Nation Building at Home

Within the last few years, President Obama promised to do more "nation building at home".


This was his rationale for withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

 OK, the troops have already withdrawn from Iraq and we are slowly withdrawing from Afghanistan.

But yet, even with the sequestration, in which automatic budget cuts have occurred due to a lack of a deal between Congress and the President, we are STILL spending US taxpayer's money to do nation building OUTSIDE our borders!


Latest example?

The US government has given $250 million of our taxpayer's money to the government of Egypt, which may or may not be our ally, depending on the mood of the  Muslim Brotherhood leadership.



 
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We still have military bases in Germany, Japan, South Korea, United Arab Emirates and other nations wealthy enough to fund their own military!


Time for them to start practicing some self-reliance! 

Same goes for Israel too.  (and no, this isn't anti-Semitic either! Either Israel is a part of the US or it isnt. No?  Well then, they can start being more independent and be more self-reliant for their own nation building.)

As for South Korea and Taiwan  -- build your own nukes already!  North Korea did it even with a poor economy, so can you!


As for other foreign aid, private charities can still provide assistance to the needy overseas. 


So, if President Obama is truly serious about "nation building at home", he should  tell the foreign leaders "YOU pay for your own defense, YOU pay for your own infrastructure, YOU stop expecting us to bail you out when you make poor decisions."

"After all, we got nation building to do at home!"  

 

Faye Hanohano's racist tantrum

How would you react if someone installed artwork in your office without consulting you?

An average person may not be so happy about it!

 The same situation happened with Faye Hanohano, who is a member of Hawaii's state legislature.

 

Star Advertiser

Sure, Hanohano didn't like the artwork installed without being consulted, but for very different reasons!


http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/20130228__House_member_insults_ethnic_groups.html?id=193763311 

State Rep. Faye Hanohano — unhappy with the paintings installed in her state Capitol office as part of a public exhibit — used racial and ethnic slurs in a tirade Monday, according to an email from a state exhibit specialist.

Hanohano, who is Native Hawaiian, called the works for the "Art in Public Places" exhibit "ugly" and questioned why the paintings chosen were not from Native Hawaiian artists.

Exhibit specialists who were installing the art said the House member from Hawaii island told them that "any work done by Haoles, Japs, Paranges, Pakes, you can just take away right now."

(The meaning of Paranges in the email is unclear.)

 For those who might be reading from outside Hawaii  --- "haole" is used to refer to those with European ancestry, "pakes" is used to refer to those of Chinese ancestry.

As for the word "paranges", she might either be referring to "Portuguese".  Or, as one caller to KSSK mentioned, she might've said "palagi" which is a Samoan word referring to those with European ancestry (in other words, Samoan version of "haole")

But yeah, all this over .............. artwork installed in her office.

She judges artwork by ................... the ancestry of the artist!

And of course, she made a BS apology afterwards

http://www.kitv.com/news/politics/Big-Island-lawmaker-apologizes-for-racial-slurs/-/8905242/19130000/-/6abqiq/-/index.html?absolute=true

"First and foremost, I'd like to express my sincere apology to any individuals or groups who may have been offended by my comments. Clearly comments that were intended to be an impassioned plea for increasing the visibility and support for Native Hawaiian artists were expressed in a manner that did not accurately reflect their intent, sentiment or the integrity of this office. I accept full responsibility for this unfortunate incident and, again, I apologize.

It sounds more like she's sorry for being caught!

And this "impassioned plea for increasing the visibility and support for Native Hawaiian artist"?

You could EASILY advocate for Native Hawaiian artists without yelling insulting rants about other racial groups.

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If Hanohano was a Republican, the liberal websites would be all up in arms by now! At least, that's how they react when a Republican (or a Republican sympathizer) makes insensitive remarks related to race, gender, etc.

But the 2 liberal websites I usually check (TheNation, Salon) still has NOTHING about Hanohano's racial tirade.  

At least give MSNBC credit for linking to KITV's article that I mentioned about!

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This whole issue reminded me of when the Grammy's  once had a category for Hawaiian music.

Some Native Hawaiian activists went bezerk when Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho (both of Asian ancestry) won!

Trisha Kehaulani Watson mentioned in her Honolulu Advertiser blog (no longer in existence) that  Carrere/ Ho victory was depriving the Native Hawaiian artists of recognition!

