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Why Carlos Celdran should go to jail for his 2010 Damaso stunt

January 29, 2013August 18, 2022 benign0 209 Comments

First I presented the facts surrounding the Carlos Celdran ‘Damaso’ circus in my previous article. Evidently, facts alone don’t resonate loudly enough in Filipinos’ ears nor get processed effectively within their limited intellectual faculties. So I shall state my opinion about said facts a bit more explicitly here. Carlos Celdran is entitled to express an…

Crime, Culture, Religion

Carlos Celdran faces prison for allegedly offending Catholic faithful in his ‘Damaso’ stunt in 2010

January 28, 2013 benign0 24 Comments

Popular tour guide and activist Carlos Celdran was found guilty of acts deemed “offensive to the feelings of the faithful.” Celdran was arrested for a publicity stunt he performed back on the 30th September 2010 to raise awareness for his advocacy. Dressed in costume that presumably depicted him as Philippine national hero Jose Rizal, Celdran…

Crime, Religion

Genuine change? Something just doesn’t add up.

January 11, 2013January 29, 2015 Ms. Mike Portes 82 Comments

We all want change and change has to start from within one’s self and from the basic unit of society. My parents Â made me feel, that I can be somebody great without compromising discipline during the stage where practical reasoning is best developed. So remarkable are the developmental years of a child at the ages…

Culture, Religion, Society

GetRealPhilippines.com continues its tradition as the ONLY Real Deal in Philippine Media in 2013!

January 3, 2013January 3, 2013 benign0 137 Comments

Victim mentalities. It is the dysfunctional mindset underlying the empty rhetoric of “change” that so-called “activists” espouse while consistently failing to grasp the irony in doing so. The currency of this activist rhetoric is “the poor”. The entire activist rhetoric is premised on the notion of “the poor” necessarily being in the losing end of…

Development, Society

RA 10354 — a product mangled by Pinoy-style discourse

December 31, 2012June 28, 2013 FallenAngel 29 Comments

Droll, unintelligent, petty, and pathetic – these words describe the “debate” that has surrounded the discussion of the Reproductive Health Bill (RH Bill), the passing through both houses of Congress and its eventual signing into law as RA 10354. The whole point of the exercise was to implement some sort of semblance of population control….

Culture, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Politics, Religion

Gwendolyn Garcia may have Pedro Calungsod on her side but Noynoy is still Chief of the Armed Forces

December 31, 2012December 31, 2012 benign0 8 Comments

Flawed in its execution or not, MalacaÃ±ang had come out locked and loaded when it ordered Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia suspended for alleged “grave abuse of authority” on the 19th December 2012. Yet ten days later, what could’ve been a clean strike has turned into a quagmire. What’s the big delay anyway? If the government…

Civics, Government, Politics

Kris Aquino frock reveals her inner character!

December 29, 2012December 29, 2012 Kate Natividad 48 Comments

Check out the outfit presidential sister Kris Aquino wore on the 38th Metro Manila Film Festival awards night. Hubba hubba! I’d say that’s a wardrobe malfunction waiting to happen but considering the night came and went without much further buzz, it seems the getup held together. [Photo courtesy Showbiz Government.] Say niyo? I wouldn’t say…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Malacañang gets the RH Bill passed, but do the ends justify the means?

December 20, 2012July 16, 2013 FallenAngel 27 Comments

The Reproductive Health Bill (RH Bill) was passed on Monday, December 17, in both houses of Congress here in the Philippines on the third and final reading. All it takes now for it to become an official law is for President Aquino to sign it and voila, we have the “Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health…

Government, Politics, Religion