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Arsenic in Rice: New Report Finds 'Worrisome Levels'

By SERENA MARSHALL (@SerenaMarsh)
and JIM AVILA (@JimAvilaABC)
Sept. 19, 2012

A major consumer magazine is warning Americans to limit how much rice they eat because of concerns over arsenic and the FDA is investigating the matter.

According to a sobering report released to "Good Morning America" by Consumer Reports magazine this morning, rice eaten just once a day can drive arsenic levels in the human body up 44 percent. Rice eaten twice a day can lead to a 70 percent increase in arsenic.

"So far our results…we actually have about the same number of samples in (and) these two data sets are fairly similar," FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg -- referring to Consumer Reports product testing results --- said in an interview with ABC News today. But added that "based on the available data and the scientific literature" they see no immediate health threat.


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According to a new report, rice eaten just once a day can drive arsenic levels
in the human body up 44 percent.

gamiti ug telescope nang hulagway, di ba naa dinhay periodic table.

sigon sa akong minugbong naaninaw, mapa ni ug asa gilubong ang yamashita treasure.  peke diay tong naangkon ni marcos.


finders keepers

sympathy for those who deserve it.  bisan asa, bisan kanus-a, i will side with the little girl.

i enjoyed this, your excellency.  thank you very much, you horsebeast.

Quote from: balong on September 19, 2012, 04:29:19 PM
islander

ikaw may tubig tubigan, basin ma dugangan nimo para sa CHRISTmas party sa mga bata. i will send more to lolapaloza kay para man sa charity sinelas 

kun sa tagalog pa, sana'y magdilang anghel kayo, sir balong.  sa tinuoray, wa koy tubig.  wa man gani koy puso o gripo o bisan na lang atabay.  uga pa ko sa california raisins.  kun imo kong padad-an ug 1 dollar, langit na para nako.  maimpiyerno lang ko kun imo kong i-require nga mo-posing nga nagngisi nga naggunit sa imong gipadala.  maayo man si lolla kay lamorok ug aping.  ako tawon, wa ganiy aping.

tuod, kagamay sad sa imong gipadala kang lolla.  dugangi ug $75 aron makapalit ug igo-igo nga ice cream sa ilang christmas party for children.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on September 19, 2012, 04:29:13 PM
Dollars bitaw akong gibutang didto.. gi ingnan ko sa teller nga "Ma'am, sa sunod magclaim ka, PESO ang i check kay converted to PESO na  mani.."

maldito gyod.  pugos man ang kalaki sa western union dinha.  sure ko di na mao, loll.  you're supposed to have a choice. 

also, hinaot nga ang imong nadawat  php1041.75, ang average exchange rate today.  mahimog mas mogamay (banks and hotels) or modako (private foreign exchange centers) ang exchange.  kun flat 1k ra ang imong nadawat, nakaganansya pag daginot ang mga kolokoy. 

hinoon, di makadato o makapobre nila nang kantidara, but imagine kun naay 20 nga pareha nimo sa usa ka adlaw, which is very likely... aw, gaba ray ila.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on September 19, 2012, 04:10:56 PM

Here's your request Sir:



Gidawat nako ning gihatag ni Sir Balong sa usa ka kondisyon nga kaning iyang hinatag, ako pod ning i-donate sa among natigum nga funds kay karong umaabot nga December, me and my friends are planning to have a christmas party didto sa school sa Digos city nga bukid kaayo in which magpakaon, manghatag mi ug school supplies ug tsinelas sa mga bata nga intawn pila ka sapa ang tabukon usahay magtiniil pa and also hatag pod mi gamay nga pahalipay sa mga teachers didto.. ^___^ Salamat Sir Balong, dako na ning tabang para sa batang nanginahanglan...

way to go, loll.  great pic. 

samot aning matikluhod si pikoy over your lamorok nga mga aping.  sayang lang nangapo na na siya.    

"They seemed like they loved each other," Jacqueline Viens said, and a photo of the couple displayed in the courtroom suggested the same thing. Against the backdrop of a celluloid-worthy sunset, David Viens beamed next to his blond wife.

David Viens and Jacqueline Viens' mother had split up when she was a toddler. He started dating Dawn Viens a short time later, and Jacqueline Viens visited them several times a year, she said. Dawn Viens taught her to write cursive and tie her shoes, Jacqueline Viens testified.

"Did you love Dawn?" Brazil asked.

"I did," Viens said.

But, she added, Dawn Viens was no saint. "She'd wake up in the morning and drink all day long," said Jacqueline Viens, who testified that she and her stepmother had done cocaine together.

http://articles.latimes.com/

On Wednesday, Deputy Dist. Atty. Deborah Brazil's questions hinted at a macabre theory to explain why their efforts failed. One time, Jacqueline Viens testified, her father joked about how to get rid of a body: by cooking it. "He is a chef," she said.

