yearnings for things of home and country .... and many more interests.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
an igot
marampag ka manahon marasa an hinog mo nga bunga. inaasukaran, ginlolonggong ... kundi paghirot la mana kay bangin atkan an bado mo nga pula.
marampag ka manahon kahoy nga igot nailob han hangin han bagyo hataas an im pamahongpahong.
marampag ka manahon sirongan han butlawon nga paragdalos ha sanikad bukid namon kahoy namon nga saraka-on.
marampag ka manahon sirongan han katamsihan ... mga salag amon panunudyon bang manla bunay han tikoy am hitudyan.
inoli ak makausa panuroy ha im wara ka na dida ikaw nasinga-in. an sering ni apoy wara ka daw ilob makusog nga bagyo, mabagsik nga hangin.
ginpulod ka nala ginhimo nga sungo ambot kon maglaga magtig-a sanga mo. wara na daw sisirongan paragharas, paragdalos tagbaya, kurokuro, tikoy man nga tamsi ko.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be nominated Monday to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama. If confirmed, there will be three women justices for the first time in the high court. Kagan's selection came after a month-long process in which the president always had Kagan on his short list. The president informed Kagan that she would a Supreme Court nominee on Sunday night. Kagan has never been a judge. She is known as sharp and politically savvy and has enjoyed a blazing legal career. She was the first female dean of Harvard Law School, first woman to serve as the top Supreme Court lawyer for any administration, and now first in Obama's mind to succeed legendary liberal Justice John Paul Stevens.
At 50 years old, Kagan would be the youngest justice on the court, which would give her the opportunity to extend Obama's legacy for a generation. Kagan has clerked for Thurgood Marshall, worked for Bill Clinton and earned a reputation as a student, teacher and manager of the elite academic world. Her standing has risen in Obama's eyes as his government's lawyer before the high court over the last year. Yet she would be the first justice without judicial experience in almost 40 years. The last two were William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell Jr., both of whom joined the court in 1972.
All of the three other finalists she beat out for the job are federal appeals court judges, and all nine of the current justices served on the federal bench before being elevated. Kagan's fate will be up to a Senate dominated by Democrats, who with 59 votes have more than enough to confirm her, even though they are one shy of being able to halt any Republican stalling effort. Republicans have shown no signs in advance that they would try to prevent a vote on Kagan, but they are certain to grill her in confirmation hearings over her experience, her thin record of legal writings and her objections to the military's policy about gays. When she was confirmed as solicitor general in 2009, only seven Republicans backed her. Kagan is known for having won over liberal and conservative faculty at the difficult-to-unite Harvard Law School, where she served as dean for nearly six years. Her background, including time as a lawyer and a key domestic policy aide in President Clinton's White House, would give the court a different perspective. Kagan, who is unmarried, was born in New York City. She holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton, a master's degree from Oxford and a law degree from Harvard. She served as a Supreme Court clerk for one of her legal heroes, Justice Thurgood Marshall. And before that, she clerked for federal appeals court judge Abner Mikva, who later became an important political mentor to Obama in Chicago. Kagan and Obama both taught at the University of Chicago Law School in the early 1990s.
In her current job, Kagan represents the U.S. government and defends acts of Congress before the Supreme Court and decides when to appeal lower court rulings. Kagan has the high task of following Stevens, who leaves a legacy that includes the preservation of abortion rights, protection of consumer rights and limits on the death penalty and executive power. He used his seniority and his smarts to form majority votes. Kagan would be the fourth woman to serve on the Supreme Court, following current Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor and retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
She would be the third Jewish justice along with six Catholics. With Stevens' retirement, the court will have no Protestants, the most prevalent denomination in the United States.
justice sandra o'connor retired last year from the us supreme court. her husband suffers from alzheimer's disease. he thinks that he has a romance with another woman; and justice o'connor is thrilled. she is relieved to see her husband of 55 years so content.
she even "visits" with the "new couple" in an assisted-living center while they hold hands on the porch swing.
relationships can still develop among alzheimer's patients; "new attachments", they call them. the desire for intimacy still persists even when dementia steals so much else.
heartbreak can happen at 80, but probably "without the rage against the dying of the light." the story of the o'connors reveals a poignancy and the richness of love in the later years; it provides a rare model at a time when we are living longer, and .. and loving longer.