 

LinkedIN

 Trisha Kehaulani Watson

(aka : musical segregationist)

And yes, I am calling Ms Watson a musical segregationist!

I mean, who in their right mind who have a problem with an African-American winning an award for country music, punk rock or emo music?

Music is music!

If a Vietnamese person wins an award for mariachi music,  or if a Micronesian person wins an award for jazz music, or if  a Somali person wins an award for the best taiko drummer, most of us would be appreciative of those artists being cross-cultural visionaries!

I mean, this is the 21st century!

This is an era where a South Korean guy had the world's most popular rap song last year.

 This is a world where a Samoan guy was the most popular player for the Notre Dame's Fighting Irish.  

This is a world in which a man of Kenyan ancestry became the President of the United States.

This is a world in which people of Indian ancestry are governors of Louisiana and South Carolina.

And yes, this is a world in which a Native Hawaiian guy was one of the top offense players in the Canadian Football League! (that would be my former UH classmate Chad Owens) 

This is an ever-integrating world!

It's time to celebrate that!

UH sports nicknames

Within the last decade, there plenty of UH team nicknames.

The women's teams were all Rainbow Wahine.

The men's teams had different names.

The football team were Warriors!  The men's basketball team were Rainbow Warriors! The baseball team were the Rainbows!


Rainbows, Warriors, Rainbow Warriors ------ can you all just make up your damn mind already?


That's what Ben Jay was thinking when he got hired as the UH athletic director.

 

Star Advertiser

Ben Jay

It was time for consistency! A decision had to be made! 

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The UH teams were the Rainbows since the 1920's

  http://archives.starbulletin.com/2002/07/17/sports/simpson.html 

 It happened long ago, in 1923 to be exact. Hawaii's Fighting Deans staged an epic 7-0 upset of Oregon State, and a rainbow appeared over the field. It must have looked, it must have felt, much the way it did that December day last year when a brilliant arc, a perfect rainbow materialized in the Aloha Stadium sky after Hawaii had punted BYU.

And in those early days, every time there was a rainbow, the team won. Every time there was a rainbow in the valley, the team won.

Yep, the Rainbow was the good luck charm for UH

http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/sports/2012/6/18/GEN_0618120234.aspx?tab=uhtraditions

UH Rainbow symbol

But as time went on, the Rainbow was later considered a bad luck charm for UH!


There was a stigma surrounding the rainbow

You see, the gay rights movement had their adopted own rainbow symbol!   Yep,  rainbows have become a "gay symbol"!

 

Wikipedia
No, this has NOTHING to do with UH sports

And in the macho world of sports, you do not want to be thought of as "gay". 

 The Rainbow symbol had made it harder for UH coaches to recruit from the continental US where the rainbow is ridiculed as a "gay symbol"

http://www.staradvertiser.com/businesspremium/20130222_UHs_Rainbow_connection_began_with_magical_game.html

a quote from Joe Moore

"Since former coach June Jones took it upon himself to drop ‘Rainbow' from the name Rainbow Warriors, I have not liked the change. When I expressed my opinion on the air, Jones phoned me and said he couldn't recruit the quality players he needed if they were called Rainbows.

"When I asked why, he said, ‘Because they don't think it's manly or tough enough.'

"When I asked if he didn't consider it part of his job to enlighten his recruits about the uniqueness and significance of the rainbow in the school's history and Hawaiian culture, he said, ‘Good luck with that.'

So in 2000, then-UH football coach June Jones (with Hugh Yoshida's approval) told the world that we are no longer Rainbows, we are now Warriors!

 http://kegsneggsblog.com/2011/05/11/life-lessons-from-june-jones/

 "Dont call me a Rainbow!"

http://archives.starbulletin.com/2000/07/28/sports/story1.html

That's after athletic director Hugh Yoshida acknowledged the decision to change the logo stemmed, in part, from concerns about how the rainbow has become a symbol of gay pride and acceptance.

"That logo really put a stigma on our program at times in regards to it's part of the gay community, their flags and so forth," Yoshida told KGMB-TV in remarks aired yesterday. "Some of the student athletes had some feelings in regards to that."