Viens, 22, who also testified at her father's preliminary hearing, was visibly uncomfortable on the stand. Once, during a break in testimony, she stole a glance at her father, then quickly looked away.

Defense attorney Fred McCurry tried to pick apart some of her recollections, particularly of the drunken conversation she and her father allegedly had about his wife's final hours. Viens admitted that she'd also smoked marijuana that night and that her memory was somewhat fuzzy. She also said she'd never seen a fight between her father and Dawn Viens turn physical.

Dawn and David Viens. Jacqueline Viens testified at her father's murder trial Wednesday. (KTLA)

Jacqueline Viens said her father told her that his wife had choked on her own vomit. He also said, through tears, that her body would never be found, his daughter said.

She shared the story with rapt jurors Wednesday, the opening day of her father's murder trial in downtown Los Angeles. He has pleaded not guilty to killing Dawn Viens, 39, who disappeared in October 2009.

In 2011, after he learned that his daughter had spoken to detectives, David Viens leaped off an 80-foot cliff in Rancho Palos Verdes. His injuries were so severe that he appeared in court Wednesday in a wheelchair, wearing a gray suit and glasses and scribbling intently on a notepad.

After his arrest, investigators said, David Viens told them a story similar to the conversation Jacqueline Viens remembered. Authorities tore up the walls and floor of his Lomita restaurant, Thyme Contemporary Cafe, in hopes of finding his wife's remains.

Restaurant owner's daughter testifies in father's murder trial

Jacqueline Viens recounts a drunken talk with David Viens in which he said his wife choked to death on her own vomit after he tied her up and taped her mouth.

September 14, 2012|By Ashley Powers, Los Angeles Times

One night in 2009, during a drunken conversation, Jacqueline Viens said her father told her why her stepmother had recently vanished.

Dawn Viens had been needling him and he just wanted to sleep, Jacqueline Viens recalled her father saying. He'd tried barricading their bedroom door with a dresser to keep his wife out. When that didn't work, David Viens tied her up and taped her mouth, according to his daughter. The next morning, Dawn Viens was dead.

just acting

acting as a can of beer

acting as a bird cage

why man tawon nga na-flat man nang iyang ulo uy.  di tawon pihing si r2d2.  kinopya ra na pero sa tinuoray basuran na.  tan-awa, di ba naay dustpan ug silhig sa kilid.  actor god taton.  dia ra si tinuod r2...


acting as a pirate

pssst.  xyz-rated na man ni.  nikalit god ug kilat diri, arang ambaka sa among iring.

naunsa na man ning thread ni bai tigs... bai tigs, naa bay bagyo diha?  nagbagyo na mi diri ug lahi.

Quote from: Pikoy on September 19, 2012, 02:47:59 PM
hahaha canal of heaven Lolla??

lollaaaaa!  tubaga dayon, pleeeaaase, hahaha!  now pa ko nga naa diay canal of heaven.  naa ba pod kahay root canal of heaven inubanan sa toothache of hell ug purgatoryo de pustiso?

juan dipoy, kun sa ato pa.  duol ra tawon ang dipoy ug pikoy.

Quote from: Pikoy on September 19, 2012, 02:43:38 PM
heheh...ikaw jud Lolla..chck me if  i'm X..

no, you're not x.  lolla meant to say that you look like johnny depp, hehehe.

Quote from: Pikoy on September 19, 2012, 01:58:32 PM
hhaah..m'm isle..unsa kaha nuh ug magbagyo ug PIKOY..??..

aw, naa gyoy mga dapit nga mabahaan dayon.

my favorite actor is beadel star the terminator because, unlike arnold, beadel can act.

Quote from: chicogon on September 18, 2012, 12:44:59 AM
Oy naa man diay kay message last August 20's... I missed reading it I must have been still sedated at that time. Soweeee!

no prob, fr chic.  there's always lorenz to ask about how things are in glocca morra.

uy, wa pa man diay motuay ang bagyo dinhi... kana gyod, loll, stand up against the storms of life by whatever name they come, ma-karen, o ma-ruping, o ma-pikoy ba kaha, ma-minolde o pinakatay.

hahaha!  does this look like those who fear long words are a cross between a hippopotamus and a squid, with a dash of terror against pedophiles?  ngiaowww!

this guy's too arrogant for his own good.  he should be facing the npa and the milf on the battlefield the way his peers at the pma did.

what?  the 2003 oakwood mutiny leader, the very same one who showed cruelty with his shouts on the senate floor to the late gen. angelo reyes, is accusing a respectable and revered senior of being a war freak?  someone without diplomatic experience is implying that he can do the job better?

someone's interested in secretary del rosario's position by 2013.  china is laughing all the way to the spratlys and scarborough shoal. 

Trillanes also blamed Del Rosario for the President’s failure to secure a one-on-one meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Leader’s Summit in Russia last week.

Trillanes claimed that backchanneling efforts were close to working out an informal meeting between the President and Hu until Del Rosario got wind of these talks and insisted on taking over to ensure his presence during the meeting.