Mexico has historic grievances against the United States. The annexation of Texas is one of them. New Mexico and Arizona were part of Mexico; they try to reconquer these lost territories. The Mexican children are taught about these "illegal annexations". Indoctrination would be a better term. Many Mexicans believe that the US Southwest belongs to Mexico. The states that belong to this are: Califonria, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
What the Americans did to Mexico, Mexico is doing to the Americans. As the Mexicans move in, Americans move on. For every immigrant who arrives, a white person leaves.
A Mexican writer who had come to Los Angeles in 1980 wrote that after Mexico City, Los Angeles is the second largest Mexican city in the world.
i am reading a book written by pat buchanan: "state of emergency". pat says that the southwest of the united states of america is being "reconquered" by mexico. these lands, which many mexicans believe are theirs, are being detached ethnically, linguistically, and culturally from the united states by a deliberate policy of the mexican regime.
pat buchanan faults president bush because he says that bush fails to halt the invasion of the borders of the united states; buchanan blames bush for not securing the u.s. borders.
in the last chapter of the book, buchanan lays out a plan to reform the immigration policies of the united states; and if this is not pursued then the legacy of george w. bush will be that he lost the southwest of the united states, which was a legacy of sam houston, andrew jackson and james k. polk.
Ivy League professors lean heavily to the left according to a poll conducted by Luntz Research. More than 80% of Ivy League professors who voted in 2000, voted for loser Al Gore and only 9 % voted for George Bush. Only three percent of those teachers polled described themselves as Republicans. The majority of professors voted for Bill Clinton as the best president over the past forty years.
Democratic professors outnumber Republicans at least 7-to-1 in the humanities and social sciences according to a national survey featured in a New York Times article. In a separate study of professors in engineering and the hard sciences at Berkeley and Stanford, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans is 9-5o-1.
One party domination in academia stifles independent thinking, causes minority thought to be discriminated against and betrays the comittment to intellectural diversity which should be at the core of any institution of higher learning.
Mark Baueriein, an English professor at Emory Unviversity in Atlanta writes, "Any political position that dominates an institution without dissent deteriorates into smugness, complacency and blindness ... Groupthink is an anti-intellectural condition.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni conducted a survey of students' perceptions of faculty partisanship. Of 568 students polled at the top fifty U.S. colleges, forty-nine percent said some "presentations on political issues seem totally one-sided," and forty-six percent said "professors use the classroom to present their personal political views."
The year may be young, but it is not too early to nominate the No. 1 feel-good story of 2007. Somebody is going to have to work awfully hard to outdo Wesley Autrey, a true hero in a city where the word "hero" is overworked to the point of losing all meaning.
Unless you're just back from Neptune, you will recognize Mr. Autrey as the construction worker who jumped from a subway platform to save a film student who had sufferred a seizure and fallen to the tracks at 137th Street and Broadway. Mr. Autrey shoved the student into a trough between the rails and held him there as a No.1 train rolled over them -- catastrophe mere inches away.
You can't make up stories this good, or come up with a more appealing hero than this 50-year-old working man. He went to City Hall yesterday with his two young daughters, to be honored by the mayor. The word "hero," even "superhero," hung in the air, thick as a morning fog. Mr. Autrey was having none of it.
"Superhero, superhero," he said, almost mocking the word. "I don't feel like a superhero." I just did it," he said, "because I saw someone in distress,."
Maybe so. It is safe to say, though, that precious few of us would dream of doing what he did. The oods are far greater that we would end up like the film student, Cameron Hollopeter, 20. Not that we would necessarily tumble onto the tracks. But falling ill in the subway? It happens all the time.
In fact, "sick customer,": to use the official lingo, is a major reason for train delays, hundreds of them every month.
