Friday, November 13, 2020

Election results in Texas and message for both parties....with George Rodriguez

Election results in Texas and message for both parties....with George Rodriguez 11/13 by Silvio Canto Jr | Politics: 

Guest: George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative......We will look at the election results in Texas and message for both parties and more stories......click to listen:

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Friday’s video: How long before Democrats miss President Trump?

 

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So Biden wants to change immigration rules in the middle of a pandemic?


According to news reports, projected president-elect Biden intends to undo much of the good work that President Trump did on immigration.  This is from CBS:   

After Mr. Biden is sworn-in in January, his administration will move to fully restore an Obama-era program that shields 640,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation, halting Mr. Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to end it, people familiar with the plans told CBS News. The incoming administration also intends to rescind Mr. Trump’s travel and immigration restrictions on 13 mostly African or predominantly Muslim countries.

Mr. Biden will look to implement a 100-day freeze on deportations while his administration issues guidance narrowing who can be arrested by immigration agents. Obama-era memos that prioritized the deportation of immigrants with criminal convictions, recent border-crossers and those who entered the country illegally more than once were scrapped in 2017 by Mr. Trump so that no unauthorized immigrant would be exempted from being arrested and removed from the country.

Well, let’s see how far he gets in the middle of a pandemic.

First, there is the health issue.  Are we going to test all of these people at the border before they cross?  

Second, has anyone consulted with President Andres Lopez-Obrador of Mexico?  Is he ready for more caravans in the middle of a pandemic? The caravans will come if the word gets out that the rules are loosened up.

What about the U.S. Senate and House?  Does Biden think that the legislators are just going to sit back and watch all of this?

So we will see.  My guess is that Biden is throwing a bone to the left.

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How about a ‘Sinatra pause’?



On Sunday night, Dak Prescott may have shown us that he is a rookie QB after all, or so wrote Rick Gosselin overnight about Dallas dropping a game in New York.
On the political side, I can’t wait for January 20th so that we can finally get all of this over with.   It started with a debate in August 2015 and the show has not stopped.  Whatever happened to that slow news period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day?
So how about a pause from politics and people complaining about a rookie QB with an 11-2 record?     Or fans from Dallas who are suddenly worried that Zak won’t take them to their first Super Bowl since 1995-96!
How about a break from the front and sports pages?
How about a “Sinatra pause” and I don’t mean that song about all the coffee in Brazil.   By the way, who knew that Sinatra sang about Brazilian crony capitalism in 1946?    He nailed it and everybody thought that he was singing about coffee!
Frank Sinatra was born in New Jersey on December 12, 1915.  He went on to become one of the great vocalists of the 20th century and appear in a few good movies too.
Today, we recall that Sinatra had a famous encounter with Mario Puzo, the author of The Godfather:
It had been rumored Sinatra had connections to organized crime which allowed to him make certain career moves, including allegedly breaking a contract through threat of violence. In Puzo’s novel, Johnny Fontane’s singing and acting career is helped thanks to his mafia connections. Singer Al Martino played Johnny Fontane in The Godfather and The Godfather: Part III. Martino died in 2009 at age 82.
In the director’s commentary on Blu Ray for The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola briefly mentions Sinatra during Fontane’s first appearance. “Obviously Johnny Fontane was inspired by a kind of Frank Sinatra character,” Coppola said on the commentary track.
Sinatra, who won an Oscar for his performance in 1953’s From Here to Eternity, was irate and disgusted when the two finally met in the restaurant, according to Puzo’s article in New York.
…Puzo tried to tell Sinatra the introduction was not his idea. “‘Who told you to put that in the book, your publisher?'” Sinatra asked Puzo, he wrote.
Then, Sinatra “started to shout abuse,” at Puzo, according to the author.
“I remember that, contrary to his reputation, he did not use foul language at all. The worst thing he called me was a pimp, which rather flattered me since I’ve never been able to get girlfriend to squeeze blackheads out of my back, much less hustle for me,” Puzo wrote in ’72.
While letting him have it, Sinatra also told Puzo “that if it wasn’t that I was so much older than he, he would beat the hell out of me.” That really got to Puzo, he wrote, but not because he was scared of getting injured.
“What hurt was that here he was, a northern Italian, threatening me, a southern Italian, with physical violence,” Puzzo wrote in New York. “This was roughly equivalent to Einstein pulling a knife on Al Capone. It just wasn’t done. Northern Italians never mess with Southern Italians except to get them put in jail or get them deported to some desert island.”
Sinatra, again not looking up from his plate, continued to scold Puzo while the author just stared at the crooner, he wrote.
“Finally, I walked away and out of the restaurant. My humiliation must have showed because he yelled after me, ‘Choke. Go ahead and choke.’”
Now, there is a man who is willing to defend his reputation.
Happy 101st to Sinatra! Hope that you and Mario settled everything in heaven.
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