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Donald Trump: “Latinos Marco Rubio And Ted Cruz Should Be Disqualified From Running For President”

February 14, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

GREENVILLE, South Carolina (The Adobo Chronicles) – Donald Trump, who, for the longest time had questioned Barack Obama’s qualification to be president of the United States over the latter’s citizenship status, has found the perfect opening to protest the candidacies of his leading rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.

During tonight’s GOP presidential debate in South Carolina, the two Cuban American candidates traded fireworks at each other. At one point, Rubio questioned Cruz’s ability to understand and speak Spanish, to which the senator for Texas replied in the Spanish language.

Shortly after the debate, Trump said he was going to seek the disqualification of both Rubio and Cruz because he said neither of them, being Cuban, was eligible to run for U.S. president. “They just demonstrated their U.S. citizenship disqualification from the race by showing their Spanish language skills,” Trump said.

“Only natural-born citizens can run for president,” Trump maintained, “so we cannot allow Spanish-speaking candidates to run for U.S. president.”

http://www.snappytv.com/tc/1386291/591786

International, Science and Environment

As Philippines’ Population Grows, So Does Its Land Mass

February 12, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Photo: Hundred Islands in Pangasinan, Northern Luzon. — Photo: Hundred Islands in Pangasinan, Northern Luzon

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – Filipinos learn in school that their country is composed of 7,101 islands (at low tide). Now, geography books may have to be revised.

The Philippines’ population is fast increasing, reaching over 100 Million as of the latest population census. But not to worry, its land mass is also increasing!

The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority discovered 400 more islets in a series of mapping research.

Environment Secretary Ramon J.P. Paje made this remark in his speech at the ongoing Philippine Environment Summit at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City on Wednesday. Paje told summit participants the country is now officially composed of 7,500 islands as he reported on the state of the Philippine environment.

The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (Namria) confirmed that using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IfSAR), the agency was able to “discover” more than 400 previously “unknown” islands in various parts of the country.

An attached agency of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Namria is mandated to provide the public with mapmaking services, and to act as the central mapping agency, depository and distribution facility for natural resources data in the form of maps, charts, texts and statistics.

Now if only Filipinos stop congregating in overcrowded Metro Manila and other urban centers, and move to one of these oftentimes uninhabited islands, it would solve many of the country’s social and economic problems.

And they need to do it quickly before the big corporations start developing these islands into expensive resorts for tourists.

So while China illegally ‘creates’ artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea territories, the Philippines just does it very casually with the help of Mother Nature. And mapping services.

Government, Law Enforcement, Travel

Filipinos Have No Choice But To Drive Without Driver’s Licenses

February 12, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – Everywhere you go, it is illegal to drive a motor vehicle without a government-issued driver’s license. In the Philippines, the government is responsible for motorists driving without a license — card, that is.

The Land Transportation Office (LTO), the counterpart of the U.S. Department of Motor Vehicles, has announced that by March this year, it will run out of the redesigned driver’s license cards, thanks to a third-party vendor it has contracted with to produce the plastics.

While drivers are issued temporary paper licenses, many motorists complain that such licenses are often left in their trousers’ pocket to wash away with their laundry. Which means they have to go to LTO several times a year and deal with the long wait to get a replacement paper license.

This situation is brought to you by the Aquino administration’s Daang Matuwid (straight path) , a path full of Filipinos driving without a (plastic) license!