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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!

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.

Politics, Same-sex Marriage, Tourism

PHILIPPINES’ QUEZON CITY GOES AFTER WORLD ZUMBA RECORD; SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS NEXT

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BautistaQuezon City, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – October marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of Quezon City, former capital of the Philippines and part of the larger Metro Manila.

The city government, under the leadership of former child actor Mayor Herbert Bautista, is going for the big guns as part of celebrating this milestone.

zumbapartyOn October 12, Quezon City is holding what it hopes to be the largest Zumba class in the world and has set its eyes on the Guinness World Record.

But Bautista is not stopping there.  He has announced that he wants his city to be the first in the Philippines and in all of Asia to recognize same-sex marriage.

None of the countries in Asia allow same-sex marriage and none would recognize such marriages performed elsewhere in the world where it is now legal.

Bautista however acknowledged that even if he succeeds in bringing same-sex marriage to Quezon City, he knows it would not be valid since cities cannot establish their own marriage laws. (In the U.S., same-sex marriage laws are established by individual states).

As an alternative, Bautista said plans to hold the largest invalid same-sex mass wedding in his city, and achieve another Guinness World Record. He will personally officiate the mass wedding which he hopes to organize and schedule on February 14, 2015.

“This will be my Valentine’s gift to the city, and to my millions of LGBT friends and colleagues,” he said.