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		<title>Thoughts about my Country &#8211; Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when I jokingly said I wanted to go to live in Canada, or in Reykjavik, but deep down I always knew that I wouldn&#8217;t ever want to leave my country. I love Mexico. I love my city. I love the people that surround me. But I don&#8217;t want to be here [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There was a time when I jokingly said I wanted to go to live in Canada, or in Reykjavik, but deep down I always knew that I wouldn&#8217;t ever want to leave my country. I love Mexico. I love my city. I love the people that surround me.</p>
<p>But I don&#8217;t want to be here anymore. I despise my State governor, I despise everyone who has anything to do with the government. Everyone is corrupt to the core. I would like to see one single government person who is not doing it for the money, but for the people. One single person that&#8217;s in power and stands up and says &#8220;Wait a minute… this isn&#8217;t right&#8221;</p>
<p>Few of you know how my youngest brother disappeared before all this drug stuff even started to escalate. He was definitely involved with THE wrong crowd. Before this &#8220;drug war&#8221; started going on, my brother was involved with drugs, and &#8220;higher up&#8221; drug people. He ended up making a mistake in their eyes and now I no longer have two brothers, I have one. I&#8217;m angry at this. I&#8217;m afraid of it.</p>
<p>I have to apologize with my U.S. friends because I personally think you are all completely AWESOME, but, I hate, hate, HATE your country. Your country is selling the drug lords the guns and grenades they need easily. And if you don&#8217;t have stricter guns rules because all of you think your &#8220;right to bear arms&#8221; amendment is so damn precious, we&#8217;ll keep dying. But what&#8217;s some Mexicans to the most vocal part of the United States? (Again, most of you are awesome, and I know a few of you have guns in your homes and know how to use them responsibly. I&#8217;m talking about those who think the right to bear arms is overpowering to saving thousands of good people&#8217;s lives)</p>
<p>I&#8217;m tired of watching, reading and hearing the news. Every time there&#8217;s someone dead. Every time there&#8217;s a huge avenue or two in my city blocked because the drug guys just want to fuck us up. Every fucking time there&#8217;s a bad thing happening that&#8217;s drug related. I can see it anywhere. From local newspapers, to international ones. And I read those daily. Just last night, there was another (yes, another as in, it has happened before) shooting near my home. Near other friends&#8217; homes there have also been 5, 10, 15 shootings. People killed. Granades shot. TONS of Marihuana found. BBC, NBC, CNN, El Norte, Reforma… I&#8217;ve seen them all.</p>
<p>As citizens, we can&#8217;t do much. We DO NOT have easy access to guns. Though I think if I went to the States I could get my own easily&#8230; but could I shoot in self defense? Maybe. Do I have the moral fiber to shoot ANYONE? No.</p>
<p>I hate we have to sit and watch. I hate I have to see my government DO NOTHING. My State&#8217;s government election motto was &#8220;<em>My life for my state&#8221;</em>. If this is so, why, Mr. Medina, please tell me why, do we have to live HERE and get killed by these guys while you comfortably live in the U.S. and use our tax money to fly back and forth? Can I do that too? I mean, if you stopped hiking up the taxes and gasoline like crazy, maybe I could have some money to get out of this country now and then. Please Mr. Medina, tell me, why haven&#8217;t you done most of the stuff you promised? Please, Mr. Medina, tell me, tell us, what are you REALLY doing to stop the drug wars and the blocked avenues, and the grenades, and the killings?</p>
<p>I am disappointed at my corrupt government. The government that decides by itself that they should have a higher salary, from MY taxes, a higher Christmas bonus, that also, you guessed it, comes from Mexican People taxes. Those idiots that get iPads just because they wanted them… also with our money.</p>
<p>For fucks sake, WE HIRED THESE PEOPLE to work for us, for our country, and, as good little cowards, they use OUR MONEY to take a helicopter back and forth from the U.S.</p>
