During these rainy days, it feels good to lie down and dream of nice vacation destinations. My friends and I have been talking about taking a group vacation someday. And being a group whose members have diverse interests, finding a destination that will be fully enjoyable for everyone is not a very easy task. Somebody suggested Branson Missouri and everybody seems to be fine with it. Well, for starts, the place is called "Live Music Capital of the World" and all of us seem to love this kind of entertainment. I hope to be able to successfully organize this vacation. It will surely be good for our group.
One of the most moving speeches that I've read. During grade school, this was the most often recited elocution piece in my school. Here it is, the text of Raul Manglapus' Land of Bondage, Land of the Free. Land of Bondage, Land of the Free By Raul Manglapus And yet, ladies and gentlemen, the tao is constitutionally free! No wonder, then, that the tao being a slave has acquired the habits of a slave. No wonder that after three centuries in chains, without freedom, without hope, he should lose the erect and fearless posture of a freeman, and become the bent, misshapen, indolent, vicious, pitiful thing that he is! Who dares accuse him now? Who dares rise up in judgement against this man, reduced to this subhuman level by three centuries of oppession? Ladies and gentlemen the tao does not come here tonight to be judged -- but to judge! Hear then his accusation and his sentence: I indict the Spanish encomendero for inventing taxes impossible to pay! I indict the usurer for s...
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