Val I came over to check if you knew, I got a report this morning that you had got a mention on radio Mambi. One of my friends, el balserito, came in this morning and it was the first thing out of his mouth. I was listening to the radio this morning, and they mentioned that blog you like, Babalu blog. But I see you already know. Congratulations.

You know, back in Civil War days, one way MSM journalists of the time were kept honest, was through not-so-uncommon trashings administered by the troops, on both sides, whenever they felt said journalists had written about them less than accurately or fairly. Johnny Reb and Billy Yank shared a common feeling - and a common plan of action - when confronted with the MSM nonsense of their era.

Time for our guys and gals in uniform to revive this very American tradition??

Val:

La verdad que si. ITs important to hold the MSM's feet to the fire and start making them back up their stories with real facts instead of what they pull out of their asses to sell papers. My girlfreind reads the NY Times, poor thing is poisoned by the MSM. I'm working and that, anyway I won't dirty my fingers from the ink of that communist rag. Anyway i'll look at those blogs later. Congratulations man it looks like this blog is turning some heads, look at quid, Lucy, Kathleen and many others. Te la estas comiendo hermano.

Val, you give the military their much deserved and needed respect on these virtual pages. I "met" Yoan through your blogroll and I write to him from time to time, just to keep him company and to offer my support in his important mission.
I read Blackfive and Mudville Gazette and many others too... I never comment for them, though. That's gotta change!
By the way, some of the readers received a test of the new t-shirt I designed for the Crazy Cuban American Anti-Castro Miami Mafia. I send a copy of the image to Yoan too.
I think that we should send a collection of our t-shirts to the boys and girls that are putting the fight on Iraq and elsewhere. Nothing better than seeing a hero clad in one of those. If a photo of one of them does the rounds in the global press or TV you can bet that cagastro is going to have a nice coronary episode, hopefully it will sweep him away!

Folks,
This holiday means that each and every one of us ahould and MUST get down to brass tacks: Let each and every one of us freedom-loving Americans (whichever way the reader may want to hyphenate that, or not) find ONE soldier on active duty, or ONE veteran of our Armed Forces and shake their hand and say "Thank You!" for their service and many sacrifices on behalf of the United States of America.
Please, please, please, don't limit yourselves to merely taking care of going to store sales or lounging on a backyard hammock sipping adult beverages or having sumptuous barbeques in your backyards --though those are fine activities indeed-- but also, please REACH out to just one (or more, if you want) of the folks who make our country great, and let them know how important they are to the rest of us.
And yes, I'm getting off this soapbox right now!
Julio

I do that in my town in Jersey and in NYC, to the disgust of the libzillas in this big town of New York!

Ahora si, Val. You know you've made it to the big leagues of the Cuban-American community when you get mentioned on Radio Mambi!

You think Fat Hank will ever mention you on QAM? ;)

The day he gets mentioned in the WQAM Val would have made in BIG TIME in CUBA!!!!!!!!! That's the station that people used to listen to the most in Cuba in the seventies, the eighties and the nineties... Well, I didn't listen to it that much! I used to listen to the Baker Street, which broadcasted from Little Rock Arkansas... oh, well, I was a rocker...

A gringo who stumbled upon your blog that thinks its great! Your take on the negative media is right on. Us white conservative republicans blame it on the liberal left. Things are changing in news gathering and reporting thanks to blogdom. The national news reporting outlets are rapidly losing ground. I see that you are not being left behind.

As an American citizen who was born and raised in Hialeah, it is refreshing to see Cuban Americans of your stature being outspoken and fitting in with American society. Sadly, it is not always so. Times are changing in that respect as well.

Keep up the good work friend.

God Bless the USA, our troops and our veterans!

I had my experience in NYC today.
I ran into a few sailors on leave in the City, all black in the subway station of Times Square.
I said, thanks guys for the great effort and for defending this great country of ours.
One of them told me that they had been just spat at, by some libzillas, in the subway station at Union Square. We are approaching bad times. This is starting to sound, look, and smell like the Viet Nam era.
I gave a hug to the guy who had been spat at.
I have never felt so much rage in my life, if we discount September 11, in NYC, when I was a few blocks of the attacks. To spit on the black sailor was as much of a terror atack, as vicious and as anti-American. But hey, he is black, and the libzillas hate him because of that and because that kid has the cojones to defend America, as much as they hate the Cuban Black (and white too, don't get me wrong) that oppose their idol cagastro.

Val...
I just posted a comment on the wrong post...( I posted under "lets make a deal")
I was also listening to Radio Mambi yesterday, and it caught my attention because they were talking about blogging and how it has changed the way people communicate etc...they were interviewing the guy from therealcuba.com, it was very interesting to hear how many people from all over the world are asking and finding out about the present situation in Cuba!!
You guys are real patriots!!
SIN PATRIA PERO SIN AMO!!