It doesn't much matter _why_ they have it hanging from their rear-view mirror,
because a near-secret law in Virginia declares that _anything_ hanging from a
rear-view mirror is illegal. The cops use it as one of those catch-all laws so
that they can stop anybody they feel like stopping - if the guy doesn't have
something hanging from the mirror, then maybe they're 1 mph over the speed
limit... and if they're not 1 mph over the speed limit, then they're going slow
enough to be suspicious for trying so hard to not attract police attention and
_that_ is OK to use to stop them... according to the Supreme Court.

DPH

On 6 Sep 2006 04:49:49 -0700, wrote:

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>Don Gabacho wrote:
>> ¡Ask a Mexican!
>> Special New Mexico Edition
>> by Gustavo Arellano
>> September 5th, 2006 4:01 PM
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>> illustration: Mark Dancey
>> Dear Mexican: What's with Mexican-Americans who live in New Mexico
>> claiming they're Spanish and not Mexican? Many actually get angry and
>> combative if you ask them if they're Mexican. But if you look at them,
>> they look more Indian than Spanish! Why have so many developed a
>> deep-seated embarrassment of who they are? Why are many so ashamed of
>> their heritage? - Albuquerque Amigo
>>
>> Why are Mexicans in California proud of their Mexican roots but in New
>> Mexico they're ashamed? - Hispano Hottie
>>
>> Why do people in New Mexico (many of them my relatives) believe that
>> they're Spanish and deny that the area used to belong to Mexico? - Bill
>> Richardson for Presidente
>>
>> Dear Readers: Ever since the Mexican first appeared in Albuquerque's
>> Weekly Alibi, readers of that muy bueno paper continue to swamp my
>> mailbox with this question; it now follows only "Why do Mexicans swim
>> with their clothes on? as the most asked pregunta in ¡Ask a Mexican!
>> history. The easy response is that New Mexicans are simply smarter than
>> other wabs because no one in their right mind should ever claim Mexican
>> heritage. Besides, Mexico's claim to New Mexico to the entire southwest
>> United States, for that matter is as tenuous as the peso's value.
>> Mexico ruled the Land of Enchantment from 1812 until 1848, a
>> chronological fart between the much longer reigns of the Spaniards (212
>> years), the gabachos (158 years) and the Native Americans (eternal).
>> Mexico's lazy mestizos never made much effort to populate New Mexico,
>> so many longtime New Mexicans can honestly claim a Mexican-free
>> background. But those so-called Hispanos are delusional: even if a
>> Hispano can proclaim his family clean of Mexicans, many Hispanos
>> intermingled with gabachos or Indians (consult Ramón A. Gutiérrez's
>> controversial 1991 study When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away:
>> Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
>> ). And even if a Hispano has no Mesoamerican blood whatsoever, his
>> Spanish ancestors were the mutts of Iberia Jews, Arabs, ******* sons
>> and other miscreants who fled the Inquisition for the northernmost
>> border of New Spain. The Hispanic experience in America, whether you're
>> Mexican, Hispano or even Guatemalan, is one of impurity, so Hispanos
>> should stop with their Spanish superiority complex they're no better
>> than Mexicans.
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>> Why do Mexicans hang CDs from their cars' rear-view mirrors? - Poor Use
>> of That Album
>>
>> Dear PUTA: Any number of reasons. Mexicans love religious tchotchkes
>> seven separate religious icons guard my car, from a rosary to a St.
>> Jude prayer card to a statue of the Santo Niño de Atocha (venerated in
>> New Mexico and Zacatec! as) so the CD you see dangling might just be a
>> Virgin of Guadalupe mini-hubcap. Mexicans also like pretty, shiny
>> things dig all the gold jewelry we hang from our earlobes and necks,
>> our spinning rims, and our Three Flowers-brilliantined hair. Or
>> Mexicans might hang CDs in an effort to stymie radar guns, a
>> long-disproved urban legend that only proves Mexicans don't watch the
>> Discovery Channel show Mythbusters, which devoted a 2004 episode to
>> debunking that popular belief. But to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a CD
>> is just a CD. Maybe the offending Mexican wants the world to know about
>> his favorite album but can't fit a sticker on the car because all those
>> pinche bull decals, Calvin-****ing-on-something logos, Mexican flags
>> and "¡Viva México", Cabrones! license-plate holders get in the way.
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>Hispanics are more superstitious then negroes!
>
>ted