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kining mga nasod pareha ra gyod ug mga tawo.  way gubot kun way bintahoso.

Things have turned out as they shouldâ€"the Philippines has declared the person concerned “persona non grata” (unacceptable, we are not happy [non grata] to have him), which is a diplomatic-speak for “shoo, shoo!”  The sending State then has the obligation to recall him or risk his apprehension by Philippine authorities after the government declares that it no longer recognizes his diplomatic status.

Rape is always a terrible crime, but ignorance displayed in high places is despicable, indeed!

(emphasis mine)


Fr. Ranhilio Callangan Aquino is the dean of the Graduate School of Law of San Beda College (Mendiola).  He is one of three children of Justice Hilarion L. Aquino and Dean Leticia P. Callangan-Aquino (College of Law, Cagayan State University, Tuguegarao City).

So, what happens when a diplomat goes berserk and hurts and maims indiscriminately?  Such restraint as may be necessary to prevent him from visiting more harm and injury may, as dictated by reason, be used on him.  However, this should not result in detention or apprehension.  And amid demands of militants that the diplomat concerned waive his immunity, it will be well to remind the delirious mob that diplomatic immunity, enjoyed not for the diplomat’s sake, but for the sake of the State he represents, can be waived only by the sending State.  It cannot be presumed; it must be expressed, and a waiver of immunity from prosecution is a different thing from a waiver of immunity from the execution of whatever penalty may be imposed.

(emphasis mine)

Some who spoke first and researched later must have mixed up the rules on diplomatic immunity with the immunities of agents representing international organizations: the International Red Cross, the World Health Organization or even such entities as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.  Most of the time, the scope of immunity will be the result of treaty provisions.  (International law provides for treaties between States and international organizations.)  In their regard, immunity is “functional”, meaning principally that the breadth of immunity is determined by the functions they performâ€"and only to that extent.

The determination of diplomatic status is a matter that, by constitutional allocation of powers, belongs to the Executive, since it is the latter that conducts foreign relations in behalf of the Republic of the Philippines.  However, in Liang v. People of the Philippines (2001), the Supreme Court maintained that Executive determinations did not necessarily preclude courts from inquiring into the status of one who pleads his diplomatic immunity as an exempting circumstance.  It is for the person who claims immunity to prove it, and for the courts to examine the proof.  But it is one thing to demand proof of immunity, and it is quite another to misstate the law, no matter that it's done so with unction and fervor!  In fact, the same full immunity from criminal jurisdiction can rightly be claimed by members of the administrative and technical staff of a diplomatic mission!

(emphasis mine)

The present law on diplomatic immunity is the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.  In fact, it did not create the law.  In many respects, it only codified customary international law.  The immunity of diplomats has long been part of general international law, or international common law.  In respect to diplomats, the immunity from criminal jurisdiction is absolute: no ifs, no buts.  All the rhetoric then about rape never being part of one’s official functions and therefore lying beyond the shield of immunity should be reserved for sophomoric declamation contests. That simply is not the law.  An ambassador is a diplomat, but one need not be an ambassador to be a diplomat.

(emphasis mine)

Rape!

by Fr. Ranhilio Callangan Aquino
May 14th, 2012
Manila Standard Today

A Panamian diplomat, it has been alleged, raped a Filipina â€" and in the aftermath of that dastardly incident, international law has been “raped” by irate but hardly informed legislators, each with his or her own version of diplomatic immunity.

We did not invent diplomatic immunity.  States, for centuries, have always recognized that immunities attend the representatives of other States and history records the fact that breach of these immunities has, in several cases, been “casus belli” â€"a cause of a war.  The proposition advanced by one female senator was therefore not accurate: that diplomatic immunities only go so far as to allow a diplomat to perform his or her duties.  The privilege of liberty from arrest, apprehension, prosecution and trial also have to do with the very dignity of the entity represented by a diplomat â€"an elite in the world-stage (where elite is a matter neither of wealth nor of size but of international juridical personality)!

