Monthly Archives: November 2014

Health & Medicine, Human Interest

MAN SUES WIFE FOR DIVORCE, SAYS SHE HAS CHRONIC SELFITIS

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CaptureLos Angeles, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – A Latino man is suing his wife of one year for divorce because he says she is suffering from selfitis.

In March of this year, The Adobo Chronicles broke the story about the American Psychiatric Association officially classifying the taking of selfies as a mental disorder.  The disorder, called selfitis (inflammation of the ego), comes in three stages: borderline, acute and chronic.

In arguing his case before a lady judge, Richard R. says his wife  Mariana has chronic selfitis and is petitioning the court to force the wife to submit to a psychiatric examination and undergo sexual therapy. “Her condition has severely affected our relationship.  The moment she opens her eyes in the morning and wherever she goes or whatever she’s doing, she’s always taking self photographs. We don’t even have time to have a nice romantic dinner and sex between us is down to just three days a week, all because she is pre-occupied with taking selfies,” the man said.

Mariana says there is nothing wrong with taking selfies. “Everybody is doing it.”

Richard asked the judge that if his wife does not agree to see a psychiatrist and sexual therapist, he would like a divorce and a reimbursement for $8,000 which he spent to bring his wife from Argentina. The case is now in the hands of the jury.

VIDEO: Watch the oral arguments.

Politics

REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED CONGRESS SETS 2-YEAR, 12-POINT AGENDA

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Boehner, left and McConnell
Boehner, left and McConnell

Washington, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) – After meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House today, top leaders of the now Republican-controlled Congress announced their 2-year, 12-point agenda.

Called the “Conservative Contract with the American People,” the comprehensive and ambitious agenda will be officially launched at a joint session of the 114th Congress scheduled for January 5, 2015.

House Speaker John Boehner and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, officially unveiled the agenda before reporters at the steps of the Capitol.

The 12-point agenda:

  1. Repeal ObamaCare
  2. Strike down any federal and state law that resembles the Dream Act
  3. Deport all Undocumented Immigrants, including all those whose cases are pending in  immigration courts
  4. Close all U.S.-Mexico borders and ban all flights from West Africa
  5. Amend the U.S. Constitution to define marriage to be only between one man and one woman
  6. Privatize Social Security and increase retirement benefits for members of Congress
  7. Double the tax breaks for the Fortune 500 Companies
  8. Pressure the liberal members of the Supreme Court to retire or resign if they continue to have dissenting opinions with the rest of the Supremes
  9. Re-invade Iraq; invade Syria and Afghanistan; renew the Cold War with Russia
  10. Tax all use of social media and limit public access to news programs except Fox News
  11. Require all school classes, government and private meetings, conferences, concerts, sports events, the Tonys, Emmys, Grammys , Oscars,  and Video Music Awards to begin with the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. It will be a federal offense to omit the phrase “under God”
  12. Postpone the 2016 presidential elections and give President Obama an extra four years so that he can try to work more closely with the Republican Congress on the above issues.

 

Health & Medicine, International, Military, Tourism

A LUXURIOUS RESORT ISLAND VACATION AWAITS FILIPINOS RETURNING FROM EBOLA-AFFECTED COUNTRIES

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Caballo Island, off Manila Bay
Caballo Island, off Manila Bay

Caballo Island, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – We say again: It’s More Fun in the Philippines.

In the U.S., citizens returning from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa are quarantined in tents and isolated in hospitals. In the Philippines, they are offered a three-week luxury vacation in a resort island just off Manila Bay.

An island hosting a Philippine Navy installation will serve as home for three weeks for 112 Filipino peacekeepers returning from Ebola-stricken Liberia. The members of the Philippine contingent will be quarantined on Caballo Island, located 2.6 miles east of Corregidor, when they return to the country on Nov. 11.

“The peacekeepers will enjoy their stay in that island,” Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) public affairs chief Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc told reporters at Camp Aguinaldo yesterday. He said the soldiers can go fishing and nature tripping. If they choose to stay indoors, the peacekeepers can surf the Internet or watch their favorite cable channel.

Cabunoc said the island stay is a fitting reward for the Filipino troops who risked their lives to maintain peace in Liberia.

Meanwhile, Philippine Senator Miriam Santiago proposed a new bill designating Caballo Island as a quanrantine island for all corrupt politcians convicted of or facing graft and  corruption or plunder charges.  “Nothing is a more appropriate punishment than isolating all evil people in the same small island,” Santiago said. “I know they can’t stand each other, so that would be a better option than locking them up in individual prison cells,” she added.