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New Salinas School Gets Name of Famous Outlaw
KION ^ | : Dec 10, 2012 | Jasmine Viel

Posted on 12/10/2012 9:08:53 PM PST by artichokegrower

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To: tumblindice

Indeed they probably haven’t.


21 posted on 12/10/2012 11:09:52 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: clamper1797

Sprekels Sugar Plant is long closed (jobs loss).
Dittos for the huge Goodyear Tire Plant in South Salinas (jobs loss).

Salinas, Calif is now a VAST majority of Mexicans, many of them probably legal.

Border Patrol? What Border Patrol? I heard the B.P. had a small office there but the politicos ousted them.


22 posted on 12/10/2012 11:15:29 PM PST by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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To: wardaddy

pendejo means (a hanging pubic hair)

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Pendejo means a dumba$$ and the term “hanging pubic hair” is so far removed from Spanglish it doesn’t exist. As in we no longer speak the Kings English...

Pendejo is a slur....not a pun in modern language.


23 posted on 12/10/2012 11:26:30 PM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: MetaThought

Thanks for asking.

In all stories throughout history, including some Asian fairy tales going back to before the Brothers Grimm recorded spoken tales, The classic story was what we know as a fairy tale.

The elements are clear and many are represented through symbols.

The theme is the hero(ine) has an epiphany through an encounter with and victory over true evil.

Girls fairy tales and boys fairy tales differ because girls and boys are different. That’s why boys inexplicably enjoy “The Lion King”, “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Princess Bride”,

Girls can watch boy stories, but boys have to endure “chick flicks” thorough suffering and much promise of reward.

What’s your favorite movie? Dont think just say it.

If you’re a girl, it’s most likely a girl fairy tale and vice versa, though girls, as I say, do enjoy stories about boys and heroism.

OK. Who’s the villian? What’s bad about him or her? How does the hero(ine) get rid of them? In the cas e of Snow white, the villian is the witch who dies via lightning bolt, not the direct act of snow white, but through grace she’s earned.

Who’s your villian. What drives ehem? Is he very bad? If so, that indicates a lack of fear, but of acceptance of the other side, healthy. How does the hero overcome the villian?

If it’s a girl movie, the villian is a mother figure, never a mother. A step mother.

In the very late part of the 20th Century, heros becam the creation of the writer. The writers, very flawed human beings parents entrust their children to, a reflection or illustration of what goes on in the school system. these writers make things up aout of pure fantasy, but the element of wha t good story is meant to do, equip a young mind to defend its soul by envisioning scenarios of choices he’ll have to make, is not there in these stories.

Have you seen HP or read any of these fantasy books? are they forgettable? do you feel bad when you are done, songing for the next installment, eager to read any thing lood?

Back up. Who is this guy? He is a boy whose boss is dark and who had rejecte dhis adoptive family and who is in no way good. He has no virtue other than relative virtue - he is nice to his friends. that’s regardless of whether they cast spells on people they don’t like.

WHat do they do to teach children how to behave.

OK. Read classics and see nothing but black and whites for the holidays. That includes things that were colored over IE, any Hollywood musical. No head banging music. A little scripture in the morning- a little! Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Katherine Hep, Audrey Hep, Marx Bros, Bogie, Brando (do not miss “On the Waterfront”), the Thin Man Series, “Band of Bros (but BEWARE the 9th reel! Porn!) Any musical- “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”, Casually identify the villian and his fate.

Then look at this HP stuff and just for as long as you can take it. You’ll see.


24 posted on 12/10/2012 11:34:49 PM PST by stanne
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To: artichokegrower
Naming places after outlaws is nothing new for CA, especially northern CA. There are places all over that are named for Joaquin Murrieta, there is a county which bears his name, a defunct power plant and a small town all named after him and just a short distance from here.

He was a vicious killer whose life story was glorified and accepted by many for more than a century, he was portrayed as a victim of gringo violence, unjustly accused etc, etc. Sound familiar? At any rate naming something after a murderous Mexican seems to be a popular pass time in CA. Nothing new.

25 posted on 12/10/2012 11:35:42 PM PST by calex59
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To: stanne

Oh, and I don’t mean that good movies or your favorite flick is a disney fluff piece. Tak YOUR fave. what ever it is. It will be a variation, if it’s not a documentary, on a fairy tale. all the elements being there.

“Dark Knight”, “Red Dawn”, “Kings Speech”, “27 Dresses”, “Hitch”, “The Other Guys” and/or “killers” (my personal favorite, which is an allegory of what to do when people try to break up the family and how a new father has much work to do getting bad elements out of the house to make room for the baby).


