He calls himself LáZorro (with an á, damn it!).He's the Latino Border Fox. Last night, he crashed through my window and into my estate, slicing gigatic Zs over all of my servants. When he finally reached me, he pinned this essay to my chest, and demanded that I publish it today ... or he'll return with illegal immigrants!!! ¿Que no?
It's his reaction to yesterday's post about Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, who takes free meals from at least one publicly subsidized restaurant, while stiffing their servers.
LáZorro (with an á, damn it!) even wrote it in English!
The Mayor’s snub of two waitresses is a perfect metaphor for his snub of the entire community who put him in office. That includes us - the Latino community. He promised his administration would diversify - from its police force to its public services - to reflect the community. But he continues to appoint the same people who have failed to solve Allentown's problems. When we have taken him to task, his response is “I cannot find anyone”.
When he enlisted my help - very early in his tenure - I sent him a list of names. But he instead installed political lackeys. He has mistreated even those closest to him during his campaign. His “unnamed” Latino lawyer buddy, who went to bat for him throughout the campaign, was passed over as solicitor. And how about his buddy Fred Bañuelos (that’s with an ñ, damn it!). He worked with him for years with the Alliance for Building Communities, but the mayor threw him under a LANTA bus, like a professional bowler.
I won’t even go into how he lobbed the whole community under the bus, no pun intended (it is intended actually), when he would not speak up for them or do anything about LANTA’s disruption of necessary bus services. Of course, he flip-flopped when the tide turned after a steady barrage of criticism (with a little help from your friends, ;-). Pawlowski is a legend in his and his contractor buddies' minds, but is no hero to Allentown's working poor. In the words of the young girl in distress in the Latin series El Chapulin Colorado, “Y ahora quien podra ayudarnos” or “Now who will come to our rescue...”
Who will come to Allentown’s rescue when the next election comes around? What Democrat has the Chutzpah to take on the Butz’ of the world who have gained so much with their wonderboy?Who is this masked man? LáZorro (with an á, damn it!) is also known as Lázaro Fuentes, a venture capitalist who chairs the Lehigh Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Pennsylvania's largest Hispanic organization. It includes 318 businesses that employ over 2,550 people with over 12,500 family and extended family members right here in the Lehigh Valley.
Most or much of what this fellow says negatively about the mayor may be true, but he really had little choice with respect to his choice of Mr. Banuelos. He had to remove his name from consideration and ethnicity had little to do with it. My only problem with this issue is that the mayor did not discover that his choise for this position was a delinquent landlord before he submitted his name for consideration. Not everything is about race.
ReplyDeleteLaz better get his people registered then because his numbers don't add up.
ReplyDelete40 odd thousand eligible voters in the Hispanic community and fewer than 3500 vote and of those fewer than 500 of them are super voters.
I actually hope he can mobilize. Then Ed will be singing "Please Don't Say Manana (that’s with an ñ, damn it!) If You Don't mean It" from a new location...
Pawlowski knew this fellow for many years. They worked together. Do you think he may have known about those code violations when he nominated him, and was just hoping no one would notice? But for Muschick's article, the dude would have sailed into office.
ReplyDeleteBernie:
ReplyDeleteMaybe so, maybe not. But to say the mayor threw him under the bus for racial reasons in hogwash.
It is quite possible, in my opinion, the mayor was looking beyond Mr. Banuelos's past issues with the hope of hiring a minority into a position of authority.
I really don't know a lot of qualified individuals who are interested to fill these city positions myself.
But you, sir, are not LáZorro (with an á, damn it!).
ReplyDeleteWhy the snide remarks about the Spanish alphabet? No hispanics in Nazareth either, huh?
ReplyDeleteThe latino population in Allentown does not vote. Until they do they will continue to have a small voice.
ReplyDeletePawlowski has nothing to worry about. He will be re-elected easily. The Sheep of Allentown are so ignorant they'd vote for Attilla the Hun. The Hispanics don't vote, and don't even bother registering. Those that do vote would vote for Pawlowski even if he personally shot one of them dead, or ran over one or two with his city car. They would respect that!!
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ReplyDeleteWhy say anything?
Why the snide remarks about the Spanish alphabet? No hispanics in Nazareth either, huh?
ReplyDeleteI happen to like the Spanish alphabet, and the way things are expresed in that langauge. it is infrequently done, and it appeals to me, so I try to follow it, but do so with humor. LáZorro gets it, and you're just looking for an excuse to try to deflect the attention away from Mayor Ed.
What caught my attention in the article was "What Democrat has the Chutzpah to take on the Butz' of the world" It is this one party thinking that gets us into trouble in this city, hell this country. A republican or 'gasp' an independent could get elected in a city election. Thinking a democrat will help 'insert specific protected class here' simply because they are democrat is naive. Lets vote for the best candidates and stop concerning ourselves with D's and R's
ReplyDeleteCan you say Ismael Arcelay? Is he Irish from County Manana? Isn't he on Pawlowski's staff? I believe he is a Latino. Isn't he bringing the Latino community together in Allentown?
ReplyDeleteIsn't he bringing the Latino community together in Allentown?
ReplyDeleteThe chair of the LV Hispanic Chamber of Commerce apparently does not think so.
It is this one party thinking that gets us into trouble in this city, hell this country.