here's something that senator tito sotto may understand if he tried to act less like he's a comedian in 'eat bulaga' and more like a statesman in the senate halls.  after all, wasn't he that senator of some years back who berated a security guard of a subdivision (how dare the security guard do his job by stopping the car the senator was in for security inspection.  didn't the guard recognize him?  well, divas need not only be females like claudine, come to think of it.)

the following is one of the clearest article on diplomatic immunity hereabouts.  if only the senator and probably two colleagues of his care less about mediabytes...

duhay labad ni manoy hinoon.  naguba ang nawong sa iyang kulokadidang (lisod gyod tuod ning magkuyog kun duha ra mo) ug ang iyang asawa mapriso.  wa gyod ni damha ni lover boy.  mas lisod tong nahitabo sa una sa cebu kay ang gisabligan ug asido ang nawong man sa bana.  na, nabuta siya.

bahin pod nig away ug bana ug asawa diri nga wa sa newspapers...

nahibung lang ko gahapon nganong morag daghan ra kaayo ang nanglupad nga nasiplatan nako sa bintana.  usahay man god, kun naay molupad, usa ba ron ka plastic, morag disgrasya ra o bastos ba ang namuyo kay anha sa bintana ilabay ang ilang putos. 

aguy, kay endless man gyod ang nanglupad, nilili na ko.  mga sinina man diay nga arang daghana.  tugpa tanan sa atop sa next-door building nga ubos ra namo.  (naa mi sa sixth floor sa usa ka 18-storey building.)  kadugayan diha nay bag, maleta, ug unsa pa to nga daling maalsa.  wa hinooy mga plato ug kaldero mao nga wa koy nadunggan nga mga hagtok. 

wa usa ko pabiya ni banana republic; ingon ko niya mahadlok ko kun tawo na unya ang molupad.  nitawag ko sa reception lobby sa building aron mosumbong.  di ko motuo anang di manghilabot ug away nga wa tay labot kay private ra na sa ubang tawo.  no way.  i will always call it public disturbance (a disguise for averting a potential tragedy like murder.  i would wish my neighbors to do the same for us in case  magkalandrakas pod mi simbako lang.) 

tua na diay kuno ang mga guwardya sa 17th floor kay tua didto ang away ug bana ug asawa.  salamat nga naay nauna nakog sumbong.  salamat pod nga di ra kami ang nakakita sa nanglupad.  by the time niabli ko sa bintana aron motan-aw sa ubos sa mga gipanglabay, namuwak na diay ug mga ulo ang mga bintana sa among mga silingan. 

mauwaw lang ko mangutana sa front desk kun unsay resulta atong awaya.  curious ra ba unta ko, hehe.

basin igsoon pod ang mosunod.

my badness.  makapawong pa baya siya ug hinaling kun mangihi.  mao gyod niy klarong toytoy.  

eeekkk!  ginamos ang taga sa balingsya uy.  ang bolinaw taga dimiao, di ba?

yataki!  tamaki! 

sa ato pa diay, si 14 anyos nga inday (kamaayong balian ug bukog, ooops, sori), di mosumbong kun morag ikog sa tabili ra kadak-a ang sa iyang oyab?  otrong tingkagol...

sayang wa siya kahunahuna ug dubdob.

posible pod nga iyang gidaghan pagkuha ang mga panty aron lig-on ang garter nga iyang gamiton pagtirador sa buwan.

(whew!  salamat nga di na ni gikan sa gen/san nga taho.)

naunsa na man ni... di kompleto ang news.  unsa may brand sa panty?  tingali baya ug nagplano si ondoy nga iyang iprenda.

tuod, basig siyay gabayad sa tuition... pero, ngano man diay ug iya na lang panilngon?  investment is a risk, matod pa sa atong mga financial analysts dinhi.  sa iyang paagig paningil nga kulata, mawad-an pa hinoon siyag trabaho.  purya man ning bana mangulata tuod, pero arang kahilas pod intawon ning oyab pa uy.  dubdobi, inday!

unsaon, klarong tb members man ang mangdaob, both boys and girls, hihihi.

hanggaw ra ning pagkasuwata nga news item.  pang-tabloid gyod tawon.  mas gi-emphasize ang kinatawo bisag nasunog ug apil ang balay.  gadilaab diay ang kinatawo mao nga natakdan sa kayo ang balay?  bawo ba uroy ning estoryaha. 

