Went to the post office, hoping to receive my tax refund from last year. (Yes, Last year.) Open my box, shuffled through which is junk to be thrown away. Saw my sister had mail, did not take consideration it said her maiden name instead of her married name. Called her up insisting to pick up her mail which I told her "I think its a tax refund." She asks me to open it up for her, which I oblige. Ended up being a tax refund from.......15 years ago, dated 23 Feb 09. What the hell.
Not only do the people that work that issue those checks, yelled at me for no apparent reason and some other guy raping teenagers. I really do not know which to be appalled from. You stay classy Guam Department of Administration.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Survivors reach out to stateside Chamorros
Survivors reach out to stateside Chamorros
By Connor Murphy
Pacific Daily News
A group of local war survivors is reaching out to the thousands of Chamorros scattered across the country to get the war claims bill through the U.S. Senate.
"We are appealing to all the Chamorros in the mainland," said Tom Barcinas, a Santa Rita resident and World War II survivor. "Every Chamorro is linked to the Chamorros back here."
Barcinas, who is president of the Guam AARP, said his organization and the Young Men's League of Guam are trying to contact people who live in the states, to get them to e-mail or call their senators and ask for support for the war claims bill. "Those people have more power than we do -- they're voters and we're not," Barcinas said of mainland residents. Guam does not have a representative in the U.S. Senate, but each state has two.
Bill 44 passed the U.S. House of Representatives with more than two-thirds support yesterday. It faces another hurdle in the Senate before it can reach President Obama's desk. The Senate voted down the war claims bill in 2007, the year it first passed the House.
War claims bills introduced by Guam's previous congressional delegates since the 1980s have failed.
"Rather than just hope everything will turn out, the idea is to try to identify people living in the different states to write to their senators, asking them to support the bill," said Tamuning resident Tony Palomo. Palomo is helping to write a form letter that said can be forwarded to U.S. senators.
Barcinas said organizers plan to use the Internet for the grass-roots effort. People can e-mail him to get a copy of the form letter to send to their senators. "Some of the people living in the states have grandparents who were in the war; some of them have grandchildren already," he said. "They deserve the war claims."
Tom Barcinas' cousin, Joe Barcinas, of Sinajana said organizers are targeting those who live in states with Republican senators. Conservatives are expected to vote against the bill.
Joe Barcinas, who was a child during the war, said it could be a challenge to get nationwide support for the bill. "Many of the younger generation and people in the U.S. don't understand the contributions the Chamorros made for the United States," he said. He said Chamorros were tortured for supporting the United States during the war, but more U.S. troops would have died during the liberation had it not been for the efforts of locals.
About 4,200 of the 22,500 Chamorros who lived through World War II are still alive, estimated war survivor Bert Unpingco.
Unpingco added that the war claims bill is especially timely with thousands of U.S. Marines and their dependents expected to relocate to Guam within four years. "For the military to feel 100 percent welcome to Guam, they must pay us what we've been waiting for, for 60 years," he said. "We're not begging for anything more than we're entitled to."
Unpingco, who is an Air Force veteran with two grandchildren in the Armed Forces, questioned why Guam is still waiting for recognition when the United States has paid war reparations to other groups in the past.
Last week, President Obama's recent economic stimulus act authorized payments for Filipino World War II veterans.
"Our country took over the responsibility and liability of World War II. I appreciate that very much, but it took so long, most of us have reached a point where some of us feel we are not part of the U.S.," Unpingco said. "Yet the loyalty of the Chamorro to the country is so strong."
The bill would pay $25,000 to survivors of those who died as a result of the Japanese occupation. It also gives $7,000 to $15,000 to be paid to each resident -- or survivor -- who suffered injury, rape, forced labor or forced marches, internment or hiding to escape internment.
Antonio Lizama, Art Toves and others discussed the passage of the bill over gin rummy at the Agat Senior Citizens Center yesterday. Everyone who played the game survived the war or had a relative who did.
"We suffered a lot," said Lizama, who was a child during the war. "We've just been trying to get something out of this."
"Those were really hard times," Toves added from across the table. He was 12 when the war ended.
Agat resident Margie Salas said the war claims bill is important not just to those who survived the war, but to everyone who has Guam roots. "I've been waiting for this," she said. "And we have a lot of Chamorros living off island who have waited for this."
"We are appealing to all the Chamorros in the mainland," said Tom Barcinas, a Santa Rita resident and World War II survivor. "Every Chamorro is linked to the Chamorros back here."
Barcinas, who is president of the Guam AARP, said his organization and the Young Men's League of Guam are trying to contact people who live in the states, to get them to e-mail or call their senators and ask for support for the war claims bill. "Those people have more power than we do -- they're voters and we're not," Barcinas said of mainland residents. Guam does not have a representative in the U.S. Senate, but each state has two.
Bill 44 passed the U.S. House of Representatives with more than two-thirds support yesterday. It faces another hurdle in the Senate before it can reach President Obama's desk. The Senate voted down the war claims bill in 2007, the year it first passed the House.
