Treat or Treat not Tricked or Treat says Evil Cat

Grumpy Halloween! Says evil cat and it has always been a Treat or Treat not Tricked or Treat. Why so? Well, if we go by the bailout where those who fail were treated and rewarded and the people are tricked to fork out tax dollars in the billions while worrying about their disappearing retirement accounts and plunging house value worrying if they will have a roof over their heads in the days to come.

Since the evil cat does not want to be put up for adoption in case his house....... yes his because he is the master and the people who happen to live with him are thrown out for being gullible that the real estate market will drop gradually according to some delusional economist of the trickle effect kind.

Just go out and vote on November 4 if you have not voted already if you are in the state where early voting is allowed....... This cat is partisan and he is tired of the lies, deception and agitprop of black propagandist out to divide not unite America..............Evil Cat is rooting for Barack Obama!

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“SALUTE TO THE FILIPINO-AMERICAN ORGANIZATION”

(A Fund Raiser To Establish the Legal Defense and Education Fund)

Dear Kababayan :

On December 21, 2008 (a Sunday) from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA), Region One, in cooperation with the Philippine Consulate of New York, will hold a black-tie gala event to be held at the Hammerstein Grand Ballroom, The Manhattan Center, in New York City.

The gala event has a two-fold purpose, namely, (1) to salute Filipino American Associations for their meaningful and exemplary contributions to their respective communities/constituencies and, (2) to request the community to help fund the first-ever Legal Defense and Education Fund for the benefit of our unfortunate kababayans as well as FILVOTE whose aim is to register every eligible Filipino American to vote in all elections at both the national and local level so that “Together We Will Be Heard”.

The affair is also intended to serve as an invitation to interested FILAM organizations to participate, on a voluntary basis , in the launching of “Project Self-Reliance in Community Building”, a joint project between NaFFAA Region One and ACESFOUR/SMART-PLDT to help community organizations achieve financial self-reliance. Under the “Self-Reliance in Community Building ” joint project, NaFFAA Region One, has been designated by ACESFOUR/SMART-PLDT as the official retail outlet for all Filipino American community organizations of any and all SMART telecom wireless products and services (e.g. call & text cards) at steeply discounted prices for distribution to its member organizations. In turn, NaFFAA Region One will likewise make available the benefits of the discounts/savings generated to participating Filipino American organizations and their individual members.

The Gala event, therefore, in addition to celebrating the achievements of FILAM organizations will also serve to demonstrate that all organizations can come together to work for a common cause. It is for this reason that NaFFAA Region One and the Philippine Consulate of New York have agreed to cooperate in the sponsorship of this gala event.

RESERVE THE DATE - DECEMBER 21, 2008. For more information, kindly email your query directly to me to any of the following contact persons:

JT Mallonga (R1); Roger Alama (R1 Vice);
Joe Ramos (NY); Gwen De Vera (NJ);
Aida Rivera (PA); Marlene Stern (CT);

Frank Celoza (MA); Nena Kauffman (Exec.Dir);

Cora Reyes (Ball chair)

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Emerito F. Salud - A lawyer from the Ateneo law School ' 73, a member of the NY Bar since 1994, a FILAM community activist, a radio-commentator of RadioPinoy USA, he is currently the Director for Advocacy of NaFFAA REgion 1. He is also a member of the NJ Chapter-Movement for Free Philippines, founded by the late Senator Raul Manglapus, and a founding member of Kaibigan Inc., based at the Port of Newark, NJ, a support group for Filipino merchant mariners (seamen).

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The FILAMS are coming!

One of the greatest gifts of U.S. citizenship is the individual’s right to vote and to participate in the American electoral process.

While many look upon U.S. citizenship as the door towards the realization of their American Dream, many of us who enter this portal, forget that our entry to this door does NOT ONLY lay open for us the many opportunities to realize our own American Dream but it also imposes upon us certain elemental obligations to insure that those, who are fortunate enough to follow us, would have the same, true and real opportunity for all times.

