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Kanye West Launches 2020 Presidential Bid Four Years Early

November 20, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

SACRAMENTO, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Francisco Bureau) – He did it in San Jose, then again in Sacramento, California: launch his 2020 bid to become president of the United States.

Sure, Donald Trump hasn’t even taken his oath of office as the 45th president, but West already announced his 2020 candidacy.

All that ranting and cutting short his concert are aimed at gaining the attention of the American voters. It’s a strategy that worked well for Trump: the more controversial, nonsensical and annoying you are, the bigger the chance you will gain the support of voters. Anything but being perceived as the status quo or business as usual will get you the electoral votes.

Speaking with The Adobo Chronicles after cutting his Sacramento concert short with just two songs, West said he likes to plan ahead — way ahead.

In fact, he and his wife Kim Kardashian are already designing the new presidential office when he moves to the White House. It will be in West Wing!

Government, Politics

Protesters Agree To Compromise On Marcos Remains: Exhume, Exorcise, Rebury

November 20, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Finally, Filipinos have an opportunity to move on regarding the controversial burial of Ferdinand E. Marcos in the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani (LNMB).

Earlier, National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) secretary general Edre Olalia said his group will file their motion in the Supreme Court to cite in contempt the Marcos family and officials of the Philippine Army and the Philippine National Police and that they be fined and imprisoned.

Olalia, representing former Bayan Muna Representatives Satur Ocampo and Neri Colmenares in the petition against the burial, said court rules allow them 15 days to appeal the decision. Since they received an official copy on Nov. 11, they supposedly have until Nov. 26 to file a motion for reconsideration.

But the Marcoses proceeded with the military interment rites on Nov. 18, sparking spontaneous protests.

Due to the turn of events, Olalia said the NUPL will not only ask the Supreme Court to overturn its decision allowing the burial but also order the exhumation “and probably even exorcism” of the dictator’s remains from Libingan.

An exorcism is an attempt to evict demons or spirits from the body of a human being. Belief that demons can be evicted follows automatically from belief in demons capable of possessing people.

Olalia said that once the demons are evicted from Marcos’ remains, he will no longer be the same “evil dictator” that many knew him to be. He can then be re-buried in LNMB, Olalia added.

Time to move on, indeed.

Government, Politics

Will The Real Body Of Ferdinand E. Marcos Please Rise?

November 20, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

BATAC, Ilocos Norte, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Baguio Bureau) – It was a surprise burial, documented only by a video tape posted by his daughter Imee. The body of Ferdinand E. Marcos was finally buried in the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani, amid all the controversy and protest.

But wait, while the late dictator’s body was being interred at LNMB, the same body was being viewed by tourists at the mausoleum in Batac, Ilocos Norte.

According to reports by Rappler, the Marcos ‘body’ in the refrigerated crypt was only a wax figure. Maybe, it has always been that way?

So now, Marcos is credited with a Guiness World Record of being the only world leader who is buried in two different places at the same time. Intact, that is. But it also begs the question, which Marcos was buried last week at LNMB?

Will the real Marcos body please rise?