War claims bills introduced by Guam's previous congressional delegates since the 1980s have failed.
"Rather than just hope everything will turn out, the idea is to try to identify people living in the different states to write to their senators, asking them to support the bill," said Tamuning resident Tony Palomo. Palomo is helping to write a form letter that said can be forwarded to U.S. senators.
Barcinas said organizers plan to use the Internet for the grass-roots effort. People can e-mail him to get a copy of the form letter to send to their senators. "Some of the people living in the states have grandparents who were in the war; some of them have grandchildren already," he said. "They deserve the war claims."
Tom Barcinas' cousin, Joe Barcinas, of Sinajana said organizers are targeting those who live in states with Republican senators. Conservatives are expected to vote against the bill.
Joe Barcinas, who was a child during the war, said it could be a challenge to get nationwide support for the bill. "Many of the younger generation and people in the U.S. don't understand the contributions the Chamorros made for the United States," he said. He said Chamorros were tortured for supporting the United States during the war, but more U.S. troops would have died during the liberation had it not been for the efforts of locals.
About 4,200 of the 22,500 Chamorros who lived through World War II are still alive, estimated war survivor Bert Unpingco.
Unpingco added that the war claims bill is especially timely with thousands of U.S. Marines and their dependents expected to relocate to Guam within four years. "For the military to feel 100 percent welcome to Guam, they must pay us what we've been waiting for, for 60 years," he said. "We're not begging for anything more than we're entitled to."
Unpingco, who is an Air Force veteran with two grandchildren in the Armed Forces, questioned why Guam is still waiting for recognition when the United States has paid war reparations to other groups in the past.
Last week, President Obama's recent economic stimulus act authorized payments for Filipino World War II veterans.
"Our country took over the responsibility and liability of World War II. I appreciate that very much, but it took so long, most of us have reached a point where some of us feel we are not part of the U.S.," Unpingco said. "Yet the loyalty of the Chamorro to the country is so strong."
The bill would pay $25,000 to survivors of those who died as a result of the Japanese occupation. It also gives $7,000 to $15,000 to be paid to each resident -- or survivor -- who suffered injury, rape, forced labor or forced marches, internment or hiding to escape internment.
Antonio Lizama, Art Toves and others discussed the passage of the bill over gin rummy at the Agat Senior Citizens Center yesterday. Everyone who played the game survived the war or had a relative who did.
"We suffered a lot," said Lizama, who was a child during the war. "We've just been trying to get something out of this."
"Those were really hard times," Toves added from across the table. He was 12 when the war ended.
Agat resident Margie Salas said the war claims bill is important not just to those who survived the war, but to everyone who has Guam roots. "I've been waiting for this," she said. "And we have a lot of Chamorros living off island who have waited for this."
Hmmm. As far as war reparations are concerned, I don't feel that anyone on the planet is entitled to them. This article makes me think of a joke that I once heard (RE: made up just now):
Knock knock.
Who's there?
It's fucking WAR. Hello...!?
Yeah, it sucks that bad things happen to good people during times of war. I know first hand from seeing faces of the people being dislocated from their houses after we blow up half their cities in Iraq. But guess what? Knock knock, it's fucking War. You know what would have happened if the Americans never came to Guam to liberate us? Totally bad shit for the rest of the world.
These folks should be trying to teach their kids to be procative with international affairs in the pursuit of accomplishing a day where occupations will be a thing of human history, never to be seen again. Don't bother me to try and write an email to a congressman to give you more money; I have friends that are never coming home again and almost the rest of the world can say the same, dating back to the beginning of mankind.
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20090225/NEWS01/902250341&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
She believes anything posted on Wikipedia.
CHAMORRO activist leader Debbie Quinata is displeased by the Central Intelligence Agency’s initiative to recruit talents from Guam, saying this mis
sion might worsen the island’s brain drain problem.
“I don’t know what’s scarier—the fact that our scholars are to be recruited by the CIA or that they’ll be sent off to fight a war,” said Quinata, maga’ håga of I Nasion Chamoru.
“ I don’t think it’s a good opportunity at all. We’ll lose our best and brightest from where we need them the most,” she added.
CIA’s employment presentation will be held at the University of Guam’s School of Business and Public Administration building on March 3 and 4.
“I think it’s a frightening prospect. The CIA does not have the nicest reputation based on the things we’re able to observe on TV and in movies. It’s a scary development to know that our local folks can learn about CIA training,” Quinata said.
While in disagreement at the idea of having the CIA on island to recruit talents, Quinata said she was not surprised.
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the National Security Agency have all been here at one time or another, so I am not surprised that the CIA is putting an ad out to take our best and brightest from the University of Guam,” she said.
“We already have a brain drain problem on island because of the lack of opportunities. The CIA does not have a reputation for sharing knowledge or promoting self empowerment,” Quinata said.