<p>I THINK I&#8217;m supposedly a Middle Class Mexican. I&#8217;ve studied in the best schools, have had great work experience, master both Spanish and English, a bit of Icelandic and a bit of French, and yet, I do not have enough income to even start thinking about buying a house. Because of Taxes. Because we&#8217;re paying for our governor to live in the U.S&#8230;. Because we&#8217;re paying our senators and congress people Christmas Bonuses they auto-approved or pay increases they auto-approved with no consensus of their constituents. I don&#8217;t feel like a middle class Mexican. I feel a lower class Mexican that won&#8217;t be able to get her own home and has to keep on living with her parents not because she doesn&#8217;t earn good money, but because government won&#8217;t leave us be.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m tired of this country. I&#8217;m tired of Mexico. This time, I&#8217;m serious. I am afraid of what will happen to me at some point with all these things that are happening. If my foreign friends know of any legal way I can go to their country, please DO tell me. This country is hell. This country is unsafe, no matter what anyone tells you. Don&#8217;t come here.</p>
<p>And remember, if you can help me get the fuck out of here legally, please do. I&#8217;m tired of this shit. I would work anywhere in Reykjavik, happily and just to get out of here.</p>
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		<title>Another type of scamming!</title>
		<link>http://www.alyssey.net/weblog/2010/06/another-type-of-scamming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alyssey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh people that spam, aren&#8217;t you REALLY something special? Just take a looks at what I got here the other day: (Click on the image to enlarge) I am not sure if this is a real spam email, mostly because I don&#8217;t really know any guy called Alejandro Garcia but this is an example of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh people that spam, aren&#8217;t you REALLY something special? Just take a looks at what I got here the other day:<br />
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I am not sure if this is a real spam email, mostly because I don&#8217;t really know any guy called Alejandro Garcia but this is an example of &#8220;attempted&#8221; viral marketing. Someone forwards someone else an email showing this &#8220;AWESOME&#8221; video and, if you vote on it, you&#8217;ll get something, so this someone else forwards it to someone else so he can keep on winning and so on and so on.</p>
<p>People. Really. REEAAALLY….. Bill Gates is NOT going to send you money, the nigerian are NOT going to send you gazillions of dollars and you will not be coursed by the lonely virgin if you don&#8217;t forward the email to 7 people. You will also won&#8217;t be finding happiness if and only if you forward something to 12 of your closest friends.</p>
<p>So do as I do, click on REPORT SPAM as soon as you receive them. These people have to be taught a lesson.</p>
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		<title>Mature Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alyssey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been following the&#8230; let&#8217;s call it &#8220;Mass Effect Scandal&#8221; just for kicks. I am impressed about two things. 1. How non-gamers get stressed out about this. 2. How gamers are reacting quickly and swiftly about it. Now, maybe I&#8217;m a nympho or maybe I&#8217;m jaded because of unknown reasons, but&#8230; does this look [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been following the&#8230; let&#8217;s call it &#8220;Mass Effect Scandal&#8221; just for kicks. I am impressed about two things.<br />
1. How non-gamers get stressed out about this.<br />
2. How gamers are reacting quickly and swiftly about it.</p>
<p>Now, maybe I&#8217;m a nympho or maybe I&#8217;m jaded because of unknown reasons, but&#8230; does this look like an extreme scene of sex who you wouldn&#8217;t show anyone under 18, or 21, depending on where you live?</p>
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<p>So they&#8217;ve been calling it &#8220;virtual orgasmic rape&#8221; and &#8220;They’re seeing them as these objects of desire, as these hot bodies. They don’t show women as being valued for anything other than their sexuality. And it’s a man in this game deciding how many women he wants to be with.&#8221; No. Really.</p>
<p>Now, to my second point. The &#8220;Virtual orgasmic rape&#8221; idea came from this &#8220;conservative&#8221; blogger called Kevin McCullough who, interestingly enough had never played or seen the game (personally, I haven&#8217;t either). However, what happened here was that gamers from all over the world went into his blog, where a lot of them discussed this intelligently with him, while a few others wouldn&#8217;t stop telling him stuff like &#8220;fuck you&#8221; or &#8220;stoopid noob&#8221;. I do NOT condone the second gamer demographic, however, after reading the comments, and hearing them call Mr. McCullough on his radio show with intelligent comments, I am happy to report that column was taken down.</p>
