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Perhaps former California Governor and body building champ Arnold Schwarzenegger should have taken safe sex tips from modern-day boxing champ Manny Pacquiao. Whereas Mrs Manny Pacquiao, Jinkee, has been quite public about her being on the Pill (despite her Congressman husband’s more fundamentalist stance on the matter), apparently a woman Schwarzenegger had a tryst with…
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Over at ProPinoy.net, blogger Doy Santos presents a comprehensive statistical picture of religious fervor in the Philippines. According to Santos’s figures the Philippines counts itself among the Top Ten countries with populations that have the highest rated “confidence in their church”. This Top Ten is predominantly Islamic. Tanzania is reckoned to be 50-50 Christian/Islamic and,…
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A short time ago, I recall how the sport of boxing was described by no less than Bishop Dinualdo Gutierrez of Marbel, South Cotabato in the Philippines as “un-Christian” and that when one boxes with a person he may as well be “boxing the Holy Spirit.” Bizarre as this analogy may be, that is a…
We are seeing interesting times today as it seems like roles have been reversed for the first time in the last several decades. The Philippine Roman Catholic Church descended into a very public tantrum following hints from President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III that calls for a boycott on paying taxes made by some Church officials…
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Everyone loves a drama and everyone loves the martyr in said drama. That is if by “everyone” we mean Filipinos — a people renowned for their addiction to the telenovelas and teleserye that proliferate in mainstream media. As such it is not surprising that our “noble” men-in-robes now play the victim card in the on-going…
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Google’s motto for its new line of “Chromebooks” is “you can do everything on the Web”. Chromebooks are laptops designed to be constantly connected to the Net and run all applications from the “cloud”. The cloud refers to a service hosted by Google that will deliver applications for use on these Chromebooks via the Net….
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Entire generations have been indoctrinated in the concepts of hooking up to the bigger global market rather than maintaining local self-sufficiency. Even the United States with its decades-long wanton “outsourcing” binge ultimately shot itself in the foot. It created manufacturing powerhouses like China that are now racking up surplus upon surplus while globo-“sourcer”, the US,…
The Church of nowadays is doing what it does best, pointing a finger at the “Infidel” and launching a crusade against it. In this case the Infidel is President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and his Malacañang and the “crusade” is a step up of its “all-out war” against the Reproductive Health Bill currently being pushed…
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