M(r)s. Quinata, thanks to you being a mislead activist you are a punching bag for the blog. You went to great measures to prove a point with the evidence based on TV and movies. From your point of view, Men in Black, Inspector gadget, and Get Smart must be based on actual events. My advice to you is please do not read wikipedia for the sake of maga’ håga of I Nasion Chamoru. Not only are an activist for your culture, you blatantly say how the rest of the island is stupid due to a "brain drain". Ill be happily to tell you thats the first time I heard that. Why? Because its bat shit insane. Unfortunately, you do not get the honors of being an honorary chaud, I promote you as being an idiot.
Oh and here is her stupid face.
Original article taken from mvguam.com
“I don’t know what’s scarier—the fact that our scholars are to be recruited by the CIA or that they’ll be sent off to fight a war,” said Quinata, maga’ håga of I Nasion Chamoru.
“ I don’t think it’s a good opportunity at all. We’ll lose our best and brightest from where we need them the most,” she added.
CIA’s employment presentation will be held at the University of Guam’s School of Business and Public Administration building on March 3 and 4.
“I think it’s a frightening prospect. The CIA does not have the nicest reputation based on the things we’re able to observe on TV and in movies. It’s a scary development to know that our local folks can learn about CIA training,” Quinata said.
While in disagreement at the idea of having the CIA on island to recruit talents, Quinata said she was not surprised.
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the National Security Agency have all been here at one time or another, so I am not surprised that the CIA is putting an ad out to take our best and brightest from the University of Guam,” she said.
“We already have a brain drain problem on island because of the lack of opportunities. The CIA does not have a reputation for sharing knowledge or promoting self empowerment,” Quinata said.
M(r)s. Quinata, thanks to you being a mislead activist you are a punching bag for the blog. You went to great measures to prove a point with the evidence based on TV and movies. From your point of view, Men in Black, Inspector gadget, and Get Smart must be based on actual events. My advice to you is please do not read wikipedia for the sake of maga’ håga of I Nasion Chamoru. Not only are an activist for your culture, you blatantly say how the rest of the island is stupid due to a "brain drain". Ill be happily to tell you thats the first time I heard that. Why? Because its bat shit insane. Unfortunately, you do not get the honors of being an honorary chaud, I promote you as being an idiot.
Oh and here is her stupid face.
Original article taken from mvguam.com
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Please keep your kids away from the Yona mayors office.
Dear Mr. Terlaje, Mayor of Yona, Your nickname is not very appropriate with the kids. Just for having a ridiculous Chamoru nickname, you are officially inducted into the Chaud hall of fame.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Shirtless Man Doing ‘Karate-Style Stances' Punches Bremerton Police Officer
This article is from July 10, 2008, but I just stumbled upon it. Enjoy.
BREMERTON
A 40-year-old Bremerton man believed to be under the influence of narcotics Wednesday morning allegedly punched both a bystander and an officer before his arrest, according to Bremerton police reports.
The shirtless man was reportedly exhibiting "different karate style stances randomly" near the corner of 11th Street and Highland Avenue when a 49-year-old man tried to walk by him, police said.
"Excuse me," the man told the 40-year-old, who in turn told him, "Oh, excuse me," and then allegedly proceeded to punch the 49-year-old in the face and attacked him on the ground.
The 49-year-old was able to run off and a neighbor called 911. When police arrived, the suspect was holding a cigarette. An officer, who grabbed the 40-year-old's arm, told him: "You won't need that cigarette. You're under arrest," reports said.
The man then allegedly punched him in the face, too.
After a brief foot chase, an officer shot his Taser into the man's bare back and he went to the ground. He was taken to the Kitsap County jail on suspicion of assaulting the 49-year-old as well as the officer.
Congratulations, Karate Man. Welcome to the Honorary Chaud Club.
-From Kitsap Sun
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/jul/10/shirtless-man-doing-145karate-style-stances/
BREMERTON
A 40-year-old Bremerton man believed to be under the influence of narcotics Wednesday morning allegedly punched both a bystander and an officer before his arrest, according to Bremerton police reports.
The shirtless man was reportedly exhibiting "different karate style stances randomly" near the corner of 11th Street and Highland Avenue when a 49-year-old man tried to walk by him, police said.
"Excuse me," the man told the 40-year-old, who in turn told him, "Oh, excuse me," and then allegedly proceeded to punch the 49-year-old in the face and attacked him on the ground.
The 49-year-old was able to run off and a neighbor called 911. When police arrived, the suspect was holding a cigarette. An officer, who grabbed the 40-year-old's arm, told him: "You won't need that cigarette. You're under arrest," reports said.
The man then allegedly punched him in the face, too.
After a brief foot chase, an officer shot his Taser into the man's bare back and he went to the ground. He was taken to the Kitsap County jail on suspicion of assaulting the 49-year-old as well as the officer.
Congratulations, Karate Man. Welcome to the Honorary Chaud Club.
-From Kitsap Sun
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/jul/10/shirtless-man-doing-145karate-style-stances/
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