ReplyDeleteAs recently as yesterday, a moderate R and conservative R, both of whom have deep R roots in A-town, tell me the R party is dead in A-town. On the basis of the last election results, they appear to be right.
Theoretically, I agree with you 100%. But it doesn't seem to work out that way.
Does not Mr. Fuentes live in a mansion in Lower Nazereth Twp. ?
ReplyDeletei wonder if the mayor "treated" the "gov" today for lunch- he's such a big spender!!!
ReplyDeletei would love to see the mayor & angle at lunch together and the expressions on their faces when the check comes....
ReplyDeleteDoes not Mr. Fuentes live in a mansion in Lower Nazereth Twp. ?
ReplyDeleteNo, I think his mansion is somewhere else. Hey, LáZorro (wtih an á, damn it!) needs some place to keep his trusty steed, Tornado.
"i would love to see the mayor & angle at lunch together and the expressions on their faces when the check comes...."Add Jolly Joe Timmer and you'd have the a real server's nightmare. Stiffed X 3.
ReplyDeletenow i know what to get the mayor, angle, and jolly joe timmer for christmas- the entertainment book!!!
ReplyDeleteMy Mansion Is Hidden Away. Tornado is in from the icy storm.
ReplyDeleteThe Point of my comment is Pawlowski says whatever he has to say to get elected and then does little to protect its citizens... well, with the exception of its contractors - his major contributors.
As for poor Fred. It is not a question of race - nobody is calling Ed a racist. [By the way, personally Ed is not a half-bad guy, but this is not personal] The comment on Fred is more a question of prudence, loyalty and principles [or the general lack of all three on Ed's part.]
As for LaGatta [or should we call you David?] who posted somewhere else on this blog a piece where she [or he] talks of MY Hispanic Chamber... it is not MY Hispanic chamber. You see, that was the problem with Vaida and Eichenwald... they acted as if it was THEIR Chamber and the Board of that organization went against their wishes and voted in CHANGE.
The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce belongs to the 347 Member businesses. Anyone that is interested in receiving invites to our events only has to send us a request via email [info@hcclv.org] and the appropriate person will include them on our listserve... which is over 10,000 persons strong - thats opted in for you naysayers. Ha-ha.
And my Columbia University credential credibility statement... whoah... left field... what is that about? Now you do not like that I graduated from Columbia University. Is that an anti-Ivy League thing? Ok... sorry, I got into an Ivy League school and became educated and subsequently did very well for myself and my family - Gee how unAmerican. I promise not to do it again... NOT.
As for MY Mansion - It is a beautiful and historic [230 year] center hall colonial home that my wife and I restored. If you know anything about those homes - i have to ask, given that these posting show a general lack of knowledge - they are [were] moderately sized.
That I have 72 Acres and have restored the land to a healthy condition only is a testament to my philosophy in life... Occupy This Land With Character.
maybe next you'll question my Military Service or my career.
Do you get the point? It is that you are N-V-US! ;-)
Not for my things, but for the fact that I do not fear any of you and would gladly spar with any of you intellectually! I am prepared. R U?
La Z orro
ps - If by "Latino community" you mean the usual cast of useless characters that parade themselves off as leaders in the Latino community - the ones that we got rid of from our and other organizations - Yes... you are right... we do not do anything with them. Why waist our time and the community's resources. They are already wasting enough of those resources...
This should not be misconstrued to mean all latino Leaders... many are quietly doing more than I ever will in our Valley. Maldonado, Sis Obed, Pastor Rivera, Jose Rosado, Jose Molina, Lupe Pearce and many, many more. These are leaders.
It is the generally small contingent of bad apples that waste our resources and divide our community. You know the one's... they run around looking for and are continuously interested in titles - not results.
Is that clearer for you all?
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That's alot of talk which supports the fact that you are worse than those you accuse. You represent no one but yourself and your loud nonsensiacal ramblings. Your chamber is failing and it is because of you. You've got no clout and no one behind you. Stop pontificating and do something for the community. If you want to spar go jump in the ring with your massive and impotent ego, that should keep you busy. As for your many accomplishments you've done nothing but piss people off and the forecast for tomorrow and every day after that is the same. Sorry, Lazaro you dont matter.
ReplyDeleteYou are right about one very important fact. I don't matter. That's the point. I am very happy about that fact. There are many real Leaders out there doing... every day. I am hardly doing much in the area - personally - this organization has 12 Board Members and many committee members that do the work.
ReplyDeleteMy job as a Latino [not as the Chairman of the HCCLV] is simple. Point out the losers within our community that are taking away from it. I am not trying to get titles or to win popularity contests. Be certain that if I have pissed someone off that I meant to do so.
Hey, for all I know you are doing a lot in the area... and good for you for it. But nobody will ever know, because you are a coward and hide in your anonymity. By the way, you are also right about my ego. It's massive. :) I have a lot to be proud of.
Now... as for the Hispanic Chamber - that's still a sore subject with you. Well, I hate to be the one to tell you [not true - i love to be the one that tells you], but we are the largest hispanic organization in the Commonwealth of PA. If that is failure then we need to fail some more. And wait till you see what we have in store for you soon! :)
The fact that you could not do it - if you are who I think you are - is not my fault. This organization needed a group of leaders... not a dictator like yourself. I am sorry that your mean and tyrannical disposition makes you so angry and disgruntled. But don't let it blow your "WIG" off. Get on with your life. Or bring it on and spar in the light of day. Don't be afraid. If you are right then you will prevail and I will forever be cast off from these lands. I DONT THINK SO.