The President had declared he wanted a “heart-to-heart meeting” with Hu which Trillanes agreed would have cleared the air since their last meeting in August 2011.

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/

Trillanes said Del Rosario failed miserably in his attempt to convince US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in May to intervene when Washington announced it would stay neutral in the conflict.

The senator blamed Del Rosario for his failure to get a joint statement from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to address the West Philippine Sea conflict due to his insistence in using Scarborough Shoal which Cambodia, a Chinese ally, naturally opposed.

Offshore oil deal

Del Rosario has been accused of using the West Philippine Sea conflict as a leverage to cut a favorable deal with state-run China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) whose top officials were met by Pangilinan in China in May.

“I’m merely implementing the foreign policy in terms of defending what is ours. If I’m being accused of taking a tough stance and at the same time promoting the interest of Forum, it doesn’t equate since I would be taking a soft stance if that were the case,” Del Rosario said.

The foreign secretary also rejected insinuations that he was against any peaceful settlement with China because he was protecting the interest of his former boss, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. chairman Manny V. Pangilinan.

Pangilinan controls Forum Energy, the consortium which owns the exploratory rights to  the Recto Bank off Palawan touted to be the country’s largest gas find and part of the territory being claimed by China.

Just be happy

“I’d rather that Secretary  Del Rosario be just happy with the fact that somebody else did the job he was supposed to do, which is to foster better relations with other nations as a means to promote our country’s interests,” Trillanes said.

Del Rosario was adamant in denying Trillanes’ charges that he had made treasonous acts.

“That  is totally untrue. He should be confronted on the basis of what he said. I don’t want to dispute what the senator is saying but I think what you have said to me thus far is untrue,” Del Rosario said.

“[The] fear that China will build an outpost there in Scarborough was never true all along. It’s better that we just course this through peaceful means,” the former Navy lieutenant said in the radio interview.

Responding to Trillanes’ statement, Del Rosario said:

“Many of us know for a fact that the good senator is staying very close to the West Philippine Sea issue. He fully knows what is factual and what can be established as a matter of record. The factual record would reflect otherwise.  The DFA (Department of Foreign Affairs) has remained faithful to the President’s mandate to defend what is ours and  to pursue a peaceful resolution on the West Philippine Sea issue, in accordance with the international law.”

‘War freak’

“He nearly brought us to an armed conflict with a superpower neighbor back in April and now that the back channel talks have enabled us to normalize our relations with China again without even ceding anything, he is still complaining?”  Trillanes said.

He referred to the confrontation between a Philippine warship and  two Chinese surveillance ships over Panatag Shoal off the coast of Zambales.

In a July 20 interview with dzIQ, Trillanes described Del Rosario as a “war freak.”

The presence of Trillanes, leader of the Magdalo group behind the 2003 Oakwood mutiny,  in Cabinet meetings on China since May has raised not a few eyebrows, including that  of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile’s.

In a phone interview, Trillanes said, “If Secretary Del Rosario was only close to being effective as a foreign secretary, then there wouldn’t be any need for a back channel in the first place.”

Trillanes has made no secret about his opinion that Del Rosario is unfit to represent the Philippines on the negotiating table with China because of his allegedly rabid opposition to any peaceful settlement with Beijing and his purported desire to bring the United States into the confrontation.

The senator said this was shown by a series of actions Del Rosario had allegedly made that appeared to intensify, rather than ease, the conflict between the two countries.

Aquino’s back channel to China is Trillanes

DFA head bemoans senator’s role in talks

By Gil C. Cabacungan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012


Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario

A tempest is brewing in the country’s diplomatic front with Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario saying his efforts to resolve the lingering standoff with China over disputed territories in the West Philippine Sea were being torpedoed by a backroom negotiator.

In interviews conducted by the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV emerged as the negotiator working independently for President Benigno Aquino in Beijing.

“I think that while backchanneling has its purpose, in our case it’s doing more harm than good. It is important that we speak with one voice on this matter,” Del Rosario said in a recent  interview.

you're bluffing, sir balong.   aw, siaw man gyod hinoon ka.

as for hubag's #25 reply, don't worry.  i believe he's not referring to you.  you never used big words and you never tried to impress anyone with big words.  i'm sure he/she is referring to these theories about obama, for which you did not claim authorship.  you might be a believer, but anyone here cannot say that you authored these claims, okay?

as for big words, it's lorenz and i who are nearest to using these here, imaginary polyglots and sesquipedalians that we are, hihihi.

jagajagaon man ka, sir balong.  kaklaro anang gikan sa barnorama ni nga sugilanon sa pagsugod pa lang sa thread kay giklaro daan ni his excellency the ambassador...

