http://asianamericanvillage.blogspot.com/2007/03/weekend-maintenance-on-imdiversity.html: "Weekend Maintenance on IMDiversity
Our site servers will be undergoing maintenance this weekend, starting midnight Friday. During this period there may brief outages on our sites at IMDiversity.com and the Multicultural Villages, the IMDiversity Career Center and Job Bank, and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online Job Bank. We apologize for any inconvenience to our visitors and thank you for your patience."
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Weekend Maintenance on IMDiversity
Weekend Maintenance on IMDiversity
Our site servers will be undergoing maintenance this weekend, starting midnight Friday. During this period there may brief outages on our sites at IMDiversity.com and the Multicultural Villages, the IMDiversity Career Center and Job Bank, and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online Job Bank. We apologize for any inconvenience to our visitors and thank you for your patience.
Our site servers will be undergoing maintenance this weekend, starting midnight Friday. During this period there may brief outages on our sites at IMDiversity.com and the Multicultural Villages, the IMDiversity Career Center and Job Bank, and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online Job Bank. We apologize for any inconvenience to our visitors and thank you for your patience.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
A.G., the AG is Behind "The Eight" Ball Again
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is in hot water again for his ethics (or lack of same). Now, his office has summarily dismissed 8 of their own-appointed US attorneys for not toeing the Administration’s sine qua non on loyalty above juris-prudence, and calls for his head are intensifying.
I’ve got a bit of a nit to pick with yesterday’s otherwise on-target L.A. Times editorial that points out, yet again, that the president’s Latino lawn jockey hasn’t understood that his job as Attorney General is to serve the justice system, and thus the American people, and not the every law-trashing whim of a president who at this point may have fallen into the abyss of Nixionian paranoia. My beefette: The Times blames Bush’s ego--so often the tail side of the paranoia coin--for elevating his own Pancho Gonzales (Cisco was so much more benign, and handsome, than G.W.: my apologies to the memory of Duncan Renaldo) to an august mount grander than the height and breadth of Gonzales’ capabilities, but I think we need to hold Gonzales, and not the president, accountable for his continuing history of spinelessness, human rights abuses (remember his blueprint for torture and calling the Geneva Conventions “quaint?”), and unethical politics.
The clamor for Gonzales’ resignation follows two recent disclosures of impropriety. First, the firings, which, while licit, were carried out as retribution for the prosecutors’ going too soft on the Democrats and too hard on fellow Republicans—many of them had led investigations into cases of political corruption and all had positive job reviews--and were part of an even more insidious 2-year plot hatched right under Gonzales’ nose to “push out,” as the administration put it, many, many more. And, breaking earlier this week, were still further charges of the misuse by the FBI, under Gonzales’ watch, of Patriot Act powers to secretly obtain private information about U.S. citizens.
Even Republicans are expressing outrage at the runaround Gonzales initially gave Congress over the circumstances of the firings, with a number of representatives either signing off on a call for Gonzales’ ouster or stating privately that he should be shown the door. (Gonzales petulantly and patently refused to step down: his only master is the president, he says. For sure.) Republican Senator John Sununu was the first in the upper house to break party ranks, to be followed by Senator Gordon H. Smith, but more are promised to follow.
I’ve been on an intensified Gonzales watch since he was being considered for a Supreme Court seat. I’ve been on the moral high road looking down on Latino organizations like La Raza, Lulac, and the National Association of Latino Journalists whose position was, “He’s not that bad, he’s Hispanic.” See All the President's Hombres here and read fast. By the time you’re done, Al may be finished too.
And, here's the latest from AP on the AG, 94 - 2 agin.
I’ve got a bit of a nit to pick with yesterday’s otherwise on-target L.A. Times editorial that points out, yet again, that the president’s Latino lawn jockey hasn’t understood that his job as Attorney General is to serve the justice system, and thus the American people, and not the every law-trashing whim of a president who at this point may have fallen into the abyss of Nixionian paranoia. My beefette: The Times blames Bush’s ego--so often the tail side of the paranoia coin--for elevating his own Pancho Gonzales (Cisco was so much more benign, and handsome, than G.W.: my apologies to the memory of Duncan Renaldo) to an august mount grander than the height and breadth of Gonzales’ capabilities, but I think we need to hold Gonzales, and not the president, accountable for his continuing history of spinelessness, human rights abuses (remember his blueprint for torture and calling the Geneva Conventions “quaint?”), and unethical politics.
The clamor for Gonzales’ resignation follows two recent disclosures of impropriety. First, the firings, which, while licit, were carried out as retribution for the prosecutors’ going too soft on the Democrats and too hard on fellow Republicans—many of them had led investigations into cases of political corruption and all had positive job reviews--and were part of an even more insidious 2-year plot hatched right under Gonzales’ nose to “push out,” as the administration put it, many, many more. And, breaking earlier this week, were still further charges of the misuse by the FBI, under Gonzales’ watch, of Patriot Act powers to secretly obtain private information about U.S. citizens.
Even Republicans are expressing outrage at the runaround Gonzales initially gave Congress over the circumstances of the firings, with a number of representatives either signing off on a call for Gonzales’ ouster or stating privately that he should be shown the door. (Gonzales petulantly and patently refused to step down: his only master is the president, he says. For sure.) Republican Senator John Sununu was the first in the upper house to break party ranks, to be followed by Senator Gordon H. Smith, but more are promised to follow.
I’ve been on an intensified Gonzales watch since he was being considered for a Supreme Court seat. I’ve been on the moral high road looking down on Latino organizations like La Raza, Lulac, and the National Association of Latino Journalists whose position was, “He’s not that bad, he’s Hispanic.” See All the President's Hombres here and read fast. By the time you’re done, Al may be finished too.
And, here's the latest from AP on the AG, 94 - 2 agin.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Change provokes anxiety, especially when race is involved
I found this recent feature in the LA Times honest and provocative and a fitting companion to the explorations we at the HAV have been doing on the thorny, at times lamentable, relations between our black and Hispanic communities. And so I pass along to you Erin Aubry Kaplan's More than just the Latinos next-door.
Your own reflections are more than welcomed.
Some of ours are here:
LA's Black-Brown Divisions Deepen
Explorations in Black and Tan (as we move East to NY)
Your own reflections are more than welcomed.
Some of ours are here:
LA's Black-Brown Divisions Deepen
Explorations in Black and Tan (as we move East to NY)
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Announcement: NEH Humanities Initiatives for Faculty Grants
Humanities Initiatives for Faculty are intended to strengthen and enrich humanities education and scholarship at Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment. These grants may be used to enhance the humanities content of existing programs, develop new programs, or lay the foundation for more extensive endeavors in the future.
For 2007, NEH is particularly interested in proposals in the following categories: (1) American history; (2) world literatures; (3) languages; (4) humanities connections to science, medicine, and technology; and (5) humanities approaches to business, law, and economics. Applications for projects in all disciplines of the humanities, however, are eligible for funding and encouraged.
Preliminary proposals (optional): The staff recommends that preliminary proposals be sent so as to be received by May 31, 2007.
Applications must be received by Grants.gov by June 15, 2007.
More guidelines info here
For 2007, NEH is particularly interested in proposals in the following categories: (1) American history; (2) world literatures; (3) languages; (4) humanities connections to science, medicine, and technology; and (5) humanities approaches to business, law, and economics. Applications for projects in all disciplines of the humanities, however, are eligible for funding and encouraged.
Preliminary proposals (optional): The staff recommends that preliminary proposals be sent so as to be received by May 31, 2007.
Applications must be received by Grants.gov by June 15, 2007.
More guidelines info here
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