I will put the sword down though, to cal your fear. ;-)
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lagata, Where's the love?
ReplyDeleteIt's too much for him Bernie. Thanks for the use of your forum.
ReplyDeleteI will resume my busy day! :)
Lazaro Fuentes
Gee Lazaro you have accomplished so much. If marrying money and passing yourself off as a leader is an accomplishment. Your chamber throws parties and does nothing for the community. No one benefits from your chamber. You wave it around as if you have some power but, you know that all those heavy affiliations dont mean caca. You have no import to the business, economic, political communities. The latino community hears your name and groans and laughs. You may be able to snow the other recalcitrant,inept bloggos but those who know you know that you got nothing and you bring nothing and you represent nothing. Certainly not the latino business community. Why dont you list the members of your vaunted chamber who concur with your letters. You are a joke. Take I-78 bach to New York or board a flight back to Cuba and go tell Fidel how to run his country. Hey you arent afraid are you? I thought you liked to spar, wuss.
ReplyDeleteBernie, there is the love. Someone who believes in the partnerships and the leadership in Allentown and is willing to stand up to you self annointed watchdogs. No one owes you guys anything other than what they owe every citizen they represent. Cry bitch, moan, bellyache and feel free to call me all the names you want but, the fact is you are a miserable, impotent, laughable lot. That's enough love for now. Later.
Wow... You are angry. It must be rough and frustrating being someone that cannot get anything accomplished and that nobody pays attention to anymore. I am sorry that you are having such a hard time. You should come to our events... maybe one of our nearly 400 businesses can help you. I can tell you that we have several psychologists that can definitely help you with your anger.
ReplyDeleteWhen the latino commuity - not you three bozos - doesn't want me, I will gladly step down and go away. You are not the community. Do you know how I know? Because they are our members!
You should be clear that you are not the community or its representative. You are part of the "Rice and Bean Brigade" that runs around like a chicken without a head making believe that you are actually accomplishing something when in fact all of the people make fun of you and use you to say that they are involved with the Latino community. You are a tool of those that do not want to be bothered by us.
We are clear about our past accomplishments and the ones we are about to bombard you with. Your envy is your hubris. It is why you and your buddies are ineffective and unable to get anyone to come together with you. Oh and the Elected officials only talk to you because you are their "Yes Latino" standing next to them - yep, that's you. The Chihuahas of the Valley [argh argh]... playing into every rediculous stereotype that is expected of you.
Have some dignity and some pride. Do what is in the communities interest, not yours. Act on behalf of the people of the Lehigh Valley, not for another empty title.
Just look at you. Hiding. That's rediculous. I suppose that you may lose that job or that contract you got from Pawlowski or the AEDC if you show yourself. So stay in the shadows. Your pathetic. It is easy to libel someone when you are hiding.
I am here. Take your best shot. Just like the first day. Not a change. Steadfast. And that community that you say I do nothing for... that community got rid of you and chose CHANGE, HOPE, A NEW PERSPECTIVE... rather than the grovelling and begging and "Si Senor" attitude that you and your three buddies have opted for.
That community and I built an organization and are at the table, while your supposed "Leaders" beg for scraps from the floor.
The reason we have such a successful organization is that we resonate with a community that does not want to be perceived the way you paint it - poor and needy - in order to get another grant or handout. There may be parts of this community in need for help, but even they are tired of the way you paint them. They are aspirational. They have dignity and pride. You charlatans sit high in your "Leader" world looking at our community, your community, as if it is this incapable bunch that could not exist without you.
Well guess what. They are existing quite fine without you.
It burns you to see the community ignore you. Well I have nothing to do with that. You did it to yourself. You did it with your pseudo-intellectual dribble... high and mighty begging.
You see, I may be well off today, but I am absoultely certain of where I came from. Maybe you should try to remember.
In the mean time... there is a new sherriff in el Valle; a New Latino Order. :) It is one that is confident of the Latino community's prospects and of it's capabilities. We are not now or are we ever going to beg and grovel like your ilk.
Get used to it. Your day is over.
So says the community.
LGF
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LáZorro (with an á, damn it!), plerase be careful. That person sounds like Sergeant Garcia.
ReplyDeleteWhoever he or she may be, don't worry about LáZorro, dangerous though he may be.
Worry about me.
You see, all of your personal attacks are starting to grate me, and I already plan on publicly embarrassing you very soon.
Let me give you a piece of advice. Do not get in a pissing match with someone who has nothing to lose. Call me all the names you want. Do you think I give a shit? But you will, when you are outed.
Very deep and very nonsensical Laz and, you say I'm angry whew. You arrogance is incredible the Lehigh Valley and the latino is no better because you exist and no one elected you sheriff. You and your huge,mega important,omnipotent, take no prisoners chamber arent worth shit. You matter not even with whatever endorsements you claim. You just aint that important bro and you sure as hell are not a leader. Go do something to make Allentown better instead of spraying shit on others as if that is accomplishing anything. You are a joke.