Quote from: Pikoy on September 18, 2012, 08:25:55 PM
heheh....

murag lisod na bai hubs klaro na kaayo na..heheh:D

panghinaot na lang nga pilay pad ug mosipyat diay si lolla ug gunit sa di angay gunitan.

nakauli ba kaha tog tarong sa?

indeed, you are not addressed as your excellency for nothing.

please, where's the bow?  or is the bow the bullet?

got to go to do some errand for a while.  lorenz, how's fr chic?

this is a claim music students live by.  i believe it.  i was no longer a child when i started to hold a violin, but what i can say now is i even hate the mere sight of guns.  i hope never to have any urgent use for a gun, ever.

meanwhile, does it follow that if you put a gun in a child's hand, that child will never hold a violin?

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 18, 2012, 02:02:46 PM
he was quite magnanimous in regards to the bailout. magnanimous towards the CEOs of companies such as Bank of America and GM. Tax dollars thrown at their disposal. tsk tsk tsk!

think of it this way, isles, he has added over 3.5 Trillion Dollars in our national debt for these policies. Generations of Americans will be paying the interest of these for decades to come.

i see... at least that's clearer now.  let's also say that he tried palliatives to the economic morass that he inherited from a republican administration, in what used to be an artificial feeling of plenty with the policies of alan greenspan. (Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/business/economy/24panel.html?_r=1)   

do you have any idea how a republican president, had he won instead of obama, could have made up for it?

Quote from: balong on September 18, 2012, 02:01:14 PM
exactly. i am one of the lunatics 

obyus ba?  think of it this way... you're a fun lunatic.

Quote from: balong on September 18, 2012, 12:01:18 PM
dili puti ang author. he is black like obama.

then please give the author due credit by revealing his name.  this is not a simple accusation.  the author must have his real basis, and he will stand by them.  if there's no name, then this is just one of those oh-so-many emails that get into one's inbox from anonymous sources; nothing but a trash of conspiracy theories.

Quotekong masakpan ko, dugay ra kong na preso. keep an open mind islander. there are so many things you dont know about obama...

come on, sir balong.  mapriso ka for ranting against obama?  martial law na ba diay sa u.s.?  giwagtang na ba diay ang freedom of expression dinha? 

oh, i'm trying to keep an open mind, that's why i try to check and countercheck your claims.  as for you, you know much about obama, no question.  but you've chosen to know only what you want to believe in.  i'm in no such situation, fortunately.

di na man tingali ka kahibawo motuwad pareha ana, sir bals.

Quote from: balong on September 18, 2012, 11:32:41 AM
i am a proud boholano.i am proud of my ancestry. i am proud to be a rich and hardworking republican like my friend raquel

psssst. whisper whisper...... ajaw mo saba ha. i am not really rich. i am a  very poor dirty old man, way goli. baho pa ko sa tae.

paita pod ning makabasa ta ani nga padung pa ko mokaon...

don't tell me, sir balong, nga kanang prize sa imong contest resulta sa imong pagpanimahong tae? 

na, hala, go on with your self-deprecation.  di pod tingali sala ni obama nga nanimaho kang tae?

Quote from: balong on September 18, 2012, 01:38:08 PM
i know much about him kay sa aho nang giingon, naa koy mga amigo nga sigi lang ug subay sa mga lihok ni obama. the information i am giving here does not go around the world in nanoseconds. private emails ni. gamay ra ming maka dawat sa mga emails. pila lang mi ka bo-ok. you might say we are only the selected few. i care too much about america. mao nga nag hago ko ug dokdok basin ang naka basa, ma convince nga dili mo botar ni obama.

Quote from: balong on September 18, 2012, 01:40:36 PM
if you scroll the project to restore america, i am one of the members

you're saying you're part of the elite few with special access, with rare information about obama, complete with omerta?  whew!  another term for that is fringe group, wa na lang sa loonies.  there is another kind, also with special access; they're called paid hacks.

Quote from: balong on September 18, 2012, 11:37:15 AM
daan pa lagi ko. abogado jud ning ahong amiga

maajo, kay na-attorney outlaw kog ahat nga law 1 ra ko kutob (law 1 sa bachelor's degree ha, dili law 1 sa law school).

p.s. gi-encourage ko sa una ni erpat nga moeskwela ug law, tubag ko-- wa man gani ko masapi ug accounting kay magtuon, law na ba kaha.  di sad ko ganahan nga sa tibuok nakong kinabuhi magsige lang kog pangabogar, hahaha!

so there, sir balong, di ko abogado. 

Quote from: taga tigbao on September 18, 2012, 01:16:05 PM
Base sa ahong mga nabasa, Obama seems to be waging war against religions, bisan Christian ni sija.

He is attacking now religions, specially the Catholic Church.

and all this coming out with election a couple of months away?  let's think mudslinging campaign, bai tigs.  naa pod ni sa ato.  that's why we need to be discerning readers.

Quote from: balong on September 18, 2012, 12:13:15 PM
pwede dakpon ang mga producers sa obama movie kong malicious editing ang ilang gihimo

better said than done.  the u.s. is not on martial law.