sure ko mahal ang mga lungon, pero di man intawon na matangag uy.

it won't happen, because kris aquino has a retinue, including close-in security, and i doubt if she'd go to the condo of a man she hardly knew and cry rape a few hours later.

what i'm saying is that what we're complaining about our wretched poor actually also holds true in a majority of countries.  we will stop being third world if the western world stops giving us that monicker because, for heaven's sake, after the cold war, is there still a second world nowadays?

and there are also many looy people in the u.s.  one difference is that there hardly are foreign correspondents in the u.s. who would choose to focus on new york's homeless, as a case in point.

herbal tea ang resulta diay.   

ay, kaingon nakog free na ang sine hangtod.  kausa ra man diay.  kahayahay ba aning activities ni mayor lani cayetano.  free sine ni lolo/lola, mass wedding ni lolo/lola, palupad ug tabanog si lolo/lola, dayon diskoral si lolo/lola.  whadda holiday! 

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best. (Voltaire)

war is truly good business.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. (Ronald Reagan)

cheer up!  nia na na siya sa tb karon, nagpanghipi kay namili pa kun kinsay sunod tiradoron.

motoo ko.  mag-unsa na lang kun way music.  i mean soothing music, not the kind that sounds like the drumbeats of war.  kun naapil man ang music sa world economic forum, those guys can really be trusted as bright and wise guys.  those who are good in music are also good in math, it's been said.  and being at the economic forum is to know and do the math to come up with economic policies.

Quote from: insurectus on May 15, 2012, 01:37:03 PM
Naglisod ko sabot sa templa sa ilang iced tea

binarato god pod.  at least, way problema sa templa sa food.

Quote from: chicogon on May 15, 2012, 07:00:50 AM
I love their food...

so do i.  barato pa gyod.  bilib ko sa price.  naa pay free soup ug bottomless rice.   

maayo ning itagbo sa mga bana nga dugay mouli.

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 15, 2012, 11:24:53 AM
Bentaha ang bonhokon...

labi nag bonhok nga pareha kadak-ag ok-ok.

Quote from: bugsay on May 15, 2012, 11:26:20 AM
nahayang diay tawon ang atong hero?......

hehehe, usa gyod to ka position nga buot unta nakong hikalimtan, pero di man gyod tungod sa kakalit mao nga nalubong sa akong alimpatakan.  ato na lang ingnon nga pildi gihapon si roldan tungod sa akong siyagit, nanagan na ang mga silingan aron mi awaton.

Quote from: bugsay on May 15, 2012, 11:18:25 AM
bitaw, ambot lang kon kinuotay sa itlog......hahahaha

aw, mosukol gyod ang hilig sa pasumbingay, bisag wa nay itlog nabilin.

Quote from: islander on May 15, 2012, 11:13:15 AM
mahinumdom man lang ko ani sa akong brother; naturalmente, kaliwat pod ug taga sa balingsya...

nakurat ko one time sa gagmay pa mi nganong nidagan lag kalit nga nisulod sa balay nga gaduwa ra man to siya sa gawas.  nagbakho intawon.  i asked ngano.  tubag niya: gisumbag ko ni roldan; gisakitan gyod to siya kay akong gihapak unya sakit man ang akong kamot... huhuhu.  di gyod ni botbot estoryaha, morpa.

incidentally, during those times, i held the dubious distinction of being a girl who would not go away from a fistfight with boys.  ako ang tunay nga balingsyanhon...

gawas bitaw kog sulong ni roldan for my brother's cause.  siyagit ug hagit.  unya kay neighborhood bully man to si roldan, labaw pod nga di mo-back out.  pagduol niya, gisipa dayon nako ang tiyan.  eh, hinan-aw ug tv ang tonto.  abtik pa sa iring nga nidakop sa akong tiil.  tuwad diretso si islander.  wa ko mohilak, abi pa lang, gisakitan.  arang sakita gyod hinoon maayo gani kay wa madakdak akong ulo.

