With the high bar of honesty in public service, a hair transplant isn’t the only thing that the balding young president will need. President Noynoy Aquino of the Philipines will need a lot of the best wrinkle cream because of the high corruption levels in the country as well as the fact that he needs a lot of time getting from one place to another. The new president has barred the use of sirens and blinkers and therefore, he will now get caught in traffic unlike the previous leaders of the country.
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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