save the shoes
By jb78000
@jb78000 (15139)
October 8, 2009 7:10am CST
always nice to see priority being given to what is genuinely important. we all know about the recent disaster in the philippines but i was relieved to see the latest story on it. apparently most of imeda's shoes, now owned by a museum, have been saved. have you seen any recent news reports that focus on what everybody truly should be concerned about?
link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/08/imelda-marcos-shoes-ketsana-flooding
4 responses
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
8 Oct 09
What a relief jb, imagine if that collection had been lost to the world. And the bravery of those staff to save all but 100 pairs from getting a bit damp round the edges. I'm sure the museum will now be willing to hand over the collection to the victims who lost their clothing and shoe collections during this event.
As for the importance of stories like that, you know full well that celebrity sells more newspapers than bodies do.
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Oct 09
Maybe they should just give a pair to each of the people who have lost their homes?
I suppose the shoe exhibit is considered a necessary means to demonstrate abuses of power and how those in power manage to enrich themselves at everybody else's expense. But give saving the shoes a higher priority than saving lives? I don't think so...
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Oct 09
Because Imelda and her shoes was a big story once upon a time. Seems like the press feels an obligation to revive past stories for the nostalgia factor or some other reasons...
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Oct 09
hijb oh by all means save the bloody shoes, why not sell
the things at a big auction and give the money to those'
who are trying to salvage their lives in the phillippines
and let them rebuild and get into some shelter, then Imelda
'might have done some real good for a change. Mylord, how'many
feet did this woman have, two or sixteen? sorry this makes me'a tad irked. but then priorities do get screwed up. he he hehe
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
26 Nov 09
thanks so much ye old blue bunny for the best response, and oh no well not happy thanksgiving and its too early for christmas so just happy whatevers to you. he he. my roommie went to Long beach
for thanksgiving with her sister.nobody to talk my ears off.he he.
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@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
8 Oct 09
Oh thank goodness, I'm sure that the people from that country will be so excited that her shoes were saved. I'm sure that they don't care about the damage done to their country...Just the shoes 
@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
12 Oct 09
There was actually a link in the post about the shoes. And, here in the US we have heard very little news about anything going on over there because the media is so focused on H1N1 and all of the children dying from it.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
12 Oct 09
Hi jb and zephyrSun, I don't know where you read your news about Imelda's shoes but I lived through the nightmare of my people and I read nothing on our major daily nor heard anything about the shoes in the broadcast media that aired 24/7. All I heard were massive flooding that claimed the lives of so many farmer and fisher folks because their nipa huts were drowned by the mudslide and the raging waters. I also hopped from one friend and family to a stranger's home that had been destroyed by the flash flood. Everywhere I look was cry of anguish and defeat. My people had been hit by a natural calamity... maybe not as intense as your Katrina... but why does your media note about the shoes? Is that responsible journalism? Where is the ethics in that? Ain't rescue and relief stories more important? I am saddened at how you look at my people. I wish you could see that even if we are just a tiny archipelago in the Pacific, my people had contribute much to the world.