Quote from: bugsay on May 15, 2012, 10:54:43 AM
nag tan-aw lang ko's nityabaw ......mosumbong kuno's iyang papa....
ngano lagi'ng nag pa-una.....tagam..

mahinumdom man lang ko ani sa akong brother; naturalmente, kaliwat pod ug taga sa balingsya...

nakurat ko one time sa gagmay pa mi nganong nidagan lag kalit nga nisulod sa balay nga gaduwa ra man to siya sa gawas.  nagbakho intawon.  i asked ngano.  tubag niya: gisumbag ko ni roldan; gisakitan gyod to siya kay akong gihapak unya sakit man ang akong kamot... huhuhu.  di gyod ni botbot estoryaha, morpa.  

Quote from: bugsay on May 15, 2012, 11:04:31 AM
ma'yg botboton....

aw, botbot ra man kaha.  hadyokog botbot...

Quote from: Lorenzo on May 15, 2012, 11:00:40 AM
he he he, kujawa pod. This is an example of David vs Goliath diay eh?

pareha diay ug bugsay versus balong?

Quote from: bugsay on May 15, 2012, 10:47:48 AM
niingon man nga "unhi ko"...dahh, giunhan...kupo-kupo...wa na ka bawos...kay nidagan dayon akong silingan...

porbida gyod ning abilidad ug taga sa balingsya uy.  maayog kaliwat.  ingon ra ba sa psychology kunohay nga ang moingon nga "iyang kaila" o "silingan" kay gapasabot nga siya mismo, hehehe.

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 15, 2012, 10:46:29 AM
Hmm, kay morag humba ang kinaon, o kay morag humbaonon?

wa man ko kahibawo unsa ilang kinaon, so...

bitaw, medyo hunit na baya kun crispy pata ang akong mahunahunaan.  gahi-gahi na pod kun liempo.

Quote from: Lorenzo on May 15, 2012, 10:34:38 AM
He he he, the one interesting thing about going back to Valencia is seeing and finding out how one is related to so many people.

Isles, when was the last time you went back to Valencia Town?

sadly, two years ago, to visit the graves.  i'm scheduled to go there within the next 3 weeks to do so again.  

They also serve who only stand and wait.

            -"On His Blindness", John Milton (1608-1674)

sa iyang pagkasuko galing kay dihay na-one time unya ang iyang bisikleta ang natumbahan.  

Quote from: Lorenzo on May 15, 2012, 10:15:49 AM
Isles, you are related to the Salise Clan as well? I did not know that. I am directly linked to them as well via my grandfather (Mr. Casiano Salise Salvo Sr.), kai ang mama ni Lolo man si Dionisia Salise from Baranggay Anas, Valencia.

one salise son, i don't know whose son he is, married my mom's sister.  that makes their children who bear the salise family name our first cousins. 

Quote from: bugsay on May 15, 2012, 08:14:35 AM
Cutcutan, Padz...dili Cinutcutan...

hehehe, klarong taga cinogonan sa tagbilaran.

Quote from: chicogon on May 15, 2012, 06:43:03 AM


Salise Sampler

hahaha!  tulfo brothers redux?  cool kaayo sila uy.  hinoon, makahunahuna man lang sad tag humba ani.

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 14, 2012, 04:24:09 PM
Hmm, in other sites, the higher the rank, the wider the gap...

like the gap between the rich and the poor?

did they really consume all those cases of beer? is this the reason why they have beer bellies?

the salises are biiiggg, both in numbers and in individual sizes.

Quote from: chicogon on May 14, 2012, 10:58:24 PM
May 5, 2012




Salise Familiy

goodness gracious!  i am looking at some close relatives here.  (not all salises are our relatives; the 'theory of relativity' is limited to only one salise family, and some members of that family are in the picture, if i'm not mistaken.)

maybe it's simply our tendency to self-flagellate.  it could be cultural, this negative humility.  but others better take care.  we may tend to self-flagellate, but when others do it to us, heaven help them.

a sad and flighty one at that.

no. 10 is the hardest.

