Monthly Archives: November 2014

Film and TV, LGBT

HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN UNVEILS NEW LGBT LOGO

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imageWashington, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) – The equal sign (=) has long been a symbol of the LGBT community’s quest for equality and is, in fact, the logo of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT advocacy organization in the U.S.

In an op-ed piece published in the latest issue of the LGBT magazine The Advocate, Ringo Le, director of the film ‘Big Gay Love,’ wrote a scathing criticism of the HRC logo. The film is about the struggles of being an Asian man in the American gay community.

In his piece, Le said:

“An equal sign is often used as a symbol for the LGBT community, but I believe a pyramid is a more appropriate image. And at the top of the social hierarchy stands the idealized gay white man, and it will probably never change.”

Being the responsive and and socially-responsible organization that it is, the HRC announced it was changing its logo from an equal sign to a pyramid with the rainbow colors of the gay flag,  with the top  section of the pyramid representing the gay white man.

African American, Asian and Latino gay men and women across the country immediately praised the HRC move, saying that this could signal a historic kumbaya moment in the American LGBT community.

Science and Environment, Technology, Travel

LANDING ON A COMET: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE ROSETTA SPACE MISSION

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The spaceship Rosetta (Illustration: cbsnews.com)
The spaceship Rosetta (Illustration: cbsnews.com)

London, Great Britain (The Adobo Chronicles) – History was made today when a mechanical space probe called Philae landed on a comet named 67P some 310 million miles from Earth.

European Space Agency (ESA) scientists and executives high-fived and hugged each other when the landing was confirmed.

The probe was released from the mother ship Rosetta, an unmanned space ship that has been in orbit for more than a decade now.

Till this very day, the mission of the Rosetta was not known, except by the top brass at ESA, the European counterpart of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

But now that the comet landing has been successfully accomplished, ESA revealed that Rosetta’s mission was to find out if there was life in the comet and if so, what language or languages the beings spoke.

The Philae is equipped with the Rosetta Stone language learning system, especially designed to record spoken word and to translate them into English and other languages. It is the same system earthlings purchase on Amazon.com to learn different languages and improve their language skills.

Identifying the language spoken in the comet will give scientists a clue as to which country or continent on earth the comet’s beings originally came from.  It has long been established that earthlings have traveled or migrated to planets, moons, stars and comets and have established permanent residency in these locations within the solar system.

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Health & Medicine, International, Politics, Science and Environment

OBAMA’S EBOLA CZAR NOMINATED FOR NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE

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imageStockholm, Sweden (The Adobo Chronicles) – Ron Klain, President Obama’s Ebola Czar, has been nominated to receive next year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine.

The announcement came in Stockholm just minutes after the United States has been officially declared ‘Ebola-free.’

In the last three months, about 1,000 people were being monitored by health officials for possible exposure to the deadly virus. Several schools in Texas and Ohio shut down because of a single patient who boarded a plane. A cruise ship was refused permission to dock in Cozumel, off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The governors of New York and New Jersey sought to quarantine incoming airport passengers suspected of carrying the virus. Polls showed a majority of Americans were concerned that Ebola would spread out of control in the U.S., thanks to the scare-mongering politicians and the ratings-hungry media.

On Tuesday, a fully recovered Dr. Craig Spencer, the last remaining U.S. person being treated and monitored for Ebola, was released from Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan.

The U.S. is now Ebola-free, and much of the credit goes to Klain for his outstanding work as Ebola czar.  While no one knows exactly what he did to eradicate Ebola in the U.S., he is nevertheless being honored by this Nobel Prize nomination.

“No single individual anywhere in the world has so effectively wiped out a pandemic in just a few months,” President Obama said, “but Klain did it.”