. Washington, Bryant Park, Cipriani’s, Colin Powell, Criminal Industrial Complex, Deb Slott, Do The Right Thing, Heidi Klum, Hip-Hop, Mark Penn, Melting Pot, Pink Elephant, Racism, Reconstruction, Robert Johnson, Seal, Segregation, Shelby Steele, Sidney Poiter, Sonia Sotomayor, Spike Lee, Tavis Smiley, Terrence Yang, The Dance Flick, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Virginia Davies, W.E.B. Dubois, Zero Mostel, Politics
Prologue to Obama 2012
We approach the future walking backwards, our gaze forever fixated on the past. Predicting the future is not a passive exercise; we invent it every day with our actions.
I began the sketches for what would ultimately become Obama 2012 in March 2007, a month after Barack Obama declared his candidacy. I had spent much of the previous 18 months living abroad as an entrepreneur and statesman of sorts, and I was slightly out of touch with the pulse of life on the street in the United States. I learnt about Sen. Barack Obama’s Springfield, IL speech formally declaring his candidacy for president of the United States through one of the international cable news channels and thought how great it would be to have a fresh start after years of mediocrity in Washington and a plummeting reputation around the world.
By September, after what seemed like raising a six-month-old child, my sketches had turned into Why the Democrats Will Win in 2008 the Road to an Obama White House. It was my answer to the burning question everyone had back in March: Can he really win? Actually, not everyone thought it was a question. For many people, including Mark Penn, director of the Clinton campaign, the answer was an easy “no way.” This strategic blunder made it that much easier for the Clinton campaign to be defeated. Then there were Black pundits like Shelby Steele, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, who came out with a 2007 book entitled A Bound Man, Why Obama Can’t Win.
Being Black did seem to be an automatic disqualification, but then why did someone need to write an entire book arguing what should have been patently obvious? Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell came to my mind and I remembered that he could have run for president in 1992 as a war hero. But Colin Powell was Ronald Reagan’s protégé and got a special pass on the race question. Black conservatives like Justice Thomas, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell were careful to disassociate themselves from liberal thinkers and activists like Jesse Jackson, who lost, as expected, the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries. Ultimately, Colin Powell, in spite of all his honors, declined to run for president. His wife Alma feared for his safety. Common sense said that a candidate like Obama, for numerous insurmountable reasons, didn’t stand a chance of winning the Democratic primary, let alone a general election in which 10% of the electorate is African American and Republicans controlled the White House for 20 of the preceding 28 years. But I decided that Obama’s chances merited a closer examination. In it, I would bring to bear my gambling skills.

]]> Comment on Samah El-Shahat: Weekly Economic Columns by Felix Alicea-Gonzalez http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/samah-el-shahat-weekly-economic-columns/#comment-1111 Felix Alicea-Gonzalez Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:59:51 +0000 http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/?p=1346#comment-1111 For now, I just want to congratulate my "ciber-friend" Samah, for her courage, intelligence, and brilliant organizational ability. Plese, keep it up! Planet earth is so much in need of people like you. Regards. Felix A-G For now, I just want to congratulate my “ciber-friend” Samah, for her courage, intelligence, and brilliant organizational ability.
Plese, keep it up! Planet earth is so much in need of people like you.

Regards.
Felix A-G

]]> Comment on Samah El-Shahat: Weekly Economic Columns by ben http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/samah-el-shahat-weekly-economic-columns/#comment-1106 ben Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:46:19 +0000 http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/?p=1346#comment-1106 This is good - give it to them Samah - Congratulations and keep it up This is good – give it to them Samah – Congratulations and keep it up

]]> Comment on Today’s Econ Mess Is Like The Concorde by Fintan Stack http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/todays-econ-mess-is-like-the-concorde/#comment-1102 Fintan Stack Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:27:28 +0000 http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/?p=1338#comment-1102 The financial crisis was caused by American greed and incompetience, specifically an unwillingness to regulate markets lending .The tragic loss of the Air France Concorde was also caused by American failure to properly regulate. Concorde was not overweight or unbalanced. A strip of metal from a Continental airways (us carrier) shredded Concordes tyre and the debris caused damage to the fuel ports. America's cavalier ,wild west approach is the problem Without regulation you get chaos .We in Europe have some ideas about how to run a civilised society and it's high time America took a leaf from our book . The financial crisis was caused by American greed and incompetience, specifically an unwillingness to regulate markets lending .The tragic loss of the Air France Concorde was also caused by American failure to properly regulate. Concorde was not overweight or unbalanced. A strip of metal from a Continental airways (us carrier) shredded Concordes tyre and the debris caused damage to the fuel ports.
America’s cavalier ,wild west approach is the problem
Without regulation you get chaos .We in Europe have some ideas about how to run a civilised society and it’s high time America took a leaf from our book .

]]> Comment on B: Solar Power Found in Mojave Dessert by SolarForum24.de http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/b-solar-power-found-in-mojave-dessert/#comment-1101 SolarForum24.de Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:29:34 +0000 http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/?p=492#comment-1101 really good really good

]]> Comment on Samah El-Shahat: Weekly Economic Columns by kars http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/samah-el-shahat-weekly-economic-columns/#comment-1088 kars Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:03:57 +0000 http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/?p=1346#comment-1088 very good thanks very good thanks

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