Quote from: vrglguapo on August 29, 2010, 02:10:48 AM
Happiness is when i remember my puppy love..

uuuyyy, ka-shy ba diay nimo sa puppy ka pa.

anoh ba etoh? ikaw ba na, hubag?  mora man kag torotot.

duda ko nga manimaho ta aning ahos da.  wa gyoy wakwak makaduol.

if only... kabuotan gyod intawong iroa.  nawong pay imo; how gentle.  usa sa akong mga iro ing-ani ka-gentle ang nawong.  di lang parehag kolor.  too bad akong ubang mga iro puro harvatan.

kapunon (o kap-non, o i-neuter) lang.  ajaw lang patya kay mahiluna ug ahat, labi nag manghinolsol ug tarong.

uy, legendary na man pod diay si lorenz!  i can hardly wait for him to become a scientist doctor. ;P

morag tulo ang goryo dinhi nga akong namatikdan; chicogon, bugsay ug islander.

all the more reason nga madugay siya sa restroom kay mas daghang taga sa bolinaw sa dimiao ang iyang i-expel.

is this the face that launched a thousand videos? 

morag madugaydugay pa to si sir balong.  taga sa bolinaw sa dimiao tingali ang iyang gipagawas.

kanhing tulfo brothers?

“TASIA” loved to wear lace dresses even in her old age.


the author (tasia's granddaughter)

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/

Using new technology that allows use of extremely small samples, they were also able to match the DNA from all the Romanov family members to DNA from a bloodstained shirt that had been worn by Nicholas on April 29, 1891, when he was attacked by a Japanese policeman while touring the city of Otsu. The bloody shirt had been preserved in Russia.

The matches were all perfect. "The genetic evidence is really overwhelming," Coble said.

Their results were then independently replicated by geneticist Walther Parson of the Institute of Legal Medicine in Innsbruck, Austria, and confirmed by Gill.

"This closes the book on this particular chapter of the Romanov history," said forensic anthropologist Susan Myster of Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn.

"There are still people who are going to want to believe that there were survivors, and God bless them, but I am confident that the royal family has been found, they have been identified and there was no escape, no princess," Falsetti said. (http://articles.latimes.com/)

Russian authorities enlisted the help of geneticist Michael Coble of the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory in Rockville, Md., the world's largest mitochondrial DNA testing facility, specializing in identifying the remains of U.S. soldiers.

Coble is lead author of a report on the findings.

Preliminary analysis suggested that the fragments were from two people, a female age 17 to 24 -- some speculate it is daughter Marie -- and a male age 14 to 16.

Coble and geneticist Anthony Falsetti of the University of Florida extracted DNA and compared it with DNA from the bones found earlier and to DNA from a leg bone of Nicholas' brother Georgij, who died of tuberculosis as a young man. (http://articles.latimes.com/)

DNA testing in the 1990s by geneticist Peter Gill of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, indicated that the remains were those of the czar and czarina and three of their daughters. For comparison samples, researchers used DNA from Britain's Prince Philip, whose grandmother and the czarina's grandmother were sisters, and from indirect descendants of the royal family.

Two years ago, archaeologists found a second grave about 70 yards from the first. It contained 44 broken and burned bone fragments, consistent with reports that the Red Guard unsuccessfully tried to burn the remains of two of the dead children before burying them. (http://articles.latimes.com/)

Nicholas II abdicated the throne in March 1917, ending the 304-year Romanov rule, and the family was banished to Siberia.

The following year, the family, their doctor and three servants were executed by the Red Guard on the orders of Vladimir Lenin and their bodies disposed of.

Russian film director Gely Ryabov, an amateur archaeologist, found the remains of nine bodies in an unmarked grave near Yekaterinberg in the early 1970s, but kept the discovery secret until 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union.

more at http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/11/science/sci-romanov11

Anastasia impostors

Some of the women who claimed or were believed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholavna of Russia are:

Anna Anderson, real name Franziska Schanzkowska, was, by far, the most famous impostor. She appeared in 1920 in Berlin, Germany, and died in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1984.

Eugenia Smith, appeared in Chicago in 1963 and died there in 1997.

Eleonora Kruger, died in a Bulgarian village.

