Bashing big hairy creature

Watched King Kong last night. Upon the demise of Kong, one of the caharacters(played by Jack Black) said it's beauty who killed the beast.. I say...it's more of the sappy love scenes by the gorilla and the lengthy slow pace that killed the movie! Hehe. Read more

See evil, hear evil, stop evil AKA spying!

President Bush in a controversy again about domestic spying. He admitted such spying had taken place. From USA Today report

In this latest case, the administration authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on international phone calls and e-mails of people within the USA without court approval. It defends the practice by saying post-9/11 plots have been broken up

Yikes..I wouldn't want my calls screened! Don't want snoop dogs out there listening to my conversations and screening my emails.. that's privacy violation. It's kinda like wiretapping..American way. Ugh.

While it is essential that the government take action to stop such attacks before they happen, the administration has yet to explain why it needs to act without a warrant to accomplish this

Sure, it's nice to capture and know what the heck terrorists are up to...but may be they need to do something pratical and important like.. don't let anybody enter airports with guns! Check thoroughly for weapons of hijackand terrorists destructions.

Just incase one flew over the White House nest

Well, it's not yet there but just incase it hits the U.S., a flu pandemic readiness test was done at the White House..minus the President and the Vice. Bush went for a bike ride in suburban Maryland on a cold winter morning. Vice President Dick Cheney also stayed away. I think they should've at least been there. According to the news report

Fears of a pandemic have increased in recent months as a virus infecting millions of birds has spread throughout Asia and parts of Europe. While the virus has not yet appeared in the United States, or spread from person to person, officials worry the bird flu could eventually mutate and become as contagious globally as the annual flu.

The administration is working under the worst-case assumption that as many as 90 million Americans would become sick and 2 million would die during a worldwide flu pandemic.

Scary to to think. Is it exaggerated? I dunno. There's no bird flu case there but yet. but better be prepared than sorry.

If you're tired and owerworked....

Listen up read and click 6 signs you're boss is killing you- and 6 ways to fight back

Haha..revenge.

All about chocolates

Chocolate has been linked to chemicals which cause happiness in humans, as well as with making children smile--Happy news

Who can't resist a good heavenly chocolates huh? I have sweet tooth.I love chocolates and the sinful guilty pleasures it brings whenever I put one in my mouth, swirl and bite it. Happynews happy living section has many articles on just about anything to do with chocolates like recipes for hot choco or all about Ghirardelli chocolates (which is one of my favorite! So yummy!) or about Lindt chocolates. If you're a chocoholic...go to site and enjoy!

I'm craving for chcolate right now. Waah...no more Hersheys symphony!

Boob-tube booboos

Courtesy of Nestor Torre's Viewfinder.

HOST: WERE YOU AT THE SCENE of the shootout when it happened?

Guest: No, we arrived right after, in time to see the died persons all over the place!

(Ay, the died persons!)

* * *
Host: So, you did not see the exchange of fire between the police and the (criminals?)

Guest: No, but one of our group says he saw one of the coup disgrace.

(Coup disgrace?—Oh, coup de grâce!)

* * *
Quizmaster: If red wine is made from grapes, what is white wine made from?

Contestant: Coconut!

(Wrong! The answer is still grapes.)

* * *

Host: What’s the secret of a long and happy marriage?

Guest: You have to agree first in the beginning, dapat it’s a give in take relationship!

(Ay, give in take relationship!)

* * *
Host: What about the raid do you object to?

Guest: Before you raid, you have to get a church warrant. They did not have a church warrant, so they should not have raided.

(Church warrant?—Oh, search warrant!)

Hahahahaaa..I wanna laugh... hahahaa

Military tales, military woes

6 US servicemen charged with rape as US military investigates the case

THE United States military is conducting a parallel investigation into the alleged rape of a 22-year-old Filipina by its servicemen last week at the Subic Bay Freeport

Hard to be in the military.....you either get killed by roadside bombing, suicide attack or by accident.. and to think, they're just doing they're jobs or you go to court. Not all are rapist.

Lets hope there's good news for them like troops coming home for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

There are good guys and heroes. Of course the ones that are bad needs to be punished.

Catcher in the Rye moment

Today is All Souls Day (or Saints day.. I'm not really sure..but it's a holiday) and people go to cemeteries to visit grave of loved ones. Remember their dead and bring flowers and all that.

According to Holden Caulfied....

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. - The Catcher in the Rye, 1945

Since it's been raining the past few days and for two days people will flock to the cemeteries to bring flowers, this line from the JD Salinger book came into my blogging mind.

High end technology fashion

If you want to be hip and be a fashionista geek you gotta spend big bucks.

Louis Vuitton sells a $305 "international telephone case." Dior sells a $315 case for iPod Minis, as well as a $295 travel case for all of iPod's accessories.

Geesh, I can't even afford a new phone!

Link via Washington Post

Happy News

Browsing Cyber Journalist and I saw news item about a site that features good news. If you're tired of reading and seeing negative news why not try Happy News.com. This site brings all the good news. The positive ones. Finally a wesbite that lets us know all the good things that are happening ins tead of the bad ones.

If you want to start your day right....read some positive news.

Slippery opinion, it's the slippers stupid!

Oh man, here's a question. Why do people wear slippers inside the malls and practically eveywhere?

Ugh, I think it's stupid! Here's an observation. Some people are just so "Slippered!" Dunno if there's such a word but I've noticed everywhere I go, the malls especially, people everywhere are wearing damn slippers! I mean most girls I see wear them. Seems to be the trend right now. But sheehs, I wouldn't be caught dead wearing a damn slippers inside a mall! Christ! I mean, I see them girls, wearing good clothes then when it comes to the their feet, they're wearing spartan like slippers. Heck, it doesn't matter wether you're wearing Havaianas or whatever kind of flip flops it's still a damn fucking slippers! Hehehe. I don't mean to sound like some damn elitist( cos I'm not!). Ugh. People! Fashion emergency please! Read more?

