From Associated Press:
Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, who made headlines for her vast shoe collection, is embarking on a new project a fashion line.What next?The 77-year-old widow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos told reporters Monday that she planned to launch “The Imelda Collection” of fashion jewelry and accessories on Nov. 18.
Marcos became notorious for her shopping trips to ritzy shops in New York while her country wallowed in poverty under martial law declared by her husband.
Not from Associated Press:
George W Bush’s Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, plans to launch her own fashion line.Also:It will include Ms Rice’s ‘Birth Pangs’ perfume, said to contain real drops of Lebanese children’s blood.
And ‘Katrina shoes’, referring to when Hurricane Katrina killed thousands of people in the southern US, and Secretary of State Rice, instead of handling the scores of offers of help for the Katrina victims from foreign countries, chose to buy expensive shoes in New York City.
George W Bush’s Secretary of ‘Defence’, Donald Rumsfeld, today launched his own fashion line.Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein, partners in crime: here.It includes body armour guaranteed not to stop any bullets.
As the catwalk broke down in the middle of the show, breaking the necks of, and killing, scores of models, Mr Rumsfeld reacted: ‘Stuff happens’; and ‘You have fashion shows with the catwalk you have, not the one you would like to have’.
Message about NOW and TOMORROW!
Posted by: “Compañero” companyero@mindspring.com chocoano05
Mon Nov 6, 2006 10:02 pm (PST)
To EVERYONE:
The following is a message from Michael Moore. At the risk
of sounding a tad on the sanctimonious side, I’ve been
canvassing now for three months, will go to a city council
meeting tonight and will be canvassing tomorrow, election
day.
Join me?
This election really IS a matter of life and death, not
only of those hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (who just
love us being there, right?) but also to our civil
liberties. Also to our diginity and that of those whom the
Bush regime has chosen to torture–enough to make the
“founding fathers” roll over in their graves–a policy
which has completely eliminated American credibility in
the rest of the world.
We live in a country which ranks 55th in terms of adult
literacy, and 42nd in childhood mortality. Around 50
million Americans have no or inadequate health coverage.
We are in debt to Mexico and other Third World countries.
(!) And Dick Cheney is making tens of millions of dollars
off of Halliburton which has cases filed against it
because it has overcharged YOU, THE TAXPAYER literally
billions of dollars.
Remember that if you’re watching Monday Night football
(does that still exist?) Follow Michael’s advice. I’ll see
you at the polls tomorrow!
Tim
*****
Friends,
Tomorrow night, those who sent 2,800 of our soldiers to
their deaths — all because of a lie the president
concocted — will find out if America chooses to reward
them — or remove them.
As good as things look for the Democrats, do not pop the
corks and start the partying yet. Do not believe for a
second that the Republicans plan on losing. They will
fight like dogs for the next 24 hours — relentless,
unforgiving, nonstop action to squeeze every last
conservative voter out of the house on election day. While
the rest of us go about our day today, tens of thousands
of Republican volunteers are knocking on doors, making
phone calls, and lining up rides to the polls. They’re not
sleeping, they’re not eating, they’re not even watching
Fox News. A day without Fox News? That’s right, that’s how
insanely dedicated they are.
But the reason they have to work so hard is that, before
they can get the vote out, they first have to completely
turn around the massive public opinion against them.
Almost 60% disapprove of Bush. Over 60% are opposed to the
war. Those are landslide numbers. And the American people
are not going to turn pro-war or into Bush-lovers by
tomorrow morning. So it should be easy for us, right?
Yup. Just like it was when we won the popular vote in 2000
and when we were ahead in the exit polls all day long in
2004. You know the deal — the other side takes no
prisoners. And just when it seems like things are going
our way, the Republicans suddenly, mysteriously win the
election.
Well, it’s not really that mysterious. They’re out there
busting their asses this very minute, right down the
street from you. What are YOU doing? You’re on a computer
reading my cranky letter! Stop reading this! We have only
a few hours left to wrestle control of the Congress away
from these “representatives” who, if returned, will
continue shipping our young men and women over there to
die.
Here’s what I’m imploring you to do right now:
1. Go through your address book on your cell phone and
computer and call/e-mail everyone you know. Tell them how
much it would mean to you if they vote on Tuesday. If they
don’t know where to vote, help them find their polling
place.
2. Contact MoveOn.org ASAP. They will connect you to the
folks who need you to make calls.
3. Contact your local Democratic Party headquarters. There
are close races in nearly every state. They’ll put you to
work — on the ground or on the phones. Or go to the local
HQ for the Dem candidate running for the House of
Representatives or the U.S. Senate and say, “Put me to
work!”
OK, turn off the computer — and I will, too. There’s
serious work to do. The good news? There’s more of us than
there are of them. Let’s prove that, once and for all.
Is there anything more important that you have to do
today? Nothing less than the rest of the world is
depending on us.
Yours,
Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com
Comment by Administrator — November 7, 2006 @ 8:44 am
Manila Times Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Original Filipino flag fading away in US war museum?
SAN FRANCISCO: Tacked inside a wooden display case in a rarely visited corner of the San Francisco War Memorial could be the answer to one of the great mysteries of Philippine history: What happened to the original Filipino flag?
The Philippines’ founding president, Emilio Aguinaldo, famously unfurled the original “Stars and Sun” flag when he declared his nation’s independence from Spain in 1898, but the banner disappeared during the Filipino-American War that followed.
“It is a mystery in the Philippines that historians have been trying to answer for a long time,” said Rudy Asercion, a member of the American Legion’s War Memorial Commission.
Hanging by two thumbtacks in the building’s trophy room is a faded red, white and blue banner that just might be that missing icon.
Asercion said he noticed the artifact while rummaging through the usually locked trophy room last year. He now believes US Gen. Frederick Funston captured the flag during the Filipino-American War and brought it back to San Francisco when he was assigned to the Presidio in 1902. …
Comment by Administrator — December 25, 2006 @ 6:45 pm
Mark Twain on US-Philippines war: http://www.marxist.com/MiddleEast/iraq_twain_deleon.htm
and http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2005/07/war-prayer.html
Comment by Administrator — December 25, 2006 @ 6:48 pm