Recycled Blog Page October2013
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AMAZING GRACE BANK OF AMERICA THEATER CHICAGO
Updated September2014
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There are so many version of the Amazing Grace hymn. I chose Judy Collin's because I first heard her sing it in her concert in the 70's. Being a Catholic in the Philippines all our church hymns are of course different, you know, localized and from Vatican hymns such as Ave Maria. Of course, in the Catholic Church here in the US, Amazing Grace is in the hymn book.
Video http://youtu.be/p5NCyuRhoGY
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blogtag: slavery
People with ADD like
me like to multi-task and just enjoy doing 2 things at a time (eating, cooking,
ironing, taking a bath, mowing, running errands and whatever). So last
week I was listening to the Rush Limbaugh Show www.wlsam.com
11 a.m. - 2 p.m. while cleaning my deck. The "Truth Detector" (98.99%
accurate) and "Doctor of Democracy" was away on a European vacation and
Professor Walter Williams was subbing on the EIB Network. Well, when you
call the eminent Professor Williams, you should "be prepared" just like he told
the male caller (probably a liberal Democrat). The caller was ignorant or had
forgotten that in the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln
declared "that all slaves in states which were in rebellion on January 1,
1863 would be declared free." The proclamation freed few slaves
and as Professor Williams pointed out, it applied only to enemy territory, and
federal officers could not enforce it. It left slavery in the border
states untouched. Lincoln advised state representatives to free their
slaves and to compensate the slave owners. But to Lincoln's great
disappointment they failed to follow his advise. Anyway folks, next time
you call a radio talk-show with brilliant professors, you must know what you're
talking about and must read more on American and World History!
me like to multi-task and just enjoy doing 2 things at a time (eating, cooking,
ironing, taking a bath, mowing, running errands and whatever). So last
week I was listening to the Rush Limbaugh Show www.wlsam.com
11 a.m. - 2 p.m. while cleaning my deck. The "Truth Detector" (98.99%
accurate) and "Doctor of Democracy" was away on a European vacation and
Professor Walter Williams was subbing on the EIB Network. Well, when you
call the eminent Professor Williams, you should "be prepared" just like he told
the male caller (probably a liberal Democrat). The caller was ignorant or had
forgotten that in the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln
declared "that all slaves in states which were in rebellion on January 1,
1863 would be declared free." The proclamation freed few slaves
and as Professor Williams pointed out, it applied only to enemy territory, and
federal officers could not enforce it. It left slavery in the border
states untouched. Lincoln advised state representatives to free their
slaves and to compensate the slave owners. But to Lincoln's great
disappointment they failed to follow his advise. Anyway folks, next time
you call a radio talk-show with brilliant professors, you must know what you're
talking about and must read more on American and World History!
"In this
temple as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union, the memory of
Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever."
temple as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union, the memory of
Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever."
- Lincoln
Memorial
Memorial
Published 8/5/05 ALT MSN Group
Web Page: Don't Know Much History
An interesting reading...
ReplyDeleteSubject: History of Anak ng Jueteng
From the
book: "Phoenix: The Saga of the Lopez Family:
1800-2000". By
Raul
Rodrigo.
Manila: Island Graphics Inc., 2000. 2 volumes. 720 pp.
On
pp. 105 to 106 (Vol. 1):
In Iloilo in 1929, the king of jueteng was a
Chinese named Luis Sane, widely known as Sualoy. He operated with impunity; his
establishments were safe from raids; secured, it was said, by generous bribe
money to politicians and the local police.
In September 1929, Ening
[Lopez] and El Tiempo began a crusade against jueteng in Iloilo and the
corruption it created in local government. The winning number each day was
printed in a box in boldface on page one. Ening came out with one expose after
another, alleging that top politicians such as Iloilo Governor Mariano
Arroyo,
Iloilo City police chief Marcelo Buenaflor and his brother
Congressman Tomas
Buenaflor, had been bribed by Sualoy to turn a blind eye on
jueteng.
Ening did not choose lightweight opponents. Mariano Arroyo was
the most powerful man in the province. He was the brother of the late Jose
Arroyo, a Nacionalista senator and good friend of Quezon. As the public's
outrage over the corruption began to mount, Arroyo issued a statement that
jueteng did not exist in Iloilo. That it did and that local officials benefited
from it were matters of public knowledge in
the city. The question was not
what needed to be done, but who had the courage to do it. As it turned out,
Ening Lopez did.
In March 1930, due to the pressure created by El Tiempo,
Sualoy's headquarters was finally raided; not by the do-nothing local police,
but the Philippine Constabulary. Sualoy was arrested, found guilty and jailed.
He was eventually deported and died in China. With Sualoy out, the conflict had
narrowed to a match between ElTiempo and
the governor. The crusade had
captured the imagination of Iloilo and made El Tiempo the city's leading
newspaper. In August 1930, pushed against the wall, Governor
Arroyo sued El
Tiempo for libel. Ening struck back by filing administrative charges
against the governor. He also called in his friend and former boss Vicente
Francisco to lead his defense against the libel charge.
As the struggle
intensified, some Lopezes sensed in it some unwelcome echoes of the political
tempest that had taken the life of Ening's father (Benito Lopez) 22 years
before. El Tiempo's editor, Jose Magalona, was badly beaten by a local thug who
was believed to be in the employ of the governor's men. The older Lopezes were
afraid that as the row grew more heated, Ening might eventually share his
father's
fate.
Fortunately, news of the case had reached Manila and
attracted the attention of (American) Governor General Dwight F. Davis. Governor
Arroyo and his cohorts came under minute scrutiny. As a result of the scandal,
the Nacionalistas and Quezon began backing away from Arroyo. When Arroyo asked
Quezon to recommend to Davis that he be acquitted of the administrative charges
filed by Lopez, Quezon refused.
Instead, Davis swiftly dispatched Judge
Manuel Moran (later chief justice of
the Supreme Court), to investigate the
libel case. Moran established that Arroyo and the police chief were in fact
heavily involved in illegal gambling. They even ran a gambling den as a means of
generating money for the upcoming 1931 elections. Moran concluded
I'm 'Jueteng for Tonight.' I like the story of the 'Jueteng Game.'
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