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Hidalgo Leads Revolutionary Dress Rehearsal Against Spain
Hidalgo Leads Revolutionary Dress Rehearsal Against Spain On Nov. 3, 1811, a Mexican on a mission of mercy pleaded with James Monroe, the American secretary of state, to save his brother revolutionaries from certain death. Events a generation earlier in the faraway mother country had set the stage for rebellion in the Spanish colony. Upon his death in 1788, the competent monarch Carlos III was succeeded by Carlos IV, a certifiable moron whose queen became the real power behind the throne. She entrusted the ship of state to her boyfriend, who swiftly steered Spain into troubled waters. The high price Mexico paid for this palace soap opera was an insufferable series of corrupt viceroys that picked the country clean. Appalled by such brazen theft as well as their exclusion from posts of power and prestige, the Creoles or New World Spaniards appointed themselves national saviors. Meanwhile, a short-sighted alliance with France wound up with Napoleon installing his brother Joseph as king. In South America centuries of simmering resentment boiled over into open rebellion which finally reached Mexico in 1810. Don Ignacio Allende, a captain in the royal army, painstakingly organized the Creole conspiracy. Relying mainly on dissatisfied junior officers, he planned a simple coup rather than a sweeping revolution. Leaving the fatally flawed Mexican system intact, the modest goal of the Creoles was merely to change the cast of characters at the top. However, into the expanding plot Allende brought many civilians including an obscure parish priest named Miguel Hidalgo. Had the arrogant officer bothered to investigate his philosophy, he would have discovered that the padre had a radically different agenda. With hundreds involved in the supposedly secret scheme, compromising leaks were inevitable. In September 1810, details of the imminent coup reached the wrong ears and orders were issued for the immediate arrest of the key conspirators. Captain Allende and several high ranking comrades escaped by the skin of their teeth and rode to warn Hidalgo. A pillar of calm resolve in a sea of total panic, the priest knew exactly what to do. Mobilizing friends and relatives, he jailed every Spaniard in town, and at dawn on Sept. 16, 1810 rang the church bells to summon the people from the countryside. Nothing so subversive as the word “independence” crossed Hidalgo
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49ers Sack Bushite — Pro Football Club Rejects ‘President Rice’
Pro Football Club Rejects ‘President Rice’ LEWISVILLE, Texas How will the 2008 general election turn out? Will the Republicans prevent the Democrats from gaining up to 30 or more seats in the 435-seat House of Representatives? Will the Democrats gain over 61 seats in the 100-seat Senate, enough to block Republican influence? Will Lt. Col. Rick Noriega beat Sen. John Cornyn? Will Sen. Barack Obama defeat Sen. John McCain? The Lone Star Iconoclast honestly has no idea since its deadline was last Thursday. In fact, it’s quite possible that over the weekend, President Bush could have ordered martial law, shut down the elections, and ignited mass hysteria across the nation. And if you’re reading this, we editors haven’t been thrown into the pit… yet. But one thing was clear the week before Super Tuesday: Condoleezza Rice ain’t gonna be the president of the San Francisco 49ers pro-football franchise anytime soon. “We have our office structure in place,” team spokesman Aaron Salkin told The San Diego Mercury News. “We don’t respond to rumors.” The story of Rice’s possible recruitment originally broke on the NFL Network’s “GameDay Morning.” NFL reporter Adam Schefter quoted an unidentified high-ranking 49ers representative, saying that his franchise would consider hiring the soon-to-be former Secretary of State to head its organization come January 2009. “If she’s interested in talking to us, I’m interested in talking to her,” the mysterious rep reportedly quoted on the network owned by the National Football League. Schefter also reported that Rice had confided in friends that she was interested in becoming president of a pro-football team. Giving more weight to the rumor mill, the report noted that Rice graduated from Stanford University in San Francisco where she served as provost from 1993 to 1999; she is buddy-buddy with Gene Washington, a 49ers player and NFL Director of Operations; and she had hinted that she would rather be an NFL commissioner rather than a U.S. President. Heck, for a time, the Niners employed President Bush’s former press secretary Ari Fleischer to coach its players on the finer points of dodging the media, according to The Mercury News. So Rice is basically in there like swimwear, right? Maybe. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack performed what amounted to a Statue of Liberty play with the rumor at the start of his press briefing last Tuesday morning. “You know, of course, once she’s in private life, I have no idea what sort of interest there may be in terms of the NFL and NFL teams, but at this point, there hasn’t been any contact between her and the 49ers,” he said. Hear that? No contact. But who knows? Once she is done helping Bush ignite new wars in Syria and Pakistan, she might have it in her to run a multi-million dollar pro-sports franchise. Take it from Ryan Hogan of The Bleacher Report: “Secretary Rice has dealt with the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong-il, and Bashar al-Assad. Has dealing with those world leaders prepared her for crazy tyrants like Al Davis and Jerry Jones? “Secretary Rice has made the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows and answered tough questions about foreign policy. Has that prepared her for going on Sunday morning pregame shows and answering stupid questions from Terry Bradshaw, Howie
