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 Son Also Rises: Noynoy Aquino for VP?
Update: I knew it :D
I know that Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III categorically stated that he had no plans to run for Vice-President, but you have to admit, the Liberal Party has to be considering it, given LP Presidential Candidate Mar Roxas’ weak showing in the early polls. Callous as it is — yes, I [...]
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 [...]
July 30 ‘09 Bullets – Obamarama
Ellen Tordesillas posts a letter from former vice president Teofisto Guingona Jr., former Senate presidents Jovito R. Salonga and Franklin Drilon, among others, sent to Obama through House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, regarding the state visit of GMA to the US President → “In your meeting with Ms Arroyo, it may serve you well to [...]
Post SONA ‘09 Bullets
In case you missed it and the transcript wasn’t enough for you, Inquirer has the full video coverage from NBN.
Violence? What violence? We don’t even know how to play guitar! The Jester-in-Exile is sceptical about a militant group’s claims of non-violence — after they “arrested” seven men for being “spies”
Post SONA ‘09 Thoughts
Driving home, I was listening on the radio to some parts of the recently concluded State of the Nation Address (SONA) by PGMA, when she said this little tidbit:
The state of our nation is a strong economy.
Now this one of those times I’m glad I never go above 40 km/h, because I almost lost control [...]