We ought to remember that before America came to existence and became a reality, it started as a mere set of ideas, borne out of that painful experience, with oppression and tyranny, by a group of people, who believed that it is part of their God given dignity, as human beings, to chart their own destiny without malice nor injury to others. From this basic belief in the primacy of human dignity and in every human being’s ineluctable right to liberty, the genesis of American democratic political ideas came to being. The American fidelity to these lofty ideals, written with posterity in the American Declaration of Independence, became the fundamental bases upon which America turned herself into one of world greatest countries and with the fall of the Iron Curtain, the only superpower in the world. Sure there are emerging powers in the horizon such, as China and India but that is another matter.

The American political ideas, enshrined in the American fundamental law, provide, among others, that sovereignty in this country resides with the people. Simply stated, we, the people, choose those who shall govern us. With our consent, we allow our chosen representatives to run the governance of our society. In this manner, order is preserved through the rules and regulations they established for the enjoyment of opportunities that are open to all Americans to realize their own dream. To insure that the consent of the governed is always secured in the stewardship of the United States of America, the American Electoral Process is established as a matter of institutional practice under the American political System. Basically, it demands that all qualified citizens should register and vote in every election, be that local or national. By participating in the electoral process, we, the people, affirm our sovereign right in our society, and our birthright, as human beings, to chart our own destiny under the laws promulgated or to be promulgated by our chosen stewards. Necessarily, every time we affirm these principles, we also strengthened the health of the myriad American democratic institutions that drew life from these principles

On the other hand, when we refuse or do not vote and thus, fail to exercise our right to suffrage, we in effect abdicate to OTHERS our prerogative to chart the course of our own destiny in America, or even possibly, the realization of our fullest potentials. And every time we fail or refuse to vote, we also weakened our democratic institutions by a vote. Since we did not participate in the electoral process, we are indirectly declaring that we do not have to be counted in the determination by those chosen to lead us on how the public at large ought to pursue its dreams. For that reason alone, we lose, in many ways, our right to complain or be heard effectively, by those at the helm of governance, who, in the first place, are there as a result of this political exercise. What is tragic here is that those in our family and community, such as our children, other family members and friends, who depend on us for our leadership and guidance, may have to share in the effects of our own folly – our failure to exercise one of the most important aspect of being an American – the right to vote.

It is in the wake of this truism that FILVOTE has become a flagship program of NaFFAA national. NaFFAA strongly believes that the seed of the FILAM political empowerment in America lies at the heels of a successful FILVOTE program, a program that envisions every FILAM anywhere in America must be a registered voter of his/her community and who participates in the electoral process of that community.

By the participation of every FILAM in the electoral process, by registering and by voting in the election, the FILAM ceases to be an invisible people, whose presence in the past is only recognized in statistical records under a general heading –Asian Pacific Islander! By exercising our right to suffrage, we are declaring to all sundry that FILAMS are now taking over their role as an equal partner in what makes this nation the greatest on earth. By our participation in the electoral process, we are adding a WORTHY human face and voice to that general description of a people from Asia Pacific. By exercising our right to vote, we are in effect announcing to everyone in America, “LOOK and LISTEN, the FILAMS are coming!”

Emerito F. Salud, Esq.
National Director
FilVOTE-NaFFA
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Emerito F. Salud - A lawyer from the Ateneo law School ' 73, a member of the NY Bar since 1994, a FILAM community activist, a radio-commentator of RadioPinoy USA, he is currently the Director for Advocacy of NaFFAA REgion 1. He is also a member of the NJ Chapter-Movement for Free Philippines, founded by the late Senator Raul Manglapus, and a founding member of Kaibigan Inc., based at the Port of Newark, NJ, a support group for Filipino merchant mariners (seamen).

List of States where early voting is allowed from Rock The Vote site, please verify with your Secretary of State to be guided accordingly or for more information.

