For couple of years now the US housing market is in really bad shape which lead some homeowner turn to St. Joseph in order to sell their house. Yes, the Catholic saint which was long been believed to help with home-related matters (which now may include home sale).

According to some postings and emails that is spreading around the Internet that, burying St. Joseph in the yard of a home for sale attracts prospective home buyer. A good article in WSJ also touch this subject.

Some religious store on the internet are even offering Home Sale Kit, which includes a plastic statue, a prayer card, and an introduction to the St. Joseph home sale practice which they say that the statues are flying off the shelves.

But I think there’s still no substitute for seller who are doing their own assignment like completing all necessary repairs, properly staging the outside appearance of the house and make the interior as neat as possible, adjusting the price that is competitive with market value and of course, lots of prayer.

1) The Nigerian scam, also known as 419

Most of you have received an email from a member of a Nigerian family with wealth. It is a desperate cry for help in getting a very large sum of money out of the country. A common variation is a woman in Africa who claimed that her husband had died, and that she wanted to leave millions of dollars of his estate to a good business.

In every variation, the scammer is promising obscenely large payments for small unskilled tasks. This scam, like most scams, is too good to be true. Yet people still fall for this money transfer con game.

They will use your emotions and willingness to help against you. They will promise you a large cut of their business or family fortune.

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Another online petition urging Filipinos in the U.S. Call for GMA to Resign. The online petition is different from the other petition drafted by Sen. Trillianes calling for the immediate resignation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Vice President Manuel “Noli” de Castro Jr.

To: The Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Filipino People

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has lost all credibility to serve as President of the Philippines.

We, Filipinos in the United States, are greatly outraged by the bankruptcy of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration. We demand her immediate resignation and support the mounting call for her ouster, if she refuses to step down.

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President Arroyo granted full pardon to former president Estrada which was convicted guilty of plunder following a recommendation by the Department of Justice (DoJ) and hoping to easy the present political tension on ZTE deal and cash giveaways to some of the governors.

The president adviser Ronaldo Puno said Mrs Arroyo agonized on matter as she had been receiving comments from various sectors since Acting Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera announced that Estrada has made an appeal for unconditional pardon. and under a policy of releasing prisoners who have reached 70 years of age.

Because of this news, an online petition is now circulating for the immediate resignation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Vice President Manuel “Noli” de Castro Jr., with Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV kicking off the signature drive.

The online petition here PetitionOnline

Approximately 1,500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) Cebu City south of the Philippines returns on YouTube with a new dance act Rico Mambo, this is after a smash hit Thriller dance.

An article published in gmanews.tv website about the growing number of Filipino women marrying foreigners whom they meet through the Internet.

A religious congregation providing counseling services to overseas workers has expressed concerns over the growing number of Filipino women marrying foreigners whom they knew only through the Internet.

Sr. Bernadette de Guzman of the Religious of the Good Shepherd’s Center for Overseas Workers said her group provides counseling and pre-departure orientation seminar (PDOS) to some 16,000 Filipino women leaving the country every year to marry foreign nationals.

There are at least 12 million Filipinos scattered around 197 countries across the globe.

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A retired U.S. Air Force Reserve Staff Sergeant and a nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital Frannie Richards filed a complaint against the H&M department store at Chicago, IL.

The incident happened Sept. 13, while she was shopping, a white male employee said, “mail-order bride in the house” and started giggling with another employee. When she asked to go to the fitting room, the employee ridicule Richards’ ability to understand English by saying “Can’t you read English? It’s over there – fitting room.” And as she was walking away, he was saying “ching, ching, chong.”. She spoke with the store supervisor but no avail.

H & M is investigating the complaint and also says employees are trained in the company’s zero tolerance police in an effort to ensure that all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.

According to the recent Nielsen Media Research, the network ABS-CBN (with 79.4%) emerged as the preferred media station by affluent Filipinos (income higher than Php50K a month), teen-age (13 to 19 age group), and overseas Filipino workers (OFW) families and beneficiaries with a family member working abroad.

The ABS is followed by rival GMA-7 (64.1%), Studio 23 (25.3%), QTV 11 (12.2%), and ABC 5 (11%). Survey was made through personal interviews within urban areas.

HBO probably got it wrong to misidentified this pretty Filipina as “Jinky Pacquiao”, wife of boxer Manny Pacquiao. Some says that she’s actually Jinky’s companion. Who is she? (doesn’t look like Ara Mina, Marimar?) Is she’s really a Pinay?

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