This years’ democratic nominations is the most exciting ever pour moi’. Having a woman aggressively campaign and even start as the strongest candidate was enough to make things exciting enough. Having a strong black contender made things a lot better. I was forced to follow the trend and keep my appliances in sync even learning how to install an HDMI wall plate so as not to waste precious time waiting for the technician. That’s how good it was. Well, it’s almost over now. Let’s see what the convention will bring us.
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...
Comments