ReplyDeleteBernie come and get me you have less than nothing to offer. I'm not a member of the bar but then again neither are you,heh heh. Hugs and Kisses you 2 clowns.
lagata8484, You are using a bopgus ID. Your ISP is RCN. Your IP is 207.172.182.# and is listed as commercial. You posted from Allentown. Lat/Long:40.6152, -75.5437. Your OS in Windows XP. Your using Internet Explorer Ver. 7.0. Your monitor has a Resolution of 1280 x 800 and a Color Depth of 32 bits. For a mere cost of $7.98, I can determine who owns the computer from which you've been posting within two days. I've already made the request. have a nice night.
ReplyDeleteGee Bernie that's great. I dont know how that contributes to the "intellectual" dialogue we are supposed to be engaged in. So wow you are resourceful but, you are also a misguided, rambling, unproductive, contrarian. I'm not calling you names these are fair assessments. Stick to the issues and try not to resort to childishness. Why dont you focus on those global issues of tipping percentages, yard sales and bus routes. Wow ,you should be real proud of the real change you advocate.That may be what you call progressive. I call it petty and small. Like I said come and get me. In the arena of ideas and social change you bring nothing but aggravation to the table. Go Bernie!
ReplyDeletelagata8484,
ReplyDeleteThere was no productive discussion but a vicious personal attack against a number of people that you started on yesterday's Zee Weikel post. In case you don't know it, that latitude and longitude alons is precise enough to lead to the address from which your attacks were posted.
You are being outed bc you misappropriated another person's identity and bc of the totally unproductive remarks you made on the Zee Weikel post yesterday. At the time you made that attacxk, the Zee Weikel post was already in archives. So this is an obvious put up.
When I do out you, it will not be in a comment that only a hndful see. I will write a separate post that includes your first attack, with all of its name calling, on a post about a 75 year old woman. You post filth like that and then talk about being a productive member of society?
Over 700 people will see you for what you are, and that includes the press.
Have a nice day.
It is only an intellectual dialogue if you are in fact an intellectual, which we will soon find out when Bernie out's you from your hiding place... "bro."
ReplyDeleteI am starting to believe that you are not who I thought you were at all.
We've got bets going on who you are. My bet is that you are weasely looking and not Latino at all... "bro."
... and most likely a political hack.
... probably part of Ed's crew.
Getting warm? ;-)
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Lazaro & Bernie; Once you 2 super sleuths have finally id'D me then maybe you'll respond to my repeated claim that you Laz are an insignificant paper tiger, a hispanic
ReplyDeleteversion of the emperor's new clothes.I still firmly believe that and that is confirmed by the fact that no one from this vaunted chamber has come to your defense. You can come at me with all you you want and nothing is going to change, "Di me con quien andas y te dire quien eres".
Bernie, make sure your blog EMPIRE knows that this weasely, political hack believes that you are a jackass with no political import and very petty and small thoughts. If that is a filthy,name calling unintellectual attack. Your 700 strong legion and the media will all probably agree. What makes you think you matter?
I'm glad you feel this is productive,keep coming at me you guys dont scare me a bit. Once this all gets personal as I'm sure it will then, we can review our status with the bar and you can share that with your admirers,too. Those who can do, do. Those who cant blog. Peace, out, bro.
Once this all gets personal as I'm sure it will then, we can review our status with the bar and you can share that with your admirers,too.
ReplyDeleteMy post is ready and will run next week. Over the weekend I want to take a drive down Walbert Avenue and then take the side road that leads to your house.
You misappropriated some woman's identity and hid behind her skirts to lauch a vicious perrsonal attack against Molovinsky, Armstrong, Fuentes and me. It was childish, especially the remarks about Armstrong. I will post your first filthy remarks when I out you, and it will happen next week, when the readership is at its highest. I want people to know exactly what kind of person you are.
Thanks,Bernie and be sure Bill White gets a copy. If I'm home when you come by stop in and you can play with my little terrier you guys should get along fine. I will not hide from anything I' ve said or done. That woman who's ID I misappropriated is my wife. I am in the process of obtaining your credentials as an attorney, so when the mudslinging starts be ready. Outside the personal stuff,remember that the crux of this arguement is that you and your cadre are a bunch of loud, bellyachers who do nothing and complain about everything. After all this goes public that should be obvious. Come on Bernie, make me a hero and you too, Laz.
ReplyDeleteSo you're hiding beind your wife's skirts? What a man!
ReplyDeleteAs far as your threrat concerning enlightening everyone asbout my law license, that attack is made nearlyt daily. It's well knoiwn and is mentioned nearly every day. it's called an ad hominem attack, and that appears t be your specialty.
Look for a nice little profile next week.
It's OK. I understand how you must feel. It must be tough spending your whole life somewhere and having someone better come in out of nowhere and effortlessly do what you couldn't.
ReplyDeleteIt must irk you something aweful. Just listen to your projections... "paper tiger", "emperor's new clothes", "nonsensical ramblings", "you don't matter"... sheesh. You must be very sad. It is so obvious.
You are wearing your feelings of inferiority so plainly for everyone to see. I am sorry if I make you feel this way. I cannot help it. It's in my nature to not give up and not settle for the mundane. I am sorry that you feel like you just cannot compete at this level.
