On a totally personal note, I wanted to let all of you know that I SUCCESSFULLY defended my dissertation and most importantly with NO changes!
So that turns me into Dr. Ventanita!!!
Oh, and yes Val, this means that I'll be pack to posting regularly around these parts come September. Just need to get settled in [...]

Val beat me to it, as I wanted to be the one to post the Friday funny.  Since we are only hearing bad news, and now we have even former presidents asking the current president to be more optimistic, I figured the time was right for some diversion sana.  I got this in my email [...]

Some good news. I have just been offered a contract for Assistant Professor starting next fall 2009!!!!!
Now all I need to do is finish my dissertation before my start date. Academia here I come!!!!!!!!

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I'll be short, concise and to the point and will support my position with two quotes.
My position: I am 100% passionately against the bailout. Let whatever happens happen. Why you ask?
In bailing out mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, our government has basically turned America into the largest subsidized housing project in [...]

So this morning, as I have my coffee, I read the latest on the Clintonistas: use electoral college delegate count to decide on Dem nomination.
Together with the weekend bashing of these same Clintonistas labeling Gov. Richardson as a traitor, this got me thinking, is there anything, anything at all this woman will not [...]

Update: My husband will be sworn in on April 7th!!!!!!!! Thanks to all the well wishers.
Tomorrow at 2pm people. 2pm. What happens you ask?
My husband will have his N-400 interview and test. Yup you read right his N-A-T-U-R-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N. Well, at least the first major step; with any luck he'll swear [...]

How many times have you heard that Bill Clinton was "the first Black president". The guy even put up his office in Harlem to boost the neighborhood, because you know, Black neighborhoods need White people moving in to boost them.
Or how many times have you as a Republican or a conservative been called a [...]

Unsurprising to anyone, except of course maybe to hugito himself, we know have been told that chavez funneled 300 million dollars to the FARC.
As we say in Puerto Rico, ahora si que se pusieron los huevos de a peseta as Colombia has decided to take chavez to The Hague.
I say it's about fucking time. [...]

As outlined by the New York Post

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I'm no McCain fan, and I will not vote him. Even if that means allowing a Democrat to be elected. I'm tired of voting for the lesser of two evils and I cannot and will not compromise my principles and vote for someone who in my opinion is a hypocrite.
That said, you gotta [...]

This morning Pajamas Media has a great post analyzing Hugo, Oliver and the FARC - as they "work" together to rescue the freed hostages. Aptly named The FARC Farce: Starring Hugo Chavez , Directed by Oliver Stone it sees through Chavez's strategies searching for the real purpose and exposes the truth as one of [...]

There are some Cuban parlamentarians visiting Edinburgh. Citing hypocrisy, one of the councillors called for a boycott of the civic reception for these parlamentarians.
"It is an affront to democracy to entertain people from a regime that Amnesty describes as not tolerating opposition parties. The Cuban regime currently holds prisoners of conscience for their political [...]

So my PC laptop circa 2004 is showing signs of slowing down, even though its RAM is maxed out at 2gb. Being that this is my doctoral workcenter - word processing, presentations, and statistical software - as well as research center - google scholar and multiple pdfs - I find myself at a cross [...]

For a while, I've been working on a post that debates the issue of hardliners; basically of how Cuban hardliners are vilified, when previous hardliners for other causes were not. But alas, someone beat me to the punch.
Today's Herald has an editorial by Frank Calzon from the Center for a Free Cuba. In [...]

Recently Cuba held their "elections". At the same time some dissenters, including Guillermo Fariñas decided to hold a conference to dicuss the conditions that must be met if elections are to be fair and transparent.
Among the attendees to this conference, were a Czech and a Slovak, members of the European Network of Election Monitoring [...]

Travelocity pays a hefty fine for allowing its system to book flights to Cuba.
Travelocity was fined nearly $183,000 for booking roughly 1,400 Cuba trips between 1998 and 2004....Travelocity blamed the 1,458 violations on technical issues that were corrected years ago.

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Now we know what to do with Chavez next time he opens his mouth in the US.
I seriously doubt he would be able to object.

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Fausta has a great post on yet an even greater article, that is for me today's must read.
With Fidel Castro apparently on the verge of death, I returned to Cuba to visit old friends. Little has changed over recent years and life for most Cubans remains harsh. Yet western visitors continue to romanticise the place [...]