EARLY VOTING STATES
		Alaska Arkansas Colorado Georgia Idaho Indiana Louisiana Montana Nevada North Carolina Ohio South Dakota Texas Vermont Wisconsin Wyoming Arizona California Florida Hawaii Illinois Iowa Kansas Maine Nebraska New Mexico North Dakota Oklahoma Tennessee Utah West Virginia

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Wife Murderer Sher Dil Jatoi Compensated Instead of Paying for his Crime

Three girls handed over to a habitual murderer who killed his wife on the pretext of honour killing as compensation! Help stop this barbaric madness!

It is a mad mad world out there in the boondocks of Pakistani feudal villages where illegal medieval tribal justice system called Jinga condones wife murderer on the pretext of honor killing to be compensated with handing over three minor girls of the “offending” party. This is beyond horrific that send chills to the civilized world but in this enclave where medieval tribalism dictates how people should live or die is on madmen’s hand such monstrous tragedy still exist.

Sher Dil Jatoi accused his 2nd wife of infidelity and under the pretext of protecting his “honor” murdered his wife and to compensate for his “sullied honor” ordered the Shahoo Jatoi the man alleged to have illicit relationship with the deceased to hand over to the murderer Sher Jil Jatoi 3 girls together with 20 buffaloes as compensation. Now if that is that the most inhumane impunity on planet earth I don’t know what is?

Case Details:

According to the information received, Mr. Sher Dil Jatoi, 62 years old, killed his second wife in an honour killing for allegedly having an illicit relationship with a person named Mr. Shahoo Jatoi. The honour killing occurred in August this year. Based on this case, Mr. Mir Hassan Jatoi, one of the chiefs of Jatoi tribe, a powerful tribe in the area held a 'Jirga', a court which has been declared as illegal and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, at Lucky Ghulam Shah, Shikarpur district, Sindh province on October 20, 2008 in order to make a decision on the murder case.

Several elites of the Jatoi tribe who have remained in power in both the military and civilian governments took part in the Jirga. The decision said Sher Dil Jatoi was the victim of honour and innocent in killing his second wife. It further said, "as Shahoo Jatoi developed the illicit relationship with the wife of Sher Dil Jatoi, Sher Dil had the right to murder his wife. Shahoo Jatoi was order to compensate Sher Dil by handing over his three minor daughers". Since Shahoo has only one girl, a 10-year-old daughter, the Jirga decided that the brothers Mr. Miro Jatoi and Mr. Khanan Jatoi should give their daughters of ages between 13 and 11 years to Sher Dil. Besides, it also ordered Shahoo's family to deliver 20 buffaloes, costing more than 100,000 rupees (around USD 1,400) each, as a fine for having the relationship.

When this incident took place, the people in the area were resentful and pressured the police to arrest him as he was known as a habitual killer of his wives. Due to the pressure, the police arrested and kept him in the police custody but released him after 15 days as the people's feelings settled down after his arrest. Dr. Ibrahim Jatoi, the chief of the tribe and former minister in the regime of General Zia Ul Haq helped Sher Dil to be released in 2001 when he killed his first wife also on the pretext of an honour killing.

ICAHK is appealing for your help to help rescue the poor girls at risk of suffering horrific sexual or unimaginable abuse that this madman is capable of harming these innocent girls or worse suffer the same fate from this murderous sorry excuse of a human being.

Suggested Action:

Please write letters to the authorities listed below urging them to investigate the case of killing and take necessary action to ensure that the perpetrator is brought before the court and those three girls are immediately brought to their parents.

Please be informed that the AHRC has also written separate letters to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women calling for intervention in this case.