Yoshida made the statement after a ceremony on campus Wednesday at which the new logo was unveiled. During that ceremony, attended by 500 invited guests, assistant women's volleyball coach Charlie Wade also alluded to the rainbow's gay theme.

"I can't be certain, but I think that the rainbow had something to do with a flight attendant giving me his phone number one time," Wade told the audience.

And this was how the  rainbow symbol got replaced with the more macho H-tiki symbol

http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/sports/2012/6/18/GEN_0618120234.aspx?tab=uhtraditions

The H-tiki symbol

But some Hawaii fans got upset at the name and symbol change. After so many decades of cheering for the "Rainbows", it was hard for many to deal with change!

But as mentioned earlier, some of the other men's teams still had "rainbows" in their name.

With Ben Jay coming in, there had to be a unified nickname for UH sports teams.

There was talk in having all men's teams go back to being the "Rainbow Warriors"

After all, June Jones has been gone for years. And plus, who cares if "rainbows are gay"?  Gay marriage is getting increased support, that even pro athletes have been publicly supporting that!

But it was not to be this time around!

All the men's teams are now just Warriors!

But a new issue has come up!

http://www.staradvertiser.com/sportspremium/20130215_Anti-change_factions_had_plenty_of_time_to_make_case.html?id=191360151

I am very glad action has been taken toward naming all the teams the same, finally.

I say "toward" because men's and women's teams with different names is less than ideal. This is 2013, and the government is allowing women to be full-on warriors in the military. But they can't be Hawaii Warriors. Those who say it's sexist not to name them all the same — regardless of gender — are correct.

But I get it. Good luck deleting the history-rich moniker "Wahine" from UH women's sports while also removing the final traces of a 90-year-old name from the men.

To solve that issue, I was thinking of

Men's teams = Kane Rainbow Warriors

Women's teams =  Wahine Rainbow Warriors

But those names are Three words long!  Having Three Word Nicknames probably isn't that marketable!

Maybe just this

Men's teams = Kane Wariors

Women's teams = Wahine Warriors



Even if the Rainbow name is taken out, we can still put the small rainbow symbol somewhere on the side of the  uniform, with the H-tiki symbol still  front and center! 

But whatever we call the teams, the main thing is  we can call them winners at the end of the season

more responses to my "Dont Do It in 4" editorial

Yesterday, my Ka Leo article "Dont Do It in 4" got posted
 http://www.kaleo.org/opinion/don-t-do-it-in/article_565788b6-759b-11e2-82ca-001a4bcf6878.html

and so did my blog post
 http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2013/02/im-back-on-ka-leo.html


Here's another response

lkll posted at 9:35 pm on Wed, Feb 13, 2013.

As an undergraduate who is only delayed because of a late study abroad, I think it's fair for the administration to at least pitch the 15-credit, four-year plan and suggest students to complete in four. They're not requiring all students to take 15 credits to become a full-time student—let them lay down the facts and give the students a little insight on how much their plan may help them in the long run. Of course everyone's situation will be different, so maybe they cannot; I couldn't in my freshman year when I had strict work hours, and maybe some people are in majors where textbooks cost a small fortune every semester. But as administration, it's their job to inform students that 12 credits won't cut it if you want to get out in four years so students don't complain that "they didn't know it would take so long."

OK, so far, so good!

 Contrary to your opinion, 15 credits is more than possible, especially early on in one's college career since most (if not all) of the classes would be intro-level and/or large lectures where homework isn't assigned. If you're either lucky enough to work on/near campus or have a generous boss who will stick to your schedule, 15 credits shouldn't be too much of a challenge unless you're the one who needs hours upon hours to study.

If you're lucky? Obviously, this world doesn't equally distribute luck!

While the into classes might seem easy for those who are already in graduate courses, to someone who just came out of high school, it could be very intimidating to pass 5 of them while not being lucky enough to have a trust fund, a lenient employer or a nearby employment.

 In fact, I tell my younger friends the exact same thing Itano suggests: signing up for as many classes as you can and dropping what you either can't handle or don't like. The perks of registering for more classes are: to guarantee you a spot in the class or to let the professor know you're interested if you end up wait-listed, to test the waters with subjects you may be interested in majoring, to save money on up to two additional classes and/or a lab, and to make your major years a lot easier by allowing you to finish up taking 12 credits per semester without falling behind. I tell my friends to sign up for more if they're available because you won't know if the classes will fill up, and it'll be easier to drop a course rather than scrambling around to find another. Plus some classes may be easier than you initially thought, so you would be able to devote those class' study times to an additional class.

