incessant rambling

this is not the first or the last time that the Church is meddling in politics. categorically, i agree with the recommendation for a no-pardon for the coup plotters - let them burn in the earthly hell of bilibid. the only thing i find distastefully sick is that the Church recommended a no-pardon situation (despite the basic tenets of the faith!) for these rogues whereas they literally cast their lots with the pardon of Erap. the coup plotters, no matter how twisted their means, were fighting for a cause they believed in. if remorse and forgiveness is a measure, they deserve the pardon more than Erap. Erap had no remorse, no cause nor reason. quoted article: Church says don't pardon convicted Philippines plotters AFP, MSN Roman Catholic bishops in the Philippines warned President Gloria Arroyo on Monday against granting a pardon to nine military officers convicted of mounting a failed coup five years ago. The defence establishment on Sunday urged Arroyo to grant presidential clemenc...

yesterday was supposed to be the BIG day. Here's the turnout: Makati - organizers claimed 80,000 showed up. The police estimated 15,000 whereas independent observers from mars guessed 25,000. for a rally that's supposed to be a demand for the truth, organizers are sure lying through their asses. my wild guess? part of the crowd are thousands of commuters in ayala stuck in the massive traffic jam. to make it really simple, let's use the totally unscientific methods of Pulse Asia in computing and just average the score to 40,000. that's a pretty decent count. Pampanga - about 500 students turned up led by Gov. Panlilio and Bishop Roberto Mallari and a curious group of penguins tagging along. wait, this news report just came in, the satellite mistakenly identified nuns as penguins. students confirmed that they were misled by organizers led by the penguins claiming a field trip. priests and nuns don't pay taxes so they don't count. ergo, total count for pampanga - 0...

Ricardo Dapat , Director of the Bureau of Corrections claimed that convicted child rapist and ex-congressman Romeo Jalosjos fled from the national penitentiary and subsequently flew back to Zamboanga Del Norte last December 22, 2007. before you continue with this piece, take a nice good look at the picture... find the man with the big humongous bulge. and i meant the tummy, silly. this picture was taken about two years ago. since then, jalosjos gained more weight to officially become a member of the Balaenopterida family (aka "whale") genus specie: homicidal pedophillus . in fact, he has gotten so obese that when he tried the hullahoop , it got stuck.. and am just referring at the neck point. he has gotten so big that he needed the other inmates in the national penitentiary to roll him over from his bed every day just to get him on his side. well according to Dapat , this same fellow managed to flee the national penitentiary. i am trying to imagine how jalosjos did tha...

Yesterday, Trillanes held the country hostage once again to try and justify the means to his ends. His arrogance knows no bounds as he proclaimed that the Filipino people support his cause. Although it is true that the Filipino people is wary of the string of scandals that continue to hit our current administration, an overwhelming majority of the people don’t condone nor approve of his theatrics and methods that placed innocent lives in danger; majority of us still believe in the rule of LAW. As if this is not enough, some senators, media, church personalities, old trapos and other cause oriented groups joined the circus to give their own two cents worth of unsolicited advice. I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard Leah Navarro (Black and White Movement) proclaim on national television that these people (Trillanes et. al.) have the right to express themselves in the way they believe is right. Navarro is a perfect testament to the statement that wisdom does not come with age. Bishop L...

Picasso may not be the best artist to commission a portrait of oneself. Unless you are Chuckie ( Child's Play 1988 ), Chaka Doll (Kakabakaboo), Michael Jackson (Thriller) and anything would be better than your face. That aside, the National Press Club of the Philippines recently commissioned a work from the Neo-Angono Artist Collective (NAAC) for a mural that is supposed to depict press freedom. The issue came up when the artwork was recently unveiled with some noticeable changes to the painting. At this point, NAAC complained that censorship was the root cause of the alterations (click on the link to view the changes) so as not to "embarass" President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (PGMA) when she unvelied the mural in a ceremony held at the office of the NPC. The mural is supposed to be 8 X 32 feet and I had an image of PGMA who stands barely less than 5 feet (add two or three inches for heels) on tip toes trying to remove the covers of the mural. So much has been said about ...

Binay for president? This guy believes too much to his own Press Release . If there’s anyone to give credit it should be the Ayala (aka AYALA AVENUE) family and Sy (AKA S.M.) who built the foundation of the premiere business district in Metro Manila. Running the country is different from managing Makati where literally,everything is handed to the mayor on a plate - a golden plate. Let him try to manage Mindanao where a lot of people don't even have food to eat off a plate, where eating is an uncertain event. I suspect that he has never been to the real Mindanao (Sulu, Tawi Tawi, Zamboanga) except for Davao. The business leaders of Makati must be smiling with gritted teeth at this presumptuous boast. Let Binay come to the Visayas or Mindanao and the real people (aka masses) would be more likely to say: Binay who ?

Glorietta Blast Caused by Gas - PNP : ok, someone's gotta admit to eating a hell lot of beans. binay - prove it, ayala - terrorist did it, pnp - bomb star, err gas leak did it. someone forgot to note that if it was a terrorist act you would have heard a lot of press release from the group by now - just ask bin laden. dear ate glow... Erap Pardoned by GMA : you are forgiven for a sin you've never committed. Erap due for a Saintly promotion by Cardinal Vidal - just in time for All Saints. Boy and Kris Losing to Sis : showbiz news, Boy and Kris is getting a beating with competitor Sis that they decided to reformat the show and have Piolo Pascual and Sam Milby to host the new show also titled SIS. Ah... this is just a joke, leche baka ma lolit solis ako nito. Witnesses place Milby at a posh hair salon in the Ortigas area during the time that Solis claims he saw him with Pascual : I didn't know Solis is a male - Solis claims he saw , workers from the salon were allegedly quo...

