Eduardo Pontaoe
12 April 2007

 

Mr. Ramon Macaranas,

The Forum, is a place for open discussion, any subject under the stars. From Dagupan to Timbuktu. When you put yourself in the line of fire, you must know that you are laying your heart out for scrutiny. Be sure you got your facts right.

Any post, I assure you, passed muster thru editing, it’s not a waste of Forum space. Watching the previous postings you’d seen that a misinformation, which can be dismissed outright, opened a can of worms.

You saw Mr. Magsano reacted to it. Nobody cannot post something questionable because like I said, “The Forum is populated not by idiots and knuckleheads who can see through a counterfeit”.

You and anybody could not just sit there and let pass an infraction which you believed not right. If we allow anybody diluting the Forum with suspicions and losing credenza, we better tell The Editor, time to shut it down. The Forum then…has lost its meaning.

The reason you’re here, too, Ramon?

Ramon Macaranas
12 April 2007

 

Just a friendly reminder to our posters on this forum. Please refrain from making personal comments on the posters themselves. This is uncalled for and a waste of good forum space. Let us keep our comments on relevant issues and not focus our attention on useless ones.

For example, belittling/insulting a person’s medical profession/practice will never do our country any good. Let’s not get too personal here. It is ok to comment on someone else’s opinion, but never make a comment against the poster himself. Let us show how intelligent we really are and stick to the issues at hand.

Eduardo Pontaoe
12 April 2007

 

 

Mr. Oriel,

I don’t know much about Winnipeg, but I’d seen it in the early 70’s when it was still in its pristine and idyllic condition before the massive influx of immigrants. How Rehabilitation Hospital at Shearbrook St. is sounds to you? This is now the causality of events… What Lake of the Woods in Ontario looks like if you dare visit that place east of Winnipeg? I know a friend who owns an island with a log cabin in the middle of the lake where commute is by boat.

Now, the relevance between cause and effect. I could not figure out what you meant by very close…distance between Chicago and Winnipeg. By plane, yes. By car it’s a good 14 to 16 hours drive. Close?

This is what I know…the truth…about comparing Chicago and Winnipeg winter wise. Here in Chicago, we don’t use electrical cords plugged in to heat the oil not to coagulate, you do that. We don’t use plastic tarps to cover the side windows or the windshield to prevent from icing, you do that. That’s how cold Winnipeg could become starting in early October where by the first week you have a foot of snow on the ground. We don’t do those things in Chicago where winter starts around Christmas.

I don’t know much about Canada either. I don’t work and pay my taxes there, but I do visit sometimes childhood friends. Why bother? Not knowing Canada does not mean to say absolute ignorance about Canada.

These are what I am familiar with. 1) Your national medical insurance is in shambles. Designed for universal coverage for the rich and poor alike is bankrupt. Take months before you can get an appointment with a doctor. It became a national disgrace. That’s why America is not that crazy to follow.

2) Your mortgage interests and property taxes are non-deductible. The purpose of this, is to prevent people from such privilege to sustain all the social programs of Canada that went bonkers. Why is that, Mr. Oriel?

3) Canada is a country that cannot survive without its neighbor down south. One hundred seven billion ($107) dollars in trade which most of it in Canadian goods…beefs and wheat…without America Canada is dead.

There’s nothing to brag about the Canadian Parliament. This form of government is as archaic as that blackened building where it sits…in Ottawa. I was there.