Easy does it

Pride of the Philippines Manny Paquiao recorded TKO on the sixth round earlier (Saturday night, LA time). I was waching the fight and it was exciting although the news that he had won was broadcast by ANC prior to seeing the bout. Solar Sports aired it on delayed basis hence the news of "Pacman's" win had been announced already. I'm no boxing fan. I don' like the sport but it's cool when one of your own brings pride to the country

Btw, There were so many commercials of the broadcast that it was soo annoying!

Well, doggone me!

I'll be damned! A stuffed dog webcam!

New design to put something different on top of your PC/notebook. The Look 312P is in the shape of a stuffed animal but has all the features you normally find in a web cam. We put the web camera in the nose because we believe that “high technology” should be more than just a product. You still get the same results.

Arf arf!! Talk about voyerism! Yikes.

And to quote gizmodo... "pay no attention to the vast collection of plush stuffed dogs scattered around my apartment." He he.

No wonder I don't like dogs oh and stuffed toys. Ha ha ha. Btw, now you know why it's called stuffed toys! Nyahahaha.

Hooray For Andre

This good news from AP via yahoo.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Andre Agassi bounded onto the court with the joyful grin of a child, his eyes wide as he soaked in the adoring cheers of the U.S. Open crowd.

At 35, he is ageless, his tennis a timeless classic.

When the match finally ended at 1:09 Thursday morning, Arthur Ashe Stadium was still full and fans at home were mesmerized, knowing they'd been treated to something rare.

Andre Agassi won his match against James Blake at the US open. He still has the magic and just the sheer energy to come up with unbelievable shots and like everyone was cheering for him. Classic Andre. Vintage moves. Man, I hope he wins the open.

Cheese for President!

Cheese is the name politics is his game. Seeking the truth is his mission and people are supporting that vision! Ha ha. I'm soooooo "cheese..y." Hehe. What a speech, what a mind! Aye!

Eloquence of his speech last nigh at the congress just emphasized how smart he is. I'm talking about, Minority Floor Leader Francis "cheese" Escudero. He spoke with candor and passion and the truth about impeachment and the consequence for everyone involved. His speech done in Tagalog and English was just so stately, dignified. Firm yet ably understood in explaining to everyone, to the majority members of the house, why there's an impeachment. Why the need for it to proceed. Uhmm, cos Arroyo cheated.. that's why. But Minority failed to gather 79 signatures for the impeachment to proceed.

And as I blog right now, congress still in session this wee hours of the morning interpellating (?) Justice Committee report.

Reporters plea

Judith Miller, the NYT jailed reporter wants federal shield law for journalists.

Former Senator Bob Dole, who said he had visited Miller in jail, commented, "For the life of me, I don't know why she is there," he said. "She never published anything."

Most Powerful Richest Country Suffering

Just to see those images on the net, tv, different photo blogs of what's actually happening in New Orleans. Looting, rape, fire, explsions, lawlessness. Man, it's a terrible tragedy and just imagine it's in the US not Sri Lanka nor any other 3rd world country hit by tsunamis last year. And also, the Americans are now being called "refugees." right in their very own backyard.

They've been concerned with other nations but looks at the US now reduced to anarchy. Well, just in one state. NOT the whole country.

And with this horrible natural disaster, a lot of other major news in the world has been left back pages of the paper and broadcast. Iraq..well, not in the headlines anymore.

Hurricane news source via WashPost Yahoo news

US planes in Zamboanga

Here they come..hunting down the Abusayyaf!

US Globemaster military transport plane unload soldiers and equipment inside the tightly guarded Edwin Andrews Air Base (EAAB). The second plane was smaller and believed to have also come from the US Air Force.

Link via Sunstar

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People have no mercy..esp..looters!

Americans are experiencing their own kind of tsunami and it's disheartening to see the distraught faces of people affected by the hurricane. But what's sickening is to see some jack ass people taking advantage of others miseries and tragedies by looting and stealing other peoples belongings.

Right now New Orleans is a city gripped by chaos as looters ran wild, food and water supplies dwindled, and bodies floated in the flood waters.

Looters brazenly ripped open gates and ransacked stores for food, clothing, television sets, computers, jewelry and guns, often in full view of helpless law-enforcement officials. Dozens of carjackings, apparently by survivors desperate to escape, were reported, as were a number of shootings.

People are mad, people have nowhere to go, the streets flooded, no electricity,some lay dead on the streets... inside the hotels, underneath collapsed house. It's chaos.. and Those looters have no fucking mercy at all. How sad the situation is.

News source via NYT

Looks similar but it's not thesame

Hah. No doubt hurricane Katrina devastated Lousiana, New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama and left utter destruction (duh!). I was gonna compare it to Asian tsunamis but after seeing quite bit of the news videos of the hurricane, I changed my mind. What happened here in Asia with the tsunamis back in December brought a much catastrophic effect to lives of people.

But tragedy is tragedy not matter which part of the world you are, people are the ones who suffer. Oh, and also the reporters. I noticed, watching CNN couple of their reporters were crying and voices breaking while trying t to report. Well, they're only human. Seeing utter loss of others can get to them and their emotions. Just like it gets to me.

By the way, here in the Philippines, we don't really have any hurricanes. The worst would be a storm signal number 4 (a sort of category 1 or 2 hurrincane, I think). We have severe flooding though because people dump trashes everywhere and loggers kill trees!