I am sorry that you feel so helpless, impotent and paralyzed by the fear of a life filled with mediocrity.
Maybe if you spent less time being this angry person and more time doing... you would feel better about yourself. The you would see that there is a benefit to having people that care enough about their community to not let people get free passes, like... Pawlowski.
Maybe you will get over your fears and do something about it yourself. maybe you'll keep an eye on me, or others that are doing in the Community to keep us all honest.
I would suggest to you not to hide behind your wife Kate's email though - if that is your wife - because to be effective... to have credibility... you have to be brave enough to put yourself out there. Until then you are just a whiny and weaselly person and that will not help your insecurity issues.
Hey Laz you psychotic megalomaniac, what is it you think you have accomplished? Everyone knows you are a joke.Thed chamber members are defecting at a breakneck pace and even if they stayed you have never accomplished anything and you are never going to. If that makes you 'better" then you are great. No one is afraid of you and you can go on misrepresenting yourself of you want, it'll catch up to you eventually. So you have anywhere from 400 to 347 to 313 members depending on whichlie you choose. At $250 each that would be between 80,000 or 60,000 maybe it's time for an audit because no one knows what your chamber does. Anything those businesses do they would do if your sorry little ass was back in N.Y. or back in Cuba. You are all those things paper tiger etc. ie "fake". "en su casa se conozco bien". Get over yourself you and your chaber aint shit dont try to scare me with that crap that might work with the media and Bernie's boys but, you know you got nothing. Go mount your imaginary steed and take afreaking hike. A proud member of the rice and beans brigade is bitch slapping your pathetic, impotent, flass. Peace out bro.
ReplyDelete"Psychotic megalomaniac".
ReplyDeleteThat's a new one.
"Chamber members are defecting at a breakneck pace."
That's news to us... last we checked we were at 347 members - from the 87 members there when I took over as Chair in March of 2005. They are not just staying... the number is growing by 200% a year. :)
"No one is afraid of you."
Sorry... fear is the modus operandi [MO] of you and your friends. You see, what I am doing here in this discourse is showing people a window into how you and your friends at the Rice and Bean Brigade think - or don't think, I should say. The biggest thing you and your friends should fear from us is the fact that we have completely erased you and yours from the memory of this community. Your biggest fear should be the eclipse that is making this community ignore you.
"It'll catch up to you eventually."
I am not sure of this is a threat, but it sure sounds like one. Be careful not to get yourself in trouble. It is one thing to spar, but another thing to threaten someone.
"At $250 each that would be between 80,000 or 60,000 maybe it's time for an audit because no one knows what your chamber does."
It's $100 to become a member. But yes we do have a large budget thanks to the many corporate sponsors [stay tuned... we are about to announce HUGE news]. Especially now, after getting rid of your friends who emptied the Hispanic Chamber's cofers and filled their pockets, leading to the board asking me back to help correct these financial improprieties typical of you people that leach off of the community.
"Your chaber aint shit."
Language... Tis, tis. You should do something about your spelling to. The word is Chamber. So... we are certainly not worth anything to you. You are an employee, not a business person and always will be. You see... our members are the kind of people that give people like you jobs. So yes, it is probably not something that woulod interest you.
"Dont try to scare me with that crap."
I am not trying... but it is obvious that you are scared.
"Take afreaking hike."
I am sure that you would like that. Sorry. Not happening. At 39, that means that you will have to put up with me keeping an eye on you and yours for quite a while. :) I haven't even begun yet. We are just stabilizing the damage caused by your friends.
"Anything those businesses do they would do if your sorry little ass was back in N.Y. or back in Cuba."
You are probably right. They would "do" regardless. But now they don't have to be alone. Now they have a network of like-minded people to tap for purchasing, for advice, for medical care, etc... oh, and for friendships. We are a very social bunch. Now our kids play together. You see [or don't] that is the point... of community. We commune together for a common purpose.
As for your constant digs on my being Cuban. Yes I am Cuban. I am sorry that you are not Cuban. But you will have to talk to your mother about that one. Do you know what Jose Marti said - "If I were not born Cuban, I would have liked to have been." So I understand how you feel.
"A proud member of the rice and beans brigade."
You should know that it is the equivelant of being the slave that lives in the house nice and cozy, while the others toil in the fields. That is the best metaphor to describe you. We are free, independent. We give orders. We don't take them like you and yours. We stand on our own feet. We do not beg like you do. We do what we feel is best for this community and do not ask for permission to do so, except from the members of this community we have formed.
It must irk you something aweful watching us from inside the house while you are cleaning up after the man. It must bug you badly.
"Peace out bro."
Good day to you too.
"You should know that it is the equivelant of being the slave that lives in the house nice and cozy, while the others toil in the fields."
ReplyDeleteMr. Fuentes, are you kidding me? You would put this so-called analogy in a post that is supposedly intellectual in nature? Best leave slaves and slavery out of the picture, particularly when you have no personal insight into the vile institution. House slaves were not ever "nice and cozy," sir!
"We are free, independent. We give orders. We don't take them like you and yours."