<p>Now for the funny part: &#8220;They’re seeing them as these objects of desire, as these hot bodies. They don’t show women as being valued for anything other than their sexuality. And it’s a man in this game deciding how many women he wants to be with.&#8221; This woman, Lawrence Cooper, who is supposedly an expert psychologist and bla bla bla, said that. Reading a bit about her, she writes for Cosmopolitan&#8230; COSMOPOLITAN and had NEVER played the game, probably had never played A game. Now to make you understand. Cosmopolitan is, to me personally, one of the worst publications. I see it at newsstands and I will probably stare morbidly at their blurbs but I would never, not even at a doctor&#8217;s office where there&#8217;s nothing else to do, read it. For me, this screams about just wanting to get everyone&#8217;s attention.</p>
<p>So gamers AGAIN got angry, with very much justified right. This time, the attack was different. Suddenly, the reader reviews of her new book over at amazon.com were terrible. Most interestingly, the people who reviewed it mentioned &#8220;I haven&#8217;t read it&#8221;. You see, gamers thought that, since she hadn&#8217;t even seen nor played Mass Effect and judged it, they could&#8217;ve not read her book and judge it. They did mention why they were reviewing it though, and the book went down under as a best seller.</p>
<p>So she kind of apologized &#8220;I recognize that I misspoke. I really regret saying that, and now that I’ve seen the game and seen the sex scenes it’s kind of a joke.&#8221; Probably because she found out that her book will probably not make her as much money as it would if she hadn&#8217;t said all those things.</p>
<p>Oh, what did she say? Here you go:</p>
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<p>Definitely&#8230; gamers are a force to be wary of.</p>
<p>As a last point, EA&#8217;s Vice President, Jeff Brown, wrote to Fox News saying, among other things &#8220;The resulting coverage was insulting to the men and women who spent years creating a game which is acclaimed by critics for its high creative standards. As video games continue to take audiences away from television, we expect to see more TV news stories warning parents about the corrupting influence of interactive entertainment. But this represents a new level of recklessness.&#8221;</p>
<p>I am glad that we are all standing up to ourselves.</p>
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		<title>And I almost fell for it…</title>
		<link>http://www.alyssey.net/weblog/2007/11/and-i-almost-fell-for-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alyssey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been buying several things at eBay, I wanted some hard to get stuff for The Boy and found them, so getting this communication REALLY freaked me out&#8230; (Click on the image to enlarge) And I doubted for a moment&#8230; did I contact this guy? Maybe I did&#8230; hmmm but then I saw some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I&#8217;ve been buying several things at eBay, I wanted some hard to get stuff for The Boy and found them, so getting this communication REALLY freaked me out&#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">And I doubted for a moment&#8230; did I contact this guy? Maybe I did&#8230; hmmm but then I saw some stupid IP address instead of your usual eBay link&#8230; and I wonder&#8230; how many people would have actually fallen for it?</p>
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		<title>Stupid is what stupid does&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.alyssey.net/weblog/2007/11/stupid-is-what-stupid-does/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alyssey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See here: http://www.stupidfilter.org/ Too long have we suffered in silence under the tyranny of idiocy. In the beginning, the internet was a place where one could communicate intelligently with similarly erudite people. So&#8230; are we ready to leave stupidness behind? The truth is, personally, there is only one place I totally allow and enjoy all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See here: <a href="http://www.stupidfilter.org/" mce_href="http://www.stupidfilter.org/" title="">http://www.stupidfilter.org/</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Too long have we suffered in silence under the tyranny of idiocy. In the beginning, the internet was a place where one could communicate intelligently with similarly erudite people.</p></blockquote>
<p>So&#8230; are we ready to leave stupidness behind?</p>
<p>The truth is, personally, there is only one place I totally allow and enjoy all the OMG BRB L33T BBQ talk&#8230; and that&#8217;s Oxhorn&#8217;s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D25046A07D0637B6" mce_href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D25046A07D0637B6" title="">Mortuus</a> so now seeing something that probably maybe would perhaps help us ignore that kind of stuff&#8230; it seams like heaven&#8230;</p>
<p><b>*sigh*</b> except damn stupid people&#8230; they ALWAYS find a way to creep into our lives and annoy us.</p>
<p>let&#8217;s just keep our fingers crossed&#8230;.</p>
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