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Filipinos have to WANT a better Philippines badly enough to abolish the pork barrel

October 7, 2013 benign0 15 Comments

I realise now after having read an amusing article recently published by one of the staunch apologists of President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III that there is a fundamental assumption that needs to be questioned — the notion that Filipinos actually want a “better country”. Indeed; Can Filipinos be considered to be a people who…

Crime, Government, Politics, Society

Are there still available men like Chris Tiu??

October 6, 2013 Kate Natividad 10 Comments

The ABS-CBN News headline got it right: “Sorry ladies, Chris Tiu is already married”. He’s the perfect Pinoy guy — handsome, Jesuit-educated, star basketball player, smart (as in, a grad of the Ateneo’s flagship mega-hard ultra-elite course Management Engineering), and, get this, super religious. Legend has it that he prays the rosary everyday. Wow! What…

Glitz and Glamour

Pork barrel thievery going unpunished as traditional Philippine activism fails

October 6, 2013 benign0 13 Comments

If the Philippines were a normal country, its government would be paralysed by now. We have a President who’s ability to govern fairly is complicated by his being part of a feudal clan that owns a vast northern Luzon plantation that is on the brink of insolvency and was found to have likely performed accounting…

Crime, Government, Politics, Society

Megan Young won despite being, not because she was, Filipino

October 5, 2013December 17, 2018 ChinoF 159 Comments

That title above is only one of my thoughts about Megan Young being crowned the first Filipina Miss World. Perhaps it’s an obvious idea based on common sense. Of course, when you say Miss India won because she was Indian, or Miss Japan won because she was Japanese, that would sound funny. But there are…

Glitz and Glamour

Military Unrest Under The Shadow of DAP Bribery

October 4, 2013 P. Farol 48 Comments

Those two words and what they signify at this point is giving me the jitters. Because, if you add those two words to these: Thousands of people massing almost at EDSA and other public spaces condemning the corruption of the pork barrel system. Law experts and two senators saying that the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP)…

Crime, Development, Environment, Government, Politics

Three recent events that could divert the Filipino’s attention from current government blunders

October 3, 2013October 5, 2013 FallenAngel 11 Comments

Even without external forces exerting much effort to do so, Filipinos can be easily distracted from whatever they are engaged in. When they manage to eke out some sort of civic responsibility or outrage against the ineptitude of their government is certainly no exception. Are they angry at the government? Just give them some feel-good…

Civics, Lifestyle, Media, Society

US government has no choice but to shut down; Philippine government needs to shut up

October 3, 2013 FallenAngel 25 Comments

For those following events in the United States, their federal government is in the midst of a shutdown. This follows a period of time wherein lawmakers in both the House and the Senate were unable to agree on the national budget. The main point of contention, it seems, is US president Barack Obama’s signature piece…

Development, Government, Politics

Resign Pnoy! (Para Na Sa Daang Matuwid)

October 3, 2013 P. Farol 47 Comments

If you didn’t get the point of my last post on President BS Aquino III daring his critics to impeach him, it is this: I think the Pnoy Administration should just save us the drama of another impeachment and just resign before the year ends. Moreover, President Pnoy should stop it with his patented paawa effect….

Crime, Government, Politics