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Good Filipino Catholics agree: Mocha Uson deserves her UST award!

January 22, 2018January 22, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

People who are frothing in the mouth over the University of Santo Tomas’s (UST) Alumni Association awarding Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson distinction for government service should just get over it. “Awards” by institutions nowadays have long been under blanket suspicion anyway. Data generated by social media activity had taken over as more reliable indicators of…

Education, Religion

Political blocs allied under the ‘Yellow’ flag are the reason the Philippines is unstable

December 1, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

Filipinos are being pulled in different directions nowadays as various political blocs battle one another for dominance in a landscape characterised by turmoil and unrest. Looking just a short time back, the mid-2000s was the same. It was also a time of frequent street rallies and accusations of “human rights violations” among others being thrown…

Development, Politics, Society

Another ‘prayer rally’ proves again the irrelevance and hopelessness of the Opposition

November 5, 2017 benign0 11 Comments

Yet another “prayer rally”, and Filipinos add more proof of how primitive their politics is. What exactly does a “prayer rally” achieve? This latest one today, the 5th November 2017 to be held at the EDSA Shrine is being pitched in an Inquirer report as one that will harbour “no politics, just prayers for healing”….

Politics, Religion

Can Catholic schools and their products ever be truly non-partisan?

October 25, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

I don’t think so — which is disturbing considering that three of the top four universitites in the Philippines are run by Catholic priests. Catholic priests, it should be highlighted here, have taken a vow of obedience, and at the very top of this hierarchy of obedience sits, guess who, none but the Catholic Bishops…

Education, Politics

You can’t ban ‘fake news’ unless you also ban Eat Bulaga and Catholicism

October 6, 2017October 6, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

The Philippines is a paradise for con men and carpetbaggers. Because Filipinos lack a substantial foundation of principles to stabilise their journey through life, it is easy to use modern technology and basic persuasion techniques to herd them in different directions. It is a nation of 100 million people just asking to be milked of…

Media, Politics, Religion

The Philippine Opposition can REFORM and MODERNISE by purging itself of the Yellowtards

July 15, 2017July 15, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

The persistent popularity of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte continues to baffle the “experts”. No less than Mahar Mangahas, resident popularity survey “expert” of the Inquirer.net issued an evidently painfully convoluted “clarification” of the most recent poll which showed Duterte at a par with the likes of the presidential greats of the last 20 years (notably,…

Culture, Politics, Religion

My timeline is filled with Fake News Crybabies!

July 6, 2017April 4, 2022 benign0 7 Comments

You know why “activists” in the Opposition camp are not going anywhere nowadays? It’s because they keep whining about “fake news”. Fake news this, fake news that. To them, all the Philippines’ problems of today can be summarised in two words: (1) “fake” and (2) “news”. This is a disturbing developing trend. It highlights an…

Culture, Media

The CBCP’s fake idea that the poor are “blessed” is the reason the Philippines remains poor

June 28, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

To Filipinos, rich people are “evil” and a life focused on the acquisition of money is a life to be ashamed of. And so there really is no reason to continue wondering why Filipinos remain an impoverished people today. The very idea of aspiring to be rich seems, to Filipinos, to be a thought to…

Culture, Money Talks, Religion, Society