Plagiarism, J.K.Rowling, Frank Herbert and Martin Luther King
Shocked, a friend of mine, Connie V., shared a post she found at cracked.com:
The post goes on to lampoon Martin Luther King as having plagiarized the last historic lines of his speech “I have a dream … Let freedom ring…” from another lesser noted politician’s speech (although I like King’s version better) and to shockingly [...]
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The King is Housebroken; Long Live the King
After administering a light dose of intravenous anesthaetic, the vet stuck his finger down the minipin’s throat and fished it out while guiding the obstruction through the neck with his lefthand finger. The coconut oil served as lubricant and the kite thread was like the fishline and hook with the other end having been regurgitated by the pup in the attempt to remove the blockage. My eyeballs were straining out of their sockets as the vet just kept pulling and pulling at a single thread that just kept getting longer and longer until out came a jackstone ball size of abaca fiber strands coated with a white sticky substance (Eeooww!! Don’t worry I’m not uploading it. Everytime I look at the photo I took I still feel like crying.)
Vet says he never, in all his years as vet, seen the likes of it! Vet also said that the pup was in a lot of pain because that abaca could rip stomach and intestine linings and that his barking would never be the same again because of all the finger-fishing (ouch!!). Vet said the combination of the oily coating and the thread hook and line saved the puppy’s life.
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Pinoy Big Brother and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; Pinoy-style House Arrest for 2010?
And for a hundred days very early on in the campaign trail, who knows we might find some good leaders who have the strength of heart and mind, the experience to deal with wolves howling at our doorsteps and the courage to finally make a difference.
We can end up voting for them too come election day, right? It would be a shame to waste that 12 Billion peso COMELEC budget right? An open invitation; screening will be held to weed out the totally program-less, plain crazy and incompetent buffoon candidates.
If the right candidates take the bait and join the PBB Mock-up.. the elections could be a foregone conclusion couldn’t it? All that bullshit about political advertising is bullshit anyway.
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Huh What? Asia
In time, a “native dialect” can evolve into a national language/s just as Latin gave way to Italian, Spanish & French literature where once these were looked down upon as “vulgari”. Or, in time the political situation may yield to the reality that acknowledges the existence of a multi-lingual peoples within these 7,100 repeatedly colonized Islands we legally refer to as — one Nation.
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From Grade 1 Cerebral to Grade 2 Cathedral School
Three days before my son’s fourth periodic exam in Grade 2 and my siblings finally decide to take matters into their own hands by turning all Sunday lunch & mahjong visitors, ages ranging from 52 down to 8 with lots of online gaming in between, into lipat-bahay or house movers.
My mom’s medical check-up results just [...]
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Domaine du Cagueloup BANDOL 2007/Chateauneuf-du-Pap 2002; From my Basyô Collection
I trust wikipedia for kicking the can of inspiration down a bleak road … but my friends’ “loose sallies of the imagination” are the absolute clincher for a blog categorized as “entertainment”.
So over dinner last night, our trés magnifiquè, graciosa hostess - whose husband was out of town on a golf trip - held court with [...]
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Fresh Cut Bougainvillea
Got these from the garden this morning…
what are flowers for if you can’t bring them inside?
Summer’s out and pruning makes bougainvillea bloom more profusely.
And they’re not purely decorative either…
Did I spell that right? Let’s do a quick wiki …
Bougainville
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), French navigator and military commander
Bougainville Province, also known as North [...]
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ALFRED TAIAIAKE’S Wasáse; Part 2 of the book review
We are each facing modernity’s attempt to conquer our souls. The conquest is happening as weak, cowardly, stupid, petty and greedy ways worm themselves into our lives and take the place of beauty, sharing and harmony that defined life in our communities for previous generations. Territorial losses and political disempowerment are secondary conquests compared to the first, spiritual cause of discontent. The challenge is to find a way to regenerate ourselves and take back our dignity. Then, meaningful change will be possible, and it will be a new existence, one of possibility, where Onkwehonwe will have the ability to make the kind of choices we need to make concerning the quality of our lives and begin to recover a truly human way of life.
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ALFRED TAIAIAKE’S Wasáse; a book review in 2 parts
The young professor begins his tome with his tribe’s ancient ritual of thanks, is it prelude to the ritual dance that enabled his tribe to survive the ages as a people?
… a war dance …
a time-immemorial dance ritualizing unity in preparation for engaging the enemy for survival
written about by a man who has found his connection with his ancestry,dedicated his life force to his search for the means to survive; having identified the enemy within and without and finding the means to survive in unity with all of God’s creation and in engagement of the forces that still hold them captive.
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Delbert Rice’ BASIC UPLAND ECOLOGY; a book review
On 23 July 2008, I attended a launch of a new NGO campaign on environmental protection at the Sulu Hotel in Quezon City. After lunch buffet and catching up with old friends, there was the usual free for all where you take the mike and make your relevant announcements.
A lean, old, white, american guy [...]
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