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Politics

FLORIDA’S GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS: FANGATE!

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Screen capture shows an electric fan underneath Governor Crist’s podium

Miami, Florida (The Adobo Chronicles) – A televised debate between the candidates for Florida governor was almost called off Wednesday night because of a fan. A fan fan.

As the debate coverage went live, neither incumbent Governor Rick Scott (R) nor challenger and former Governor Charlie Crist showed up on stage.  The moderating panel panicked.

Minutes later, Governor Crist took to the podium but the moderators announced that Governor Scott will not be participating in the debate because there was an electric fan underneath the podium designated for Crist.

Scott’s campaign insisted that per the agreed-upon debate rules, fans were not allowed on stage.

The Crist campaign, however, said that it was their understanding that what was prohibited were human fans or political followers of the candidates in the audience, and not electric fans on stage.

Scott eventually showed up and the debate went on as scheduled.

The debate will forever be known as fangate!

Human Interest

CALIFORNIA’S BILINGUAL PARROT SPEAKS TAGALOG, NOT SPANISH

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parrotTorrance, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – A parrot that spoke with a British accent when he disappeared four years ago has been reunited with his owner, and he now speaks Spanish. Or so the owner first thought.

A veterinarian used a microchip to track Nigel, an African parrot, to his owner, Darren Chick, a Briton who lives in Torrance. Mr. Chick said Nigel’s accent is gone, and that the bird now chatters in Spanish. He said last week’s reunion had brought tears to his eyes, although Nigel bit him when he tried to pick him up.

Chick said all he heard from his red, white, blue and yellow-feathered pet this week was “cuchara,” “tenedor,” “cuchillo,” “mesa” and “silla” (Spanish words for spoon, fork, knife, table and chair).

Today, however  Nigel kept saying “salamat” (Tagalog for “thank you”). That’s when Chick realized he was actually speaking in Tagalog, the dominant language in the Philippines.

Though spelled differently, cuchara, tenedor, cuchillo, mesa and silla mean the same things as they do in Spanish.

Chick has appealed to the Filipino or Filipino family that adopted Nigel for the last four years to come forward so he could thank them for  making his parrot bilingual.

Incidentally, Nigel’s feathers are the same as the colors of the Philippine flag.

Politics, The Media

WHITE HOUSE FUNDS FIL-AM CONSERVATIVE BLOGGER MICHELLE MALKIN’S BLOG

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Malkin (maiden name Maglalang)
Malkin (maiden name Maglalang)

Colorado Springs, Colorado (The Adobo Chronicles) – Filipino American Michelle Malkin is a conservative blogger, political commentator and author whose weekly syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites.  She is a Fox News Channel contributor and has been a guest on MSNBC, C-SPAN and national radio programs.

The 44 year-old Obama basher rose to prominence after she published her 2004 book entitled, “In Defense of Internment: The Case for ‘Racial Profiling’ in World War II and the War on Terror.”  In this book, she defended the U.S. government’s internment of 112,000 Japanese Americans in prison camps during World War II, and argued that the same procedures could be used on Arab- and Muslim-Americans today.

Most of her blog writings are anti-Obama, anti-Democrat and anti-almost anything that is opposed to her ultra conservative views.

Today, The Adobo Chronicles uncovered a disturbing fact about her conservative blog: it is funded by the Obama White House (see screen capture).

Obama ad in Malkin's blog
Obama ad in Malkin’s blog

We can only speculate either of two things:  one, that she speaks from both sides of her mouth, pretending to be conservative when deep down in her heart she is really a liberal; or two, that The White House is funding her anti-liberal rants to demonstrate the stupidity of the conservative movement in the country.

We’ll let our readers decide.