Again, I would give the comments regarding slavery a wide berth, sir. You and yours GIVE orders? Hm... what are you then, SLAVE MASTERS, Mr. Fuentes? I wonder if the people reading this understand the underlying arrogance of your remark. I certainly hope they do. How vile and disgusting your remarks are! And you dare to compare yourself to the legendary hero, Zorro? That is laughable, in an ironic way. Were Zorro a historical figure rather than a fictional hero, he would call you out for daring to give orders, as the Spanish aristocracy did. Arrogance, thy name is Lázaro Fuentes!
By the way, your posts are rife with misspellings (equivAlEnt, dear), so get that log out of your eye before you cast aspersions on anyone else.
My jury was out on you and your Chamber, Mr. O'Hare, et al., but now it seems that LaGata, ad hominem or ad feminem (a nod to the self-important Mr. O'Hare) as he or she may be, hit the nail on the head when s/he labeled you as arrogant!
Get off the slavery analogy, sir, you know not what you say!
lagata8484's ISP is RCN. IP is 207.172.182.# and is listed as commercial. You posted from Allentown. Lat/Long:40.6152, -75.5437.
ReplyDeletetriviaplenum ISP is RCN. IP is 207.172.182.# and is listed as commercial. You posted from Allentown. Lat/Long:40.6152, -75.5437.
lagata8484 = triviaplenum
Mr. O'Hare, the fact that you can track ISP, IP and latitude and longitude is hardly impressive; any high school hacker can do the same. Additionally, your equation, lagata8484 = triviaplenum is both incorrect and irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is I have read many of Mr. Fuentes's remarks to LaGata8484 (and many others), and I find them to be quite arrogant and insulting. I was particularly enraged about the flip, ill-considered, callous analogy to slavery that Mr. Fuentes used, and that prompted MY response.
LaGata8484 can speak for him/herself, and please do not "get it twisted," as they say in the vernacular. Trivia Plenum is quite separate in being from LaGata8484, trust me.
Sincerely,
Lijia, a/k/a Trivia Plenum
Now you guys have got her pissed off. I'm patiently waiting for you Bernie to please hurry and OUT me. You and the wizard of Laz have very low expectations. Check out the Chamber's agenda you will see mixer after mixer. Laz thinks he's effective,ha. Changing the world one cocktail party at a time huh,laz. Bernie you are a mockery and you write about your growing influence. Bernie you gave me the latin for my persistent reference to your disbarment,ad hominem. What is the latin for an arrogant,annoying,,woefully inept, self annointed, unproductive, impotent watchdog. I'm not a practicing lawyer so I dont know the word for that. I know you cant practice but please enlighten this rice and bean eater. Peace out boys.
ReplyDeletelagata8484 = triviaplenum = troll
ReplyDeletelagata8484 = triviaplenum = troll
ReplyDeleteMy father always taught me that the person who stoops to call names is the loser of the fight, Mr. O'Hare. Please note that I've called neither you nor Mr. Fuentes any names at all. I have only taken issue with and labeled your comments.
Again, I can only hope your immense audience, 700 strong, is paying close attention. Perhaps you have reason to engage LaGata8484 on that level, but I have only raised issues.
When will you (and/or Mr. Fuentes) respond to THE ISSUES? I won't hold my breath. I hope your fans know better than to do so.
Sincerely,
Lijia - Trivia Plenum
By the way, Mr. O'Hare, when you consider deletion of personal attacks, are you referring to name-calling? If so, I imagine you only delete said attacks when they're leveled at you? You certainly don't refrain from the same...
ReplyDeleteI'm just saying, dear.
Lijia - Trivia Plenum
triviaplenum = lagata8484 = troll,
ReplyDeleteI've called you no name. I've labeled you quite accurately. You are a troll. As far as Mr. Fuentes is concerned, I believe he correctly identified you as people who do the bidding of those who oppress the working poor. You get to live in a nice house, too!
When they say jump, you say "how high?" The fact that you can say it in Spanish does not change the fact that you've sold out.
As far as you are concerned, you did engage in a vitriolic personal attack against several people, especially Scott Armstrong.
You called him "pit bull mind on a french poodle face and a voice that makes God cringe."
That's very much a personal attack.
You did so in a post that had nothing to do with Armstrong or Fuentes. It had to do with an elederly woman whose yard sale was ridiculously shut down by a mayor who did nothing about her mugging a year before.
Once again, Mr. O'Hare, I have to repeat, I am not LaGata8484. I, Trivia Plenum, have called you no name, ever, at any time. The fact is that you believe we are one and the same, simply because our posts come from the same general location, but that is a silly assumption. Did it ever occur to you that perhaps we have an affiliation? Maybe we are spouses, roommates, college roommates, housemates, good friends who get together on weekends and holidays for a kaffee klatsch, or merely acquaintances!
ReplyDeleteStill, that is all irrelevant. The fact still remains that we are not one and the same. Furthermore, even if you knew with certainty his, her, my or our identity, you have NOT spoken to the issues.
The issues are these: 1) I find it reprehensible that Mr. Fuentes castigates the very people he claims to champion; 2) I find it reprehensible that Mr. Fuentes elevates himself above those people and sadly either doesn't realize it or just doesn't care (I suspect the latter); 3) I find it both laughable and sad that Mr. Fuentes has elected himself a champion of the people, and then casts himself in the mold of Zorro (see numbers one and two above); and finally, 4) I find it reprehensible that Mr. Fuentes trivializes a subject he knows absolutely nothing about, i.e. slavery, and that in a separate blog, you do the same with Nazi concentration camps. Please note that that is precisely what drove me to respond in the first place; that is purely VILE!
