"M.A.P.S. OF LOS ANGELES", MEXICAN AMERICAN PRINCES OF L.A.
For those of you who are still suffering from "JOURNALISTIC MYOPIA", that is waiting for the "LA ANTONIA TIMES" and the "MOLDY GREEN SHEET" to print something of substance. The "WEEKLY OF RECORD" has a great read on the "CULTURE" of the "MEXICAN AMERICAN PRINCES" or "MAP" for short. Like the "JAPS", "JEWISH AMERICAN PRINCESSES", made famous by Saturday Night Live's Gilda Radner in the Seventies, "MAPS" have distinct mannerisms that are brought to life by Weekly's Daniel Hernandez, in a great series of articles. For one "MAP's" are "MAMA BOYS", mix "STREET CREED" with school smarts and are the up and coming leaders of Los Angeles.
"MAP's" include "HIS POLLONESS", known for the "PARKE-que" produce image of "A CHILD OF THE BARRIO RAISED BY A HARD WORKING SINGLE MOM". Jose Huizar, "CHAMP OF CONSTITUENT SERVICES". Fabian "FLABIAN" Nunez. Alex "KID COUNCILMAN" Padilla. Oscar "PRETTY BOY, RICKY MARTIN WANNABEE" de la Hoya. Plus others.
Daniel Hernandez, who was a great lost to the "OLD GREY HAG ON SPRING STREET". Does a masterful job with these series of stories. A definite read !!
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 4/11/2007 09:39:00 PM
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Marcos Aguilar? Oh Pleeze
Name change: TRAPS
TODAY IN L.A.
*HOUSING CRISIS & EVICTIONS FOR SENIORS
*AIMCO'S ILLEGAL EVICTIONS
*GROUNDS FOR EVICTION IN L.A.
www.evict123.com/grounds.htm
*ILLEGAL EVICTIONS INCREASING
www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2005/oct/26/the-downtown-housing-crisis/
WATZ UP VANILLA FACE, YEA YOU, AV.
if there even is a housing crisis, said councilman jose huizar during last week's city council meeting.
10:55 ????
If there even is a housing crisis???
He actually said that?
Reuters
Wed Apr 11, 5:46 PM ET
Ancient Mexicans brought human sacrifice victims from hundreds of miles (km) away over centuries to sanctify a pyramid in the oldest city in North America, an archeologist said on Wednesday.
DNA tests on the skeletons of more than 50 victims discovered in 2004 in the Pyramid of the Moon at the Teotihuacan ruins revealed they were from far away Mayan, Pacific or Atlantic coastal cultures..
Discoveries in the early 1980s of sacrificial victims and weapons skewered previous theories that Teotihuacan had a peaceful culture, unlike the warlike Aztecs and Maya.
9:14:
That is AWESOME. I wonder when their descendants will start dragging folks to Macarthur park for more of the same!
A non-New Agey portrayal of pre-Cortez Mexico that Marcos Aguilar would rather you not know about.
Around this time Henry VIII was beheading his wives, the Spanish Inquisition was burning thousands of Jews and other "heathens" at the stake and the plague was responsible fo rthe hundreds of skeleton churches that were built. At least in the Americas sacrificial victims were treated with honor before being killed. Ritual murder has been part of every culture, and ritual murder in the name of religion has been readily accepted by all. And let us not forget that 90% of the indigenous population was wiped out when the white Europeans came onto this land.
Thanks for restoring the proper New Age perspective to this story, 12:29 PM!
I wonder how long the indigenous population of the Americas would have lasted anyways, even without the Europeans coming. They were living essentially in the stone age and had only the most rudimentary ability smelt metal. I mean, one of the reasons Spain established missions in California was that they were worried the Russians were going to come down over the Bering Strait. Basically what happened is that the Stone Age met the early Modern Age and the latter prevailed. It would have happened even if Columbus and Cortez and Pizarro never left home.
Great read from Daniel Hernandez. A must read, this guy should be writing for Newsweek.
I can't believe how many clowncil members actually said yesterday that the tennant relocation increase was not perfect and they had reservations but would pass it anyway. This is why LA has the dumbest politicians in the nation.
"mansion in Hacienda Heights"
Isn't that a contradiction in terms? Blech!
12:51
Boy, your education sure comes through on your posts.
First off, you say that indigenous culture was barely out of the stone age?!! The Toltecs, Mayans, and Aztecs had the most advanced civilizations of their time. Their calendar is still more accurate than the one we use today. Tenochititlan, the capital of the Aztecs had running water, steam baths, and they were able to feed their over 1 million inhabitants. This at a time when Europeans were bathing once a year and their cities were nothing more than cesspools rife with disease and vermin. Rats where another european import to the americas.
Just because these civilizations smelted precious metals into pricelss works of art instead of weapons doesn't mean they were closer to the stone age. I believe the Spaniards that smelted these works of art into gold and silver bricks were more closely related to Neanderthals. In fact, isn't there a controversial theory out there that Neandertahls never went extinct, they just blended into the european races.
I'm no fan of these M.A.P.s because they acheived political prominence by practicing long held back stabbing political idealogy, just like in europe. But you obviuosly need a couple of history lessons. If you can't find your way into a school or book, try tuning in to the history channel.
The origin of the species really has no relevance to modern times. What we have now is 30M mongrel illegal Mexicans here with NO culture, class or intelligence. So, who cares about the background??? Whatever it WAS, has long since morphed into a bunch of parasites!!!!
3:26,
There's a reason that the title of that book is "Guns, Germs and Steel." Comparing steel and gold metallurgy is like comparing NASA with the Wright brothers.
Generally speaking, gold doesn't even need smelting cause it almost always exists in metallic form and not as an ore. And you barely have to heat it to soften it to work with, and annealing it only requires a few hundred degrees. So if all the Maya or Aztecs could do is work with this extremely soft metal, then that's not too much ahead of stone age metallurgy. I don't know much about the Maya or the Aztecs, but I'm almost positive they didn't have iron, despite the fact that Mexico is very rich with iron ore. I assume this is due to their inability to achieve anything approaching the necessary temperature. On the other hand, the first people to make furnaces that could get that hot were the Chinese, and they did it centuries before the time of Christ, fer Chrissakes. Some old fashioned shit that was.
One of the keys to Spain's power was STEEL. You can't make a useful sword from gold (or iron, really), although I'll bet the Aztecs tried a few times with disappointing results. But make one from steel and you're set, and in the 17th century nobody on the planet could make steel like the white devils in Europe.
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