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11-24-12 05:53 #9823
Posts: 75Well put
Originally Posted by Stroker Ace88 [View Original Post]
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11-24-12 05:44 #9822
Posts: 864Originally Posted by Interracial [View Original Post]
FYI, the clan you named currently holds a seat in the congress and continues to have alot of friends in very high places. Keep up your public tirade and you might end up dancing in an orange jumpsuit.
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11-24-12 04:57 #9821
Posts: 1562Fish and chips anybody?
Originally Posted by Cunning Stunt [View Original Post]
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11-24-12 04:47 #9820
Posts: 1562Originally Posted by Slippery [View Original Post]
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11-24-12 04:41 #9819
Posts: 1562Impeachment is a trial
Originally Posted by GoodEnough [View Original Post]
You believe conditions are qualitatively different in the states. I'm not so sure. Check out a new literature beginning to appear under the name "State Crimes Against Democracy," with studies set in both the states and Australia. Or check out Glenn Greenwald's recent book, *Liberty and Justice for Some*. You can check out the basics at Amazon without having to buy the book.
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11-24-12 02:54 #9818
Posts: 834Originally Posted by GoodEnough [View Original Post]
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11-24-12 01:38 #9817
Posts: 4051Originally Posted by Skip Kost [View Original Post]
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11-23-12 23:59 #9816
Posts: 250But even just holding elections compared to a DICKtator like Marcos is progress
Just making the transition from a dicktatorship to a corrupt democracy is a slight reduction in corruption since at least the thieves in power have a time limit on their time to steal from the gov't purse / abuse their power to extort bribes. It also reduces the fear of people exposing the corruption. Journalists are still killed but perhaps not as bad as when dictators were in power.
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11-23-12 23:18 #9815
Posts: 3003Originally Posted by Skip Kost [View Original Post]
And then of course there is Jollibee's and other fast food outlets.
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11-23-12 20:13 #9814
Posts: 6782Originally Posted by GoodEnough [View Original Post]
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/312071/...s-not-educated
As for massace, someone must have been reading ISG GE as the below link seems to say the same thing.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/312067/...danao-massacre
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/312069/3-govts-remind-ph-do-not-forget
Can you imagine if the country ever passed the Freedom of Information and the Political Dynasty Acts. Both are dying a slow death. As GE says lots fo talk about things but nothing to show for it no substance
PS CS and WC1 - I am not facing the same issue about reply with quotes you are...maybe is the location?
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11-23-12 17:34 #9813
Posts: 1562However
I've tried four times unsuccessfully to do a "reply with quote," but the quote does not show up when I hit the "upload" button. So we'll try another work-around when the system doesn't work:
Quote from CS: Yup, I can confirm it. Those horrible red plastic covered cheeses, looking like oversized cricket balls, are enormously popular with Filipinos at Christmas. God knows why! Only more popular are disgusting, highly processed hams and a sickly sweet concoction made of condensed milk, macaroni and tinned fruit.
Reply from Skip:
LOL; however:
On the other hand, when you eat chicken and other Philippine-raised meat, I suspect you're getting much less growth hormone and other cacinogenic additives. I remember my first experiences with chicken in the fast food places and in sit-down places like Max's and Kenny Rogers. At first I chuckled to myself and imagined Filipinos chasing down free range birds that yielded the scrawny little drumsticks and other chicken pieces on offer in Philippine eateries. Some day, I imagined, they'd learn the superior practices that yield the plump, juicy chicken breasts offered in Western countries.
Then I started to learn about how Western growers achieve those huge chicken breasts and fryers: feed saturated with growth hormones leading to big-breasted birds that get so heavy that they sometimes fall to the floor of the raising pens, unable to get up, and then get trampled or pecked to death by the thousands of chickens in the hugely overcrowded rearing pens. Armed with that knowledge, it becomes much easier to push away from the table of a Philippine eatery feeling a little disappointed by the size of chicken portions or the chewiness of Philippine "steak."
I agree that Filipinos develop tastes for the oddest of concoctions as you and X describe. They don't really need any help from the French or the Dutch: just consider what goes into halo-halo. But maybe we shouldn't be in a hurry for them to accommodate the healthier tastes of what passes for food in Western countries.
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11-23-12 16:55 #9812
Posts: 1562Originally Posted by GoodEnough [View Original Post]
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11-23-12 15:35 #9811
Posts: 3081Try Rothman on Adriatico or its sister hotel behind it through agoda dot com. I have stayed there several times. It about three short blocks from MBC and right upstreet from the mall.
Originally Posted by Tar Heel Bred [View Original Post]
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11-23-12 14:54 #9810
Posts: 4051Originally Posted by Cunning Stunt [View Original Post]
GE
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11-23-12 14:17 #9809
Posts: 600Originally Posted by Tar Heel Bred [View Original Post]