There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

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You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.