Jun Bautista takes the time to clarify the moves by UP Law Professor Harry Roque, et al → “We were led to think that Congress finally crafted a mandate for full automation in the coming 2010 elections, but a review of the amendatory law will reveal that it provides for a hybrid election (partly automated [...]
PCIJ Report on GMA Wealth part 1
The declared wealth of President Arroyo has increased the fastest, and by amounts much bigger, than the net growth in the declared wealth of three presidents before her — Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos, and Estrada — combined. Read part one of the PCIJ Report.
Alternative locations for your Grey Poupon, Madam President
So, okay, maybe they didn’t have any Grey Poupon; the thought remains the same, and Steven Tyler’s advice is still very much valid.
Days after this report from the PDI, indicating that “more than nine million Filipino families consider themselves poor, while nearly two in five say they are “food poor,” according to the latest Social [...]
Cory envy: CARPer signed into law
It’s become a fad, of late, to compare and contrast our two female Presidents Cory and Gloria, although it strikes me as more than a little sad that it was only after she died that Cory clearly gained the upper hand in that contest. Lost and politically discarded in the years after her term ended, [...]
By all means, raise sin taxes
Taxes should come from alcohol and tobacco and not from books[…] Tax hazards to lungs and livers, do not tax minds[…]
GMA, July 27 2009 SONA
I meant to discuss this, but bigger things took more of my attention than I expected. Being a heavy smoker, I will be among the millions of consumers directly affected, so [...]
The Obama and GMA Meeting
Posting after a couple of bottles of beer (1L Red Horse ftw), so just brief thoughts, after the vid:
Yeah yeah we all know about the Philippine-US “friendship” yadda yadda yadda. Nothing like being somebody’s outreach project. And what’s up with Gloria’s bobblehead impersonation? She looks like someone who got scolded and is desperately trying not [...]
2004 Election Fraud Powerpoint presentation
MLQ3 has uploaded a presentation detailing the cheating methods used by GMA to win the 2004 elections. Must read.
Macondo
Stop. I want you to close your eyes, I’m gonna tell you a story. Well, my story.
There’s no ending yet, and not much of a beginning. It’s mostly just now.
Look around, wherever you may be. I’m in an office somewhere in Makati; right now the boss isn’t here so I can talk to you. I [...]
Over a slow fire
Or why I don’t think GMA will declare Martial Law
Activist and former man of the cloth Ed de la Torre once argued that Marcos declaring martial law wasn’t feasible. Marcos would not declare martial law, de la Torre said, because he did not have to. He had alternatives which were so much better. He had [...]
House committee approves Anti Terror Bill
AMID renewed threats of attacks, the House of Representatives’ joint committees on justice and foreign affairs approved Tuesday a bill to combat terror as the Philippines’ chief law enforcer admitted terrorism is now the country’s top security threat.
