Stuff below the fold

They held the funeral of the boy who murdered his boyfriend and then killed himselfafter smuggling a gun into a Pampanga mall...ah, but where did he get the gun (guns are strictly controlled here...which means you own them for protection but pretend you don't)....

our prayers for them and their families.

One result is that they are really really inspecting us when we go into the mall...when we went to ours so Lolo could get some Siopao, there was a long line waiting to be frisked.

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Every day, there is a new scandal reported, that some one took bribes etc...and PNoy says they will be jailed by 2012...maybe.

We're still waiting for justice for the killers and the conspirators behind the killing of our nephew...

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another day, another tropical depression...too much rain at harvest season is not good...

We do have our own rice drier this year, so don't have to pay for it to be dried (and maybe have the rice deteriorate from the delay like last year), but you can't cut and thresh rice when it's raining, and of course in some areas of the Philippines, it might mean losing the crop if the water doesn't run off and floods the fields....

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Torture? Moi?

Military denies torturing arrested bombing suspect in NCotabato

No, it wasn't torture, but it was probably "enhanced interrogation"...the guy helped set two bombs, and no one wants a third one to go off...

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A BBC report of protests by peasants about their confiscated land includes this factoid:

There are tens of thousands of mass incidents, as they are known, in China every year.

Anonymous one, Syria zero.

Don't piss off the hackers.
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Tom Friedman has two words of warning for President Obama: Herbert Hoover.

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LATimes on the Solyndra collapse scandal.

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StrategyPage again reminds Americans that Ahmadinajad is an honest reformer who opposes the corrupt clerics, and may be using the evil USA/evil Israel card to stay in power.

But this part of the report is worrisome:

Russians who worked at Bushehr complained of sloppy work by Iranians and a nuclear power facility that is fundamentally unsafe. Perhaps because of this, the government recently announced that 4,000 civilians living near the Bushehr plant would be relocated

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A cautionary tale for today: The Machine Stops.