So here is this site with a simple poll for determining who you should vote for based off of your stance on certain issues. Wow, voting on what you agree with? What a concept! Well, I filled it out as honestly as I could with the limited amount of major issues presented.
78.26% Ron Paul 60.87% Mike Gravel 60.87% Mitt Romney 56.52% Mike Huckabee, and the least I agreed with were… Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
What a pleasent surprise! It’s completely dead-on for me!
But why am I posting this? Because 2.808 million people took this poll, and here were the most important results.
I’ve had several people ask me, especially after taking this poll and finding out who they agreed with say to me: “WhoTF is Mike Gravel?”
I’ve followed democrat Mike Gravels election status since the beginning and to his soon turned libertarian end. But obviously, out of the 2+ million people that took this poll, he’s probably the best man for the people. Yet nobody has ever heard of him? And here McCain, Obama and Clinton are the only 3 you will ever hear about. You can thank the media for that.
The next week, shaggy-haired emo teenagers were harassed again by punks and rockabillys in the capital, prompting police protection and a segment on the TV news. Most recently, a Mexican newspaper reported that metal heads and gangsters have warned Tijuana’s emo kids to stay away from the town’s fair next month.
But the so-called emos are organizing, too. Last week, they demonstrated against the violence, pictured above, and Wednesday some met with police in Mexico City.
“They’re organizing to defend their right to be emo,” wrote Daniel Hernandez of LA Weekly on his personal blog, which has provided stellar coverage of the whole affair.
The emo-punk battles are reminiscent of earlier subculture fights among various factions, like the Hell’s Angels fighting hippies at the Altamont Music Festival. In some ways, they also recall the Notting Hill riots in which Teddy Boys attacked blacks in London. Music-based subcultures have permeated Mexico’s major cities for decades, fueled by constant migration from rural cities. But only in the past year have emos begun to make their presence felt in the streets. In response, many of the established so-called “urban tribes” like punks and metalheads are responding with violence.
While videos of Mexican teenagers with pompadours advancing on equally baby-faced emo rockers seem like scenes from a south-of-the-border version of John Waters’ Crybaby, there are ugly undercurrents to the story.
First, by some accounts, the emo subculture is identified with homosexuality in Mexico. As Mexico City youth worker Victor Mendoza told Time. com: “At the core of this is the homophobic issue. The other arguments are just window dressing for that.
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Gustavo Arellano, the author of Ask a Mexican and an editor at OC Weekly, said that the sexual ambiguities cultivated by emo fashion helped set the group up for targeting by more macho groups.
“What do you do when you are confronted with a question mark about sexuality in Mexico?” Arellano said. “You beat it up.
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Forum posts show similar sentiments. One person wrote on a government youth-website forum, “detesto a los emosexuales,” which translates as “I hate emosexuals.” Emosexual is an obvious play on homosexual, especially in Spanish, where the H is silent.
Many of the attacks have been planned, or at least fomented, on violently anti-emo websites like Movimiento Anti Emosexual, which features videos of physical violence sprinkled liberally with anti-gay sentiment. Last. fm’s Anti Emo Death Squad group has almost 4,000 members.
But Arellano said he thought the riots could have a positive impact here in the US.
“It’s a great clusterfuck for the American mind’s idea of Mexico,” Arellano said. “This teaches the rest of the world that Mexico is not just a bunch of cactuses and sombreros.”
I finally got a rebate check! BFG sent me a rebate check for the power supply I purchased from them! Why is this so exciting? Well, I’ve sent in every Mail-In Rebate available to me my whole life. Like 3-5 a year. It’s been at LEAST 10 years since I’ve received a check from any of them. Sega, and the like, used to always come through; but the days of honest electronics companies seem to be leaving us. I would say over time I’ve sent in about $1000 worth of rebates that never came back to me. Most of which were from CompUSA, which as I was informed by there employees(when they were still around here) is commonplace to NOT receive your rebates, ever. No offense to the company itself…it’s just….I never received about 15 rebate checks… so wtf?!?!
Sweet! Thanks BFG! Not only is the power supply amazingly cool, quiet and powerful, but you made good on your word!
I have some out to OCZ right now too. OCZ has mailed me a letter back requesting the UPC be sent in also(ya, my bad – totally forgot). So I sent that back to them, UPC included. Sounds hopeful so far, let’s hope they come through as well!
Update:
So here is some more good news… OCZ came through! I got my rebate from them. Thanks OCZ for helping restore my faith in Mail-In-Rebates by continuing the streak!
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