Category: Politics

Binay backs out from much-awaited 27th November debate, Trillanes relieved!

November 11, 2014 benign0 31 Comments

Mutineer-turned-‘senator’ Antonio Trillanes IV can now heave a sigh of relief. Vice President Jejomar Binay has reportedly backed out from a challenge to a debate he had issued to Trillanes mid-October this year. After some dithering on both camps, the 27th of November was agreed as the date of the face-off between the two. Binay…

Crime, Media, Politics

Hall of Bad Taste: Esquire Philippines puts Mar Roxas on its cover!

November 7, 2014November 7, 2014 benign0 55 Comments

Apparently not a spoof! The image of the cover of the November 2014 edition of Esquire Philippines is actually posted on the Esquire Philippines Facebook Page. Interesting considering The Manila Times columnist Bobi Tiglao’s latest exposé on the role Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas played in botching the Philippine government’s appallingly…

Media, Politics

Eat my shorts: Vice President Jejomar Binay snubs a Senate Blue Ribbon Committee ‘invitiation’

November 6, 2014 benign0 10 Comments

So Vice President Jejomar Binay reportedly “snubbed” the “hearing the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee set just for him.” What will the Philippine Senate do now? Sue the Vice President of the Philippines? Good luck with that. Getting even a mountain of “evidence” collected in these “hearings” organised and filed in a proper complaint in a…

Crime, Government, Politics

President BS Aquino will not succeed unless he listens to his critics

November 6, 2014 Ilda 14 Comments

Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino is fed up with complaints about his administration. As far as he is concerned his critics can all go to hell because in his mind, he is doing an excellent job and no one can tell him otherwise. He will not accept any criticism even from his own allies….

Government, Politics

How to stop Jejomar Binay from winning the 2016 presidential elections

November 5, 2014 benign0 42 Comments

There are only two ways to beat Jejomar Binay in the coming election (1) field a presidential candidate who can pose a credible challenge to him or (2) throw him in jail. The way things are going, it is likely that neither will happen. Pretty much every politician that can even be half a challenger…

Crime, Politics

Laude murder bites: Philippine local business reels from US Navy port call cancellations!

November 3, 2014 benign0 9 Comments

Nine United States Navy vessels that had planned port calls at their former base in Subic Bay, Philippines have reportedly had changes of plans opting to pass on their scheduled rest-and-recreation (R&R) there. According to Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority chair Roberto Garcia, the port calls from these ships were “put on hold until further notice”….

Crime, Development, Economy, Politics

What The PBA And Kia Motors Are Really Saying Hiring Manny Pacquiao

November 1, 2014August 31, 2021 Gogs 15 Comments

” Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there’s the superhero and there’s the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When that character wakes up in the morning, he’s Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic Superman…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Government, Politics

What will the Philippines do if America walks away?

October 31, 2014October 31, 2014 benign0 43 Comments

We already know the answer to that question. Back in 1991, Philippine Congress voted to boot Uncle Sam’s boys out of her shores for good. Since then, the Philippines had undergone a steep decline to irrelevance in the world stage. Along with that came tumbling her ability to defend herself. Indeed, one would have thought…

Civics, Development, Economy, Government, Politics, Society, The South