Nobody likes being stuck on a flight with a crying baby but that’s certainly no reason to, I don’t know, chuck one in a garbage bag and put him in the cargo hold.
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Snake causes Bohol blackout
A snake knocked the entire province of Bohol off the power grid Friday. Power in the island province was cut off at around 1 pm.
It said a transformer in Ubay town exploded after the snake was electrocuted.
The supply of electricity from the geothermal plant in Leyte province runs through the affected transformer.
The NGCP said a replacement transformer from Tubigon town was expected to arrive in Ubay town around noon, but the power interruption may last until night time.
Damned snakes. First, it was Original Sin, and now this.
PNP training, possibly
I’ll just leave this here:
A picture of two Philippine policemen playing DOTA.
To Serve And Protect...The Ancients
(Thx, Timawa.Net forums!)
Today is #sentisabado
Last Saturday, #sentisabado trended briefly on Twitter. Which isn’t really all that special, I guess. Lots of things trend on Twitter, most of them inconsequential (#worldcup, etc).
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SG airport police arrest Filipino for being a tourist
A corny old t-shirt reads ‘Singapore is a fine city’ and then lists the fines for chewing gum and other things the city state prohibits.
Apparently, Singapore now also prohibits going there too often as one Baguio resident found out when he was detained at the airport for visiting his girlfriend one too many times.
Not everyone in Hong Kong hates us
Although most of Hong Kong probably hates us for what happened on August 23 and the days that followed,both sides have something to learn from the whole mess.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Unleashes Racist Hatorade On Manny Pacquiao
Floyd Mayweather Jr., the American boxer currently in negotiations to be Pacquiao’s next punching bag, is caught on video in a racist rant against the Filipino boxing champion and congressman, who he calls a “little yellow chump”:
“As soon as we come off vacation, we’re going to cook that little yellow chump. We ain’t worried about that. So they ain’t gotta worry about me fighting the midget. Once I kick the midget ass, I don’t want you all to jump on my dick. So you all better get on the bandwagon now. … Once I stomp the midget, I’ll make that motherfucker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.”
To which Pacquiao’s only response should be: “Nigger, please”.
Classy.
(UPDATE: Mayweather has apologized for the rant. He says he was only joking around. Hold the sushi rolls.)
Dalai Lama recruits Miriam in fight to free Tibet
Rep. Pacquiao excused from being a congressman so he can train for boxing match
For the next few months, both houses of Philippine Congress will be tackling what is probably the most important law they will pass this year: next year’s national budget.
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Wikipedia, attorney-at-law
The Office of the Solicitor General recently lost an appeal for relying on that internationally respected legal luminary Atty. Wikipedia for its arguments.
Fallacy of being a complete idiot!
In an attempt to discredit expert testimony from a psychologist that both parties in a marriage annulment case “suffered from psychological incapacity†and should not have been married in the first place, the OSG trotted out a Wikipedia article, which you could imagine they hastily Googled five minutes before the government lawyers filed their appeal.
The court said in its decision that it found “incredible … if not a haphazard attempt, on the part of the [OSG] to impeach an expert witness, with … unreliable information. This is certainly unacceptable evidence, nothing short of a mere allegation totally unsupported by authority.â€