"It's the people - the poor sector which is the largest part of our society who should choose and decide who they want to run or replace the government, not the few elitist and the churchmen ." erap was quoted saying this over the phone in an interview with the Inquirer . considering that it was the elite and clergy who brought about his fall from grace, i understand his sentiments. just a little bit, he has redeemed himself not because of all the good he has done, but by using his voice that compels people to listen whether they adore or abhor him.

i attended the late night service in Redemptorist Church and was silently contemplating the words of the priest. In his homily he casually interjected that he doesn't understand why erap needs to be pardoned as erap always claimed he is innocent. obviously, a sheep that doesn't follow the flock of vidal. amen to that.

we usually say "pardon me" when we burp in front of people. if only it was that simple in the case of erap. his pardon does not serve any purpose to the filipino people except strengthen the long held perception that the scales of justice tip towards those that have money, power and influence. except that when erap burped, i can smell the rotten stench of arrogance mixed with delusion of grandeur brought about by alcohol. he claims to be innocent and that the filipino people have acquitted him in the eyes of God. i wonder if we pray to the same God. instead of asking pgma to grant erap pardon, Cardinal Vidal should have gotten out of his palace, visit the nearest national penitentiary to see that thousands more repentant criminals deserve his intervention for pardon rather than one who claims to be innocent up to this point. on the other hand, these criminals can't afford the millions of contributions that erap gave to vidal - they barely have centavos to buy milk for a s...

let's do some simple mathematics based on court case 26558 - the erap comedy show. the court convicted erap of liability amounting to the following: P545.3M payola (jueteng) P200.0M muslim youth foundation P189.0M commission collected for GSIS and SSS buying Belle Stocks P300.0M Boracay Mansion if we are to assume that the Boracay Mansion is evaluated to cost P300.0M, total liability of erap will amount to P1.23B . Let's further assume an annual interest of 7% for time deposit and compound this for six years , this figure will roughly come out to P1.85B. now let's review the jose velarde account that amounted to P3.23B . using the same concept of compounded 7% annual interest for six years , that amount should be at P4.85B there is still an unaccounted amount of P3.00B - earnings from erap's sari-sari store? someone has got to account for this amount, hopefully bongbong marcos will not come out and claim that his family owns 60% of erap's assets as that will surpri...

i don't watch telenovelas on local television because of the irritating habit of exteeeeeending a single scene that could have been done with a couple of lines. that is exactly what i was banking on as i lugged my popcorn, potato chips, a jug of juice and tocilog breakfast in front of my tv to watch court case 26558, otherwise known as the erap comedy show. i barely bit into the greasy fried egg when erap's minions petitioned the court of leonardo-de castro, villaruz and peralta to skip to the end of the document and just read the verdict. guilty of plunder and not guilty of perjury. i can understand the not guilty clause on perjury (lying under oath) - jinggoy would have us believe that we were brainwashed to think that erap talks through his asshole and is barely lucid between bouts of drinking that he sometimes doesn't know what he's talking about. well... i know for a fact that the janitor in malacanang earns an extra php 200 a day selling empty bottles sold for P15...

it is only one of two things, local officials are extremely stupid or geniuses bordering on insanity. the commission on audit recently released reports of 11 local towns in Cebu with unliquidated cash advances of almost Php 16.3 million and a big part of unaccounted and mysterious expenses are related to " intelligence funds ". a lot of the advances are violations of Section 4.1.2 of COA Circular No. 97-002 that prohibits advances by an individual while previous transactions remain pending. naga tops the list with p4.9M unliquidated cash advances and p3M granted to the now deceased former mayor ferdinand chiong. someone has got to explain what that intelligence fund is all about. from what i know, there's enough intelligence in the town hall - courtesy of underworked government employees who pick up the latest episode of every melodrama currently playing in town. that hardly counts as improving intelligence. recently, the city council of cebu proposed to wipe out previous...

the hypothesis is that governments should be run like a corporation. unfortunately, for the philippines, it is run like a family business - just ask the number of officials who replaced their sister, brother, mother, father, uncle etc. in the worst case, kids, grand-kids, illegitimate heirs, genetic clones, in-laws run for mayor, vice-mayor, councilor, tongressman, gobernor, baranggay captain, tanod. an interesting note, the governor of cebu has the highest number of relatives currently holding a title in local government service numbering at 15. given that governments should be run like a business, a corporation is not a charity and exists for one and only one reason: to earn profits. on the other hand, corporate ethics shoub be in place to ensure fair and legal practice of business. if there is one skill that the elected local official need to master is their ability to act like a COO or the Chief Operating Officer of an organization. again, unfortunately, most of them do have that ...

i never realized that i gained some form of notoriety or political influence the day Philippine Daily Inquirer published an entry from this blog calling for estrada's conviction. i got a letter from saguisag who expounded in not so few words his desire to protect his honor as defendant of the devil. my response was succinct and direct to the point: " whatever ." even antonio abaya has included me in his list of recipients of commentaries and columns as to the state of the country. i am not an expert political commentator. i don't presume to hold that title like some wannabee columnist (or trying hard presidentiable senator) who has got to post some opinion on everything and anything. i don't have the hallucinatory doctorate titles added on to my name just to get some dignity to my words. i write from the heart and mind; my fingers tap out the words that i want to scream when we don't seem to care about the state of this country. i have gotten letters from fri...