Monthly Archives: May 2015

Fashion, Law Enforcement

ENGLAND TOWN BANS MANKINIS

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imageLONDON, England (The Adobo Chronicles) – There ain’t no party like a mankini party, but the mankini parties… must be stopped, and a town in Cornwall, England did just that.

Newquay has outlawed the male bathing suits popularized by Borat, and has since noticed a significant improvement in the town’s economy. Tourists who have stayed away from the town because they were  offended by the manikinis are now back in droves.

Many Brits, however, are crying ‘foul,’ and  have accused the town of male bias. “The mankini is not that much more offensive than the female bikinis,” they said. “The private parts that are supposed to be covered are covered, just like with female bikinis, so we don’t understand what the big deal is,” they added.

They, however, failed to address the posterior end of the equation.

Sports

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS HEADED TO NBA FINALS; MANNY PACQUIAO HEADED TO THE WARRIORS

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Manny Pacquiao in practice session with the Golden State Warrior in San Francisco last year
Manny Pacquiao in practice session with the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco last year

SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – For the first time in 40 years, the Golden State Warriors are headed to the NBA finals, after defeating the Houston Rockets, 104-90, at last night’s Western Conference Championship series.

The California team faces the Cleveland Cavaliers in a best-of-7 series finals starting June 4 at Golden State’s Oracle Arena.

The Warriors took the occasion of their victory to announce that Manny Pacquiao will be drafted in the fall, ending months of speculation about the champion Filipino boxer joining the California NBA team.

Pacquiao was seen in practice sessions with the Warriors late last year in San Francisco.

Pacquiao, aside from being a boxer and elected congressman in the Philippines, is a playing coach of the Kia Carnival, a professional team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Sources close to Pacquiao said that the Filipino boxer has done a lot of soul searching after his welterweight loss to Floyd Mayweather, and is now open to retiring from boxing.  Pacquiao is also eyeing the presidency of the Philippines, but at age 36, is disqualified from running as a candidate in 2016.

The Warriors said that they could have drafted Pacquiao earlier but his recent surgery due to a shoulder injury  has prevented the boxer from the team’s training sessions.

Pacquiao is turning out to be a man for all seasons and all major sports.

 

Government, International, Military, Politics

PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT WILL VIOLATE ITS OWN ‘NO RANSOM’ POLICY

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imageMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles ) – Ah, the price of peace in the Philippines!

The proposed Bangsamoro Autonomous Region that will be created should the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) be passed is expected to receive P336.9 billion total funds over a period of five years. This includes the nearly P37 billion allocations for 2016 approved by the Committee on Appropriations and Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives.

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) projected that the Bangsamoro region is set to receive a total of P56.6 billion in 2016; P58.2 billion in 2017; P65.9 billion in 2018; P73.5 billion in 2019; and, P82.7 billion in 2020.

President NoyNoy Aquino and many legislators are aggressively campaigning for the approval of the controversial  BBL, in their desperate attempt to put an end to the decades-long Muslim insurgency and separatist movement  in southern Philippines.

The Philippine government, of course, has been steadfast in its “no ransom” policy for the kidnapping of foreigners as well as Filipino citizens.  But Aquino and the legislators seem to be willing to violate that same policy to buy back  the elusive peace in Mindanao.

Money talks. But the question is : whose money?

(We think they’re  called taxpayers.)