Natalya Petrovna Bilikhodze, appeared in 1995 and went to Russia in 2000 to "claim the Romanov fortune."

Nadezhda Vasilyeva, appeared in the 1920s in Russia and died there in a Kazan mental ward in 1971.

kicker: Anatoly Ionov claims to be Anastasia's son. (wikipedia)


will the philippines be included in this list soon?  

The Remains of the Tsar and His Family

In 1991, the bodies of Nicholas II and his wife, along with three of their five children and four of their servants, were exhumed (although some questioned the authenticity of these bones despite DNA testing). Because two bodies were not present, many people believed that two Romanov children escaped the killings. There was much debate as to which two children's bodies were missing. A Russian scientist made photographic superimpositions and determined that Marie and Alexei were not accounted for. Later, an American scientist concluded from dental, vertebral, and other remnants that it was Anastasia and Alexei who were missing. Much mystery surrounded Anastasia's fate. Several films have been produced suggesting that she lived on. (wikipedia)

The Execution of the Romanov Family

On July 17, 1918, Bolshevik authorities, led by Yakov Yurovsky, shot Nicholas II, his immediate family, and four servants in the cellar of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

The family was told that they were to be photographed to prove to the people that they were still alive. The family members were arranged appropriately and left alone for several minutes, the gunmen then walked in and started shooting. The girls did not die from the first shots, because bullets rebounded off jewels that were sewn into their corsets. The gunmen tried to stab them with bayonets, that failed, because of the jewels, the gunmen then shot each girl in the head at close range. (wikipedia)

Anastasia Nicholovna Romanov, the youngest daughter


COMPARE THE PORTRAITS The picture at left is that of the writer’s “Grandmama Tasia” when she was a young girl. The one at right is the portrait of the young Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov of Russia, which she found on the Internet. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS

i didn't know how else to react to this article except to laugh the title off.  then i realized that the article is just too serious it's only fair to give it second thoughts.  still, i believe this is improbable, though it may not be impossible considering that the world is truly home to countless crazy things.

so who was anastasia, the russian grand duchess that the storyteller (filipino caty petersen) believes could be her grandmother?


The Romanov family, Russia's last imperial family. 
Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra and children
the Grand Duchesses Olga (b.1895), Tatiana (b.1897),
Maria (b.1899) and Anastasia (b.1901), and Tsarevich Alexei (b.1904).   

She said her name was Tasia. And her last name was always a cause for family debates, because it irritated her no end that no one in our family could pronounce it properly. To our Filipino ears, it sounded like Kazzuhina, so that is how we said it and spelled it, much to her chagrin. It didn’t help that she would write it down in Cyrillic, the alphabet she grew up with, which added more to the confusion.

She told us this much: that she was 18 when she arrived in the Philippines after spending months on a ship from Russia, escaping the Bolshevik Revolution when it escalated in 1918. Handed over to the ship captain by family members for safekeeping, she was locked in her cabin for her safety, isolated from all other Russian passengers fleeing the revolution.

She did not join the rest of the White Russian émigrés (anti-communist, monarchist Russians who emigrated from Russia in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution) who got off in China and Japan.

The only passenger left, she alone disembarked in a Philippine port, assisted by the protective ship captain, without any identification papers or documents.

Brought to a monastery or orphanage somewhere in Manila, she was looked after by nuns for some time until she was turned over to a wealthy spinster who played matchmaker to her and my future grandfather, Lope Pelayo.

-from Filipino’s grandmama could be Russia’s Anastasia
By Emily A. Abrera
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Sunday, May 13th, 2012

more at: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/192351/filipinos-grandmamma-could-be-russias-anastasia

regardless of whoever started the fight, it's pretty obvious that the girl who opened the floodgates of the thrilla in naia believes she's above the rest.

Strike 3 for Barretto

NAIA insiders, including two reporters covering the airport beat, referred to Sunday’s incident as “Strike 3” for Barretto.

They claimed, among other things, that the actress “had been involved in three similar incidents during the past two or three years.”

“One time, she made a scene after she was refused boarding on a domestic flight because she came late. After she made some calls, she was allowed to board the plane. She was involved in a similar incident, also on a domestic flight,” said a NAIA source.