 The stuff I highlighted in blue above is so ridiculous I can't believe anyone takes such advice seriously! What's the point of enrolling in classes if you already know you're going to drop one of them? If that's your strategy, you're wasting your time and everyone else's time.

Look, I know sometimes, people have to drop classes due to unforseen circumstances.  Sometimes a class is too much to handle at this time  That was the case in the UPhx class I left last year.(It ended being the best decision, as I later decided to leave UPhx and come to UH)

But registering in classes just so you can drop one on purpose is such a stupid strategy. And for what? To make yourself more lovable to the UH admin? They really could care less about you personally, even if they say the opposite in public!

I understand it's just plain impossible to finish in four in some majors (e.g. art, foreign language if one isn't placed high enough when starting), but it's possible to finish other majors within four to five. In fact, most programs seem to be designed to be finished within two years, so it's just a matter of staying on top of your game the other two years. If you look at it like that, maybe even two years of 15+ credit semesters could get you out in four—is it really that silly for administration to suggest that?

Yes, because of what I didn't have room to write in my editorial. Some programs are NOT 4 year programs at all (ie. architecture, engineering) and plus I noticed that the UH admin kept adding more core requirements every other year during my undergraduate years. I don't know how often they still do so, but adding core requirements make it harder to graduate in 4 years!

And why is it really so important to graduate in 4 years anyways? Why the rush!

I've been outside of the university for 8 years, and I can tell you from experience that there is no need to rush all your undergrad years into just 4!

Your employers dont really care if you take longer than 4 years to get your bachelors.

With all the job interviews I have had, I had experienced many types of question. NOT A SINGLE QUESTION in those interviews asked "why did you take more than 4 years to get your bachelor's?"  That question had NEVER been asked in any interview I went to!

That's a sign your employer doesn't really care if you took longer than 4 years.

Only  "experts" stuck in the Ivory Tower really care if most of a college's graduates "do it in 4".     

That's another topic that couldn't fit in a 500-word format I was required to follow for this Ka Leo editorial!

I'm back on the Ka Leo

Before I started this blog, I was writing opinion articles for the UH newspaper, the Ka Leo!

www.kaleo.org


That was back in my 1999-2004 undergraduate years!

Unfortunately, that website doesn't archive its old articles for long :(

Before I started my time at UH, I didn't pay much attention to opinion articles in the newspaper. That changed when I would read the Ka Leo and saw the opinion articles. It was controversial and exciting! And it was perfect platform to make my mark on the campus!

Back then, blogs were not a big thing as they are now! I didn't start my blog until 2003. 

Now that I'm back at UH as a graduate student, I decided I got to go back to the Ka Leo.

Things have changed within the 8 years I was off the campus.

The Ka Leo headquarters moved from the small building by the tree east of Campus Center to the 1st floor of Hemmenway Hall!

Ka Leo was once a daily paper, now it's only out 3 times a week.

And some articles are just Web-only and doesn't make the print edition.

That was the case with my first Ka Leo article this year.

You can check it out at http://www.kaleo.org/opinion/don-t-do-it-in/article_565788b6-759b-11e2-82ca-001a4bcf6878.html

It pretty much sums up my points I have made in my earlier blog posts criticizing the excess pressure the UH administration is placing the undergraduate students to graduate in 4 years!

http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2012/07/let-them-take-less-classes.html

and

http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2012/10/uh-trying-to-micro-manage-students.html

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I already got one response from the comments section

wethepeople posted at 2:17 pm on Wed, Feb 13, 2013.

I would have to disagree with this. I believe that every student should aim to graduate in four years. One thing about being an adult is managing your time well. I understand that students have a job and other priorities but I am sure the university understands this. The reason why they want us to graduate in four is because it affects our accreditation. Schools get scored on their retention rates and we don't want to be labeled as a university that can't have their students graduate on time. University of Hawaii has the resources such as financial aid and academic centers to help with students to help with their assignments so students can't succeed. I am a full time student and working full time as well. I can graduate in four and everyone else can.