26 posted on 12/10/2012 11:41:21 PM PST by stanne
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To: JouleZ
Since I have spoken Spanish for better or worse since the early 70s I am well aware of the varying meanings of pendejo in Spanish speaking cultures where btw...I have also lived in my 20 years as an expat

I was referring to what the actual definition of the word is and trust me..all but the stupidest Spanish speaking illiterates know what that original definition is..a pubic hair./..in particular a dangling one

and btw...the vernacular is not always “dumbass” or “stupid”

it depends on where it used or at times the inflection

it can also mean for example.."prick"...again not literally like a penis..but a "dick" or jerk

I'm sure you get it

27 posted on 12/10/2012 11:50:21 PM PST by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: JouleZ
Pendejo means a dumba$$ and the term “hanging pubic hair” is so far removed from Spanglish it doesn’t exist. As in we no longer speak the Kings English...

Whatever ... The GOOG offers up a selection of nouns: hijo de puta, pendejo, coño, which would seem to add up to a general idea.

Further, the GOOG defines the Spanish verb pender as "hang, dangle, hang down".

And then there's the Wiktionary, wherein we find the smoking hanging gun:

Noun

pendejo m. (plural pendejos)

  1. A pubic hair

28 posted on 12/10/2012 11:53:22 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: stanne; MetaThought
Have you seen HP or read any of these fantasy books? are they forgettable? do you feel bad when you are done, songing for the next installment, eager to read any thing lood?

Back up. Who is this guy? He is a boy whose boss is dark and who had rejecte dhis adoptive family and who is in no way good. He has no virtue other than relative virtue - he is nice to his friends. that’s regardless of whether they cast spells on people they don’t like.

Thanks for this post. You're right. I've read all the HP books and agree with you. There's nothing transcendent about HP: nothing about him or his coterie touches on what is best and deepest in Western folklore or in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

HP has no center. Perhaps his author designed him that way, as a blank slate onto which the modern child reader (ideally blank, "tolerant" and "open-minded") could project his or her fantasies.

29 posted on 12/11/2012 12:10:58 AM PST by thecodont
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To: cynwoody; wardaddy

You can both translate from the latin...pendar “to hang” but in Spanglish it means “dumbass”. Take it or leave it.

I didn’t make the word into slang...it is what it is and it means “dumbass” or “stupid” or “a$$hole”.

It’s derogatory.... whether or not it’s a hanging pubic hair. It’s derogatory.


30 posted on 12/11/2012 12:12:07 AM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: artichokegrower
The Alisal Union School District confirmed Monday it decided to rename a new school in the Monte Bella neighborhood after a famous bandit, who is seen as a hero by some Mexican-Americans.

Ole!!


31 posted on 12/11/2012 1:05:40 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Bathhouse Barry wants YOU to bend over for another four years)
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To: artichokegrower

The Salinas school is not the first school named for a famous criminal.

32 posted on 12/11/2012 3:21:54 AM PST by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: artichokegrower

If Vasquez has schools named after him, can Al Capone Elementary/High School be far behind? After all, during the Depression Scarface organized soup kitchens and gave money to other charitable causes. I look forward to the statue of Al holding a tommygun outside the school named after him. (snicker)


33 posted on 12/11/2012 3:26:00 AM PST by driftless2
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To: driftless2

Jesse James elementary school
Bill Doolin High
Billy The Kid daycare center


34 posted on 12/11/2012 4:06:58 AM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: calex59

Here in Louisiana, there are a number of places, including a national park and preserve named after Jean Lafitte, who was not exactly a nice guy...


35 posted on 12/11/2012 4:20:05 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: wardaddy

I thought for the last 50 years or so it meant ‘dumb sh!t’ or variations thereof.


36 posted on 12/11/2012 4:33:52 AM PST by x1stcav (Breathe deep the gathering gloom.)
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To: null and void

37 posted on 12/11/2012 4:49:30 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: thecodont

It’s interesting. My stdents are so quick to put down the character, what they know from google, try as I do to keep them from that source for this, of the author ew’re reading from or to say he’s out of it because he lived a long time ago. But they know nothing about the author of thecntemporary book they’re reading. they’ll follow someone’s philosphy whom they know nothing about but who could be a deranged person trying to get kids to follow.

Parents couldn’t care any less about whom their kids are emulating. Parents don’t consider the moral formation of their kids. It’s in convenient - especially in this case when the book is so addicting it takes rehab to get the kids off this stuff.


38 posted on 12/11/2012 4:59:13 AM PST by stanne
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To: artichokegrower

No American thugs available for this honor???


39 posted on 12/11/2012 5:01:58 AM PST by Delta Dawn (The whole truth.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

But he did defend New Orleans against the British, who also were not nice guys. Furthermore, Lafitte reputedly reserved his attentions for the Spanish, which was not an unpopular perspective in Louisiana (French or American).


40 posted on 12/11/2012 5:04:05 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin (A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
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