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LaPuerta

Chilpancingo de los Bravos

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I like mangos.

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What song do you want played at your funeral?: Cielito Lindo
What helps you sleep?: Nyquil
Bring It On or Stomp the Yard
SF or LA
God is: your dad

LaPuerta is napping.

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Feb 27

LaPuerta commented on In Which I Imagine Having A Sweet-Ass Rack.

There are very few advantages to big boobs. Like everyone else has said, you can't easily run/jump/climb stairs. Also forget yoga, as they will inevitably end up getting in your way. Want to tie your shoes? good luck seeing them over your massive boobs, which, along with your knee, will make this difficult. You look fatter than you are, strangers ask you if they are fake and bras mostly only come in dull "full figured" colors like beige, black and white with enormous straps across the back. Forget going braless in public, or anywhere, really. Gravity works faster on big boobs, and they will only be perky when in harness. Add not being able to lay/sleep comfortably on your stomach, terrible back pain while washing dishes (and in general), the fact that any shirt that isn't a turtleneck makes you look like you're an exhibitionist and all other shirts are too short because the fabric is all used up covering your boobs so you constantly have to pull up/down to make sure you're not popping out. I could go on forever. I would trade in my giant boobs for a flat chest just about any day of the week. Besides, if someone's just interested in you for your rack, do you really want to date them anyway (homeless wanker or otherwise)?

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Nov 7, 2012

LaPuerta commented on WE WON!!!.

@4 its not so much about how they answer you (although obviously it would be better if these answers were more direct), it's about how they decide what issues their constituents care about. Every letter is taken into account as part of public opinion, if they think an issues is important/popular enough they'll do something about it.

Nov 1, 2012

LaPuerta commented on What To Do If Your Ballot Is AWOL.

Anyone know if e-mail votes show up normally on the ballot tracker as received... signature verification etc? I e-mailed mine in last week and got a confirmation e-mail, but on the status it says they still haven't received it. Should I call?

Nov 1, 2012

LaPuerta commented on Less Fancy, More Good.

In Mexico its a given that food (all food, even spaghetti) comes with as many fresh tortillas as you could possibly want and many people use them to eat with --instead of or in collaboration with-- a fork. Any place that's stingy on the tortillas would be short lived.

Aug 8, 2012

LaPuerta commented on SL Letter of the Day: Mr. Penis and Mr. Hot Ass.

I think women are more more attractive than men usually, but I'm not attracted TO them. I think you can find something beautiful without wanting to hump it. I don't know how credible I am though, because the Kinsey test says: "The test failed to match you to a Kinsey Type profile. Either you answered some questions wrong, or you are a very unusual person."

Aug 8, 2012

LaPuerta commented on Surprise: Dick's Has (Maybe) the Best Sundae in Seattle.

Good to know I'm not the only person who enjoyed cat food as a child. I would crawl under my grandmother's awesomely ugly green and brown couch and eat whatever the cat hadn't gotten to, quietly crunching away while grandma smoked a pack of cigarettes on the porch. But that didn't stop be from loving sweets, too. Hmmm maybe cat food as a sundae topping?

Aug 3, 2012

LaPuerta commented on Anonymous CNN Source Says Harry Reid's Anonymous Romney Tax Source Is a Good Source.

I'm convinced he got refunds. They could be perfectly legal, loop-hole-taking-advantage-of-refunds, but no one will like it. If he had just paid 10%, which "were all the taxes he was obligated to pay for by law" I think he would have released them.

Jul 31, 2012

LaPuerta commented on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Says He Heard from a Bain Investor that Romney Didn't Pay Any Taxes for 10 Years!.

He probably got a refund. He not only did not pay, we paid him.

Jul 13, 2012

LaPuerta commented on Bye-Bye Calderon, Hello PRI, and Condolences to the Zetas (Or, Why Mexico's New President Might Bring a Cool-Down in the Drug War).

You maybe be right that EPN will go back to a "lets make a deal" strategy with the cartels, but you have to take into account the amount of pressure coming from the US to wage war on them. The US government is providing a lot of support and has publicly applauded Calderon's militaristic strategy for confronting the cartels (although lets not kid ourselves, the PAN has made plenty of deals of its own), despite wide spread criticism of this strategy and the fact that most Mexicans (a vast majority of whom aren't involved in the drug trade) would tell you they are less safe today than they were 12 years ago. EPN is playing to middle class Mexicans who's business has been impacted by extortion, kidnapping and other organized crime activities.

What is incredibly worrisome are the grave human rights violations that have occurred under past PRI governments (and I'm not talking about vote buying), such as Atenco, Acteal, the Zapatista repression. The killing, rape and torture of civilians at the hands of security forces, ordered by PRI governments, sometimes in retaliation for not getting what they wanted (Atenco was in response to protests that eventually shut down the construction of an airport in Tlaxcala, which was Peña Nieto's pet project as Mexico State Governor, and he couldn't stand getting beaten by a bunch of peasants) is terrifying. It puts democracy and freedom of expression at risk in Mexico and has the same taste of "your with us or against us" as Bush employed over Iraq.

This isn't an issue to just sit around and be apathetic about, US policy directly impacts what happens in Mexico, and people's lives in the US are impacted by that. Want to stop "illegal immigration"? well then maybe you should be concerned about the safety and security of the country most immigrants come from-- and wouldn't leave, if they had access to decent jobs and a relative level of security.

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Jun 15, 2012

LaPuerta commented on Road Trip Through Hell.

Interesting story. I think maybe part of why you didn't get killed (and weren't that likely to get killed) was BECAUSE you were foreign. Not worth the bad press/US involvement. I think people get used to the fear and the violence. Humans are incredibly adaptable and can get used to almost anything. After a long enough time living in Mexico, even I have gotten used to the tanks and the guns and chopped up people turning up in garbage bags. Good to know there's a used English book store in Mexico City though, and other Washingtonians!