| do be do be doI realized that my blogs get roughly the same amount of hits when they're active as they do when they're not. Boy, was that a blow to my self-esteem. Hi spam-bots and Google spiders! Hope you enjoy my writing!
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| in case you've been wondering......why i haven't been updating this at all, it's mostly because i've been writing letters to shiyuan, and i don't have anything left over to share for this. so if you're curious, you'll have to ask her to share! ;) |
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| ancient family historyWhen I left for the Philippines, my great-aunt gave me a small primer on how awesome the people of the Herrera family were, and she told me about her brother-in-law (my great-uncle), Manuel C. Herrera, who had something to do with prosecuting a case related to Ferdinand Marcos while he was still in power. I never knew exactly what it was, but I did a little Googling and found some neat stuff:
One major piece of judicial business facing the President will be a new inquiry into the murder of her husband, Benigno Aquino Jr., who was killed as he stepped off a plane at Manila International Airport in 1983. Apparently emboldened by Marcos' departure, Manuel Herrera, a prosecutor in the ombudsman's office of the graft and corruption court, came forward last week with fresh details about the case. General Fabian Ver, Marcos' Chief of Staff, and 25 other defendants were charged with conspiracy in the assassination. Herrera recalled a meeting with Marcos before the trial began in which the former President asked prosecutors to limit their indictments and suggested how facts might be suppressed. Throughout the discussion, Herrera said, Marcos subtly badgered him to bring reduced charges against some of the defendants, which he later did. At the end of the meeting, Herrera maintained, "Marcos stood up, looked straight in my face and said, 'I am a grateful man. I know how to reciprocate.' " Some witnesses at the Ver trial have indicated that they might wish to change their testimony, and Aquino is expected to reopen the case.
The rest of the article is here , and there's another one that briefly mentions him here.
Wow, I had no idea. |
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| bye!peace out, usa
it's been real, i'll be back!
(i had this long epic entry underway but then i got tired.) |
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| from a recipe...for "light and rich" (as opposed to dark and poor...) cornbread:
Beat whites until stiff.
Best advice I'VE ever gotten. |
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