Well, at least someone took the time to read my article!
To wethepeople, NO employer will care if you graduate in 4 or 5 or even 8 years! They only care if you got the proper experience and attitude to do the job!

And this "The reason why they want us to graduate in four is because it affects our accreditation" crap was something I was going to address in my Ka Leo but it was edited out for the purposes of keeping the article about 500 words!

But my response to this "The reason why they want us to graduate in four is because it affects our accreditation" crap is addressed here



http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2012/10/uh-trying-to-micro-manage-students.html

You see, Itano cares more about RANKINGS (which are based on arbitrary criteria by outside "experts") than the actual lives of the students!

UH's priority shouldn't be about rankings (read: popularity contests for mainland "experts"), the priority should be about access to higher education for Hawaii's students. And  greater access REQUIRES flexibility!

Yep, I was going to mention that in the Ka Leo article but it got edited out! Ka Leo articles (unlike blog postings) are required to fit a certain format, so I wouldn't be able to address every point in a Ka Leo article!

As far as I'm concerned people like wethepeople should just MYOB and stop insulting students who need to take a little longer to graduate! It's not about how long you take to graduate, it's what are you going to do afterwards?

entertainment critics

 Some thoughts on the lame criticisms surrounding the entertainment industry


1) Music writer Rick Moody writes extremely negative shallow comments about Taylor Swift, because she (gasp, omg, ring the alarms...........noooooooooooooooooooooooooh!) makes music he doesn't like. Moody thinks music he doesn't like is the downfall of civilization.

http://www.salon.com/2013/02/09/i_dared_criticize_taylor_swift/


and now Rick Moody is SHOCKED that people are standing up to his rudeness! Yep, bullies like Moody can't stand it when stand up to them

Still, I was not prepared for the assault that lay in wait for me when I published this piece, and on this basis (lack of preparation for the assault), we can only say that I am hopelessly naive. I suppose my thinking was that The Rumpus, where I publish this work, is pretty intellectual and bookish — and when it is more than intellectual, it is usually engaged with matters of sex and politics, and so its audience is literary and pretty progressive, and they are not going to mind a little carping about Taylor Swift. Apparently, I either underestimated the diversity of The Rumpus’ audience or I was hopelessly unaware how many Swiftians use Google Alerts to keep up on matters pertaining to their muse. Because although there was a day or two when people commented about Los Lobos, things on the comments page pretty quickly turned into a trench war about me and Taylor Swift.

And now, here is MY response to Rick Moody!

Hey Rick Moody,

I used to be like you. I used to make extremely negative and insulting comments about musicians who make songs that I didn't like!

THAT WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL!

THAT WAS 2 DECADES AGO!

I have since became a real adult!

I'm assuming you're either my age (32) or older.

Either, it is truly sad & pathetic that an adult like Rick Moody is still so immature that he would write extremely mean-spirited comments about a musicians whose only sin is (gasp, omg..........noooooooooooo!) making songs he doesn't like!

Rick Moody, there are worse things in the world than someone making music you dont like!

But being the over-privilleged person like Rick Moody is, he probably will never understand that!

Maybe learning more about real suffering in the world (no... hearing music you dont like DOES NOT COUNT as real suffering) will give Rick Moody some real perspective in life!

2) Within the last few months, there has been controversy over the HBO show "Girls" because  like the former NBC sitcom "Friends", it has mostly European-American cast in a diverse city like New York! 


SO WHAT?


There wasn't much diversity in movies like "Boyz N the Hood", "Friday", "Menace to Society" or "Baby Boy" even though ALL of those movies took place in one of the most diverse cities in the world --- Los Angeles!

In fact, those movies just focused on an ethnic group that is only about 12% of LA's population! 

Dont get me wrong, I got nothing against John Singleton, Ice Cube or the Hughes brothers for making such classic films!

They all wanted to share with us what African-American life was like in Los Angeles!

And the makers of "Girls" and "Friends" wanted to share with us what European-American life was like in New York!

Makers of films and movie are NOT obligated to showcase every diverse group out there! They're NOT obligated to appeal to every diverse demographic out there!

You dont like those shows, then don't watch!

Or better yet, MAKE YOUR OWN SHOW!