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 18, 2012, 12:07:48 PM
The argument over his birth is inconsequential as he was born in Hawaii. What is important is what he has done for the country since he received he mandate in 2008. His failure in the economic sector is paramount and magnanimous. I hope and pray that Romney wins.

lorenz, pleeease.  magnanimous, an adjective, means "very generous or forgiving, esp. toward a rival or someone less powerful than oneself."  don't you think this is out of place in the gist of your statement?  or if you really mean to say what it means, then what does your whole statement really mean?

Quote from: balong on September 18, 2012, 12:01:18 PM
dili puti ang author. he is black like obama. and this is not a dishonest article. dili ma disqualify si obama kay ongoing pa ang kaso. gi pogngan jud ni sa goberno nga dili ma circulate. as what i told you, i have so many sources which you cant access. sort of an underground movement. powerful gud kaajo ang pres. sa states. dinhi ra ko mag gara gara ug sibya  kay di man na sila kasabot ug bisaja. kong masakpan ko, dugay ra kong na preso. keep an open mind islander. there are so many things you dont know about obama...

of course naman, sir bals.  i do not presume to know much about him.  i don't see any reason why you should, too.  moingon kag mas kahibawo ka kay naa ka diha, well, with information going around the world in nanoseconds, we might be informed or misinformed about the same things for all we know, our locations be damned.  besides, ang uban pod bitaw ninyong mga fil-ams, mo-presume man pod mo nga mas kahibawo mo unsaon pagpadagan ang pilipinas, bisag wa mo diri.  

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on September 15, 2012, 10:13:37 PM
no one says he is a muslim but all Obama's actions and words have confirmed that he is a muslim.

balong is saying it, and it looks like he is simply repeating what others are saying, from what he's heard and read.

Quotethis video is a self-confession. no US president has ever been so passionate and fanatic about Islam than Obama. you will never hear bill clinton or george bush quoting Koran. only obama does.

Although it is titled "Obama Admits He Is A Muslim," the president in fact has admitted no such thing. The video edits and twists his actual words, sometimes turning what were denials into false confessions. For example, it edits out the words "I’m a Christian" from one quote and "my Christian faith" from another. It shows him quoting from the Quran, but snips out his quotes from the Bible and the Talmud.

Although the video gives no citations and no dates, we have tracked down the full quotes from the various appearances and provides an interesting case study of malicious editing. (http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9018893)

Quote from: balong on September 15, 2012, 10:00:35 PM
sa mga loyalists ni obama, mao dajon ni itubag. dishonest editing. pareha sa  2016 obamas america, ang gi basehan man hud ang gi panulti ni obama. dishonest editing gihapon.

naturalmente, kay naa ang proof.  naa ra hinoon nimo kun motuo ka o di.  but we know the tricks of dishonest editing and taking statements out of context or changing the slant of stories.  anybody in the communication and information dissemination business (editors, tri-media news reporters and writers, speechwriters, etc.) knows this.

Quote from: taga tigbao on September 18, 2012, 11:28:47 AM


I am loving you dear. 

Quote from: taga tigbao on September 18, 2012, 11:30:10 AM

wowwweee!  such sweet animals.  ka-cute, ka-cute!

Quote from: Lollapalooza on September 18, 2012, 11:02:56 AM
kani kon todo hangyo gyud...

ayaw!  ayaw intawon ko i-dissect, huhuhu. sige na lang if you don't love me...

hinan-aw gyod diay kag horror/terror flick, your excellency.  'saw'pa man gyod ang nahunahunaan.  salig ra pod ug 'the exorcist' o 'mission impossible'...

Feast of the Black Nazarene
Rizal Park, 09 January 2012

bigger, but neither is this the world, man.

Iglesia ni Cristo grand evangelical mission
Rizal Park, 27 February 2012

it's not really the world, man.

aherm.  nganli bi.  aron di ma-eliminate sa contest ni sir balong.

as we may glean, being pro-choice is not as simple as being pro-abortion per se.  anybody with a law background can understand this very well.  (i try to even if i don't remember a single lesson in my law 1 class.)

my point here is to always try to go beyond a simple yes or no, beyond what we read or know or presume to know.  (not that i don't believe we don't do that at all; that's why we have this forum.)  this is my contribution, thus.  it doesn't mean i don't need further enlightenment... 

