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Contra La Corriente - Current GA Nominee

Hello, I've been working for Contra La Corriente (Marc Anthony album) for some time, and I've just got it peer reviewed and currently listed on GA Nominee list. I was wondering if any of you look like to review to it. Magiciandude (talk) 18:48, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

• I saw your message and I went ahead to check out the article. I must say that it is a damn good article and should nave no problems making "GA". Good luck. Tony the Marine (talk) 19:35, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Fellow Borinquens! I am proud to announce Contra La Corriente as our first GA Salsa album AND Puerto Rican album! If anyone is ever interested in making a Puerto Rican album article (preferably modern), I will be glad to help out! Magiciandude (talk) 14:28, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

William Riefkohl

An article I created William Riefkohl is being nominated for deletion could you all help me out? A simple google search proves he appears in pr newspaper in a monthly if not weekly basis, I would not have had created the article if I did not consider him notable. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William RiefkohlEl Johnson (talk) 20:39, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

You be the judge

Here is an article of the comments made by a former US Congressman who was dined and wined by our politicians in Puerto Rico, but who is ignorant and has no respect as to the positive contributions which our people have made. He forgets that thanks to the UN and to the sacrifices that our men of the 65th Infantry made, his beloved Korea enjoys the freedoms it now has. You be the judge. See: Korea Times. Tony the Marine (talk) 17:23, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

• This is downright insulting, racist, and despicable. There should be a formal denouncement of said statement by the Fortuño government. QuAzGaA 19:39, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Just read something that may not be a formal denouncement by the Fortuño administration, but really hits Mr. Kim. It's in Lt. Gov. McClintock's ( http://www.facebook.com/kenneth.mcclintock )Facebook page:

"Saving Private Jay Kim

By Kenneth D. McClintock

One of the greatest and most patriotic movies I've ever seen has been Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. That movie exemplifies how our nation's Armed Forces have mobilized, not only to save nations, but sacrificed to save individuals and protect, in this case, the Ryan family's future, after all but one of its sons had been killed in action during World War II.

Sixty years ago, America's armed forces mobilized to one of the most remote, frigid locations on earth, the Korean peninsula, to confront communist aggression head-on and save most Koreans from losing their lives and their freedom. Among those whose lives and freedoms were saved was the family of former Congressman Jay Kim.

During the Korean conflict, American citizens from Puerto Rico fought courageously along with their fellow soldiers from other United States territories, such as Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Virgin Islands, as well as the 48 states of the Union. Puerto Rico was, in fact, one of the U.S. jurisdictions that suffered the greatest casualties. Seven hundred fifty six Puerto Ricans died so that former Congressman Kim's family would live, and enjoy freedom.

It is especially poignant that a Korean-American who owes almost all---his life and his freedom---to the courage of the members of the predominantly Puerto Rican 65th Infantry should dare question the patriotism and the devotion to the values that identify the United States of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans.

Our territory may not be perfect, but it has never been overrun by the forces of communism. Puerto Ricans may not all be exemplary but our exemplary soldiers were willing to travel 10,000 miles to die in the mountains of Korea. We may look and speak a little different than other fellow Americans, but we share in the values that define America.

To viciously criticize those who have hosted you is considered bad manners. To question the worthiness of those who have saved the lives and freedom of your family is downright disgusting.

I would not be surprised if you cannot even recognize that an apology, as unconditional as the surrender your people would have had to sign had American, including Puerto Rico, soldiers not saved your skin, is in order.

May you continue enjoying and exercise the First Amendment rights that the blood of a Puerto Rican soldier who died heroically in Hungnam assured you. Before you write another word, I hope you can read and understand the following words:

"The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea…are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them."

-General Douglas McArthur"

Couldn't have said it any better! Pr4ever (talk) 01:41, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks for showing us the article Tony. Pretty sure the local media hasn't gotten wind of this yet.El Johnson (talk) 20:13, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

• Check out his article where it says: "Kim came under scrutiny for campaign donations, eventually pleading guilty to accepting $230,000 in illegal donations, including one-third of all donations to his 1992 campaign, and was sentenced to two months of house arrest. At the time, it was a record for campaign violations." Magiciandude (talk) 21:08, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Primera Hora has an article about this, but it doesn't really denounce Kim's frivolous assumptions and accusations at all. If I were Primera Hora, I would try our harderst to DESTROY him and his credentials. Feedback ^☎ 21:13, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Ex-US Republican Congressman Chang-jun "Jay" Kim (Jay Kim) is an ignorant. His 25 October 2010 article in The Korea Times titled "Impressions from a trip to Puerto Rico" is a string of factually erroneous statements any Puerto Rican grade schooler would be able to spot. How did his article make it pass the scrutiny of Korean editors is beyond me, other than Jay Kim's audience, the people of Korea, would be so equally ignorant that they will read his article, believe it all, and not be able to tell the difference between facts and propaganda. Like someone once said, "the cardinal rule in media publishing is 'Give your readers what they want,'" and this is apparently what the Korea Times publishers have done.

It does not surprise me that Jim Kim wrote that article: it is his desperate attempt to get his readers to feel better about themselves. Koreans are a people with many problems that politicians like Jay Kim have so far been unable to solve, not the least of which is the fact that they live under the constant threat of war. And what a quicker way of feeling better about yourself than to attempt to lower the dignity of others. Savvy readers will quickly realize there is something wrong with an article that tries to make you believe EVERYTHING about some other country is bad. What an ignorant loser!

The article is a result of Jim Kim's frustration at not succeeding as the engineer that he is by training: engineers who cannot identify facts don't last long in their profession, as Jim Kim has learned the hard way. In his life as a politician he did not fair well either: getting into serious trouble with federal law while he served as Congressman. He thought he could outsmart the law; instead he was found out, convicted, and condenmed to house arrest. What a loss of his reputation!

It does not concern me in the least bit what Jim Kim wrote about Puerto Rico. When a man has lost his reputation, there is nothing he can say or do that will make any difference for me. And if that man lost his reputation while working as an elected public official, as is the case with Jim Kim, on whom we the voters have put our trust, then he has lost his chance to ever recover as well. The greatest loss anyone can have is losing the trust of others. As such, there is nothing that ex-Congressman Jim Kim can do or say about Puerto Rico or Puerto Ricans that is worth anything.

My name is Mercy11 (talk) 22:34, 27 October 2010 (UTC), and I approve this message.

If you look past the bigotry and general lack of knowledge behind the article, there is some truth to some of these statements. As a matter of fact, I'm not surprised that a foreigner (regardless of how biased he may be) got that impression, when the main political strategy of the last decades (especially from the statehooders, with whom he met, but definitely not excluding those that promote inmovilism) has been based on expanding welfare and other so called "aids" without promoting a solid hardworking base for our society. The man is an arrogant prick, but we can't block the sun with a single finger. Instead of paying any attention to what a faded politician thinks, we should be actually concerned over the issues that are rotting our nation, beginning by that dammed conformism that consumes so many people, blinding them to our actual potential. - Caribbean~H.Q. 02:19, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

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Just letting you guys know that an image that I uploaded of our first Olympic gold medal has been nominated for deletion by someone claiming that it is "decorative"; see here. - Caribbean~H.Q. 16:19, 28 October 2010 (UTC)