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SARAH PALIN TWEETS PHOTO TO PROVE SHE’S NOT A RACIST

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Wasilla, Alaska (Exclusive to The Adobo Chronicles) – Many will remember Sarah Palin’s controversial comments during a speech last year, declaring that “the nation’s high levels of debt, including money borrowed from China, was “like slavery.”  While she prefaced her comments by saying “this isn’t racist,” many of her critics still believe that it actually was.

Her remarks were sharply criticized by  television host Martin Bashir who cited the diaries of a former plantation overseer who punished slaves by having someone defecate in their mouth or urinate on their face. He suggested the former Alaska governor deserved the same treatment.  Bashir subsequentlly apologized and resigned from his post at MSNBC.m

A couple of weeks ago, Palin posted a photograph of her and three African American ladies to her Twitter Account, with the following comment:

“Proof I am not racist. See, I’ve got black friends too — three of them, in fact!”

The ladies were, in fact, representatives of MAC (the cosmetic store) at the Pecanland Mall in Monroe, Louisiana. None of them have ever met Palin before.

Palin was in Louisiana campaigning for Republican Bill Cassidy (R-Baton Rouge) who is currently in a heated senate runoff against Senator Mary Landrieu, D-LA. The runoff will take place on December 6.

Apparently, Palin left her cosmetic bag on the plane and had to stop by the Mall for some last-minute make-up with the assistance of the MAC ladies. She thanked the ladies for “helping out with a travel emergency.”

 

 

 

International, Politics, The Media

PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT AQUINO NAMED TIME MAGAZINE’S 2014 PERSON OF THE YEAR

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imageNew York, New York (The Adobo Chronicles) – For his constant pronouncements that the Filipino people are his “bosses,” Philippine President NoyNoy Aquino was named this year’s ‘Person of the Year’ by TIME magazine.

Aquino duplicates the feat achieved by his mother, Corazon Aquino, who was TIME’s Person of the Year in 1986.

While TIME has yet to officially announce Aquino’s selection, The Adobo Chronicles was able to obtain this embargoed information from inside sources at WikiLeaks. The information also revealed that Pope Francis was a close second among TIME’s short list for the honor.

“No other world politician has withstood  the kind of criticism and opposition as Aquino,” the information stated, “and he has remained strong and relevant amidst the pork barrel scandal that has rocked his government as well as the natural disasters that have plagued his country in the past year.”  TIME also said that Aquino has maintained his ground despite criticism he suffered by refusing to name multi-awarded actress Nora Aunor to this year’s list of National Artists.

Critics have questioned TIME’s selection, arguing that Aquino is by far the most hated and unpopular of Philippine presidents.

But in a call received today by The Adobo Chronicles, TIME magazine’s managing editor Nancy Gibbs said that WikiLeaks got it all wrong. She said that TIME has not named Aquino ‘Person of the Year.’ Instead, the Philippine president has been named the year’s ‘Persona non grata.’

Well, we’re glad we were able to clear that up. We sincerely regret our error.

Arts, International, Language, The Media

OXFORD OFFICIALLY ADDS THE WORD ‘SELFITIS’ TO THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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o0xOxford, England (The Adobo Chronicles) – Each year, new words are added to the Oxford Dictionary — which describes itself as “the definite record of the English language” and published by the Oxford University Press.

Among the new words added this year is “Selfitis.”

In March this year, The Adobo Chronicles  broke the story that the American Psychiatric Association (APA)officially classified ‘selfies’ as a mental disorder, calling it “Selfitis.”image45

The disorder is defined as the obsessive-compulsive desire to take photos of one’s self  and post them on social media as a way to make up for the lack of self-esteem and to fill a gap in intimacy. APA said there are three levels of the disorder: borderline, acute and chronic selfitis.

In deciding to add “Selfitis” to their dictionary, Oxford said that “no other word in the history of the English language has caught the attention of millions of people worldwide within a short period of time, dominating news stories, songs, television shows, Facebook posts and Tweets, as has “Selfitis.”

In  responding to criticism that “itis” means “inflammation” and that the disorder as defined by the APA is more of an addiction, Oxford decided to add a second definition in its dictionary entry, as follows:

Selfitis (self-i’tis) n. inflammation of the ego

However, the word “Selfitis” failed to be named Oxford Dictionaries’ “Word of the Year.”  The 2014 Word of the Year is “Vape,”  used to describe the process of inhaling and exhaling the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette (or “vape pen”).

Last year’s word of the year was “Selfies.”