Tag: hypocrisy

The Liberal Party has FAILED in its role as part of ‘the opposition’

March 1, 2017 FallenAngel 5 Comments

There is something to be said about how the Liberal Party (LP), the political force that has remained ubiquitous ever since the 1986 People Power Movement, has handled its role as part of political opposition to the Rodrigo Duterte administration. The volume of statements coming from the LP-led opposition has not died down, despite the…

Development, Government, Politics

Drug Wars are ALWAYS bloody. Deal with it!

February 7, 2017 benign0 12 Comments

Is there a war between the Roman Catholic Church and Duterte supporters? For that matter, is there a war between the Church and the Philippines’ trendy Church of Atheism? Perhaps. In fact the war between any Philippine Government and the Church has been raging for some time — specifically in efforts to curb the galloping…

Crime, Religion, Society

Is the Roman Catholic Church ‘full of shit’?

January 25, 2017January 25, 2017 benign0 22 Comments

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte thinks so. Duterte railed against the hypocrisy of the Church in a speech he delivered Monday asserting, as a matter of fact, that the hallowed institution is full of the proverbial brown stuff. Church officials have been vocal in condemning the extrajudicial killings that had attended the administration’s crackdown on the…

Religion

Jim Paredes sang anti-US song “American Junk” back in 1987

October 24, 2016 benign0 17 Comments

These are the lyrics to the song “American Junk” released by Jim Paredes and the Apo Hiking Society in 1987. Leave me alone to my third world devices I don’t need your technology You just want my natural resources And then you leave me poor and in misery Third world blues is what I got…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Politics, Society

Duterte wants Filipinos to eliminate their colonial mentality

September 10, 2016September 11, 2016 Ilda 107 Comments

There is a lot of wailing and weeping in the Philippines lately. Most of the noise is coming from critics of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. His critics appear to be disappointed that there was hardly any fallout after his tirade against U.S. President Barack Obama before he left for the ASEAN summit in Laos. They…

Crime, Politics

Are comments sections becoming a thing of the past?

August 29, 2016 FallenAngel 7 Comments

Comments sections can be both a boon and a bane for online sites, whether they be news sites or blogs. In an ideal setting, the conversations and insights that can be derived from those who leave comments would be wholesome, respectful, decent, lucid, on-topic, and diverse. The ideal setting does not exist in today’s internet…

Media, Society, Tech Talk

Raising the flag of righteous indignation

August 7, 2016August 9, 2016 Carlo de Leon 12 Comments

It really irks me no end to see and hear people judge others and label them as evil or bad, at the very least not good. So-called righteous people who parade themselves as holier than thou are, in reality, hypocrites. Like the minions of the yellow army who until now keep on harping that President…

Crime, Government, Politics, Religion

President Rodrigo Duterte will replace the Church and ‘civil society’ as the nation’s champion of Equality

June 5, 2016 Add 38 Comments

Here we are debating whether the catcall and wolf whistle of President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte (DU30) was sexist or not. Okay, let us debate it for whatever lessons it might give us, but to have it as one of our headline news? Aren’t we losing focus on the biggest problem? Oh, I forgot, it involved one…

Government, Media, Society