Click here to support the appeal, contact them or send your letters to the list below:

1. Mr. Asif Ali Zardari
President
President's Secretariat
Islamabad
PAKISTAN
Fax: +92 51 922 1422, 4768 / 920 1893 or 1835

2. Mr. Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani
Prime minister of Pakistan
Prime Minister House
Islamabad
PAKISTAN
Fax: +92 51 9221596
Tel: +92 51 9206111
E-mail: webmaster@infopak.gov.pk

3. Mr. Rehman Malik
Advisor for Ministry of Interior
Room No. 404, 4th Floor, R Block,
Pak Secretariat
Islamabad
PAKISTAN
Fax: +92 51 920 2624
Tel: +92 51 921 2026
E-mail: minister@interior.gov.pk

4. Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan
Governor of Sindh province
Karachi, Sindh Province
PAKISTAN
Fax: +92 21 920 5043
Tel: +92 21 920 1201
E-mail: governor@governorsindh.gov.pk

5. Syed Qaim Ali Shah
Chief Minister House
Karachi, Sindh Province
PAKISTAN
Fax: +92 21 920 2000
E-mail: pppsindh@yahoo.co

6. Chief Justice of Sindh High Court
High Court Building
Saddar, Karachi
Sindh Province
PAKISTAN
Fax: +92 21 9213220
E-mail: info@sindhhighcourt.gov.pk

7. Ms. Nadia Gabol
Minister for Human Rights
Government of Sindh,
Pakistan secretariat, Barrack 92,
Karachi, Sindh Province
PAKISTAN
Tel: +92 21 9207043
Fax: +92 21 9207044
E-mail: lukshmil@yahoo.com

8. Secretary
(Criminal Prosecution) SGA &CD Department
Government of Sindh
Sindh Secretariat,
Karachi, Sindh Province
PAKISTAN
Tel: +92 21 9213327-6
Fax: +92 21 9213873
E-mail: secy.cpsd@sindh.gov.pk

9. Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Mirza
Minister for Home
Government of Sindh
Barrack 79, Pakistan Secretariate
Near MPA hostel
Karachi, Sindh Province
PAKISTAN
Fax: +92 21 9204456
Tel: +92 21 9201920-1
E-mail: secy.home@sindh.gov.pk

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October 29 is Zero Remittance Day!

The times are uncertain and the world economy is in crises, while I don't exactly agree 100% with the statement below I don't think it will hurt migrant workers not to send their hard earned dollars for just a day. We are in a dire situation and the migrants countries need to shape up or we are all back to hunting and gathering economy. PJOctober 29 IS ZERO Remittance Day!

The International Migrants Alliance (IMA), an alliance composed of 112 grassroots migrants' organizations worldwide, declares October 29 as Zero Remittance Day.

The Zero Remittance Day is a symbolic protest action of migrants against forced migration and systematic exploitation of cheap labor. It coincides with the opening of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) on October 29, whilst migrant organizations worldwide shall also hold the International Assembly of Migrants and Refugees (IAMR) to directly oppose the GFMD.

The Zero Remittance Day principally takes the GFMD to task for being an elitist, anti-migrant forum aimed to perpetuate the greater commodification of migrants worldwide. All over the globe, the growing migrants' movement views the GFMD as a sham assembly with the sole objective to consolidate and legitimize attacks on migrants' rights and welfare.

The GFMD cannot be expected to become a significant tool to its supposed stakeholders, migrant workers themselves, when it fails to tackle the fundamental problems and issues concerning the unprecedented growing number of migrants. The very fact that the GFMD fails to even accommodate genuine migrant representation in its roster is glaring proof of the forum's defectiveness.

The Zero Remittance Day also aims to condemn the convention of the GFMD amid the global financial crisis. It seeks to send out the united message of protest from millions of migrants worldwide who are forced to leave their homelands and subject themselves to cheap labor and exploitation out of desperation. It discredits migration as a tool for development but the result of continuous unemployment, landlessness and lack of basic services in sending countries.

Migration as a tool for development is a fallacy. Migration, at the expense of migrants worldwide, would only serve to benefit developed First World nations. It would not end poverty and joblessness resulting in the forced migration of peoples of poor countries.

