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  • November 12, 2009
  • Lou Dobbs Delivers His Head to Hispanics, But That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing – (interesting)
  • First Hispanic Muppet Rosita plans to celebrate birthday with big piñata -moved to “Sesame Street” from her native Mexico in 1991, becoming its first Hispanic Muppet resident.
  • Men, especially Hispanics, hard hit by loss of good jobs
  • TOP Ten reasons Latino Sammy Sosa went from Black to White
  • Her Honor: A Portrait of Justice Sonia Sotomayor
  • “Lopez Tonight” opened to 3.1 million viewers Monday night as the new TBS talkshow also premiered on Turner nets TNT and TruTV.
  • U.S. State Department Sells Out Honduran Democracy for Senate Confirmations
  • Monterrey (Mexico’s 3r-largest city) has fired almost a quarter of its traffic police for failing tests designed to detect corruption and ineptitude. And half of Monterrey’s traffic cops were ordered to undergo more training after performing poorly on the tests. Only a bit more than a quarter were found to be completely fit for the job.
  • For Battered Latina Immigrants: Dwindling Resources, But Also Hope – This is the second report in a special two-part series on domestic violence in immigrant communities by Feet in Two Worlds reporters.
  • Initially waved off, Hispanic advocates jump into health debate – Effort centers on ensuring reform doesn’t shortchange immigrants
  • Goodbye to an anti-hispanic – After months of pressure, Lou Dobbs’ departure from CNN is not only a sign that the network is interested in restoring its credibility but also that immigrants and Latinos will stand up firmly to hate mongering.
  • BastaDobbs.com Announces Victory: Lou Dobbs to Leave CNN
  • November 11, 2009
  • Veterans Day: Saluting a Forgotten Force – Millions of Latinos are proud of their history of military service to our nation. To discover they have defended the USA against all enemies, from the Revolutionary War to the current conflicts in Afghanistan, one must cull through volumes of research, academic dissertations, or tomes of Spanish-language and Latino literature, because this history is not common knowledge.
  • A new study of workers at 50 hotels in the United States found that women were 50% more likely to be injured than men, and that Hispanic women had an injury rate two-thirds higher than their white female counterparts.
  • As many as 750,000 Latinos and Latinas served in the armed forces during World War II, according to the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project
  • Melting Pop? Latin Music in America Is Sounding More Like Pop – (interesting – lots of audio to listen to)
  • Mexico and the Crisis of a Dependent Economy – The well-known 19th century Mexican saying—”poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States”—has become more poignant today than ever in the context of the global economic crisis.
  • Are All Latinos Happy that George Lopez is the New Latino Poster Boy? – By Ricardo González
  • George Lopez is the first Latino host on late night – Teresa Puente’s take on the 1st 2 shows
  • Domestic Violence In Immigrant Communities: Often Triggered by Stress and Complicated by Immigration Status – This is the first in a special two-part series on domestic violence in immigrant communities by Feet in Two Worlds reporters.
  • Al Horford, the Hispanic ALtanta Hawk that everyone loves – father, Tito, was the first Dominican-born player to play in the NBA
  • Sammy Sosa: Lighten up folks, it’s just facial cream – (this sure has gotten a lot of press)
  • November 10, 2009
  • I Might Be Mexican, but I Don’t Have to Like ‘Lopez Tonight’ – Comedian Trots Out Tired, Unfunny Ethnic Humor
  • Cubans Warily Test Their New Freedom To Criticize
  • Mexico declares flood emergency in 2 south cities – A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico’s Gulf coast
  • At least 10,000 Salvadorans are in urgent need of food aid after devastating floods and mudslides that damaged crops, destroyed homes and killed 130 people, the U.N. World Food Program
  • Heroic Texas Latino officer says policewoman at Fort Hood ‘erased a lot of prejudice’ – (interesting)
  • The Congressional Hispanic Caucus took the right stand on threatening to withhold healthcare votes
  • Just what America needs, another talk show – Gregory Tejeda on the Lopez show
  • After deferring his dream to play in the NBA, Greivis Vasquez is returning to Maryland for his senior year. But in Venezuela, they’re more interested in what comes after that.
  • Roberto Rodriguez: Beaten by police and running to victory – November 7 marks 30 years since he won his first police brutality trial in East L.A.
  • One of the largest immigration crackdowns under the Obama administration to date took place in the Twin Cities last month, when 1,200 undocumented janitors were ‘quietly’ fired from their jobs
  • November 9, 2009
  • Up next: A Latino president? – who will be the nation’s first Latino president?
  • Remembering Marcelo Lucero : Images and Thoughts from Vigil in Patchogue, Long Island
  • Many illegal immigrants deported in ‘a cloud of uncertainty’
  • Colombia said on Sunday it will appeal to the U.N. Security Council and the OAS after Hugo Chavez, the fiery leftist president of neighboring Venezuela, ordered his army to prepare for war in order to assure peace.
  • November 7, 2009
  • MARISA TREVIÑO: She’s one blogging Latina lista to be reckoned with!
  • Honduras leadership in limbo as accord dissolves
  • BLS: Unemployment Rate Rose to 10.2% in October; Hispanic Unemployment at 13.1%
  • November 6, 2009
  • Carmen Ortiz has been confirmed as the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, becoming the first Hispanic and the first woman to hold the state’s top federal prosecutor’s job.
​I just don't get what the big deal with Shakira is.

I mean, don't get me wrong, the Colombian pop singer is gorgeous, but she sounds like a dying horse when she sings.

Seriously.

It's really difficult to sing along to any of her music, which, for some reason, consistently finds its way onto top 40 radio stations.

When she's not moaning, howling or grunting in her music to sell her songs with sex, you can't understand what she's singing. She also has a terrible wavering quality to her voice that makes me scared that I'm going to have a seizure at any minute.Her songs sound mildly better when she's singing in Spanish, but even then, the quality is dismal.

Maybe the atrocious English songs are so bad because she just has a problem enunciating English words. And maybe she's only in business because she shakes her hips and wears nude body suits in her videos.

Whatever the reason, Shakira must be stopped. Her latest appearance on a recent cover of Rolling Stone is outrageously unjustified, and I'd be a lot happier if she just started modeling--something she'd be way better at than singing.

So, readers, for the love of gosh, stop buying Shakira's music. Stop requesting her on the radio. Don't let her pretty face fool you that she isn't tone deaf. And maybe she'll get the hint and quit the music industry, which would make my ears very thankful.