cinco de mayo

Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash (AP)

Ytop stories  Wed, 05/07/2008 - 2:14pm

AP - A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage.



 

Northloop Neighborhoods is Not a 'Real' Blog

Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Tue, 05/06/2008 - 12:31am

This is an experiment. OK – it’s a Cinco de Mayo fueled experiment.

There’s some odd bloglike but not quite a blog site out there named NorthLoop Neighborhoods that seems to cut and paste pieces of ACDL and post them without comment.

I’m posting this at 11:16 P.M. to see whether NorthLoop Neighborhoods picks it up, and if it does, how quickly it does it.



 

U.S. Businesses Cash In on Cinco de Mayo

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Mon, 05/05/2008 - 7:59am

Cinco de Mayo has become big business in the U.S. as restaurants, bars and party planners turn the red, white and green-themed holiday into a lot of green for themselves.

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The U.S. Holiday Marking Mexico’s Defeat of the French

Austin Political Report  Mon, 05/05/2008 - 4:09am

Cinco de Mayo celebrates Mexican Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza’s victory over French invasion forces at Puebla in 1862, even though the locals sided with the invasion forces (not their own general), and the holiday was created in California (not Mexico) and is still ignored throughout that country today (except for Puebla, of course).

But have a nice Cinco de Mayo, anyway.