Philippines Mall Explosion, Again

A powerful explosion ripped through three floors of a shopping mall in the heart of Manila's financial district Friday, killing eight people, injuring scores and sending police and troops on the highest state of alert.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said "circumstances indicate it is highly probable that it was caused by an explosive device." Brilliant observation, Ms. Arroyo, who is also paralysed by political correctness, although not quite as bad as our own President Bush and the politicians in the USA. The same mall was targeted by a bombing in 2000. Over 1722 Filipinos have been killed by muslims in the Philippines.

Add now 8 more and we are at 1730 dead. I do not know about there military numbers of casualties, but I am sure its right up there.
Mario Em, a taxi driver, said he had just dropped two women off at the mall when the blast hurled the passengers against his vehicle, killing them instantly. He said he pulled one of the victims, who was pregnant, from underneath his car. "One man who was in front of me was already dead. There was a child, but we don't know where the child is now," said Dennis Inigo, who was shopping at the time. People inside the mall scampered toward the exits when the blast shook the mall. People inside the mall scampered toward the exits when the blast shook the mall. "The man's wife was with me a while ago, and her leg was shattered. Many people were falling on top of each other," he said. "It was loud, and then it became dusty." The shock waves from the blast, which appeared to have originated from a basement entry for delivery vehicles, shot through three floors of the mall as well as sideways. It would have to be that way because in the Philippines, much to their credit, its virtually impossible to enter all shopping centers and malls without security intervention. I was frisked many times when I was there.

Al-Qaida-linked militants, who have waged a years long bloody bombing campaign in the southern Philippines, have targeted Manila before. huh? muslims have been killing Filipinos for over a century, what an understatement.

Makati city Councilor Jejomar Binay Jr. said a bombing at the same mall in May 2000 that wounded 13 people was the work of Muslim extremists. Five months later, five nearly simultaneous bombs around Manila blamed on the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf and the Jemaah Islamiyah network killed 20 people and wounded about 100 others.

In 2004, Abu Sayyaf militants blew up a passenger ferry in Manila Bay, killing 116 people in the country's worst terrorist attack. The following year, four people were killed and dozens wounded when a bomb exploded on a Makati bus and two southern cities. Several months ago, authorities were alerted to an alleged terror plot to plant bombs in Manila's business districts of Makati and Ortigas, said a government counterterrorism official. The Philippines is in high gear on the global jihadist mentality.

I have nothing but the deepest sorrow for the people of the Philippines. My prayers are with them as they morn there dead.

I have been in Makati and I felt more safe in the Philippines, with all of there security, than I do in the shopping Malls in the USA. I saw police and security everywhere. I love the Philippines its a fun place.

Dream Act...Terminated by the Terminator

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a series of vetoes on various bills — and in so doing dashed the hopes of student activists who have been pushing to make it easier for undocumented students to obtain financial aid.

Last year, when Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation that would have allowed some undocumented students to apply for state financial aid. Advocates for immigrant students hoped that that change would make a difference and held rallies around the state on behalf of the bill.

But the governor’s position did'nt change. He stayed true to form. They don't call Arnold, the "terminator" for nothing. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, did the right thing. He obliterated, the budget perforator, money eradicator, illegal elevator, "in state tuition" bonanza for illegals. I note that the Supreme court ruled against these kind of bills in the past as illegal. In state tuition is for all not all for one.

Supporters of the legislation noted that there are about 25,000 students who graduate from California high schools each year without documentation to stay in the United States or the right to federal student aid that is essential for many low-income students to afford tuition and other expenses. However, conservatives have been urging the governor to veto the bill.

The vetoed legislation is known as the DREAM Act, modeled on other state bills and a federal bill whose acronym stands for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors. (Democrats in Congress are hoping to attach the federal bill to other legislation, but have been stymied of late in doing so.

Muslim incognito, Sen. Barack Obama, a presidential campaign stop in California last month, said that failing to sign the bill would “compound the immigration crises by driving thousands of children who are on the right path into the shadows.” Hahahaha, wow, that's TO BAD, WE THE PEOPLE WANT THEM TO GET OUT OF THE SHADOWS, AND GO HOME, OH OH OH OBAMA.

Pro-DREAM groups were quick to criticize the veto and to vow to bring the bill back next year. “The governor has just bowed to the racist wing of the Republican Party. California needs a larger and more diverse workforce to prosper and we can’t continue to relegate Latinos to second class status,” said Yvette Felarca, Northern California coordinator of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary.

STANDARD CRAP, BOWING to the racist wing of the Republican Party...PARDON ME. IF YOU COME HER LEGALLY, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT relegating ILLEGAL Latinos to second class status...they would be first class legal ones. Case and point...Puerto Ricans.