In disallowing many state and federal restrictions on abortion in the United States, Roe v. Wade prompted a national debate that continues today, about issues including whether and to what extent abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, what methods the Supreme Court should use in constitutional adjudication, and what the role should be of religious and moral views in the political sphere. Roe v. Wade reshaped national politics, dividing much of the United States into pro-choice and pro-life camps, while activating grassroots movements on both sides. (wikipedia)

a very interesting aspect of the landmark case:

The Court later rejected Roe's trimester framework, while affirming Roe's central holding that a person has a right to abortion until viability.  The Roe decision defined "viable" as being "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with artificial aid", adding that viability "is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks." (wikipedia)

a defining moment on abortion in the u.s. was the supreme court's decision of this landmark case:

Roe vs. Wade

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion.  Decided simultaneously with a companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the Court ruled that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting women's health.  Arguing that these state interests became stronger over the course of a pregnancy, the Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the trimester of pregnancy. (wikipedia)

now let's go to terminologies...

pro-choice, reproductive choice

Pro-choice means you decide. I don't decide for you, you don't decide for me.

I don't believe in letting anyone make important decisions for me - no one can tell me when it's time for me to be a mom or create a life. (http://www.fwhc.org/)

i am not.  no ko, kay ang atong tinan-awan yes and no ra, or black and white ra man.

as for obama, there are nuances.  the answer is not a simple yes or no.  there are too many gray areas between a yes and a no, especially in the case of national leaders and political parties whose decisions involve legislation and state funds.  an example:

Question: What is Barack Obama's position on abortion?

Answer: A pro-choice advocate, Barack Obama has said that if elected he would make preserving a women's right to choose a priority and would oppose any constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade.

His position on abortion is long-standing and well-documented; he had gone on record as apro-choice politician as far back as 1998, during his time as an Illinois state legislator. However, he has stated throughout his political career that with regard to partial birth abortion a state can restrict late-term abortions. In an April 2008 interview with Fox News, he expressed concern that any such restrictions include a provision to protect the health of the mother.

Though he firmly supports reproductive choice, he has reached out to the pro-life movement. In his words, those who are pro-life "should continue to be able to lawfully object and try to change the laws." (http://womensissues.about.com/)

too little, too late.  the intelligence apparatus of the u.s. is not to be sneezed at.  kun tinuod pa ni, sa una ra, when he first ran as state senator in 1996, disqualified na unta siya. 

have we ever thought that this obama bashing could be just a tailender of his being non-white?  is the author of this seemingly (dis)honest article not only a true-blue republican but also someone who happens to be white?   

da, da, da.  amaw gyod tuod nga workplace.  bol-anon ko, passultihon gyod kog german to a fellow bol-anon?  allowed tingali ang german kay ang filipino languages ra man ang gidili...

sure ko maayo kaayo ani molihay si statesville...

aguy ning estoryaha, katohoan dili.  tiaw bay mogabas ug bitiis, por santo.  siyaro na man lang pod ni si toro ka manyakis.  to what depths had his psychological and emotional depravity sunk? 

bilib sad ko sa news writer nga nakahunahuna ug toro nga ngan as disguise imbis butakal.  sa tanto-tanto, kinaluoyan ang bata nga nakadunggab intawon.

taym sa, di pay gustong mo-extra...

Tunis (Tunisia), 14 September 2012: protesting at the US embassy (not seen in the picture)

other embassies got the ire of protesters, like the german embassy in sudan:


Khartoum (Sudan), 14 September 2012


A still image take from video footage shows demonstrators jumping on the emblem of the German embassy after breaking into the mission's compound in Khartoum September 14, 2012. Sudanese demonstrators broke into the German embassy in Khartoum on Friday, raising an Islamic flag and setting the building on fire in a protest against a film that demeaned the Prophet Muhammed, witnesses said.

more at http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/protests-film-spread-muslim-world-article-1.1159601#ixzz26oKihmno

In a BBC interview, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the film was "wrong and offensive but also laughable as a piece of film-making".

"What is dangerous and wrong is the reaction to it," said Mr Blair, who now serves as a Middle East peace envoy.

-excerpts from Anti-Islam film: Thousands protest around Muslim world, 17 September 2012, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

About 3,000 protesters from the Philippines Muslim minority burned US and Israeli flags in the southern city of Marawi

In Yemen, hundreds of students in the capital, Sanaa, called for the expulsion of the US ambassador

In Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, hundreds of protesters faced off with police, throwing stones and petrol bombs, while police retaliated with tear gas

Hundreds of Palestinians staged a peaceful sit-in protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah

Angry demonstrators in the Afghan capital, Kabul, fired guns, torched police cars and shouted anti-US slogans

Police arrested at least 15 people at a small protest outside the US embassy in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku

Elsewhere

Thousands of people were on the streets of Beirut, waving flags and chanting, "America, hear us - don't insult our Prophet".

At least one protester was killed in Pakistan on Monday as violent demonstrations were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the country's biggest city, Karachi.

It appears that, as predicted, Pakistan has blocked access to Youtube in response to the video, the BBC's Aleem Maqbool reports from Islamabad.

More protests were reported in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir.

aside from libya and egypt where protests against the anti-lslam film started, more protests are cropping up in other countries, including the philippines.

