Change

Imagine a world led by Sarah Palin.

Neocon Republicans will be vindicated. The conservatives will plunge the United States into a new era of Dark Age. Christian Fundamentalism will suppress the right of everyone to exercise their faith other than the way of the Bible and tolerance will be but a thing of the past. Creationism will be taught alongside with Darwinian Theory of Evolution and Stem Cell Research will be perfected not in the most progressive nation in the world, but on some third-party country like China or perhaps, even Iran.

Big corporations will have a free reign in dictating on the economy. Outsourcing will continue to drain Americans with sources of income, leaving them much poorer than with the previous administration that lead them to their deaths. The environment will be greatly sacrificed in the name of progress - like what she did in Alaska and the achievements of Al Gore and his call to heed the threats of Global Warming will be declared a fabrication.

Violence will rule the streets, after everyone has been allowed to bear arms. "Let them kill themselves," the former Vice-President would say to herself after the President, John McCain suddenly expired after delivering his first State of the Nation Address last 2009. Terrorism still hounds the Hawks of Pentagon, as unilateralism continues to destroy the prestige of America around the world.

Russia, China and the new "Socialist Democracies" in South America headed by Venezuela will take advantage of the situation by calling for a new world order. The European Union will forge closer ties among themselves after realizing that their nations are far better without the United States watching their every move. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq will revert back to an Islamic State after the jihadists reclaim each respective governments.

Iran and Syria will continue to harass Israel through propaganda warfare while a large swath of Africa goes down the drain with each nation killing one another in an orchestrated genocide that would leave the hyenas and the baboons ruling a part of that continent.

As chaos and confusion slowly grind civilization to a halt, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will still hold power here. Being a woman long disowned by her people and who was able to extend her power through unholy alliances with the most corrupt in the land, she will closely empathize with the first Woman President of the United States, who unfortunately, will be the reason for her mighty country to beg on its knees in the future.

I know that this is a product of my wildly deranged imagination.

But who knows.

If Obama loses the US Elections two nights from now, (Philippine Time)

Our white-skinned "big brothers" from the West will surely get into trouble.

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"The truth is we're also trying to stay out of the public limelight during this period of the election season," said Fratto. "There are two individuals out there running to be president of the United States, and we don't want to complicate that for them."

Bush Absent from Campaign Trail,

CNN

The Blog Wars

"In reality, a person is impressed with what other people is doing passionately, whether that is a fascination with mountain hiking or blogging.

And here comes kariran.

Sa pagkaintindi ko, kariran is when a person, say a reader, approaches a blogger and try to make his move.

Because he likes the blogger.

That’s it, ‘he likes the blogger.’ No effing bullshit about it. Why not try it. After all, both of them are human.

The reader finds the blogger hot, intelligent, a good listener, smart, a keep.

From the blogs, connection grows to YM or Friendster and exchange of numbers."

eto na ang Kariran sa Blog! … pwamis!! ill be gentle… hehehe
Outside Looking In

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Ang buong akala ko ay heto na ang entry na magiging mitsa ng isang lantarang blog-war dito sa blogspot. In fact, matagal ko na ring pinaghahandaan ang mga mangyayaring komprontasyon dahil na rin sa mga "wonders" na nasaksihan nating lahat sa blogs nitong mga nakaraang buwan.

Unfortunately, ako ay nagkamali.

Ang mga dapat sanang protagonists sa showdown na aking pinaka-aabangan ay biglang nag-isnaban. (o kaya naman ay pasikretong nagbati through text or YM) Ang spekulasyon na ilang beses ko na rin binahagi kay Dabo ay hindi nangyari, at ako na pinag-aaralan kung sino ang mga dapat kampihan (at kung kelan magiging neutral) ay nauwi na lamang sa paghahanap ng ibang digmaan sa wikipedia na naganap sa kasaysayan nitong mga nakaraang dekada lang.

These wars happened right under our noses and for the most part, we were never aware that such battlefronts exist. Their names, coined from some global brands which they represent by the media somehow slipped through the mainstream consciousness and are now the leading market forces today.

Here are five examples of these so-called wars. Unfortunately, it doesn't include the wildly popular "Wild Stray - Commuter" blog skirmish that some of us had witnessed a few days ago. Sayang!

1. The Cola Wars

Was a campaign of mutually-targeted television advertisements and marketing campaigns in the 1980s and 1990s between soft drink manufacturers The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo.

Pepsi and Coca-Cola had/have different brands of soda competing with each other:

Pepsi-Cola vs Coca-Cola
Diet Pepsi vs Diet Coke
Pepsi Max vs Coke Zero
7-Up vs Sprite
Gatorade vs Powerade
Mirinda vs Fanta

2. The Great Toyota War

The Toyota War is the name commonly given to the last phase of the Chadian-Libyan conflict, which took place in 1987 in Northern Chad and on the Libyan-Chadian border. It takes its name from the Toyota pickup trucks used as technicals to provide mobility for the Chadian troops as they fought against the Libyans. The 1987 war resulted in a heavy defeat for Libya, which, according to American sources, lost one tenth of its army, with 7,500 troops killed and 1.5 billion dollars worth of military equipment destroyed or captured

3. Pubic Wars

Pubic Wars, a pun on the Punic Wars, is the name given to the rivalry between the pornographic magazines Playboy and Penthouse during the 1960s and 1970s. Each magazine strove to show just a little bit more than the other, without crossing the "line of decency" generally accepted at the time

In the 1950s it was generally agreed that nude photographs were not pornographic unless they showed pubic hair or, even worse, genitals. Respectable photography was careful to come close to, but not cross over, this line.

Penthouse published pictorials featuring visible female pubic hair almost from its inception in 1965. Playboy, however, showed a first slight glimpse of any pubic hair on Melodye Prentiss' centerfold (Miss July 1968), some 15 years after the magazine's introduction. With Playmates it was usually the case that the pubic area would be obscured by an item of clothing, a leg, or a piece of furniture. The first appearance of pubic hair in Playboy actually occurred in August 1969 in a pictorial featuring dancer/actress Paula Kelly. A few more glimpses of pubic hair appeared in some pictorials and centerfolds, but it wasn't until January 1971 when Liv Lindeland showed clearly visible pubic hair in her pictorial. The first Playmate to clearly have the first full frontal nude centerfold was Miss January 1972, Marilyn Cole. Incidentally, they both went on to become Playmate of the Year, respectively 1972 & 1973.

Eventually, the two magazines would move their content in opposite directions. Playboy positioned itself as the less explicit softcore alternative to be "read for the articles". Penthouse gravitated towards raunchier images, ultimately arriving at hardcore pornography and photographs of women urinating, in the late 1990s. Under new ownership in 2005, Penthouse began to steer toward a more softcore direction as well.

4. iWar

Is the term used by NATO to describe a form of Internet-based warfare.

iWar is distinct from what the United States calls cyber war or from what China calls informationalized war. These refer to sensitive military and critical infrastructure assets, and to battlefield communications and satellite intelligence. Rather, iWar refers to attacks carried out over the Internet that target the consumer Internet infrastructure, such as the websites providing access to online services.

iWar is conducted by a denial-of-service attack, which bombards a high volume of information requests to overwhelm a computer or networking system on the Internet.

5. Browser Wars

The term "browser wars" refers to the competition for dominance in the web browser marketplace. The term is used to denote two specific periods of time: the competition between market-dominating Netscape Navigator and its eventual defeat by Microsoft Internet Explorer during the late 1990s, and the competition between the dominating Internet Explorer and several emerging browsers that has gone on since 2003, most notably including Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera and, in late 2008, Google Chrome.