Feliz Cinco De Mayo Baby!
 

In way of celebration, I am NOT going to eat the Mexican food I so desperately want to eat today.

It is both an homage to Cinco De Mayo AND SG.

What shall you do?

Lick the salt off the rim for me, will ya? :)

:biggrinba

So why is Cinco de Mayo a Mexican celebration? And why should we gringos (Americans) savor this day as well?

For the natives it is celebrated because on the morning of May 5,1862 near Puebla Mexico a force of 4000 Mexican soldiers smashed and defeated a combined the French and traitorous Mexican army of 8,000. This defeat sounded the end of French intervention in Mexico.

A little known historical fact is that about 5 months prior to this battle the French had landed in Mexico (along with Spanish and English troops) on the pretext of collecting Mexican debts from the newly elected government of democratic President (and Indian) Benito Juarez. The English and Spanish quickly made deals and left. The French, however, had different ideas.

Under Emperor Napoleon III, who detested the United States, the French came to stay. They brought Maximilian a Hapsburg prince with them to rule their new Mexican Empire. Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion. The French were not afraid of anyone, especially since the United States was embroiled in its own Civil War.

The French Army left the port of Vera Cruz was on the march to attack Mexico City when it was ambushed and routed at Puebla.

Many historians also feel that this defeat of a European power in the New World kept foreign nations from allying with the Confederacy. The American Civil War was moving into its second year and this moment it appeared that the Confederate States of America (CSA) were winning the struggle. Theories have been presented that European intervention on the behalf the CSA would have greatly changed the eventual outcome of our American conflict.

This is a day that celebrates freedom and liberty, two ideals that both nations-Mexico and the USA honor and respect.

Good on you, Capn.

I thought it was just another merkin attempt to steal a foreign holiday as an excuse to drink too much and have a parade... :D

thanks for the food for thought!

Happy Cinco de Mayo:

MAYO 1+

I'll celebrate anything going!
Oh wait, no I won't. In homage to Bri.

Still, I'm glad I'm not haveing a Cinco de Mayo baby. I have nowhere to put it.

Between 2 slices of bread is good. :D

Sink o' de Mayo.

Mucho applause for Bri and SG, and their heroic undertakings.

I feel mildly virtuous however, for having a black bean and veggie enchilada without cheese for lunch. I think it was healthy.

Fajitas for dinner!

who had a baby? (looks around)

So for 147 years they've been celebrating winning a battle... against the french. :lol2:

That's nothing, the French have been celebrating the storming of the Bastille for 230 years.

Total prisoners rescued - 7.

I also find that amusing. Even coming from a country whose greatest scientific breakthrough was the pinata.:biggrinba

Old Picture of the Day shows the difference between the haves...

http://cellar.org/2009/rich-mans-house.jpg

...and the have nots.

http://cellar.org/2009/Juarez1911.jpg

the lack of a stable middle-class has allowed corruption to keep it's grip on the whole government.




and makes the pigs onk.

At least the have-nots all have their guns

The haves are merely cannon fodder.