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Re: Mummified body of broke Chicana author found in "filthy disgusting" New Mexico home
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walt tonne
May 20, 2013, 7:09:55 AM5/20/13
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On May 19, 9:37 pm, "Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoet...@usurper.org>
wrote:
> Note to liberals: Pro-illegal american liberals die in poverty.
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/14/mummified-body-chicana-author-fo...
> in-new-mexico-home/?intcmp=obinsite
>
> SANTA FE, N.M. – A 70-year-old woman whose mummified body was recently
> found in her Santa Fe apartment was identified as a Chicana activist,
> teacher and author.
>
> Santa Fe police said the decomposed remains of Barbara Salinas-Norman were
> discovered last week and authorities say she may have been dead for more
> than a year.
>
> The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that Salinas-Norman founded and ran a
> publishing company called Pinata Publications in the office of her then-
> husband, Sam Norman, an Oakland lawyer. She began writing, illustrating
> and publishing her own books designed to help Mexican American children
> identify with their culture. She gave up teaching to write full time in
> 1983.
>
> She was the author of "Los Tres Cerdos: Nacho, Tito and Miguel" — her
> version of "The Three Little Pigs." In the book, the third pig, Miguel,
> builds a home-made of adobe bricks. The illustrations depict New Mexico-
> style furnishings, Indian pottery, kiva fireplaces, vigas and retablos.
>
> She also was a bilingual teacher in the Oakland, Calif., public schools in
> the 1980s.
>
> Salinas' body was discovered by her brother-in-law, Louis Ponce, who said
> Friday that he had become concerned about her because he hadn't heard from
> her for a long time. He and his wife, Edna, Salinas' sister, decided to
> drive from their home in East Pasadena, Calif., to attend a Cinco de Mayo
> celebration at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque. A
> niece of Salinas was dancing at the event.
>
> The couple drove to Santa Fe to check on Salinas and found her body lying
> in a filthy living room.
>
> "If you saw the apartment, you would never walk inside it," Ponce told The
> New Mexican. "I never knew anybody could be that filthy."
>
> Stories from friends and family suggested Salinas' life had been
> unraveling for some time. She often slept in her car and washed up in the
> bathroom at a local library. The gas and electricity had been turned off
> in her condo because she wasn't paying her bills. She ate at soup
> kitchens. Her home was in foreclosure.
>
> Salinas earned a bachelor's degree in education from California State
> University in Los Angeles and a master's degree in public health education
> from the University of California, Berkeley.
>
> She became involved in the Chicano movement during that time and
> considered herself a founding mother of MEChA, (Movimiento Estudiantil
> Chicano de Aztlan), a student organization promoting higher education
> among Chicanos.
>
> Peggy Trujillo, a librarian at the New Mexico State Library who had known
> Salinas since about 2009, said Salinas often came there to try to sort out
> matters related to her condo and other personal business.
>
> She brought crates containing papers scattered with excrement from mice.
>
> She told Trujillo that she was being threatened with eviction.
>
> Salinas was very fond of the movie "Eat Pray Love," Trujillo said.
>
> "She was so passionate about the movie," Trujillo said. "That was her
> dream story."
>
> --
> Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
> States of America.
>
> Eric Holder, racist black murdering United States Attorney General, still
> has his job.
>
> Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
> improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
> felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
>
> Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
> relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
> in order to cover up his own ineptness.
>
> Obama continues his goal of disarming America while ObamaCare increases
> insurance premiums 200% and leaves millions without health care.
>
> Obama helped bankrupt Illinois. Democrat run Chicago closes 54 public
> schools.
>
> --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: n...@netfront.net ---
A fitting end, stashed among petrified scats. Kumbaya!
wrote:
> Note to liberals: Pro-illegal american liberals die in poverty.
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/14/mummified-body-chicana-author-fo...
> in-new-mexico-home/?intcmp=obinsite
>
> SANTA FE, N.M. – A 70-year-old woman whose mummified body was recently
> found in her Santa Fe apartment was identified as a Chicana activist,
> teacher and author.
>
> Santa Fe police said the decomposed remains of Barbara Salinas-Norman were
> discovered last week and authorities say she may have been dead for more
> than a year.
>
> The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that Salinas-Norman founded and ran a
> publishing company called Pinata Publications in the office of her then-
> husband, Sam Norman, an Oakland lawyer. She began writing, illustrating
> and publishing her own books designed to help Mexican American children
> identify with their culture. She gave up teaching to write full time in
> 1983.
>
> She was the author of "Los Tres Cerdos: Nacho, Tito and Miguel" — her
> version of "The Three Little Pigs." In the book, the third pig, Miguel,
> builds a home-made of adobe bricks. The illustrations depict New Mexico-
> style furnishings, Indian pottery, kiva fireplaces, vigas and retablos.
>
> She also was a bilingual teacher in the Oakland, Calif., public schools in
> the 1980s.
>
> Salinas' body was discovered by her brother-in-law, Louis Ponce, who said
> Friday that he had become concerned about her because he hadn't heard from
> her for a long time. He and his wife, Edna, Salinas' sister, decided to
> drive from their home in East Pasadena, Calif., to attend a Cinco de Mayo
> celebration at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque. A
> niece of Salinas was dancing at the event.
>
> The couple drove to Santa Fe to check on Salinas and found her body lying
> in a filthy living room.
>
> "If you saw the apartment, you would never walk inside it," Ponce told The
> New Mexican. "I never knew anybody could be that filthy."
>
> Stories from friends and family suggested Salinas' life had been
> unraveling for some time. She often slept in her car and washed up in the
> bathroom at a local library. The gas and electricity had been turned off
> in her condo because she wasn't paying her bills. She ate at soup
> kitchens. Her home was in foreclosure.
>
> Salinas earned a bachelor's degree in education from California State
> University in Los Angeles and a master's degree in public health education
> from the University of California, Berkeley.
>
> She became involved in the Chicano movement during that time and
> considered herself a founding mother of MEChA, (Movimiento Estudiantil
> Chicano de Aztlan), a student organization promoting higher education
> among Chicanos.
>
> Peggy Trujillo, a librarian at the New Mexico State Library who had known
> Salinas since about 2009, said Salinas often came there to try to sort out
> matters related to her condo and other personal business.
>
> She brought crates containing papers scattered with excrement from mice.
>
> She told Trujillo that she was being threatened with eviction.
>
> Salinas was very fond of the movie "Eat Pray Love," Trujillo said.
>
> "She was so passionate about the movie," Trujillo said. "That was her
> dream story."
>
> --
> Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
> States of America.
>
> Eric Holder, racist black murdering United States Attorney General, still
> has his job.
>
> Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
> improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
> felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
>
> Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
> relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
> in order to cover up his own ineptness.
>
> Obama continues his goal of disarming America while ObamaCare increases
> insurance premiums 200% and leaves millions without health care.
>
> Obama helped bankrupt Illinois. Democrat run Chicago closes 54 public
> schools.
>
> --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: n...@netfront.net ---
A fitting end, stashed among petrified scats. Kumbaya!
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