Another source said the actress had the “nasty habit of throwing her weight around when she doesn’t get what she wants, like getting an upgrade on international flights.” (http://entertainment.inquirer.net/39581/airline-agents-say-claudine-barretto-cussed-them)

and it's not only about the mystery of who started the fight, it's also about anyone getting into the habit of one more shot at media mileage by having their say, like senators sotto, revilla, and santiago.  sometimes, it does seem downright decent and statesmanlike for officials to simply keep their distance.

As the American holiday was adopted by other countries and cultures, the date was changed to fit already existing celebrations honoring motherhood.

Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom or, in Greece, the Orthodox celebration of the presentation of Jesus Christ to the temple (2 February). Mothering Sunday is often referred to as "Mother's Day" even though it is an unrelated celebration.

In some countries the date was changed to one that was significant to the majority religion, such as Virgin Mary day in Catholic countries. Other countries selected a date with historical significance, such as Bolivia using the date of a battle where women participated. (wikipedia)

In 1912, Anna Jarvis trademarked the phrases "second Sunday in May" and "Mother's Day", and created the Mother's Day International Association.

    She was specific about the location of the apostrophe; it was to be a singular possessive, for each family to honour their mother, not a plural possessive commemorating all mothers in the world. (wikipedia)

The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in America. She then began a campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognized holiday in the United States. Although she was successful in 1914, she was already disappointed with its commercialization by the 1920s. Jarvis' holiday was adopted by other countries and it's now celebrated all over the world. (wikipedia)

to all tblanders who are mothers, fathers,
sisters, brothers, because we all have mothers. 

bukid ra ba diay.  naa poy dagat... ehe, landscape man diay ni nga thread; aw, naa man poy land diri ba...

you're not fat, shawee.  you're huge.  biiiiigggg.  btw, is it true that you and your daughter kc both love to gossip?  magpakatotoo na nga tawo...

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on May 13, 2012, 10:13:54 AM
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vive la différence!  curious cat that i am, here's what i understood of what it takes to go from one level to the next in terms of number of posts:

student to intern:             500
intern to expert:               500
expert to luminary:        3,000
luminary to guru:           3,000
guru to master:            13,000
master to legend:         20,000
legend to source:          30,000
source to force:            30,000
force to vox populi:       50,000
vox populi to scientist:  50,000

what follows is unimaginable.   so far, i can take only the legend that is lord hubag.  

and these article and pictures were in 'the sun' paper of the uk, one of that country's top tabloids?  i had to check the local releases because, for the life of me, i thought the 'thrilla in naia' and the panamanian diplomat's alleged rape were the top news of the moment.  thankfully, this fire tragedy was well-covered too by the local media.  would that something positive would come out in the news soon.  surely, there's also something good about the country that the media could sensationalize just as equally.     

aw, abi nakog si eulogio "amang" rodriguez ang gipatay.  kuyawan man lang kog nabuhi siyag balik diay...

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 13, 2012, 12:36:31 PM
Which date? April 5, 15,232 (transit of Venus and the moon) or July 26, 69,163 (transit of Venus and Mercury)?

kailangan pa bang i-memorize yan?  human na god ang april kay may na man ta karon... 

hinumdomi pod nga usa ani nila niabot sa pangangan tungod sa ilang seminar nga pangpasuod sa ginoo didto sa bohol...

more curiosity... when kaha ang vox dei?  just asking, hehe.

just curious about the "scientist" rank; einstein could be behind this perhaps?  it looks like he's more than the voice of the people...

oh, no.  i'm scheduled to travel on such a date.  maayo unta pohon ug wa ko sa eroplano aning exact time... type ra ba gyod nako ning looking at the heavens, anything about astronomy labaw pag mga astronomical phenomena.

labaw nga puwedeng pang-spike sa buhok.



cushioning material for cushioning the head

don't tell me ang baby elephant si vito andoline nga tblander...

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 13, 2012, 09:49:47 AM
Sakto, usual suspects na sila. Normal na baya ilang sinultihan ron...

bantay mo... dako baya ug puruhan nga suod na sila sa ginoo.