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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Billiam Pitts on April 07, 2013, 11:59:25 PM
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nadinbrzezinski (118,264 posts)
CONGRESSMAN VARGAS VISITS WITH “SAN DIEGO NINE†ON HUNGER STRIKE, CALLS FOR EMERGENCY AMNESTY MEASUR
Source: East County Magazine
April 7, 2013 (San Diego)—East County residents and Congressman Juan Vargas (D-51), whose district includes the border areas in East County, turned out yesterday in support of low wage workers staging a hunger strike at the Mission Valley Hilton. Vargas spoke with ECM on immigration reform and how it applies to this situation...
Congressman Vargas is planning to sponsor legislation for an emergency amnesty for all workers in the United States, he revealed....
ECM asked the Congressman about the status of migratory policy in Washington.
Vargas told ECM, “There is consensus among Democrats, as well as many Republicans. What is holding any advance is the Tea Party,†whose members strongly oppose amnesty for undocumented workers, he added...
Read more: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/12938
Ok folks, I just love when I scoop every other media in town. This is big news. This kind of Amnesty will protect workers while we reach full immigration reform.
Why I scooped them, like Occupy... I staid, and waited and was damn patient.
Oh and I usually give the first four paragraphs, but all the background was needed. So I chose the relevant paragraphs from the big news.
JDPriestly (36,844 posts)
1. Great. Congratulations on your scoop. Good work.
nadinbrzezinski (118,264 posts)
2. Thanks, working on the blog post right now
This should be great... the rally was. And I got two stories in the paper too. So what if I am not getting paid for this. I am developing sources.
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I'm confused.
Where's the "scoop"?
All I'm seeing is just another Democrat politician lying.
Nothing new about that; hardly a scoop.
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This reminds me of the Omaha Weeper's blockbuster game-changing news during his campaign for fourth place in a field of four.
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This reminds me of the Omaha Weeper's blockbuster game-changing news during his campaign for fourth place in a field of four.
Do you see the scoop?
I've read the damned thing four times--practically got it memorized now--and can't see it.
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Do you see the scoop?
I've read the damned thing four times--practically got it memorized now--and can't see it.
You got it! Just like the Omaha blockbuster.
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She means she got a scoop of ice cream in solidarity with hunger strikers.
Power to the people!
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She means she got a scoop of ice cream in solidarity with hunger strikers.
Power to the people!
Just like how she "staid" around Occupy, waited, was damned patient, and scooped it, too.
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Just like how she "staid" around Occupy, waited, was damned patient, and scooped it, too.
:rotf:
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:rotf:
Of course, "scoop" used around anything "Occupy" can have several meanings as well.
There's nadin's meaning (whatever the hell that could be).
And, there's this one. :snowblower:
Or my personal fav. :dozer:
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You got it! Just like the Omaha blockbuster.
Now if Nads feeds the Hunger strikers mini tacos, she'll just waltz into any public office she wants.
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This just in - liberal democrat supports amnesty, with the hope of making more liberal democrats out of them. Blames Tea Party. News at eleven.
Yeah. A real 'scoop' there. About as meaningful as being the first one to report that the sun has risen again today.
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I'll bet the cousin can find a lot of scoops down in Ensenada.
nadinbrzezinski (107,837 posts) Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:32 AM
Ok this was embarrasing
We are working on a story involving native people in Mexico. So I needed to send an Email to proceso, one of the top political magazines. It took me literally ten minutes to compose an email in Spanish... my native tongue.
So, the obvious thing is I NEED PRACTICE... damn I really do. So converted my IPOD to a Spanish computer and started plotting a short piece of fiction that will be done in Spanish. It will take me longer than English, but damn I need the practice. That was well, very embarrassing.
Ten minutes. Damn!
And that story better NOT involve going down to Ensenada, there are way too many personal safety concerns on that one.
It's only an hour away from San Diego; I can't understand why she hasn't been there yet.
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This is the only 'scoop' she's ever made . . .
:pokingpoop:
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Supper Super Scooper.
Like many normal people, perhaps the regular reporters find non-news, to be just that.
At least it got the bald dwarf off the Korea binge.
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Well I guess Fox News will have to close down now. If this is a scoop then I can't wait till she reports on who's front lawn gets watered first during a drought
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:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: She is so a skit :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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She also posted the same in GD, looking for attention.
Got two replies, one of them hers. :lmao:
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I'll bet the cousin can find a lot of scoops down in Ensenada.
It's only an hour away from San Diego; I can't understand why she hasn't been there yet.
Drug cartels do not take kindly to reporters in their litter box
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Nads might get the pullitzzzerrr prise for this scupe.
All because she staid.
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Drug cartels do not take kindly to reporters in their litter box
Well, might you know anything about Ensenada; why the cousin's afraid to go there?
Last August, when she made that comment, I wrote the local tourist bureau there, and they kindly sent me a bunch of illustrated brochures inside a big manila envelope.
It looked like a great place for a family vacation.
I'm confused.
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Well, might you know anything about Ensenada; why the cousin's afraid to go there?
Last August, when she made that comment, I wrote the local tourist bureau there, and they kindly sent me a bunch of illustrated brochures inside a big manila envelope.
It looked like a great place for a family vacation.
I'm confused.
It had it's day I suppose. But today, there is no way I would go into any part of Mexico or Baja.
Being a tourist in a resort destination is risky. Even if the drug lords leave you alone, the police can be almost as bad. Too many people have driven down there, never to be heard from again. Even if you get stoped for speeding or a fender bender, you could wind up in prison for days with all kinds of ugly.
