Some people just have no class. I was issued an old digital camera by my boss and by force majeure, meaning, natural calamity, it was rendered useless. I bought the latest Canon camera and used it for work. When it was time for me to resign, the cheap and classless guy, w ho without my knowledge took fancy on my nice camera, demanded that I surrender my gadget to them, because of the camera that I lost. I told them that the canon website still advertise my expensive cam in its website and it is too pricey as an equivalent to their antiquated phone. I then told them that I will buy an exact replacement to their old camera and surrender it to them. Ha!
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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