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From: Dr George Cainglet Palaganas <drgeorgecaingletpalaganas@yahoo.com>
Subject: Facebook Communications
To: mrm_williamson@yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 7:21 PM
23-September-2009 Wednesday Hi Yam! It's a great sadness that Nanay has passed away already. Like Lola Loreto Palaganas Lacayanga who passed away last year. Even Joan, my pamangkin, went ahead of us already. Lola Loreto and Joan are both buried at the new Paniqui Memorial grounds, the one with a lawn with slabs of stone. Lola's Museleo was the first one to the right and Joan's was the extremest corner. You can see that even today when she(Joan) went ahead of us already, they want to send her the best comforts in life for her museleum was full of life's comforts. Regarding Ester, actually we are on some kind of on an off stage these days that's why we seldomly talk /chat on the net nowadays. Sure, don't worry... I will be sending you the invitations as soon as I am ready to tie the knots myself. Regards to your husband and kid. George http://drgeorgecaingletpalaganas.xanga.com (This message was also sent to your mrm_williamson@yahoo.com e-addie)
George Cainglet Palaganas, Ph.D.
Current Mailing Address:(as of 19-June-2009)
#21 Zamora St. Purok Maligaya 2
Barangay Poblacion SUR
2307 PANIQUI Tarlac
Region III PHILIPPINES
Phone: 001-206-339-2624 Washington Voicemailbox
Fax: 001-206-339-9327
e-mail: georgepalaganas@yahoo.com.ph
Professional Regulatory Commission License No. 0029594-98 Assistant Electrical Engineer
Automated Phone Query: 00632-917-7777 SSSNo.:02-0837587-0 B-day:10/19/1968
Hi George,
We (Nanay & me) just went back home in Phil 3 months ago (June) . But sadly one week after I came back here in US she died July 3rd. It happened so fast that even me can't believe that she's no longer with us. She was dx cancer in her bone marrow, stage 4 right away and even the chemos done to her didn't work. Well, I'm still glad bec she was able to go home alive and was able to see my siblings and her grandchildren in PI . I miss her so much.
anyway, I'm glad you're in a relationship now. Did you already meet her in person? When are you going to propose to her? Remember you're not getting any younger. O, sige ingat ka lagi. Balitaan mo ko kapag ikakasal ka na. --- On Mon, 9/21/09, Dr George Cainglet Palaganas <drgeorgecaingletpalaganas@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Dr George Cainglet Palaganas <drgeorgecaingletpalaganas@yahoo.com>
Subject: Hi Again!
To: mrm_williamson@yahoo.com
Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 7:14 PM
Today is 22-September-2009 Tuesday Hi Yam! I have sent you an e-mail on your e-addie mrm_williamson@yahoo.com and it's been a long time since I have drop a message to your number at (510) 885-1591. Is your address still No. 22419 Rockaway Lane Hayward , Ca 94542 ? And are you still connected with Kaisser Permanente. It's been almost a year since we have last talked over the phone. How was Nanay doing? And your husband Mark and your kid John too? Say hello to them from me. Until then GEORGE
George Cainglet Palaganas, Ph.D.
Current Mailing Address:(as of 19-June-2009)
#21 Zamora St. Purok Maligaya 2
Barangay Poblacion SUR
2307 PANIQUI Tarlac
Region III PHILIPPINES
Phone: 001-206-339-2624 Washington Voicemailbox
Fax: 001-206-339-9327
e-mail: georgepalaganas@yahoo.com.ph
Professional Regulatory Commission License No. 0029594-98 Assistant Electrical Engineer
Automated Phone Query: 00632-917-7777 SSSNo.:02-0837587-0 B-day:10/19/1968
--- On Fri, 9/18/09, Dr George Cainglet Palaganas <drgeorgecaingletpalaganas@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Dr George Cainglet Palaganas <drgeorgecaingletpalaganas@yahoo.com>
Subject: Hello on Facebook
To: mrm_williamson@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, September 18, 2009, 8:40 PM
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19-September-2009 Saturday 10:55am Manila
Hi Yam!
Until then,
George Cainglet Palaganas, Ph.D.
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Arsenio Cainglet is a son of Vicente Cainglet and the brother of Cool Dela Peña’s mother, Erlinda Cainglet.
