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| Texan of the Year 2012??? |
Juan Montoya of the local El Rrun Rrun blog quoted Ms. Cabrera's letter in entirety, using it as his blog article "QUINTANILLA NOMINATED AS TEXAN OF THE YEAR 2012".
It may very well be that the Dallas Morning News fields nominations for "Texan of the Year" from readers. No quibbling over that as it builds interest and smacks of democracy. There is no need to quarrel with whether or not Quintanilla is a Texan. The Chicago native currently resides in Dallas and has certainly stoked the fires of influence at the Brownsville Independent School District, funneling contributions through a political action committee for that purpose. He was also instrumental in the City of Lubbock opting for a $4,000,000 settlement in their lawsuit against Healthsmart for overcharges. So, Texan or not, Quintanilla is definitely a player of sorts in Texas matters.
Quintanilla heads an organization named Accion America, that purports to advocate for the obvious needs of Mexican Nationals living in the United States, although other better known Hispanic civil rights groups are not comfortable with Mr. Q. Civil rights charletons have abounded in the black community for decades, opportunistically preying on the uninformed, undereducated and impoverished. Many feel Quintanilla has taken a similar path, but like butterflies, nominations are free.
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A few days ago, you posted something positive about China's manufacturing capabilities. Here's some more, from the New Yorker: (1.) China’s political system has the efficiency and consensus to produce far-sighted decisions that Washington can only envy. Faced with our own gridlock and polarization, Americans are understandably eager to find a rhetorical cudgel, and we entered 2012 repeating the line that Chinese leaders had become all that ours were not: ambitious, visionary, willing to pull for a larger purpose. In last year’s State of the Union, President Obama invoked China as the “home to the world’s largest private solar research facility, and the world’s fastest computer. “So, yes,” Obama said, “the world has changed.” And he was not wrong. But this year added some sobering facts about the haste, waste, and corruption associated with China’s Great Leap. When a bridge collapsed in August, killing three people and injuring five, it was the sixth bridge collapse in a little over a year. The authorities blamed overloaded trucks, but it turned out that the concrete had been adulterated with sticks and plastic bags, the kind of corner-cutting that Chinese regulators have found in the nation’s enormous railway construction project. For this and other reasons that follow, the myth of China’s political efficiency can be retired.
ReplyDelete(2.) China is destined for a hard landing. Take your pick—manufacturing, retail sales, investment—all signs suggest China has postponed another opportunity to go over an economic cliff. “Economic activity is back, and growth has bottomed out,” the economists Xianfang Ren and Alistair Thornton of IHS Global Insight wrote this week. But, while a recovery is welcome, there is little sign that Beijing has made the hardest decision of all: to upend powerful state-owned enterprises and unlock the dynamic private sector. Until then, China’s economy will still look an awful lot like an overloaded eighteen-wheeler on a mountain road.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/12/top-ten-myths-about-china-in-2012.html#ixzz2E7gj147G
Dallas is a quirky place. I call it The City of Brotherly Hate, for good reason. The odds of Carlos Quintanilla being named anything other than Pendejo of The Year in Big D are astronomical. Let me take you back to 2009, when businesses along old Industrial Boulevard welcomed a name-change to Riverfront Boulevard. Riverfront sounded a lot better to White Dallas than did Cesar Chavez Boulevard, which is the name that won a citywide survey seeking citizen input into the proposed change. According to the Dallas Morning News, the city's leaders rejected Chavez, saying they wanted the new name to reflect the street's proximity to the planned Trinity River Park. So, cry for Mr. Quintanilla, 'cause, lads, he won't be winning anything of the sort mentioned in Barton's article. Plus, anyone familiar with this "honor" knows that the city gets thousands of nominations. Have Mr. Quintanilla's rabid backers looked at seeking a tribute award from, say, Mercedes or La Feria? You know, some place kind to the brown-skinned flock?...
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