Being proven wrong is not a sad thing. It’s not about who pisses high or longer, it’s the quality of the piss, :) LOL

It’s not illegal to scenaruo-build.

And you think the Mafia-Government is below trying to manipulate Barack?

While I think he will see through such a stratagem, you can never really tell how, for either a tactical or strategic reason, the little girl just might get lucky.

Bilog ang mundo at maliwanag ang buwan.

BTW, bawal na magbitin ng isang tao patiwarik.

Done your reboot yet?

With all due respect, I think you are all mixed up on this one, pare, Time to reboot and think things over.

Dean,

Now inconceivable. Remember that some time back I gad said I am ready to accept DSaniel’s conviction beinG reversed.

Hey even if his conviction is affirmed all the way to the SCORP I bet you he will be pardoned by GMA to get face time in D.C.

RP-US relations on trial> Nah. But marriage do benefit from counseling right?

Deheadings emblematic of thievery? Mebbe, but let’s wait to become an Islamic state. Who knows the next MoA-AD may yet give up the entire archipelago. Ang saya-saya di ba? :)

Hoke lang but are now a paralegal in Bencard’s East Coast digs? :)

But let us admit it. Has it now not become inconceivable, politically and ideologically, that Daniel Smith might be acquitted on appeal. It is now the whole US RP relation on trial. If he is acquitted you would all be proven wrong who claim the relationship is unfair. It has become essential to your mental and intellectual integrity that he be found guilty, regardless of the needs of the law and justice.

On this basis alone, he has already been deprived of his rights under the Philippine Constitution. He can no longer get Justice here.

You are inferring and you certainly are entitled and even Roumulo, in his time, was derided for just being pro American.

But are any of us able to see the other heart and soul, of that a hint of them? :)

But that’s all it is. Poetry.

is the land they sought and found. . .This land I received in trust from them and in trust will pass it to my children…

Did these “Malay ancestors” of ours have the concept of “the Philippine Nation” in mind when they supposedly “sought and found[ed]” this land?

I wonder then. Look through the above and see how Romulo seems to be denying the Spanish component of our heritage. And yet we name said land after a Spanish king.

Ironic. :D

Carlos P. Romulo:

I am a Filipino. . . I sprung from a hardy race – child of many generations removed of ancient Malayan pioneers. . .This is the land they sought and found. . .This land I received in trust from them and in trust will pass it to my children…

I am a Filipino. In my blood runs the immortal seed of heroes – seed that flowered down the centuries in deeds of courage and defiance. In my veins yet pulses the same hot blood that sent Lapulapu to battle against the alien foe, that drove Diego Silang and Dagohoy into rebellion against the foreign oppressor. That seed is immortal. It is the self-same seed that flowered in the heart of Jose Rizal that morning in Bagumbayan when a volley of shots put an end to all that was mortal of him and made his spirit deathless forever; the same that flowered in the hearts of Bonifacio in Balintawak, of Gregorio del Pilar at Tirad Pass, of Antonio Luna at Calumpit. The seed I bear within me is an immortal seed. It is the mark of my manhood, the symbol of dignity as a human being…

I am a Filipino, child of the marriage of the East and the West. The East, with its languor and mysticism, its passivity and endurance, was my mother, and my sire was the West that came thundering across the seas with the Cross and Sword and the Machine…

I am a Filipino, and this is my inheritance. What pledge shall I give that I may prove worthy of my inheritance? I shall give the pledge that has come ringing down the corridors of the centuries, and it shall be compounded of the joyous cries of my Malayan forebears when they first saw the contours of this land loom before their eyes, of the battle cries that have resounded in every field of combat from Mactan to Tirad pass, of the voices of my people when they sing: “Land of the Morning, Child of the sun returning… Ne’er shall invaders Trample thy sacred shore.”
(Excerpt from “I AM A FILIPINO” by Carlos P. Romulo, a true patriot).