Manila Folder
From the April 12 / April 19, 2004 issue: John Kerry's 1986 wimp-out in the Philippines.
by P.J. O'Rourke
04/12/2004, Volume 009, Issue 30 |
I've had a nonpartisan grudge against John Kerry for 18 years. This seems an appropriate time to air it.
In February 1986, Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos — unpleasant, unwell, and unloved — held a "snap election." This was a somewhat baffling attempt to bolster his authority by running against Corazon Aquino, widow of the opposition leader assassinated by Marcos henchmen. The American diplomatic response was baffled. Marcos was a friend of America, and U.S. military bases in the Philippines were vital to Cold War strategy. But the Philippines was being rented by popular political upheaval, Communist insurgency, Muslim unrest, and economic collapse; and a stable government was needed. But a stable government run by Marcos opponents would be angry about the support Marcos had received from his most powerful, not to say only, friend.
Not knowing what the heck to do in the Philippines, the Reagan administration sent an official election observer delegation headed by Senator Richard Lugar to do what-the-heck. Lugar said his delegation's purpose was "to demonstrate the importance to the United States of free and fair elections in the Philippines." Marcos had ruled the country, by means electoral and otherwise, since 1965. There was little likelihood that the snap election would be free and fair. Not that the U.S. delegation meant to find out. Lugar said, "Our delegation is going to the Philippines to watch and observe and not to pass judgment on the elections." Among the members of this watchful, observant, and non-judgment-passing delegation was the first-term senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry.
I was in the Philippines working on an article for Rolling Stone. The elections proceeded predictably with, as I wrote at the time, "voter-registration records being destroyed, ballot boxes stolen, opposition poll watchers barred from their stations, and army trucks full of 'flying voters' moved from one spot to another." And worse. I went to a farm village, or "barangay," about 80 miles north of Manila to interview the family of Arsenio Cainglet, barangay captain for the Cory Aquino coalition. Cainglet had been shot dead while holding his favorite fighting cock on his lap. With Cainglet's 18-year-old daughter translating, I asked the mourners at his funeral if the vote count reflected the political feelings of the village. "There was an audible collective snort. The mourners looked startled. Some of them laughed. Then they were silent."
I've had a nonpartisan grudge against John Kerry for 18 years. This seems an appropriate time to air it.
In February 1986, Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos — unpleasant, unwell, and unloved — held a "snap election." This was a somewhat baffling attempt to bolster his authority by running against Corazon Aquino, widow of the opposition leader assassinated by Marcos henchmen. The American diplomatic response was baffled. Marcos was a friend of America, and U.S. military bases in the Philippines were vital to Cold War strategy. But the Philippines was being rent by popular political upheaval, Communist insurgency, Muslim unrest, and economic collapse; and a stable government was needed. But a stable government run by Marcos opponents would be angry about the support Marcos had received from his most powerful, not to say only, friend.
Not knowing what the heck to do in the Philippines, the Reagan administration sent an official election observer delegation headed by Senator Richard Lugar to do what-the-heck. Lugar said his delegation's purpose was "to demonstrate the importance to the United States of free and fair elections in the Philippines." Marcos had ruled the country, by means electoral and otherwise, since 1965. There was little likelihood that the snap election would be free and fair. Not that the U.S. delegation meant to find out. Lugar said, "Our delegation is going to the Philippines to watch and observe and not to pass judgment on the elections." Among the members of this watchful, observant, and non-judgment-passing delegation was the first-term senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry.
I was in the Philippines working on an article for Rolling Stone. The elections proceeded predictably with, as I wrote at the time, "voter-registration records being destroyed, ballot boxes stolen, opposition poll watchers barred from their stations, and army trucks full of 'flying voters' moved from one spot to another." And worse. I went to a farm village, or "barangay," about 80 miles north of Manila to interview the family of Arsenio Cainglet, barangay captain for the Cory Aquino coalition. Cainglet had been shot dead while holding his favorite fighting cock on his lap. With Cainglet's 18-year-old daughter translating, I asked the mourners at his funeral if the vote count reflected the political feelings of the village. "There was an audible collective snort. The mourners looked startled. Some of them laughed. Then they were silent."
The following is an excerpt from my Rolling Stone article, "Goons, Guns, and Gold."
Most of the Potomac Parakeets were a big disappointment. Massachusetts senator John Kerry was a founding member of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, but he was a bath toy in this fray.