And there is a very high mortality rate among reporters, or someone perceived to be nosing around and asking questions.
Being a Journalist in Mexico Can Be Deadly
http://news.yahoo.com/being-journalist-mexico-deadly-134533762.html
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Her article reads like she took a press release and slapped her byline on it. It would explain the lack of mishmashed words.
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It had its day I suppose. But today, there is no way I would go into any part of Mexico or Baja.
Being a tourist in a resort destination is risky. Even if the drug lords leave you alone, the police can be almost as bad. Too many people have driven down there, never to be heard from again. Even if you get stopped for speeding or a fender bender, you could wind up in prison for days with all kinds of ugly.
And there is a very high mortality rate among reporters, or someone perceived to be nosing around and asking questions.
Well, that's you and me, madam, because it's not our terrain.
But the cousin, on the other hand, it's her own country, her own people, her own language. She should have no problems running around where she wants, looking at what she wants to see.
For you or me, madam, it might be foolhardy, but for the intrepid girl reporter, it should be a piece of cake.
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Well, that's you and me, madam, because it's not our terrain.
But the cousin, on the other hand, it's her own country, her own people, her own language. She should have no problems running around where she wants, looking at what she wants to see.
For you or me, madam, it might be foolhardy, but for the intrepid girl reporter, it should be a piece of cake.
How do you say, "Holy shit, it's Ben Franklin!" in Spanish?
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How do you say, "Holy shit, it's Ben Franklin!" in Spanish?
The exclamation would be "mini-Ben". Benjamin Franklin is always depicted as having been of normal height. Considering the lack of politically correct sensitivities in the 18th century, if he'd had nadin's physique he would have been a sideshow attraction, not a diplomat.
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For you or me, madam, it might be foolhardy, but for the intrepid girl reporter, it should be a piece of cake.
I'm not sure being from there offers her any protection. She knows more horror stories about that hell hole than we do.
You should write a story about Nads, the cracked reporter in Mexico. :wink:
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I'm not sure being from there offers her any protection. She knows more horror stories about that hell hole than we do.
Well, I'm sort of speaking from experience here.
In the mid-1990s, I spent a couple of years in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants.
I was on my own, including on my own dime, no one else's. Solo.
I knew nothing of the languages, and very little of the terrain. I had no idea who was an honest man, and who wasn't. Lots of times, the only way I could tell directions was by looking for a statue of Lenin (all statues of Lenin had him facing Moscow, and one could extrapolate from that).
I didn't know shit.
Others who knew the languages and the people, got around with ease.
I survived that--obviously--whole and intact, despite my disadvantages.
It still seems to me, with all her advantages, the cousin should get around Ensenada with no problems at all, avoiding all pitfalls and hazards. Unlike it'd be for you or me.
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The exclamation would be "mini-Ben". Benjamin Franklin is always depicted as having been of normal height. Considering the lack of politically correct sensitivities in the 18th century, if he'd had nadin's physique he would have been a sideshow attraction, not a diplomat.
In my defense, I will say that most Mexicans have never seen Ben Franklin, and those who have only saw him on a rolled up $100 bill while a gringo tourist was snorting coke off a burro's ass. So, for a Mexican, Ben Franklin's head is only 3/4 of an inch high.
It worries me that a Mexican may see a $100 bill and think nads has been memorialized on American money..... OK, it really doesn't worry me that much :-)
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I can only imagine how excited the nutcase would be the first time she and The Good Rig came upon a pickup truck full of heads.
That has apparently become an everyday occurrence in the shithole south of Texas.
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"Scoop" implies there was some other news organ who would have wanted the story. Some congressional hack running the rubber chicken circuit who decides to stop for a photo op with an obscure hand full of malcontents is probably something not even on a real paper's radar.
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"Scoop" implies there was some other news organ who would have wanted the story.
That's an interesting thought.
You could pretty much say that everything nutcase nadin sends to Crazy Miriam's blog is a "scoop".
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I can only imagine how excited the nutcase would be the first time she and The Good Rig came upon a pickup truck full of heads.
That has apparently become an everyday occurrence in the shithole south of Texas.
A few years ago, they had rolled some heads across the dance floor of a night club. And that was on the Pacific - They also found a bunch of heads in Alcopulco put in front of a school.
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They also found a bunch of heads in Alcopulco put in front of a school.
Every mexican shool has a headmaster.
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This reminds me of the Omaha Weeper's blockbuster game-changing news during his campaign for fourth place in a field of four.
I thought he finished in third place in a field of four? Or am I getting my DUmp losers confused?
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This just in - liberal democrat supports amnesty, with the hope of making more liberal democrats out of them. Blames Tea Party. News at eleven.
Yeah. A real 'scoop' there. About as meaningful as being the first one to report that the sun has risen again today.
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'Zactly.
It took me literally ten minutes to compose an email in Spanish... my native tongue.
Uh-huh. It makes you sound sooooo international.
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I thought he finished in third place in a field of four? Or am I getting my DUmp losers confused?
Maybe he finished ahead of the libertarian. I haven't nadined it.
Seems to me it was two repukes, the weeper, and a paultard.
Some joker at the democrat office got the weeper to run because they were embarrassed to have a blank line on the ballot.
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Maybe he finished ahead of the libertarian. I haven't nadined it.
Seems to me it was two repukes, the weeper, and a paultard.
Some joker at the democrat office got the weeper to run because they were embarrassed to have a blank line on the ballot.
The problem is he has run for so many damn things and finished at the bottom or very near it with all of them, that it becomes hard to keep track.
Now that I think about it, I believe he finished last in the union election, twice, and third out of forth in the big election.