My identity and that of LaGata8484, even if they were one and the same, have absolutely no relevance to the issues at hand. Furthermore, the fact that you keep going back to that, and then engage in a “pissing contest” with LaGata8484, seems to scream ad hominem to me, thus the pot and kettle idiom comes screaming to my mind.
Finally, even if you knew my name, address, gender, race, religion, social security number, AND could forge my signature, it would not change the facts of the matter one whit.
Sincerely,
Lijia – Trivia Plenum
P.S. – Aren’t you discerning enough to note the difference in style between our writing? I’m so disappointed, and a bit insulted, I think!
By the way, Mr. O'Hare, I'm not interested in having further conversation with you; you seem to only want to exchange your barbs for my issues, and that's futile to me.
ReplyDeleteMy initial post was directed to Mr. Fuentes. Once he has come in from the cold, on his mission to champion the oppressed, and reigned in his noble steed, Tornado, perhaps he'll deign to respond. Or not...
Maybe he'll just call me a troll, or house slave...
Sincerely,
L-TP
triviaplenum = lagata8484 = troll,
ReplyDeleteYou are both posting from the exact same location with an identical ISP and IP. Those coordinates are very specific. Check out topozone.com.
I have.
Since Lagata claims to be married to a beautiful black woman, and since you were the person offended by the (actually quite relevant) references to slavery, I assume you are she.
Under the law, a husband and wife is considered one person. If you want some separate identity, then denounce the horrid personal attacks by your husband against Scott Armstrong in the Zee Weikel post. While you're at it, ask your husband to apologize for that as well.
Instead of being apologists for Pawlowski, apologize for your own nasty behavior.
There will be no apologies for anything to anyone. As you claim your vile references are pertinent, mine are extremely accurate and very, very clever I must say(with ever so little modesty). Why are you so defensive of Scott? Are you strangely attracted to pit bull minds on french poodle faces with ghastly voices and personalities? I'm just asking is that what gets you tingly, Bernie? I have his # if you want to get in touch, get it touch,tee hee. Thanks for the legal definitiuon of oneness, gee you're always making legal arguments gratis, dont you value yourself. Lawyers make good money for that stuff, you should consider a legal career.
ReplyDeleteBernie stop trying to extend this exchange to Zee Wiekel, she has nothing to do with this. This has to do with Mayor Ed, everybody's pal, and you and the wizard of Laz. Ed is building housing projects, parking decks, office buildings, and restaurants and you guys are fixated on yard sales, bus routes and tipping percentages. Do you really think that's power or productive? Bernie please smell the coffee. You guys are amusing but all this stuff is starting to wear,I may have to find other people to play with, ones who matter and get things done with and for my rice and bean eating buddies, Goodbye,maybe forever. Later y'all.
triviaplenum = lagata8484 = troll,
ReplyDeleteYou started this exchange on the Zee Weikel post, and your personal attack against Armstrong is what upset me most.
This is funny. Now the wife comes to the rescue. Good for you... :)
ReplyDeleteYou are incorrectly trying to make this about race, but isn't that always the case when you are losing an intellectual arguement?
Well.. you are arrogantly assuming that only you have an understanding of slavery. Trying desperately to take my deconstruction of her husband and changing the subject.
First of all. It is not about race. Throughout the history of mankind there has been slavery of many if not all races.
As for my comment. It has to do specifically with those that kiss the ass of incompetent, but entitled people in the Valley and in general for the sake of a little job or a little title. While throwing the community and its needs under the bus. It doesn't matter, because now they are "inside". By the way... i am not the master, as you would like to paint me in your scenario; I am the slave who ran off, joined the army and earned his freedom, got an Ivy league degree and became wildly Successful - Free - Independent. So you will have to try a little harder.
This diatribe from both of you speaks to the extreme level of insecurity that would lead people to betray the community for the sake of titles and a pats on their heads from their "master"... while further extending the suffering of the people that they SUPPOSEDLY represent by their acquiesence.
But you see... my mom told me that when you see people result to using the race card it is because they know they have failed. :)
Look. You both have a huge misunderstanding as relates to me or this community or this Chamber.
1. As relates to me... you think that I consider myself a leader. I do not. You do! That is telling. I just lead. You do not have to follow. But the people obviously do. I did not ask to become the Chair of this organization [I founded the organization and refused the Chair position when they all wanted me to take it the first two years] - I was asked to become Chair again... by unanimous decision of our Board as a way to sweep aside the errors of the previous leadership.
2. As relates to this community.
"Community" is a word that is very specific. It is about coming together, not about shutting people out. Your friends in the Latino Community are not the full compendium of thought for the Latino community. We have never shut any of them out. Instead, we have invited them over and over to be part of the organizational or intellectual thinking for this community... yes "COMMUNITY." These people do not care for COMMUNITY. They run around self-serving trying to take and get things for themselves before anyone else... like cannibals. They kill for titles for little jobs and little contracts and grants.
We are inclusive. They are divisive.
We are positive. They are negative.
We defend the people. They betray the people.
We preach self sufficiency. They hold their hands and lower their heads begging.
We glorify achievement. They glorify staying in place and the barrio mentality that invades their souls.
