We beg to differ.
The current clashes between Philippine government troops and members of a Muslim rebel group in Zamboanga City of Mindanao despite the 2012 Framework Agreement should be a lesson to all especially President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino that one should never negotiate with terrorists. Obviously, the most recent peace agreement cooked up by the government with…
While people are going agog about the P10 Billion Pork Barrel Scam, another scam is being perpetrated without an uproar, without crowds gathering at EDSA, and without pictures of different people posing with Jeane Lim Napoles. Not everybody in a country with over two thirds of its people groaning under the poverty line gets a…
Read More “How About A P2 Billion Rice Scam To Go With Your Pork Barrel Fund Scam?” »
I read with wonder how Voyager 1, a little space probe launched by the United States in 1977 had “finally” left our solar system — “for real this time” according to a Scientific American report. What is really amazing about this spacecraft and the men and women who designed, built, launched, and worked with it…
His lack of faith in reason was why he was so fanatically dedicated to it. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig The book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig was probably mandatory hippie reading when it first came out in 1974. I first read it…
Injustice pervades Filipino society from head to toe. Most recent is the exceedingly tragic fate that befell 25-year-old Kae Davantes whose hog-tied remains were found last Saturday after she went missing on Friday last week. The words “a parent’s worst nightmare” in no way comes close to describing the sort of grief that one can…
Read More “The Philippines: An inherently unjust society where criminals big and small get away” »
About an hour after I posted the picture of Senate President Franklin Drilon with Janet Lim Napoles, my neighbor sent me a text message saying that it wouldn’t be unlikely that President B.S. Aquino would also have a picture with Napoles. After getting over the initial shock of finding out that my 75 year old…
Read More “What Does Jeane Lim-Napoles and President BS Aquino III’s Picture Prove?” »
All quiet on the western front. First the outrage, now the quiet. Surprisingly, even the Inquirer.net editor’s curiosity was aroused today… But why was there no remark whatsoever on the reported involvement of certain legislators in the scam? Why the tepid—some say safe—response from the business community in general? What do the employers’ group, the…
Read More “Perhaps abolishing the pork barrel isn’t really good for Filipinos’ health after all” »
Guilt by association is a logical fallacy that members of the yellow press and yellow army have played ad nauseam — not really counting on the possibility that it could swing back at their faces like a double hinged door. For example, pictures of Janet Napoles with Bong Revilla have been circulated after the senator…
Read More “Picture of Senate President Franklin Drilon with Janet Lim Napoles Goes Viral” »