Protest timeline

11 September: Attack on US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, leaves ambassador dead, while attack on Us embassy in Cairo sees flag torn down and Islamist banner hoisted

13 September: Protesters break into US embassy compound in Sanaa, Yemen

14 September: Protesters storm US embassy complex in Tunis. Seven deaths at protests worldwide, following Muslim Friday Prayers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

Quote from: Pikoy on September 17, 2012, 07:44:46 PM
hehe..maujod m'am Isle way lami ang pelikula kung y kontrabida..haha liko nasad..bitaw mauni giingong lingaw2x sa kinabuhing dabong, haha way lami ang palami kong balik2x ang style..dba??daghan man gud ug klasi ang palami para mulahutay ug dugay.. hehehe..ang trend ha, kay kong e period nmu dretso tapos na..,pero lain pay ato ma'm isle uyon kaba sa among bag ong pelikula ni Lollapalooza..?

uyon mo lang.  curious lang kog kinsa ang mohimo sa musical score.  ako gyong warningan nga di ning pelikulaha the pink panther.

mao ba ni ang gitawag ug bot?  nausab na pod iyang ngan pero ang style is pareha ra, morag nag-repeat ug usa ka paragraph.  are these human beings or viruses?

mao nga surefire tuod kun i-raffles na lang, matod pa sa suggestion ni pikoy.

mag-unsa na man lang, sir bals, kun duha na lay mabilin, unya dungan silag eliminate sa igkasi?  is this situation possible?   

hahaha!  lingawa nakong gabasa sa trend uy.  aw, ana baya ang trend dinhi usahay.  gikan sa topic sa thread, moliko, motuy-od, mosaka, mokanaog, mobaktas, magpakasal.  that's part of the dynamism of human thought processes man tingali.  mao bitaw nga nalingaw ta.  way lami man tingali kun tuy-od ra kanunay sa thread kay mora tag nag-essay exam, hehe.  maningali lang ko kay i am on her majesty's secret service...      

cool.

morag sakto ka, langs.  makabusog gyod hinoon.  makadako pa gyod ug tiyan.

kamoritsing man sad ang players ani.  lisod nig one-on-one da kay uwaw jamo.

Quote from: bugsay on September 17, 2012, 03:46:55 PM

sajon jamo ra pagpagwapo sa sama natong bati'g nawong.....potosyap..

sajon man tuod, pero hinay-hinay lang sa sipyat kay mapareha unya mo ni pikoy nga ang agtang maoy sul-oban ug underwear...

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 17, 2012, 11:07:59 AM
Blue Christmas diay tawon ming mga batig nawong...

panaygon na lang, bai hubs.  sa una bitaw (christmas 2010), nanaygon baya ta uban ni bugsay ug ni vhinz ug ni bolbuhol ba to?  basta sure ko nga akong gidagan ang atong halin...

panaygon na lang, bai hubs.  di ba the other christmas (2010) nanaygon man ta ni bugsay ug vhinz ug kinsa pa to?  kaya pa rin natin ito.

Quote from: vrglguapo on September 17, 2012, 02:31:50 PM
Mga Jawa sab ug dagway ang mga Marzan..mga litsing jawa gajod.

por santo.  kakuyaw ba diay aning mga taga-tb kun mao nay masuko...

vrglguaps, i assure you, tawo ko para sa among helper.  (masuko among papa kun ingnon ug "maid", mao nga naanad na mig tawag ug "helper".)  27 years na siya sa amo, and counting.  mora na siyag among igsoon.  di mi santos, labaw pa kong sipok ug ulo, pero di gyod ko manghilabot ug modapat.  besides, ganahan ko aning among helper cum adopted sister kay kamao mosukol, hehe.

on the emotional side, mapiangan gyod ko kun pananglit mawala na ni siya sa amo.

naa koy idol sa una sa consolacion, cebu.  mama siya sa akong amiga, 78 years old at the time.  di siya tantong nakaeskwela, igo rang nakahuman ug high school.  but wow, her sense of justice is so high, lupig ang mga professionals. 

naka-witness siyag gikulata nga maid, di man gani intawon niya kaila, pero siya ang nipasaka ug sumbong, siya ang nagbadhas-badhas sa korte as witness.  wa gyod niya lun-i hangtod napriso ug napordoy ang nangulata ug binayad sa maid.  mao nay tawo nga tinuod.  i always remember her as my source of strength and inspiration sa mga sitwasyon nga ingon ani.   

