The President and media

As usual President Bush angry at the media. NYTimes in particular for publishing secret tracking of terror funds. Link via Romenesko

I think most most Presidents have love- hate affair with media whether they're journalist, broadcasters or talk radio host, bloggers for that matter. If it's favoring the Commander-in-chief, media gets pat on the back but once the attacks about domestic policies or international issues gets negative reaction by the press, President get's mad. Even here in the Philippines it's thesame thing.

Grrrr! Don't you know blogging etiquette?!

Copy Cat! blogger lazy squash ztidytrish: http://bludrush207.blogspot.com/ whoever the shmuck you are...
Host Name: 210.213.147.52.pldt.net(Mydsl_professional)
IP Address: 210.213.147.52

If you're going to copy word for word one of my blogs at least give a link or acknowledge where you got it from. Doofus! I mean shit, even the typos were copied. That plagiarist blogger made it seemed like s/he made it Freaks me out!

Damnit. Plagiarism could land you in jail you know. Grrrrr!!!!

Holy Kettle Corn

My sister gave me a whole bag of popcorn. I ate it all. My tummy's gonna pop pretty soon. Ugh. I wish I had a slice of German cake Karl said he was eating yesterday. Yummmy.

I wonder why it's called Holy. Hehee.

The saga of that heartbroken MySpace romance

And so the story goes for a young Palestinian man meeting a western girl through MySpace.com (social networking craze of fad right now) and thepromise of love and romance cut short and left pain and anguish and heartbroken feelings.

Abdullah Jimzawi, a 20-year-old high school dropout who lives with his parents in Jericho and Katherine Lester, 16 years old were supposed to meet and have fun, get to know each and marry in the future but sadly....

Lester was en route to Tel Aviv airport when she was intercepted in Amman, Jordan, by U.S. authorities who seized her passport and put her on a flight back to the United States.

Jimzawi, a shy soft-spoken young man with close-cropped hair and a two-day beard lives in Jericho, a town of 17,000 that is largely immune from the violence plaguing the rest of the West bank.

Katherine Lester is now in seclusion with her father after returning from Israel and hasn't spoke to reporterss yet.

Jimzawi was initially reluctant to talk to the media because of what he said was unfair treatment following Lester's ill-fated trip. However, he eventually agreed to be photographed in shorts and sandals, showing AP reporters the computer on which he said he met Lester eight months ago.

Read the whole article and be fascinated by their love story. I feel somewhat sorry for the young man. But I thnk he really should've been the one to go there in Michigan instead of the girl. But anyway he said his next step was to apply for visa so he could travel to the U.S. They should give him one.

About a mall and I'm not even mallrat

Blahg.

I haven't been to SM Mall of Asia. Too far from where I am right now (Quezon City) but hopefully my friends and I can go there next week(yeah if they're not tired of treating me.. yet again. Hehee. Such good friends they are). I wonder what's new with that mall. They do have the IMAX theater but I've been to one already in Darlinghurst. They say the Mall is really huge and four times the size of Megamall. Hmm. I'm not the type who enjoys long walks inside the mall.... unless of course I have money to shop. Hehe. But it's SM so maybe it'll look like thesame as all the other SM malls. My sister said it's really different from the others and she said design was good and it's beautiful. Well see then.

I'm done with my download.

Subic rape case hearing

According to US NCIS report- it was "consensual sex"

Naval Criminal Investigation Service agent Guy Papageorge, quoting from his investigation report dated Nov. 9, 2005, said Lance Corporal Daniel Smith "admitted he had sexual intercourse with the Filipino woman inside the van and that the other Marines cheered him on."

Actually the US embassy at first would not allow the other NCIS agents to testify citing something about diplomatic immunity thing.

"Consistent with our commitment to seeing that justice is served in a fair and impartial trial, the government of the United States has agreed to allow several US Government employees to testify at the trial of four US Marines accused of rape…. The US government has waived [the immunity] for the limited purpose of testifying at this trial," the US Embassy said.

Expect three more to testify for the prosecution.

And but so there you go. Daniel Smith had admitted to having had consensual sex with the victim..

But....I'll say it again and again. Going to a bar frequented by US servicemen, it's given thing already that one should expect that there would probably be some kind of sexual thing that would likely happen. She Should have avoided bars like that in the first place. I'm not chastizing the victim nor am I defending the servicemen.

Rape is something else and it's very grave and violates our worth as a human. One shouldn't get away with it..if found guilty.

By the way .... Carpentier, Smith, Silkwood, and Duplantis are members of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Force stationed on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. They had finished counterterrorism maneuvers with Filipino troops when the alleged rape occurred in a van.

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Worm hits Yahoo e-mail

The most popular email service hit by virus.

The e-mail virus, or worm, has been dubbed Yamanner and landed in Yahoo mailboxes bearing the headline "New Graphic Site." Once opened, the message infects the computer and spreads to other users listed in Yahoo users' e-mail address books, security experts said. To protect your computer from the virus update firewall and virus protection and block any e-mail sent from the address "av3@yahoo.com." Good news though.. "The worm cannot run on the newest version of Yahoo Mail Beta," Symantec's site said. [Yahoo/Reuters]

And I don't know what to say, it's fine...

All is well it seems. I'm alright now.

Windows Vista anyone?

You can now download the public beta version of Microsoft's new OS. Be aware though it is just that! a beta version intended mostly for developers. At the risk of having your pc malfunction, hardrive and files gone because of incompatibility with systems, just wait for the Final release January of 2007 . Oh but heck you wanna try downloading it the beta version.. they're out of bandwidth!

Cellphone breakdown

I threw my cheap ass obselete cellphone against the wall just because I'm pissed! It keeps saying sim rejected or the numbers disappear or it would turn off on it's own and then I always have to keep holding it tight whenever I use it! End result....the battery came off but I was able to fix it.