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West Coast Helps Launch National Hepatitis Testing Day
22 May 2012 11:30 PM | No CommentsU.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) highlights Hep B Free and Hep C Task Force for Los Angeles and San Francisco as part of nearly 100 testing events across U.S. SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES, CA – May 19, 2012 – Fresh on the heels...
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Free Hep B and Hep C Testing at AHSC’s Healthy Living Pavilion
18 May 2012 11:42 PM | No CommentsThe Healthy Living Pavilion at the 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration taking place at San Francisco’s Civic Center on May 19th, will provide free and low-cost health services, professional medical advice, interactive activities with prizes and health-related education materials. Located on Larkin Street between...
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Amok again: Have a “Lin-sane” Street Fair!
18 May 2012 11:35 PM | 1 CommentWhat, another year? Another heritage month? Why not let your friendly longtime amok columnist slice and dice things up for you nicely? This year we replaced poor Asian American YouTube hater, Alexandra Wallace, the blonde buxom bully of Asian Americans in the library, with basketball...
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SF Hosts Largest Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration Saturday, May 19 at Civic Center
18 May 2012 11:11 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO – The City is hosting the largest pan Asian street fair nationwide to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage month on Saturday, May 19th at San Francisco’s Civic Center. The 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration, produced by the AsianWeek Foundation, will feature a...
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Rob McKenna Opens WA Campaign Office In Seattle Chinatown/ID
18 May 2012 1:53 AM | No CommentsI got this in my e-mail box. I first ran into Rob McKenna when he ran for Attorney General back in 2000 on the campaign trail for Supt of Public Instruction. Now he’s a favorite to be the next governor against Jay Inslee. While Rob...
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Tell Tale Signs Archive
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Telltale Signs: Scarborough will not be Mischief Reef redux
Posted on May 4, 2012 | 3 CommentsIf Filipinos could only unite to save the Scarborough Shoal from being invaded by China as Filipinos did to save Jessica Sanchez from being eliminated in American Idol, perhaps the Philippines can still manage to retain its ownership of the disputed shoal in the future.... -
Telltale Signs: ACT OF VALOR – RACIST PROPAGANDA MOVIE
Posted on April 25, 2012 | 1 CommentTERROR ALERT! A group of 16 Filipino suicide bombers are poised to infiltrate the US border in Mexico wearing deadly explosive vests to be detonated in strategic points throughout the United States. A crack team of US Navy SEALs has been dispatched to intercept them.... -
Telltale Signs: Straight Talk From The US Ambassador
Posted on February 10, 2012 | 1 CommentSAN FRANCISCO – Though straight talk at an open forum in Manila got US Ambassador to the Philippines Harry K. Thomas Jr. in hot water last September when he volunteered an estimate of the number of foreign male tourists who visit the Philippines for sex... -
Telltale Signs: The Blunder of an Arroyo Lawyer, Hitler Fan
Posted on January 9, 2012 | 1 CommentIgnoring a constitutional ban against making “midnight” appointments in the last three months of her term, former Philippine Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) went ahead and appointed her personal manicurist, Nitz Carpon, as director of a government housing agency and her personal gardener, Armando Macapagal, as... -
Telltale Signs: The Unfortunate Triumph of TV News
Posted on December 2, 2011 | No CommentsAlerted that the Philippine government was poised to file criminal charges against her that were non-bailable offenses, former Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) and her husband hurriedly booked five flights (to anywhere) leaving Manila on the evening of November 15 after securing a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO)... -
Telltale Signs: Damaged Culture Breeds Idiots
Posted on November 17, 2011 | No CommentsBarely 10 days before the May 2010 Philippine presidential elections, vice-presidential candidate Jojo Binay found himself 9 points behind in the polls to front-runner Mar Roxas when photos of him cavorting in Australia with his mistress surfaced in the Internet. Binay readily admitted the extramarital... -
Telltale Signs: The Disconnect about the Sex Tourism Remark
Posted on October 11, 2011 | 1 CommentI first learned about Filipino teen-age girls selling their bodies on San Francisco’s Sixth Street from a Filipino senior citizen manong who witnessed the pitiful sight from his hotel window. A Filipino American police officer personally confirmed the manong’s account to me and added that... -
Telltale Signs: The Transnational/Binational Filipino Diaspora
Posted on September 16, 2011 | No CommentsWhen we were lobbying the Philippine Congress to pass the Overseas Absentee Voting Act in January of 2003, we encountered opposition from Rep. “Teddy Boy” Locsin who believed overseas Filipinos did not merit suffrage because “they abandoned the Philippines.” On the contrary, I told him,... -
Telltale Signs: On Board the BRP Gregorio del Pilar
Posted on July 19, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe mighty China dragon may have an aircraft carrier, 21 destroyers, 68 submarines, 42 modern frigates and 760 ships along with 2.3 million soldiers to bully the Philippines into submitting to its will in the Spratlys but help is on the way. In just three weeks, the... -
Telltale Signs: Standing Up to the Dragon Bully
Posted on July 1, 2011 | 4 CommentsFilipino Americans, outraged at China’s plans to set up oil rigs in the Spratly Islands of the Philippines this July, are organizing protest actions in front of all the consular offices of the People’s Republic of China in the US at noon on July 8....