Monthly Archives: July 2015

Beauty, International, Politics

DONALD TRUMP TO MEET WITH PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT AQUINO ABOUT HOSTING THE NEXT MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT

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imageMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) –  Colombia has retracted its bid to host the next  Miss Universe pageant amid public rejection of owner Donald Trump’s recent controversial comments on Latinos in his presidential candidacy speech.

Capital Bogota said in March that it was interested in hosting next year’s Miss Universe, a global beauty pageant owned by Trump. However, following Trump’s derogatory comments, the capital’s Institute of Tourism confirmed they no longer have interest in hosting the event.

“Bogota declines its aspiration to be the host city of the next version of the contest. The decision was adopted after the disrespectful statements against Latino and Mexican community pronounced by Donald Trump from the United States,” the tourism agency said in a statement released on Tuesday.

In a desperate effort to save the pageant from total extinction, Trump announced he was flying to Manila soon after tomorrow’s Miss USA pageant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to meet with Philippine President NoyNoy Aquino.

Trump will seek to convince Aquino to host the next Miss Universe pageant.

In announcing his trip to Manila, Trump said that the Philippines would be a most appropriate host for the next pageant. “It has two Miss Universe title holders — Gloria Diaz and Margarita Moran, not to mention the fact that the Philippines has been consistently in the top 10 finalists in recent pageants. The country has also been a host to the pageant twice, in 1974 and 1994.

Trump is expected to ask Aquino for the use of the Philippine Arena, the world’s largest indoor area, as venue for the pageant.

Beauty, Politics, Race Relations

DONALD TRUMP WILL BOYCOTT MISS USA OVER IMMIGRANT CONTESTANTS

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imageBATON ROUGE, Louisiana (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Tomorrow’s (July 12) Miss USA Pageant will not be seen on NBC or Univision, and it remains unclear whether there will be any celebrity hosts or judges after many of those originally tapped for the show dropped out in protest of owner Donald Trump’s disparaging remarks about Mexicans and immigrants.

Well, Trump himself said he was boycotting the pageant and will be a no-show.

The reason? The real estate mogul and presidential candidate can’t take any more criticism for the irony between his anti-immigrant statements and the pageant.

Apparently, Miss Rhode Island Anea Garcia’s grandmother emigrated to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic, and Miss Massachuseets Polikseni Manxhari immigrated to the U.S. from Albania with her parents when she was 5. Many other contestants have roots from Latin America, Asia and other continents.

“For me to suggest building a great wall to prevent immigrants from crossing our borders and yet sponsoring a pageant full of immigrant contestants does not make sense, and it damages my credibility — something that I cannot afford if I were to win votes to become president,” Trump said.

For once, Trump seems to make some good sense.

Politics, Technology, Travel

VICE PRESIDENT JEJOMAR BINAY’S GRAND PLAN IF ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – If you live in, or are visiting the Philippines, you can’t really go on a road trip to visit all of the country’s more than 7,000 islands. Along the way, you’ll enncounter water and have to hop onto a ship, barge or boat to get to the next closest island.

But all that is going to change if Vice President Jejomar Binay is elected president in 2016. Forget Metro Manila’s Light Railway System (LRT, MRT). They’re peanuts compared to what Binay has in his presidential blueprint.

Before his 6-year term is over in 2022, the entire Philippines — land and water, from the northernmost tip of Aparri to the southernmost tip of Tawi-Tawi–  will be connected by a high-speed railway system that would put Japan to shame.image

When completed, the Pan-Philippine High-Speed Railway System will become the world’s longest, fastest and scenic mode of mass transportation.

President Aquino’s mantra is “Tuwid na Daan,” (straight path), in reference to his anti-corruption campaign.  For Binay, it will be “Liku-Likong Daan” (crooked path), but via bullet trains.