Happy Thanksgiving to all

today is a day, tradition in the USA, to say thanksgiving

its origins, i recall from grade school readings, come from when the Brits left England to settle in the New World and were faced with the cold of winter and the scarcity of food. Native Americans, i forgot the tribe (could they be Seqouians?) came over to give them maize, and other great food

and so, thanksgiving.

so have a good one.
now i am hankering for some turkey .......

Kidney Friends Fund Raising

Dr. Benita S. Padilla, Nephrologist and President of Kidney Friends, giving her opening speech for the benefit

Dale and I

Manny and Alice, Benita, Nimfa, Janet and Chito, me, Dale

J M Chan

Mitch Valdez. Still as lively, still as fun, she claims she is a senior now

  

photos courtesy of dale.  friends since neptune!

A Goodreads quote that speaks of power

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.


J.G. Ballard
November 15, 1930: British writer J.G. Ballard was born 83 years ago today in the foreign controlled sector of Shanghai. He lived there throughout the Second Sino-Japanese War and into World War II—his popular novel, Empire of the Sun, was based on his childhood years.

Read here the post of HTT on the Wrong Way to defend Performance Bonuses

As Spock would say .... Eminently logical

Click here for HTT's Manila Standard post on the wrong way to defend performance bonuses

Mrs. Corazon S. de la Paz-Bernardo defends SSS Employees

SSS  Employees are happy that former President of SSS and first woman President of ISSA, Corazon S. de la Paz-Bernardo defended them in her letter to Mr. Rey Gamboa who published it in his BIZLINKS column at the Philippine Star today, 5 November 2013.  Please follow the link below.


Click here for Rey Gamboa's BIZLINKS article featuring CS de la Paz-Bernardo

SSS Employees are not perfect, but most truly want to help.  Processing may have slowed due to changes in m methods, systems, and the more important process flow, but the employees have been valiantly trying to adjust amidst all the changes.

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in behalf of all the SSS Employees, particularly the rank and file.

thank you Mrs. Corazon S.de la Paz-Bernardo

YES! TO A TAX HOLIDAY!!!!

I agree. Please. a tax holiday.


Click here to read the article on a tax holiday


bir's Henares truly has an onerous tax system.
the main victims?  me. you.  the salaried employees who have no choice but to be taxed, grossly.
off the top.  i feel abused.

i am a PWD, that is, a person with disability.  my meds cost me over 30k .... ouch, really.
and the government, and PNOY and HENARES does not give me, and others like me a tax break.
taxes me like any regular person..  evil people i think sometimes.  unselfish too are thoughts that run in my mind.  COMEON!

and here you have government - corrupt in so many areas in so many ways

A Goodreads quote - about YOU

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

 

Lois McMaster Bujold
November 2, 1949: Happy 64th birthday, Lois McMaster Bujold! The science fiction writer has won the Hugo Award four times and is the creator of the Vorkosigan Saga, a series inspired by the Horatio Hornblower books.