We inspire our members to be better. They inspire their members to live on welfare.
I can do this all day long, so I will stop here. :)
3. As regards the Hispanic Chamber. The HCCLV is an organization that has brought together its members, so that they can meet each other - simply that at first; so that they can relate with each other - the getting to know you process; so that they do not feel that they are alone - the natural support system develops; so that they can be inspired by the various levels of achievement in THEIR part of the community.
Yes... we have spent a lot of time just getting to know each other.
Yes... we have had to deal with some of the bad apples that wanted to bring their OLD ways into our NEW organization.
Yes... that held us up for a year.
But now we are a group that has that nonsense behind it. Now we are a group that is clearly going after the prize and bringing benefits to our members.
We had to get our numbers up again after losing nearly half of our members to the welfare mentality of the past... Well now we have more than tripled them. Now we have the corporations again interested in us. Now they see leadership that is positive and that has BUY IN from the entire community - NOT THE FEW WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES "THE COMMUNITY."
You will see as we announce over the coming weeks the biggest changes in the history of the Latino community of the Lehigh Valley. Now is the time. Not when incompetents like you - harborers of the divisiveness and welfare of the past - the worst of our community - those that with the comfort of being inside leave the rest outside in the cold to toil try to hold back those that do... that are trying to take the community to a new and better place. This is our time. All are welcome. Even you... whoever you are. Even David or Eduardo or Fred or Erlinda or any that want to be a part. You see... it is not about Lazaro. It is about the COMMUNITY. Lazaro is simply not going to tolerate any part of the past infesting the future. You can bet your ass on that one. You can also bet your ass that I can take any of them on, on my free time and more. That is not a threat, that is a promise - not to you, but to this COMMUNITY. You do not like it? Too damn bad. There is nothing eitherf of you can do to stop this TRAIN.
As for the whole Zorro thing... that was Bernie's idea - but I like it!
I am a kid from Wasington Heights in NYC... The hood... That has done good for himself, his family and his community. You cannot take that away. That is mine. You are powerless.
Z
Just as I suspected, Mr. Fuentes, your response has very little to do with the issues, and quite a bit to do with ego.
ReplyDeleteI said absolutely nothing about race. Even if I were white, or Asian, I could have, and would have, brought you to task for trivializing slavery, which is exactly what you did. Just as I am not Jewish, but I call Mr. O'Hare out for trivializing the Holocaust.
Furthermore, Mr. Fuentes, if you can blithely comment that the lives of house slaves was somehow more tolerable to the lives of field slaves, simply for the sake of making a point, then as I said, it is a subject that you'd be better off to avoid until you have further educated yourself.
I never called the race card - I called you out for making a very poor analogy, which you did, and for grossly oversimplifying a very delicate and painful subject, which again, you did.
As for the Zorro thing, if that was Bernie's idea, again, it's best left alone. Due to his and your limited understanding of the subject, you (both) made another faulty analogy.
What about all these references to community? What were you doing, answering my "husband?" I wrote a very short and sweet post to you, with four direct and pointed issues. You've misconstrued two, and left the others unanswered. Diatribe? Perhaps, but certainly not on MY part.
I leave you (and Mr. O'Hare) with these things to consider.
1) Neither of you has the SLIGHTEST idea who I am, nor who my "husband" is, and because of that, you're making all kinds of wild assumptions and attacks. It's wiser to defend from a known position than unknown, old soldier - take a page from Sun Tzu: "Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack." Be a skillful general, and know WHAT to defend, dear.
2) Not knowing who we are is causing you to go off on a wild and rambling tangent, i.e. all this talk of the old guard, what they represent, and so on. Trust me, I am not, nor have I ever been part of any of your Latino organizations. Also, trust me, I have worked in and with the Latino community for quite some time. Community? I know it well.
3) Not for nuttin', Mr. Fuentes, but what is all this about your Ivy league associations? I'm no respecter of persons, sir. For all you know, I, too, have Ivy league associations. Perhaps I have a degree from an Ivy league university. Perhaps I graduated magna cum laude, and perhaps I have a masters degree as well. Perhaps I am a genius, even. Perhaps I have United States Army affiliations, sir. Perhaps I know officers, say Lieutenant Colonels (baby birds), Colonels (full birds), and Generals (up to the four star variety). Perhaps... but all that matters not one whit. One does not have to be any of those things or have any of those things to make a difference, sir, and so, I am NO respecter of persons. Actions speak louder than words.
Thank you for your response, Mr. Fuentes, although I wish you'd stayed 1) on topic and 2) with me. As it is, your response was rambling and misdirected, since your focus was split in so many different directions.
Adios, now, to you (and your brother in arms, the angry and offended Mr. O'Hare). Continue your petty personal attacks on the mayor, and your myopic focus on the complaints rather than the farsighted solutions. I will continue to sit and spin in my own little world, making a difference, one life at a time.
Sinceramente,
Lijia Nadie, aka Trivia Plenum
(it's so much nicer to be "nobody")
Reverand... you are feisty.
ReplyDeleteHow's Lehigh Valley Hospital Maritza? I was just with your boss in Philadelphia at the Frida Kahlo exhibit.
lagattapros... of course.
Z
What? No feisty Comeback Torres?
ReplyDelete:)
Z