In the midst of a global financial crisis, the U.S. and its client states will use the GFMD to increase remittances and the profits they extract from it. The WB has said that the $377-Billion worth of global remittances are greater than the combined amount of official development assistance and foreign direct investments. But these mainly benefit developed countries such as the U.S. and receiving countries while migrant-sending states like the Philippines would only use remittances to pay off foreign debts, keep afloat bankrupt economies, and as a source of corruption.

On October 29, thousands of migrants of different nationalities from different countries will not send home remittances to shout their clarion call – NO to GFMD! End labor export! Create jobs at home! Advance and defend migrants' rights!

Migrants from sending and destination countries like the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Taiwan, and Australia under the IMA call on fellow migrants and their families to participate in and support the Zero Remittance Day.

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Joe the Plumber Unclogged 2010

That sounds not right huh? Unclogged as in musicians performing unplugged but this is America where one and anyone for that matter has a right to pursue their dreams even if that dream was hopefully not coming from a nightmare. Yes, Joe the Plumber also known as the unlicensed one (to the tune of McCain’s that one) is plunging his plunger to unclogged Washington of crap according to his website urging visitors to sign a petition for him to be drafted in the congressional race in 2010 challenging longtime Rep. Democrat Marcy Kaptur in the Toledo-area district.

While Joe Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. Joe the Plumber to his supporters and Joe the unlicensed Plumber to his detractors dreams of unclogging the crap out of Washington, I am just not sure how his plumbing skills will unclog the bills from his tax lien amounting to $1,182.98 errr I meant tackle the bills for legislation in case his delusion errr dream becomes a reality this time around. Will he unclog unsupportive Representatives’ private toilet or clog them if he loses out on the debate, perhaps hit them with a plunger to get them voting for his plumbing related bills? Ok, that's an exaggeration but really I don't know enough to know that one can hone one's oratorical skill while fixing those nasty toilet clog. Of course that is not to say that plumbers can't slug it out in congress because when one is gifted then it really does not matter whether you learn it from the academe or not.

There goes American politics going down the drain so to speak, inspired I supposed or was it enviously bitter of the historic moment in America’s leap forward to greater heights in seeing Barack Obama’s unimaginable bid and almost certain win of the presidency. The difference is Barack Obama while he came from modest means was at the top of his Harvard class a very smart and intelligent man through sheer determination shaped his destiny in a society that is so accepting of a leader based on his qualifications and capabilities and not one based on race.

Blame it on too much politicking of John McCain and Sarah Palin for "inspiring" Joe the Plumber to embark on another one of his dreams that now his plunger is directed at politics and not his original plan of being a $250-$280,000 earning plumbing business for a giant leap out of his $40,000 a year income as unlicensed plumber. Maybe he should strike while the crap is hot errr the iron when it is hot and use his new found fame in building up his business ownership dream instead of getting into the maze of Washington politics. On the other hand this maybe a short cut to name brand wardrobe, expensive make-up artist, haircuts wait maybe that is not exactly necessary since he is bald errr just shave his head, free meals, accommodations, and travel just like Sarah Palin's so forget about owning a business and just be in the business of politics.

This is a good development and we will see if dreaming and popularity is enough to land one a seat in congress......... if that happens and he gets drafted I am sure whoever he will run against will welcome it with open arms..... just like how Michelle Bachmann's opponent Elwyn Tinklenberg getting massive support without doing anything and let his opponent do her own self-destruction. The only problem is this will make the Philippine jokers errr politicians so happy to get validated by the conduct of American politics that this all about a popularity and personality contest.......But then again problems arise when one is unwittingly without the proper vetting process is thrust onto center stage..... Joe the unlicensed Plumber flip flopping like John McCain is changing the course of his dreams, his dreams of running in the 2010 congressional race will literally bring American politics down the.........DRAIN, LOL.

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