In connection to the previous blog..I think

This article asks.. Why Ignore the Obvious? Is that too much to ask?

Of Elian Gonzalez? Probably.

Freedom is Still Elusive

Photo was the Pulitzer prize winning shot of Alan Diaz

Ten years ago, 5 year old Elian Gonzalez was found was found floating off the coast of Florida in an inner tube after his mother and others fleeing Cuba drowned trying to reach the U.S.

Relatives refused to give him up. Federal agents raided his uncle with guns drawn and seized the boy from a closet to return him to his father. (A/P MiamiHerald)

Now 16, Cuba released photo of Teenager Elian attending a Young Communist Union congress.

From American Thinker. Re blogging some parts of the article. Click the link to read the whole thing including comments.

Instead of a Miami Dolphins Jersey, "Cuba released photos of one-time exile cause celeb Elian Gonzalez wearing an olive-green military school uniform." Elian Gonzalez is what youthful subjugation looks like when a boy, a heartbeat from freedom, is deprived the liberty Little Havana fought to hard, but failed to deliver

If Elian had been granted asylum, today he would be a teenager preparing to go to college with every opportunity for success ahead of him. Instead, on the cusp of adulthood, Elian poses for propaganda photos sandwiched between Cuban army soldiers attending the Union of Young Communists congress in Havana.

The youthful Gonzalez should have been wrapped in the America flag. Instead a boy who once represented the quest for the God given right to be free, waves a Cuban flag symbolizing poverty, oppression, authoritarianism and misinformation.

Free people should take a good, long look at Elian Gonzalez and observe what our nation has the potential to become ten years down the line if, instead of moving in the opposite direction, America's row boat continues to inch closer to Cuba's shores.

Somebody made a comment to this America Thinker article, saying it's one of the saddest among the news today. Just because a mother risked her life to give free to the little boy but it all went for naught.

Yes, quite sad. Elian just sits there with dazed look. A propaganda shot.

iPad Launched....for the rich

Ready for take of...sales. iPad hits stores in the US. The techies embracing it. So what's the use of iPod, and iPhone and netbooks and laptops and mobile phones that can connect to the web? Are we supposed to carry a bond paper size er, like tabloid size techie tablet just to be hip?

I wish Steve Jobs and those geniuses at Apple can give us product to help better the lives of the poor instead of enriching the already well to do who can afford to waste $$$$ for their gadgets.

In other words create a product that we majority can afford to buy. Here in this country, if you own any Apple product.. you're a Mac fanatic and you speak of money. It's a status symbol. That's a fact.

Me, and my 1460 Docs

In honor my favorite Boots- Dr Martens.. Although most just calls it docs or dm's. It became part of our culture and trend. Grunge anyone?

On April 1, 1960, the first pair of Dr Martens - the name was anglicised, for ease of pronunciation - was produced by the Griggs factory in the village of Wollaston in central England. Read more


Me and my docs. Blurry photo shot was taken in the 90's .

Grunge girl back then.(I still am).

Wearing black shirt (with a big neon smiley face), blue plaid polo, blue jeans short, black socks and 1460 DM's. I look like a friggin' shit back then. C'mon this was 90's.

And though you barely can see, the backdrop for the shot is a famous bridge, mate. I was suppose to put this photo on another site. It's fine here

I have a save draft about being a grunge. I'll post it next time.