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Adventurer
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 Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 11:10 pm Post subject: Philippines vote death toll hits 100 |
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Philippines vote death toll hits 100
MANILA: Philippines police said on Wednesday the death toll in vote-related violence ahead of next week뭩 mid-term election hit 100 after two more people were murdered.
Elections in the Philippines are often marred by violence as rival groups use private militias to intimidate voters and political opponents, and the army has deployed in some areas to try to curb the bloodshed.
The latest deaths occurred in the northern province of Nueva Ecija, which has been placed under special military control by the elections commission. Police said Alex de Guzman, 45, a village councillor, was shot repeatedly on Tuesday as he was riding his motorcycle in Gapan City. In another incident Nestor Gonzales, 44, the driver of a mayoral candidate in Dulong Bayan town, was shot in the leg and bled to death.
According to data from the national police, 53 candidates and 47 others have been killed since campaigning began in January in the run-up to the May 14 election. Voters will elect 12 senators, the entire 230-seat House of Representatives and thousands of local officials from town councils to mayors and provincial governors.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=55146 |
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jinju
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| reason #542 never to go to the Phillippines |
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supernaut
Joined: 04 Jan 2007
Location: Nova Scotia
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 12:33 am Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| reason #542 never to go to the Phillippines |
Angeles City is still in my Top 3 places I want to visit, and Cebu Island is up there as well. |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| supernaut wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
| reason #542 never to go to the Phillippines |
Angeles City is still in my Top 3 places I want to visit, and Cebu Island is up there as well. |
 I guess there's better there, but still..... |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| endo wrote: |
| supernaut wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
| reason #542 never to go to the Phillippines |
Angeles City is still in my Top 3 places I want to visit, and Cebu Island is up there as well. |
I guess there's better there, but still..... |
Left to right. A scale of 0 to 10, 0 being butt ugly 10 being really hot
3, 2, 3, 2, 1, 1
Now the World Famous Tranny Factor
0.821, 0.873, 0.901, 0.937, 0.950, 0.929
In other words: Reasons #543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 548 not to go to the Phillippines. |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:26 am Post subject: |
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That was actually quite funny jinju! Looks like this stuck up conservative has a sense of humor afterall  |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| supernaut wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
| reason #542 never to go to the Phillippines |
Angeles City is still in my Top 3 places I want to visit, and Cebu Island is up there as well. |
Well, I would consider going to the Phillipines, the people are generally very friendly and kind. The women (not the se* workers people) often have a reputation of making good wives. A friend of mine had a step mom from the Phillipines. Some teachers here have wives from there.
It is supposed to be a beautiful country. Those women in the picture do not really like so attractive, but one or two are passable.
As far as the violence, this is small scale stuff when you consider the population of the country. I think the population is about pretty large.
I forget the number and much of the fighting is between various political groups and their thugs who run old Tammany Hall style politics and there is that terrible Gordon family that descends from a certain W. W. Gordon who was an American. The family chose to become Phillipinos. If you live in their area of control, you can't work if you are not registered to vote, and you must vote for a Gordon. That is a big problem in the Phillipines. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| supernaut wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
| reason #542 never to go to the Phillippines |
Angeles City is still in my Top 3 places I want to visit, and Cebu Island is up there as well. |
Those women in the picture do not really like so attractive, but one or two are passable.
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Right, if you are really blasted. Even then though.... |
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endo
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:36 am Post subject: |
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I've been to the Phillipines and it quite a beautiful country. although Manilla is shadey as hell!
And there are some Fillipina stunners too. |
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endo
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:38 am Post subject: |
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| endo wrote: |
And there are some Fillipina stunners too. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| endo wrote: |
I've been to the Phillipines and it quite a beautiful country. although Manilla is shadey as hell!
And there are some Fillipina stunners too. |
Im sure there are though you'd be really hard pressed to find them |
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JongnoGuru
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| Jinju, what's the tranny factor of the girl endo just posted? I find something ever so slightly boyish about her. And it annoys me. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:49 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Jinju, what's the tranny factor of the girl endo just posted? I find something ever so slightly boyish about her. And it annoys me. |
annoys me too...0.735 |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 9:25 am Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| Adventurer wrote: |
| supernaut wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
| reason #542 never to go to the Phillippines |
Angeles City is still in my Top 3 places I want to visit, and Cebu Island is up there as well. |
Those women in the picture do not really like so attractive, but one or two are passable.
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Right, if you are really blasted. Even then though.... |
A friend of mine finds girls from the Phillipines rather attractive. To each his own, but I prefer Koreans when it comes to appearance, but I think there is a lot to say about the personality of the girls from the Phillipines.
There are attractive girsl from the Phillipines, but I find on the surface Koreans are far more attractive, but not as modest. The people from the Phillipines are generally down-to-Earth. It is a shame the country is run by different political thugs to the detriment of the population. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I was there recently. they had so many different electoral candidates to choose from. each house seemed to be displaying a different poster of a candidate. |
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