Quote from: Pikoy on September 17, 2012, 01:49:41 PM
mau nay tambal sa mga ma daug daugong tawo..mayra, maura.. gaba!!! surok jud akong dugo mag tan aw aning mga tawoha oi...ambot lang..kaayo rang kilawon ug way suka2x..

ikaw unyay mahilo, piks.  mao nga cool it, man, hehe.  bitaw, ang mahimo nato ug mga ingon ani kay kanang mag-apil-apil na lang ba...

pananglit, naa tay silingan nga ingon ani nila, tabangan gyod natog sumbong ang ilang biktima, bahalag ikadiperensya sa silingan, wa bitaw silay hinungdan.

giabot ug 4 ka tuig ni si baran nga nag-antos?  tungod kay helpless siya ug way nanghilabot.  syaro ang ginikanan sa couple, syaro ang friends of this couple, syaro ang mga silingan.  ay, ambot.  wa ta kahibawo sa sitwasyon. 

basta maningkamot lang tag ato if we are confronted with similar situations and we become witnesses without our wanting to.  ang gabuhat ani, sin of commission, kun di ta manghilabot, sin of omission ang atoa.  sakto ba ko, piks?

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on September 17, 2012, 01:32:12 PM
let this evil couple grow old in jail.

they should.  di lalim ang gisampak nga mga kiha, labi na sa babaye.  too bad they have three children who are now with their grandparents while their own parents are in jail.

Quote from Quezon City regional trial court branch 77 Judge Germano Francisco Legaspi's order:

"The fact that accused Reynold Marzan and accused Annaliza Marzan will be held in different facilities of the Quezon City jail will not prevent their children from visiting them. Any perceived inconvenience the children might suffer in visiting their parents at different detention cells is so insignificant as to warrant the detention of both accused at the NBI." - Source: Inquirer

Quote from: Lollapalooza on September 17, 2012, 01:34:57 PM
the couple insisted na si Baran ang nagplantsa sa kanyang sarili... Kinsa man intawng tarong nga tao ang plantsahon ang kaugalingon... dapat no bail na sila...

what?  gibugoan na lang gyod sila sa tibuok pilipinhon?  angay nilang i-itsa fuera ang ilang abogado ani da. 

besides, kun tinuod pa nga nagplantsa sa kaugalingon si baran, uy, patambalan unta ug paulion dayon sa ila kay lisod man diay ug utok.  that is the normal reaction of a normal employer.  but these are employers from hell.

to remind us why we are angry...

an earlier background:





august 15, 2012
http://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/index.php?topic=53643.0

Analiza’s husband, Reynold, stays in a cell of the QCJ building with other inmates who have no gang affiliations. Jail warden Supt. Joseph Vela also assured Reynold’s safety.

Vela noted that Reynold’s cell is the one nearest to his office, thus, easy to check. “I also instructed the cell leader to make sure that Reynold would not be touched,” the official said.

On Thursday, Judge Germano Francisco Legaspi of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 77 denied the couple’s bid to be detained at the National Bureau of Investigation headquarters and instead committed them to the city jail.

The Marzans are facing charges of serious illegal detention filed by Baran. Analiza is also charged with two counts of attempted homicide and seven counts of serious physical injuries.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/


The Marzan couple

“They cannot have flat irons in their cells. The inmates were probably just taunting the new inmate. But they don’t mean it,” the officer told reporters on Friday.

Some female inmates were heard yelling “handa na mga plantsa namin! (our flat irons are ready!)” shortly before Analiza arrived at the jail at around 3 p.m.

It was an apparent reference to Baran’s allegation that Analiza burned her face with a flat iron, among other abuses at the hand of the Marzans.

Cuaresma said Analiza was “quiet” and mostly kept to herself during her first night at the dormitory in Camp Karingal, Barangay Sikatuna Village, where she shares a cell with other women.

Heated arguments among female inmates happen but they hardly lead to violent physical confrontations, he said.

“We use a therapeutic modality here. Women have no gang affiliations,” he added.



ACCUSED EMPLOYERS SHOW UP: Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada and National Bureau of Investigation Director Nonnatus Caesar Rojas listen to the statement of Analiza and Reynold Marzan who appeared Monday afternoon before the NBI. The couple was accused of physical abuse and illegal detention by their kasambahay Bonita Baran, whose case is also the subject of a Senate investigation. Due to the order of arrest issued by the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development for their non-appearance before the inquiries, Sen. Estrada requested the Department of Justice and NBI to turn over the couple to the Senate. The committee is set to conduct its last public hearing on the case on Wednesday. The couple through their legal counsel (not in photo) deny the accusation.

Authors: www.senate.gov.ph

Jail execs assure safety of couple in maid abuse case

By Julie M. Aurelio
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Friday, September 14th, 2012

MANILA, Philippinesâ€"Jail officials on Friday assured the safety of Analiza Marzan and her husband Reynold while in detention on charges that they tortured their former maid Bonita Baran for several years until she went blind.

SJO4 Eduardo Cuaresma of the jail’s female dormitory said the Marzans will be safe in detention, a day after some of the inmates were heard poking fun at the incoming detainee before she arrived at the facility on Thursday.


THE MARZANS upon arrival at the city jail on Thursday. MARIANNE BERMUDEZ

hehe, basin di na mobaha ang manila kun makakaon ug three-ton cake ang residents...

kinahanglan pa ang piktyur?  daan pa lagi kong adto ni padung sa pagwapohay...