Today marks the day Filipinos threw the yoke of centuries of foreign oppression, may it also signify the beggining of the end of the tyranny that grips our beloved nation.

Bayan kong Mahal

Ako ay Pilipino
Buong katapatang nanunumpa
Sa watawat ng Pilipinas
At sa bansang kanyang sinasagisag
Na may dangal, katarungan at kalayaan
Na ipinakikilos ng sambayanang
Maka-Diyos, Makakalikasan,
Makatao at,
Makabansa.

I am a Filipino
I pledge my allegiance
To the flag of the Philippines
And to the country it represents
With honor, justice and freedom
That is put in motion by one nation
For the love of God, nature,
people and
Country.

THANK YOU GOOGLE!

Photo was found at HaitiAction.net

BlogCatalog, Heifer International, and the blogosphere will focus attention  on the plight of the hungry today, April 29, 2009, with the theme Hunger and Hope. This reminded us of an article at National Geographics we stumbled into last year about the poor in Haiti resorting to eating mud cookies to stave off those twisty little prickly pains that happen when our stomach parts start grinding on each other.

We used to make mud cookies and mud pies when we were little kids but never did it crossed our minds to eat them. Although there were times when we did “taste” those cookies when our parents weren’t looking. But in Haiti, man, the cookies were staple.

More than a year later, the mud cookies are still in the news. Dirt-poor Haitians still rely on them to remedy hunger pangs. HaitiAction.net has an article entitle “Mud Cookie economics in Haiti” that permits us a glimpse why hope for the hungry in this country might only exist in hunger-enduced deleriums.

We found the following photos of  Haitians making the infamous mud cookies at Lelong News:

There was an inquiry at Yahoo Answers if this is true. We can’t exactly remember the words but one of the replies went this way, “People are eating Mud Cookies in Haiti, please help anyway way YOU can.” Shouldn’t it be, “help anyway WE can?”