After all, in this day and age, there's reality shows focusing on so many groups, even  groups like the Korean-Americans and Iranian-Americans have their own reality show!

If reality shows aren't your thing (they are sure not mine), you can just make your own documentary or whatever else!

You're NOT immune to getting scammed

Over the last few weeks, a lot of people are laughing at Manti Te'o for his online relationship with a woman that doesn't even exist!

But really, you ain't immune to getting pranked on!

Even the most street-wise, the most intellectual, the most toughest, the most whatevers, will eventually get out-smarted and humiliated, or even worse, getting scammed out of their money.

When you're desperate, that's when you become an easy target for scam artists.  When you're feeling isolated, that's when you become an easy target for scam artists.

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For example, Te'o might've felt homesick going from a mostly Polynesian community of Laie to a university located in Indiana (that would be Notre Dame). Very few people there that he might have the cultural connection. Easy to feel culturally isolated!

That made him vulnerable to his so-called "friend" who hooked Te'o up to an online relationship with a fictitious woman with a Hawaiian last name and a hapa looking photo!

This kind of prank, called "catfishing" has happened to others, it's just that Te'o just happened to be one of the top college football players about to join the NFL. Whereas others have luxury of just being humiliated in private, Te'o's humiliation became very public!

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Closer to home, the UH athletic department was also in a desperate situation. Being out in the middle of the ocean, they have extremely high travel expenses that other colleges don't have to worry about! They have facilities that need upgrading!

So yeah, trying to get a big-time superstar to do a benefit concert  sounded like a good idea!

Apparently, they contacted someone claiming to be a talent agency representing big stars like Justin Beiber, Rihanna and Stevie Wonder.  Well, that "talent agency" said Stevie Wonder is available!

Turned out that "talent agency" was bogus. All it had was a website with photos, and a small PO Box somewhere in Florida! It had ZERO connections with ANY musicians.

But it was too late, the "talent agency" got paid, UH lost $200,000!

It caused the UH Athletic Director Jim Donovan to be suspended and moved to a different position. (Donovan since left for Cal-State Fullerton). And tons of controversy, and even legislative hearings over how things are done @ UH!

All this because of desperation.

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I am sure not immune to that type of desperation!

The summer of 2011 was one of the crappiest ones ever for me!

I was laid-off from the part-time tutor position at Niu Valley Middle School. (most of the students who relied on those services were about to go on to high school, and not enough students to replace them).

I still had the sub-teaching gig, but there isn't much work for the summer!  And whereas in the previous years, I had some extra work subbing at the pre-schools, most of them have since faced hard times with declining enrollments and lay-offs!

What to do? What to do?

I went on Craig's List job ads!

A tutoring gig that paid $50 an hour? Where do  I sign up for that?

I emailed that person posting the ad! He claimed he was going to visit Hawaii from a foreign country, and would like me to help tutor his teenage son at a library!

He also said he'll also send a check ahead of time!

Too good to be true?

Yes it was!

When I deposited the check -------- RED FLAGS!

Lucky thing my bank just put a hold on checks coming from outside of Hawaii for a week. Otherwise, I might've spent $$$ that didn't even exist!

Because it turned out the check was bogus!

I contacted the banks and the police about this! Well, since I was lucky that "check" was put on hold, I didn't lose money. But since I didn't lose money, they legally couldn't do much about me being pranked on! I was just advised to e-mail the scam artist (claiming to be Timothy Largier) that the "tutoring session is cancelled and this will be the last time we ever communicate"

When I mentioned the issue to my mother, she said "you read the newspapers, you watch the news, you know this type of things go on".

True, but I got pranked on because I was desperate as hell!

So yeah, I'm more careful with Craig's List ads! I look for real work instead of BS tutoring gigs!

I'm even at the point where I don't even answer my phone if the caller ID shows a phone # I don't even recognize! This is to prevent some tele-marketing person from pulling me into his/her scam! 


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But yeah, back to the Te'o situation.  The guy who did the scam, Roniah Tuiasosopo probably thought he was having fun playing with someone else's emotions!

But fun doesn't last forever. His reputation is ruined forever.

It will be like the "boy who cried wolf".

So even if Roniah Tuiasosopo tells the truth, who's going to believe him?

That will be the hardest lesson for Roniah!