Monthly Archives: October 2011

Why wait for Americans to be ‘mad as hell’?

“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” This quote, made famous in many films, but none better than in the award-winning “Network,” must have been in the minds of thousands of protesters who joined the Occupy Wall Street rallies in New York and other cities around the United States to protest corporate greed,… Read More »

Did you vote?

We have just been through another election a provincial one this time. Of all previous election this one was highly promoted. The newspapers, television and radio continuously encouraged the residents to come out and vote. The means to do it was made much easier; advance polling places were set up; the election ballot was made easily understood and… Read More »

Brouhaha over sex tourism

Little did United States Ambassador Harry Thomas realize that his comments on sex tourism and child trafficking during a roundtable discussion with a group of appellate court justices would ignite a maelstrom of controversy. “I estimate that maybe up to 40 percent of foreign men who come here come for sexual tourism and that is unacceptable,” he said.… Read More »

OBAMA URGED TO SIGN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO BENEFIT FILVETS

CHICAGO (jGLi)— Edilberto U. Briones was 23 years old on Nov. 4, 1942 when he joined the Second Guerilla Brigade of the 92nd Division of the Philippine Army of the Leyte Area Command of the U.S. Armed Forces of the Far East in Abuyog, Leyte in the Philippines under Maj. Pedro Gallego. After his induction into the service… Read More »

What Can I Say?

Last issue I predicted in this column that Dalton McGuinty and his Liberal companeros will once again lord over in this province. I wrote that the Liberals would win although with a slim majority. I was right and wrong. I was right by predicting that the Liberals would win but wrong because the McGuinty government won with only… Read More »