On Sunday night, two days after the election, thirty of the computer operators from COMELEC [the Philippine government "Commission on Elections," appointed by Marcos and in charge of compiling the final vote tally] walked off the job, protesting that the vote figures were being juggled. Aquino supporters and NAMFREL volunteers took the operators, most of them young women, to a church, and hundreds of people formed a protective barrier around them. [NAMFREL--The National Movement for Free Elections--was supposedly nonpartisan, but NAMFREL members were strongly anti-Marcos.]
Village Voice reporter Joe Conason and I had been tipped off about the walkout, and when we got to the church, we found Bea Zobel, one of Cory Aquino's top aides, in a tizzy. "The women are terrified," she said. "They're scared to go home. They don't know what to do. We don't know what to do." Joe and I suggested that Mrs. Zobel go to the Manila Hotel and bring back some members of the Congressional observer team. She came back with Kerry, who did nothing.
Kerry later said that he didn't talk to the COMELEC employees then because he wasn't allowed to. [A bone-head Rolling Stone fact-checker sent the article to Kerry's Senate office for comment. Kerry staffers were wroth
and insisted the senator's version of events be included.] This is ridiculous. He was ushered into an area that had been cordoned off from the press and the crowd and where the computer operators were sitting. To talk to the women, all he would have had to do was raise his voice. Why he was reluctant, I can't tell you. I can tell you what any red-blooded representative of the U.S. Government should have done. He should have shouted, "If you're frightened for your safety, I'll take you to the American embassy, and damn the man who tries to stop me." But all Kerry did was walk around like a male model in a concerned and thoughtful pose.
And there you have probably the only comparison of Kerry to a male model ever made. Not quite trusting my memory--or my reporting, for that matter--I searched out my notes from 1986. I found some scribbles that I'd made on the Sunday night and a journal with a summation of the evening's events written two days later. I was a foreign correspondent at the time, and not much interested in domestic politics. I have Kerry down variously as "Sen. Carey" and "Rep. Kerry."
About nine o'clock on Sunday night, Conason and I were drinking in the bar of the Manila Hotel when a friend of mine from ABC News told us about the COMELEC defections. The workers who quit in protest were very young, in their teens. The 28 girls and 2 boys weren't really computer operators. They were doing data input. They were kids from poor families and very proud that they'd been to data input school. They didn't seem to be politically motivated and were at pains to describe themselves as unpolitical in a touching, if somewhat garbled, statement they read to the press at the NAMFREL-surrounded church. And they certainly were scared. But their professional dignity had been intolerably injured when the voting data that they'd input did not, as it were, outcome.
Joe and I actually sent Bea Zobel to get members of the international election observer delegation, headed by Colombia's Misael Pastrana and John Hume, from Northern Ireland. Before we'd gone to the bar, Joe and I had been at a press conference at the Manila Hotel, listening to Pastrana and Hume denounce vote fraud by Marcos. But when Zobel arrived the only election observer she could find was Kerry, having a late dinner. Zobel was gone for a long time. She said Kerry was "curt" and refused to leave until he'd finished his meal and then only reluctantly returned to the church with her.
From my journal: "Gets there & never talks to Comelec girls. Boy is ball-less. Joe and I finally push forward & tell Kerry it was us (1 Dem. & 1 Rep.) that called for him (we also heard, Comelec girls wanted Observers called). That it was Joe & me seemed to make a big difference to Kerry. Who still did f---all."
What I meant by "seemed to make a big difference" was that Kerry's ears perked right up when he heard his name called by members of the press. His reaction was to turn to us and say, magisterially, "No interviews, boys." We explained that we had no interest in interviewing him and suggested that he provide some reassurance to the frightened conscientious objectors from COMELEC.
Now, with benefit of hindsight, I think I can tell you why Kerry didn't do so. He was caught in Kerry-ish calculation--an ambitious young senator on his first important bipartisan delegation with its delicate mission of neutrality. Cory Aquino was very popular. But so was President Reagan. Which way to have it? Why, have it both ways! So Kerry was firmly behind Pash Commit of Flips to Dem, up to a point. Just as today Kerry is brave sailor/bold war protester; foe of Saddam/friend of Hans Blix; political underdog/entitled nominee; big government liberal/corporate tax-cutting conservative; rider of Harleys/marrier of Heinz; and, incidentally, still a real jerk.
P.J. O'Rourke is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and author of the forthcoming Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism (Atlantic Monthly Press).
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